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LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
December 7, 1896

FUNERAL OF SHERIFF HERRON
The Popular Officer and Upright Citizen is Taken to His Last Home Followed
by Hundred of His Friends

The people came from all parts of the county this afternoon to attend the
funeral of Sheriff Wm. E. Herron, whose tragic death so recently occurred.

Large delegations of his old friends and friends of the family were present
from Kingsley as well as from Remsen, Merrill and other towns of the county,
while several were present from Sioux City.

The services were held in the residence from the rooms where he as
accustomed to meet with his family and friends. Only a small proportion of
the large congregation were able to get inside the house.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. August Fehlandt, of the
Congregational Church of LeMars. They were brief but especially fitting and
impressive.

The choir, consisting of Mrs. O. H. Hinds, Mrs. Pearl M. Duun, O. H. Hinds
and Chas. A. Wernlie, sang appropriate hymns during the services.

The pall bearers and escorts were: C. E. Hass, Thos. Adamson, G. C. Scott,
C. E. Flaugher, Judge Frank R. Gaynor, G. A. Sammis, E. C. Pfaffle, George
McLain, John Adams, Dr. C. S. Mammen, C. Bevan Oldfield and P. E. Brauch.

The remains of the deceased were followed to the LeMars cemetery by a vast
throng who mourn his sad death.

The city council and officials attended in a body and the banks and some of
the business houses closed during the afternoon.

WILL APPOINT A SHERIFF
The Board of Supervisors to Meet in Special Session on December 14th to
Appoint a Successor to Sheriff Herron

The necessary steps are being taken to call a special meeting of the board
of supervisors to appoint a successor to Sheriff Herron. The meeting has
been called for Monday, December 14. The impression has gone abroad that
vacancies in the county offices can only be filled at regular sessions, but
this is a mistake. The statue provides that in all cases of vacancies caused
by death or other cause in any county office the vacancy may be filled by
appointment of the board, said appointee to hold the residue of the term, or
until the next election. There is nothing in the statute to prevent the
appointment to fill a vacancy at a special session, in fact a special
session may be called for the transaction of nearly all business that comes
under the jurisdiction of the board. The only exceptions being a few cases
that the law provides shall be done at specified times. In regard to special
sessions of the board, section 400 of the code reads as follows:

Special meetings of the board of supervisors shall be held only when
requested by a majority of the board, which request shall be in writing,
addressed to the county auditor, and shall specify the object for which
special meeting is desired. The auditor shall thereupon fix a day for the
meeting, not later than ten days from the day of filing of the petition with
him, and shall immediately give notice in writing to each of the supervisors
personally, or by leaving a copy thereof at his residence, at least six days
before the day set for such meeting. The notice shall state the time and
place where the meeting will be held and the object of it, as stated in the
petition; and at such special meeting no business other than that so
designated in the petition and notice shall be considered or transacted.
The auditor shall also give public notice of the meeting by publication in
not exceeding two newspapers published in the county, or if there be none,
by causing notice of the same to be posted on the front door of the court
house of the county, and in two other public places therein, one week before
the time set therefore.

The notice of a special session appears in another column of the Sentinel
today.

LeMars Globe-Post

Wednesday, December 9, 1896

Mrs. Chas. Woldt died at her home in Lincoln township on Wednesday last in confinement, the infant surviving.  Deceased was twenty-eight years of age and left three little children without a mother’s care. The funeral took place on Sunday and the interment was in the Lincoln Lutheran cemetery.

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
December 14, 1896

A GASH IN HIS FACE
Ralph Wood Makes a Slash at Mat Ewin’s Throat and Cuts a Bad Gash in His
Lower Lip

It was a quick upward motion of Mat Ewin’s arm the other night which
prevented the courts from considering another case of manslaughter.

Ewin stood out on the platform in front of March’s store talking with Ralph
Wood, when the latter made a lunge at him with a knife in his hand and cut a
bad wound in his lower lip running from the center of the lip diagonally
downward and toward the other side. When Wood made the slash at Ewin, the
latter threw up his arm and dodged backward. For this reason he was only cut
by the point of the knife instead of getting a deep wound in his throat.

It was a narrow escape for Ewin and when the young man found out what he had
done he was very sorry for it.

Ewin and the young man have been very good friends. Wood worked for Ewin on
the farm last year and after Ewin did not need his services any longer, he
helped him get another position. Wood, it appears, was owing Ewin some money
and Ewin wanted him to pay it. Wood is reported to have refused and to have
made bad threats at Ewin. Ewin wanted his money and had employed a justice
of the peace to assist him in getting it. The collection was the subject of
conversation when the attack was made on Ewin. No arrests have been made and
probably the matter will be dropped.

HE WAS TOO FULL.
The mayor had a social visit Saturday morning of a few minutes with John
Philips. The guest had made the round of the saloons and had filled himself
too full for any practical purpose. In fact he could not contain himself or
the stuff he had taken and bore evidences of his incapacity in that respect.
The mayor thought that $5 and costs would be cheap enough. It made an even
ten altogether.

PLAN TO SAVE FRAUDS.
In Woodbury county, the overseers of the poor have adopted the plan of
publishing the names of all who receive county aid and live outside the
poorhouse. It is asserted that this plan prevents fraud. In the past many
people have received county aid who were not entitled to such assistance.
They were people who either had property or ability to earn a living.