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LeMars Sentinel
Feb. 11, 1897

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

Baby COOK has the whooping cough.

Our grain merchants are doing very little business at present.

Mrs. George HUGHES, of Westfield, is the guest of her parents this week.

A girl baby came to gladden the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grant CHAPMAN one day last week.

A very pleasant surprise party was given at the home of Arthur REEVES last Friday evening.

The literary society will meet at the Center school house tomorrow evening.

Miss Ida ALDERSON and Miss Bessie KENNEDY returned to their schools Sunday afternoon.

The smiling countenance of Dr. FOSTER was seen in our midst Sunday afternoon. The doctor has many patients here.

Mrs. Robert COLLINS returned Monday morning from a few days visit with her daughter at LeMars.

Lafe MARCH, who has a very severe attack of tonsillitis, is reported a little better.

Rev. WILSON is holding revival meetings at Fredonia this week. Everyone should attend.

The woman's foreign missionary society will meet at the parsonage next Wednesday afternoon. Every one cordially invited to attend.

CHURCHVILLE: (Special Correspondence)

The meetings at the Salem church closed Sunday evening, the result was eight conversions and three on probation.

Quarterly meetings will be held at the Salem church beginning Friday evening, February 19 and continue over Sunday. Rev. E. NOLTE, presiding elder, is expected to be here to conduct them.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. F. DOBBERT, near Neptune, February 7, a boy.

KUNKEL Bros are drilling a well on the BRANDSTETTER farm at present.

Wm and Miss Kate HAMM, of near Akron, visited friends and relatives in our burg Saturday and Sunday.

Meetings at the Emmanuel Church are in progress this week.

Koenig Bros made a business trip to Sioux City on Tuesday.

MILLNERVILLE: (Special Correspondence)

The death of Katie Nason, Feb. 3, was a great surprise to the people of this neighborhood, as it was not generally known that she was sick until it was announced that she was dead. She was the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas NASON and highly respected by all. The funeral was held a their home, Friday, February 5.

The members of the Millnerville Sunday school organized an Epworth League last Sunday. Mrs. TRIGG, president; Miss Nellie MORSE, first vice-president; Miss Angie VAN ARMOR, second vice-president; and Henry CROW, secretary.

Mr. and Mrs. John SIMON visited in Akron last week.

Mr. and Mrs. George MILLNER left last Friday for a visit with their son and old friends at Waterloo.

John LAWRENCE's family are sick with measles.

Charley PARKER, who was shot last week, is improving and will be out in a few days.

Bert PARKER, of Elk Point, S.D., was visiting in Millnerville last week

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EPWORTH LEAGUE

A literary program has been prepared by the Epworth League to be given at the M.E. Church on Friday evening, February 12, to which all are cordially invited. Following will be the program:

Music, Workers for the Master

Prayer

Paper --- "John Wesley" by Jessie SMITH

Recitation --- "Guilty or Not" by Pearl MORSE

"Thomas Coke" by Lulu BROWN

Solo --- "Angels Promise" by Jennie BECHTLE

"Francis Ansbury" by Laura MORSE

Music ---"Scattering Precious Seed"

"George Whitfield" by Willie BECHTLE

Duet --- "Murmuring Sea" by Grace SMITH, Lulu BROWN

Recitation --- "Reverie in Church" by Clarence HORNAMAN

Duet --- "Beautiful Moonlight" by George BROADMAN, John PILMOOR

Recitation --- by Nellie MORDOFF

Music, "Where He Leads I'll Follow"

LeMars Sentinel
February 15, 1897

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

Lafe March is again able to be out.

Mr. and Mrs. Miles Kennedy were callers in LeMars Thursday.

Mrs. John Peters is still very low at this writing.

Robert Collins made a flying trip to Maurice last Saturday.

Miss Lizzie Zehr, who has been visiting her brother a few months, went to
LeMars Thursday evening to visit friends for a few days.

The Peavey Elevator company are making arrangements to build a corn crib at
this place of about five thousand bushels capacity.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Collins transacted business in LeMars last Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Becker and Mrs. Hillebrand were visiting at Mrs. Zehr's last
Thursday.

Mrs. T. K. Chapman went to Sioux City Thursday.

Rev. Smith, of LeMars, assisted Rev. Wilson in his revival work at Fredonia
the first of this week.

MERRILL: (From the Record)

A.F. Harsh, of Lincoln Township, was a caller this week. Mr. Harsh is very
proud over the twins that came to his home recently.

LeMars Sentinel
February 18, 1897

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

Will McArthur shipped a car load of cattle to Sioux City Tuesday.

Miles Kennedy is doing jury duty this week

Mae Cutland is recovering from an attack of tonsillitis.

Oscar Haviland went to Sioux City Tuesday and returned Wednesday morning.

Mrs. Henry Detloff returned Tuesday evening from Wesley, Iowa, where she had
been visiting for a few days.

Mrs. John Reeves, of South Sioux City, arrived Wednesday to visit her
mother, Mrs. David Osborne, who is very ill.

Ernest Kennedy, of Appleton City, Mo., a former resident of Sioux county,
arrived Wednesday forenoon on business and it is rumored there is another
reason for his being here.

Several persons got off the 10 o'clock train here yesterday enroute to the
Holster-Foreman wedding, which is to take place at the home of the bride's
parents at high noon Wednesday.

