LeMars Sentinel
Thursday, February 1, 1883

SENEY ITEMS.

Business good also the weather.

The Minstrel boys are preparing a new programme for an entertainment to
be given here soon.

The bad blizzards found most of our people out of fuel as usual-When
will people learn to prepare for winter in season?

Several of our young men took their girls out for a ride Saturday night
and took in the Fredonia lyceum.  They report a good time at the lyceum.
Ole Bull furnished some rich music for the occasion.

We fear Brother Lozier killed the church here with his last sermon.  The
congregations are getting very small since, we suggest a review.

The boys are talking of getting up a good dance to liven things up a
little.  We suggest a full dress party for a change.

Considerable sickness is reported as prevailing in this community.

L. March has been laid up with sore throat for several days, and several
others are keeping close to home nursing bad colds, throats, etc.

F.A. Woods' family are reported to be down with scarlet fever.

James Reeves now deals out Groceries, etc, for T.J. Reeves.  Jim is a
good one.

W.S. Freeman, county recorder, made us a pleasant call a few days ago.

[LeMars notes:]

"I have noticed, " said Perry the coal man, "farmers come to town once
or twice a week, during the time there was abundance of coal and drive
home every time with their wagons empty, and during the cold spell with
the thermometer from 24 to 30 degrees below zero, I've seen the
identical farmers drive in a distance of ten or fifteen miles a purpose
to get coal, and there not be a pound of it in town."  "Now if I was a
farmer," continued the man of Black Diamonds, "it seems to me, I would
lay in four or five tons of coal as provision against a blockade or a
cold spell, and by taking home a little jag occasionally when I came to
town I would be ready for the blizzards whenever they saw fit to come
along."  The pencil shover happened to overhear this talk of Perry's and
being on the alert for wise and witty sayings carefully made a note of
it.

The fire bell sounded its dread alarm near midnight on Monday.  The wind
was high, the night dark cold and cheerless. The horrid sound sent a
thrill of terror along the nerves of everyone who heard it.  Not a drop
of water available in the city!  Once more the Fates helped, where the
City Fathers had deserved.  The fire was extinguished with a couple
buckets of water taken from the kitchen.  It was the cook of the Revere
House, who noticed the flash in the stable of Walter Cooley, situated a
few feet from Cadwell's livery stable.  He gave the alarm, and as good
luck would have it, several persons got there in a few minutes and
quenched the flames.  The fire was in the manger and was very probably
the work of an incendiary. The Rescue's got their engine to the place
with wonderful alacrity, but of course were not needed as there was no
water, could done no good if they had been.  The Hose Co. too were
promptly on hand all of which showed excellent discipline in the fire
department.  Had the fire ever gotten a start in that timber box block,
nothing could possibly have resisted its onward sweep, and LeMars today
would be in ashes.  Through the supreme incompetence and imbecility of
our council, LeMars is to-day the least protected against fire of any
city, town or village in Iowa.

MILLINERY STOCK FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN

As the undersigned are about to retire from business, they offer their entire stock of millinery goods at a bargain. This is a rare opportunity to a good person to secure an established trade. NELLIE MERRICK & CO., LeMars, Feb. 1, 1883.

LeMars Sentinel, Thursday, February 15, 1883, Page 9, Columns 4-5:

Married.

ZIMMERMAN-BERNER--On Tuesday, February 13, 1883, at the residence of the
brides' parents by the Rev. Piepert (sic--Pippert), of Melbourne, George
Zimmerman and Miss Louisa Berner, all of this county.

The interesting ceremony which made Mr. Zimmerman and Miss Berner man and
wife took place at 2 o'clock p.m. and was witnessed by some thirty couples
of their relatives and friends. After extending congratulations, about 4
o'clock, the entire party sat down to a sumptuous wedding feast, in the
spacious and pleasant rooms of Mr. Berner. The merry company remained till
late at night and many till next morning. Among those present from LeMars
were Con. Haase, Jacob Spies, Miss Dora Steinberg, Miss May Steinberg and
Miss Emma Wernli. Numerous and valuable wedding gifts were received, but we
failed to receive the list in time for publication. We understand that the
newly wedded couple will move to LeMars in the spring.

LeMars Sentinel
February 22, 1883

SENEY ITEMS.
Grain is coming in more freely.

We expect more weddings soon.

Business the past week was good.

Our shippers of grain find it very difficult to get cars.

Subscribers to LeMars papers are noting that the Sentinel is always on hand
promptly Thursdays while the other papers are always from two days to a week
behind their time.

Charlie Gray returned from his eastern pleasure trip last week. He did not
return alone as we predicted. A brand new wife came with him, we
congratulate him as we smoke.

Al Winter and wife of Rose Hill, Ia., moved their effects here last week to
settle. They are comfortably lodged at the Lancaster hotel for the present.

A Mr. Betsworth, of LeMars, has rented the March property on 2d street and
has taken possession. He intends to open the same to the public as a hotel
on March 1st.

Al Hunter was made father of a bouncing baby girl during the blizzard. Al
is happy and the boys all smoked.

Some mischief loving boys removed the blankets from Fred Reeves’ horse while
he was at the lyceum at the Fredonia school house last Saturday night. The
horse took cold and died the same night. We learn that some of the boys
attending the lyceum need attention.

The scarlet fever cases at F. A. Woods are out of danger but not fully
recovered.

We quote shelled corn 35c, ear 31c, butter 15c, eggs 25c.

OBITUARY.
It becomes our painful duty to chronicle a death that has in it all the
sadness of a tragedy. Miss Josephine Guenther, step-daughter of B. H.
Hueiseman. Esq. died at the residence of her parents on Monday morning at 2
clock, aged 21 years.

She was born in Muenster, Westphalia. June 14, 1862, came to this country
with her widowed mother in 1867, did to this place in the fall of 1876. Miss
Guenther came to Le Mars as a child, and a more winsome one, was not to be
seen on our streets. As she grew in years, she grew in beauty and into all
the tender graces of young womanhood. Her mind developed as did her body,
and she earned an honorable living as a school teacher in Sioux county.
Josie, as she was familiarly called, was ambitious, and made up her mind to
learn the art of telegraphy, and succeeded in getting a position in the
Western Union office at Des Moines.

Here Mr. Thomas Yearnshaw. General Superintendent of that company's business
at that place, attracted no less by her accomplishments than her beauty
offered her his hand and heart, which was accepted, and the wedding was to
have taken place on Christmas. The preparations were made, and little did
she or her lover think that the wedding robe was to be a shroud and the
bridal veil, a pall, but the tragedies of human existence had not been
considered. Josie was taken ill and came home for a rest, but never again
did she pass from her sick chamber till she went forth to the rest that
awaits all the weary of earth.

The affianced came hither, heart broken, to follow the remains of her he
loved to God's Acre.

He loved, but whom he loved, the grave
Hath lost in its unconscious womb,
Oh, she was fair, but naught could save
Her beauty from the tomb.

She was buried on Tuesday morning in the Catholic cemetery, her remains
being followed to their final resting place by a large concourse of
sorrowing friends.

To weary hearts, to mourning homes,
God's meekest angel gently comes:
No power has he to banish pain,
Or give us back our lost again
And yet in tenderest love, our dear
And heavenly Father sends him here.