Iowa Old Press
Alton Democrat
January 20, 1906
WAYSIDE GLEANINGS.
A shocking occurrence at LeMars Tuesday evening was the death of Miss (Catherine) Gettings, a teacher in the schools. She and another teacher were looking over examination papers where the former was boarded. They needed something from upstairs and she ran up to get it. Not returning she was looked for and found sitting in a chair, dead of apoplexy.
James Lord was accidently killed by a glancing bullet, fired by his brother at a rabbit. Deceased was at the foot and his brother at the top of a bluff. The ball killed the rabbit and then glancing entered deceased’s right shoulder and plowed through his left hip. He died in a few minutes. He was forty years old and leaves a wife and five children.
Be careful with a gun.
J. A. Miltall died the past week near LeMars, aged eighty-two. He was a soldier in the forties and later a goldseeker in California.
[transcribed by LZ, Nov 2019]