| Cedar Rapids Gazette August 21, 1933 Monticello Flyers Killed PLANE CRASHES NEAR CLARENCE |
Biggest Haul Is Made At Cascade; Ten Men In Jail20 Federal, State And County Officers Mobilized For Mopup; Much Wet Goods Confiscated. BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. |
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| CLARENCE, Ia.--Otis Briggs, 30, and William Hanken,
25, both of Monticello. Ia., were instantly killed shortly
before 9 A.M. Monday when their plane crashed six miles north of
here on the Howard Kirkpatrick farm. The men, both pilots, were enroute to Cram Field at Davenport when motor trouble forced them to attempt a landing in a pasture. The plane was seen circling over the Kirkpatrick farm by Herman Anderson and Elwood Kirkpatrick. The farmers heard the motor die and saw the plane dip out of sight behind several trees. Then they heard a crash. Rushing to the scene they found the plane on its nose with the two pilots, straped in their seats, dead. The plane was badly damaged. Dr. J.E. Smith of Clarence, found that both men had skull injuries and numerous broken bones. The bodies were brought to a local mortuary. Briggs and Hanken have been giving exhibition flights at a number of fairs in east Iowa this summer. Briggs an employee of the Zimmerman radio shop in Monticello, held a transport license. He had been flying for three or four years, coming here from Rock Island, his former home. He leaves a widow. Hanken, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hanken of Wayne township, near Monticello, is said to been owner of the plane, a monocoupe several years old. He held a student pilot's license. Hanken was unmarried. R.L. Stephens, Davenport, federal aeronautical inspector for Illinois and Iowa, who inspected the plane, declined to make a statement pending further investigation. It is believed that the men tried to land with the wind instead of against it. They were going to Davenport for their semi-annual inspection and renewal of their pilots licenses. Submitted by Steve Hanken |
Ten men were in jail at Anamosa last night after a squad of
twenty liquor sleuths had staged a dramatic round-up of
prohibition law violators throughout Jones county. Traveling in seven automobiles and striking simultaneously in a number of places, the federal, state, and county enforcement officers confiscated a large amount of wetgoods. It was one of the most impressive efforts of the dry forces of eastern Iowa since a cleanup was made in Cedar county last summer. Carry Blueprint of Cascade. The most excitement was caused at Cascade, part of which is just over the line in Dubuque county but within the legal 500-yard limit. There the raiders carried a blueprint of the town and every man knew just where he was to go. The sleuths made a quick dash to the suspected shops, quickly locked the doors and began a search of the premises. Cascade has been running "wide open," it is said, and the prohibition enforcement officers have been receiving many complaints. More than fifty letters have been received from women, it was reported. Search Faber's Place. The places raided in Cascade were as follows: A. J. Fabers soft drink parlor; William Koppess' soft drink parlor, John Aeschtgen's soft drink parlor; Mike Krause's and "Speed" Jassen's tire shop; H. F. Marceau's bakery. Arrests made in Cascade included Faber, Marceau, Jassen, Aeschtgen, Frank Breitbach, employee of Faber, and Louis Breitbach, employe of Koppess. Evidences of sales are said to have been collected in advance to aid in the prosecution of the cases. |
A large crowd gathered in the streets and watched
the proceedings with great interest. A news photographer was
snapping pictures as the liquor was gathered. The search
required several hours. Cascade was snowbound for ten days, as
far as railroad facilities are concerned, until late yesterday,
and there has been a coal shortage there. Liquor, however, sees
to have been plentiful. In Anamosa Maurice Ginsburg and Charles Wells were picked up. In Monticello Garrett Eller and Lee Bartlett were nabbed. Bartlett played with the Bunny baseball team in Cedar Rapids last year and is signed to play with Davenport. More baseball color was added to the raid in the arrest at Cascade of a brother of the famous Red Faber, Chicago White Sox pitcher. The home of Henry Eden, a farmer east of Monticello, was visited by a squad of officers, but he was ill and was not arrested. Twelve state and federal agents, including State Agent A. E. Nugent, of Cedar Rapids, and sheriffs and deputies of Linn, Jones, Jackson, Delaware and Benton counties, made up the raiding party. Sheriff John Bodenhofer of Anamosa, Sheriff Harry Manchester of Cedar Rapids, Sheriff R. L. Whelan of Benton county, and Sheriff Dell McElroy of Maquoketa were active in the cleanup. Included in the property sized were several barrels of wine, home brew. spiked beer, alcohol, punch, and slot machines. --Anamosa newspaper, ca. 1920 Steve Hanken writes: "Mr. Eden, the one bootlegger who was not arrested at the time, was my father's cousin. It is a local rumor that his still remains buried at the farm known as "Stormy Acres" where Hank Eden, AKA "Stormy," did a pretty good business in home made whiskey." |
| Carrie Nation in Anamosa | ||
 I have found this information you might be interested in. It was written by my great grandfather |
Martin Byrd who was born in Anamosa
in 1851. It's dated 1926: "My father's name was Fielding Robison Starks Byrd. (He's listed in the 1854 Jones County census). At one time he was delegate to the general conference of the U.B. Church at Dayton, OH and drove from Iowa to that place in a one horse wagon. He also drove to Virginia for his sister and husband, Peter and Louisa Dull and brought them to Anamosa. They had two sons, James and Bryd and an adopted daughter who committed suicide after marriage. While at Anamosa, the ladies of Anamosa (my mother being one of the number) |
