Iowa Old Press

LeMars Sentinel
June 3, 1895

REMSEN: (From the Bell)

Mrs. Hans J. Hansen and mother arrived here from Europe last Monday.

Mrs. Maggie Schultz received a telegram from Dyersville, Iowa, Monday, May
27, announcing the death of her brother, Mr. Alphons Meis.

It is a painful duty this week to announce the death of Mrs. Hey, wife of
our esteemed fellow citizen, Anthony Hey. She died early Sunday morning, May
26, at the age of 43 years and leaves her mourning husband and eight
children. Deceased was a model wife and kind mother and she lived and died a
devoted Christian woman. The funeral was held Tuesday, May 28, from the
Catholic church and was very largely attended.

A heavy and beneficial rain came over Remsen and vicinity Tuesday afternoon.
Some hail was intermixed, but did little or now damage in this vicinity,
while further east the hail was thicker and did some damage. John Mensen
who lives four miles east of Remsen counted thirty-eight broken lights in
his house. Peter Mumm’s summer kitchen was blown away and a windmill on
Henry Ahmann’s farm was heavily damaged.

LeMars Sentinel
June 6, 1895

BORN.
To Mr. and Mrs. D. Winter, of Hinton, Friday, May 31, a boy.

MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED IN MAY, 1895.
May
02. E.R. Kellner and Mary LaGrange
07. J.F. Kaiser and Kathrina Peters.
14. Frank Woll and Louisa Goedert.

DIED.
HUGHES—At his home in Marion township, Monday, June 3, Simon Hughes, aged 92
years.

The deceased was a prominent, well-to-do farmer, highly respected as a
citizen and well liked by a large circle of neighboring friends. He has
lived in this county for the past fifteen years or more and though a man
long past the prime of life when first settling here he had energetically
and faithfully observed his home duties and also his duties as a prominent
citizen in the community where he lived. He was a native of Ireland but had
spent the greater part of his life in this country. His wife preceded him to
the grave a number of years ago. Three children are left to mourn his
decease. They are James Hughes, a prominent farmer and politician of the
county; Simon, who has been making his home on his father’s farm; and a
married daughter who resides near Marcus.

The Funeral services were held at the Lincoln township Catholic church
yesterday and were largely attended, many going out from town, and the
remains were interred in the church cemetery.

PERSONALS.
Win. S. White was up from Sioux City yesterday.

J.C. Leggett has been in town this week visiting friends.

Mrs. John Linden has been quite seriously ill for a few days.

Geo. W. Wilson was over from Ft. Dodge on business yesterday.

Mrs. Dwight arrived from Marcus yesterday for a visit with her son, W.H.
Dwight.

Miss Tillie Kluckhohn has gone to St. Paul to visit her sister, Mrs. Bailey,
for a few weeks.

Miss Grace Kroesen went to Marcus yesterday morning to spend the summer with
relatives.

Ernest Plath, of Newell, has been in town this week looking after his
property interests.

Mrs. H. M. Sammis left yesterday morning for a visit with her parents at
Hubbard, Iowa.

Mrs. H. W. Hagen and daughter, Josie, were visiting in Hospers this week and
the week before.

Rev. A.G. Zeigler, of Harrison, South Dakota, is visiting old friends in
LeMars. He will return home tomorrow.

E. A. Dalton was in Marshalltown this week attending the annual meeting of
the grand Masonic lodge at that place.

Mrs. Z.P. Arnold, who has been visiting with her mother, Mrs. Fred Burns,
for two years, left this morning for the east where she will visit relatives
in New York.

Hugh Boyle left yesterday morning to return to his home in Wisconsin after
visiting his brothers in town for a few weeks.

Miss Tessa McDonald, of Pipestone, Minn., has arrived in town on a visit to
her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Pemberton.

Col. J.M. Emery was in town Monday seeing friends. He reported himself and
family happily settled in Chicago and enjoying good health.

T.B. Casson, of Millnerville, was in town yesterday conferring with the
board of supervisor in relation to the erection of a bridge that is
contemplated over the Broken Kettle.

Sheriff Boyle went to Anamosa yesterday morning with the forger, E.L. Lewis,
who was sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary. Vera Boyle
accompanied her father for a trip.

