Iowa Old Press

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel

August 11, 1931

ALTON: (From the Democrat)

Frank Garn, of Hurley, S.D., was here Monday looking over the corn crop in this vicinity, where he farmed for some years. He thinks farmers here have nothing to “kick” about but says the corn around Hurley is badly dried out while the small grain crop was slim.

Judge and Mrs. Charles T. Howard, of Pipestone, Minn., were weekend guests at the home of Mrs. Clara C. Bowers. Judge Howard and Mrs. Bowers were classmates at Albion college and met again after a period of fifty years at the golden jubilee of the Class of 1880 held last summer at Albion, Mich.

Preparing to resurface six miles of No. 75 from the Plymouth county line north to the Million Dollar corner and No. 10 from that corner east to Paullina, the Evans Construction Co., moved their big gravel excavator and stone crusher to Alton Tuesday night and spent Wednesday prospecting in the state gravel pit a mile north of town, getting the crusher and conveyor located by late afternoon.

Henry B. Mouw, well known Sioux Center business man, is in the county jail in default of furnishing $1000 peace bonds and if the bonds are not furnished will remain there until action by the court. He was arrested Monday on peace bond proceedings on complaint of Lena Berghuis, who claimed he had threatened her and she was in fear of her life. He was taken before Justice Te Veltrup and ordered to furnish peace bonds in the sum of $1,000 but up until this time had failed to furnish the required surety.

Blinded by corn fields when approaching the corner, the cars of Gerrit Vander Broek and Walter Dykshoorn collided at the corner a mile east and a mile south of Maurice, Tuesday. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dykshoorn were slightly injured. It is reported that the Vander Broek car was coming from the south and that of Dykshoorn from the east, which would give the latter car the right of way. When he saw a collision was imminent, Mr. Dykshoorn tried to drive into the ditch to escape the other car, he said, but states that the Vander Broek car struck his running board in front of the back fender, his car turning over twice.

Charles Van Dyk, of Sioux City, was arrested Wednesday morning by Joe Te Veltrup at Sioux Center when he arrived in that town from the north on No. 75. Complaints of those who had tried to pass Van Dyk, as he waved back and forth across the highway, reached Sioux Center before Van Dyk. He was arraigned before Mayor Te Paska, two bottles of alcohol having been found in his car, and charged with driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated and illegal transportation of liquor. Van Dyk was bound over to the grand jury with bail fixed at $500 on each count. Deputy Sheriff Harry Dykstra called for him and he was given lodging in the county jail. Van Dyk had two men companions with him and said they were going to South Dakota. The old Dodge car he was driving was so ancient that the County refused to confiscate it on the theory that its sale would not pay the expense of advertising.