Iowa Old Press
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Wednesday evening, Aug 9, 1922
MRS. W.J. EGGER DIES AT HOME IN BUFFALO, IA.
Grief Over Death of Her Son in May a Contributory Cause.
Grief over the death of her son, William J Egger, on May
12, 1922, resulted in the demise of Mrs. Mary Egger at her home in Buffalo at
8:40 Tuesday evening. She was 77 years of age and was the wife of Matthias
Egger, who survives.
Mrs. Egger, whose maiden name was Miss Mary Willie, was born
in Switzerland, April 10, 1845, and came to America with her parents when she
was six months old, the family settling in Davenport. In 1863 she was united in
marriage to Matthias Egger in Davenport, the couple removing to Buffalo 12 years
later. They celebrated their Golden wedding anniversary in 1913.
Mrs. Egger was a member of the St. Peter's Catholic church of
Buffalo and of the Altar and Rosary Society. Loved by all, she was visited by
every friend coming from Davenport to Buffalo, and many stories are told of her
hospitality.
Surviving besides her husband, who is 83 years of age, are
one daughter, Mrs. Ray Reed of Libertyville, Ia, and five sons, P.A. and L.G.
Egger of Bettendorf, H.J. and A.M. Egger of Davenport, and E.A. Egger of
Buffalo.
The funeral will be held Friday morning from the home, with
services at St. Peter's church at 9 o'clock, at which hour a solemn requiem high
mass will be celebrated. Interment will be made in St. Peter's cemetery,
Buffalo.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Aug 11, 1922
BUFFALO WOMAN DIES AFTER 30 DAYS' ILLNESS
Mrs. Henry C. Schroder Has Resided in Buffalo for 25 Years.
Mrs. Susie C. Shroder, wife of Henry E. Schroder of Blue
Grass, died Thursday evening at 7:15 at her home after an illness of 30 days.
She was born in Bismark, N.D. August 31, 1885, her maiden
name being Miss Susie Hoffbauer, and came to Buffalo, Ia., with her parents at
the age of 2 years.
On Oct. 14, 1908, she was united in marriage by Rev. N.J.
Peiffer to Henry E. Schroder at St. Peter's church of Buffalo, and the couple
have since resided there. Mrs. Schroder was a member of the Altar and Rosary
society of St. Peter's church and was exceedingly popular in the parish to which
she belonged by reason of her lovable personality.
Her husband, two daughters, Kathrine and Florence, one
brother Edward J. Hoffbauer, of Blue Grass, and two half brothers, Henry
Strohbehn and Benjamin Strohbehn of Blue Grass, survive.
A solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated Monday morning
at 9 o'clock at St. Peter's church in Buffalo, following services at the home at
3 o'clock and interment will be in St. Peter's cemetery, Buffalo.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
August 18, 1922
INVESTIGATE REPORT GIRL HELD AT INN
Sheriff Arrests Ruth Gregg of Rock Island and 'Jim' Clancy, Bartender.
FEDERAL MEN ACTIVE
Obtain Affidavits Liquor Was Sold in Resort
Following the arrest of "Jim" Clancy, bartender,
and Ruth Gregg, 18, of Rock Island, in a room at the Hollywood Inn, formerly the
old Mississippi hotel, near Nahant, and the securing by federal agents of
affidavits swearing to the sale of liquor in the place, county authorities
launched an investigation this afternoon which may result in the closing of the
roadhouse.
The girl was removed from the inn by Sheriff William Brehmer
and Deputy Sheriffs Frank Martin and Fred Scharfenburg after Carl E. Carlson,
known as "Happy McCoy" had complained to the authorities that the girl
was being detained at the road house and had been subjected to abuse at the
hands of Clancy, the bartender.
Carlson, according to his story, visited the inn early
this morning for the purpose of taking the girl back to her home in Rock Island.
He said the girl was willing to leave the place, but Clancy interfered and after
a wordy controversy he (Carlson) left the resort and appealed to the sheriff. He
said Clancy struck the girl in the face with a fist during the argument.
When the sheriff and his deputies visited the resort they
found Clancy and the girl occupying a bed in one of the upstairs rooms. Both
were arrested and lodged in the county jail. The girl, who has been living at
the inn for the past several days, was questioned by County Attorney John P.
Weir later in the day.
