The LeMars Sentinel (Plymouth County) July 1, 1902.

ADAVILLE: (Special Correspondence)

Joe Baldwin, John Fletcher and Ed Stinton have each got a new cream separator.

Willis and Ed Husted visited at the home of Robt. Taylor Sunday.

Celebrate the Fourth at Adaville and have a good time.

Mrs. L. L. Morehead and baby spent a few days last week with relatives in Akron.

Jessie and Katie Tindall returned home from LeMars Saturday.

Evelyn Simpson of Merrill visited with the Tindall young folks the past couple of weeks.

Mr. Weir and family of Sioux City were guests at the Jas. Tindall home Sunday.

Floyd Green came over from Westfield Sunday evening and stayed over night with his uncle, Ed Stinton. He was on his way to LeMars.

Fred King spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in LeMars.

If you want a good time the Fourth, come to Adaville.

A. C. Lasson made a business trip to Sioux City Monday.

Mary Tindall is assisting Mrs. Mae Stinton with her work.

Ralph Stinton and Miss Duffy was seen on our streets Sunday evening.
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SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. Maggie Warner and son Sam of Adrian, Minn., left last Monday afternoon for a visit at their old home, Hanniwell, Mo. They expect to be gone about a month.

Mr. Van March and little daughter of Slayton, Minn., are visiting at the home of Mrs. E. March.

Quite a number of Seney friends attended the funeral of D. Padmore at LeMars Sunday afternoon.

Dr. Prosser reports Mrs. Jackson who has been very sick to be much better at this writing.

Wm. Smiley's smiling face was seen on our streets Saturday forenoon.

Alfred Demaray shelled .50 bushels of corn for Mr. Husted last Friday.

Miss Delia McArthur is lying very ill in LeMars at the home of Mrs. Dickinson. Miss McArthur went to
LeMars to attend the institute but was suddenly stricken with pneumonia. Her many friends are hoping for her
speedy recovery.

Mrs. M. E. Campbell spent the week in LeMars called there by the sickness and death of her mother, Mrs. C. G. Norris.

C. G. Norris is visiting with the family of M. E. Campbell.

Fish are reported quite plentiful in the Floyd river and quite a number have caught in fine strings.

The storm of Tuesday night was quite severe in this vicinity. Shade trees were badly torn up, out buildings overturned, fences blown down and in one or two instances wind mills were destroyed.

Miss Nellie Vaut Hol of Carnes is visiting with Mrs. M. R. Campbell. She will remain until the Fourth.

Miss Edith Councilman who has been visiting friends west of Le Mars for some time returned home this
week.

SIOUX COUNTY: (Special Correspondence)

Douwe Vander Berg is learning the printer's trade at the Journal office.

John Johnson is putting in a water system. Ralph Wiley laid the pipes for him.

Garret Popken a rising young farmer of Grant township is putting in a pair of Osgood scales.

Grant Chapman of Sherman township was in our town last week.

Charley Pritchard's big barn was all blown to pieces in the recent wind storm.

Dan McCarthy and wife returned from their Dakota trip the last of the week.

John LaVelle had a new gasoline engine put in last week.

We are told Mrs. Alex McDougall will be home from Sioux City this week. She underwent an operation a while ago and is recovering nicely.

Mrs. Carpenter of LeMars and her baby Herold visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Seaman last week.

Mrs. B. H. Bell is home from Orange City visit.

Mrs. M. H. Mammen went to Lester one day last week to attend the wedding of her sister.

Henry Ludgwig and three daughters were in Struble Friday.

Mrs. J. A. Sayer and baby called on LeMars friends Sunday.
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DALTON: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. Davidson was calling in Dalton Thursday.

A. M. Duus of LeMars was a Dalton visitor Thursday.

John Kruse is hauling lumber from Dalton.

Mrs. Schutt and daughter Emma were callers at the home of U. B. Hinds Thursday.

Miss Grace Burton went to Struble Friday for a visit at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Hammond.

U. B. Hinds was a LeMars visitor Saturday.

Maggie and Viola McClintock of LeMars called at the home of G. S. Benton Saturday evening.

Henry Atwood is having a cyclone cave dug.

U. B. Hinds left Monday morning for Watertown, S. D. where he goes to manage for the S. H. Bowman lum-
ber company.

Mike Leyden an old time resident of Dalton was shaking hands with Dalton friends Monday morning.

Glen Martiner has been in the employ of the Bowman lumber company at this place left Monday morning for Garretson, S. D., where he will work for the same company. Glen has made many warm friends during his stay who are sorry to see him go.
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RUBLE: (Special Correspondence)

John Johnson has returned from his trip to Nebraska.

The dance at Haman Scotts was quite a success and a good time enjoyed by all.

Louis and Phil Broulette were Le Mars visitors over Sunday.

Mr. Anderson was a Merrill caller Saturday.

LeMars Sentinel
July 15, 1902

OUR COUNTY NEWS
By Our Correspondents and From Exchanges.

KINGSLEY: (Special Correspondence)

Frank Gates came down from LeMars Saturday to visit with his parents.

Dr. R.M. Hall, of Sheldon, was visiting friends here this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nicolls of Pierson spent the Fourth here.

Quite a number from here attended the celebration at Washta.

The Sioux City ball nine played ball with our team forenoon and afternoon
July 4. The forenoon game was won by our boys the score being 15 to 1 in our
favor. During this game Chas. Knowles, our third baseman, had his right
shoulder dislocated by running into a Sioux City man on third base. He was
unable to play longer. The afternoon game was won by Sioux City the score of
6 to 11. During the early stage of this game, Geo. Knowles our catcher, had
one hand hurt and was obliged to quit his place. Quite a number from Sioux
City witnessed the game.

Mr. and Mrs. John Cathcart left Saturday evening for Des Moines.

On Sunday morning at nine o'clock the funeral services of Charles Smith,
oldest son of C.E. Smith, were held at the home of the parents. Mr. Smith
died in Sioux City on Friday of pneumonia and the remains brought here on
Saturday. He leaves a wife, one child, father, mother, brothers and sisters
who mourn their loss. The sympathy of all are extended.

N.J. Brockman of Sioux City was in town on Monday.

One Monday last about two dozen young folks accompanied the base ball boys
to Merrill. The day was fine and a large crowd witnessed the game. Two other
of our players were unable to go. The game was won by Merrill the score
being 4 to 5. The ladies of Merrill entertained the Kingsley ladies for
dinner and supper at the home of R. Dennler. In the evening a social dance
was enjoyed by all. The ladies who attended from here are Mesdames Burton,
Reed, Beardsley, Misses Smith, Brandon, Evans, Heacock, Douglas, McCracken,
Thompson, Doak, Fibbets. The people of Kingsley appreciate the kindness
shown them by the Merrill crowd and to them extend their well wishes.

