Iowa Old Press
Alton Democrat, Alton, (Sioux), Iowa, Saturday, May 1, 1920, Page 6, Column
5:
Little Henrietta Heemstra, the two and a half year old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Heemstra, died on Sunday at St. Joseph's hospital in Sioux City
after an operation for appendicitis. Funeral services were conducted
Thursday by Rev. D. H. Douwstra of the First Reformed church and burial took
place at the Hospers cemetery. No words can express the sympathy of friends
to the bereaved parents in the loss of this dear little flower who was
passing through the sweet days of childhood, then suddenly taken from us, to
laugh and play in a fair and most beautiful clime.
Hospers Tribune
May 28, 1920
William Kennedy, formerly of Seney and well known throughout Plymouth
county, was brutally murdered by one Verne Ross at Winner, S.D., where he
had been living the past years. Ross is said to be a boot legger and someone
told him that Kennedy was a revenue officer and was looking for Ross. Ross
then told Kennedy he had better leave town or he would get him. Later the
boot legger made a club from the thick end of a billiard cue and struck
Kennedy from behind and beat him to death. Mrs. Kennedy was visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hanson, at Sioux Falls at the time her husband was
murdered. The murderer was bound over to the grand jury without bail.
Incidents like this show the character of the boot legger in true light.