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Akron Register-Tribune
July 2, 1931
MILNERVILLE MENTION
(Special Correspondence)
A signal honor has come to H. H. Epperson, of Sioux City, father of Mrs. Ivyl Knapp, in his selection to the office of president of the National Livestock Exchange, and to L. F. Lionberger, a well known stock buyer there, who received the second honor and was made vice-president.
A well known veterinary, Dr. J. M. Lichty, was elected president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at their annual convention, which was held in Keokuk last week. Dr. Lichty has frequently treated the stock of the farmers of this territory.
Among the students recently graduated from the South Dakota university law school and admitted to the bar of South Dakota was Garner Waddell, of Webster, a son of one of our old acquaintances in this neighborhood.
The intense heat has played havoc with the ordinary schedule of the farmers and many have resorted to evening work to save the horses. An unusual number of losses among the horses has been reported, as many as twenty-two dead animals having been received within a week at the Akron rendering works, besides others shipped to Sioux City. A truck load of the dead animals went through Leeds only a few days ago.
Miss Mynnie Gusteson, a former well liked teacher of No. 4 school, has been superintendent of the Vacation Bible School of the Whitfield M. E. church in Sioux City.
A Plymouth county farmer, Leo Singer, of Remsen, topped the Sioux City market with 87 heard of light Poland-China hogs last Friday. Mr. Singer received $7.30 for his offering.
The news letter goes in a day early this week on account of the Fourth.
The usual family parties are being planned for the annual celebration of Independence Day and the young people will picnic farther afield and attend some of the dances at the various pleasure resorts of our locality.
Frank Willer, of the Akron vicinity, called a garage late Saturday night, as he had an accident near the Sunnyside high school. No one was hurt, but Mr. Willer’s car ran off the grade and he had to be pulled back to safety.
LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
July 3, 1931
MEETS FATE ON BIRTHDAY
Harry Hart Killed On the Day On Which He Attains Majority
WAS IN AUTO SMASH
Enlists in the Navy From Here Three Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Shumway, of this city, received a telegram from the
commandant of the United States naval department of San Diego, Calif.,
Wednesday informing them of the death of their ward, Harry Cameron Hart.
The message stated briefly that Hart was killed in an automobile accident
the day previous while riding in a car near Miramar with some companions.
No details of the accident are given.
Harry Hart was 21 years of age June 30, the day he was killed, and had been
married only three weeks when he encountered this fate.
Harry Hart made his home with the Shumways since he was two years old. His
mother is a sister of Mrs. Shumway. He came here with his uncle and aunt
about ten years ago and attended school here. He enlisted in the Navy three
years ago and was in the aviation department and had recently been promoted
in the shops where he was working. He was stationed at Great Lakes when he
entered the service and then was assigned to work in San Diego, Calif.
Besides his relatives here he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Lexie
Kinsella, a brother Harvey Hart, and a sister, Mabel Hart, living at
Buffalo, N. Y. and another sister, Hazel, living at Towanda, N. Y.
WITH MILITARY HONORS
The body will be shipped to LeMars and the funeral held Monday afternoon at
the First Baptist Church. Rev. N. L. Haney, of Sioux Falls, S. D., a former
minister here, will preach the funeral sermon and Rev. T. P. Potter, the
pastor, will assist in the services.
The youth, who died while in the naval service, will be buried with military
honors, members of the American Legion and Company K, of which the youth was
formerly a member, taking part in the ceremonies.
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~Miss Myra Schueller went to Moline, Ill., the first of the week to spend a
month visiting in the home of her brother, Clarence Schueller. She will
also spend some time at Dubuque visiting relatives.
LAST RITES FOR MRS. G. E. EILERS
Hundreds of Acquaintances and Neighbors Pay Last Tribute to Friend
Hundreds of friends and neighbors attended the funeral of Mrs. Eilers, wife
of G. E. Eilers, of this city, Monday afternoon at St. John’s Lutheran
Church, Rev. J. J. Vollmar officiating. Many were unable to obtain entrance
to the church building and remained outside on the lawn during the services.
Relatives and friends from out of town attending the last rites were:
Herman Hanson, Danbury; Jerry Dickinson and daughter, Rock Rapids; Earl and
Glenn Knutson, Soldier; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lilly, Fort Dodge; Ace
Hofmeister, Cushing; Will and Emery Gustine, Moville; Mr. and Mrs. Rolly
Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Bartels, Frank Lilly, Sioux City; Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Keiser and daughters, Brunswick, Neb.; Ray Nothem and daughter, Brunswick,
Neb.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Keiser, Canby, Minn.; Herman Eilers and family, Dell
Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Diest, Wood River, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Fuchs and
Virgil, Wood River, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Keiser, Nokomis, Ill.; John
Keiser, Nokomis, Ill.; Mrs. Mary Baumann, Des Moines.