Mrs. Perry Hill left Monday for a visit with relatives in Omaha.

The Sioux City and Des Moines passenger passed over this branch of the
Northwestern Tuesday on account of a washout on the other road.

Mr. and Mrs. G.H. Burris accompanied by Mrs. C.M. Burris of Pony Mount
arrived in Kingsley Wednesday.

Mrs. Berkha and children who have been visiting at the home of Perry Hill
returned to their home in Omaha this week.

Will Creasy was a Correctionville visitor Thursday.

Henry Wormley was kicked in the forehead by a horse last Monday. Dr. Rippey
dressed the wounds and the little patient is getting along nicely.

Mrs. Wm. Johnson and Miss Lillie Petersen of Illinois are visiting at the
Petersen homes.

Chas. Winslow and family moved to Colfax this week where they will make
their future home.

The four year old child of John Bainbridge was hurt on Monday by being run
over with a wagon.

J. P. Hiett spent the Fourth in Storm Lake.

Miss Sybil Volkertz visited relatives at Sac City last week.

Matt Ginsbach of Merrill was in town last week.

F.M. Harvey was a Sioux City visitor on Saturday.

Walt Cogley and family are visiting relatives in Nebraska.

Miss Nellie Brownlee of Cushing visited at the Paterson home last week.

Miss Delia Donohey of Moville was in town Friday.

H. Meachem and wife of Sioux City visited at the Phelps home Friday.

Harry Russell and wife of Sioux City visited with O.D. Heald and family last
week.

David Cunningham of LeMars was in town this week.

E.D. Trotter is attend a shooting tournament in South Dakota this week.

John Zimmerman of Washta spent Sunday with friends in Kingsley.

R. J. Ellis of Pierson was in town Wednesday.

Wm. Pape of Hinton was in town this week.

Clifford Pence is clerking for L.T. Patterson.

Mrs. L. Dean returned Wednesday from a several weeks visit at Des Moines.

Friends here received a letter from Dane Henderson, who is now in Washington
for the benefit of his health, saying he is greatly improved. He will start
for Iowa about August first.

The half mile bicycle race July 4 was won by Will Leinbaugh also the quarter
and five mile race. The foot race was won by Frank Cogley.

JAMES: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. Lewis Haller started for Tipton, Iowa, last Tuesday. She will visit in
that place with friends and relatives for a period of two or three weeks
before returning home.

Jacob Schnindler made a business trip to Sioux City Thursday.

Neil Harrison was in Sioux City Friday.

George Diedeker was in Leeds Friday.

Ezra Hungerford of Leeds was a James caller Friday. Ezra says he is going to
the northern part of Wisconsin in the near future.

Honnis Hay was in Sioux City Friday.

Miss Bertha Sheets of Sioux City arrived in James Friday evening. She
visited at the home of Lewis Haller, returning home Saturday.

Clinton Shoemaker of Owego, Iowa, Sundayed with the Haller family.

A dance was given at the home of Peter Casper Saturday evening.

Ringling Bros. show was well patronized from this locality Saturday.

Miss Rose Schindler and her brother, Frank, were in Sioux City Saturday.

DALTON: (Special Correspondence)

Thos. Hopkins has had Caleb Garton out papering their new home.

Mae Cavanagh visited at Homer Norton's two days of last week.

Mr. Pierce the manger of the Bowman lumber yard at Hinton was a caller on
the people here Thursday.

Miss Lotta Dreyer of Hull stopped in our burg a short time Thursday
afternoon. She was enroute for Remsen to visit with grandparents and
friends.

A stranger who happened to be in our town Thursday night had the ill fortune
to lose a purse containing about $40. No trace was found of it. We
understand the party was in company with some others who had come from
Merrill to LeMars by rail and from there here to take the train back again
and lost his valuables while going to the depot.

The Oustebur home was the scene of genuine merriment last Sunday.

The ball games at LeMars attracted the attention of some of our people
Sunday afternoon.

The lumber for the new elevator is on the grounds. Our energetic neighbor,
A.F. Manz, has thirty strands of hard working bees. A sight that brings to
mind the old eastern home.

Mrs. Everist will ship her goods to Randolph Tuesday and with her family
will leave Thursday via LeMars.

Agnes Cavanaugh went to Crathorne Friday evening to stay a few days at Sam
Dediker's home.

Mr. and Mrs. Davidson entertained guests from LeMars over Sunday.

Several tramps gave our people considerable annoyance during the week. With
so much work to be done this seems quite useless.

No preaching will be held on next Sunday as Rev. Cawelti will attend the
camp meeting held at LeMars.

A pile driver and crew of six men have been at work on this part of the
section of the railroad repairing bridges.

Miss Bertha Beyer and Mrs. Hinds were among people at the camp meeting in
LeMars Friday.

Grace Benton took the train Saturday morning to spend a week with friends at
Remsen.

Chas. Schultz is busy repairing roads and culverts.

Fred Cavanaugh is at home again with a good coat of genuine country tan on
his face.

LeMars and Dalton had a twirling of balls last Sunday resulting in an
overwhelming victory for LeMars.

RUBLE: (Special Correspondence)

The ladies aid society met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Scott Wednesday.

Louis Brouillette has returned from his visit in Minnesota. He reports a
very pleasant time.

H.A. Johnson was a caller at E. Mann's Sunday.

John Hallsen was a caller at this uncle's Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. John Bryant visited at Ruble Sunday.

John Gale was a business caller at Akron Saturday.

Rev. DeMunbrun was a Ruble caller Friday.

Rev. Cronk conducted services in the Ruble school house Sunday afternoon.

The ball game between Ruble and Indian Creek was well attended and resulted
in a win for Indian Creek.

A large number of the young people attended church at Adaville Sunday
evening.

MAMMEN: (Special Correspondence)

Miss Hannah Theilen now of Sioux City visited at her home last week. Miss
Anna Topken accompanied her.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin H. Mammen of Struble visited at the latter's parental
home last Wednesday.

Carlyle Kennedy gave a birthday party last Saturday. All of the little folks
of the town were present and enjoyed a very pleasant time.

The Grant Township Creamery company shipped 102 tubs of butter last week.
During the month of June they shipped 407 tubs as against 336 for the same
month last year.

Gerhard Eilers whose barn blew down during the recent storm received $95.00
insurance. Two horses that were in the barn were not injured but one of the
buggies was completely wrecked.

Charles Mammen and Meint Eilers spent the 4th near Ellendale. They report a
splendid time.

Gert Osterbuhr has been laid up with a severe attack of inflammation of the
kidneys and dropsy. Dr. Mammen is attending him.

Onno Onkens baby was christened last Sunday.

August Surm has resigned his position as harness maker and is again working
at his old trade that of a carpenter.

The ball game at Mammen's place Sunday ended in a score of 15 for the "Mud
Hens" of near Struble against 8 for the Mammen nine.

