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LeMars Sentinel, Friday, September 2, 1910

MARCUS PIONEER DEAD.
A. H. Dwight Once Postmaster and Town’s First Station Agent.

A. H. Dwight, one of the prominent men of Marcus, died on Tuesday at his home in that city after a few weeks illness.

He was taken ill suddenly and never rallied. Mr. Dwight was 70 years old and his residence in Marcus dated back from 1872. He was the first station agent there and for fifteen years served as postmaster. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Eastern Star and Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Dwight is survived by his four brothers and three sons as follows: Dr. Charles F. Dwight, of Marcus; Dr. W. H. Dwight, of LeMars; and Dr. H. D. Dwight, of Lincoln, Kan.

E. J. Sears, for many years depot agent at Akron, and the late Mr. Dwight, were together at Marcus when the first depot was opened.

The remains will be brought to LeMars this afternoon at 3:45 and interment at this place. The members of the Eastern Star Lodge will have charge of the funeral.

LeMars Globe-Post
Monday, September 5, 1910

ROOSEVELT HAS COME AND GONE
A Large Throng Saw and Heard the Ex-President
Makes A Five Minute Talk From Rear Coach and Speeds On His Way

On a fair estimate, from fifteen hundred to two thousand people gathered at
the Main street railroad crossing 12:25 to see and hear Theodore Roosevelt.
We have heard the number estimated all the way from 600 to 4000, but from
our own experience in estimating crowds, we are satisfied the above is not
far from the truth. To us, the size of the crowd was disappointing. It is
only once in a lifetime that the shadow of a president or an ex-president is
to be seen and heard in a city of this size. Here was a man whom Europe
flocked to honor, whom crowned heads had honored and to whom long bearded
servants were not above listening. We surely looked for one fifth of the
25,000 residents of the county to be there.

The Roosevelt special pulled in almost exactly on time. The reception
committee named by the mayor, had met Mr. Roosevelt at Sioux City and for 25
miles had basked in the sunshine of his presence, but they were not needed
to introduce the speaker. His appearance at the rear door of his coach was
greeted with a shout that showed how well cartoonist and photographer have
done their work. We would have known him just the same if we had met him in
the jungles of Africa. The first thing we all saw was the teeth, and it
must be confessed the cartoonist hasn't much overdone the Colonel's ivories.
There was the firm set mouth, shadowed, but not obscured by a scrubby
mustache; an aggressive lower jaw, pointed rather than broad, but with a
standing invitation to fight; straight up, high head with stubby fighting
hair; face tanned with open air living, eyeglasses with the ever present
black cord, the well set up, athletic figure; they were all there just as we
all expected to see them. A man of distinguished bearing and undeniably a
scrapper.

Continued speaking had brought a slight hoarseness. With many speeches yet
ahead, Mr. Roosevelt is compelled to treasure his voice and the word was
passed along to make the stop five minutes. He broke at once into his short
address. There was nothing new or startling in it, just a repetition of the
homely platitudes on civic virtues that he has been giving the people.
After throwing a bouquet to the people of Iowa and to his audience he told
them that he believed in the future of our country because he believed in
their virtue and intelligence of the average American man and woman. While
in the Civil War it was necessary to have generals and organizers, we had
had to have that average soldier of a high character, so in citizenship, no
welfare of the country depends upon the average citizen. We need the
workaday, rather humdrum qualities that make the good husband, good father
and a good neighbor. If we are right in that we are right in citizenship.

The engineer rang his bell, the train moved, and with a parting word to the
boys and girls Mr. Roosevelt was off standing on the platform and waving his
hand to the cheering crowd.

While Mr. Roosevelt needed no introduction someone might have been kind
enough to have told us that slight figure, with a brown mustache, standing
on one side, was Gifford Pinchot and to point out the other notables and to
tell us that big, fat, statesmanlike fellow in front was only one of the
reporters, of whom there were half a dozen on the train.

Senator Dolliver came up this far, then stopped off to take the train to his
home in Fort Dodge. After the Roosevelt special left, he made a brief
speech to the crowd. Dolliver is one of the best speakers of the country,
with a happy faculty of stringing up words, but he wouldn't get far at a
beauty show. But this was no beauty show.

BODY BADLY BURNED BY LIGHTED CIGAR
Akron Man Will Reover Trhough Successful Skin Grafting

Charles Neal of Akron, Iowa, was removed to his home yesterday, from the
Samaritan Hospital, after a successful operation in which a large amount of
skin was grafted on his body. Several days ago, while at his home, in
Akron, he placed a lighted cigar in his pocket, while under the impression
that it was not lighted. His clothes took fire, and he was badly burned.

