Iowa Old Press

LeMars Sentinel
October 13, 1903

POTOSIA: (Special Correspondence)
Miss Anna Cleary began a five months term of school at Millnerville last
Monday.

There will be a dance in the hall Friday night, October 9, under the
auspices of the M.W.A. lodge. Everybody cordially invited to attend.

Mrs. Ned Herman is on the sick list.

Alice Kindergren assisted Mrs. Wm. Zellers with her house work a few days
the past week.

Mrs. J.E. Burkett was transacting business in Merrill last Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Crouch were Hinton callers Sunday.

Frank Montague is treating his house to a coat of paint.

Addison Carpenter went to Omaha Monday on business returning on Tuesday.

Miss Stella Burnett of LeMars is spending a few days at home.

Jerry Harrison is busy hauling rock and lumber for a new barn.

Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Crouch and Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Burkett and son were guests
at the Wm. Zellers home Sunday.

T.E. Waddington and wife did shopping in the city Saturday.

D. M. Baker’s fine, new residence is completed and they will move in the new
house at once.

Dr. Berner of Merrill was a caller in our burg Monday.

YEOMANS: (Special Correspondence)
Charles Kohl bought a threshing machine to do his own threshing and will
also thresh for his neighbors.

Frank Pepper of Sergeant Bluffs has been helping the farmers in this
vicinity.

J.G. Herman is making quite extensive improvements on his farm by building
some new buildings and moving and rebuilding others.

Miss Juliet Gilmer of Sioux City is teaching the fall term of the Yeomans
school.

Mrs. Julia Cameron of Tennessee is visiting relatives in this vicinity.

Rev. Mr. Polly and son of Millnerville were at Yeomans last Sunday. Mr.
Polly preached a very earnest sermon to a goodly number of our people at the
school house Sunday evening. Mr. Polly will preach again next Sunday,
October 11, at 4 o’clock at the school house. Sunday school at 3 o’clock
sharp. All cordially invited to attend.

Ladies Aid met with Mrs. Heinly Thursday afternoon.

Mrs. Lizzie Dorsey is entertaining her sister this week.

Mrs. Lydia Ingram was quite sick for several days the past week.

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)
Mr. and Mrs. Cutland of Ashton are visiting friends in Seney and attending
the Warner-Kennedy wedding.

Mr. Sam Warner, of Minnesota, is visiting Seney friends this week.

Rev. J.D. Skaggs is in attendance at the M.E. Conference in Sioux City this
week.

Hugh Campbell, of LeMars, was calling on friends here Wednesday.

The little daughter of Jas. Lancaster, of Maurice, is reported to be very
ill at this writing.

Guy Anstine has been on the sick list lately.

Hazel Campbell, who has been sick with malaria fever, is reported to be
convalescent.

Mrs. H.R. Hughes and Miss Ella of LeMars and Mr. Will Casler of Westfield
spent Thursday at the home of Geo. Hughes.

Mrs. M.A. Warner, of Jordon, Minn., visited Seney friends this week prior to
her departure for her old home in Missouri.

At the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Miles Kennedy occurred on
Wednesday, October 7, at 1:30, the wedding of their daughter, Bessie, to
W.C. Warner, of Jordon, Minn. The house was beautifully decorated with
flowers for the occasion. The bride looked very beautiful in her dress of
pure white. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J.D. Skaggs, the ring
ceremony being used, little Myrtle Skaggs being the ring bearer. Miss Mae
Kennedy was bridesmaid, and Mr. Sam Warner, best man. Miss Jessie March
played the wedding march. After the ceremony and congratulations, the
company sat down to a bountiful wedding feast, such as Mrs. Kennedy knows so
well how to prepare. The young people left on the 3:40 train for Hummerwell,
Mo., and other southern points, after a few weeks of travel they will be at
home to their friends in Jordon, Minn. Mrs. Warner has been raised in this
vicinity and numbers her friends by her acquaintances and is followed to her
new home by the best wishes of all. Mr. Warner was for some time the agent
on the St. Paul and Omaha road here and has made many friends here. The
young people start in life with bright prospects and best wishes as was
testified by their numerous friends and well wishes who followed them to the
depot and showered them with rice and old shoes.

C.G. Norris, of LeMars, visited at the Campbell home a couple of days this
past week.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sajar left on Wednesday evening to visit friends and
relatives in Minnesota.

Geo. Hyde and bride visited at the M.G. Mills home over night recently.
Mrs. Hyde was formerly Miss Florence Smith, of Parker, S.D., and at one time
a resident of this neighborhood and well known to many.

Toby Morston and Mr. Smith of LeMars were hunting in the vicinity of Seney
Thursday.

The Floyd river is on the rampage again and Seney is almost an island being
cut off from communication north and east by the high water which came down
by the river Wednesday and Thursday.

