Iowa
Old Press
Lineville Tribune
Lineville, Wayne Co., IA
November 12, 1908
Austin & Austin, Pubs, and Props.
Bill Kemp A Suicide
Was a Brother of A. C. Kemp and an Old Time Resident of Lineville
- Fired the Fatal Shot of the Home of His Daughter in Seattle,
Wash.
A letter received Monday by A. C. Kemp of South Lineville
informed him of the death at Seattle, Wash., by his own hand of
his brother, Wm. Kemp who was many years ago a resident of this
place and for some time held the position of night watch and
Marshall of the city. During the absence from the house of the
other members of the family he shot himself thru the head with a
revolver and was found lying on a couch dead by his daughter on
her return to the room. Every indication showed that the deed of
self-destruction was deliberately planned, but no motive or
reason for the act is known as he left no note and gave no
previous intimation of his intentions.
A Hold Up - Something out of the ordinary
occurred in Lineville the other day and has created considerable
excitement as it occurred in broad daylight and in Foxworthy
& Duncan's Store. As to who is responsible it is a question,
but suspicion rests on Henry Duncan. It seems that in getting in
their new goods, and blending the colors of dress goods and
things, it created a dazzling effect on the eyes. A well known
lady of near Lineville while in the store shopping was inquiring
prices all thro the store and the prices being so much lower than
anything she had seen was severely shocked and had to be Held Up
while buying a long list of bargains. However she was all right
in a few minutes. Moral: It pays to be held up by the new firm.
Mrs. Henry Vinzant Dead - Mrs. Henry Vinzant,
whose critical illness from a stroke of paralysis is mentioned on
another page of the paper, died yesterday morning about 1 o'clock
at her home 3 ½ miles southwest of this place. She leaves an
aged mother and six children to mourn her loss. The deceased was
a daughter of the late Wm. Argo and a sister of Mr. Lewis Argo of
Mercer county, and was aged about 63 years. The funeral will be
held today and the burial will be at the Yingling graveyard.
Married - Mr. Herbert Pickett and Miss Maude
Porter both of Mercer county were united in marriage at the
bride's home about four miles south east of Lineville Sunday,
Nov. 8th by Rev. J. L. Weatherford. May happiness and prosperity
attend them on life's journey.
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Oscar Elson and Will Gardner are running a corn gathering and
husking machine on their farms Northeast of town which is
attracting much interest and speculation among the farmers of
that neighborhood. It requires five horses to draw the machines
and two teams and wagons to haul and unload the corn. It takes
one row of corn at a time and gets all of the corn not on the
ground shucking it clean, but shelling a small portion of it. The
shelled corn is elevated and carried to the wagon same as the
ears. It harvests about six acres per day, averaging about 300
bushels.
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Geo. H. Pendleton, of Oklahoma, patentee of a quick process of
tanning hides and pelts, accompanied by his wife spent the past
two weeks here demonstrating the process and selling individual
rights to the process and territory, Glenn Wheeler, the
shoemaker, bought the right to use the process, and Mercer
county, Mo. was sold to Dudley Evans, R. J. Phillips and Jerry
Hooker, of this place. The process requires only from four to
fifteen days and the result seems to be as perfect and
satisfactory as in the old process requiring that many months.
This county has been sold by Mr. Pendleton to Corydon parties.
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The usual Saturday night matinee was pulled off near the
northeast corner of the square last Saturday night. The night air
was laden with profanity and backguardism. One was hit in the
face with a rock and another slapped. The entertainment was
interesting, but hardly of the character to be enjoyed by decent
people or refined ears.
Corn Donated - The ladies of the Aid Society of
the M. E. Church, South, gathered their loads of corn last
Saturday generously donated them by P. A. Rockhold, George
Rockhold and H. P. Litton each giving a load. The corn was put up
at auction on the north side of the square Sat. afternoon. Frank
Cain being the auctioneer and sold at 60 cents per bushel. T. J.
Lovett, J. A. Kreider and C. W. Elson each buying a load.
A Big Sale -- John Funnell's sale at his farm
six miles east of Lineville last Monday was attended by the
largest crowd ever known at a sale in this section of country and
everything put up sold at its full value or more. The bidders
seemed to take an optimistic view of the situation and the
future, as they fell over each other and crowded and jammed to
get in near as possible to the articles and animals on sale and
in many cases paid more than the same thing could have been
bought new. C. Denman of Allerton and Chas Woods of Mercer County
were the auctioneers and W. O. Mullinnix of this place was the
clerk. We did not learn the whole amount of the sale but it was
up among the four figures.
