LeMars Globe-Post
May 7, 1934

S. W. WASHINGTON: (By Special Correspondent)

Sioux City shoppers on Friday were Mrs. Chris Lendt, Mrs. C. Richards and
son Billie, and Mrs. Gert Siebens and daughter, Tillie.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Bunge and family of Grant township were Sunday guests at the
Rev. A. Schempp home of Brunsville.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Borchers and daughter, of LeMars, and Fred Ohlrichs of
Brunsville, were visitors at the John Ohlrichs home of Johnson township on
Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Molzen and children of near Ruble were callers at the
George Popken home of Brunsville on Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson of Preston township were callers at the Henry
Johnson home, on Friday.

Fred Stephensen of Brunsville was a LeMars business caller on Monday
morning.

Mrs. Dick Harms and daughter, Virjean, Mrs. Maurice Vernon, Mrs. Nora
Vernon, and Miss Fane Vernon, all of Brunsville, were Sioux City business
callers on Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Borchers of Preston township were callers at the Henry
Johnson home of Brunsville, on Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. Herman Frerichs and son of Preston township were callers at the
George Popken home on Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Featherston of Sioux City and Mrs. Christ Lent of Ireton
were visitors at the Chas. Richards home of Brunsville on Friday.

Mrs. Harold Betsworth of Merrill and Mrs. C. B. Elsen, were visitors at the
Edw. Johnson home of Brunsville on Sunday.

Eldo Baack and daughter of near Brunsville, were callers at the James
McKerrick home on Tuesday morning.

Art Petersen was a caller at the Ted Jennsen home on Sunday evening.

Bert Utesch was a business caller at Sioux City, on Saturday.

A large crowd attended the firemen's ball at Merrill on Monday evening. A
good time was reported.

Mr. and Mrs. Gately and Mr. and Mrs. William Fischer and daughters, were
visitors at the Herb Morris home in Riversioux on Sunday.

A few from Brunsville and vicinity motored to Riversioux on Sunday to spend
the day roller skating as Sunday was the opening day.

The twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Raby who passed away Tuesday were
buried in the Graceland cemetery at Sioux City on Wednesday.

ELGIN: (By Special Correspondent)

Grace Null, of Beresford, S.D., came down Sunday to visit in the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Null.

Mr. and Mrs. John Braun and family spent Sunday in the Wm. E. Groetken
home.

Friends here received word of the death of Mrs. Herberg, mother of Mrs.
Frank Tschampel, former residents of this vicinity. Mrs. Kerberg passed
away in a Sioux City hospital Tuesday. Sympathy is extended to the family.

Mrs. Lloyd Laughton and Miss Leora Laughton were Craig and Ireton visitors
Tuesday.

Mrs. Ed Pech entertained the Seney ladies aid Wednesday, following the
devotionals a nice lunch was served.

Miss Leora Laughton visited on Friday and Saturday with friends at Ruble.

Miss Neva Muller, teacher in district No. 5, was sick and unable to have
school for a few days.

Wm. Magee of Sioux City called on friends in this vicinity on Friday.

SENEY: (By Special Correspondent)

Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Kennedy and daughter, Doris, and son Dennis, of Hawarden,
visited relatives here on Thursday.

Mrs. E. J. Riter and son, Terry, of Marcus, spent Saturday in the W. E.
Hennrich and E. H. Riter homes. Pauline Riter returned home with her.

Mr. and Mrs. Geard Wicks of LeMars, were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Melvin McArthur on Sunday.

Rev. S. J. Wallace, of Sloan, Iowa, and a former Seney minister, had charge
of the Sunday services here.

Mrs. Thill spent the week end in her home in LeMars.

Chas. Boyle, of LeMars, has been employed at the Frank Becker residence
doing some repairing.

Mrs. Ed Pech entertained the ladies aid society on Wednesday. Lunch was
served at the close of the business meeting.

Mrs. Albert Hawkins, Mrs. Geo. Osborne, Mrs. Harry Buss, Mrs. Orville
Cooper, Mrs. Floyd and daughter, Mrs. Earl Chapman, and Mrs. Bert Criswell,
attended the W. H. M. S. at Moville on Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Glen Parry and son, Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Moore motored
to Marcus Sunday and spent the day visiting with relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Daugherty and son, John, and Mrs. Mary Daugherty visited
Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nate Connor, at Moville.

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Uthe and Mrs. W. E. Hennrich spent Monday visiting in
Merrill and Sioux City.

Melvin McArthur started working on the section May 1.

Ray Hinde had hogs on the Sioux City market Wednesday.