Will Casler is plowing on the Husted farm which he has rented for next year.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Alderson and Mrs. W. Lancaster have returned from their
Wisconsin trip where they were called by the sickness and death of the
mother of the ladies.

Henry Husted was accompanied home from Chicago by his nephew.

The M.W.A. met in regular session Saturday night.

Al McArthur has moved onto the farm lately vacated by his brother, John.

KINGSLEY: (Special Correspondence)
Jessie DeWitt of Pittsburgh, Penn., is here this week visiting with his
parents.

John Ebelheiser moved his family into Prof. Fitzgerald’s new home last week.

John Phelps had the misfortune to sprain his ankle one day this week.

Dr. Rippey made a professional call in Pierson Monday.

Word was received here Monday that Mrs. T.S. Cathcart died in Chicago
hospital after having been operated on.

Mrs. J.P. Gaspar was called to Wisconsin this week to see her father, who is
very sick.

Red Millikan went to Blencoe, Iowa, this week.

Mr. A. Thompson is preparing to move his butcher shop into the D. Scott
building.

Mrs. John Cathcart went to Des Moines Monday to attend the funeral of Mrs.
T.S. Cathcart.

Chas. Pfaffle and wife returned this week from their visit in Illinois.

Leo Dugan left this week for Kildare, Oklahoma, to visit his brother, Alex.

A.G. Berry will move his stock into the building formerly occupied by S.C.
Meyers.

R. Kain of LeMars was in town this week.

Phyllis Payne entertained a party of little friends at her home Saturday
afternoon, the occasion being her sixth birthday.

Harry Southam was a business visitor at Remsen this week.

Messrs. Knowles, Nash, R. Payne, Cottrell and Gates went to Schaller last
week to inspect the gas plant.

LeMars Sentinel
October 27, 1903

PERSONALS.
Will Pech made a business trip to Sioux City on Monday.

Mrs. Rowland Jones is visiting relatives at Sergeant Bluffs.

Miss Eva Goodier visited the past week with Sioux City friends.

Mark Babcock of Harlan arrived in LeMars on Friday on business.

Misses Dora and May Pech were Sioux City visitors on Saturday.

Mrs. A. H. Treat visited with Sioux City friends on Thursday.

Mrs. J. R. Shaffer went to Sioux City on Thursday to visit friends.

Archie Campbell, of Kismet, Montana, is visiting his relatives in LeMars.

Harold Pew came down from St. Paul on Friday to visit his father, E. G. Pew.

Miss Jeannette Freeman returned on Friday from a visit with LeMars friends.

L. P. Woolworth, of Sioux City, visited over Sunday with LeMars relatives.

Miss May Molampy and the Misses Prust were Sioux City visitors on Thursday.

Fay Boyle, of Beresford, S.D., arrived in LeMars on Saturday evening to
visit friends.

Rev. A. C. Martin went to Moville on Saturday and conducted services there
on Sunday.

Miss Josie Hagen went to Sioux City on Thursday to clerk in the Orkins Bros.
store.

Mrs. Pierce Bechtle and Miss Jennie Bechtle went to Sioux City on Thursday
to visit friends.

P. H. Diehl and R.J. Koehler left on Saturday morning for Onawa to enjoy a
few days hunting.

Mrs. T.E. Bauer left on Saturday for Washta to visit over Sunday with her
daughter, Mrs. V. V. Keck.

Mrs. Mary Drew Wilson and daughters, of Sioux City came up on Friday to
visit Capt. And Mrs. D. Drew.

BAD FIRE AT SENEY.
Three Buildings Burned Down with Their Stocks, Causing a Heavy Loss.

Fire wiped out three buildings in Seney yesterday morning causing a heavy
loss to their owners. The fire was discovered in the grocery store occupied
by Malcolm Campbell, and when first discovered shortly after five o’clock
flames were observed issuing from the rear door. The fire soon spread and
consumed a butcher shop adjoining and then spread to the next building, the
lower portion of which is occupied by Mr. Campbell as a residence and the
upper part as the Woodmen’s lodge room.

A bucket brigade was quickly formed and did its best to subdue the flames.
The absence of wind probably saved the town, and as it was, many buildings
were in imminent danger for a time, and it was all the people could do to
prevent the fire from spreading.

The loss on the three buildings is figured at between $3000 and $4000. The
general stock and groceries owned by Mr. Campbell were insured for $600 and
the building owned by Frank March was insured for $1000. Mr. Campbell
carried insurance on his residence also. He lost his clothing and many
personal effects, although saving some articles of furniture. The Woodmen
managed to get their furniture out of the hall. Mr. Campbell had made
arrangements to sell out the stock to Milton Moore and an invoice was to
have been taken yesterday.

The fire is supposed to have been incendiary as the rear doors of the store
were open when the fire was discovered. The fire started in the oil room and
spread with alarming rapidity.