Iowa Old Press

LeMars Sentinel newspaper
dated Sept. 9, 1898

Mr. Jamieson helped to conduct the revival meetings at the Ruble school
house. A good deal of interest has been manifested by the people.

Akron Milling company delivered a load of flour at Crathorne a few days ago.

About nine o'clock last Wednesday morning the barn at the farm where Manny
Mann lives was notice to be on fire and the men all away. Mrs. Mann and the
little boy and a little girl were alone. They succeeded in getting the
horses out of the barn. It was a mystery how the fire started. A new

double seated buggy and two sets of harness and quite a quantity of grain
was burned. Mr. Mann considers his loss at about seven hundred dollars with
a little insurance on the grain. Only for the timely assistance of
neighbors the wheat granary would have gone too, also threshing machine.
The barn is owned by J. Johnson and his insurance had just expired.

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

Fred Baldwin returned from Minnesota last Wednesday where he had been
looking after his threshing interests.

John Coolbaugh started for his home in Pennsylvania Sunday evening after
several months sojourn here for his health.

Mrs. Hull and daughter, Nina, of Western Nebraska, who had been visiting
relatives here the past week, returned home Saturday.

Mrs. A.F. Eckenbeck, of Sioux City, arrived Thursday evening for a few days
visit with friends here and delivered a temperance lecture at the M.E.
Church Sunday evening to an appreciative audience.

Mrs. Walter Darville, assisted by her daughter, Carie, entertained about
eighteen ladies at her home Thursday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Hull and
daughter, of Nebraska. A most pleasant afternoon was spent by all.

Mr. and Mrs. Myers, who had been visiting relatives and friends in this
vicinity since Thursday, went to LeMars Saturday evening where they will
visit their son, G.W. Austin, until Wednesday when they expect to leave for
their home in Freeport, Ill.

Seney Camp Modern Woodmen of America was organized at Mc Arthur hall last
Saturday evening by S. Adelshein, of Sioux City, deputy H.C. A large
delegation of Woodmen from Struble was present and had charge of the
initiatory ceremonies. After the election and installation of officers the
crowd repaired to the genial home of M.G. Mills and partook of a bounteous
supper prepared by the ladies.

Frankie Trenery, of LeMars, was the guest of Robbie Rodolf on Tuesday.

WESTFIELD: (Special Correspondence)

P.N. Beaulieu had the misfortune to lose one of his driving horses last
Saturday.

The corn shellers at this place were compelled to quit work on account of
not being able to secure cars fast enough.

Mrs. A.M. Wheeler has not enjoyed very good health since her return to
Colorado and is looking for a girl to help her with her housework.

Wm. Pallutz has moved into the house formerly occupied by Frank McDonald.

B.H. Van Vleck has purchased a new corn sheller and has been busy the past
week shelling the corn which he has stored on his different farms.

The Ladies Aid society met Thursday at the home of Mrs. Spaulding. After
paying all expenses it was found that the net proceeds of the harvest supper
amounted to $39. The next meeting of the society will be held at the home
of Mrs. C. Meigs on the afternoon of the 15th.

During Friday night's storm the house of R. Cilly was struck by lightning,
but luckily, little damage was done.

CHURCHVILLE: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. H. Koenigh left Saturday evening for Council Bluffs to see her
daughter, Mrs. Rev. Bauernfiend, who is quite ill at present.

Koenig and Knapp are threshing for the Blecker Bros. this week.

Lila and Jessie Prosser left for their home in LeMars after two weeks visit
in this burg.

Miss Mattie Koenig and sisters visited relatives here Thursday and Friday.

Miss Lottie Wallis expects to give a grand entertainment in Churchville in
the near future.
Admission will be 15 cents, of which one-third, will go to benefit of the
United Evangelical church. A cordial invitation is extended to all, Tuesday
evening, September 13.

