Iowa Old Press
Alton Democrat
Alton, Iowa
August 22, 1903
N. L. Greer who was one of the leading citizens of LeMars dropped dead of heart disease Sunday night while preparing for bed. He was the father of Catherine Greer who is well known in Sioux county as a popular teacher in the Sioux Center schools.
Mr. Greer was born in Ohio in 1840 and came to LeMars in 1872. For many years he was in the grain business. He was always prominent in public affairs, being elected to the school board for a number of successive terms and serving as mayor from 1897 to 1899. He was a Knight of Phythias. At the time of his death he was chairman of the republican central committee.
[transcribed by LZ, Nov 2019]
Alton Democrat, August 29, 1903
Local Occurrences.
Ben and Otto Braskamp who graduated at the Orange City academy last spring
will enter Grinnell in a week or two. Their sister Miss Christina expects to
teach the KleinhesseIink school west of town beginning on the seventh. Last
year she taught the biggest rural school in the county very successfully.
Public school opens Monday. The school building has been nicely painted
inside during the summer. The teachers are Fred Fuller, superintendent,
Edward Demarest, principal, Miss Emerald Stickney, music, Miss Parker, first
intermediate, Mine Warren, second intermediate, Miss Elizabeth Smith, second
primary, Miss Kane, first primary. All are here except Miss Stickney who is
holding down her claim at Highmore, South Dakota and will come direct from
there probably this evening.