E. H. Riter and son, Fred, and daughter, Pauline, and grandson Terry, spent
several days visiting relatives in Rock Rapids, Iowa, and Luverne, Minn.

On Wednesday evening, May 9, in the Seney hall, a Mother and Daughter
Banquet will be given. District Superintendent and Mrs. Bond will preside
over the quarterly conference and Mrs. Bond will give a short talk.

Vincent Lancaster has been on the sick list for several days with the flu.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buss from LeMars visited him on Wednesday.

A large group of spectators gathered around the depot Tuesday evening to
catch a glimpse of the new Union Pacific streamline train.

PERRY CENTER: (By Special Correspondent)

Mr. and Mrs. John Kovarna and children visited in the Geo. Maxey home near
Morningside, Sunday.

A number from here went to Morningside Sunday to the Grace M.E. church to
hear Billy Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Weaver of Moville, Iowa, we4re Sunday guest in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray McElrath.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dilly and daughter, Constance, of Hawarden, were
Sunday evening supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. David Swanson.

Miss Pearl Sims, H.D.A., of LeMars, will conduct a poster training school
for the local leadership of Perry township in the home of Mrs. Elsie
Elliott, on Wednesday, May 9. A pot luck dinner will be served at noon.
Each leader is asked to bring a covered dish and sandwiches for thereself.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Burmeister and family and Miss Harriet Lan_er of
Dennison, Iowa, were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Watje, Sunday.

A large crowd of friends and neighbors were entertained in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Reinhold Bielenberg, Thursday evening. The time was spent in
visiting and dancing. Lunch was served at a late hour. Mr. and Mrs.
Bielenberg were recently married.

BRUNSVILLE: (By Special Correspondent)

Mr. and Mrs. Lou Albright and son, Wesley, were Akron callers n Sunday.

Herman Meinen was a business caller in Brunsville Tuesday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stephensen are the proud parents of an 8-pound son born
Saturday morning, April 28.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Marienau and family and Mr. and Mrs. Lou Albright and son
were Sunday evening visitors at the John Dirks home.

Mr. and Mrs. Jim McKettrick had as guests on Sunday evening: Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Harms and Mr. and Mrs. Eldor Baack.

Carl Oltmanns and Charles Richards were Friday business callers, Friday.

John Marienau, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Marienau, now north of town, had
the bone in his arm broken while cranking the tractor Tuesday morning. The
bone was set by Dr. Reeves.

CRAIG: (By Special Correspondent)

The teachers hired for next year for our town school are Miss Mabel Bauerly,
of Brunsville, for the upper grades and Miss Earline Parrott, of Ireton, the
lower grades.

The silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson, southwest of
town, was attended by many relatives and friends.

Among the members of the adults of the confirmation class at St. John's
church, the names of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Elliott, were omitted in our last
issue.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Beaumann drove to Pipestone, Minn., one day last week,
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Albers accompanied them and will remain indefinitely.

Mrs. Minnie Peiper is assisting in the Henry Croon, Sr. home.

More good men are falling into political lines every day. Henry Siebels is a
candidate for supervisor, and Albert Null, who is well and favorably known
here, aspires for sheriff on the republican ticket.

RUBLE: (By Special Correspondent)

Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Lucken and daughters, were Sunday dinner guests at the
Fred Lucken home.

Miss Leora Laughton was a caller in this vicinity, Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Clare Morehead and sons, Norman and Virgil, were Sunday
afternoon visitors at the John Trapper home.

Mr. and Mrs. Art Gronemeyer of near Brunsville were callers at the George
Miller home Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johnson were Sioux City shoppers Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson, and Mrs. John Milbrodt and children, of Akron,
were guests at the Barth Miller home, Thursday evening.

Mrs. Leonard Miller and Mrs. Lizzie Parker were visitors at the Fred Lucken
home, Tuesday afternoon.

Wayne and Merlin Miller spent a few days with their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Crow, at Chatsworth.

Mr. and Mrs. John Koch and daughter, LaRena, were Akron callers Friday.

LeMars Sentinel, LeMars, (Plymouth), Iowa, Tuesday, May 29, 1934

Kingsley--Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for Henry O.
Johnson, a former resident of this community, who died in a hospital in
Waterloo, Iowa, Sunday following an operation. Services were held at the
Church of the Brethren by Rev. H. H. Wingert and interment was made in the
Kingsley cemetery. Henry Johnson was born in Armenia, Wisconsin, August 14,
1875, and died in Waterloo, Iowa, May 20, 1934. He came to Kingsley from
Wisconsin in 1893. From here he moved to LeMars in 1914, living there eight
years. He moved from there to Waterloo, Iowa, where he was employed as a
machine operator for the John Deere tractor company. Mr. Johnson was
married to Mary Loretta Heddinger in 1914, who survives him. He was the
sixth child of a family of eight children, three sisters preceding him in
death. He leaves a sister, Mrs. Wm. Bainbridge, Kingsley, and three
brothers, John Johnson, of Lawton, Joe Johnson, of Moville, and Martin
Johnson, of Brookings, S. D.

