Iowa
Old Press
Sioux Valley News
Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa
January 7, 1898
IOWA STATE NEWS
- A very sad incident occurred four miles northeast of Moulton a
short time ago when Miss Lena Gale committed suicide. It is said
that the young lady and Mr. Alva Gan, a young man living in the
same neighborhood, had gone together for a number of years, and
she had become very much in love with him. Mr. Gan married
another girl and the great disappointment to Miss Gale is the
alleged cause of her suicide. The young people are all of the
very best families in that neighborhood and are very highly
esteemed by their friends. Miss Gale has taught school most
successfully for a number of years.
- Fire in the business portion of Osceola destroyed the buildings
of E. Percells, grocery; Frank Edwards, cigar shop; J.B. Banta,
real estate, Long & Winters, meat market; McAnley Lumber
company; Frank Edwards, lunch counter; J.G. Watts, jewelry store;
A.L. Lash, shoe store; Wixom & Hargrover, lunch counter. This
is the third time that part of the town has been laid low by the
fire fiend. The loss is placed at about $10,000 and was about
half insured.
- John F. Jackson, a farmer near Avoca, has a horse that is 41
years old and is probably the oldest horse in the United States.
Mr. Jackson feels very grateful to the old animal for it once
saved his life. While herding cattle in western Nebraska in 1864
he was attacked by Indians and the horse carried him out of
danger by its fleetness.
- A party of twenty-five or thirty friends of C.S. Harrison
living near Tabor, gave him a happy surprise one day recently by
slipping into his corn fields and husking and cribbing over 1,000
bushels of corn for him. He was laid up by illness and because of
that the husking bee was given him.
- Mrs. Emerine Kenedy, one of the pioneers of Dubuque, is dead,
aged 75 years. She has been a resident of that city for
fifty-five years and was a sister of the late Judge King, who
established the first newspaper in the northwest.
- The first Methodist church at La Porte City has been dedicated
by Dr. E.J. Ives of Auburn, N.Y., the great church dedicator. The
seating capacity of the church is 650.
- E.B. Linehan has received a contract from the West Memphis
Packet company to build a $19,000 iron hull steamer. It means the
opening of the Iowa Iron works at Dubuque.
- A rich vein of coal three and a half feet in thickness, has
been discovered in new territory near Ottumwa. The coal is hard
and unexcelled for steam making.
- E.M. Parsons has a contract to furnish the Mexican government
65,000 bushels of corn at $1.67 per bushel laid down in the City
of Mexico.
- Morris & Co. jewelers at Mt. Pleasant were damaged by fire.
The show window caught fire from a gas jet and the contents and
plate glass were destroyed.
- Prompted by jealousy, Mrs. Lewis Marsh of Cedar Rapids,
swallowed four ounces of carbolic acid and a pint and a half of
whisky, dying in terrible agony.
- Fred Gephardt of Tama county had his skull fractured by being
jerked from his buggy by an unruly colt that he was trying to
load.
- The postoffice at Finis, Henry county, has been discontinued,
mail will go to Rome.
- C.C. Spaulding has been appointed postmaster at Horton, Bremer
county.
[transcribed by C.J.L., January 2007]
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Sioux Valley News
Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa
January 13, 1898
IOWA STATE NEWS
- James Lamon, a young farmer, saw a young lady on the streets of
Burlington for the first time, fell desperately in love, followed
her home. She called the police and now James has been assigned
to duty on the stone pile while Cupid refuses to go on his bond.
- Igna Blubaugh has returned to Melrose after an absence of
eighteen years, during which time he was believed to have died.
He was forced to establish his identity by means of a peculiar
connection between two of his toes on one foot.
- Mrs. Hamm and Mrs. Rapp have sued the Davenport Glucose company
for damages in the sums of $17,000 and $10,000 for the deaths of
their husbands that resulted from an explosion in the plant of
the defendant company.
- A bequest has been left for the establishment of a Woman's
Christian association hospital at Council Bluffs.
- Newton Baptists have been left a handsome legacy by Mrs. Sarah
H. Webster, who died recently in Ohio.
- Ex-Judge Evans, one of the oldest settlers at Ames and for many
years prominent in that county, is dead.
- Dr. W.C. Wheeler has been appointed a member of the board of
pension examining surgeons at Leon.
- Charles Barnerd of Springville had his collar bone broken by a
horse that attacked him in the stall.
- David Stack received serious if not fatal injuries by being
thrown from his wagon at Burlington.
- J.F. Seahill, John and William Ambrose, have been arrested at
Jefferson on the charge of larceny.
- Orlon Caldwell has been arrested at Boone on the charge of
disposing of mortgaged property.
- A.F. Mitchell, druggist, Marshalltown, has given a mortgage of
$1,307.71 to secure creditors.
- Joe Vannish of Iowa county has been held to the grand jury on
the charge of criminal assault.
- Mr. Ed Calloway has been arrested at Keokuk on the charge of
passing counterfeit money.
- It is said that the Musquawki Indians are having a profitable
season in hunting and trapping.
- It appears to be probable that W.E. Tucker will be the next
postmaster at Mason City.
- William Nolan and Peter Bensen, overcoat thieves, were fined
$20 each at Estherville.
- Charles Hofginger of Earling was seriously injured by falling
into an elevator bin.
- Gilbert Sheppard, an inmate, was found dead at the poor house
of Pocahontas.
- A New Sharon man has succeeded in preserving watermelons in
perfect condition.
- The Knights of the Globe is the last secret order to being
business in the state.
- The Colo Banner appeared last week, being the first
paper ever published there.
- Mrs. Thomas Sturgeon of Clarion fell on the icy sidewalk,
breaking one of her legs.
[transcribed by C.J.L., January 2007]