Henry Doden our everyday milkman hauled 3800 pounds of milk one day last
week.

C.B. Elsen brought home a goat last week which he will harness for his
children. The young people of Mammen are talking of starting a lodge now
since they have the goat.

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

Frank March and sister, Lucile, took the Thursday morning train, the first
on business at Sibley and the latter to visit her sister, Mrs. Dan McArthur
at Sheldon.

Miss Kate Engels is lying very ill at her home east of town. Dr. Reeves of
LeMars is attending her.

Seney is billed for a real live show for Tuesday night.

C.G. Norris and John Lancaster are in LeMars this week in attendance upon
the camp meeting.

J. Parry of O'Leary was visiting his daughter, Mrs. Brunhaver this week.

Mr. Mills is very busy these days repairing damage done by the recent severe
storm to the fine barn on his farm.

Miss Eva Higday of O'Leary is visiting her sister, Mrs. Dewey Hamer.

Mrs. Geo. Anstine of LeMars is visiting at the Anstine home north of Seney
this week.

Edwin Lancaster has purchased a fine new surrey for the use of himself and
family.

Work on the cellar for the new M.E. parsonage has begun. When completed, we
expect to have a parsonage that will be a credit to the church and
community.

Mr. Perdue of Maurice, editor of the Maurice paper, was in the city
yesterday evening. We understand he was initiated into the mysteries of
Woodcraft and is now a member of the M.W.A. of Seney.

Miss Bessie Kennedy took the morning train Thursday to visit friends at
James.

Mrs. Bundy of Texas and Mrs. Coolbaugh were visiting the Freeman family
Thursday. Mrs. Bundy formerly lived near Seney and has many friends here who
were glad to see her. The family are well pleased with their southern home.

Joe Juhl of Carnes was in town one day this week.

On account of the bad weather the social meeting that was to have been held
at Arthur Reeves Tuesday evening has been indefinitely postponed.

Frank March has returned from his eastern trip. He reports the eastern part
of the state in much worse condition from excessive rains than ours, and
says crops around here look better than at any other point he visited.

The Misses Maggie and Josie Kinney of Carnes were calling on Seney friends
Monday afternoon.

Wm. Myers took in the ball game at LeMars Monday afternoon.

Mr. Beaver, auditor for the Edwards & Bradford Lumber Co., was in the city
last week auditing the company's books and helping invoice stock.

Miss Julie Heide of Carnes visited her sister, Mrs. A. Freeman, last week.

Ira Moore and family of LeMars were Seney visitors Sunday.

Thos. Adney and family of LeMars visited at the Dave Baldwin home the first
of the week.

YEOMANS: (Special Correspondence)

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Peterson, July 4, a son.

Sadie Brockman returned to her home in Sioux City Friday.

Mrs. Joe Blooder was quite sick a few days the past week.

Mrs. Hibbard enjoyed a pleasant visit from her mother last week.

Mrs. W.T.S. Cassady was a Sioux City visitor Monday.

Mrs. Widemer had her barley out Monday; the first harvesting at Yeomans.

The Walker children are entertaining a cousin.

Hazel Herman is entertaining a friend from the city.

Mrs. J.G. Herman enjoyed the company of city friends the past week.

Mrs. McWilliams expects her sister of St. Paul to arrive Tuesday to spend a
few days visiting at Yeomans.

Mrs. Henry Bruford was quite ill the past week.

John Johnson wife and Alice and Harvey Johnson visited friends in Sioux City
Sunday.

Mr. Edward Bruford was quite sick Sunday.

Mrs. Ingram and children and F.E. Taft and family, Mr. Soloman and family
were Sioux City visitors Saturday.

STRUBLE: (Special Correspondence)

C.E. Perdue rode the Woodman goat at Seney last week.

Frank and Will Buss were in Struble the last of the week, also John Johnson
and Mr. Kuborn of Seney.

Messrs. Otto Millard and Noble are north on a land expedition.

John and Peter Kaiser were at Ireton Friday.

Herman Eilers, the Mammen contractor and carpenter, and August Storm were in
our city Saturday.

Durband & Kruse have reasons to feel highly elated of the fact that their
cattle topped the market at Sioux City. They were Struble cattle.

Elam Chapman was a business caller Saturday.

The show at the town hall Friday and Saturday night was good and afforded
250 bushels of fun.

Nick Hansen is home from Europe where he was since April. Mr. H. says he
would not exchange his rights to American soil for all Europe.

Mr. Ludawese of Alton is the guest of Nick Schlesser.

Sol Perry of Seney called in our town Friday.

D. Kueker and Mr. Reigell were business callers Saturday evening.

Mrs. Montag and family were LeMars visitors the last of the week.

The ball game Sunday between Merrill and Struble stood 8 to 8. A big crowd
greeted the boys and a general good time was enjoyed by the rooters in the
grandstand.

Many from here attended the dance at Henry Becker's Sunday night.

Will Deegan seems well pleased with the country of the north which he had
recently been looking over.

Mrs. John Kaiser was at LeMars Sunday morning.

A pleasant evening was spent last week at John Mandelkow's in a surprise
party.

REMSEN: (Bell Enterprise)

A valuable horse belonging to Henry Falke took a stroll from the barn yard
into the public road last Monday noon. A dog chased it and in the run the
horse stumbled, fell, broke its neck, and died on the spot.

A lot of nice young men, all gentlemen, came up here last Sunday, firmly
resolved to beat the Remsen team at a game of ball. If they tried their best
to carry out their resolution, they had better never try again, for at their
best they were badly disappointed. Remsen won the game by a score of 18 to
6. The LeMars boys played good ball, however, were outclassed in every
respect. Remsen has a baseball team of which it can be proud, it has won ten
straight games, and has played the leading amateur teams in the country.
This is a record hard to beat by any amateur team.

John Hoffman died on the Paul Staab farm in Meadow township on Wednesday
morning, July 9, at the age of 68 years of inflammation of the bladder,
after an illness of only ten days. Deceased was born in Prussia in the
district of Treves 68 years ago and came to the United States settling near
Hospers in Sioux county, in 1889, and came to Plymouth county in 1891. He
was of a kind and generous disposition, honest in all his dealings, so that
his demise is generally regretted. His wife, one son, Hannes Hoffmann, and
one daughter, Mrs. Jacob Hoffman, survive him. The remains were laid to rest
in the Catholic cemetery of Remsen this Friday morning after a requiem in
the Catholic St. Mary church.

When farmer H.J. Brunken went into his pasture last Sunday just before noon,
he was attacked by a bull and bumped over a territory of several rods. The
animal had no horns to which circumstance Brunken owes his life. At the 15
or 20 bumps the bull's victim had reached the fence, and getting on the
other side of it was in safety. However, Mr. Jastram had to be called, and
the involuntary toreador is down with a broken rib and many other bruises.

