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The LeMars Sentinel
Thursday Morning, Aug. 4, 1881

“I’ve been humming, I’ve been humming,
When the foaming tankard flies,
And I’m coming, and I’m coming,
With a pair of bunged-up eyes;
And I’m coming with a humming,
Horrid humming in my brain;
I’ve been humming, I’ve been humming,
But I will not hum again.

~Allison & Vogt at P.O. Drug Store
~Candidates announcements inserted for $5.00 in advance.
~The brick-work on the Kubry Building has now a fair beginning.
~Quarterly meeting at the Methodist church next Sunday, Rev. J. H. Lozier, officiating.
~During last week the weather continued to be very cool and pleasant and our farmers have not had better harvesting weather for a long time past.
~The “Bee Hive” last Saturday night was converted into a dancing hall, and the large number of young people who were present report a pleasant time.
~On Saturday last, the youngest daughter of Peter Dunn’s, died very suddenly. Age 1 year and 3 months. The funeral took place on Sunday morning, and a large number of friends followed the remains to their last resting place.
~The sale at Maciagan, Warren & Watson’s stock yard last Saturday was successful and gave great encouragement to the proprietors. The stock sold amounted to over $1,200. The next big sale will be on Saturday, August 14, after which they will occur fortnightly.
~Diehl and Thompson have had a cellar made under their drug store and are now fixing it for a store room. Owing to their daily increasing business, they were obliged to secure or fix up a place in which to store their oils, paints, etc. Hence the cellar.
~The Portlandville Record of the 26 ult., made the startling announcement of the death of Captain J. C. Kennedy, of that place. Mr. Kennedy has long been a resident and leading merchant there, he leaves a wife and four children to mourn his loss. His eldest son, at the time of his death, was in the employment of Pew and LaRue’s, and on learning the sad news, returned home. Mr. Kennedy was well known here, and being a prominent leader in our Agricultural society and races will be greatly missed by his many supporting friends.

LeMars (Iowa) Sentinel, Thursday, August 11, 1881

A RUMPUS IN WHICH BILLY'S WERE USED

The COWAN boys of Stanton, came to town last Saturday and Ed and least
took too much bug juice.  There is lots of lip and fight in LeMars
bugjuice.  About dusk the boys started for their team to go home, and Ed
had considerable to say.  Marshall ALLINE suggested that he lower his
musical voice a little but that just roused the fighting end of the
liquid.  Quicker than you can say scat he broke for the Marshall and
evolving a billy from his shirt sleeves, or somewhere else, began
playing around the Marshalls' ears.  Yank CALDWELL made a flank movement
on John and beat tattoo on his scull with a big cane.  Walt CHAMBERLAIN
danced out of Bowmans with a billy and paid his respects to John.
Moriss stepped up to John and asked him to go along with him.  He did
so.  And that is Johns' contribution to the show.  Jim was more
belligerent.  But another detached headed by John GUTHRIE who finally
took him in.  Meanwhile the Marshall and Ed were waltzing around as if
seeing which was the strongest and victory finally perched upon the
Marshalls banner.  An excited mob of several hundred added dramatic
effect to the scene.  The Cowan's were triumphantly marched to the
Mayors office and his honor assessed Ed $3 and cost for his being drunk.
A further charge of resisting an officer was made against each of them.
Ed waved examination and gave bail in the sum of $300 to appear before
the Grand Jury and the other two gave bonds in $200 to call on his Honor
the Mayor on the 22nd.  It seems to us that the Marshall might make
better use of his strength than test it against every rowdy he has to
arrest.  The row raised in making the arrest is immensely bigger than
the row the Marshall seeks to quell.  If it is necessary, let him
promptly knock the recalcitrant fellow down and tote him to the caboose
in a dray.
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JOHN COWAN'S STORY

John Cowan, one of the young men implicated in last Saturdays
rumpus,stepped into the Sentinel Sanctum and said he had no purpose,
nor, so far as he knows, had his brothers any purpose to raise a row.
He was perfectly sober, but said that Ed wa a little off, and that he
got noisy.  Their team was near Caldwells barn and he and his brother
Jim were taking Ed to the wagon.  If they had not been interrupted, they
would have been out of town in a few minutes from the time the row
began.  He thinks the Marshal had met Ed before, anyhow as soon as the
Marshall spoke, Ed got wild and went for him.  Before he, (John) even
understood matters, Yank CALDWELL hit him on the head with a big cane
flourished a billy over his head.  He begged of CHAMBERLAIN not to
strike him, when John MORRIS came up and he walked off with MORRIS. We
inquired where his brother Ed got the billy?  He didn't know anything
about it.  He didn't know he had a billy until the row was over.  John
says he tries to be a peaceable citizen.  He has no desire to figure as
a rowdy, or be considered one.

