Iowa
Old Press
The Correctionville Argus
Correctionville, Woodbury co. Iowa
Friday, February 21, 1913
Iowa State News
LeMars, Ia. - Isaac S. Struble, congressman from the Eleventh
Iowa district from 1882 to 1890, was stricken while at the dinner
table at 12:30 o'clock Monday and died in a few minutes. He was
70 years of age.
Damage actions aggregating $130,000 have been filed by the
following residents of Waterloo: W.B. McMurray, $30,000; F.J.
Federspiel, $25,000; John Carney, $25,000; Clarence F. Ebert,
$25,000; J.H. Seeland, $25,000. All were filed against the
Business Men's Temperance association for libelous statements
made during the recent "wet-dry" fight.
Burglars entered the general merchandise store of John A.
Heterick at Logan, blew the safe, took about $75 in cash and
checks, and made good their escape without leaving a clue.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Cox, living at Belknap, near Ottumwa, are the
parents of a baby girl weighing but two and a half pounds. The
little one is healthy in spite of her weight.
A gelding, weighing a ton and topping the sale at $351, was a
feature of the sale at the Nate Nates farm near Nevada. The next
horse brought $292.50 and the next $285.
Bloodhounds trailed two stolen horses from Kalona to Iowa City
and then lost the trail on the paved streets. The horses belonged
to Harvey Swartzendruber.
The jury suit of Mrs. Annis Seley against Dr. C.A. Beattle, a
well-known physician, at Creston, in which she charged
malpractice, reported it was unable to agree. Mrs. Seley asked
for damages in the amount of $10,000. She declared that
inattention by Dr. Beattle caused her health to break down and
that she will be permanently afflicted.
After having been indicted on six counts, including fraudulent
banking, embezzlement, and obtaining money under false pretenses,
George W. Curtis, Jr., the former banker at Ferguson, was
discharged, and the cases against him dismissed. Curtis is a son
of a Redfield, Ia., banker and was arrested last fall.
John Bangs, a wealthy retired farmer and one of the earliest
pioneers of the vicinity of New London, has just passed away. He
was 87 years old. He is a direct descendant of the people who
came over from England in the ship "Anna" that landed
at Plymouth Rock in June, 1621. He came to Iowa in 1836.
Fight to a finish is on at Iowa Falls for the postoffice. C.L.
Brock has announced that he is in the race. Mr. Brock is a
veteran of the civil war and claims the office under the old
soldier preference act. S.I. Rutledge, Peter McCallum, Andrew J.
Morgan, Richard A. Fiest and C.L. Brock are in the field.
Mrs. Mary C. Rockwood, of Keokuk, aged 69, died as the result of
a fall down a flight of stairs about four weeks ago. The aged
woman never regained consciousness. She was well known in
southeastern Iowa.
Clarence Dobbe, living six miles north of Estherville, lost his
left hand while shelling corn for William Paul. His mitten caught
in a cog wheel, pulling his hand between the cogs and completely
cutting it off.
"Bill" Hogan, the county prisoner and pest house
patient who escaped from confinement for smallpox at Sioux City,
was captured at Sac City, having been followed by officers in an
automobile.
President Taft has nominated the following Iowa postmasters: Wm.
M. Ricke, at Breda; W.A. Simpkins at Britt; Olich Anderson, at
Wesley; John Maxwell at Grand Junction.
John T. Rose, nearly 102 years of age, died recently at Montezuma
of old age. He was born in New York and came to Iowa in 1870.
A message from Los Angeles, Cal., tells of the death of F.M.
Johnston of Superior, Neb., formerly a pioneer resident of Boone.
Mrs. C.L. Foote of Storm Lake, Ia., was here [Correctionville]
Sunday and attended the funeral of her grandmother, Mrs. Adah
Sheffield. Mrs. Foote is a daughter of Chas. Lee of this place.
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The Correctionville Argus
Correctionville, Woodbury co. Iowa
Friday, February 28, 1913
Iowa State News.
District Judge Albrook at Fort Dodge decided that Hon. L.S.
Coffin, 90, noted philanthropist, needs a permanent guardian. The
judge said he did not consider the question of Coffin's sanity,
but thought a man of his years was rapidly approaching a
condition when he could not manage the big estate he had
accumulated.