Good Road Work - Charley and Curren Bright,
Thos. Prather, Walter Lane, George Hamilton, G. W. Drake and Ab
Willis last week put the grader on the road between the state
line at Howard Moore's and the Hawkins bridge and put it in fine
condition. George Hamilton did the work with the grader. Rural
mail carrier, J. B. Duncan reported as smooth as a boulevard.
That stretch of road is about ½ mile in length and has usually
been neglected by the road authorities and consequently in bad
conditions. The liberal spirited enterprise of the above citizens
who did the good work is commendable indeed.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lo Duncan, of Adel spent part of last week at the
home of Mr. Joseph Duncan, brother of the former who is
critically ill at his home south of town.
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-Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nickell, of Woodward County, Okla., arrived
Tues. on a visit to relatives in this vicinity, the former being
a brother of Mr. Andrew Nickell, east of town.
-Joe Forster, rural carrier on No. 2, moved last week from the J.
M. Sullivan property in South Lineville to the Walter Duncan
property on West Hill recently vacated by George Warnock.
-M. D. Cowan last week re-purchased the East side meat market,
which had been closed during the past month, from I. P. Henry and
it is now running again under the latter's management.
-King Gatliff, the jeweler, has taken up his stock and tools and
retired from the business at Lineville and will try the move
healthful and independent life of a farmer on his fathers farm
northwest of town.
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Squire Hooker, of South Lineville, received a fine registered
Chester White female pig Monday by express sent him as a present
by his son, Jno G. Hooker, who resides near Browning, Mo. It is a
very handsome pig about four months old and weighs 90 pounds.
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Mail Carrier, G. W. Lushbaugh, reports a fine Republican boy born
to Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Porter on evening of Election Day. Born
on such an auspicious occasion he certainly has a good start and
we hope he may flourish and grow and ultimately become a
president.
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-Mrs. M. J. Lemons, mother of Miss Lizzie Lemons of this place
and Fred Lemons, lessee of the Wakefield farm with whom she makes
her home, has purchased the J. M. Sullivan residence property in
South Lineville and will move in and occupy it as a home in the
near future.
-M. E. Robinson, Republican candidate for Prosecuting attorney,
led all of the candidates in Mercer County with a majority of
1118. Mr. Robinson has the confidence of Mercer county citizens
as an honest and capable official and this expression of the
sentiment of the people has a very promising and hopeful look to
us.
-Mrs. J. L. Rucker received a hansom postcard yesterday from her
Nephew, Orville Fouch, who is with the battleship fleet. In the
Far East. The card was mailed at Tokio, Japan, and bore the date
of Oct. 24th. It was in commemoration of the visit of the fleet
to Tokio and the design was a handsome U. S. Naval Coat of Arms
with a photo of Admiral Bob Evans in the center.
-The second number of Lineville Lecture Course, "The Fisher
Shipp Concert Company" will be given at the M. E. Church
next Wed. evening Nov. l8. This is an entertainment that will be
pleasing to everybody, children as well as grown up people. There
will be a splendid variety of concert entertainment and every
part will be interesting and of the highest order. You cannot
afford to miss it. Seats can be reserved at Kings Drug Store on
and after Monday the 16th.
-The work of putting down new cement walks is still going on and
during the past few months nearly half of the plank sidewalks in
town have been taken up and renewed in cement. During the past
week and 8-foot pavement has been laid in front of the Opera
House, the lower rooms being occupied by Brokerick & Son.,
Implements, and John Hammond's produce house and a walk of 250
feet in front of H. O. Petty's property occupied by John Kreider,
in the north part of town. Let the good work go on.
-Mrs. Nora Hutchinson Shelton, of Allerton, was visiting her
friends in the city last week, and on Fri. afternoon visited the
public schools here she was formerly for many years the popular
teacher in the First primary Department. Before she reached the
school house she was surround by a large crowd of her former
pupils who were almost like a wild mob in their demonstrations of
greeting and joy in seeing their loved teacher again. The crowd
represented scholars from all departments of the school as most
of them had taken their first lessons in the Primary Department
under her tuition.
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-Deputy Sheriff, R. E. Guinn, of Corydon, was in town Monday on
official business.
-Mrs. Martha Owens of Jewell County, Kan., arrived Monday on a
visit to her sister, Mrs. J. S. Poland
-J. L. McAllister has had his residence on West Hill handsomely
repainted. R. J. Workman was the artist.
-Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Foxworthy were called to Lineville from their
home at Winston last week by the serious illness of Mr. Joseph
Duncan, Mrs. Foxworthy's father.
-Mr. S. B. Gann, of Mercer, was in the city Monday. He talked of
going to Oklahoma with Dr. Newlin and family for a visit to his
two sons, and other relatives and friends in that city.
-Geo. Hamilton, Charley Bright, Curren Bright, Ed Lane, G. W.
