LeMars Globe-Post
September 5, 1940

AVIATION TRAINING PROGRAM WILL BEGIN SEPTEMBER 15 AT W.U.C.
Maximum of Twenty Students Will Receive Instruction

Final arrangements were made today by President D. O. Kime with the Civil
Aeronautics Authority, Kansas City, for the student aviation training
program beginning September 15 at Western Union College. Construction of
the hangar started Thursday. A maximum of 20 students will receive flight
and ground instruction.

Students participating must be citizens of the United States. They must
have reached their eighteenth but not their twenty-sixth birthday and must
not have any pilot’s certificate of private grade or higher. Students must
meet the physical requirements for a student pilot’s certificate of
Commercial CPT grade. Students enrolling who are under 21 years of age must
receive the written consent of their parents or legal guardian. Preference
will be given to the following applicants:
1. College graduates
2. Students who attended college last year
3. Students with two years of previous college training

Applicants interested in the ground and flight training should contact the
college at once and arrange for a physical examination. On Friday, Pilot Du
Voh will be in LeMars and will take a member of the college faculty to the
surrounding towns in the interests of the aviation school.

LeMars Globe-Post
September 9, 1940

MONSIGNOR PAPE DIES IN SLEEP
Had Just Returned From Vacation In New Mexico
(news article includes a very nice photo of the Monsignor)

The Rt. Rev. Mgr. W. A. Pape, 74, pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic church
from 1917 to 1933, died in his sleep Sunday morning at the Sacred Heart
Hospital, where he had been Chaplain since January, 1933. He had just
returned from a trip to New Mexico and retired Saturday evening in seemingly
good health.

Msgr. Pape was born in New Vienna, Ia., October 17, 1865, and was ordained
to the priesthood on March 26, 1894, at Indianapolis.

He had held charges at Pocahontas and Templeton, Ia., before coming to
LeMars in 1917, as pastor of St. Joseph’s church. He resigned 16 years
lager because of poor health.

Msgr. Pape attended colleges and seminaries n St. Francis, Wisconsin;
Dubuque, Ia.; Montreal, Canada; and St. Meinrad, Indiana, before his
ordination. He then served for a year in Gilbertsville, Ia. He held many
diocesan offices up to the time of his death. He was raised to the
monsignorship May 4, 1917, shortly after coming to LeMars.

Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in St. Joseph’s church.
The funeral mass will be sung by Archbishop Rudolph Gerken of Santa Fe, N.
M., a cousin of Msgr. Pape, whom he had just recently visited. Interment
will be in St. Joseph cemetery.

HOOVER FAMILY REUNION SUNDAY
Was At Riverside—Next Year It Will Be At LeMars

The annual Hoover reunion was held Sunday, Sept. 8, at the Riverside Park in
Sioux City. At noon a bounteous dinner was served by the refreshment
committee. Before retiring from the table, the business meeting was held.
Bert Tozier of Sioux City was re-elected president (third term); Mrs. Cora
Hoover of Merrill, vice president; and Rueben Hoover, of Sioux City,
secretary. New and old business was discussed. The reunion of 1941 will be
held at the New Deal Park in LeMars. The meeting was adjourned by singing,
“God Be With You Till We Meet Again.” The afternoon was spent visiting,
sports and listening to the Monahan Post band. Reuben Hoover is a member of
the band. In the evening ice cream and cake was served.

There were 75 present, those from a long distance were Ansel Hoover, Omaha;
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dunning and Orville of Decatur, Neb.; Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Walker and children, Mr. and Mrs. R. Barber and children, also of Nebraska.

In the past year, four members of the club passed away.

VERNON PENNING AND RUTH WHITE ARE MARRIED HERE

Miss Ruth White and Vernon Penning, of Hawarden, were quietly married at the
Methodist parsonage in LeMars at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The
bridegroom’s brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Penning, of Sioux
City, were the attendants. The bride was attired in a black and red suit
and the bridegroom wore a green suit. Following the ceremony a wedding
dinner was served at the home of the bridegroom’s parents in LeMars after
which the bridal couple motored to the lakes for the weekend. They returned
to Hawarden Sunday night.

The bride, youngest daughter of Mrs. Mattie White, has spent her life in
Hawarden, attending the grade schools and two years in high school. The
bridegroom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Penning of LeMars, grew to young manhood in
this city. For the past three years he has lived in Hawarden and has been
employed as a trucker by H. E. Anderson. The young couple have many friends
in Hawarden who will wish them much happiness. They will make their home in
Hawarden.

