Iowa Old Press

Hinton Progress
January 5, 1928

OBITUARY

Margaret Evelyn Trometer was born November 10, 1889, in Plymouth county,
Iowa. She was married to Thomas Bogner February 25, 1913. To this union
were born three children, Leone aged 13, Bennie aged 6, and Robert who lived
only a little over ten months.

Mr. and Mrs. Bogner have resided in and about the northwestern part of
Plymouth township throughout their wedded life and until death departed
them.

Mrs. Bogner passed away December 26, 1927, at the Cherokee Hospital where
she had gone for medical care. The family planned to have her spend the
Christmas season at home, as it seemed for the time being that her health
was improving but after the physician was consulted it was thought best for
her to remain. Mr. Bogner and the children spent Christmas Sunday with the
wife and mother. The family had hopes that the much loved one would,
sometime, perhaps soon, become well and strong enough to return to her home
again. Our hopes do not always materialize as we would like to have them but
often becomes blasted and then take their flight, never to return again, for
so it was in the above case when on Monday the day following Christmas word
was received by Mr. Bogner that his wife had passed away.

The deceased was 38 years, one month and 16 days old, when death came. She
was a much loved woman and had a large circle of friends. She loved her
home and kept it in a way which showed thoughtfulness and careful planning.
She united with the Perry Creek Evangelical church a little over seven years
ago, in which she was faithful. She took part in the midweek prayer
service, Sunday school, and church services. She has taught in the Sunday
school, led prayer meetings and also led meetings of the Missionary Society.
She also carried her part of the financial burden of the church. Very few
prayer meetings and praise services were held but the deceased when it was
at all possible for her to present, took an active part in the same. She
was also president of the W.M.S. Mrs. Bogner will be missed in the
community church and social life but no where like in her own home. She
leaves to mourn her departure, her bereft husband, Thomas Bogner and the
daughter and son, Leone and Bennie, a sister Mrs. Catherine Boker of Lake
View, Minnesota, and two brothers, Martin Trometer of Liberty township and
Andrew of Akron, Iowa. Her parents preceded her in death several years ago.

The funeral service was held on Thursday at 1 p.m. in the M.E. church in
Merrill. The music which was well rendered was furnished by members of the
M.E. church choir. The floral tributes were many and beautiful. Rev. Roths
was in charge and was assisted by Rev. M. Masters, pastor of the Merrill
M.E. church and Rev. P. Hahn, of LeMars.

The interment was made in the Merrill cemetery.

LeMars Globe-Post

Thursday, January 5, 1928

JNO. HOLSTER HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE.

FORMER SENEY BOY IN HOSPITAL AS RESULT OF EXPLOSION.

(By Special Correspondent)

Mrs. Iona Clark moved to Lemurs on Saturday. She rented her house to Mr. and Mrs. Schemmel, who are moving here from Brewster, Minn. Mr. Schemmel will have charge of the depot.

Miss Margaret Moore, who spent the holidays in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Moore, left Tuesday for Cedar Falls, where she will resume her studies at the Iowa State Teachers’ College.

Frank Becker and wife are enjoying a new Chevrolet coach recently purchased.

Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Chambers of Hazel, S.D., and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Woodhouse, of Thomas, S.D., left on Friday for their homes after spending Christmas in the parental homes. Word was received here on Tuesday that when seven miles north of Flandreau, they got into snow and broke the gear shaft, having to be hauled back to town were the ladies took the train, reaching Thomas, S.D., and were still there on Monday, the men not having arrived.

A car with Mr. and Mrs. Schemmel’s household goods arrived Wednesday from Brewster, Minn.

Mr. and Mrs. Irving McArthur and niece, Ruth McArthur, returned the latter part of the week from Gayville, S.D., where they visited Mrs. McArthur’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Darville.

Mrs. W.A. Ewin and daughter, Dorothy, of LeMars, spent Friday in the home of Mrs. Iona Clark.