Drake graded and dragged the road in fine shape last week on
route No. 3 from the state line at Howard Moore's to the Hawkins
bridge.
-A. B. Ankrum and John Bellows left for Southwest Oklahoma
Tuesday to make the delivery of fruit trees and shrubbery they
sold there during the summer amounting to about $9,000 worth.
They expect to be gone about a month.
-It is told of a Mercer county Democrat whose wife and
12-year-old son are strong Republicans that recently after
chastising his son for some offense, asked him if he "would
now be good?" "Yes" was the reply, "if you
will let me be a Republican."
-Dr. D. W. Carlisle was up from his farm in the "Forks of
the River," west of Mercer, last Saturday and shaking hands
with his many friends in the city. Dock must have struck the
"Fountain of Perpetual Youth" on his large and fertile
farm, as he does not appear a day older than when he moved there
five years ago.
-Mrs. Vinzant, wife of Henry Vinzant, suffered a stroke of
paralysis on Thursday of last week at her home 3 ½ miles
southwest of Lineville and has since remained in a state of
unconsciousness with little hopes of her recovery. Mrs. Vinzant
is 65 years of age and the mother of a large family of grown
children. She and her husband being among the old and well known
residents of this section.
-Harve Gaskill tells us that he caught his father-in-law, Uncle
Ben Cravens, a day or two after election reading with great
satisfaction a copy of the St. Louis Republic which was
printed a week before the election. The prominent headlines, such
as "Bryan is Sure to Win," "A Land Slide for
Bryan," etc. appeared to look mighty good to him.
-Dock Newlin of Woodland township, loaded a car Monday with his
household goods, implements, two spans of mules and three horses,
bound for Alfalfa county, Okla., where he and his family propose
to make their future home. They will follow later on in the week.
The car is in charge of Claude Beaver, of Woodland, who goes to
visit relatives and look at the country.
-The Embroider Club gave Mrs. Maude Workman a farewell reception
Saturday evening at her home in South Lineville and presented her
with a souvenir spoon. She goes to Kansas City this week to join
her husband. They expect to make that their home. Mr. Workman is
in the employ of the Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
CLIO
-Mrs. Marsengill and daughter, who has been visiting with her
elder daughter near Humeston for several days arrived home on
Wednesday afternoon of last week.
-Marick & Company have purchased E. R. Belvel's store
building and lot, now occupied by Geo. Cook as a restaurant and
will enlarge this building and remove their hardware stock
therein.
-Geo. Cook has began work in enlarging his residence building
formerly used as a restaurant and will remove his restaurant
again therein.
-George Marick, wife and babe of Galveston, Tex. Arrived Monday
night of last week to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. R.
Marick of Clio, and Mr. C. K. Hamilton of Crackerneck
neighborhood, Jefferson township and brothers, sisters and other
relatives and friends.
-Mr. Mullen of Seymour came down Sat. to visit with his son, A.
J. Mullen.
-Dr. S. M. McMillam of Washington, D. C. and Mr. J. R. Tedrow, U.
S. Inspector of Pensions of St. Joe District spent a week
visiting Clio friends. They were on their way to Avery, Ia. to
cast ballots for the election of Wm. H. Taft.
-Lewis Bros. Shipped one load of hogs on the 4th and one load on
the 5th to Kansas City, and they were not hogish about it either.
Also one car load sheep to Chicago on Sat.
-Milt Hutchinson on Sat. night shipped to Chicago a car lot of
fine steers averaging 1430 pounds. He went through in charge of
them.
-Mr. D. E. Woodey went to Mercer, Mo. Sun. on a visit.
-Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kesterson and two youngest children left for
Cincinnati, Iowa Sunday to visit Mrs. K's parents.
-Rev. Jones preached Sat. night and Sabbath with his usual
acceptability. He will begin a protracted series of meetings on
Tues. next.
-Rev. Stevenson will preach at the Methodist church next Sabbath
morning.
-Mrs. Nellie Cook returned from a visit at Mercer, Mo. on Sun.
-We understand that George Gardner is about to move into town.
Will Mr. and Mrs. Will Gardner run the farm?
-Mr. Sam Vandel has rented W. S. Housley's building and will soon
open a meat market therein. Something very much needed in Clio.
We would bespeak him a good patronage.
-Park Bryan and D. F. Duncan shipped a load of hogs to Kansas
City Monday.
-The decorated window at Lathrop & Son's store is well worth
viewing. It was the work of Mr. Lathrop's daughter, Mrs. Clyde
Yoke.
-Mr. E. M. Wyatt is re-shingling the barn on his town property.