Le Mars Semi Weekly Sentinel, July 10, 1931
Mrs. Anna Swain, aged 50, a resident of Plymouth county since early childhood,
died Wednesday evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Nolan,
121 Fifth Avenue SW., after a lingering illness. Mrs. Swain had been suffering
from kidney trouble for some time and last week was taken seriously ill and
failed rapidly. Mrs., Swain was compelled by sickness to undergo an operation
several years ago and had never been in rugged health since that time.
Anna Nolan was born near Decatur, Ill., August 6, 1880. Her parents came to Le
Mars a year and a half later and settled on a farm in Grant township, this
county, part of the land lying in Sioux county.
Anna Nolan grew up on the home farm and received her education in the county
school and later in town. She engaged in teaching school when a young woman.
She was married twenty-eight years ago last January to Thomas Swain and they
engaged in farming living for a number of years on the Swain farm near the
Mallette crossing southwest of town. For the past eleven years Mrs. Swain had
made her home in Le Mars.
She is survived by her husband, Thomas Swain, who is now at Sault Ste Marie,
Mich., and the following children: Merlin Swain, of San Pedro, Calif., Mrs.
Marie Matakis, Faribault, Minn., Miss Frances Swain, of Los Angeles, Calif.,
Mrs. Fern Trowl, of Sioux City, Jack Swain, serving in the regular army in the
Hawaiian Islands, Robert and Dorothy Ann Swain, living with the grandparents.
There are four grandchildren. She also leaves to mourn her death her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Nolan and her brother, James Nolan, residing on the home
farm near Struble.
The funeral will be held this morning at 9 o'clock in St. James church, Rev.
L. J. Cooper, the pastor, officiating and interment made in St. Joseph
cemetery.
Mrs. Swain was highly esteemed in the community and was a dutiful daughter and
a loving wife. Left several years ago with a large family of young children to
look after she struggled bravely against odds and gave them constant and
loving care as long as health and strength permitted.
Many friends will pay a tribute to the memory of this good woman.
LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
July 14, 1931
GRADUATED IN AKRON SCHOOLS
Clarence Fetterman Was Member of the First Class in the Eighties
Funeral services were held at Akron in the Methodist church for C. W.
Fetterman, a pioneer resident of that section, who died following an
operation for a ruptured appendix. The pallbearers were W. W. Burrill, Frank
F. Kerr, Max Pollock, Boyson Ross, Clarence Aalfs and Ole Lawrence.
The burial rites of the Masonic order were exemplified in Riverside
Cemetery, in charge of V. G. Adams. Interment was in the family lot.
Clarence William Fetterman, son of Jesse and Charlotta Sayles Fetterman, was
born near Lodi, Ohio, May 30, 1858. When a lad of eleven years he came to
South Dakota, then Dakota Territory, with his parents in the early summer of
1869, and lived on a farm near Elk Point. In the fall of the same year they
located on the homestead, southwest of Akron, which has since remained the
family home. After completing the course in the rural schools of his home
community, he enrolled in the Akron graded school in the late seventies and
was a member of the first graduating class of the Akron high school in 1880.
After graduating, he taught in the rural schools of Union county and later
took up telegraphy, holding a position as operator in Sioux Falls, S.D. he
returned to the home farm and had since resided there. Mr. Fetterman was a
man of studious nature and retentive mind, a wide reader and an unusually
interesting and entertaining conversationalist. A man of integrity,
honorable in all his dealings and of a genial nature, he made many lasting
friendships, and by his habits of industry and thrift he accumulated a
comfortable competency.
The immediate surviving relatives are: Mrs. Edith Danks, of Ardmore, Okla.,
the only child of Cassius Fetterman; Mrs. Frances Fetterman Watson, of New
York City; Charlotte Fetterman, Jesse Fetterman and Paul Fetterman, of
Omaha, Neb., and Donald Fetterman, of Chicago, all children of Albert
Fetterman; Mrs. Otis Maynard, Miss Hattie Sayles and Frank Sayles, of Akron
vicinity, are cousins.
ARE WEDDED IN CHICAGO
Bride is Member of Pioneer Family of Plymouth County
Miss Norma Lucille Mathwig, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Mathwig, of South
Sioux City, Neb., was marriage Wednesday in Chicago to Foster M. Swartz, of
Champaign, Ill. The wedding took place in a Presbyterian Church there with
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Swartz, brother and sister-in-law of the groom, as
attendants. The bride is a graduate of the South Sioux City high school and
Mr. Swartz was graduated from Morningside College, where he was a member of
Phi sigma fraternity and a football player. The couple will make their home
in Champaign.