LeMars Globe-Post
Monday, September 16, 1940

BETSWORTH RITES HELD MONDAY
Mrs. Josephine Betsworth, Merrill, Passed Away Thursday

Funeral services for Mrs. Josephine A. Betsworth were held on Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock from St. Joseph’s church at Ellendale with Father Greteman officiating. Interment was in St. Joseph’s cemetery at Ellendale under the direction of Wiltgen’s funeral home.

Mrs. Betsworth passed away at her home near Merrill on Thursday. She was 61 years of age.

Josephine Goedert, the daughter of Nicholas and Margaret Goedert, nee Mockel, was born October 16, 1878, at Merrill, Iowa, and had lived on the same farm her entire life with the exception of six months spent in South Dakota. In 1903 she was united in marriage to Edgar Betsworth, at Merrill. Her husband preceded her in death in 1933, and one son, Joseph, died in infancy.

Surviving to mourn her loss are two sons, Frank and Leonard and one sister, Mrs. Frank Woll.

Mrs. Betsworth was a member of the Altar Society and St. Mary’s Circle and was a staunch member and a willing supporter of the Ellendale church.

CAR CRASH ON CREST OF HILL
Eight Escape Serious Injuries In Wreck East Of City

Cars driven by Joe Schroeder, living south of Remsen, and Paul Braun of this city, crashed on top of a hill, 2 ½ miles east of LeMars Sunday morning about 11:15.

Mr. Braun and his sister, Mrs. Leonard Hoffman, of Estherville, were going home from church at the time of the accident and were driving east. Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder and four children were coming to LeMars and the crash took place on the hill right west of the Braun home.

The crash was almost headon, the left front wheels of both cars locking.

Schroeder suffered several broken ribs and his wife was bruised about the head. The children, who were riding in the back seat, escaped with minor hurts.

Braun received head and leg injuries while his sister was injured about the arm, hips and knees. She returned to her home at Estherville last night.

NORMA BOGH WED TO JOHN SWAIN
Young Couple To Make Home at Faribault, Minnesota

Miss Norma Bogh, daughter of M. F. Bogh of LeMars and John J. Swain, of Faribault, Minn., were married Thursday in Sioux City at the Woodbury county courthouse, in a quiet civil ceremony attended by immediate relatives, including Mr. Bogh of LeMars, Miss Millie Bogh, sister of the bride, and Bob Dorr, as witnesses.

Mr. and Mrs. Swain visited his brother, Robert, and grandmother, Mrs. R. J. Nolan, here, before going on to Faribault to make their home. The groom is employed by the Marigold Dairies, conducting a milk route. His sister, Mrs. Tom Mstakis, the former Catherine Swain of LeMars, also lives in Faribault.

A reception for the bridal party and relatives was held Thursday afternoon at the LeMars Country Club.

MERRILL CAFÉ ROBBED AGAIN
Lone Bandit Takes $50 In Bold Hold-up

The North Side Café on the north edge of Merrill was held up Sunday morning for the second time in two months, a robber escaping with $50 which he forced a waitress to give him from a cash register, Plymouth County Sheriff Frank Scholer said.

Carl Luense, co-owner of the café with Mrs. Alice De Boe, said about $15 was taken in the earlier robbery, which also occurred in early morning.

Two waitresses, Eunice Thoms and Myrtle Gabels, were on duty when shortly before 7 o’clock a man who pretended to be hitchhiking entered the café, ordered a cup of coffee and asked if there were any trains leaving soon, according to the Sheriff.

Putting one hand in a pocket and giving the impression that he had a gun, the bandit said, “This is a stickup,” and forced Miss Gabels, who was serving him, to hand him the loot. Then the bandit forced Miss Gabels and Miss Thoms to lie on the floor behind the counter and warned them to stay there for four minutes, the girls told the Sheriff.

The Sheriff said he believed the bandit had an accomplice because the robber was seen getting in a black car driven away by a heavy set man and because the description of the car and the driver tallied with another given by waitresses of a hitchhiking “act” that occurred before the holdup.

Before the bandit entered the café, the waitresses said they saw him on the edge of the highway less than a block away, evidently trying to get a ride. They said a heavy set man in a black car stopped, argued with the bandit and then drove on. The bandit, they said, then turned toward the café.