Iowa Old Press
Ruthven Free Press
Ruthven, Palo Alto, Iowa
September 6, 1917
IOWA NEWS
- According to announcements of the war department fifteen Iowans who
attended the first officers' training camp at Ft. Snelling are to be transferred
to the aviation service and will be sent to the aviation training camp at
Princeton. They are: Hugo W. Bottger, Iowa City; Paul J. Calder, Cedar Rapids;
Marcus G. Dubel, Sioux City; Clifford Ferguson, Victor; Thomas A. Gardner,
Ottumwa; Bernard R. Glatts, Iowa City; Henry K. Huber, Tipton; George G. Holmes,
West Liberty; Allison F. Johnson, Sioux City; Jack Y. Longstreet, Red Oak; Carl
H. Myers, Harlan; Fred H. Meinzer, Iowa City; Albert Muir, Ames; Leo C. Watson,
Des Moines; Edgar B. Williams, Cedar Rapids; Stephen R. Walker, Sioux City.
- Word has been received at Tipton from Roy S. Potter, a member of the Lewis
Machine Gun company of the Canadian regular army in France, and a former Tipton
boy. Mr. Potter, who was wounded several months ago while in active service and
spent several weeks in a convalescent hospital at Down, England, is now on a
short furlough and is visiting in Ireland. However, he does not expect to
receive notice to be sent back to the front, but will probably be ordered to
return to Canada and do guard duty there.
- Agents of the federal department of justice have discovered that a
number of books containing treasonable matter have been secretly placed in many
of the school and public libraries of the state by German agents. One of the
books, written by Fritz von Frantzius, has come into possession of the federal
officer in Des Moines. It is one of the most treasonable that has ever come
within reach of the reading public.
- Five men were dangerously injured when the automobile in which they were
riding overturned after striking a deep rut in the road near Oskaloosa recently.
Francis Simmons, Jr., son of F.W. Simmons of Ottumwa, lies near death in
Abbott's hospital at Oskaloosa, while his father and two brothers, Lieut. John
Simmons and Kenneth Simmons and Lieut. Paul Sculze of Chicago are suffering from
serious injuries.
- Just because she is ninety-one years old does not deter Mrs. Elizabeth Dennis
of Iowa City from doing her bit for the boys at the front. Mrs. Dennis spends
most of her time knitting and crocheting for the Red Cross. She was a member of
the Ladies' Aid of civil war fame, which was much the same sort of an
organization as the present day Red Cross.
- The former head of the department of journalism at the state university,
Lieutenant Conger Reynolds, recently commissioned at Ft. Snelling, has been
assigned to the intelligence department of the army directly under the adjutant
general of the United States. His duties will be to gather information of value
to the armies in France.
- When the automobile in which he and his son were riding was struck by a fast
Milwaukee passenger train near Council Bluffs, William Vesey was instantly
killed and his son who was in the car with him was so seriously injured that he
is not expected to live.
- Walter Kirchner of Keokuk has the distinction of being the youngest driver
that has ever passed though Yellowstone Park. The family has just returned from
a 4,500 mile trip through the far western states.
- When the car in which they were driving struck a ditch in a curve and turned
turtle, Mrs. A.J. Stover of Pocahontas was killed and her husband was painfully
injured. Both were pinned under the car and although the accident occurred on a
well traveled road and early in the evening they were not discovered until the
following morning. Mrs. Stover was dead from suffocation, as her head had been
caught under the back seat of the car. Mr. Stover's injuries while painful were
not serious.
- United States Marshal E. R. Moore and Deputy Marshal Healy recently visited a
number of towns in the northern part of the state and warned more than 240
Germans whose actions and words had been indicating disloyalty that if there was
not a cessation they would be locked up until after the war. In Gladbrook,
Garwin, Berlin and Reinbeck, the leading pro-Germans were assembled in the
public square and lectured while the rest of the townsfolk looked on.
- Mrs. C. Shearer of Cedar Rapids has received word that her grandson, Fred
Spaulding, a former Cedar Rapids boy, has won a place in the Royal Flying corps
of Great Britain and has begun his course of training. Mrs. Shearer also
received word that Fred's brother, Rev. C.A. Spaulding of Pasadena, Cal., has
just entered the Y.M.C.A. war work there.
- An unidentified man stepped from behind a tree near the fair grounds at Marion
one night recently and shot Miss Esther Trine five times with a small caliber
revolver as she was entering the grounds with a friend. Two of the bullets
struck her in the head and two in the thigh. She was taken to a hospital in
Cedar Rapids and physicians say that she will recover.
- If the pro-German residents of Hardin county and of Hubbard in particular do
not cease their disloyal utterances and actions there is a strong possibility of
an old fashioned tar and feather party. The American citizens are getting mighty
tired of the action of the German residents.
- Two men who have been prominently identified with the "People's Council
for Democracy and Peace," which is backed by pro-Germans, were arrested in
Eldora recently. They were John and Ed Wird and are accused of treasonable
conduct.
- The deputy game warden of the state, Norman Muncy, of Iowa City, has been
arrested as a bootlegger, because he was caught by a deputy United States
marshal bringing some of the forbidden beverage across the line into the state.
He will fight the bone dry law as unconstitutional.
- H.C. Hencke of Keokuk says he has the largest tomatoes in Iowa this year. He
has gathered two that weighed 26 and 27 ounces respectively.
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- Just as we go to press we learn of the marriage of Mr. Herman Peterson and
Miss Ruth Keefer. Particulars will be given next week.
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ADDITIONAL LOCALS
- Miss Rhoda Madsen went Tuesday evening to Livermore where she was called by
the illness of her aunt, Mrs. J.W. Estabrooks.
- FOR SALE Quarter block with good six-room house. Now occupied by N.C.
Bale. Inquire of J.E. Schooley, Emmetsburg, Iowa.
- FOUND- Two electric Flat irons about 1 mile south of the Thos. Brennan
farm. Owner may have same by paying for this notice. Gus Lundstrom.
- Nels Simonsen and son Norris of Emmetsburg were visitors here Monday. They
were on their way to Ayrshire where Norris will teach school the coming year.
- Mr. and Mrs. Seth Smith autoed Sunday to Renwick and were accompanied by her
nieces, Misses Iva, Lola and Ruth Peters who had been spending their vacation
here.
Ruthven Free Press
Ruthven, Palo Alto, Iowa
Thursday, September 17, 1917
PETERSON- KEEFER NUPTIALS
Popular Young Couple Married in Spencer
Mr. Herman F. Peterson and Miss Ruth Keefer
were united in marriage at Spencer on Tuesday, September 4. Mr. Peterson had
been working in Dakota for several weeks and on his return Miss Keefer met him
in Spencer and they returned to Ruthven a few days later where they will make
their future home. The ceremony was performed by Justice McClain of Spencer.
The bride is a daughter of Frank Keefer of Utah. After her
graduation from high school she taught school near Laurens for one year, and for
three months previous to her marriage she was employed in the post office in
this city, making her home with her brother, Claude Keefer. She is a bright and
capable young lady and made many warm friends in the short time in which
she resided here.
The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Peterson and was born
and reared in this community. After finishing his education he engaged in the
carpenter business with Lewis Peterson, at which occupation he has been engaged
for the past five years. He is an excellent workman and is honest and sincere in
all his dealings. He is a lover of clean sport and is a baseball pitcher of no
mean ability. His success in life is a forgone conclusion.
The Free Press joins the many well wishers of Mr. and
Mrs. Peterson in wishing them a happy wedded life.