Iowa Old Press

LeMars Sentinel
September 4, 1899

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. Geo. Foster is visiting at the home of her parents in Seney.

W. M. Kennedy returned to his home at Appleton City, Mo., last Tuesday after
a few weeks’ visit with friends in this vicinity.

Mrs. Moore left for the eastern part of the state to visit her sons last
Wednesday.

Miss Anna Daniels, of Maurice, visited at the home of her sister, Mrs. James
Lancaster, a few days last week.

Miss Emma Becker went to O’Leary last Wednesday to visit friends a few days.

Mrs. C. A. Rodolph and children returned from Denver, Colo., last Tuesday,
where they had been visiting relatives several months.

A. E. LeBlanc, of Carnes, was a Seney visitor last Wednesday.

Mrs. Mat Ewin left for Illinois last Thursday to visit relatives a few
weeks.

Mrs. A. Morton, of Lawrence, Kansas, is visiting at the home of J. B.
Owings.

John Emery, of Decatur, Neb., arrived Saturday morning to visit his parents
over Sunday.

The railroad graders finished the grade for the new side track here Friday
evening and moved to Alton Saturday to put in a new side track at that
place.

Gus Buse went to Arnold’s Park Saturday to visit his best friend over
Sunday.

W. L. March left Friday morning for Cedar Falls, where he has taken a
position in a drug store.

A. M. Cutland was elected clerk of Seney Camp M. W. A. at their last
meeting, vice W. L. March resigned.

Our grain dealers are doing scarcely any business at all at present. Very
little new grain has yet been marketed and none shipped out, something very
unusual for Seney at this season of the year.

John Reese and family, of near Sioux City, visited friends in Seney and
vicinity over Sunday.

A Family of Rattlesnakes.

Noah Zimmerman, who resides west of LeMars, was in town Friday morning and exhibited some rattlesnakes he had dispatched on his place.  He had an old she-rattlesnake and twelve young rattlers. Noah says their rattles made so much noise that he heard them himself, and everybody knows Noah is rather hard of hearing.

He turned them out of the furrow while plowing and they made a big show of fight, arching their necks and forming a square and caused Noah lots of exertion before he killed them. They will be exhibited at the fair after which it is currently stated that the rattlesnakes will be secured by the city council for the museum in the city park.

Died:

The two-months-old girl of Nic Gergen residing in Marion township, died on Saturday of cholera infantum. The funeral was held on Sunday at St. Joseph's church in this city.

The sympathy of the community is with Mr. Gergen, who has recently sustained great bereavements by deaths. His wife died a few weeks ago, his mother a week ago, and now the motherless babe has succumbed to illness.

The Sun, Sept. 6, 1899     
Leeds:
OBITUARY:

Died. -- Mrs. R.H. Woolworth, nee' Gertie Potts, at her home near James,
Iowa, Tuesday, Sept. 5, of consumption.

Mrs. Woolworth was first taken with this dreaded disease last fall and
although everything possible was done to check it's progress she
suffered a gradual decline.  Mrs. Woolworth for a time before her
marriage was a close attendant upon a sister of S. J. Lowe who was being
treated here for consumption, and it is thought that here she contracted
the disease.

A little daughter was born to Mrs. Woolworth on March 21, of this year,
and she survives her mother although she is not a strong child.

Gertie Potts, as she was called by all her friends, was born at Tama,
Ia., April 25, 1877.  Her father died while she was yet a little child,
leaving her mother with three little girls to rear.  Mrs. Potts came to
Sioux City in the early nineties. Soon after, the family moved to Leeds
and have resided here since. Mrs. Potts has struggled bravely and
successfully to rear her three girls to womanhood, and it seems hard
that just as her highest ambition is reached, her hopes should be dashed
to the ground and her eldest daughter snatched from her.

Gertie was baptized into the First Baptist Church of Sioux City, March
14, 1892.  She was married to Robert H. Woolworth, September 8, 1897.
Their married life was short by happy.  As Gertie was a dutiful child
and a loving helper to her mother in the time of hard struggle, so too,
in their brief married period, she was to Rob, a loving, faithful,
helping wife.

The funeral services are held this Thursday afternoon at the Leeds M.E.
Church in charge of Rev. Brown.  Reliance lodge of Odd Fellows, of which
Rob, is a member, will attend in body.

The interment will be in Floyd Cemetery.

To Rob, and to Gertie's mother and sisters, THE SUN, and we are safe in
saying the entire community, extends it's sincere sympathy in this hour
of affliction. 


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