Mr. J. Alderson and daughter, Sadie, left Monday morning for Elgin, Neb., to
see Mr. Alderson's aged mother who is lying at the point of death.

There is a good deal of sickness in this vicinity at present. Dr. Foster is
kept very busy attending the sick.

Mr. Jamieson, of LeMars, filled the Seney pulpit last Sunday evening in the
absence of Rev. Wilson, who is still holding revival meetings at Fredonia.

The Ladies Mite society will give a chicken pie social at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Lancaster Friday evening, Feb. 19. A hot chicken pie supper
will be served from eight till ten p.m. A cordial invitation is extended to
all.

Miss Mae, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Kennedy, is reported to have
scarlet fever. The child took sick while at school and it is feared the
disease will spread. No quarantine regulations have as yet been enforced.
If this is a case of scarlet fever something ought to be done to prevent its
spreading, as no one cares to be needlessly exposed to the disease, however,
we trust this is a false alarm and that Mae will soon recover.

LeMars Sentinel (LeMars, Plymouth Co., Iowa), Thursday,
February 25, 1897, Page 4, Column 3

Death of Mrs. Scribner
    Mrs. J. F. Scribner died Tuesday morning at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. C. H. Jones, between nine and ten o'clock, in the 89th
year of her age.
    Mrs. Scribner was born at Sheldon, Vermont, June 5, 1809*.  She was
the daughter of Dr. Sheldon afterwards a prominent physician of Troy, N.
Y.  She was married to J. F. Scribner in 1837 and moved to Elmira, New
York.  About 1857 she moved with her husband to Janesville, Wis., and in
1870 came to LeMars, where Mr. Scribner died in 1879.  Mrs. Scribner was
a lifelong member of the Episcopal church and was educated at a church
school.  She was a woman of rare intelligence and had received
educational advantages not accorded to many.
    During her last illness which only lasted a short time all of her
surviving children but one were with her at the home of her son-in-law
and daughter, C. H. Jones and wife in LeMars.  The sons and daughters
who survive her are Mrs. C. H. Jones, Miss E. R. Scribner, of LeMars, J.
W. Scribner of Chicago, E. S. Scribner of Kansas, Mrs. Cook of Kansas
City, and Mrs. Ashworth, of Sloan.
    The funeral services will be held at St. George's Episcopal church
in LeMars, on Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'clock.
(*Note-Per a family member, Mary's birth year is 1808.)

The LeMars Globe
Saturday, February 27, 1897

THREE WEDDINGS AT REMSEN.

During the week just closing three weddings were solemnized at Remsen and
six young people are now receiving the congratulations of friends and
building bright hopes for the future.

On Monday, February 22, Miss Mary List and Mr. Henry Luebbenhusen were
united in marriage at St. Mary’s church, Rev. Father Schulte officiating.

On Tuesday, February 23, Miss Rosa Scheofs and Mr. Hubert Huene were united
in marriage at St. Mary’s church, Rev. Father Schulte officiating.

On Wednesday, February 24, Miss Katie Bohnenkemp and Mr. Frank Bohlki were
united in marriage at St. Mary’s church, Rev. Schulte conducting the
ceremony.

MARRIED.

Mr. Fred Knapp, of Stanton township, and Miss Clara Wernike, of LeMars, were
united in marriage on Wednesday, February 24, 1897. The ceremony took place
at the residence of Dr. C. M. Hillebrand in LeMars, in the presence of a few
relatives and intimate friends, Rev. Dulitz, of the German Methodist church
pronouncing the words that made the young couple husband and wife.

At three o’clock Miss Ella Hillebrand took her position at the piano and the
bride and bridegroom, preceded by the officiating clergyman, entered the
parlor and took their places beneath a floral arch to the strains of
Mendelssohn’s wedding march.

The bride was charmingly attired in a gown of cream novelty goods, trimmed
with chiffon, passmenterie and ribbons and carried a beautiful bouquet of
bride’s roses.

After the ceremony the guests partook of dainty refreshments and the evening
hours were delightfully passed with vocal and instrumental music.

The young people are well known in Plymouth County, the groom having been
born here, and the bride having passed the major part of her life in
Plymouth County where of late years she has taught school with unqualified
success. Mr. Knapp is a prosperous young farmer who counts his friends by
the score. The young couple will go to housekeeping immediately on a farm
in Stanton township. Numberless friends will wish these popular people
unalloyed happiness in their wedded life.
***
Mr. Edward Uthe, of Akron, and Miss Tena Kling, of Neptune, were united in
marriage on Wednesday, February 24, 1897, by Justice Steiner at his office
in LeMars.

Mr. Uthe is the son of Fred Uthe, a prominent farmer of Marion township, and
a popular young man, who is engaged in farming near Akron, where he will
with his bride make his home. Miss Kling is one of the bright and popular
young ladies of Neptune society.
***
Henry Feller and Virginia Peters were united in marriage on Wednesday,
February 24, 1897, at St. Joseph’s church in LeMars, Rev. Father Meis
officiating. The young people belong to well known families of Plymouth
County, the groom being the son of Nicholas Feller, of Fredonia, and the
bride the daughter of Wilhelm Peters, of Marion township. The young people
start out in life with good prospects and have the best wishes of a large
number of friends for their continued happiness.

BIRTHS.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Page, of LeMars, on Wednesday, February 24, a
son.