Miss Lucile March, who spent the holidays in the home of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth March, returned on Tuesday to take up her work teaching in Sioux City on Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Reeves entertained Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Reeves and family on Saturday in honor of their son, Will’s birthday.

Mr. and Mrs. Schemmel of Brewster, Minn., were here Thursday of last week looking for a house to rent.

Mrs. Dan McArthur, Mr. and Mrs. Miles McArthur, daughters, Ethel and Joyce, of Sheldon, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Chapman on Monday evening. Mrs. Dan McArthur and Mrs. Chapman are sisters.

Our school opened on Tuesday after a week and New Year’s day vacation.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Reeves and children were Sioux City shoppers on Friday.

Miss Pauline Riter left Tuesday afternoon for Sioux City, where she attends high school.

Miss Genevieve Nixon, who attends Morningside college, left Monday for Sioux City after spending a few days in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Becker.

Miss Constance Chapman, who was operated on for appendicitis at the Sacred Heart Hospital in LeMars on December 20, was able to return to her home New Year’s day.

R.N. and Joe Deagan left Monday for the eastern part of the state where they expect to buy hogs for feeding purposes.

Charles Bower, a uncle of C. L. Britton, died Wednesday morning at his home north of Struble.

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Chapman are enjoying a new radio given them as a Christmas present. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Chapman also have a new radio. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Britton also have joined the list of radio fans.

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. McArthur and son Raymond returned Monday from Gayville, S.D., where they spent the holidays in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Darville. Their friends were very glad to learn that Mrs. McArthur was able to leave the hospital in Yankton last Thursday after being taken there on Christmas night, following an accident at Yankton, when a car ran into them. Miss Edith Darville remained one night at the hospital. Miss Ethel Darville, who also spent her vacation at home, returned here Sunday.

Friends here will be interested to know that Mrs. Solomon Perry, of LeMars, a former resident here, is in the Mayo hospital at Rochester, Minn.

John Holster’s home burned to the ground on Tuesday.

George Siegersma hauled a truck load of stock to Sioux City on Wednesday for Harvey Buss.

The Ladies Aid Society will meet January 13 with Mrs. C.W. Reeves. At the close of the meeting a delicious lunch will be served by the hostess.

Mr. and Mrs. George Moir were called to Fargo, N.D., bny the serious illness of his brother, Gavin.

Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hinde received word that their son, Allen, of Haxtun, Colo., was in a hospital following an explosion of a blow torch. Particulars are not known at this time, but all his friends with relatives are hoping he is not in a serious condition.

The Ladies Aid Society will hold a chicken pie supper and give a program in the hall on Friday night. All are welcome.

LeMars Sentinel, Friday, January, 6, 1928, Page 1, Column 2:

KILLED WHILE VISITING SON
JOHN EBERHARD, FORMER RESIDENT HERE, VICTIM OF AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT

     Relatives are in receipt of word of the death of John Eberhard, a
former resident of Plymouth county and a member of a family which settled in
Liberty twonship in early homestead days.  Mr. Eberhard was killed in an
automobile accident December 29 at Anaheim, Cal.  Particulars as to (the)
accident and its cause had not been received by relatives in this county up
to this week.
     John Eberhard was born at Galena, Ill., June 17, 1864, and came to
Plymouth county with his parents in 1868 and lived on a farm with them until
1892 (error--1893), when he was united in marriage to Emma Tullis.  They
moved to South Dakota in 1902 where they resided until June 17, 1927, when
they left Lane, S. D., on a tour in their car to visit their children and
relatives in various parts of the country.
     Mr. Eberhard is survived by his wife and seven children, Edward, of
Firesteel, S. D., Mrs. Lloyd Small, of Arlington, Wash., Arthur, of Anaheim,
Cal., Wesley of Arlington, S. D., Beth, Fern and Emery, residing at home.
He also leaves four brothers and four sisters, Charles Eberhard, of Merrill,
Lizzie, at Lane, S. D., Mrs. Bertha Stohsner, of Santa Clara, Cal., Amelia,
of Merrill, Mrs. Julia Ausman, of Wessington Springs, S. D., Frank of
Alpena, S. D., Henry, of Arlington, Wash., Jake, of New Rockford, N. D.
     Interment was made at Anaheim, California, Tuesday of this week.

