Iowa Old Press

LeMars Sentinel
October 4, 1912

NEWS OF THE COUNTY
Our Staff Correspondents and from Exchanges

MEADOW: (Special Correspondence)

Carl Staabs is entertaining the thrashers.

John Hourscht transacted business in Sioux City Monday.

Mr. Thill and men are painting and decorating Mrs. Walker's house.

Chas. Rothlisberger had the misfortune to dislocate a bone in his arm.

Misses Josie and Lucy Staab were in Sioux City doing their fall shopping.

Henry Ahlers, of LeMars, was most pleasantly entertained at the Aug.
Sudeltge home Sunday.

Ida and Alma Rothlisberger are attending the Remsen High School. The new
building being completed, school started Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lang and Mr. and Mrs. John Lang, of LeMars, were most
pleasantly entertained at the Will Lang home Sunday.

Those neither absent nor tardy for last month in District No. 9 were as
follows: Erma Hanno, Earl Hanno, Roy Hanno, Hans Johnson, Harm Johnson.

WASHINGTON: (Special Correspondence)

Mr. and Mrs. George Hammond are the proud parents of a little girl.

Miss Kate Barnable is visiting at the parental home this week.

Mr. and Mrs. John Peterson were LeMars visitors on Wednesday.

Mrs. James Howes and children of Sioux City are visiting relatives here this
week.

Miss Florence Manz, of LeMars, visited her brother, Will, and family over
Sunday.

Miss Helen Dean, who is teaching near Leeds, was an over Sunday visitor at
home.

Robert Thompson, of Kildare, Oklahoma, was visiting relatives here the past
week.

PERRY: (Special Correspondence)

Joe S. Shultz and H. Bock are erecting a new corn crib for Henry Baak. The
work is going on quite rapidly because colder weather is next on the
program.

Revival meetings are in progress in the Perry Creek church at present. Rev.
Fray, of Hinton, preached Thursday evening at the request of Rev. Trumbauer,
who is conducting the services in general.

A. Husted, while getting ready to drive to Merrill Saturday, fell and
remained unconscious. Medical aid soon arrived and found that hemorrhage of
the brain had stricken him and his condition was considered very serious
Saturday, but he has improved steadily the past few days but it will take
some time until he will be able to attend to his duties again.

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. J.M. Whitman visited part of this week in LeMars.

A dance was given in the vacant store room Friday night.

Rev. Stevens left Wednesday morning to attend the Northwestern Iowa
conference at Storm Lake.

The Ladies Aid were entertained in LeMars last Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Henry Husted.

Three Jews have been here several days this week gathering iron which they
loaded into a car and shipped to Sioux City.

Mr. and Mrs. John Penning returned home from Mitchell, South Dakota, Friday
night after spending a week with Chris. Lancaster and family. They also took
in the corn palace at that place.

Messrs. Jonathan Alderson and Gus Witt returned from South Dakota, Monday
morning, where they were looking over the country around Mitchell, also
taking in the corn palace sights.

Miss Donahoe, county superintendent, called on the school Tuesday to see how
the ninth grade work was progressing, which was added to the school work
this year to benefit the class which graduated last Spring from the eighth
grade.

The Daughters of Ceres will hold their next meeting October 10, 1912, at the
home of Mrs. John Reeves. The following program is to be given: Chorus,
society; reading, Mrs. D.F. McArthur; solo, Esther Cook; recitation, Mrs.
Ira Lancaster; reading, Mrs. Gus Witt; instrumental solo, Grace Whitman;
reading, Mrs. Lora Baldwin; duet, Mrs. A. Hawkins and Maude Lancaster;
recitation, Mrs. E. Morrissey; conundrums, Mrs. A. Lundgren; chorus,
society.

YEOMANS: (Special Correspondence)

Ed Knapp was called to LeMars as a juryman.

Threshing is being done in this neighborhood.

Little Arthur Miller was quite sick but is improving.

Floyd Miller and Ferd Minor Jr. visited with Myles Winders Sunday.

Fred Minor and E.S. Bruford made a business trip to LeMars last week.

James Howe was out from Sioux City Tuesday putting up hay on his farm.

