Iowa
Old Press
Buffalo Center Tribune
Buffalo Center, Winnebago co. Iowa
December 29, 1905
School closed Friday for the holiday vacation and the teachers
are all spending their vacation at their homes as follows: Prof.
C.R. Golly, Zearing; Miss Laughlin, Postville; Miss Russ, Iowa
Falls; Miss Doderer, Mason City; Miss Millis, Burt; Miss Mason,
Waterville, Minnesota; Miss Collins, with friends at Cedar Falls.
Personals
-William Behrends purchased a fine two-seated Staver surrey of
J.F. Buggy last week.
-Henry Dingel received a fine Chester White male hog from Grundy
Center last week. It is a dandy.
-Arthur Welsh arrived home Friday to spend the winter. He has
been working on a ranch in North Dakota all summer.
-Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Young and two younger children left Tuesday
for Ionia to attend the wedding of Mr. Young's brother, which
occurred Wednesday. His brother is editor of the Ionia Index.
-Postmaster E.E. Secor kindly remembered the four rural mail
carriers on Christmas day by presenting each one of them with an
appropriate gift.
-Tom Cline is working in Cedar Rapids.
-C.L. Brown of LeMars, is the new helper at the depot.
-W.D. Sterling shipped a car of hogs to Chicago Sunday.
-J.M. Underwood purchased a two-seated buggy last week of J.F.
Buggy.
-Fred Neimeyer received a fine Poland China male hog from Holland
the first of the week.
-B.F. Drake, of Buffalo township, is thinking of becoming a
candidate for supervisor of this district.
-Charley Dingel expects to leave with his family for their new
home in Oklahoma about January 2.
-B.F. Drake and son Roy visited Mrs. Drake's parents at LaSalle,
Illinis, and from there they went to Rose Lawn, Indiana, to visit
Mr. Drake's mother last week.
-Fred W. Mitchell has resigned his position as editor and manager
of the Forest City Summit and has gone to Chicago.
-A. Nerdig is visiting at Parkersburg this week.
-Dr. H.A. Owenson was a Forest City visitor.
-C. Fisher spent Christmas with relatives at Forest City.
-Guy Seas left Saturday for a week's visit at Forest City.
-Miss Maggie Phelan went to Rock Rapids Tuesday for a visit. John
Phelan went on Saturday for a week.
-Jeannette Thompson spent Christmas at Forest City with
relatives.
-Will Poppen, of Parkersburg, is visiting at the home of Folkert
Poppen.
-Mrs. George Chapman is enjoying a visit from her parents of
Fayette county.
-Miss Anna McGuire, of Lake Mills, is the guest of relatives here
this week.
-Nellie and Arthur Donahue spent Christmas with their sister at
Forest City.
-Fred Frebel left Monday for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to visit
his grandparents.
-A fine Christmas tree and program was given at the Joe Schafer
school house, of which Miss Clara Beyer is the teacher, Friday
evening.
-Miss Emma Mulder and brothers, Rudolph and richard, left Tuesday
to make their future home with their mother who recently married
Peter Kruger and who now resides on a large farm near George,
Iowa.
-Henry Folkerts, living southwest of town, marketed twenty-four
hogs at Germania recently. They were all thoroughbred Jersey reds
and were a bunch of beauties.
-Rolin Pelleymounter, of Spencer, arrived here Saturday to spend
the holidays with his sister, Miss Austie Pelleymounter.
-John Tegland will go to Minneapolis, where he has been the past
summer. His household goods were shipped yesterday. Mrs. Tegland
and children expect to leave today for their new home. We regret
to seen Mr. Tegland and family move away, but they are followed
by the best wishes of a host of friends.
W.B. Davis, living southwest of town, accompanied by his brother
Lou, of Ledyard, left Tuesday of last week for New Providence to
attend the funeral of their mother which was held the following
day. The deceased had been a sufferer of asthma for twenty years,
but a few weeks before her death she caught cold and pneumonia
set in, which caused her death at the ripe age of seventy-four
years. Mr. Davis returned home Saturday. He has the sympathy of
all in the sad loss of an affectionate and loving mother.
R.F.D. Notes
-Arthur Knutson is reported on the mend.
-John Winter Jr. is working for A.B. Russ this winter.
-Henry Sapp is staying with his brother in law F. Poppin.
-Mrs. Cooney and daughter, Miss annie, will leave for Hastings,
Minnesota, Saturday. Garfield will remain here a few days, when
he will go to California.
-A.T. Halvorson is having good success trapping this winter. He
is getting a good many mink.
-Lewis Olson, who has been attending college at Forest City, is
now home to spend his vacation.
-E.O. Snyder was taken quite sick Monday night.
Ahlfs - Alberts
On Wednesday forenoon, December 20, at 10 o'clock, occurred the
marriage of Miss Tena Ahlfs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I.B. Ahlfs,
living west of town, to Jacob Alberts, at the parsonage of the
German Reformed church, Rev. Watermuelder performing the
ceremony. The happy couple will reside on a farm five miles
southwest of town.