His mother came to Sioux City when the operation was performed. While
alighting from the streetcar, her ring caught on the handle of the car and
her hand was badly injured. The wound has healed and both patients have
gone to their home. -Sioux City Tribune

LE MARS BALL TEAM HOME FROM DAKOTA TOWN
Met The Best Teams In The State And Played Close Games

The LeMars baseball team returned Friday night from a five days baseball
tour in South Dakota in which they met some of the fastest teams in the
state. The boys did not play up to their usual stride on the trip, although
their defeats were determined by close scores.

They were defeated by the Akron team on Friday having accepted the
management to play them a return game on their return home. Haas pitched a
good game for the team allowing a three hits, but the game was lost 5 to 3.
LeMars scored their three runs in the third inning. Batteries for LeMars:
Haas and Diehl; for Akron, Millette and Mann.

At Dell Rapids on Thursday the team was blanked, 3 to 0. Batteries for
LeMars, Lotz and Roseberry; Dell Rapids, Gardener and Freese.

The Garretson team defeated LeMars on Wednesday in a great game of ball, to
2 to 1. Batteries: LeMars, Millette and Diehl; Garretson, Peterson and
Prill.

The team broke even at Sioux Falls, winning the first 3 to 2 and losing the
second, 1 to 0.

CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. J. Van Dalfsen Married Fifty Years

Fifty years ago last Thursday, September 1st, 1910, Mr. and Mrs. J. Van
Dalfsen, residing in Young & Corkery's addition, were married at Genemuiden,
Overrijissel, Holland.

The golden wedding event in the history of their lives was celebrated at
their pleasant home and number of their relatives, friends and neighbors of
the aged pair availed themselves of the opportunity of being present during
the day to extend congratulations.

Mr. and Mrs. Van Dalfsen have four children living, two sons and two
daughters. They are Lambert VanDalfsen of Lyndon, Washington; Andrew, of
this city; Mrs. Epke Vanderberg of Sioux Center; and Mrs. VanderPlaats of
Edgerton, Minn., besides eighteen grandchildren.

In 1883 Mr. and Mrs. VanDalfsen immigrated to America, first locating at
Orange City, and soon afterwards coming to LeMars. They have lived here
since, a period of twenty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. VanDalfsen are enjoying
reasonably good health, considering their years, and it is the wish of the
people of LeMars and vicinity that they may enjoy many more happy wedding
anniversaries.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL OPEN TOMORROW
Supt. Palmer Will Continue At Head With Large Corps of Teachers

In preparation for the opening of the LeMars Public Schools tomorrow, the
large number of teachers from a distance, who have not already arrived for
work will arrive today. The school board has elected a full corps and the
following teachers have assignments in the various grades and buildings.

HIGH SCHOOL

Carl M. Blair, principal and history

Miss Jessie Cunning, mathematics

Miss Marie Duggan, English

Miss Josephine Lynch, German and Latin

Miss Clara Farmer, English and history

Miss Eleanor Peterson, science

Grover A. Blunt, manual training

G.J. Dinkeloo, music

GRADES - CENTRAL

Mrs. Abbie Leighton, room 10

Miss Elsie Barkdoll, room 9

Miss Tooney, room 8

Miss Nora Robey, room 7, principal

Miss Ruth Colt, room 2
Miss Mary Strickland, room 2

Miss Ethel Lyon, room 1

GRADES - CLARK

Miss Mattie Koenig, room 6, principal

Miss Nellie Williams, room 5

Miss Irene B. Kirke, room 4

Miss Cora Crouch, room 3

Miss Katheryn Boehmke, room 2

Miss Fern Raymond, room 1

GRADES - FRANKLIN

Miss Melvina Harvey, room 7, principal

Miss Lyda Farrell, room 6

Miss Josephine Winslow, room 5

Miss Edna Richey, room 4.

LeMars Sentinel, September 6, 1910

Funeral of the Late A. H. Dwight.
The funeral of the late A. H. Dwight, of Marcus, father of Dr. W. H. Dwight of this city, was held at Marcus on Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock and the remains brought to LeMars for interment on the 3:45 train. Mr. Dwight was an old and honored resident of Marcus and about seventy-five people of that town came in two special coaches to pay the last respects to the memory of the dead. They were met here by the members of the local chapter of the Eastern Star and friends and a large procession of teams followed the remains to the grave where brief service was conducted by the members of the Marcus and LeMars Eastern Star.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, September 8, 1910
Akron, Iowa

FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT
Harold Smith, Aged 7, Ran Over and Almost Instantly Killed in Street Saturday Evening.

Akron's first fatal automobile accident transpired last Saturday evening, a few minutes before eight o'clock, when little Harold, the 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Smith, was struck, run over and probably instantly killed by an auto driven by Andrew Paulson, who was out for a pleasure ride with his family. As is customary on Saturday evenings, previous to the band concerts, the streets were lined with people and vehicles, the children being given free rein for amusement. With a number of other lads, Harold was indulging in some youthful game at a point about opposite the Hitzemann barber shop. Several of the boys ran across to the other side of the street and he started to follow them.