LE MARS OBSERVES DECORATION DAY NEXT WEDNESDAY
Memorial Services and Decoration of Graves At Both LeMars Cemeteries Is
Planned
ALSO AFTERNOON SERVICE
Memorial Athletic Field To Be Dedicated At 2:15 P.M.

Observance of Decoration Day in LeMars will have an added feature this year
in the services incident to the dedication of the Memorial Athletic Field at
Western Union college which will be held at 2:15 in the afternoon. The
morning program will be carried out as usual with the patriotic societies
and citizens in general participating and Rev. O. M. Yaggy delivering the
address at the City cemetery. The line of march and program at the St.
Joseph and City cemeteries follow:

On Decoration Day the column will form at 9 a.m. at the city building with
Jacob G. Koenig as marshal of the day and move first to St. Joseph’s
cemetery where the following program will be presented with Mgr. Fisch in
charge:
Song by school children.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Janet Schafer.
Song by school children.
Logan’s Order, Gregory Kass.
Decoration of veteran’s graves.
Taps.

The column will then reform and move to the City cemetery where a more
extended program will be presented with Andrew Crouch, LeMars sole surviving
Civil War veteran and his assistants in charge. The program at the City
cemetery is as follows:
Prayer, Rev. J. J. Vollmar.
Music by band.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Sylvia Irwin.
Logan’s Order, Robert Arends.
G. A. R. Ritual, Monnah Hord.
Decoration Service for Unknown Dead, W.R.C., Spanish American and American
Legion Auxiliaries.
Address, Rev. O. M. Yaggy.
Decoration of Graves during the address.
Salute, Firing Squad Co. K.
Benediction, Rev. F. P. Pfaltzgraff.
Taps.
Star Spangled Banner.

Various military, patriotic and civic organizations will participate in the
observance of the day which is always an outstanding event in this
community.

WILL DEDICATE MEMORIAL FIELD
An entirely new feature of the Decoration Day services this year is the
dedicatory service for the new athletic field on Western Union campus which
was built last winter by CWA labor. This field is to be dedicated as a
memorial to Spanish-American and World War veterans on the afternoon of
Decoration Day, the program starting at 2:15. A committee representing the
American Legion posts of Plymouth County is in charge of this service and
the Posts have donated a flag pole and flag to the field. In the program
the Legion, the college, the public schools and the patriotic and military
organizations will all be represented. Following is the program for the
dedicatory service:
Concert, LeMars Municipal Band.
Exhibition Drill, Co. K., 133d Infantry.
Drill by American Legion Drum Corps.
LeMars High School Marching Band.
Raising of Colors.
Review of Organizations.

The following program will be presented from the speakers stand:
Invocation, Father L. J. Cooper.
History of Field, C. D. Roseberry.
Dedicatory Address, Bishop L. H. Seager.
Tribute to Gold Star Mothers, Harvey Kluckhohn.
Benediction, Dr. B. F. Zuehl.

MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD IN LE MARS SUNDAY MORNING

An audience of six or seven hundred people attended the Memorial services at
the high school auditorium Sunday morning. Ed Tentinger, command of Wasmer
Post, presided and the Western Union College Girls’ Glee Club furnished the
music.

The service opened with two verses of “America” by the audience, the
invocation by Rev. T. P. Potter and the scripture lesson from the 26th
chapter of Genesis ready by Rev. John Perl. The first number by the Glee
Club was Rubenstein’s, “Seraphic Ode” with Miriam Yaggy, alto soloist, a
violin obligato by Pearl Lucas and Marvell Schweppe at the piano. Rev. O. M.
Yaggy led in prayer. The offertory, “Serenata,” was an instrumental trio by
Virginia Irwin, Pearl Lucas and Dorothy Irwin.

Rev. F. P. Pfaltzgraff, pastor of the Presbyterian church, delivered the
address, in which he reviewed the things that had made the country great and
urged his hearers to stand fast for those things. His remarks were based on
the scripture lesson read.

The closing number by the Glee Club, which is directed by Mrs. D. O. Kimes,
was Roberts, “Peace I Leave With You.” Rev. Pfaltzgraff pronounced the
benediction.