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LeMars Sentinel Semi-Weekly Monday, July 3rd, 1899 

A TWO-FOLD CELEBRATION 

An Enjoyable Event at the Home of W. H. Zimmermann. 

An enjoyable family reunion was held any the home of Will H. Zimmermann on Eagle and Plymouth streets on Thursday afternoon, the occasion was the christening of his little daughter and the celebration of the birthday of Jacob Merryman, great grandfather of the infant. Mr. Merryman is the father-in-law of Gottlieb Koenig and on June 29 attained the good old age of four score and three years. The christening ceremony was conducted by D. C. Hauck, pastor of the German Evangelical church and the infant received the euphemistic name of Cleone Cordelia. A magnificent dinner was served at 4 o’clock to which over sixty guests sat down and many more called in the afternoon and evening to congratulate Father Merryman on the the anniversary of his birthday and wish him prolonged life and happiness. The table was decorated with flowers and a birthday cake two and a half feet high was one of the features. It was adorned with eighty-three flags in token of the number of milestones Mr. Merryman has passed in life’s journey. Speeches and songs followed the dinner and a most enjoyable social time supervened. Among the guests at the christening and birthday party with their families were: Messrs. and Mesdames J. G. Koenig, Geo. Kuhn, Geo. Koenig, Mrs. Kleinsorge, Mrs. Jonas, Emil Schafer, LeMars; Mrs. Theresa Zimmermann, of Stanton, mother of W. H. Zimmermann; Mr. and Mrs. Phil Schneider, of Hinton; Messrs. and Mesdames Geo. Zimmermann, Sternberg, and Henry Koenig, of Stanton, Mrs. Moebus and son, of Baltimore.

LeMars Sentinel, Thursday, July 13, 1899,
Page 4, Column 7:

Seney--Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elam Chapman, Monday morning, July 10th, a
daughter and Elam is the proudest man in Sioux county.

[Transcriber family note: This little daughter born to the Chapman's was Lois May.
She captivated their hearts and love for a short time, passing away on 15
Oct 1899.]

Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, July 27, 1899

COMES TO GRIEF

A Former LeMars Boy Was Arrested for Bobbing the Mails While Employed as
Clerk in the Postoffice at Chicago

Clark Emery, who was born and raised in LeMars, where his parents, Col. J.
M. Emery and Mrs. Emery were most highly respected and regarded by the whole
community, has come to grief as will be seen by the following taken from the
Chicago Inter- Ocean of Sunday last. The friends of the family will be sorry
for his parents and his sister, but Clark was rather a hard nut when a
youngster at school in LeMars, though a bright and pleasant young fellow:

For the second time within a week, a trusted clerk in the Chicago postoffice
has been arrested for pilfering letters that go through his hands. Clark
Emery, a clerk in the stamp department, was taken into custody at 1 o'clock
this morning by Postoffice Inspector Towlson, a moment after he had stolen a
letter; and rifled it of its contents. The letter was found in his
possession and Emery made a confession of his guilt to Towlson. He was taken
to the Central police station, where he is now a prisoner.

By his own confession Emery has been pilfering letters for the past six
months, and, despite the example set by the arrest of Richard J. Sweeney a
week ago, he stole nearly a dozen misgives within the past six days.

Emery's stealings have been going on for the past six months. The principal
sufferers through Emery's dishonesty are Montgomery Ward & Co., the Rev. D.
S. A. Mahoney, Sears, Roebuck & Co., and D. C. Cook.

The letter with which he was arrested this morning was addressed to
Montgomery Ward & Co. and contained money. Emery had extracted the money a
moment before his arrest. The letter and cash are now in the possession of
Inspector Towlson.

Emery was admitted as a clerk in the stamping department of the postoffice
since May 1, 1898. Just after securing his position he enlisted with the
Thirty-third Michigan volunteers and went to Tampa. On his return he joined
the First Illinois regiment.

Shortly after returning to work it was noticed that letters were being
missed and they seemed to disappear in his department. He was but one of
several clerks, however, and suspicion was not particularly pointed at him.
Between that time and now several arrests have been made, and with each one
it was thought the stealing would stop.

When the Sweeney arrest passed and the stealing continued, Inspector Towlson
set a watch on Emery. A week passed and in that time at least two dozen
letters were missed, but Towlson failed to detect the guilty one. He was
about to give up the idea that Emery was guilty when this morning the clerk
made the fatal move.

Towlson was secreted in the stamp room when he saw Emery place the letter
under his coat. A few moments later he saw the clerk open the letter and
extract the money. The next instant Emery was a prisoner. He was taken into
the office of the superintendent of mails, and for several minutes denied
his guilt. He finally broke down and confessed. He claimed not to know how
many letters he had stolen nor how much money he had secured, but he said he
had been stealing nearly six months. He will be questioned more fully today.

Emery is 23 years old. He is the son of respectable parents and his home is
at No. 3119 South Park avenue.

Akron Tribune, Akron, Iowa, July 27, 1899 

WILL IN LITIGATION

Last Testament of Milo R. Tuttle to Be Contested By Relatives and Alleged Former Wife.

What promises to be a complicated lawsuit is likely to result from the will of Milo R. Tuttle, who died in Akron, October 24, 1896.

Milo R. Tuttle came to Akron nearly fifteen years ago and engaged in the furniture business.  Upon his death he left a will bequeathing all his property to his wife, Jennie, who subsequently married John N. Raish.

The property was estimated to be valued at $25,000.  Since his death, two brothers, W. N. and E. N. Tuttle, and two sisters residing at Dickerson Center, N.Y. and Margary Tuttle, who claims to be the widow of  Milo R. Tuttle, have come forward to claim the property.

Margary Tuttle resides at Wimooski, Vermont, and has lived there for the past twenty-nine years.

In her deposition taken at that place, she claims to have been married to Milo Tuttle about 1867. She married a man, Lorenzo Wardwell, on June 17, 1879, at Malone, N.Y., by whom she had five children, three of whom are living.  She asserts that she married Wardwell two years after Tuttle left her and went West.  She had one child which died in infancy.  Margary claims to have married Milo Tuttle at Potsdam, N.Y., at the home of a man named Ira Preston.  In her deposition she says she has lost the marriage certificate and that Milo Tuttle gave her three hundred dollars one day and bid her goodbye, leading her to believe that he was going on a trip on the road in his avocation as a peddler.  From that time she never saw him again, and never made any inquiries after him until long after she was living with Wardwell.  In her deposition she said that she never obtained a divorce from Tuttle.

The case will come up for trial at the September term of the district court.  Zink & Roseberry, of LeMars, will look after Mrs. Raish’s interests.  The law firm of Martin & Martin are also interested in the case, and during Mr. Martin’s visit east he spent considerable time looking up the interested parties there and taking depositions which will be used in the case.