Iowa Old Press

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
December 19, 1933

TWO INJURED IN AUTO UPSET
RALPH OBERMIRE SUSTAINS FRACTURED SHOULDER AND MRS. EWIN HEAD INJURIES.
Icy weather conditions and the insistence of a truck driver in maintaining a large share of the road were factors in an accident which happened on the high road two miles south of Merrill Friday night, resulting in serious injuries to Ralph Obermire and Mrs. Charles Ewin, of this city.

Mr. Obermire, accompanied by Charles Ewin, went to Sioux City earlier in the day to meet Mrs. Charles Ewin, arriving in Sioux City from Denver, Colo., where she had been called by the illness of her father.  The three were returning to LeMars when the accident happened at a point below Merrill.  In trying to avoid collision with a truck, the car driven by Mr. Obermire, slipped over the embankment at the side of the road and toppled into the ditch.  Mr. Obermire suffered a fracture of the left shoulder blade and his head was badly cut.  Mrs. Ewin sustained cuts and bruises on her head and is suffering from nervous shock.

TWO WEDDINGS ARE ANNOUNCED
BESSIE MURPHEY AND EDITH NELSON, AKRON GIRLS, ARE RECENT BRIDES.
A pretty wedding was solemnized at the manse of the First Presbyterian Church, of Sioux Falls, S.D. on Tuesday, December 5, 1933, at high noon, when Miss Bessie J. Murphey became the bride of Dick A. Hoogestraat, both of Lennox, S.D., Rev. Hugh Jones officiating.  They were attended by the bride’s sister, Miss Evah Murphey, and the groom’s brother, Earnest Hoogestraat.  The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Murphey, former Akron residents, and is a graduate of the Lennox high school Class of ’32.  By her pleasing personality she has won many friends during her residence there.  The groom, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Hoogestraat, has lived all his life in the Lennox community and is a progressive and enterprising young man.
The bride was charming in a gown of bluebird blue silk of ankle length, with accessories to match, and carried an arm bouquet of tea roses.  Her attendant was dressed in blue silk, to match the bride’s gown.
After the ceremony the young people returned to the Hoogestraat home, where a wedding dinner was served to the members of the families by Mrs. Murphey and Mrs. Hoogestraat.  The bride’s colors, blue and white, were carried out in the table decorations.  Later in the afternoon the bridal couple left by auto for a two weeks’ visit with friends and relatives in Iowa.  On their return they will live with the groom’s parents until March 1, when they will be at home to their friends on the John Hoogestraat farm, north of Lennox.
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Relatives received announcement of the marriage on November 22, 1933, of Miss Edith Nelson and Lester Lee, both of Milwaukee, Wis.  The bride, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson, residing south of Akron, is a graduate of the Akron high school.  After completing school work, she took a nurse’s training course at the University of Iowa, and the past few years has been in charge of the children’s department of the county hospital in Milwaukee, where the couple will make their home.

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

The Ladies’ Aid met at the home of Mrs. R.A. Hawkins on Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Becker and son, Bobby, were Sioux City visitors Sunday.

Mr. McMahon and E. H. Riter were business visitors at Rock Rapids Saturday.

Jessie Kennedy and Frank March of Vermillion, S.D., visited friends here Wednesday.

A number of men gathered at the E.F. Anstine home Tuesday and cut wood for the church.

Teachers of schools in Elgin township held a meeting Wednesday afternoon at the Center school house.

John Deegan is visiting relatives at Madison, S.D., and Appleton, Minn., and will be away several weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. Glen Parry spent Sunday in the home of Mr. Parry’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rees Parry, of Remsen.

Mrs. S. Rayburn left on Thursday morning for Fairfield, Iowa to attend the funeral of her brother, J.W. Price, who died there on Tuesday..

Word was received here of the serious illness of Wat Kennedy at his home in Denver, Colo. Mrs. Chas. Ewin left on Saturday to be with her father.

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Chapman left on Thursday evening for Carlsbad, New Mexico, where they will spend the winter with their daughter, Constance.

Miss Evelyn Roths won first prize in the missionary declamatory contest held at the Melbourne church Sunday. She was awarded a beautiful silver medal.

LeMars Globe-Post

December 21, 1933

(From the Front Page)

CRASH VICTIMS ARE RECOVERING

Condition of Ralph Obermire and Mrs. Chas. Ewin Reported Favorable

Ralph Obermire, who sustained a fractured shoulder and Mrs. Chas. Ewin, who suffered head cuts and bruises are reported as progressing favorably at their homes following a car accident two miles south of Merrill last Friday night.

The accident occurred when Mr. Obermire endeavored to miss a truck, which was taking more than its share of the road, and slipped over the shoulder of the ice covered road into the ditch.

Mr. and Mrs. Ewin and Mr. Obermire were returning from Sioux City when the accident occurred.

SENEY: (By Special Correspondent)

Mrs. Charley Ewin of LeMars received word of her father’s sickness, W.D. Kennedy of Denver. She left on the noon train but he was a little better when she arrived there.

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Reeves and son Leroy, of Lead, S.D. and Mrs. Elizabeth Johnston of Belvidere, S.D., were Thanksgiving guests in the home of his father, Bert Reeves.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reints and daughters, Leona and Minnie, were Thanksgiving guests in the home of their daughter and sister, Mrs. Frank Weber.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred DeRaad and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hinde and children were Sunday dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer DeRaad..

Mr. and Mrs. John Lancaster and children were Sunday dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Weber, south of LeMars.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Obermire visited Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Chapman.

John Deegan left Friday for Madison, S.D., and Appleton, Minn., where he will visit for a couple of weeks with relatives.

Hinton Progress
Dec. 28, 1933

WAS RESIDENT OF LIBERTY TOWNSHIP

Mrs. Trometer, aged 41, wife of Fred Trometer, well known farmer of Liberty
township, died in a LeMars hospital December 20, following an operation for
a serious internal malady.

She leaves to mourn her death her husband, several children and a large
number of relatives.