HINTON: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. E. Oleson was greatly surprised Wednesday when her brother, Ed. Morf
and her brother-in-law, Wm. Lauck, both of Getchell, Wash. whom she had not
seen for fourteen years, walked in and stood before her. Mrs. Oleson did not
know the gentlemen at first, and when she finally recognized them, she could
then but scarcely behold her friends through tears of joy at meeting the
brothers she had not seen for so long. Mr. Lauck is the father of Miss
Sophia Lauck, who also has not seen him for the same length of time.

LeMars Sentinel
July 18, 1902

FARM LOANS..
Another drop in rates.
Call and get latest terms.
~E.T. BEDELL

PERSONAL.

P. Farrell made a business trip to Cherokee on Tuesday.

Louis Gilbert, of St. Paul, is visiting his relatives in LeMars.

Dr. P. Schwind was a business visitor to Leeds on Thursday.

Misses Ceila and Clara Hentges were Sioux City visitors Monday.

T.R. Mitchell was a Sioux City business visitor on Tuesday.

G.A. Sammis made a business trip to Yankton, S.D., this week.

John M. Kleitsch went to Dubuque on business on Tuesday.

E.T. Bedell went to Chicago on business Monday night.

Mrs. G.A. Gottsch left last night to visit friends at Peterson.

Miss Sarah Gable, of Osage, is visiting her brother, L.L. Gable.

Geo. Thaden, of Marcus, visited over Sunday with his parents.

J.F. Edelstein was a business visitor to Sioux City on Thursday.

Mrs. W.D. Simpson, of Merrill, was a LeMars visitor yesterday.

Olin Round of Fort Dodge was in LeMars Tuesday visiting relatives.

Miles Bolser left on Tuesday night for a week's visit at Portland, Ore.

Mrs. M.E. Cavanaugh of Dalton was a Sioux City visitor yesterday.

J.S. Engelken was visiting relatives at Bellevue, Iowa, this week.

M.C. Lobdell left on Tuesday for Brookings, S.D., on land business.

Mrs. J.C. McMahan, of Sioux City, is visiting LeMars friends this week.

Jas. Kelly, left yesterday on a business trip to Sioux City and Mapleton.

Miss Myrna Mayhew left yesterday on a visit with her father at St. Paul.

Geo. Linderman is taking his vacation and is spending his time in fishing.

Andy Thompson returned on Tuesday from a three weeks outing at Spirit Lake.

Anton Didier went to White Lake and other South Dakota points on Tuesday.

W.A. Scholl, better known as " Diamond Dick," is in LeMars this week on
business.

Wm. Quirk of Dubuque is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Sartori
this week.

Mrs. Jas. Duncan, of Chicago, arrived in LeMars yesterday on a visit to Mrs.
C.D. Wernli.

C.B. Wright, of Chicago, one of the pioneer residents of LeMars, was a
visitor here this week.

Misses Amanda and Emma Mauer left on Tuesday on a visit to friends at
Sheldon and Algona.

W.E. Brown and family of Missouri Valley are visiting Mrs. Alex Demaray,
near Merrill.

John Brehm, ex-supervisor of Plymouth County, of Hinton, was visiting in
LeMars yesterday.

Mrs. Trottnow of Freeport, Ill., who has been visiting relatives here
returned home Monday night.

Mrs. J.W. Schmidt returned on Tuesday from a visit with her sister, Mrs.
J.F. Oliver, at Onawa.

A.C. Colledge went to Lake Minnetonka, Minn., on Monday where his family is
spending the summer.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Judd, of Sioux City, came up Tuesday on a visit to friends
north and west of LeMars.

Miss Minnie Harder left on Tuesday night for Brainerd, Minn., to spend a two
weeks vacation with friends.

Mrs. Stelzer and son, Gus, of Chicago are visiting LeMars friends. They are
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Aug. Nuel.

Misses Lillian and Josephine Long are spending the summer in LeMars. They
are occupying the College house.

Miss Lily Lobdell is enjoying a visit from her cousins, Mrs. Frank Taylor of
Blair, Neb., and Mrs. Chas. Pease, of Sioux City.

Mrs. Flora Sweetzer has returned from an extended visit with her brother and
other relatives at Blue Earth, Minn.

J.C. Calhoon, one of the leading attorneys at Emmetsburg, was in LeMars on
Wednesday and while here was the guest of J.F. Edelstein.

Mrs. Nic Wagner, of Chicago, accompanied by her children is visiting with
her brother-in-law, John Wagner, and sister-in-law, Mrs. Aug. Nuel.

J.B. Cunningham, clerk of the courts of Plymouth County, has been at
Marshalltown this week attending the state convention of county clerks of
the state.

Jno. C. Crockett, of Eldora, was in LeMars yesterday. He is a candidate for
the office of the clerk of the supreme court before the next state
convention.

Mrs. J.B. Murray and her daughter, Miss Anna Murray, were called to Cedar
Rapids to attend the funeral of a brother of Mrs. Murray, who died on Monday
morning.

GANG OF HOBOES.

A large gang of hoboes arrived in LeMars on Wednesday. The majority of them
claimed they were looking for work in the harvest fields and were making for
the Dakotas and Minnesota. The police locked up about sixteen on Wednesday
night and on Thursday morning started them out of town in a northerly
direction. The marshal found another large bunch at the stock yards
yesterday morning. They were engaged in cooking breakfast and by appearances
had a good square meal. Beefsteak, succulent potatoes and other vegetables
were the staples and about fourteen were enjoying the repast when the
marshal arrived on the scene and hurried them out of town with the hoboes
who had enjoyed the night's lodging in the city cooler. Some of the gang
were very decent but a few of them were saucy and made threats at the
officer, who in response, accelerated their exit from the confines of the
city.

BIG CAMP MEETING.

The services in the big tent on Broadway and Main street, being held
nightly, are very largely attended. The services are under the auspices of
the Plymouth County Holiness Association and being led by Evangelist
Hatfield of Cleveland, Ind.

Great crowds have been drawn to the meetings of the last few nights. The
camp meeting is one of the genuine old sort and, as one of the preachers
expressed himself the other night, is just what is wanted according to his
view, he wanted the people to shout, and give outward demonstration of their
feelings if they believed they had found salvation.

Sioux City Journal: Miss Lillian Long, of LeMars, arrived in Sioux City
yesterday from Seattle, Wash., where she was visiting relatives and friends.
She attended the wedding of Miss Lucile Richards, formerly of Sioux City.
She also was the guest of Mrs. A.R.T. Dent, a sister of Miss Richards. Mr.
Dent was for many years a grain commission dealer in Sioux City. When he
lived in Sioux City, he was a man of rather slight build. Miss Long says now
he weighs over 200 pounds.