State vs R.C. Curtis
The case of the State vs R.C. Curtis was tried at Forest City
last week and resulted in a verdict in favor of Mr. Curtis, who
was acquitted. this case is well known throughout the county, and
involved an assault on B.J. Thompson, the defendant being accused
of aiding and abetting his son in the assult, for which the son
was found guilty, jail term and a fine of $500 assessed. In the
case, which was also tried last term, the jury disagreed. The
case went to the jury Monday evening at 4:30 and a special
sitting of the court was convened about 11 p.m. to receive the
verdict, which was one of acquittal.
Thos. Hulme Dead - A Noble Life Passes Quietly Away
The spirit of one of the most worthy characters of Winnebago
county passed over into the endless eternities forever to live
with his Maker, Tuesday afternoon at 1:10 o'clock, December 26,
1905. Death came rather unexpected and was a shock to the
community as it was generally understood that he was improving.
Tuesday evening, December 12, about 5:30 o'clock he went out to
the barn to do his chores. Shortly after he retuned to the house,
removed his coat and said, "Mother, the little mare has
killed me." He then became delirious and for several days
was kept under the influence of opiates, and was also kept packed
in ice for several days. All that medical skill and loving hands
could do to prolong the life of this good and generous man was
done, but nothing could save him and after two weeks of intense
suffering, death relieved him. the cause of his death was by
being kicked just below the stomach by his trotting mare, Sis.
Mr. Hulme claimed a few days after the accident that he went into
the stall, where Sis was kept loose, and looked into the box or
manger to see if there was plenty of straw and that when he
started to go out she wheeled and kicked, striking him just below
the stomach. although from the time he entered the house until
his death he never seemed to be quite in his right mind and just
how the accidnet occurred will probably never be known. His son
says that his father always kept a blanket on Sis and that this
blanket was always working around to one side. it is his belief
that this blanket had worked to one side and that as his father
was about to leave the stall he took hold of the blanket to
straighten it, when the mare wheeled and delivered the fatal
blow, as the was very touchy about the blanket moving about her
flanks.
Thomas Hulme was born at Denton, England, October 5, 1840. He
came to America in 1864, settling first in Stark county, Ohio,
where he was united in marriage to Miss Ann Hyde, May 11, 1865.
To this union were born five children, four of whom survive him.
In 1866 he moved to Tama county, Iowa, at which place he resided
until 1896, when he bacame a resident of Winnebago county. When
he came here he purchased the farm he still owns, ten miles
southeast of here, and where he lived until March, 1905, when he
and his wife moved to Woden, where his untimely death occurred,
at the age of sixty-five years, two months and twenty-one days.
Short services were held at the home Wednesday at 1 o'clock. the
remains were shipped from here to Traer that evening for burial.
The funeral services were held yesterday at 1 o'clock. Interment
was in Buckingham cemetery beside his eldest son, William, who
had preceded him to his home above several years ago. A true and
devoted wife and four children are left to mourn his loss --
George, who resides on the home farm, southeast of here, Samuel,
who lives near Traer, Mrs. Emma Hewitt, living three miles west
of Bancroft, and mrs. alice Reimers, who lived at Reinbeck, but
who left the day of the accident for Payette, Idaho, to make her
future home, and who was the only one unable to attend the
funeral of a beloved father.
He was a pioneer farmer and was successful in gaining a goodly
share of this world's goods to keep him in old age. The kindly
face of this grand, good man is hid from earthly view. His gentle
step will be heard on our street no more. To the writer's mind he
was that embodiment of manhood that made a community better for
his having lived in it. No man ever knew him to do a mean or
dishonorable act. No man ever found his word not good. He never
deceived anybody. He always had a kindly feeling for Buffalo
Center and worked for her advancement. He was one of the
principal workers of the fair association. Everybody keenly feels
the loss of this noble citizen. The bereaved wife and children
have the sympathy of the entire community in the loss of a kind
and loving husband and father in these, their sad hours of
affliction.
Annual Meeting
The Winnebago County Medical society held its annual meeting at Forest
City, Tuesday, December 18, at which time tuberculosis was the
subject under discussion. Papers were presented on different
phases of the question by Drs. Christianson and Gulixson, of Lake
Mills; Irish and Vesteborg, of Forest City; Thompson and Eiel, of
Buffalo Center.
Iowa News
-Oskaloosa, Dec 22 - Edwin Ellis, aged 25, was crushed to death
under four tons of slate at the colon mines here yesterday. He
was the son of Linza Ellis, state deputy of the Odd Fellows.
-Atlantic, Dec. 22 - Harry Whitted, a 16-year-old boy, had both
of his legs crushed by a freight train here. Amputation of both
limbs above the knees was necessary. The accident happened while
the boy was carrying some ice to a brakeman to cool a "hot
box". As he was crossing the track a train backed down on
him, throwing him under the car wheels and crushing both legs.
-Sioux City, Dec 22 - K. Mueny of Mapleton, a wealthy farmer, was
run over by a herd of cattle hungry for salt and trampled to
death. His body was found yesterday badly mangled by the feet of
the steers. Mueny left home two days ago intending to feed his
cattle salt, carrying a large sack with him. When he failed to
return home, a search was made by his neighbors and after hunting
for two days, he was found in a gully dead.
-Keokuk, Dec 23 - John N. Irwin, died yesterday at Hot Springs,
Ark. He was former minister to Portugal, governor of Arizona,
governor of Idaho, mayor of Keokuk and head of a wholesale
mercantile company here.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2010]