A. H. Mathwig, father of the bride, lived in LeMars for may years before
moving to Sioux City and later to South Sioux City.
YOUNG BANKER WINS A BRIDE
Business Man Of Marcus Is Wedded to Popular Remsen Girl
A pretty wedding was solemnized Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock in St. Mary’s
church in Remsen when Miss Marie Krogman, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Krogman, Jr., was united in marriage to Elmer J. Knebel, of Marcus.
The ceremony and nuptial mass was ready by Rev. H. J. Schleier, pastor, and
was witnessed by relatives and a large number of friends.
The bridal party entered the church to the strains of the Lohengrin wedding
chorus rendered by Mrs. Sylvester Fideler, organist.
The bride was beautifully gowned in bridal satin. Her veil was of silk and
lace, trimmed in rhinestones, pearls and orange blossoms in Spanish effect.
Her only ornament was a strand of pearls and crystals. She carried a shower
bouquet of bridal roses, achillea and smilax. She was attended by her
sister, Helen Krogman, who wore a blue printed chiffon gown with hat and
accessories to match and wore a corsage of Ophelia roses.
During the ceremony Miss Dorothy Nothem sang “Ava Maria.”
The groom was attended by his brother, Paul, of Iowa City.
After the ceremony relatives and friends numbering sixty, repaired to the
home of the bride’s parents. Tables were attractively decorated in the
bride’s colors, blue and white, and a three course dinner was served by her
friends, Virginia Treinen, Opal Duster, Mrs. Elmer Douvia, and Mildred
Hansen, a cousin of the bride. A handsomely decorated wedding cake formed a
center piece.
The bride was the recipient of many beautiful gifts.
Late in the evening Mr. and Mrs. Knebel departed on a wedding trip west,
stopping at the Black Hills, Yellowstone Park and Buffalo, Wyoming, where
they will be guests of his brother, Dr. and Mrs. W.J. Knebel and family.
The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krogman, Jr. She was
graduated from St. Mary’s high school in Remsen and taught school the past
year. She is a young lady of pleasing personality and has made many friends
in this community. The groom is the son of Mrs. Flora Knebel, of Iowa City.
He was graduated from Holy Name high school of Marcus and since then has
been employed in the bank of Marcus. He is a likeable young man of sterling
business ability and has a host of friends here and at Marcus.
Guests from out of town at the wedding were the groom’s mother, Mrs. Flora
Knebel, and son, Paul, his sister, Mrs. J. C. Droll and daughter, Luella,
and niece, Eleanor Pelzer, his uncle, John Rummelhart, all of Iowa City; his
sister, Mrs. I. H. Maxwell and son Donald and daughter, Helen, of Delmont,
S.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Knebel will be at home at Marcus to their many friends after
August 1.
Akron Register-Tribune
July 23, 1931
PIONEER WESTERN PLYMOUTH COUNTY CALLED TO REWARD
Milo S. Mills Was Resident of This Section During Most of His Life
Milo S. Mills, a long time resident of western Plymouth County and intimately connected with the early history and growth of this community, passed away on Wednesday evening, July 15, 1931, at his home in Sioux township, following a lingering illness, aged 72 years, 4 months, and 6 days.
Mr. Mills was born in Sioux City, Ia., then an outpost station, on March 9, 1859. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Mills, spent their last days in Sioux township. David Mills played a prominent part in the development of this part of the state and adjoining territory in Dakota in pioneer days. When a lad he came west from New Hampshire to Gull Prairie neighborhood in Michigan. When sixteen years of age David Mills joined a party of gold seekers bound for California. He returned to Sioux City in 1856 and preempted land in Sioux township (Plymouth County.) He was the first sheriff of Plymouth County, being elected in 1858. He died in Sioux township in 1893, at the age of 69 years.
Milo S. Mills received his schooling in the schools of Elk Point, in Sioux township and Sioux City, and assisted his father in farming operations until his marriage to Laura E. Vradenburg, of Union County, Dakota, at Westfield, Ia., March 6, 1888, when he began farming on his own account. He went to Lewiston, Idaho, in 1909 and engaged in fruit farming for a short time. Returning to Plymouth County, he bought a tract of 400 acres of the old Mills ranch and lived there until his death.
Milo Mills was active in community affairs and held numerous township offices during his life. A man of strict integrity and sterling character, he was held in high esteem by all who knew him, and will be widely missed and sincerely mourned. He was a member of Freedom lodge, No. 434, A.F. & A.M., of Akron, and the Royal Arch Masons, of Hawarden, Ia.