*****

J.F. Krige, A. Kloster, and Jas. Hughes were appointed by the German Mutual
Insurance Hail association to adjust the losses in Marion, Union, and
Fredonia townships, occasioned by the hail storm of last Friday night. The
trio have been busy since Tuesday driving through the country and sizing up
the damage but as yet have made no report. About sixty have reported losses.
The losses are of a minor nature in the most cases.

Baseball Notes.

The Chicago Inter-ocean says that Manager Armour of the Cleveland ball team
has his eye on O'Neil, the Notre Dame university ball player, and may try to
get him in addition to Bemis who does the catching for Cleveland. O'Neil is
playing with Le Mars, and is one of the best behind the bat in the Iowa
South Dakota league.

The Sioux City Journal of yesterday gives it out that some of the clubs are
after President Lockhart's scalp. J. O. Sammis, the Le Mars, Manager, says
the trouble, if there is any, is greatly exaggerted.

The tailenders shut Rock Rapids out on Wednesday at Sheldon by a score of 7
to 0. The top notchers are all playing good ball, and the Jaybirds have been
doing their best to help make it interesting. The Le Mars and Sioux City
game on Monday will be posponed, as the Le Mars team will not be able to get
back from Watertown, S. D., where they play on Sunday, in time. On Tuesday
Le Mars plays Sioux City at Sioux City and on Wednesday and Thursday at home
with Sioux Falls.

There will probably be a doubleheader one of the days Sioux Falls is here.

LeMars Sentinel
July 22, 1902

WANTS HER CHILD
Mrs. Amsler a Former LeMars Resident, Objects to Being Separated From Her
Daughter.

The trouble of the Amslers who for many years have lived in LeMars are being
aired in the Sioux City papers and will come into court. Mrs. Amsler, while
she was a resident of this city, was considered a hard working, honest
woman, who gained her livelihood at the washtub. The story is told by the
Sioux City Journal as follows:

Weeping and ringing her hands evidently in deep distress, Mrs. Emma Amsler,
a wash woman who lives in a little house in Ressegieu alley, near Perry
Creek, attracted attention by walking back and forth in front of the Toy
building on Fourth street yesterday morning, inveighing bitterly against the
police and charging Police Matron Thurston with having stolen her little 12
year old daughter.

The distraught woman explained she was waiting for an attorney. She later
placed her case in the hands of Sargent & Ferguson, and now the police
matron is threatening with the sensational charge of kidnapping.

Mrs. J.A. Thurston returned Tuesday night from Dubuque, where she took
little 12 year old Emma Amsler to the Academy of the Visitation, a Catholic
institution.

According to Mrs. Amsler's story she is a hard working woman who has been
taking in washing for a living. She charges that her husband has deserted
her, and alleges that he is addicted to the drink habit. She was unable to
support her daughter and secured a position for her at Davidson Bros.
company's store. Later the girl left this place. Mrs.Amsler claims the
matron came to her house and stated she had a place for Emma at Morningside.
The mother says she gladly gave the child permission to accompany Mrs.
Thurston, and that the police matron then took her away.

Matron Thurston admits having taken the child but says it was in accordance
with the father's direction. She says she consulted a lawyer and acted
entirely within her rights, and dismisses the kidnapping charge.

According to Matron Thurston's story, the father, Jacob Amsler, is working
with his brother, John Amsler, on a farm near town. The father with some of
his sisters came to her and asked her to do something for the child.

There is a family quarrel between the Amslers, with charges and
countercharges, and the father alleged that the child should be taken from
the mother's hands.

The Amsler sisters agree to pay the child's expenses at school, if she could
be taken there.

Mrs. Thurston also admits she went to the house and called for Emma Amsler.
"I told the mother I had a place for her," she said. "I brought her to the
office and then told her I wanted to take her away to school. She said she
preferred to go to school in Sioux City, but I told her she would probably
be taken out again. She submitted until we reached Dubuque, when she cried
and said she wanted to come back."

Mrs. Amsler's attorneys say they have no desire to bring action against Mrs.
Thurston, provided she produces the child, but that otherwise the charge of
kidnapping will be brought.

Mrs. Thurston yesterday afternoon said she had nothing to say in the matter.

Mrs. Mary Amsler, who lives at Ressegieus alley and whose 12 year old
daughter, Emma, was taken to the Academy of the Visitation at Dubuque
without the mother's consent, by Police Matron Thurston, will bring suite
against her husband, Jacob Amsler, for divorce on the charge of desertion
and will apply for a writ of habeas corpus to secure possession of her
daughter.

Her attorneys believe possession of the child can be obtained in this way.
They have not contemplated bringing a charge of kidnapping against the
police matron. However, Mrs. Amsler may think differently. Mrs. Thurston so
will undoubtedly stand upon the authority given her by the father to take
the child. In case of a charge of kidnapping, the question would then arise
whether the father could legally dispute some one to take his child, or
whether in such case the agent would be acting within his or her legal
rights.

Chief Davenport has advised the matron to return the child, but Mrs.
Thurston refuses to state whether or not she will do so without an order
from the court. When questioned she had nothing to say.

Mrs. Amsler is distracted over the loss of her daughter. She has two other
children, Albert, 18 years, who works for the Sioux City Tribune, and Willie
aged 9 years. The children are bright and capable.

The family lives in a small home in Ressegeus alley. The home is a model of
neatness. Mrs. Amsler is assisted by her sisters, but takes in washing to
secure additional comfort for her family.

Mrs. Amsler did not know her daughter had been taken away until the morning
after she left with the matron. She expected her home that night and when
she did not return, she thought something had happened to her and was almost
insane with fear.

A BIT OF EARLY HISTORY

Hinton Gazette: C. W. Herman, of the Gazette office, tells of some of his
early pioneer experience in this county. He and his brother, Fred, and
mother took up claims about a mile from Oyens, in May 1869, when LeMars was
simply a section station. In trying to get cottonwood lumber to build houses
on their homesteads, it was not only a question of seeing it arrive on a
construction train to which was attached a tri-weekly freight service, but
as it would be unloaded it was a question of who was the heaviest man, for a
dozen or more would lay claim to each 2x4 as it struck the ground and the
man with the greatest avoirdupois would manage to maintain his position on
the much coveted pine strip, and thus insist on having it include in the
check up of his bill. Transportation was so limited in those days that on
one occasion Mr. Herman carried a keg of nails on his back from the station
where LeMars now stands over to his land, and when night came on he would
hide his burden in the willows along Willow Creek until rest could be
secured to finish the wearisome journey. One of the principal stopping
places then was the farm house of J.H. Morf, near Merrill.

It was in those days that the several sloughs over this country received
their respective names. When some traveler would get stuck in one of them,
the peculiar circumstances under which relief came would become the name of
that certain slough. One time over on the Whiskey, a man who had a very
heavy load of household goods ventured into that place, and when he found he
could not get out alone, he called for help from a fellow passerbyer, who
refused to come to his assistance until the whiskey bottle was produced. On
another occasion a man was doing his best to coax his team along through two
marshy strips which is now Oyens and Remsen, when he lost his patience and
ripped out an oath, comparing the place to lower regions, and ever since
that time "Hell Slough" has been its name. Many other bad places in the
overland road thus received similar names, which have been stuck by them all
through these past years up to the present time.

