LeMars Sentinel
Friday, February 2, 1923

For sale, modern eight room house, also vacant lot, both near college. –
W.A. Reeves.

The Ladies Aid of the Congregational church will meet at the home of
Mrs. J.G. Redmon, February 6.

The firemen of the city will hold their annual benefit dance at the
Armory on Thursday, February 8.

Wanted, place as housekeeper by woman with children.  Call or write 23 ½
Plymouth Street, LeMars, Iowa.

A marriage license was issued on Wednesday to William R. DeWitt and
Alice P. Parkhurst, both of Sioux City.

The second division of the M.E. Aid society will hold a pantry sale at
Long's Grocery Saturday, February 3rd.

Found at county treasurer's office, a pair of fur mittens.  Owners can
have same by calling at this office and paying for notice.

C.F. Simons, who has been sick for some time, has improved so as to be
able to walk out, but Mrs. Simons continues quite ill.

Dance in Merrill opera house Thursday, February 8th. Brown Rietz
orchestra. Given by the young men of Assumption church.

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Groth returned home after spending last week
visiting relatives and friends at Correctionville and Leeds, Iowa.

F.A. Sturtevant has filed suit in district court against Lyle F.
Sturtevant, asking for a dissolution of partnership and an accounting of
farm property and stock.

Marriage license was issued in Sioux City on Monday to Howard A. Bleil
and Ida M. Sherwood, of Kingsley.

SENEY:  (Special Correspondence)

Mr. and Mrs. T.K. Chapman and son, Robert, were Sioux City visitors on
Tuesday.

Don't forget the basketball game between Orange City and the Junior ball
team this Friday evening in the hall.

Z. Rayburn and Rev. J.S. Wallace were Sioux City visitors on Tuesday.

John Alderson and Earl Chapman motored to Hospers Tuesday evening.

Deegan Bros. had cattle on the Sioux City market on Wednesday.

Groetken Bros. had hogs on the Sioux City market on Wednesday and
Thursday of this week.

Wm. Hawkins shipped hogs to Sioux City on Tuesday.

The Ladies Aid Society will meet next Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. S.J.
Wallace.

C.W. Reeves had hogs on the Sioux City market Wednesday.

Frank Falk shipped hogs to Sioux City on Thursday.

C.W. Cook shipped hogs to Sioux City on Friday.

Misses Helen Becker and Fern Chapman are attending the Model Sewing
school in LeMars.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Criswell and Miss Virla Cook were Sioux City visitors
last Tuesday.

Oyens basketball team will play our senior team here on Tuesday evening,
February 6th.

The program and supper given Wednesday evening by the Samaritan class of
the Sunday school was largely attended and a good time reported by those
present.

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Uthe were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hennrich on
Sunday.

Thomas and James Lancaster, of Lamont, Wis., arrived on Wednesday and
are visiting relatives here.

A large crowd of young people, members of the Good Samaritan class of
the Sunday school pleasantly surprised their teacher, R.A. Hawkins, at
his home last Friday evening.  They met at two neighboring homes and at
eight o'clock about a dozen autos drove into the Hawkins farm yard.  In
the course of the evening Mr. Hawkins got mixed up with some cord and
tracing it, he found it led to a large package on the front porch.  Upon
investigating the matter he found the package contained a crazy quilt,
with forty-nine blocks, each block having on it the name of a Sunday
school pupil in the Samaritan class.  About midnight a dainty lunch of
ice cream, cake and wafers was served by the uninvited but welcome
guests.  All present declare Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins royal entertainers.

James Thompson, of Mission Hill, S.D., who spent the past week visiting
friends here, returned home on Thursday.

LeMars notes:

Mrs. Harry West Haley and Mrs. W.H. Houghton were special guests of Mrs.
E.A. Dalton on Monday at a one o'clock luncheon.  The early spring
flowers in yellow and white made attractive table decorations with the
appointments and place favors corresponding.  An informal social
afternoon followed the luncheon.

Mrs. Viola Weber entertained at a one o'clock luncheon on Tuesday
complimenting Mrs. Harry West Haley and Mrs. W.H. Houghton.  A pleasing
combination of narcissus and pink carnations centered the long table,
attractive little name cards marking the individual places.  The after
luncheon hours were spent informally.

The members of the LeMars Dancing club enjoyed one of their mid-winter
parties on Tuesday evening in Columbia hall.  Attractive decorations
were used in the hall and the special feature dances introduced in the
evening's program carried a number of surprises for the participants.
During an intermission at eleven o'clock an attractive luncheon was
served.  After luncheon dancing was continued until a late hour.

The members of the Brotherhood of the First Presbyterian church enjoyed
a seven o'clock dinner on Monday evening in the church parlors.  The
membership of the organization was well represented, about sixty being
present to participate in the pleasures which the evening offered.  Dr.
A.D. Thutt, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, of Cherokee, was
present and gave a very interesting talk on the object of the
organization and its possibilities.  A short sketch entitled, “The
Little Red School House” presented by W.W. Hyink, E. Deachler, Roy
Cooper, and Cloyde Woodke was a feature of special interest of the
evening's program and proved very entertaining to the audience.  The
Brotherhood dinner will be given once a month during the winter season.

­­­­Mrs. F.W. Rothschild complimented a company of friends at a theatre
party at the Royal on Wednesday evening with Mrs. Harry West Haley and
Mrs. W. H. Houghton, of Wellesley Hills, Mass., who are visiting in the
W.S. Freeman home as special…….[the copy runs out]

LeMars Sentinel, Friday, February 9, 1923, Page 1, Column 5:

SAYS SHE WAS DOPED
Girl Has No Clear Recollection of Being Married

A dispatch to the Sioux City Tribune of February 6 from Council Bluffs says:

"Ethel Bainbridge, nurse, of Kingsley, Iowa, was in Council Bluffs Tuesday
and told police a story of having been doped, and with no clear recollection
of having been married in Lincoln, Neb., Sunday.

She says she attended dinner in Omaha with Harry J. Berry, hospital orderly.
She says Berry left her in a Lincoln hotel saying he was going out to buy
her some toilet articles. She has not seen him since.

Recalling the sensation a few years ago when a probationary sister in Mercy
hospital, this city, eloped with a barber, the large force of nurses and
surgeons and other attaches of the Jennie Edmundon hospital is buzzing with
excitement over the disappearance of a nurse and a male employee.

Saturday night Jock Berry, orderly, and Miss Ethel Bainbridge, nurse,
disappeared. There is no indication at the hospital that they left together
other than their simultaneous disappearance. However, a brakeman of the
Rock Island railway saw a couple of their general description board a train
westbound at midnight Saturday, after asking him if the train went to
California. The woman all the time kept her face covered.

The couple later were seen to leave the train at Lincoln, Neb., and hire a
taxi. The father and a sister of Miss Bainbridge are here from Kingsley
looking for her. The couple had never been seen together and but one of two
persons recall seeing them speak to each other."

A dispatch to the same paper from Kingsley says:

"The mother of Miss Bainbridge, nurse, reported to have disappeared from a
Council Bluffs hospital last Saturday night, said that the young woman has
been heard from and that she will return to Kingsley with her father. The
mother of the young woman refused to talk of the case, other than to give
the above information."