Following the arrest of the couple, R.E. Muhs, federal
prohibition agent, talked to several men who accompanied Carlson to the place
earlier in the day. These men, it is said, gave Muhs affidavits to the effect
that they purchased wine in the barroom of Clancy.
That federal action may follow the securing of the
affidavits was intimated by the federal agent. He said he had been attempting to
secure "this sort of evidence against the place' for some time.
Maloof Investigating.
After the sheriff had visited the Inn, which was the scene of
a near riot, recently when a prohibition agent by the name of Charles Prince, of
Chicago became intoxicated in the place and started shooting, "Diamond
Joe" Maloof, proprietor of the roadhouse, called at the sheriff's office to
inquire about the "trouble."
According to Maloof's story, he discharged Clancy last night
and instructed "Skimmer" Hines, his co-partner at the inn, to
"pay him off."
Maloof claimed the trouble was due to rivalry between Clancy
and Carlson for the Gregg girl's love.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
August 23, 1922
SECRETARY OF HENRY COUNTY FAIR IS DEAD
Was Connected with that Institution for Twenty Years.
Special to the Democrat
Mt. Pleasant, Ia., Aug 23 - Charles H. Tribby, secretary
of the Henry county fair association, died Sunday after an illness of more than
a year, with what was probably cancer of the liver. The funeral services were
held today at the Presbyterian church, and burial was made at Salem, the old
home.
Mr. Tribby was connected with the fair for more than 29
years, for the last twelve years as secretary. He was a real fair man. That is,
he knew how to put on a county fair which pleased people, and it was largely his
work which has made a state wide reputation for the Henry county fair. This was
the first year that Mr. Tribby could not give his attention to the fair itself
as he was bedfast when it opened. He was taken sick over a year ago and had been
at Rochester and also had consulted other specialists, none of whom gave him any
encouragement. The death of his son Rob Tribby who was mortally wounded at St.
Mihiel was a shock to him which it is thought brought about his ill health, so
that it may have been contributory to his final demise.
While living on a farm near Salem, Mr. Tribby was elected
county clerk and served four years. He lived in Mt. Pleasant from that time
forward. He leaves his wife and three sons, Dale of South Dakota, Don of Omaha
and Dwight of Knoxville, Iowa.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
August 3, 1922
CLARK TO GET BEER UTENSILS BACK IS ORDER
As a result of yesterday's
litigation in Justice W.W. Scott's court, utensils and materials alleged to
have been used in the manufacture of beer at the residence of Thomas Clark,
West Fifteenth street, will be returned. No evidence that the crocks seized
by Prohibition Agent R.E. Muhs contained intoxicating liquor has been
brought out.
The Clark case has attracted much attention
for the reason that it involves a conflict between state and
government authorities. Mr. Muhs is certain that the liquor he poured out of
the crocks at the time of the raid was intoxicating, but as he did not
preserve any of the liquor, Attorney Carl Lambach, representing Clark,
contended that there was no evidence that been had been manufactured in
them.
Three hundred and fifty bottles of home brew were
found by the raiders in a building believed to be owned by Clark, yet
Attorney Lambach states that there is evidence to show that Clark was not
the owner of this beer.
GREEK'S CASE IS DISMISSED IN U.S. COURT
Consider Steve Stopolous, Booze Owner, Is "Punished Enough"
The case of Steve Stopolous,
519 Perry street, at whose residence a 50-gallon barrel of wine was found,
was dismissed by U.S. Commissioner A.G. Bush this morning. Stopolous
recently paid a fine of $100 and costs in police court and Mr. Bush said
this morning that arraigning him in commissioner's court would be equivalent
to trying him twice on the same charge.
Police officers appeared in court this morning to
give evidence against Stopolous, but were dismissed when the case was
quashed.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
August 6, 1922
DESERT SQUAD ARRESTS THREE IN NIGHT RAID
Federal Agent and Police Confiscate Homebrew and Whisky
CARL ASCHAUER ESCAPES
W.J. Timothy, Donald Sievert and Frank Schultz Held Without Bonds
Federal Agents and police
officers of the "dry" squad last night raided three soft drink
parlors, arrested the proprietors of two of them and caught one bootlegger
as he negotiated a sale of a pint of moonshine. One place was a waterhaul
and no booze was found. The three men are being held without bond
pending their hearing tomorrow morning.
Those arrested are:
W.J. Timothy, 118 Brady street.
Frank Schultz, 2046 West Third street.