Ox teams were used almost entirely for all kinds of farm work, and proved
the salvation of the homesteader from starvation during that three years of
the grasshopper invasion, when feed and everything else including the family
washing on the clothes line was devoured. To the rising generation it will
seem almost incredible that nearly all of the tall timber along the Floyd
was then only little underbrush, scarcely enough to make shade. Sioux City
was the nearest U.S. land office.

NEARLY DROWNED IN SIOUX

Sioux City Journal, July 18: Only that John Barels, a driver for the Laurel
Laundry, happened to be at hand prevented another drowning last night in the
Big Sioux River at Riverside Park. Among the swimmers who were sporting in
the waters of the Sioux was one man who seemed to be an expert. With Barels
he started to swim to the island but miscalculated his powers and could not
make it. It is not a long distance but the man seemed to be completely
exhausted when about fifteen feet from the shore of the island, and went
under the water. On coming up he screamed lustily for help.

Barels had nearly reached the island. Upon hearing the man yell he turned
and spoke some word of encouragement to him, and told him that a few feet
further and he could touch bottom. The fellow managed to swim a few feet
further, but then again sunk. Coming up once more he piteously begged to be
taken out. Barels went back and taking the man by the arm swam to the island
with him. After taking a rest he vowed the frightened fellow back to the
bathing dock where, after chattering his thanks to the preserved, the man
put on his clothes and disappeared. His name was not learned. The water
where the man tried to touch bottom is over ten foot deep.

John Barels is a former LeMars boy who went to school and spent all his life
here before going to Sioux City.

OUR COUNTY NEWS
By Our Correspondents and from Exchanges

WESTFIELD: (Special Correspondence)

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Neil McFarland, Thursday, July 10, a son.

Miles Spaulding was a Richland visitor Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. O.B. Lilly drove to Sioux City yesterday.

Mrs. Frank McDonald and daughter Margaret were Akron visitors Monday.

George Wilson who has been working in the store at Millnerville has returned
here and will engage in carpentering the rest of the summer.

Floyd Green and Mable Pike both of this vicinity were married at the home of
the bride's parents July third, by Justice Hampton of Akron.

Grant Booher drove to Akron Tuesday.

H.E. Searles was a passenger to Sioux City Friday returning Sunday.

Mrs. George Cilley of Akron came down with the Dr. on his automobile
Saturday evening and was calling on friends here.

Mrs. Amos was quite sick last week but is much better now.

Frank Burns of Jackson arrived here Monday to take charge of the drug store
here while Mr. Qually takes a short vacation.

Corn ploughing is mostly finished through this part and many of the farmers
are busy putting up hay.

Mr. Van Sickle of Sioux City was in town Friday.

The ladies aid society will give a social Thursday afternoon and evening,
July 17.

KINGSLEY: (Special Correspondence)

J.M. Wormly is building an addition to his house in the east part of town,
now occupied by Henry Holland.

Geo. Phelps was a Sioux City visitor Monday.

H. Cottrell was a Des Moines visitor this week.

Francis Harvey spent a few days with friends at Odebolt last week.

E.C. Vanderburg and family were Sioux City visitors Monday.

Dr. Rippey has moved his family into their new home.

Mrs. Jim Summers spent Sunday in Sioux City.

Geo. Franzen and J.M. Hawkins were Sioux City visitors Monday.

E.A. Richards returned Saturday from a several months visit in Minnesota.

Ralph and Harold Wilson visited relatives in Sioux City a few days last
week.

J.R. Nash and family and R. Payne and family are spending the heated weather
at Lake View.

Gus. Swanburg has returned from a visit with relatives in Cherokee.

Miss Minnie Bainbridge of Benton, Wisconsin, is visiting relatives here.

Mrs. R. C. Dugan of Renwick, Ia., is visiting with her parents, M. Donlin
and wife.

F.N. Petersen left Tuesday on a visit with relatives in Clary, Iowa.

Dan Rathburn is visiting with relatives in Illinois.

J.A. Murray went to Norway, Ia., Monday to attend the funeral of an uncle.

Frank Herron of LeMars visited relatives here Sunday.

Mrs. Burgess of Galva returned home Monday evening for a visit at the
Gilmore home.

At a meeting of the school board last week, Mrs. McCowin was elected primary
teacher and Miss Clara Nilley of Detroit a music teacher.

C.O. Whitneil has begun the erection of his new residence.

Miss Nettie Held went to Sioux City Thursday to attend summer school there.

Jas. Maxwell returned from Kansas City this week.

John Cathcart and wife returned from their Des Moines visit Wednesday.

Matt Cogely and wife have returned from their visit with relatives in
Nebraska.

J.A. Blewett and wife are visiting relatives in Randolph, Neb.

E.D. Trotter returned Thursday from a shooting tournament in South Dakota.

Mrs. J.F. DeWitt and Bert left this week to visit relatives in Wisconsin.

Clay Wilson and Jno. Phelps left Thursday for Canada.

The social circle of the Congregational church gave an ice cream supper at
the church yard, Friday evening.

Frank Cathcart left this week for Gawrie. His wife will return with him.

Mrs. N.S. Steele of Sioux City visited with A. Brandon and family this week.

Roy Brandon and Kate Kinken were married at the bride's home on Wednesday
evening.

The congregation of the Christian church here and at Pierson held a picnic
in the Harder grove east of town last Thursday. All report a good time.

Jesse DeWitt returned Saturday from Chicago for a short visit with his
parents.

Sam Mantz and family, of Remsen, spent Sunday with relatives here.

Elias Shafer, father of Thomas Shafer, died on July 7, at the home of his
son. The remains were laid to rest in the Kingsley Cemetery, July 9.

Mrs. C. M. Burris was a Sioux City visitor Wednesday.

Mrs. J. Kettle visited at Correctionville this week.

The tabernacle meetings closed here Monday evening.

Hattie Richards spent Sunday in Sioux City.

Nellie Wanner visited relatives in Pierson this week.

JAMES: (Special Correspondence)

Jacob Schindler was in Sioux City Saturday.

L. Gilmer Shoemaker, of Oswego, Ia., arrived in James Friday evening. He is
visiting at the home of Lewis Haller.

Lewis Haller was in Hinton on business, Friday afternoon.

James H. Woolworth, of LeMars, was visiting with relatives east of James
during the latter part of the week.

Earl Calkins has during the past week moved from Leeds to Calkins homestead
east of James. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Calkins intend to take up
their residence in Leeds in the near future, thus retiring from the arduous
duties developing upon them incident to the management of the farm.