Mr. and Mrs. Isman have moved out of the residence of Capt. Betsworth and
are occupying the residence of Mr. G.P. Osborne. Capt. Betsworth is again
keeping house for himself, his daughter Mrs. Carmichael, living with him.

O.W. Bennett, a popular LeMars business man of twenty years ago, writes from
Philadelphia to H. W. Wilcox that he will visit LeMars this summer and hopes
to get here in time for the G.A.R. reunion. Mr. Bennett left LeMars in 1879.

Miss Emily Maguire and brother, Jack, who have been making their home here
and at Sioux City for the past three years, left last night on the flyer
from Sioux City to return to their parents home in Ireland. The young man
has been seriously ill this spring and many friends hope for his early
recovery in his native country. A number of friends bade them goodbye at the
depot last night as they passed through.

OUR COUNTY NEWS.
By our Correspondents and From Exchanges.

O’LEARY: (Special Correspondence)
While filling an old well May 25, one of Chas. Henry’s horses slipped in
backwards but was received without much injury.

Wallace Munro and Roy Warner drove to Canton, S.D., Friday, May 24, to sell
a horse and returned on Monday.

While Ernest Eyres and Joe Milton were out on their bicycles one evening,
they collided with a buggy and broke one of the bicycles, but the boys were
not much hurt.

Mrs. Geo. Severance, of White Lake, S.D., called on friends in this vicinity
last Monday accompanied by Miss Lizzie Bixby, of Stanton township.

Harry Bixby is at Cushing, Iowa, working at the carpenter trade with an
uncle.

M.B. Tritz, of LeMars, and A.B. Taylor, of Dunlap, called on people here
Tuesday.

The windmill on the Eyres farm was blown down and broken by high winds
Tuesday night.

Herbert Andrews has been spending a week in Minnesota looking at land.

Mr. Cope, father of Mrs. John Warner, died very suddenly Sunday evening, May
26, at the residence of John Warner on John’s Creek, Union township. Mr. and
Mrs. Cope had just returned from a visit in California. The funeral was held
Wednesday at the house and the burial at Kingsley.

Mr. Boa is having a serious time with blood poisoning in his hand and arm
caused by a barb wire sound.

Quite a hail storm visited this section last Tuesday afternoon. Many window
lights were broken in some school houses and eighteen in one dwelling house
on section 21. A hundred trees are reported blown down on one farm.

MILLNERVILLE: (Special Correspondence)
Last Saturday afternoon this vicinity was visited by a heavy storm, the rain
coming in torrents, doing considerable damage to corn by washing it out. The
storm was accompanied by a strong wind which broke down a number of trees
and twisted some buildings. At H. Codd’s it took a 40-foot shed which
adjoined his barn and placed it in the grove. One the Mueller section it
blew the barn to pieces. There was some hail connected with it but it did
not damage. Sunday night we had another heavy rain which raised the Broken
Kettle above its banks.

The ball game at Adaville last Saturday was won by the Sioux Vallies. They
will play again Saturday afternoon June 15 at H. Codd’s. It is also reported
that there will be a pony race the same afternoon at this place.

Born, to H.J. Coppock last week, a boy.

Alonzo Lilly has sold his farm and expects to make Missouri his future home.

Mr. Frost, of Merrill, was in these parts Saturday looking up cattle. He
purchased a fine Hereford from Alfred Fry.

HANCOCK: (Special Correspondence)
The people of Hancock and surrounding country, both Iowa side and Dakota,
will celebrate on July 4 at Belle Vista; no effort will be spared that will
add to the having of a good time. Let all lovers of liberty come and lend a
hand, no better place could have been selected. The genial manager, C.J.
Milligan will do all in his power to make all have a good time.

Lue Lamkin is on a visit to his old home in O’Brien county.

Mr. Simons, of the Jefferson grist mill, has been on our side of late
looking up the prospect for future custom. The people are pleased to know a
good flouring mill is near at hand.

The exercises for Children’s Day at the Belle Vista mission had been set for
the 12th at No. 3, the usual place of holding.