Mr. Paulson had seen the other boys crossing and stopped his machine. Thinking they were all over, he stared again. Harold ran quickly out from behind another vehicle, he and the car meeting in the middle of the street. For a brief instant Mr. Paulson saw the little fellow in the glare of his lights and made an effort to swerve his auto aside, but the interval of time was too brief. There were many eyewitnesses to the tragic event, and from the most reliable sources, it is the concrete opinion that Harold was first struck a stunning blow on the right side of the head by one of the front lamps, knocking him down, and that both wheels on that side of the machine ran across his neck and chest. Several ran to the little one's side and Miss Millie Maxson picked up the unconscious child and carried him to the front of the Clark-Cilley building, Atlee Wintersteen then conveying him upstairs to the office of Drs. Cilley & Kerr, where everything possible was done by Dr. Cilley and Miles Williams, but it was soon apparent to them, as well as to the grief-stricken parents, that the poor little fellow was past human aid.

Unnerved by a realization of what had happened, Mr. Paulson did not bring his car to a stop until about thirty feet past the spot where the accident occurred. There fore, it cannot be held that he was driving his car at more than a moderate rate of speed. He also had his lights burning as required by law. There is no disposition in any quarter to blame or censure Mr. Paulson, as the accident resulted from a combination of circumstances that might have placed the most experienced driver in the same position. Indeed, he is looked upon as one of Akron's most careful drivers, and that the great misfortune was it seems the more lamentable. The shock and grief of Mr. Paulson and family, through a sense of responsibility, has been scarcely less poignant that that of the bereaved parents and other near relatives. They are all sustained and comforted, however, by an outpouring of sympathy such as this community has seldom been moved to offer.

While others, old and young, have had narrow escapes on our streets from auto accidents, it probably required something almost of a tragic nature to arouse people to a real sense of ever-present danger from this source, and to demand not only the rigid enforcement of present regulations, but possibly even more stringent ones. Particularly strong is the sentiment in, favor of reducing to the extremity the speed, or even the traffic, of vehicles through business streets at times when people are gathered in unusual numbers.

Harold Vernon, the youngest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Smith's three children, was born in Akron, Iowa, November 3, 1903, and passed away September 3, 1910, aged 6 years and ten months. A bright and affectionate child, full of life, vigor and good nature, he was a general favorite among his playmates.

The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the M. E. Church of Christ. Favorite Sunday school songs of the deceased child were sung by the ladies' quartet. Interment was in Riverside Cemetery.

Relatives from a distance attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Clasen, of Wayne, Nebr., brother and cousin, respectively of Mrs. Smith.

Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
Friday, September 9, 1910
Le Mars, Iowa

CHILD KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE

HAROLD SMITH, OF AKRON, VICTIM OF FATAL ACCIDENT

HE WAS PLAYING ON THE STREET

Seven Year Old Lad While Crossing the Road was Struck by Passing Motor--Had Neck Broken and His Chest and Body Crushed.

J. L. Crow, of this city, returned on Monday from a visit at Akron. He brought word of a distressing accident which occurred at that place on Saturday evening when a seven year old boy was struck and instantly killed by a passing automobile.

The victim of the fatality was Harold Smith, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Smith, of that place. The accident occurred about eight o'clock in the evening when the Main Street of the city was crowded with automobiles, buggies, and people, out to hear the band give its weekly concert.

Harold Smith, with a number of other boys, was playing on the street, dodging in and around vehicles and automobiles drawn up alongside the curb of the sidewalk. A machine driven by Andrew Paulson, in which were a number of passengers, came up the street just as Harold and two other boys started out from behind another automobile.

According to bystanders Mr. Paulson was driving at a slow rate of speed, and if he had not been, all three children would have been rundown. The Smith boy was struck and instantly killed. One of the lamps of the machine struck him on the neck and the wheels of the machine passed over his body. Witnesses of the accident said they could hear the crunching of bones as the heavy machine passed over his body. Physicians were on the spot immediately, but their services were of no avail, as death was instantaneous, the boy's neck having been broken by the first impact and his chest and body badly crushed when the wheels passed over his body.

Several women in the crowd fainted when the accident occurred, and the bereaved mother was prostrated with grief when the dreadful news was conveyed to her. The tragedy has cast a gloom over the whole city and Mr. and Mrs. Smith have the sympathy of all in their terrible bereavement."

The accident was apparently unavoidable and there is no disposition to attach any blame to Mr. Paulson, who is overcome with sorrow at the unfortunate accident to which he was the unwitting cause. He is a highly respected business man of Akron.

Harold was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Smith, and would have been seven years old if he had lived until November. Mr. Harry Smith is associated with his brother, Ray Smith, in the publication of the Akron Register-Tribune.