August 25, 1881 Le Mars Sentinel

A Fire Company Organized
The Rescue No. 1, Fire Brigade of Lemars

Alex Reichmann, who has been unceasing in his efforts to
organize a fire brigade for Lemars, seems at last to have succeeded. A
meeting was held in the Dubuque House on Monday evening, and the following
officers elected; A. Reichmann, president; H. I. C. Dalton, vice-president;
D. Padmore, secretary; C. D. Hoffmann, treasurer; J. H. Hoffman, foreman of
company; Frank Revell, assistant foreman. A committee of three, Reichmann,
Miller and Hoffmann, were appointed to solicit active members. The company
was named Rescue No. 1, Fire Brigade of Lemars. Secretary Padmore was
instructed to notify the council of the organization of the company, and to
ask that the city council of Lemars duly acknowledge said company. The
meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the president.

Teachers' Institute

Ed. Sentinel: - More than one week of our Normal has passed, and
in a few days it will belong to the things that passed. But it will not be
forgotten by the teachers, for it is certainly the most pleasant and
successful institute held in Plymouth county. This is only partly due to
the experience and tact of our teachers; for Prof. Wernli conducted five
previous institutes in this county and Prof. Rogers assisted in two or
three. And while all of them were successful, this institute seems so much
more natural and easy for us all that we ourselves are surprised. The
causes to such success, however, lie not entirely with our conductors, they
are partly due to the teachers themselves. From the first hour there was
perfect order; the candidates for membership had taken their seats without
command, they came to learn, not to play; they know that the work will count
for or against them, as it did in former years. Thus they began to work in
dead earnest from the first hour, and have been keeping their seats in
school and their rooms at home to improve the offered opportunity. No
unnecessary absence, no tardiness, no disturbance, no loud, boisterous talk,
no unpleasant remarks are seen and heard, only legitimate work and business.
We could continue for months, as the institute works now. Indeed, our
teachers and pupils are now ripe for the regular work of normal school. And
this is very much needed. Will we ever get one in Lemars? Is not now the
proper time? -A Teacher

-Herbert Cope is putting a dwelling house on Washington street, northeast of
the Staples lumber yard.

-George H. Williams of Oyens has sold, or is about to sell, his fine farm to
Mr. Millan, who recently returned from the Hot Springs in Arkansas, where he
had gone for his health. We yesterday saw some fine specimens of Siberian
apples raised on the Williams farm, and we understand there is a flourishing
orchard on the place of two hundred trees.

-At the vestry meeting of the Lemars Episcopal church, held on Tuesday, the
project of building a temporary church on Clark street was abandoned, as
were also all the plans for the permanent church. Mr. J. T. Adams was
instructed to draw some simpler and cheaper plan for a church, to be built
on the site proper, and the purpose is to go on and build this season.

CHURCH NOTICES-Canon Neville will conduct the Episcopal services in Apollo
Hall next Sunday morning at the usual hour. A collection for the benefit of
the organ fund will be taken up. The Rev. Herbert Cunningham will conduct
Episcopal services in Portlandville next Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

CHICKENS-A half-dozen fine, juicy prairie chickens, selected with great
care, by Frank Revell, somewhere out on the blooming prairie, were gently
dropped at the kitchen door of the Sentinel family, by that gay sportsman,
were converted into a rare feast for the poor, half starved picaninnies, who
usually depend on the slow motion of delinquent subscribers for their meager
nourishment. Thanks.