OBITUARY.
William Dixon, who died at the home of his son-in-law, Thos. Hillery, last
Sunday, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1825. He came to this country
with his parents in his boyhood and the family for many years lived in
Lafayette county, Wis. Mr. Dixon was a valiant soldier in the service of his
country, serving in the armies of the United States for nine years during
the Mexican and Civil wars. In the Mexican war he acted as dispatch carrier
on the plains and was also for a time enlisted in the regular army. After
the war he remained in the service on the frontier for some time during the
early exciting times with the Indians. He re-enlisted in the army shortly
after the commencement of the Civil war and for four years lived at the
front during the greater part of which he acted as a sergeant of infantry.
In the year 1855, he was married to Christina Patterson and six children
were born, three of whom have preceded their father to the grave. Mrs. Dixon
died in LeMars in 1885. The deceased was a kindly, good-hearted man, loved
by the children and respected by all the older people in the city who knew
him. He lost an arm by an accident in this city some years ago, on the
Fourth of July, when he engaged in discharging a cannon, and the attendant
circumstances secured for him the sympathy of the community.

The funeral services occurred on Tuesday afternoon at the house and were
largely attended by friends and by a large number of the old soldiers of the
city and vicinity.

TOO MUCH WATER.
A Baseball Enthusiast From Cherokee Has an Unpleasant Experience in the
LeMars Cooler.

One of the crowd that accompanied the Cherokee team on its trip here last
Tuesday got a very unpleasant soaking in the city cooler that evening which
effectually restered him to an ordinary sober condition after a too frequent
absorption of LeMars liquor. He had evidentially attempted to drown all
sorrow at the defeat of his champions with intoxicants and had arrived at a
condition that required his being cared for by the marshal. He was securely
locked up in one of the cages and left to sober up. He enjoyed a good time
by himself with acrobatic exercise and a free use of his lungs for a short
time until he jumped up and attempted to use the water pipe, which passes
through overhead, for a turning pole. His weight pulled the pipe down and
when it reached the ground it snapped and immediately commenced treating our
friend with a free shower bath and the drenching he got was as good as an
injection of bi-chloride for the time being.

When Marshal Baily went down into the cooler in the evening, he found about
four inches of water on the floor and the baseball enthusiast crouched in
one corner of his cell, shivering like a drowned rat. He made several
statements to the mayor and marshal as to his name and place of residence
and finally was allowed to depart upon putting up a guarantee to settle
costs.

IMPROVING THE COURT HOUSE YARD.
The board of supervisors is having the court house yard properly attended
to. A number of trees have been cut down and the grounds are being cleaned
up. The fences have been removed from the fenced in portion in the rear of
the sheriff’s barn and the ground has been plowed up and seeded. The grass
is well up all over and the block is very neat in appearance this spring.
Improvements are contemplated in changing some of the out buildings,
including the removal of the barn if suitable ground can be secured
elsewhere.

FUNERAL OF MRS. DR. BOWMAN.
The death of Mrs. Dr. A. Perry Bowman is sincerely mourned by many people in
LeMars who knew her during the residence of the doctor and family in this
city. She was a very popular woman and devoted wife and mother. Her many
lovable qualities endeared her to a large circle of friends who now
sympathize with the afflicted family. The funeral was held from Unity church
in Sioux City last Tuesday. Hon. I.S. Struble and wife, Mrs. P.H. Diehl and
Mrs. Geo. A. Sammis went down from LeMars to attend the funeral.

NEW GROCERY STORE.
The storeroom in the Brauch building north of the postoffice has been nicely
done up with fresh paint and new shelving for the occupancy of Frank P.
Brauch who will be open for business next Monday with an entirely new stock
of fine groceries. The stock will be new and complete and Mr. Brauch
solicits the patronage of former customers and the general public. He will
conduct a general butter and egg business in addition and the farmers will
find the new store an excellent place to do their trading.

LeMars Sentinel, Thursday, June 27, 1895, Page 3, Column 4:

Storms Caves for the Schools.

The recent Sioux County cyclone has been the means of arousing the people in
the county school districts to the necessity of providing storm protection
for the pupils and teachers of the outlying schools. In many places the
school directors are having cyclone caves dug and the patrons of the schools
have less fear for the safety of their children during the cyclone period
when such protection is provided. Union township, in this county, is taking
the lead in the matter and now every school in the township is provided with
a cave.