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LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel

November 1, 1912

MRS. EUGENE EILENBECKER SUCCUMBS TO BRIEF ILLNESS

DEATH OCCURRED AT IONA, MINN.

She Went There to Attend Sick Bed of a Relative and Was Herself Stricken—

Mrs. Eilenbecker, wife of Eugene Eilenbecker, one of the pioneer residents of Plymouth county, died at Iona, Minn., on Monday evening of a brief illness. About three weeks ago she returned from Excelsior Springs, Mo., where she had been taking treatment for rheumatism. On the day following her return she was called to Iona, by the illness of a brother. While she was assisting in caring for her relatives, she herself was taken sick, suffering from a severe carbuncle on the back of her neck. What at first seemed a trivial ailment developed into a serious illness and for the past two weeks she has been under the care of physicians. On Sunday Mr. Eilenbecker drove to Iona by automobile, a distance of 100 miles, taking Dr. A. H. Mosher with him. They found Mrs. Eilenbecker in a most serious condition, suffering from diabetes and other complications. She lapsed into unconsciousness and passed away about half past four on Monday afternoon. The remains were brought from Iona to her home in LeMars accompanied by her son, John Eilenbecker, who was at her bedside when the end came.

Mrs. Eilenbecker was born at Dipach in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, Europe on April 29, 1848, and was sixty-four years and six months old at the time of her death. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Schroeder. She grew to young womanhood in her native town and was united in marriage in January, 1873, with Eugene Eilenbecker at the same place. Two months after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Eilenbecker embarked for America and came directly to Plymouth county, locating in Marion township, where they experienced the vicissitudes of pioneer life and withstood the hardships of grasshopper days. They moved into LeMars in 1880, where Mr. Eilenbecker engaged in business and this has been their home ever since. Besides the bereaved husband she leaves a son, John P. Eilenbecker, who is associated with his father in business. A son, Nicholas, met a tragic fate in early days, being drowned in 1879.

Mrs. Eilenbecker is survived by several brothers and a sister, J. P. Schroeder, Iona, Minn.; Nicholas Schroeder, Oyens; Mrs. Anna Steinberg, White Lake, South Dakota; Peter Francis and Joseph, who live at the old home in Luxemburg. Four sisters preceded her in death.

The funeral was held on Thursday morning at St. Joseph’s church and was very largely attended by old friends and neighbors.

Mrs. Eilenbecker was widely known in Plymouth county and had formed many warm ties of friendship and associations during her long residence here. She was a good friend and neighbor, large souled and hospitable and ever ready to assist in times of sorrow and trouble. She was a devoted wife and mother and a home maker in the highest sense of the word. At her hearth, peace and comfort always reigned. She will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends.

Remsen Bell-Enterprise, Thursday, November 14, 1912

MRS. JACOB MANDERSCHEID
After a severe illness of about three months from heart trouble and other complications, Mrs. Jacob Manderscheid passed away at her home in Remsen on Monday morning at 2:15 o’clock.  Mrs. Manderscheid had not enjoyed good health during the past twenty years, and last August her ailments developed to such an extent that she became bedfast.  Sunday afternoon it suddenly became noticeable that the aged lady was sinking rapidly, and the end was not unexpected.  She was 76 years of age.

Mrs. Jacob Manderscheid, nee Margaret  Louis, was born in Hovelingen, Luxemburg in June 1836.  Her parents passed away but a few years after, and the girl was given a home with friends until, in the year 1847, she came alone to this country, going direct to Dubuque, where she made her home and provided for herself for a number of years.  In Aug. 1861, Margaret Louis and Jacob Manderscheid were married at Bellevue where they resided on a farm for some time, later moving to town, while the husband engaged at the carpenter trade. 

They came to Remsen in 1899 to spend the rest of their days in happy retirement. Those thirteen years were spent in this city among the remaining children and other relatives, and Mr. and Mrs. Manderscheid dwelt happily in their beautiful home, where of late years they enjoyed the continual presence of their son-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Homan.

She was patient in her sufferings during all these years and was always willing to bear her portion of the burdens of life without complaint.  During the long period of married life, Mrs. Manderscheid had been a most worthy mate to the man who chose her as his companion, and her Christian character helped to make the home a bright and honorable one.

Five children were born to this union of whom three remain to mourn the loss of their mother. There are Mrs. N. B. Miller of Sioux City, Mrs. D. J. Franke and Mrs. L. S. Homan of Remsen.