-Lathrop & Company one of Clio's enterprising firms propose
to run a series of ads in connection with our correspondence in
the Tribune, as Miss Fennimore, our hustling and reliable
milliner has been doing.
-The cloak and coat special sale on the 6th at M. V. B. Wright's
drew a large crowd, and was a prosperous sale.
-Look out soon for Thanksgiving card novelties at the Clio P. O.
Stationery store, and in season novelties in cards and toys for
the holidays, goods are ordered. We will be there.
-Special sale -On Millinery hats. Selling from 50 cents to $2.50.
Call at once -Lena Fennimore.
-Mrs. Jesse Lowry and children of Mercer visited several days
last week at her parents home, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Scott.
-Mr. and Mrs. Dillon Summers of Illa were business visitors one
day last week.
-Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Scott and Mrs. Anna Clark came up from
Cleopatra, Mo. to trade last Fri.
-Mrs. H. Blanchard of near Powersville, Mo. and Miss Maggie Kent
were trading with our merchants on Monday.
-Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Scott visited Sunday at Cleopatra, Mo.
-Mr. and Mrs. Bruner and two boys from Cleopatra, Mo. visited and
traded in Clio Monday.
BRACEWELL
-Mrs. Lucy Peck lost a fine large veil while attending the
funeral of Mrs. Issac Moon. Besides the value of the veil she
prized it on account of its being a present from her sister who
is now dead. It was also a present to her sister from a wealthy
relative.
-Mr. Swingle, a brother of Mrs. C. H. Trembly, and wife their
daughter and her husband, of Missouri, are at Trembly's on a
visit.
-Mrs. Foxworthy, mother of Dr. Foxworthy of Leon passed here last
week on her way to Leon from Lineville where she had spent the
summer.
-Mr. Ed Grammill returned to his home in Nebraska last week. Miss
Ruby Peck accompanied him as far as the home of her brother
Francis where she will make a visit.
-Jennings boys moved their sawmill past here last week heading
for the Coontz timber west of Woodland.
-Fletch Grove made four dollars last week by withdrawing a bet of
a four-dollar hat last week on Bryan's election just in time to
save his hat as well as his head.
-We bought another very fine brood mare colt last week, the
finest we could find that was for sale, of Thos. Lane southeast
of Woodland. Mr. Lane has some very fine horses. He has a black
horse colt that would equal or beat anything we saw on the
streets of Lineville during the carnival.
-Dave Robinson has moved his sawmill from the Cowl timber to the
Evan Evans farm.
-Abe Wells has bought the timber on the Gaffney place for $250.
This is the farm that Dal Rose is tending. Wells will move his
saw mill to work it up immediately.
-Nell Gammel was married last Sun-week to person by the name of
Mills living south of Leon. Dinner was served at the residence of
the bride's parents Sunday.
-Vince Robinson broke three neck yokes last week.
-While the parties visiting Tremblys were on their road home,
Sun. the buggy became uncoupled, the horses running off with the
front wheels leaving the party unhurt behind.
-Iley Gammell gathered 100 bushels of corn a day last week. Last
year he gathered 125 a day, but he is getting old and stiff.
-A fire was set out on the river, Sun. on A. A. Snow's young
meadow and was rapidly heading for Clay's corn field when they
went down to look after it. We think it did not damage the corn
or at least seriously. We have never forbid one hunting or
trespassing on our land, but we certainly would prosecute any one
setting fire on it.
-Virgil Snow went to Lineville Sat. and hauled home about 2,000
pounds of goods on the big wagon.
WATAGA News
-Vet Hartsook was trading in Lineville one day last week
-Dug Slover, of near Saline, was a Wataga caller Monday evening.
-Charley Melton's were trading in Mercer Wednesday.
-Jiles Bloom has bought the Virgil Cox place north of Wataga.
-Everett McKinney is suffering from a severe boil on his hand.
-Cal Walker and Trail were making posts for Raleigh Slover last
week.
-Miss Edna Melton gave a party at her home Friday evening.
Oysters and peaches were served after which the remainder of the
evening was spent in different games and gossiping over old
times.
-Several of the young people of this vicinity attended meeting at
Elm Sunday night.
-Claude McLane is numbered with the sick this week.
-Everett Gloshen drove to Princeton one day last week bringing
home with him a new wagon.
-Jess Bardwell has bought the Melton farm east of Wataga.
-Frank McLane and wife took dinner with Raleigh Slover's Sunday.
-Ellen and Susie Bloom were visiting with Mrs. Bloom of Lineville
Sunday.
-Annie Melton and mother called on Mrs. Will Kline Sun. who has
been in poor health.
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-The Embroidery Club meets next Tues. afternoon with Miss Jettie
Wasson.