LeMars Globe-Post
January 12, 1928

COUNTY MUST SUPPORT DESTITUTES
FEDERAL AND STATE MEN MAKE RAID
John J. Lippon In Jail For 8 Months Or So--
Expect Family Addition

Plymouth county taxpayers were handed a nice bag to hold when federal and
state agents raided the home of John J. Lippon, in the southwest part of the
county, found some corn mash, and hauled Lippon into the Plymouth county
district court, refusing to take him into federal court.

Lippon is now in the county jail, having waived to the grand jury, and his
family is about to begin drawing on the county for support for the next
eight months or so.

The Lippon family has been playing in hard luck lately. Some weeks ago,
while they were down in Sioux City in a truck, they hit a bump and a small
child was jarred out of Mrs. Lippon's arms and fell to the paving, receiving
injuries from which it died.

The federal and state men did not raid the Lippon home on a federal warrant,
because the federal courts are particular about issuing warrants and it is
easier to raid under the state law. The only trouble is that the costs of
handling the cases all go on the county taxpayers. Local officers discussed
the possibility of turning Lippon over to the federal court but the federal
men didn't want him in their court, and as he has had three previous
convictions in federal court in Nebraska, he would have to be sentenced at
last a year in the federal court at Sioux City, with Plymouth county
supporting his family anyway.

The Lippon family, subtracting the child which was recently killed, still
includes three children, and another one is expected in about a month or so.
The expenses incident to that happy event will be borne by the county, as
the father is in jail. The Lippon family has absolutely nothing. Everything
in the house was recently sold at a constable's sale. The wife and children
have absolutely nothing to live on.

Besides the mash barrel nothing was found at the Lippon home. The still and
other apparatus had been removed. The officers said that in all probability
the still and other equipment is furnished by some Sioux City capitalist,
who lends the equipment to various "assistants" in Plymouth county. The
stills are moved frequently, first to one place and then another, so that by
the time the neighbors get suspicious the plant has been moved elsewhere.

In the mean time the federal courts and the federal agents are free to
conduct their raids on poor assistant bootleggers while the principle booze
bosses are unmolested, and Plymouth county supports Papa Lippon in the
county jail and his unfortunate family outside the jail.

DR. FETTES TO AID HICKMAN ON STAND
FORMER LE MARS MAN HEADS DEFENSE
Local Surgeon Has Studied Abnormal Psychoses As Hobby For Years

Dr. J. M. Fettes, former LeMars surgeon and partner in the LeMars Clinic,
will be nationally known when the Hickman murder trial at Los Angeles is
completed, if he goes through with his present plans as head of the defense
alienists who will testify that Hickman was mentally unfit when he cut the
Parker child to pieces, and should therefore escape the punishment provided
by law.

Press dispatches from Los Angeles indicate that Dr. Fettes will head a corps
of prominent Pacific coast mental experts in the defense of Hickman.

The will not be the first time that the former LeMars surgeon has become a
subject of national news interest. Some years ago, following the line
indicated by the famous Russian surgeon, Voronoff, Dr. Fettes performed a
number of successful goat gland operations with the result that several
LeMars people pulled one foot back out of the grave and became comparatively
young again.

To get the glands for these operations Toggenburg goats were especially
imported and raised on a farm in the southwest part of town. Dr. Fettes
observed his rejuvenated patients for about a year, but when he found that
the goat glands were reabsorbed by the patient’s body, so that the benefit
was only very temporary, he refused to perform any more operations of this
kind until medical science has made sufficient progress to make these
operations really worth while.