The funeral was held Wednesday morning at St. Mary’s Catholic church at 9:45. The following acted as pall bearers:  H. A. Willenburg, F.G. Meinert, J.A. Tierney, M.R. Faber, N. Ernster, and M. Brucher.

FELL FROM TRAIN 
Wednesday evening when the 5:30 train left Remsen at the usual time, Dave Londie, a farm hand of near Meriden boarded the cars for home, but his ride ended suddenly and almost disastrously two miles east of town.

Dave, it is said, had drank heavily during the day, and was therefore unable to retain his hold when he stepped out onto the platform of the moving train, and fell into the ditch along the track. No one saw the accident, and the man was unable to tell of it until this morning after a nights rest. However he managed to arise after the dangerous leap, cross two woven wire fences and arrived unaided at the farm home of Henry Feller, a short distance from the track.  His head was badly cut by four deep wounds, and otherwise he sustained bruises about the body.  Mr. Feller brought the injured man to town and Dr. Jastram attended to him.  Londie left for Meriden this morning at eight.

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
November 22, 1912

WAS A WAR VETERAN
WILLIAM WADDLE LIVED HERE THIRTY-FIVE YEARS
A PIONEER OF LIBERTY TOWNSHIP
Deceased was a volunteer in the Civil War and Suffered Wounds and Hardship
in Common With Many Other Unheralded Heroes

William Warren Waddle was born in Grant county, Wisconsin, April 19, 1843.
In that county he spent the years of his boyhood, getting from nature and
from the old fashioned schoolmaster many broad and fundamental truths of
life, and also learning there to love and serve his country and his
fellowmen. At the age of eighteen he had gained sufficient learning to admit
him to the high school at Lancaster, at which place his work was but fairly
begun when the war of the rebellion broke out. His loyalty to home and
country, his belief in equal rights for all men impelled him to lay aside
his books and take up arms in the cause of liberty.

On the 14th day of August, 1862, at Beetown, Wisconsin, he was enlisted in
Company I of the 20th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. He went forth and in
common with his comrades and brothers because because of long marches, lack
of shelter and scarcity of food he suffered and endured much hardship and
privation.

On the 7th day of December, 1862, on the border of Indian Territory he went
into the Battle of Prairie Grove. All day long the battle raged, but ere
the sun was set he with hundreds more was carried to the rear a wounded but
undaunted man. For many months in crude hospitals and under adverse
circumstances he recuperated and revived.

The cause for which he fought was not yet won, hence on regaining strength
he again offered his services and at Lancaster, on the 5th day of May, 1864,
was re-enlisted in Company A of the 41st Wisconsin Infantry, wherein he
served till the end of the war.

He took no little pride in the fact that as an humble citizen of a great
nation, in the performance of an American’s duty, he cast his first ballot
for that great and beloved statesman, Abraham Lincoln.

When the war was over and peace had come, he turned his life and his energy
to building of that which makes for nations and for mankind, a home, which
was ever the “dearest spot on earth” to him.

On the 17th day of December, 1866, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth
Garner, who was his loving and faithful wife and companion unto the end.
Having learned the carpenter trade, he worked at it till 1874, at which time
he moved with his little family to a homestead in Liberty township, Plymouth
county, Iowa. This was then the frontier of the west, but his energy, his
utter indifference to danger and hardship finally brought to him and his
loved ones the reward for which he struggled.

His home was acquired, improved and made comfortable. So being well situated
and his children having married off, he retired from active work on the farm
but would never dispose of it. At the time of his decease, he was residing
in the city of Webster, South Dakota, in the vicinity of which city all his
children save one now live.

For many years he had been afflicted with a complication of ills caused by
hard service as a soldier and pioneer. About two months ago his condition
had become so critical that it was necessary to resort to a dangerous
surgical operation. He survived the same and for a time appeared to be
regaining strength, but his vital forces were unequal to the occasion, and
at 10 minutes past nine o’clock on the evening of November 15, 1912, in the
seventieth year of his age, surrounded by all the members of his family, he
quietly passed from his earthly home to the home in Heaven from whence no
man returns.

In the beautiful Pleasant Valley Cemetery at Adaville, Iowa, beside the
grave of his first born, Hattie, who died thirty-four years ago, at the
tender age of eleven years, his remains are now at rest.

His widow and eight children survive to mourn his departure.

These children are: William G., an attorney at Webster, South Dakota; Thomas
W., who resides on and farms the old homestead; Arthur, Reuben, Frederick
and Edward, farmers near Webster, South Dakota; Nellie M. Kanago and Laura
Grebner, whose husbands are also farmers near said place.