Miss Ida Knipper, who had been visiting at the home of A.W. Eyers during the
past week, returned to her home at Charter Oak, Friday.

Several new harvesters have been purchased recently by farmers in this
locality. Among others who invested are Knut Dewey, Swan Larson and William
Stewart Sr.

A.J. Eyers was transacting business in Sioux City Friday.

Mrs. William Finnegan and daughter, May, were visiting with relatives in
Perry township Friday.

Harry Luce made a business trip to Hinton Friday.

Claus Junck marketed three wagon loads of fine hogs in Sioux City Friday.
The average weight was 250 lbs. Price received was $7.35 per hundred.

Miss Bessie Kennedy, of Seney, called on a number of her friends in James
and vicinity Thursday.

Knut Dewey made a business trip to Hinton Saturday.

HANCOCK: (Special Correspondence)

Miss Florence Kneebone is working near Jefferson, South Dakota, at present.

The farmers are preparing to harvest their grain at present and in a few
days there will be a large portion of the grain cut.

C. Closner has quit marketing his potatoes at present. It was too hard to
find a market owing to the large supply.

The prospect for a large corn crop was never brighter in this vicinity.

The small grown was injured by the dry weather in the early part of the
summer and will not be a full crop.

Mr. Garretson brought out another bunch of cattle to his farm last week. He
now has over two hundred head of cattle on his place.

Judd Smith has gone north to work in the harvest fields there. He expects to
return in time for corn husking.

Efforts are being made to secure an evangelist from Des Moines to hold a
series of tent meetings here in the near future.

Mr. Rusk had a fine heifer killed by lightning during one of the recent
storms.

Riley Cowell, who has been working in Minnesota for about two months, has
returned to his home.

Jeff Cowell has moved into Hancock township for the present.

George and Merton Hall have returned from a trip across the eastern and
central portions of Nebraska. They report great damage to the small grain
all over that section on account of rain.

Miss Phyllis Suchsinger visited at home last Saturday and Sunday.

Bert Suchsinger has hired out to work for Mr. Holverson during the fall with
the threshing outfit.

Bert Smith expects to work in Dakota during the present harvest.

Mr. Garretson is putting in some new wells on his farm and will have two new
windmills erected in a few days. Parties from Sioux City are doing the work.

MAMMEN: (Special Correspondence)

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Eilers, Friday, July 18, a son.

C.S. Mammen and Henry Kleihuer marketed some fat cattle Monday.

Mrs. C.B. Elsen and children returned Saturday from a month's visit at
Hansen, Iowa.

Gotlieb Hasselder resigned his position as carpenter with Herman Eilers and
is going to work in the harvest field.

Ben Kenknes just completed a large hay barn for C.S. Mammen and is now
working for Jacob Lueken.

County Attorney George Jeffers returned to his home in LeMars after spending
a week with C.B. Elsen in Mammen. While here Mr. Jeffers took a systematic
exercise under the directions of Mr. Elsen and went home greatly improved in
health.

Herman Wills bought a horse from Deidrick Martsfeld.

John Renken, of near Ireton, visited with his son-in-law, Herman Eilers
Saturday and Sunday.

The ball game between the Mammen nine and the "Mud Hens" took place at
Struble Sunday but was cut short on account of rain. The score stood 1 to 0
in favor of the "Mud Hens" at the middle of the fourth inning.

STRUBLE: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. John Kaiser and Nick Hansen's family were at LeMars Sunday.

John Herman, who is the efficient tenant on the M.G. Mills farm, was in
Struble Saturday.

Mr. Long is putting up a barn for M.G. Mills south of town.

Ralph Wiley is fixing up John Alberts' scales. At present prices of cattle
and hogs, it pays the farms to weigh their stuff.

Jimmy Shelby enjoyed a short visit at Whiting, Missouri, recently which we
neglected to mention. Jim is one of the most steady workers we know of and
deserving of a trip.

Frank Null and Ed. Pearceville are assisting Riter Implement Co. putting up
windmills.

Mrs. P.A. Seaman went to LeMars Friday evening to be at the bedside of her
mother, who is very ill.

Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. Ed. Dalton visited at the pleasant home of P.A.
Seaman the last of the week.

Rev. Connelly celebrated mass here last Sunday.

The Lutheran society held services Sunday afternoon.

Rev. Frank Whitting preached at the M.E. church here and at Evansville
Sunday.

Ed. Detloff and Ed. Alberts attended church here Sunday evening.

Miss Leona Knewel and her sister, Mrs. John Sayer, were LeMars visitors the
last of the week.

Mrs. Josiah Stinton has a friend visiting here.

Announcements are out for the marriage of Miss Ada Flickner and Roy Jordan
to take place Thursday evening at 7 o'clock at the M.E. Church. Miss Ada
Flickner is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.M. Flickner of this city.
She is a graduate of our public schools and a young lady admired for her
force of character and labors in church circles. The groom is one of
Plymouth county's sturdy and progressive farmers. That their life may be one
continual sunshine is our wish to this worthy couple.

Albert Durhoff and family visited here Saturday.

Miss Hellman is the guest of her friends, Henry Seige and wife.

Mrs. Ed. Durband and Mrs. Webb Edwards were LeMars shoppers the last of the
week.

Our ball team went to LeMars Sunday and played the Gateway team there.

W.J. McFarland is at work on his new residence. Mrs. Huxtable of LeMars is
doing the work.

About a hundred young people enjoyed themselves Saturday night at a party
given by Mrs. Augusta F. Stall in honor of the birthday of her son.

Mr. Otto, the gentlemanly land agent for Varner and Andrus, accompanied Bert
Noble to Mountain Lake, Minnesota, last week and Mr. Noble invested in a
quarter section. In conversation with Mr. Noble we learn that the country is
alright. M.A. Milland also has been up in that country and is well pleased
with it.

Riter Implement Co. put up a new windmill for Geo. Frerichs last week.

J.F. Montag returned from Luverne, Minnesota, Friday where he had been
looking after his farm interests.

Lawrence Lewis is helping Mr. Joe Kruse put up hay.

Frank Mill and W.F. Baach furnished good music and it was pronounced by all
present a very pleasant event.

The stallward serviceable, manageable, noticeable and peaceable "Mud Hens"
ball team played the equal marriageable, peaceable, courageous, notorious
and laborious Mammen team Sunday afternoon at Struble. The boys played fine
and at the third inning the score stood 1 to 0 in favor of the "Mud Hens"
when a shower came up which dispersed the crowd and left the outcome a
mystery. Come again boys and have it out.

John Emery Jr. is down with typhoid fever at the home of his parents.

Frank Buss and Jim Deegan were in Struble Saturday.

Henry Rentschler is delivering hay in our town.

John Deegan and lady attended the dance Saturday night.

A.C. Geister is building a barber shop next to the town hall.

