LeMars Sentinel newspaper
Dated Friday, April 29, 1927

YOUTH MARRIED ONLY TWO DAYS
SPENDING HONEYMOON IN JAIL
HELD TO GRAND JURY
Officers Arrest Him at Home of His Bride

The honeymoon of John R. Bourne, aged 22, a LeMars youth, was cut
primarily short yesterday when Sheriff Hugh Maxwell and Deputy Sheriff
T. C. Parker went out to the farm of Chas. Pausch in Johnson township
and arrested young Bourne on charges of theft and passing worthless
checks.

The young man was brought to town and is now serving a thirty day
sentence in jail, while other charges are pending against him.

The officers have been looking for John Bourne for some time.  Giving a
worthless check of $1.50 to the county clerk for his marriage license, a
worthless check to H.F. Clasen for $20, for which he obtained a wedding
ring and ten dollars in change led partly to his undoing.

The sheriff further learned in his investigations that the youth went to
the John Steffin home in the southern part of town and took a suit of
clothes belonging to Truels Steffin, and some money he found lying in
the house.

The attention of the sheriff was called to the activities of the young
man some time last week when the youth gave a check to a Sioux City
firm, using the name of a LeMars college student and the officer has
been on the trail since.  Deputy Sheriff Parker learned of the youth
having obtained a marriage license and the arrest quickly followed.

HELD TO GRAND JURY
Bourne was arraigned before Justice J. G. Koenig yesterday and sentenced
to thirty days in the county jail on the charge of giving H.F. Clasen a
phony check.

The justice held Bourne to the Grand Jury on a charge of grand larceny.

John R. Bourne was married Tuesday evening to Alvina Pausch, the
ceremony being performed by Rev. Geo. Meyer.

Mr. Pausch was in town yesterday and stated to a Sentinel reporter that
Bourne had kept company with his daughter during the past year and the
family thought he was an honest young man.  He further stated he was
hearing many things now about the youth which he wished he had learned
sooner.

DEFACE ROAD SIGNS
STIFF FINE IS PENSITY FOR DAMAGING
PRIMARY ROAD MARKERS

County Engineer Huxtable wishes the public be informed that a good stiff
fine awaits hunters who are caught shooting or otherwise defacing the
primary road signs.  These signs cost the state and taxpayers quite a
sum of money and the public in general should be proud enough of them to
protect them.  Anyone finding hunters or others defacing these signs
will confer a favor by reporting them to Mr. Huxtable at LeMars.

ATTENDING LIONS CONVENTION
Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Schafer, Mr. and Mrs. George Koenig, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Willging, Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Graber, Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Roseberry left
yesterday for Des Moines to attend the state convention of Lions clubs
in session this week.

Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Demaray left Tuesday for Spirit Lake, where they will
spend the summer.

STRUBLE YOUTH WINS A BRIDE
LESLIE BOWEN AND MISS NETTIE FERGUSON,
OF THIS PLACE, ARE MARRIED

Leslie Bowen and Miss Nettie Ferguson, well known young people of this
vicinity, went to Sioux City last Saturday and were quietly married.
The ceremony took place at the First Baptist Church, the pastor, Rev. H.
Jacobson officiating, at 8:00 in the evening.

The bride was attired in a fashionable black and white costume, with hat
and other accessories to match.  She carried a bouquet of beautiful pink
sweet peas and bridal roses.

Following a brief wedding trip the young people returned to LeMars, and
are staying at the home of the bride's parents for a brief time, while
making preparations to start housekeeping on the own account.

The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Ferguson, residing at 501
Seventh street, SW, and was born and grew up in this vicinity and is
popular in a large circle of acquaintances, where she has many friends.

The bride groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bowen, of Struble,
and is a progressive and popular young business man in Struble, where he
is conducting an oil station.

The newly wedded young couple will shortly take up housekeeping in
Struble.

Arthur Laudi, a former LeMars boy, was here on Tuesday on business and
visiting friends.  Of late years he has been living in the West, and
came here from Los Angeles, Calif., on his way to Fort Dodge, where his
sister, Mrs. Pat O'Connell, lives.  Art Laudi is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
J.D. Laudi, who in their lifetime were resident of LeMars for many
years.

Will Kilker, of America township, this week purchased a pure bred Polled
Shorthorn bull from W.S. Mammen, of Grant township.

FIFTEEN WILL GRADUATE
Nine Boys and Six Girls Form Merrill School Class

One of the largest classes in the history of the school will be
graduating from the Merrill high school this year, the class consisting
of fifteen, nine boys and six girls.

Those who will receive their diplomas are:  Hurles Fox, Glen Goodwin,
Wallace Hemphill, Benjamin Simpson, Lloyd Weinheimer, Arnold
Weidenfeller, Lowell Kehrberg, Bernard Stinton, Dwight Spies, Gladys
Hancer, Lucille Jahn, Clara Petersen, Lucille Petit, Augusta Hubel, Lyle
Tooker. 

Mr. and Mrs. John Didier, of Sioux City, visited with his mother, Mrs.
A. Didier, in LeMars, the first of the week.