LeMars Sentinel
January 1, 1935

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

Joe La Fave spent Christmas in Sioux City with his niece.

Mrs. A. Jeffers spent Christmas at the C. Henricksen home in Alton.

Same Uthe and W. E. Hennrich motored to Orange City Monday on business.

Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson and daughter are spending the holidays at Emmetsburg.

Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hauser, of Merrill, spent Christmas in the Rev. M. B.
Phillips home.

Margaret Moore, of Glenwood, is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Moore.

M. J. Lancaster motored to Britt Friday. His son, Edwin, who is going to
school there, came home with him.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ewin and family spent Christmas day in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry VanderMyde.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Becker and son motored to Hudson, S.D., Wednesday to
visit Mr. and Mrs. Walter Woodhouse.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer DeRaad spent Christmas in the home of the former's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John DeRaad at Kingsley.

The Ladies Aid society will give a dinner in the hall next Wednesday,
January 2, followed by the regular business meeting.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Southwick had as guests on Christmas Miss Margaret Moore,
of Glenwood, and the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Moore.

Mr. and Mrs. Ira Lancaster returned home Friday after spending a week with
their daughters and son-in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Willet and Mr. and Mrs.
Mitchell, in Sioux City.

Mrs. Pauline Detloff, who has been in Sioux City with her daughter and
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Dealy and family, the past few months is
visiting with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Uthe.

HENRY CENTER: (Special Correspondence)

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Koch entertained at Christmas for supper, Mr. and Mrs.
William Ericksen and son, Henry, and niece, Miss Lucille Peipgrass, Mr. and
Mrs. William Dawson, Carl Kaschen and children, Mrs. Anna Johnson and
daughter, Violet. The evening was spent in visiting and singing old time
Christmas and patriotic songs.

Mr. and Mrs. James Milton and family, of Union; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Woodall and
family, of Marcus; Mr. and Mrs. William Heissel and daughter, Gloria, Mr.
and Mrs. William Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dawson and children, Miss Alice
Hall and Thomas Dawson, Jr., of Sioux City, were guests Christmas Day in the
Thomas Dawson home in Remsen.

BRUNSVILLE: (Special Correspondence)

Miss Flossie Early spent last week with friends in Sioux.

Mrs. Gert Seibens and daughter, Tillie, spent Thursday with friends in Sioux
City.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Renken and sons spent Wednesday I the Bertha Voss home
near Craig.

Mr. and Mrs. Milford Hultgren, of Alcester, S.D., spent Christmas day I the
Dena Fischer home.

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Early and Mrs. Geo. Bauerly, and son, Donald, spent
Wednesday with relatives in Sioux City.

Miss Viola Marienau, of Worthing, S.D., is spending Christmas vacation with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Marienau.

Mrs. Maurice Vernon and son, Phillip, and Dorothy are spending several days
in the Otto Muth home near Hawarden.

Mrs. Viola Utesch and children, of Merrill, are spending Christmas vacation
in the home of her mother, Mrs. Tillie Utesch.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Buhman and daughter, of Correctionville, spent Christmas
day with relatives and friends in Brunsville.

A large number from this vicinity attended the funeral of John Lubben in St.
John's Lutheran church at LeMars on Friday afternoon.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, January 31, 1935
Akron, Iowa

RITES FOR AKRON PIONEER ARE HELD LAST SATURDAY
James Ross Had Resided in This Community More Than Sixty Years

In these columns brief mention was made last week of the death of James Ross,
a widely known pioneer of this vicinity and one of the oldest residents of
Akron, who passed away Wednesday, January 23, 1935, at 6 p.m., after a several
weeks' illness of heart trouble and complications, aged 93 years, 5 months,
and 15 days.

James Ross came from sturdy Scotch ancestors, being born at Ayrshire,
Scotland, August 8, 1841, and spent his boyhood there. In 1856 he came to the
United States with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Ross, landing at the port
of New York and proceeding from there to Rochester, Minn. In 1861 they came to
Union county, S. D. (then Dakota Territory), at which time there was only one
house along the Big Sioux river between Sioux City and Sioux Falls, and that
was at Calliope, now a part of Hawarden, Iowa.

Duncan Ross took up a homestead in Civil Bend, on the Dakota side of the Big
Sioux river, near Jefferson, S. D., but was forced to relinquish the claim on
account of the bottom lands being flooded by the Missouri river, and moved his
family into Elk Point, where they conducted the early-day Flannery Hotel for
two or three years.

James Ross later acquired the farm on which his parents originally
homesteaded. Mr. Ross was united in marriage with Miss Ellen Smith at Sabula,
Iowa, on January 2, 1871, and this union was blessed with five sons and four
daughters--Etta, Junie, Susie, Belford, William, Charles, Clyde, George and
Lysle--all of whom are living except one son, Charles, who died in 1918.

After a few years' residence at Elk Point, Mr. Ross and family moved to Akron,
establishing the first meat market here and operating the same for about three
years. He then bought a farm three-quarters of a mile northeast of town, of
which he retained the ownership up to the time of his death.

Years ago, when there was much railway construction, Mr. Ross engaged in
railroad grading and took contracts for this work both in the United States
and in Canada. He afterward engaged in farming and stock raising for many
years near Akron. Even after retiring from active farming, he occupied his
summers until only a few years ago by extensive truck gardening of his place
northeast of town, believing in the efficiency of work to keep one's self
rugged and healthy. As an example of his physical fitness, it is recorded that
on his 90th birthday he easily swam across the large pool at the Big Sioux
Gravel Co. sand-pit, southwest of town, and then part way around the shore
line. There was also a big family picnic in his honor on that birthday.

It is rare, indeed, that a person can retain their mental faculties and
physical strength as did Mr. Ross to such an advanced age, and he enjoyed the
company of others, as they did his, for he could readily draw upon a rich fund
of experiences and antidotes occurring throughout his long and busy life. He
will be genuinely missed and mourned in the community where he resided for
sixty years or more.

He is survived by his widow and the following children; Mrs. J. B. Klaner,
Mrs. E. P. Klauer, Mrs. F. Smythe, of Akron; Mrs. Frank Lovell, of Rapid City;
S. D.; J. Belford Ross, of Rapid City; Wm. B. Ross, Clyde Ross, and George
Ross, of Akron; also by 41 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

There was a large attendance at the funeral services for this pioneer, held
Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Patrick's Catholic church and conducted by Rev.
Father J. A. Roder.

The pallbearers were six grandsons, Robert Ross, Ross Smythe, Blaine Ross,
Ralph Klauer, Richard Klauer, and James Klauer. Interment was in the the
Catholic cemetery.

Relatives and friends who came from a distance to attend the funeral were; Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Lovell and daughter, Mrs. Ralph Dasler, and J. Belford Ross, of
Rapid City, S. D.; Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gill, of Elk Point; Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Conly, Mr. and Mrs. John Ross, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nystrom, Mrs. Bertha
Hedberg, of Sioux City; Mrs. Daisy Peterson, and Mrs. Rosa Boden, of Alcester,
S. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Massey and Beecher Massey and son, Loren, of
Jefferson, S. D.