Frank McMahon played ball here with the Mud Hen team Sunday.

Bert Noble and family visited Ralph Wileys Sunday.

Geo. Schnell and sister, Emma, were at Ireton last Sunday.

Frank McGrain is home for a few days visit with parents and friends.

Ed. Durband has an expert putting up binders.

CRATHORNE: (Special Correspondence)

Rev. Theo. Myers and wife are rejoicing over the arrival of a little son at
their home.

C. Molzen is building a corn crib and granary.

August Klemme's new home is nearly completed. The masons have finished the
plastering.

The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Nicholson was buried on Monday. The little
one was only a few days old.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ludwig have the sympathy of their many friends in the
loss of their infant daughter.

John Remits has returned to his home in Dakota.

Quite a number from this neighborhood attended the camp meeting at LeMars on
Sunday evening.

C.E. Strong lost a yearly heifer on Sunday. This makes the third animal he
has lost since the Fourth of July.

CHURCHVILLE: (Special Correspondence)

Mr. W. Bacon, of Pierson, called on friends here last Friday.

Will Koenig, traveling salesman for Knapp and Spencer Co. of Sioux City is
enjoying a two weeks furlough at his parents home in Churchville.

Farmers are busy preparing to cut down the golden grain. The crops are
really beautiful to look upon.

Koenig and Grimjes Threshing Co., began the barley threshing for Mr.
Schoenrock Monday.

Most all the Churchville people attended the camp meeting in LeMars Sunday
and report a very good time having heard some powerful sermons that were
Bible truths.

Rev. G.P. Cawelti officiated at the baptism at the home of Chas. Lentz
Sunday.

Mr. Chas. Danne purchased a fine cottage organ recently.

DALTON: (Special Correspondence)

Miss Julia Walpole, left for her home at Storm Lake to attend the Teachers's
Institute.

Mr. and Mrs. Al Nicholson mourn the loss of their newborn babe, a son. Rev.
Cawelti will conduct the funeral services at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon and
the interment will be in the LeMars cemetery. The grief stricken family have
the sympathy of the entire community. Mrs. Nicholson is still very ill.

Mrs. Thos. Flaherty left Sunday for a few days visit with relatives near
Adaville.

Thos. Calhoon enjoyed a visit with his brother Friday and Saturday.

Mrs. Cavanaugh returned from her visit at Laurel, Nebraska, Saturday night.

Thos. Flaherty Sr., began work on the section Friday.

Elmer Cavanaugh went to Akron with Mr. Gunder, who with his family visited
relatives her on Sunday.

Nellie Wilson, the little girl taken from the orphans home, was sent to a
new home Monday.

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

The barley harvest is progressing finely in this neighborhood.

Mr. and Mrs. Langhout of LeMars came up on the Wednesday morning train to
visit their daughter, Mrs. Henry Stairman.

Miss Amy Seawort is visiting LeMars friends this week.

John Emery, of Blencoe, Iowa, son of J.C. Emery of Carnes, is at his
father's home lying very ill with typhoid fever. Dr. Smith, of Alton, is
attending to him.

Mr. George Hughes has purchased an elegant new surrey. He bought it off an
Omaha firm.

Miss Lizzie Lancaster has been in LeMars this week attending camp meeting.

Ernest Kennedy, of Missouri, is visiting relatives and looking after
property interests here.

Mr. Jonathan Alderson went to Sioux City Thursday with a car of hogs.

Mr. Fred Chapman and family of Illinois are visiting his brothers Elam and
Grant.

Quite a number of Seneyites attended the LeMars camp meeting Sunday. On
account of the camp meeting there was no service in the M.E. church on
Sunday evening.

Mrs. Maggie Warner and son, S.M. returned Saturday evening from a four weeks
visit to Missouri, their former home. After a few days visit here, S.M. will
return to Adrian, Minnesota, where he is employed as operator on the M. St.
P. and Omaha R.R.

Mr. Bogh is hauling stone and lumber for a new barn which he is beginning to
build on his farm east of Seney.

Mrs. Henry Berkenpas's mother from LeMars spent a few days with her last
week.

Mr. John McArthur is marketing a fine lot of hogs.

Miss Bundy of Texas is at the Engle's home, where she is taking care of Miss
Hattie, who is very ill with heart trouble.

Ralph Huges has returned from his visit at Westfield. He was accompanied
home by his uncle, Sherman Hughes, of Westfield.

Mrs. George Bunt, of LeMars, was seen on our streets one day last week.

The Ardro Bros show that was billed for Seney Tuesday evening, appeared in
due time. The procession as they drove into town was quite an interesting
one, inasmuch as it consisted of a covered wagon and two mule teams. They
pitched their tent in the west side of town and waited for the crowd, only
about 50 persons showed appreciation by their presence. Your correspondent
had not the good fortune to be present but reports say that the trained
animals consisted of a dog, canary bird, and the above mentioned mule.

REMSEN: (Bell-Enterprise)

John Greff and daughter visited Chicago this week. Mr. Greff shipped nine
carloads of stock over the N.W. road from Granville, and went to the big
stock yards to superintend the sale.

Mr. Jacob Mousel of Chicago, his son Ferdinand, and M.N. Hoffmann, who
resides in Sioux county, were the guests of Frank Majeras these days.

Many fat hogs were marketed in Remsen the last two weeks for twenty-five
dollars a piece and things look bright for the future. A Plymouth county
farmer should be satisfied nowdays if he enjoys good health.

Henry Birnbaum brought ten hogs to Remsen Monday and received $250. Before
leaving town he bought of John Eichorn eight acres of land joining his land
for $60 an acre.

Mr. Charles Wagner of Granville arrived in Remsen Monday evening to join his
father-in-law, Mr. M. Beck, in an excursion to Stuttgart, Arkansas. They
departed Tuesday.

Peter J. Duster, late of Hudson, S.D., was with his parents this week. He
left Wednesday to take a position in a drug store at Armour.

The St. Mary church building committee made selections of material for the
new church building last Friday. The arrangement now is that the foundation
up to the rain drop is to be the celebrated blue gray stone from the Portage
Entry quarries, and is to rest on a solid bed of concrete. Above the rain
drop, the best pressed brick from the Twin City Brick Co. of Minneapolis
will be sued with trimmings of stone from the Portage Entry quarries. The
combination will give the structure an elegant appearance.

John Tentinger owns a swift bronco. When John came to Remsen Wednesday
morning in his single buggy drawn by the bronco, he halted and tied in front
of the House of Lords. Some minutes later the flyer sped by and Mr. Bronco
concluded his position was unsafe. He broke the halter strap and started on
a wild run northward, turning east after having passed the depot. At
Rechel's he turned into the meadow where the haymakers caught him. Pieces of
the buggy and horse soon gathered up by Mr. Tentinger who had followed in a
livery rig. The experiment will cost the stabling price of several years.