-The Bible Study Class will meet Fri., tomorrow night with Miss
Emma Duden.
-W. P. Sullivan, shipper and G. D. and T. J. Lovett cattle
feeders are paying 50 cents per bushel for corn.
-L. A. Blanchard, the east side groceryman sold his residence
property in the east part of town last week to Oliver Ward of
Mercer county, price $900.
-At the time we went to press last week the news was telephoned
to us from Corydon that W. P. Allred, the Republican candidate
for Representative, had been defeated, but after all the returns
came in it was found that he had been elected by a majority of 42
votes.
-A very handsome and substantial granite monument was put up last
week in Evergreen Cemetery to mark the resting place of the late
Benj. M. Belvel, brother of E. R. Belvel. The work was done by
Enos Fuller & Co., of this place and is a credit to their
establishment.
-Crit Rockhold has a very handsome and valuable fur rug on
display at Glenn Wheeler's shop which was tanned and mounted by
the latter by the new quick process. It is the skin of a large
gray "Sobo" wolf killed by Crit's son Harry on his
Texas ranch. It measures 6' 6" in length and is quite an
interesting curiosity.
-Ol Duncan has sold his farm of 90 acres southwest of Clio to
Jas. Browning and bought the farm of 260 acres of Dock Newlin, of
Woodland Township, who is moving to Okla. this week. Both Duncan
and Browning moved to their new homes on last Tuesday. The farm
bought by Ol in Woodland Township is mostly rich bottomland and
there is a large quantity of valuable timber on the place. The
price paid for it was $40. And for the 90-acre place he sold
Browning he received $45 per acre.
-The Tribune announced last week that all the Republican
candidates for township offices in Grand River township had been
elected with the exception that B. B. Cravens, Democrat, had been
elected township assessor. After the vote of the Clio precinct
had been counted, however, it was found that three other
Democrats had been elected, viz: Jack Logan, township clerk, G.
D. Lovett, trustee, and P. C. Hampton, Justice of the Peace, all
of them re-elected and all of them residents of the Lineville
precinct. All of them are excellent officials and barring their
execrable poiltics, are the right men in the right places.
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Mr. Joseph Duncan whose illness from a disorder of his stomach
was mentioned in our last issue, suffered from a slight paralytic
stroke last Thursday and has since been in a very serious
condition. Dr. Lovett of this place, who has charge of the case,
called Dr. Bristow, of Princeton, Monday in consolation, and we
are informed coincides with the former in his diagnosis of the
case. We are sorry to learn that the physicians gave the family
and friends little hope for the entire recovery of the patient.
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Lineville Tribune
Lineville, Wayne Co., Iowa
November 19, 1908
Austin and Austin, Pubs. and Props.
An Interesting Rumor -- Dr. H. S. Engle, the
dentist, and Earl Calbreath, assistant cashier of the F. & M.
Bank, took the train Tuesday morning for Kansas City, the former
giving it out that after a day or two in the city he would
proceed to Branson, Kan., for a weeks visit with his uncle, Aaron
Engle and family, and the latter-well, he did not seem to
consider that it was anybody's business what he was going to the
city for and gossips were given a fair chance to figure out for
themselves. On Tuesday morning Mrs. Lena Pickett and her sister,
Miss Mae Elson also departed for Kansas City and it is currently
reported that the latter and Mr. Calbreath were married in the
city yesterday. Mrs. Pickett after remaining at Kansas City with
the party until Saturday will proceed on her way to California,
where she expects to spend the winter with Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Hutchinson at Long Beach. When Mr. and Mrs. Earl Calbreath will
return home has not been given out here, but the hearty
congratulations and sincerest well wishes of their host of
Lineville friends await their coming.
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-Embroidery Club meets next Tuesday afternoon with Miss Ruby
Rockhold.
-Judge P. W. Warden of Mercer County, was a business visitor in
the city Tuesday.
-Mrs. Bullington received a postcard Saturday from her grandson
Claudie Bullington, who is with the battleship fleet in the Far
East. The card was mailed at Manila, P. I. and stated that at the
writing he was in the hospital with a broken leg, but having a
good time, all the same.
-W. P. Sullivan has shipped four car loads of $5.50 fat hogs
during the past week, a car Sat., one Sun. morning and two on
Tues. morning to the Ottumwa market. Receipts are heavy in the
Chicago markets, the quality poor and as a consequence the market
is lower.
-Mrs. G. W. Dickson, who has been in somewhat poor health during
the fall is now suffering from an attack of appendicitis. The
disease is in a mild form and it is hoped by her family and
friends that it will not prove serious and that she will soon be
restored to health.