More Clothing-John Courtney has rented his brick store, rapidly approaching
completion to H. F. Dow of Colorado, who will take possession on the 10th of
September. He intends to put in a first-class stock of goods, and he
certainly has a first-class building in which to do business. Mr. Dow has
an extensive experience in that line of traffic, and knows just what is
necessary to secure success.

ORNAMENTAL PLASTERING-Lemars is fortune in having an artist with the trowel.
Mr. Robert Hennessey, who lodges at the Duncan House, not only knows how to
temper mortar for the finest kind of hard finish, but is an adept in the
most difficult kind of scroll and centerpiece work. He has made this a
specialty, and if any of our readers require something fine and ornamental,
for sitting-room or parlor, call on Mr. Hennessey.

PAINFUL ACCIDENT-On Monday Sheriff Hopkins drove Dr. Hackett over to his
stock ranch to visit a sick boy. On attempting to return, the carriage
wheel struck a gopher hill and threw both the occupants violently on the
ground. Dr. Hackett's left arm was broken near the wrist and his right
thumb severely contused. The sheriff was pretty thoroughly shaken up and
walks around very gently. The team ran away, but was captured, and the
party went back to Portlandville for repairs, arriving in Lemars next day.
The doctor suffers considerable pain.

THEY CAME-Among the distinguished Britons who have made recent purchases of
land in this region, we note Canon Neville, who visited the colony, and who
purchased section 1-92-46, in Sioux county. After looking the country over,
he has concluded that he would prefer living nearer Lemars, and we
understand he offers the place for sale at $8 an acre plus improvements. He
started for Colorado, but will be here in time to preach next Sunday. See
notice elsewhere

Another distinguished churchman, who recently bought 1,800 acres
in Sioux county, is the Rev. F. G. Howard, M. A. Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridg, and Proctor of the University. After being the guest of the Close
Bros. for a short time, he proceeded to Denver, Colorado. We dare say our
good friend Mr. J. Wakefield will remember when, in his college days, he me
Mr. Howard at a wine in Macolm street.

SHAKESPEAREAN-The Rev. Roswell Foster, of Independence, occupied the
Congregational pulpit last Sunday morning and evening, and rather surprised
the "unco guid" with the boldness of his utterances. On Monday evening he
gave our citizens a Shakespearean reading, selecting Macbeth for the
occasion. Mr. F. is neither a reader nor elocutionist in the highest sense
of these words, but he has studied that grand tragedy with a thoroughness
seldom attempted by an amateur. He reduced the twenty-five scenes of the
drama to seven, but connects the narrative in such a way as to present the
entire plot. The audience sat, not patiently but spell-bound, during the
recital. Mr. Foster's voice lacks the deep rotundity of tragedy, but he
throws his whole soul into the work of delineation, and the listener easily
follows the wild ebullitions of passion which are exhibited by the heroes of
the immortal tragedy.

WILL COME AGAIN-The Rev. Roswell Foster, if Independence, whose reading of
Macbeth on Monday evening charmed every one who heard him, went down to
Cherokee on Tuesday afternoon. We understand he has received the most
pressing and cordial invitations to return again, and that it is his purpose
to do so in the near future, when he will read Shakespeare's Comedy of
Errors one evening and deliver a lecture on Thomas Paine another. Mr. F. is
a man of broad and comprehensive views, and whether he preaches, reads, or
lectures, will be sure of a good audience in Lemars.

BURGLARY-A series of petty burglaries were perpetrated on Monday night or
Tuesday morning, not calculated to inspire confidence in some things. The
Western Hotel was entered some way and two lodgers had small sums taken from
their pants pockets, one had $8, and the other $4. Mr. Saunders, the
contractor, occupies the large Tritz house, and has some boarders. One John
W. Fry, a carpenter who works for Mr. S., had $40 taken from his trousers,
and Frank K. Dunsha lost between $25 and $28. They slept in the same room,
and the door was locked. Entrance was effected trough the window.

At the Lemars House, kept by Malichi Clark, John Brown was
sleeping for the night with a friend who had $150. The friend put his
pocket-book under his pillow and found it all right in the morning. Brown
was not so lucky. Nine dollars he had in his pocket-book were gone, but the
latter, containing papers of considerable value, was there. He had a fine
watch and a nickel in his vest. The nickel was taken and the watch left.