Donald Sievert, 121 Brown street.
Efforts to have a bond set for the three prisoners
by U.S. Commissioner A.G. Bush were useless and altho all of them had plenty
of money and bondsmen, they were forced to remain in jail with no prospects
of freedom until after the hearings.
Starts Early.
The raiding squad, consisted of Federal Agent Muhs,
Lieut. Walter Homeyer and Officers Dietz and Kuehl, started early last
night. Two cars were used and the officers walked into the three places
designated in the search warrants at the same time.
At Carl Aschauer's place, Third and Iowa streets,
police officers discovered nothing. Altho they said there was evidence that
an overturned pitcher had once contained moonshine whisky. No arrests were
made when a minute search of the premises failed to discolse any contraband.
At the W.J. Timothy bar, 113 Brady street, the
officers were more successful and confiscated six partly filled cases of
home brew. Some of the brew was on the ice and this also was brought to the
station.
Dumps Bottle.
When the arid raiders entered the establishment of
Frank Schultz, 2045 West Third street, the bartender tipped the pitcher,
which police say contained houch. Speedy work on the part of the police
prevented the escape of all the booze however.
They confiscated what was left in the pitcher a
glass which had contained whiskey and when they searched the second story of
the place unearthed two two gallon jugs, containing three gallons of
moonshine.
Donald Sievert, alias "Jitney", was
the third man to be arrested and he was taken in front of his home,
121 Brown street just after he had completed the sale of a pint of moonshine
to a patron. The money and booze were held by the police.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
August 7, 1922
Davenport No Place for Bootlegger Says Man Trapped by Muhs.
"DAVENPORT bootleggers
may as well quit. They can't get by. I've been in the game four years, and
look where it has landed me!"
Lugubriously Donald "Jitney" Sievert, 121
Brown street, made this statement to Federal Prohibition Agent R.E. Muhs
after he had been "caught with the goods"- to wit, a pint of
moonshine whisky and several jugs smelling strongly of hooch- Saturday
night.
Sievert pleaded guilty to a liquor charge and was
bound over to the grand jury under $500 bond by U.S. Commissioner A.G. Bush,
who held a special hearing Sunday morning. The man had little to say in his
own defense as this is his second "official" violation of the
prohibition amendment. The April federal grand jury ignored liquor charges
against him.
In a confession prepared for Mr. Muhs, Sievert says
that he sold the pint of moonshine to Claude Hunter, Peerless hotel, after
Hunter had stated he was sick and needed a bracer. "I took his five
dollar bill and got him whisky," he admits. "Just then a car drove
up with three police officers and a government man. They found the bottle
alongside a tree by my car. In the car they found two five-gallon and two
one-gallon jugs. Then the officers took me, Claude Hunter, and the pint
bottle of moonshine whisky to the police station."
"Sievert has the right hunch when he warns
local bootleggers," Mr. Muhs said today. "They will all be picked
up."
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
August 13, 1922
PLEADS GUILTY TO POSSESSION OF BAD WHISKY
H.W. Michaels Bound Over by U.S. Commissioner.
H.W. Michaels,
Petersen building was bound over to the federal grand jury on a liquor
charge by U.S. Commissioner A.G. Bush Saturday. Michaels' bond was
set at $500. He furnished it.
The man pleaded guilty to the possession of a
gallon of moonshine whisky seized at his place by prohibition officers in a
recent raid.
BROWN AGAIN FALLS VICTIM TO MUHS IN NEW RAID ON HOME
After successfully and
legally spiriting the liquid evidence against himself from the custody of
county officials by court order, John P,. Brown, alleged bootlegger, again
found his house and premises searched yesterday and was shy four quarts of
moonshine.
Federal Agent Muhs made his second raid on Brown's
booze at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, searching the place at 2331
East Pleasant street, whither Brown moved after the dry squad had
seized his beer and whisky at 1021 West Third street several weeks ago.
Yesterday afternoon two pints of beer were taken
from the cellar of Brown's new home and the four quarts of liquor were
discovered just inside the lot line in the rear of the house, wrapped in a
gunny-sack and concealed in high weeds.
The raid yesterday was only another move in the
chess game which has been played thru the courts between Brown and the
federal agent.
Arrested several weeks ago when the dry raiders
confiscated 42 dozen bottles of beer, 95 gallons of beer mash and six
gallons of "hooch", Brown retained Attorney Carl Lambach and
started a fight in the courts.