-Mrs. George Merrick, formerly of Clio, arrived Tues. She is the
daughter of Mr. C. K. Hamilton of Jefferson Township and as her
husband is a civil engineer and engaged with a surveying party,
she will remain with her relatives here during the winter.
-S. M. Jones, residing east of Mercer an old time resident of
this vicinity, was in the city Tuesday and remained over night
the guest of his brother, J. L. Jones and wife at their home in
the north part of town.
-Mr. J. T. Forster's aged mother who has made her home with him
during the past summer, left for St. Louis Tuesday afternoon to
spend the winter with a son residing in that city. Her grandson,
Joe Forster, accompanied the old lady to St. Louis to care for
her on the way and will return home without delay.
-A party of five came over in Van Ostrander's auto yesterday. The
passengers consisted of Dr. Olive Foxworthy, and Jno. W. Wasson,
of Leon, and Mrs. Irene Warner and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Webb, of
Hereford, Texas, the two ladies daughters of Mr. Wasson. Dr.
Foxworth made a friendly and professional call on Mr. Joseph
Duncan at his home south of town, all of the party returning to
Leon in the morning.
-One of the elegant and delightful social functions of the season
occurred at the Glendenning home in the east part of town on last
Wednesday evening of which occasion, Mrs. Maggie Miles
entertained a large party of her friends at a 7 o'clock dinner.
Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Mullinix, Dr. and Mrs. C.
B. Calbreath, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Sollenbarger, Mr. and Mrs. C. G.
Austin, Mr. and Mrs. John Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Rockhold,
Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Greenlee, Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Belvel, Mr. and
Mrs. T. J. Lovett, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Sullivan, Mrs. Mattie
Calbreath, Mrs. Lena Pickett, and Miss Blanche Dickson.
Shooting Affray at Hickory Creek. -- Whiskey
Causes a Tragedy
A drunken youth teasing an elderly woman to the point of
retaliation, the attempt of a partially intoxicated
brother-in-law to get even and do up the old lady's husband and
the firing of four pistol shots that will probably result in the
death of the brother-in-law, is in brief the terrible history of
that tragedy that shocked the little village of Hickory Creek on
the peaceful Sabbath afternoon. From all that can be gathered
from the officers and the physicians it seems that John Curtis,
sixty years of age, an old and respected citizen of that hamlet,
had opened his store yesterday afternoon. His wife, who is said
to be more or less weak minded and has been the butt of jokes for
the young folk of that town, was with him. A young man by the
name of Jim Zeorens, while under the influence of liquor, had
been teasing the elderly woman to a point where she retaliated
with a vigorous slap on his face. This angered the boy who left
the store vowing he would kill her. The husband saw Constable
Sharp driving by and hailing him asked to have Zeorens arrested;
saying that if Sharp did not want to telephone to Trenton for
Sheriff Dillon. Sharp drove to Turner's store and telephoned the
sheriff. In the mean time, Mrs. Smith a sister of the young man,
Zeorens, had heard of Mr. Curtis and sent their little girl to
tell her husband who was at Turner's store, that Curtis was going
to have Zeorens arrested and sent to jail in Trenton. It is
alleged by witnesses that Smith had been drinking and springing
up rushed out of the store vowing he would shoot up Curtis. He
met Mr. Curtis and his wife coming along the p-atiu--- in front
of the store and grappled with him. The old man then pulled his
pistol and fired four shots at close range. One of the shots took
effect in the head just over the left temple, another in the
right cheek; one in the left lung and another in the right side.
Smith's face was powder burned and the blood was trickling from
his ears when Dr. Porterfield, of Hickory, and sheriff, who had
been summoned from Trenton, arrived. His condition is reported as
dangerous, with the chances only one in a thousand for recovery.
Curtis went to Trenton and surrendered himself to the sheriff and
will have a preliminary trial before Justice McGrath on Saturday,
unless the death of Smith causes a change in the charge against
him. Smith was still unconscious at a late hour this afternoon
and is not expected to live thru the night. Mr. Curtis has been
considered one of the substantial honest, upright citizen of this
county and has been in business at Hickory for many years. Smith
is alleged to have been of a quarrelsome disposition and has been
in trouble before. We glean the above from Monday's Trenton-Daily
Republican-Tribune.
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-Allene Varney and Jennie Cowan visited over Sunday in Princeton,
the guests of Mrs. John Black.
-Misses Alma Brummett and Mary Gould, of Princeton, are visiting
Lineville friends this week.
-Mens and ladies heavy fleece lined underwear, 45 cents a garment
at Foxworthy & Duncan.
-Mrs. Mike Miller and her sister Miss Mary Byrd of Morgan, were
in the city transacting business yesterday.
-A bright and handsome little daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Ivan Austin last Thursday evening at their farm home west of
town.
