May 2, 1933, Hinton Progress

FORMER PERRY RESIDENT DIES IN LINCOLN
Mrs. Stella Woods, 49, a former resident here, died Friday at Lincoln.

Mrs. Woods was born in Hinton in 1884 and lived on a farm near here until
1925 when she moved to Sioux City and to Lincoln two years ago. Burial was
in Lincoln Monday.

Besides her husband, H. A. Woods, she is survived by three sisters, Mrs.
Bertha Stinton and Mrs. Ida Wenbain of Sioux City, and Mrs. Lulu Robertson
of Lincoln; two brothers, Herbert Burnett of this vicinity, and Burnard
Burnett of Omaha.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Burnett went to Lincoln to attend the funeral,
returning home Monday evening.

LeMars Globe-Post
May 29, 1933

SCHOOL PROGRAM HANCOCK TWP. WELL ATTENDED

A large crowd of patrons and friends gathered at school district No. 2
Hancock township on Thursday evening, May 11, to hear the dedication program
given in honor of Plymouth County’s first superior school. This is an
honorary rating conferred by the Department of Public Instruction upon rural
schools which have reached superior standards. The schools is scored on the
condition of the building and grounds, school equipment, community
activities, teaching methods, and teacher qualifications. This school has
been a standard school since 1924 and is one of the best equipped schools in
the county. Miss Jessie Parker, state inspector of rural schools, Des
Moines, Iowa, who gave the main address of the evening, was introduced by
County Superintendent Petersen. The program of the evening was as follows:
Choir songs, Pupils of the School.
History of Hancock P.T.A., Mrs. C. P. Knapp.
History of Hancock Township Schools, T. A. Ross.
A Patron’s View Point, O. L. Weber.
Iowa Superior Schools, Miss Jessie Parker.
Short talks were given by Miss Tracy, Mrs. O. L. Weber and Miss Violet Fry,
who had formerly taught in the district. Miss Grace Briggs, the present
teacher, of Hancock township, also gave brief talks. A bronze plate with
the wording “Superior School” was presented by Miss Parker to C. P. Knapp,
director of the school.

*****
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peck, of Cherokee, visited in LeMars Monday.

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD MONDAY A.M.
Former Kingsley Woman Passes Away At Sioux City

Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon in the Seventh Day
Adventist church for Mrs. Cecil Marsh, 29 years old, who died Friday at her
home east of Leeds following a sickness of several months. Rev. J. R.
Nelson officiated and burial was in the Kingsley cemetery.

Mrs. Marsh was born in Kingsley, November 1, 1904, and had been a resident
of Sioux City 15 years.

Survivors include her widower, Pierre; a son, Jerry, of Sioux City; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Arnold Sr., of Stevens; a brother, George
Arnold Jr., of Salem, Ore.; and a sister, Edith Arnold, of Sioux City.

*****
Mrs. Everett Carter, of Washta, Iowa, spent several days in LeMars this week
visiting campus friends at Western Union college. Mrs. Carter, formerly
Mildred Paulin, was a student at the college several years ago.
*****
Ed Townsend, editor of the Rock County Star at Luverne, Minn., called on
friends in LeMars, Tuesday.

DECORATION DAY PLANS COMPLETED
Hundreds Will Pay Annual Respects Tomorrow Morning

With the Decoration day program complete, officials and participants are
looking forward for clear skies and warm weather. Most of the business
houses will close the entire day, with the exception of grocery and meat
markets, who will remain open until 10 a.m.

The annual parade will assemble at 9 a.m. at the corner of Central avenue
and First Street north and will be led by the massed colors. Company K,
American Legion and many other organizations will take part in the program
and parade.

The column will move to St. Joseph’s cemetery first, where the program will
start in honoring those who died over there and the many others who have the
joined the greater majority. Graves will be decorated at St. Joseph’s
followed by several talks. Songs will be given by LeMars school children.

Following the program at St. Joseph’s cemetery, the column will move to the
LeMars cemetery, where the remainder of the program, as published in the
last issue, will be given. The parade will not disband until the column
returns to Central avenue.

FIREMEN CALLED
Firemen Sunday afternoon answered an alarm at the home of G. C. Bechtle
about 5:30, but the fire turned out to be only a smudge from the kitchen
range.

After building a fire in the stove, it did not go immediately, but made a
lot of smoke. Fearing that it would ignite some nearby objects, Bechtle’s
turned in an alarm, and firemen responded.

The truck was at the residence only about five minutes.

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
May 30, 1933

DECORATION DAY TO BE OBSERVED
Tribute Will Be Paid By Public To The Memory Of Soldiers

The people of the community will cease their labors today and gather
together to pay tribute to the memory of departed soldiers who served their
country in time of need.

The address on Decoration Day, Tuesday, May 30, will be delivered by
Superintendent of Schools, Harvey Kluckhohn, and on this day the customary
program will be carried out. At 9 a.m. the column will form on Central
Avenue under the direction of Jacob G. Koenig, marshal of the day, and move
east on Plymouth Street to St. Joseph’s cemetery where the following program
will be given:
Song by school children.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Carl Braun.
Song by school children.
Logan’s Order, Bernard Burke.
Decoration of Veteran’s Graves.
Taps.

At the conclusion of this program, the column will move to the City cemetery
where the address of the day and the ritual services will be held. The
program at the City cemetery is as follows:
John C. Ruble, Commander Mower Post, No. 91, G. A. R., presiding.
Prayer, Rev. O. M. Yaggy.
Music by band.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Miss Geraldine Pew.
Logan’s Order, Miss Marcy Kissinger.
G. A. R. Ritual by Commander John C. Ruble.
Decoration service for unknown dead, W. R. C., Spanish-American and American
Legion Auxiliarys.
Address, Supt. H. N. Kluckhohn, LeMars.
Decoration of graves during the address.
Salute, firing squad from Co. K.
Benediction by Rev. J. J. Vollmar.
Taps.
Star Spangled Banner.