The International Council of Women for Missions has announced an
institute to be held in co-operation with the Y.W.C.A. at Des
Moines beginning March 10. Miss Frances D. Patterson, a
missionary in china for several years, will conduct the
institute.
George H. Paul, the millionaire realty man of Washington, Ia.,
escaped death remarkabley, when a Milwaukee freight engine
colided with his $10,000 Pierce-Arrow. The automobile was torn to
pieces in the crash, but Mr. Paul was scarcely bruised.
Fremont Wilkins and Fred Fitzsimmons have been returned to Logan.
Wilkins was wanted on a charge of wife desertion and Fred
Fitzsimmons is charged with knifing his cousin, Roy Fitzsimmons.
Both were apprehended in Omaha.
Five hundred people witnessed the fourth wedding at the Galloway
Agricultural club in Waterloo. Miss Bertha Podeska was married to
John Handorf of Marshalltown. Every expense was paid by Mr.
Galloway.
Louis Gauiter, the oldest citizen of Lamoni, is dead. He was 96
years old. He was a seaman for twenty years. The last ship in
which he sailed had carried him from France to America for twenty
voyages.
The trial of Mrs. Lillian Lawrence, one of the six indicted as an
outgrowth of the recent sensation said to involve two girls and
many Le Mars men is entertaining the curious crowds in that city.
John White, 40, a stockman from Waukon, was killed under the
wheels of a Chicago Great Western train at the Nineteenth street
crossing in Dubuque. Just how the accident occurred is not known.
J.C. Spencer, 48, member of the implement firm of J.C. Spencer
& Co., committed suicide in the basement of his home in Iowa
City, by sending a bullet from a revolver into his forehead.
Sheriff Crimmins of Keokuk left for Kansas City to take charge of
C. Bruce Lake, alleged defaulting county clerk, who was arrested
in that city.
The body of an infant was picked up in the brush near Dubuque by
boys. The body was wrapped in a skirt and newspaper.
Isaac Prugh, Iowa's oldest undertaker, passed away recently at
Burlington at the age of [illegible, may be 81 or 91] years. He
engaged in the business continuously for sixty years and in that
period conducted about 11,000 funerals.
Miss Katherine Hummer, state agent for the industrial school for
girls at Mitchellville, has resigned to become matron of the
children's home at Boise City, Idaho.
Maurice Handschin, 9 years old, while playing with a revolver,
which the family did not know was loaded, shot himself at his
home in Boone. Doctors say the lad may recover.
Jesse Stewart, a barber of Jewell, drank a bottle of his own hair
tonic because he could not buy liquor. He died shortly afterward.
Stewart was from Dows and had been in Jewell but a short time.
E.R Madden, convicted of conspiracy in connection with the
burning of three buildings, was refused a new trial by Judge
Maxwell, and was sentenced to three years in the reformatory at
Anamosa.
Romey Massey, a farmer living near Leon, was killed in a runaway
between Woodland and Lineville. The team became frightened and
Mr. Massey was thrown to the ground and lived but a few hours.
With a bullet hole entirely through his body, Rex, the
12-year-old son of James Peterson of Albia, is hovering between
life and death. The bullet was from a rifle he was carrying when
hunting with his father.
For the killing of Engineer Billy Boyce of the Iowa Central a
jury at Mason City awarded his widow a verdict of $8,479. He was
an engineer for thirty years and met his death in a preventable
accident.
Charles Erlandson, the third of a trio of young men indicted on
charges of criminal assault upon Cecelia Louis at Dubuque was
found guilty of assault and battery, and sentenced to thirty days
in the county jail. One of the other young men was also given the
same sentence upon the same verdict. The other was found guilty
as charged in the indictment and was given a life sentence.
The jury in the case of the Rev. E.J. Geddes of Knoxville against
the estate of John W. Murphy returned a verdict for the estate.
Geddes some time ago procured $20,000 in mortuary notes, payable
to a Kansas city university. Later he took a note of $2,300
payable to himself as commission for the $20,000. The jury found
the notes without consideration and procured by undue influence.
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