-Lewis Bergin and family moved back to Lineville last week from
Illinois and are domiciled for the present at the residence of J.
S. Poland.
-G. W. Drake had the misfortune to lose two heavy fat hogs on
Monday in bringing them in to deliver to W. P. Sullivan. They
became overheated and died.
-? Duncan arrived home from his Dakota farm last week and will
spend the winter here. He is looking fine and says he raised good
crops and made money on his farm during the past season.
-Fuller & Co. are finishing a large handsome and substantial
granite monument at the Lineville Marble Works which is to be
placed at the grave of the late Aaron Mastin, in the Ravana
Cemetery.
-Deputy Sheriff, Bob Guinn and Ray Lusher, of Corydon, and D. P.
Goodrich, of Humeston, were in the city Tues. They made a trip to
the neighborhood north of town to look at some farms offered for
sale.
-Mrs. Sarah Norris of this place is preparing to move to
Hillsboro, Ill., within a few weeks, to make her permanent home
with an unmarried niece who is in the millinery business at that
place. Mrs. Norris has hosts of friends here who will deeply
regret her departure.
-We had the pleasure last week of meeting Rev. F. B. Whitney, of
New London, Ia, who with Mrs. Whitney, came to visit the latter's
relatives being a cousin of Henry and Ellery Galliger. Rev.
Whitney is the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at New London.
Recovered His Watch - As Joe Barret was passing
thro an orchard on a farm belonging to Otis Deisher in Woodland
township one day last week and looking among the branches for
apples as boys are wont to do, he thought he had discovered a
vegetable Christmas tree, as hanging to one of the branches well
up in the tree was a bright and shining watch with a fob and seal
attached. He received the watch and soon heard that it belonged
to rural mail carrier. Joe Forster, who about two months before
had also been tempted by the shinning red apples on the tree and
leaving his team in the road scaled the fence and climbed the
tree to secure some of the fruit. He afterwards missed his watch,
but after repeatedly searching under and about the tree for it he
concluded that his watch was lost for good. It was returned to
him by the finder and was in good running order notwithstanding
its exposure to the weather for two months.
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Ambitious young men and ladies should learn telegraphy; for since
the new 8-hour law became effective there is a shortage of many
thousand telegraphers. Positions pay from $50 to $70 a month to
beginners. The National Telegraph Institute of Davenport, Ia.,
and five other cities is operated under supervision of R. R.
Officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them
for particulars.
Marble Works Changes Hands - R. T. Bucher last
week sold his marble works to the veteran marble man of this
place, Mr. Enos Fuller, who has been in the business at Lineville
for nearly 25 years. Mr. Fuller has now associated with him in
the business, his two sons, Roy and Enos Fuller, both of whom are
marble cutters and experienced in the work. The new firm retains
Mr. John Maring, formerly of the firm of Bucher & Maring, as
salesman and assistant manager. Fuller & Co. acquired by the
purchase a large stock of marble and granite monuments and stones
of best and most substantial designs now in vogue and we are
informed that the new firm will adopt the policy of giving the
very lowest prices and most liberal terms to those wanting
anything in their line. "Tony" Fuller, who has been in
the employ of Bucher and Maring, will remain in the employ of
Fuller & Co.
Mrs. T. J. Crawford Dead - The news of the death
of Mrs. Crawford, wife of Thos. J. Crawford, residing 12 miles
west of this place, reached here by telephone on Tuesday morning.
Her death occurred on Monday and the funeral was held on Tuesday
afternoon at the Bethel Church in the neighborhood and was
attended by a large concourse of the friends and neighbors of the
deceased. She was a sister of George G. Dunn and a lady very
highly esteemed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
Notice - My wife, Ishmel Hughes, having left my
bed and board without any cause. I hereby notify all persons not
to sell her any goods on my credit as I will refuse to pay for
same. L. E. Hughes
Don't Hunt on My Farm - All persons are notified
that I will not permit hunting and shooting on my farm south of
town and they will please stay off. I do not wish to invoke the
law to prevent it and hope that I will not be compelled to do so.
- W. O. Mullinnix.
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Mrs. J. M. Varney has been quite seriously ill for the past two
weeks with an attack of LaGrippe and other complications and is
not reported much better at this writing. We hope, however, to
soon learn of an improvement in her condition and ultimate
restoration to health.
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Pat Kelley, who visited his friend and former neighbor, J. C.
Merick, east of Sewal, last week sold his farm of 215 acres for
$60 an acre. He bought the farm about a year ago for $42 an acre
and moved to it from this vicinity last Feb. He is in the market
for the purchase of another farm and if he is as wise as we
believe him to be he will come back to this neighborhood where
better farms can still be bought for less money.