The entire community joins in these services in LeMars and patriotic and
civic groups are particularly urged to participate.

WELL KNOWN PRELATE DIES
MGR. THOMAS J. McCARTY EXPIRES AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SOME WEEKS.

Mgr. Thomas J. McCarty, of Sioux City, widely known prelate in Iowa, died at
St. Joseph hospital in Sioux City Saturday morning. He was pastor of the
Cathedral of the Epiphany.

Mgr. McCarty had been in frail health for years, and had had several acute
nervous attacks that confined him to his bed weeks at a time, but, in spite
of his somewhat delicate constitution, he was able always to conquer his
affliction to a sufficient extent to enable him to resume his religious
duties. The time arrived at last, however, when reserve energy became
exhausted and he had to surrender to the inevitable.

The last illness had its beginning in a cold he took at the funeral of a
brother priest some weeks ago, which turned into flu.

Services will be held at the Cathedral of the Epiphany where he served so
faithfully and for so many years as pastor and undoubtedly will be attended
by most of the priests of the diocese of Sioux City and many clergymen from
other diocese, especially the diocese of Dubuque, where Mgr. McCarty served
as pastor for many years. Interment will be in Calvary cemetery where lie
buried his father, his mother and other members of the family.

Surviving relatives are five sisters, Misses Mary McCarty, Kate McCarty,
Elizabeth McCarty and Grace McCarty, of Sioux City, and Sister Mary Eva, an
instructor in Rosary college. The first two were teachers in Sioux City’s
public schools many years.

EARLY LOVE FOR SANCTUARY
Born in Manchester, Iowa, October 30, 1863, son of Laurence and Eliza
Clinton, McCarty, the future churchman moved to Sioux City with his parents
while yet little more than a babe. The family came by stage before there was
any railroad into Sioux City. The senior McCarty was one of Sioux City’s
early day merchants. For years he conducted a grocery store at Sioux and
Pearl streets, and there his son Thomas, acting as a clerk, learned
rudiments of business that stood him in good stead when he became a priest
and had to attend to the temporal affairs of his various parishes.

Young Thomas attended religious services in the old St. Mary’s church that
early day Catholics built out of logs on the west bank of Perry Creek on
West Seventh Street. There and in an imposing brick church which with the
growth of the parish the Catholics built on the northwest corner of Sixth
and Pierce streets, he served as an altar boy and acquired a love for the
sanctuary that later was to lead him into the priestly life.

SIOUX CITY’S FIRST PRIEST
In the late 70s and the early 80s, he came under the influence of Rev. B. C.
Lenihan, whom early day Sioux Cityans of all creeds remember with affection,
and Rev. Father Lenihan was largely responsible for bringing him to a
decision to enter the priesthood. He attended Creighton college in Omaha in
1884, St. Joseph’s (now Columbia) college in Dubuque in 1888 and 1889 and
St. Francis’ seminary in Milwaukee from 1889 to 1892. He was ordained by
Bishop (later Archbishop) John Hennessy in Dubuque in 1892.

The young priest celebrated his first mass in a hall on the top floor of St.
Mary’s school building at Tenth and Pearl streets, before an admiring
congregation of fellow townsmen, many of whom had seen him grow up from
boyhood. He was the first Sioux Cityan to have become a priest. At that
time the old St. Mary’s church had been torn down and a new church building
was being elected at Tenth and Douglas streets. It is a coincidence that he
said his first mass on a Palm Sunday and also said his last mass on a Palm
Sunday.

SOME OF HIS ASSIGNMENTS
Shortly after his ordination, he was sent to Marshalltown to substitute for
an absent pastor, and from Marshalltown he came to Sioux City to care for
the old home parish in the absence of the pastor, Rev. Timothy Treacy, on a
visit home to Ireland. His first permanent appointment was at Eagle Center,
where he served in 1892 and 1893. He then was sent to Holy Cross, near
Dubuque, one of the oldest parishes of the diocese and there he remained
from 1893 to 1903.

Shortly after Sioux City was made a see city in 1902 and Bishop P. J.
Garrigan had been installed as its first bishop, Rev. Father McCarty was
called back to Sioux City to be chancellor of the diocese. He held this
responsible office from 1903 to 1912. Then he was made pastor of St.
Joseph’s church at Carroll, and he remained there until 1920. He was dean
of three counties—Carroll, Greene and Boone.

MADE VICAR GENERAL
Something about the old home town seemed to make him gravitate back to it
and in 1920 he returned to become pastor of the Cathedral of the Epiphany
(which was simply old St. Mary’s in aristocratic garb.) In becoming pastor
of the old parish, he realized an ambition of his priestly lifetime, and
ill health was the only thing that could possibly have detracted from the
triumph and the satisfaction of his last thirteen years residence in Sioux
City.

At different times Rev. Father McCarty was mentioned for bishop but his
delicate health militated against his being named for that exacting office.
On September 19, 1927, Rome appointed him a domestic prelate, with the rank
of monsignor, entitling him to wear the royal purple of the church. He was
invested with the robes of that office at the Cathedral of the Epiphany
November 16, 1927. On April 16, 1931, he was made vicar general and as such
was second in rank only to the bishop. While Bishop Heelan was in Ireland
last summer, the vicar general had Episcopal faculties and was in complete
charge of the diocese.

With a natural bent for historical research, Rev. Father McCarty did
valuable service in substantiation and preservation of historical facts. He
did much important historical writing regarding Sioux City and Iowa and his
investigations of early religious happenings resulted in substantial
contributions to middle west Catholic history.