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LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
Monday, September 13, 1897

KILLED by the CARS.
The body of Orton Ewell was found on the Milwaukee track three miles north of Akron Friday morning by a boy who was passing that way on the road.

Coroner Mammen and County Attorney John Adams were summoned and an inquest was held Friday and Saturday.  It was ascertained that Ewell lived at Sioux City.  He was at Chatsworth Thursday night.  He became boisterous around the hotel and was sent out with another man to sleep in the hay mow.  In the morning Ewell was missing.  It is supposed that he rose and started down the track on foot and that after walking about four miles he was run over by the extra freight which went down the road about 4 in the morning.  The car ran over his body diagonally, leaving his head and one arm on one side of the rail and the rest of his body on the other side.

The trainmen knew nothing of the accident until they were subpoenaed as witnesses in Sioux City.  The coroner’s jury was James Mellen, J.P. Kendall and John C. Ruble. 

The verdict was in accordance with the foregoing facts.

LeMars Globe-Post
Wednesday, September 15, 1897

HELD AN INQUEST.
An inquest was held on Friday and Saturday on the body of the man who was killed by the cars near Akron on Friday morning, a brief account of whose death appeared in our last issue.  Coroner Mammen empanelled a jury composed of James Mellen, J.P. Kendall and John C. Ruble.  The man was proved to be Orton Ewell, of Sioux City. 

On Thursday night he slept with another man in a hay mow at Chatsworth.  In the morning when his companion awoke Ewell was missing.  It is supposed he got up and walked down the track towards Akron, as his dead body was found by a lad about four miles from Chatsworth and that he was run over by a freight train.  He was cut pretty near in two, his head and one arm being on one side of the track and his body on the other side.  The trainmen knew nothing of the accident till they were summoned as witnesses.  The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

The Akron Tribune, September 16, 1897

Last Friday a coroner’s jury consisting of James Mellen, John C. Ruble and J. P. Kendall investigated the cause of death of Arthur Uhl, who was killed last Thursday near the Jas. Ross crossing, about two miles north of here, returned the verdict that he came to his death while trying to board a moving south-bound freight train.  After the inquest his father, mother and wife took the remains to Sioux City, where the family resides, for interment.
**Research Clarification: The correct spelling of the deceased's last name is EWELL (not Uhl.)The date of death was Friday (approx 4 a.m.) September 10, 1897.

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LeMars Sentinel
September 23, 1897

ADVERTISING FOR A WIFE.

When there are so many beautiful girls in LeMars with all of the enchanting
feminine attractions of Cleopatra or Diana, it is strange that any young man
of the town should think it necessary to advertise in a matrimonial paper
for a wife. Why should the gay and stalwart youth want to correspond with
the damsels of Kalamazoo and Oshkosh when so much smarter and prettier young
ladies are right here at home. Indeed any public spirited citizen ought to
work to make LeMars a nursery for infant industries rather than to fly to
the attractions of the big footed, cross eyed, green haired, muddy
complexioned females with bad teeth and crooked noses who peruse the columns
of the matrimonial papers out of bleary eyes and through green goggles and
whose false teeth fall out and vitiate the atmosphere whenever they try to
raise their cracked voices to a loud tone.

Here is a smart young business man, handsome and strong. His manly form and
brawny muscles are just the kind to excite the admiration of some coy little
houri with a face like a dream and a voice like a nightingale. It must have
been bashfulness that led the LeMars youth to advertise in a paper published
in some village of the swamps of Indiana. He couldn’t have looked around at
the great attractions at home or he would not have thought for a minute of
looking for information and beauty in the fever-and-ague regions of the
Wabash river bottoms.

As a public spirited home journal, this paper is going to stand up for
LeMars. When there is a young man in town who seriously contemplates
matrimony, the home girls ought to have a chance at him first. Now girls,
get after him; his strong arms are aching for a chance to clasp you to his
loving bosom. Here is the advertisement copied from the Faithful Messenger,
a matrimonial paper published in Indiana:

“I wish to correspond with some nice wealthy girl. My age is 22, 5 feet, 150
pounds, dark hair, light eyes, work for a publishing house. ~Geo. Fluck,
LeMars, Iowa.”

FROM TUESDAY’S DAILY:
G. W. Argo is in LeMars today.

M. Tierney was a passenger to Marcus today.

Prof. Wernli and wife went west on the morning train.

Dr. Cole and wife returned this morning from their eastern trip.

F. L. Demuth went to Sioux City Monday to clerk for Davidson.

Mrs. G. A. Sammis returned last night from her visit in Des Moines.

Mrs. Metzmeirer and daughter went to Sioux City on the morning Central.

Dick Mayher and George Richardson went north on the Omaha this morning.

George E. Richardson has gone to northern Minnesota today on a land
excursion.

Mrs. W. R. Fisher arrived in LeMars this morning from Polo, Illinois, to
visit Mrs. Thomas Treat.

Miss Lillian Rieke left for her home at Chicago after a pleasant visit with
H. Kluckhohn and family.

Miss Maud Keith, of Perham, Minnesota, arrived in LeMars last night to
remain in town for some time visiting friends.

Mrs. Dave Moore went north this morning. She will meet her husband at Alton
and they will go to the Twin Cities for a weeks visit.

Miss McKenna arrived yesterday from Chicago to take her position as artistic
trimmer during the fall season at Mrs. Bastian’s millinery establishment.

Mrs. Oggel and daughter, of Washington Court House, Ohio, are visiting at
the home of W. M. Clagg for a week. Mrs. Oggel is a sister of Senator
Yeoman, of Sioux City.

Rev. A. G. Zigeler, of Harrison, S. D., formerly the pastor of the Holland
church in this city, is visiting in the city among his former parishioners.
He filled the pulpit in that church Sunday. He expects to remain until
Thursday.