Notice of Sheriff's Sale.
Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of a Special execution to
me directed, issued out of the office of the Clerk of the
District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Wayne County,
upon a judgment and decree, rendered in said Court in favor of H.
C. Scott and against Mintie E. Duncan and G. W. Duncan I have
levied upon the following described real estate the property of
the said defendant towit; Lots three 3 and four 4, in block six 6
in Saylors' west addition to the town of Lineville and on the 7th
day of December, A. D. 1908 at 10 o'clock a.m. of said day the
Court House in Corydon, Ia. I will proceed to sell said property
of so much therefore as may be necessary to satisfy said
execution amounting to $?12.93 debt, and $47.35 ---- together
with accruing costs, at public auction to the highest and best
bidder for cash. --. E. Merrick, Sheriff of Wayne County, Iowa
Dated at Corydon, Iowa, Nov. 7th 1908.
CLIO
-Died at her home north west of Clio, on Saturday evening, Mrs.
Mary McGhee, wife of James McGhee, aged fifty-two years. In her
girlhood, near Bloomfield the deceased was converted and united
with the Missionary Baptist Church, and for the remaining
thirty-six years has held fast her devotion to her Lord, and died
in the triumph of redeeming grace. Besides her husband, who is
stricken in years and in impaired health, she leaves a family of
several children, mostly grown and with families of their own.
Her funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. Arthur
Woods at her home, and what is mortal of a good wife and kind
mother was laid to rest in the Corder Cemetery to await the final
call.
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-Mr. James McGhee and Aunt Elizabeth Owen are both reported very
sick. The recovery of Mrs. Owen is considered doubtful.
-Hartlely Bracewell who has spent most of his life in or near
Clio and for many years has been very prominent in Society Church
circles and Sabbath school work left on the early morning train
Wed. of last week to join his mother at Modesto, CA.. and to make
that region his future home.
-Dr. Jesse C. Moore departed Tues. afternoon of last week to
spend the time until spring at Eldon.
-David O. Williams made a business drive to Humeston one day last
week, returning the same day.
-Mrs. J. B. Wright went to Gallatin one day last week to spend
about two weeks with her sister and early friends and companions.
-Milton McClure of Wichita, Kans., is visiting at the home of his
Aunt, Mrs. S. E. McGill.
-Jesse McGuire, who has been spending some months at Ainsworth,
returned to Clio Sat.
-Miss Carrie Hutchinson has returned from Lamar, Colo., and is
visiting with her mother and many friends.
-Miss Vera Scott visited friends and relatives at Mercer, Mo.
from Fri. to Mon.
-An ax was lost upon the road somewhere between the Clio post
office and residence of A. G. Casey. Will the finder please leave
it at the post office.
-The latest arrival at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Elson came
there on the 8th. A healthy specimen of the embryo man.
-Lewis & Lewis have shipped during the past week three cars
cattle and two cars hogs.
-H. R. Schoonover shipped one car hogs.
-C. P. Lathrop & Son have been too busy this week receiving
goods, waiting on customers and handling cream to be able to
prepare a local ad.
BRACEWELL
-John Evans has rented his place to Nickelson and Teller and has
moved to Leon.
-If the fellows that shot into the banisters of the Bracewell
bridge crossing Weldon Northeast of here, and splintering the
same up as they did last week should, in the future, be waited on
by the sheriff and informed that they had a bill before the grand
jury to face, they need blame no one but themselves. He who
informed against them has an interest in that bridge; it is in
part his property and one who will not defend his own property
hasn't the grit of a good citizen. We are taxed to build these
bridges and keep them painted that they may last the longer.
-Mr. Bradwell, nephew of Mrs. Dal Rose, is picking corn for them.
His folks live in Oklahoma.
-Ray and Jessey Arnold are picking corn for Ben Bledsoe.
-Shockeys will move to Leon this week.
-Jas. Grogan from near Leon was down last Sunday.
-Hey Gammell is still picking corn for Merle Bracewell at 4 cents
a bushel. As he picks his 100 bushels a day and says he is
falling off some, he is making money faster than Merle is. We
passed him the other day and as the corn poured into the wagon it
sounded like young artillery and the wagon was going so fast we
could hardly see the spokes.
-A. A. Snow while driving with a load of wood down one of the
canyons of the Egyptian forty had the misfortune of having the
whole business turn turtle with him spilling him and the wood
down a steep slope. Everything bottom up except the horses. The
old man wasn't hurt a bit but somewhat provoked. Next time he
will attach a long pole to the hounds of the wagon, the other end
of which will reach up the hill to balance the wagon that he may
travel those rocky cliffs without tragedy.
[transcribed by C.A., May 2004]