The search had been made on a state warrant, which
Lambach claimed was illegal. He convinced the court and an order releasing
the beer and whisky held in custody of the sheriff was obtained.
Two trucks drove up to the jail, extracted the beer
and sped away, leaving the government agent without evidence on which to
convict Brown of bootlegging and possession.
Muhs didn't weaken, however, and when he found that Brown
had removed his quarters from West Third street to East Pleasant street, he
obtained another search warrant, but this time it was a government order.
Brown wasn't at home yesterday afternoon.
U.S. Marshall Terry Kenney and Officer Pete Kuehl
assisted in the raid.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
August 14, 1922
"BROTHER'S KEEPER" COULDN'T KEEP SELF FROM BOOZE BINDOVER.
"Mr. Bush, this is a
frame up!" Outraged at what he believed was underhanded work on the
part of prohibition authorities, James Hendrych, Bettendorf butcher shop
proprietor, voiced this protest when he found that, instead of being his
brother's keeper, he couldn't keep himself in U.S. Commissioner's court this
morning.
Five minutes after he had signed his brother's
$1,000 bond on a liquor charge, Hendrych was himself arrested on a charge of
selling moonshine whisky and was also bound over to the federal grand jury
under $1,000 bond. Altho he stated that he was able to furnish his own bond,
besides that of his brother ,he was not allowed to do so. He succeeded in
finding a bondsman.
James Hendrych is accused of several sales of
liquor to Bettendorf residents. Information against him was filed by Federal
Agent R.E. Muhs, while Oldrych Hendrych was "having it out" with
Commissioner A.G. Bush today.
Oldrych's saloon on Main street between Grant and
State streets, Bettendorf, was raided by Mr. Muhs and Deputy U.S. Marshal
Terry Kenney Saturday evening. Four gallons of moonshine in containers
varying in size from half pints to two gallon jugs were seized. Oldrych
pleaded guilty to the liquor charge.
According to Bettendorf authorities, the Hendryches
have been causing trouble for some time.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
August 15, 1922
POLICE ARREST SEVEN IN RAID ON A ROADHOUSE
Ivan Mastup, Proprietor, is Assessed $100 Fine Today.
A drunken watermelon vendor,
lying blissfully in a ditch near a roadhouse on the Waverly road, north of
Forest park, led a police raid and the arrest of Ivan Mastup, proprietor,
and six inmates at 3:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Officers Swinden, Dietz, McDermott and Kuehl
together with Federal Prohibition Agent R.E. Muhs, were returning from the
fair grounds when they noticed James Bartell, the watermelon man, and his
deserted cart of melons. Observing his two intoxicated persons on the porch
of the roadhouse, they staged a raid. Besides Bartell and Mastup, those
arrested were Mildred Wells, J.R. Reams, Frank Voss, C.J. Hanson and Neal
Spencer.
According to the police ,booze was flowing freely
at the place. An ice box, gaily decorated with lettuce leaves and containing
a quantity of beer was found on the creek bank. Liquor was also found in the
house.
Mastup was fined $100 and costs in police court
this morning. He pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping a disorderly house
thru his attorney, B.T. O'Neil. The man is an old offender, and has been
bound over to the federal grand jury on a liquor charge. It is not likely
that information will be filed against him in commissioner's court on this
latest offense police say.
All of the inmates and Bartell were ordered to pay
costs by Magistrate Harold Metcalf.
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
August 25, 1922
CLAIM GROCER SOLD BOOZE AS HIS SIDE LINE
Jacob Ziffren Held to Federal Court After Raid.
Five ounces of alleged
whisky found in the grocery store conducted by Jacob Ziffren 830 Warren
street during a raid conducted last night by Prohibition Officer Muhs led to
his arrest on a charge of violating the Volstead act. Ziffren was taken
before United States Commissioner A.G. Bush this morning where he was bound
over to the federal court for trial. His bond was fixed at $500.
A significant fact to prove the charge that Ziffren
had sold liquor to his patrons was the finding of a whisky glass in close
proximity to the bottle containing the small amount of spirits. Complaints
are said to have been made against Ziffren by residents of the neighborhood.
After the place was searched by Muhs, United States Marshal Kinney made the
arrest. The necessary bond was furnished by Ziffren.
Submitted by C.J.L., July 2005 & March & Oct 2006