took their little axes, went into the
saloons and did the Carry Nation act on jugs and whiskey
barrels. They were the saloons licensed to sell beer and wine,
but like they would do now if permitted to sell light drinks,
they all sold whiskey, but the ladies spoiled several hundred
gallons. A barrel was worth eight or ten dollars then, very
little more than a quart of bootleg sells for now. I saw many a
pint sell for ten cents and what a lot of drunks in the good old
days. May we never see it again." --Mary Frazier Reed (grand daughter of Millie Byrd Frazier) |
| The Anamosa Eureka 19 Jul 1861 Room for More In a recent trip through Cass, Wayne, Monticello and Jackson Townships, we observed a large amount of prairie newly broken for farms next year, and still not a third of the land is under cultivation. There is abundance of room yet for emigrants, and any quantity of land in tracts from 40 acres up to 10,000 can be bought at $5 or less per acre. No emigrant could desire a better place for location than in Jones county. Submitted by Mary Kay Kuhfittig. |
The Anamosa Eureka, 19 Jul
1861 Brave Volunteers Although Jones County has yet sent no company of its own to the war, it has contributed many of its best men to those raised in the adjoining counties. Capt. Leffingwell's mounted company has at least half a dozen such, four of them from the little village of Bowen's Prairie, Messrs. Howard Smith, Orrin Crane, Theodore Hopkins and Isaac White. Their departure last week gave occasion to a very pleasant scene. The Home Guards of that town, under command of Lieut. Isaac Willard, escorted them some miles on their way after a solemn leave-taking and addresses by Messrs. Bates, Searle, Johnson, O. Whittimore, Willard, Briggs and Hopkins. Rev. Mr. Searle was with the mounted escort, and offered on horseback a prayer that was alike impressive in itself and in the circumstances and situation of its delivery. |
One incident of the occasion deserves particular mention. Mr. White had not volunteered with the rest, but set watching the proceedings when Curtis Stone, Esq., rode up on a fine horse, the very best he owned. "If I had that horse," said White, "I would go too." "Take it," was the noble reply. "It is yours!" No sooner said than done: White vaulted into the saddle and started at the word to fight for his country. The gift did honor alike to giver and recipient, and both deserve to be long and gratefully remembered. Submitted by Mary Kay Kuhfittig. |
| Anamosa Had Many Brilliant Professional Men | ||
| Since Dr. Clark
Joslin came to Fairview township of Jones county as the pioneer
physician and settled in Anamosa, the medical profession has
been well represented in this town. Many of the doctors came and
made Anamosa the seat for their life's avocation and others were
transient, spending only a year or two in this place. Dr. Fred Sigworth, whose father was a doctor here before him, has named the members of the medical profession as he recalls them. There were the doctors J. S. Dimmitt, Ira Bates, and Lyman J. Adair, the father of the nationally known Dr. Fred Adair of the obstetrics department in Chicago. |
Dr. E. W. Gawley
possessed a flashy personality, was a horseman, but
nevertheless, a good doctor and surgeon. Dr. Thomas C. Gorman
studied with him, and for many years was a successful physician
and a great booster for the community in which he lived. Dr.
Druet was here at about the same time, Dr. Sigworth says. Then
there were Dr. Pratt Skinner who established the drugstore in
Anamosa which his son, Will, still maintains; Dr. Hasard, a
homeopath, and Dr. A. G. Hejinian, a physician and surgeon. In 1877, Harry Sigworth came to Anamosa where he bought out a Dr. Blackslee. He was soon followed by his brother, M. P. Sigworth. Since then there |
have been Dr. J. E. King,Dr.
Bywater, and a Dr. Hunt, who bought him out. For a short time, Dr. McKay was in Anamosa and during that time he did a lot of surgery. He is located in California at present. Bringing the list up-to-date, Dr. Sigworth names the physicians in Anamosa in 1938. They are Dr. J. D. Paul, Dr. H. F. Dolan, Dr. E. G. Rawson, and himself, Dr. Fred Sigworth. From Centennial Edition of the Anamosa Eureka, Anamosa, Iowa, August 18, 1938, section 8, page 1, and submitted by Mary Kay Kuhfittig |
| Struck by Lightning Heavy Loss to Jones County Farmer Today | ||
| (Two
items about the same event submitted by
Sharon Oltmanns.) MONTICELLO, IOWA, JUNE 23—The big barn of Tobias Tobiason was struck by lightning today, burning to the ground, together with 100 tons of hay, 300 bushels of oats and all the farm, machinery. The loss is $5000. This is the third time in ten years that this barn this burned. Source: The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, June 23, 1897 |
During the big storm that passed over this city yesterday morning, the big barn of Tobias Tobiason, one mile south of town, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground together with it's contents, comprising 300 tons of hay, 500 bushels of corn and 1500 bushels of oats, besides a large quantity of farm machinery. B. B. Behrends, who rents the place, and his hired man were In the barn when it was struck, but besides being knocked insensible for a few moments, escaped | injury. The barn and it's
contents were insured in the German Mutual Insurance company of
Wayne township tor $3000, while the loss will reach $3000. This
is the third barn that has been burned from the same foundation
in ten years, but we understand it is the owner's intention to
rebuild it. Source: Cedar Rapids Weekly Gazette, July 1, 1897 |