In the passing of this man, we are called upon to mourn the loss of a life
that was unique, strong and peculiarly characteristic. Whether “on the field
of battle or in the bivouac of life” he knew no fear. He knew not how to
slick or op----, or fall. (several more words here are blurred and not
readable.)

He was not only father and protector, but he was companion and friend. Damon
and Pythias knew no friendship truer than his.

He was a wide and exhaustive reader. What he read he remembered. He
possessed a high degree of intellectuality. His views and conclusions on the
great questions of life were broad and sympathetic. He loved the great
outdoors, the beauties of nature, the handiwork of God. In his travels and
outings which were many, he asked no greater pleasure than the companionship
of a son or a friend.

With his pioneer life in Iowa must ever be connected the name of
Bingenheimer, McConnell, Dixon, Pabst, Shedd, Vetter, Chase, Crow, Crouch,
Pearson, Hunter, Gorman, Mansfield, Clarey, Bauerly, Beauleau, Fletcher,
Stinton, Montagne, Veidt, Dennler, Hauser, Simeon, Hauswaldt and many more
whom space will not permit us to name.

Among his many attachments one of the closest was that with his uncle, Joe
Comes, who recently died at his home in Madison, Wis.

Admired for ability, his sincerity of purpose and his strict integrity and
honesty in business, loved and respected as a man by all who knew him he is
gone but never to be forgotten.

POSITIONS OF TRUST 
NAMES OF THOSE ELECTED TO TOWNSHIP OFFICES
WILL SERVE IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES

Trustees, Clerks, Constables and Assessors Who Will Attend to Routine Business in Their Precincts for the Forthcoming Two Years

The following township officers were elected in Plymouth County at the general election held on Tuesday, November 5th:

PERSONALS.
Miss Emma Klostermann and Michael Frank, members of well known families of Remsen, were united in marriage at St. Mary’s church in Remsen on Tuesday morning in the presence of a large number of friends and relatives, Rev. Father Schulte officiating.  The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Josephine Klostermann, and the groom by his brother, Nicholas.  Mr. and Mrs. Frank will make their home on a farm south of Remsen.

The repairs on the city building are about completed and the council room has been made as spick and span as though it were new.  New chairs have been bought and a new office table around which the alderman will sit when in session, discarding the individual desks which were formerly used.

Fred Fletcher, of Merrill, was in LeMars yesterday.  He brought his daughter, Mrs. Abbott Morehead, of Lebanon, South Dakota, who has been visiting with him the past two weeks, to the city hospital, where she will undergo an operation for throat trouble.

Mr. and Mrs. Verona Smith have disposed of their business interests in Spirit Lake, where they have lived for the past few years since leaving LeMars.  Until they decide on future plans, they are staying in LeMars with Mrs. Smith’s father, Thos. Adamson.

C. C. Bradley went to Des Moines yesterday to attend a meeting of the Republican state committee and will go on to Iowa City and witness the Iowa-Wisconsin football game tomorrow.

Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day and the Sentinel force will celebrate the holiday.  The paper will go to press Wednesday evening, instead of Thursday evening.

Thos. Adamson, who is on the sick list, was reported a little better yesterday and is making good progress.

The ladies of St. Agnes Guild will hold a cake sale at Street Grocery company’s next Saturday. –Adv.

Mrs. Henry Koenig is home from two months visit with her son and daughters in Chicago.

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
November 26, 1912

KEHRBERG-DONLIN WEDDING
Ceremony Performed at Methodist Parsonage in Merrill

Merrill Record: Herbert E. Kehrberg and Miss Nellie I. Donlin, both of this
place, were married last evening in the Methodist parsonage, Rev. A. J.
Barkley officiating. The ceremony was witnessed by relatives of the
contracting parties.

Immediately after the ceremony, the bridal party went to the beautiful and
commodious country residence of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kehrberg, where a
splendid wedding reception was given the newly wedded young people. Upwards
of seventy-five people were present to offer their congratulations and
compliments.

The bride is the eldest daughter of Mrs. Joseph Donlin. For the past three
or four years, she has been one of Plymouth county’s most successful school
teachers and is a young lady of grace and refinement. Herbert E. Kehrberg is
a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kehrberg, prominent citizens of this community.
He is a splendid young man, industrious and of the strictest integrity. The
newly wedded young people will go to farming on the Kehrberg farm in the
spring.