He is survived by his widow, four daughters, Mrs. Eula Small of Westfield, Ia.; Mrs. Frances Patterson, of What Cheer, Ia.; Mrs. Belle Carey, of Hermosa, S.D.; Mrs. Nina Witte, of Westfield; and three sons, Chester and Fred Mills, of Westfield, and George Mills, of Denver, Colo. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community.
Mr. Mills lived in this vicinity almost all of his 72 years. He could recall details of the prairie fire of 1876, the flood of 1881, and the Indian uprising in 1862. He was only three years old when the Indians drove his family from their home near Westfield to the safety of the army stockade in Sioux City. The pioneer nearly lost his life during the flood of 1881, when most of the Mills farm was submerged by the overflow of the Sioux and Missouri rivers. He swam his horse to a point where several cattle were marooned and stayed a few minutes too long trying to induce the beasts to swim to safety. The ice was moving down the river as he started back. His horse became entangled in a grapevine which held the animal’s head beneath the water. As the ice moved nearer, Mr. Mills ducked beneath the water and groped about until he broke the vine, freeing the horse, which carried him to safety.
The funeral rites were held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the home south of Westfield. Rev. Jos. Castle, pastor of Westfield Congregational church, conducted the services. There was a large attendance at the funeral and many friends, in a last tribute of respect, followed the remains to the final resting place. In Riverside Cemetery, Akron, the impressive Masonic burial service for a departed brother was conducted by members of Freedom lodge.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the friends and neighbors, the Masonic fraternity, and also Dr. Kerr for his untiring efforts during the illness and death of our beloved husband and father.—Mrs. Milo S. Mills and Family.
LeMars Globe-Post
Thursday, July 30, 1931
BRUNSVILLE FIRE LOSS OF $50,000
Blaze Of Unknown Origin Aided By Extreme Dryness
Fire of undetermined origin, starting in the Brunsville branch of the Koenig Hardware Co., destroyed every building except one of an entire block in the Brunsville business district early Tuesday morning. The fire was discovered shortly after midnight, but it was soon apparent that there would be no chance to save any of the buildings in a row.
Brunsville has three wells as protection against fires. These three were almost dry, however, and furnished little water. The village also had two chemical tanks on wheels. One of these was used up, but was of little use. The other was kept in reserve to put out fires that might start in the row of buildings across the street.
The LeMars Fire Department responded to an urgent call and aided the citizens of Brunsville, with chemicals, to prevent the spread of the flames. The post office building caught fire several times, but was saved with chemicals.
The powerful pump on the LeMars truck would have been useful, had it been possible to get water, but available water supplies were pitifully small.
The following places of business fell victims to the flames: First State Bank; Dickman’s grocery (operated by Catherine Harms); Waterbury barber shop; Wilkens butcher shop and grocery; Koenig Hardware; Brunsville Creamery; Joe Osborne pool hall, dance hall and restaurant.
Only one building remained, the fireproof building which formerly housed the now defunct Farmer’s Bank of Brunsville. This building was not harmed in the least. By the irony of fate, this banking house, which would not have brought $250 before the fire, suddenly became five or six times as valuable. In fact, by three o’clock some of the books of the destroyed State Bank had been moved into the building, which is completely equipped with regular banking furnishings.
Some idea of the intense heat could be gained by looking at the steel outer door to the bank vault, which passed through the fire. The door was so badly warped and twisted that it was difficult to swing it open on its hinges. The interior of the vault, although pretty warm, showed no sign of damage and all papers were fully protected.
The maganeset steel globular safe in which cash was kept, also passed through the fire without damage to its contents, although the safe was damaged.
The fire made a clean sweep as it ate its way from building to building. It broke through concrete block and tile walls, and did not falter until it had consumed everything in its way. The heat was so intense that the mortar between bricks and tiles was reduced to gritty powder.
Mayor Gerritt Null estimated that the damage to buildings and stocks amounted to about $50,000. A large part of this was without insurance, due to high rates. Mr. Null said that there was talk about replacing some of the destroyed buildings with modern new structures.
BANK VAULT LEFT STANDING
Brunsville, Ia.—(Special)—This Plymouth county town, swept by fire which destroyed six buildings, Tuesday morning, with a loss approximately $50,000 is already planning to rebuild. The buildings proposed will be fireproof and modern, it is said. Work of clearing away the debris has commenced and it is expected work on new buildings will be under way early in August.
(Photos by Dickensheets – Cuts by Sioux City Journal)