Mrs. Nick Dorsey and son, Sylvester, visited with Mrs. Clara Mae Williams
Sunday.

Mrs. C.L. Ward has returned to the city after a week's visit with her
sister, Mrs. E.S. Bruford.

Wesley Winders and Miss Gail Horton spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Manning, of South Sioux City.

The Misses Ida, Ann, and Marie Johnson were out from Sioux City Sunday
spending the day with their folks.

Clifford Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor, died last Tuesday morning
of infantile paralysis. He was buried in Logan Park cemetery.

OYENS: (Special Correspondence)

Miss Jennie Fisch, of LeMars, did sewing for Mrs. John Meis last week.

Mayrose threshed grain for Bernard Loesche, Henry Luttle, Louis Kilker and
Joseph Mayrose Jr. last week.

UNION: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. Frank Hoefner is enjoying a visit from her parents, of Guttenberg,
Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. James Wilkinson, of LeMars, were guests of friends here
Wednesday.

H.G. Lee, of Halbrite, Saskatchewan, was a guest of the Inglett family
Sunday.

George Steele put in a concrete foundation for James Goudie's new granary
Friday.

Prof. Parkinson will meet with Union orchestra Friday evening at the Wesley
Eyres home.

George Steele put in a concrete foundation Tuesday for Harry Hoyt's cattle
barn to be 48 by 64 feet.

Luke Lavin and family, who keep house for a man near Alton, were here
visiting relatives over Sunday.

Roy Hall is plowing on the James Steele farm in Elkhorn township, which he
has rented for next year.

Misses Mabel Lindsey and Helen Edwards were in Merrill Saturday and remained
over night at the Lindsey home.

Wesley Eyres and family spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in Primghar
and Gaza, making the trip in their auto.

Mrs. Vannetta entertained her daughter, Mrs. Hahn, of Schaller, and the
Eberline family, of Minnesota, over Sunday.

John O'Brien, who married Elizabeth Carel Wednesday, occupies the J.M.
Wormley quarter section of 34 in Union township.

Lester and Otto Sampson, Lee Nelson, Greg Featherston and Clifford Thompson
went to Moville on horseback last Friday evening.

John Featherston and Anton Nelson saw a large gray wolf near the Cliff home
as they were going to thresh at Harry Steele's early Saturday morning.

The southeast quarter of the Maltbie section 29 in Union without buildings
was sold last week to Payne, Miller and Huss, of Kingsley, for $150 per
acre. The Mt. Hope M.E. parsonage occupies one corner of this land.

HINTON GAZETTE
Plymouth county, Thursday, October 10, 1912

JAMES NEWS

Jack Nuessle and family have departed for Buffalo, New York, where they will
make their future home.

The supper served by the ladies aid society at the M.E. church Friday
evening was a success proceeds netting the society $22.00.

The James Mutual Telephone co. held their annual meeting Saturday evening
in the Woolworth school house. The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: Henry Junck, pres. Frank Woolworth, sec. And John
Hardersen, jr.treas.

Rev.E.J.Hawks has been transferred from Hinton to Hornick.
Rev.G.W.Shideler has been appointed for pastor of the Hinton M.E. church
the coming year.

Dave March left Sunday in company with his brother-in-law, Will Berger, for
White River, S.D. where he will build on his claim. Mr. Berger will look
around and see if there are any desirable claims left to file on. Harry
Brown accompanied them as far as Carter where he will look after his land.

WIFE SLAYER SENTENCED
At Cherokee on Saturday E. Hessenius was sentenced to eight years in the
penitentiary at Fort Madison and to pay a fine of $800 by Judge Theophilus
for the killing of his wife, Bertha Hessenius, by choking her to death last
January. A motion for a new trial was overruled. Bail bond on appeal was
fixed at $25,000. The defendant's counsel served notice of appeal and gave
bond as required. The defendant's mother, Wobke Hessenius, going his bail.

LOCALS NEWS

Clyde Brown and wife came down from LeMars Friday and took in the auto races
at Sioux City.
Phil. Emmert and wife and Mrs. Allen Schindel went to Sioux City Friday to
take in the auto races.
Albert Ellison returned Monday from a trip in Illinois where he has been
working on a block signal gang.