Dr. Fettes has long been a surgeon of recognized high standing and has
performed many unusual and delicate operations. About a year ago he and Dr.
M. J. Joynt performed an operation on a Canadian guide, who had his entire
nose clawed away by a bear. First they grew the Canadian’s forearm to his
face where the missing nose belonged. Then they cut out enough of the bone
of the forearm to give them material for the bridge of the nose. Holes were
drilled in to breathe through and the skin and gristle were then sewed
neatly on the bridge of the nose, so that when the Canadian left the
hospital some weary months even the bear wouldn’t have known him.

Dr. Fettes came to LeMars from Toronto some 20 years ago. He served as
lieutenant of the medical corps at Brownsville, Texas, before the world war,
and has always been engaged actively in the practice of medicine. Although
he specialized as a surgeon, he was always greatly interested in mental
disorders and frequently spent much time in treating mild cases of insanity
by mental suggestion, returning a number of patients to useful life who
might otherwise have been stigmatized by an insanity finding against them.
His experience in this line will no doubt be greatly enriched by his study
of the Hickman case.

LeMars Globe-Post
January 26, 1928

SUES FOR DAMAGE IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Dorothy Ewin Received Permanent Injuries in Crash, Guardian Alleges

W.A. Ewin is suing on behalf of Dorothy Ewin, who is suing Mrs. Alice
McGruder for $1500 damages, alleged to have been sustained when on November
26, a car driven by Cecil McGruder collided with a car in which the girl was
riding.

The girl received severe injuries including a broken collar bone, according
to the petition, and the injury did not heal right, so that Dorothy will
keep a permanent deformity.

MARRIED 50 YEARS

The accompanying pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Mayrose of Oyens were loaned
to the Globe-Post by courtesy of the Sioux City Journal. The golden wedding
anniversary of this couple is distinguished by the fact that it is the first
to be held in Oyens.

WAS ONLY STEAM.

The LeMars fire department was called out Tuesday morning on an alarm on
Second Avenue S.E., near Plymouth street, but when the truck arrived it was
found that there was no fire. Someone had seen steam arising for a vent pipe
on the roof of a house and thought there was a fire.

LeMars Sentinel
January 27, 1928

AUTO SMASH CAUSES SUIT
Claim Young Girl Permanently Disfigured as Result of Accident
Say Driver Reckless

Claiming that her carriage and appearance have been affected by the effects
of an automobile accident, W. A. Ewin, acting as guardian for Dorothy Emma
Ewin, a minor, has brought suit in the district court against Cecil McGruder
asking $1500 damages. In the petition filed with the clerk of courts this
week, the plaintiff states Dorothy Ewin, age thirteen years and four months,
was riding in an automobile driven by Mrs. Ollie McGraw on November 26,
1927, along Sixth Street South in the city of LeMars. The petition further
states Miss Ewin was a guest of Mrs. McGraw, as a passenger and weas in no
way operating or in control of the car. The plaintiff alleges that the
defendant was driving in a northerly direction without due regard to others
and at a fast gait and owing to negligence crashed into the car in which
Miss Ewin was riding, at the intersection of the streets. She was thown out
of the car and suffered a broken collar bone and cut on her head and was
rendered unconscious for a period of sixteen hours, according to the
plaintiff, who further states her carriage and appearance had been affected
by a lump on the shoulder consequent of the accident.

IS PROGRESSING FAVORABLY
Man Kicked in Face By Horse Has Good Chances for Recovery

John Ludwigs, of Grant township, who was kicked in the face Monday
afternoon, by a horse and seriously injured, was reported yesterday to be
recovering, although not yet out of danger. When the accident occurred Mr.
Ludwigs was attending a sale of horses at the Grand Central hotel yards, and
with a number of others was looking at the horses offered for sale. One of
the animals suddenly kicked, striking Mr. Ludwigs in the face, breaking his
nose, and cutting a deep gash below one of his eyes.

SPARKS ON THE ROOF

An alarm of fire was turned in Wednesday morning shortly after 7 o'clock
from the residence of M. T. Abbott, 121 Second Avenue, NW., when sparks from
a chimney set fire to the roof. The fireman responded to the call. The
blaze was extinguished in a few minutes.