REMSEN: (from the Bell)

Miss Anna Kieffer returned Thursday from Rock Island where she spent her
summer vacation visiting with her parents.

W.D. Creglow is in attendance at the Republican state convention at Dubuque.

Rev. Father Conway, of Chicago, was in the city the forepart of the week
visiting with his brothers, P. J. and J. F. Conway.

MERRILL: (from the Record)

Mrs. John Burrell and son, Wesley, returned to their home at Portland,
Oregon, last Tuesday morning.

Peter Erpedling, who has just returned from the funeral of John Erpedling at
Waterloo, tells us that John's almost sudden death was caused by
inflammation of the bowels.

N.C. Puckett, of Nora, Ill., came out Tuesday evening for a visit with
friends here. He will leave the latter part of the week to begin his work
as ticket agent at Aurelia, Iowa. His wife, who has been visiting her
parents here the past two weeks, will accompany him.

About every spare man and team in town are busy these days hauling the
Jordan corn, which has been cribbed here the past two years, to the cars for
shipment to Europe.

Miss Minnie Koenig, of Stanton Township, returned home Tuesday morning from
a week's visit with friends in Waterloo.

LeMars Sentinel newspaper
dated Sept. 12, 1898

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

Ernest Kennedy returned from Appleton City, Mo., Tuesday night.

Will Ewin and Clarence Moore, two of Seney's volunteers, have come home on a
ten days' leave of absence. Watson Kennedy is still at Camp McKinley. The
boys look well although somewhat thinner than when they went away. They
expect to be mustered out in a few days.

The Ladies Aid society met at the home of Mrs. Milton Coolbaugh Wednesday
afternoon.

Mrs. A.F. Eckenbeck organized a W.C.T.U. society here last Monday afternoon
returned to her home in Sioux City on the evening train.

Elam Chapman got so excited over riding the goat at the Woodman Lodge last
Saturday night that he forgot his wife and left her here in town, drove home
alone and forced his way into the house through a cellar window and had the
key in his pocket.

Otto Pekelder has rented 160 acres of land near Sheldon and will move his
family there in the spring.

Mrs. J. Alderson was an Orange City visitor Wednesday.

WESTFIELD: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. Grove Lilly went to Sioux City Thursday for a few days shopping and
visiting.

W.J. Madden purchased and shipped five cars of feeders from here last week.

J.C. Button, of Akron, is building a store building 22x60 feet on his lot at
this place to be used as a hardware store.

Stanley Lilly started Friday on an excursion through Minnesota.

Bud Gay was visiting Tuesday and Wednesday with his uncle, G.B. Main. Bud
expects to return to the Annapolis Naval academy in a few days.

B. H. Van Vleck has purchased the farm which the Neal boys have been working
the past couple of years.

Parties from Akron are enlarging the building formerly occupied by Payne's
Barber shop and fitting it up for a stock of general merchandise.

Chapman and Lilly finished shelling the Armour corn Friday. This makes
about twenty-five thousand bushels of corn which has been shelled and
shipped from here in the last month.

Payne has moved his barber shop into the rooms formerly occupied by Wm.
Pallutz.

C. Meigs has sold his threshing outfit to B.H. Vleck who intends to run it
the balance of the season.

AKRON: (from the Register)

Miss Jettie McCaustland went to LeMars Wednesday to visit friends.

James Buckingham was thrown from a horse a few days ago and had his collar
bone broken. Dr. Clark set the fractured bone.

A young man by the name of John Silver, working for Homer Robinson, near
Westfield, was either kicked or struck in some way on the side of the head
while out with the team and became unconscious for several hours. Dr.
Cilley reports him as doing well.

Dr. Ellis reports a number of cases of malarial fever. We hope that no
serious results will follow. A son of B.R. Adams is down with it, also a
son of Dave Mudgett. Some members of the family of Jeff Webb are also
reported to be afflicted with that fever.

Misses Dot Root and Inez Melius departed today for Lincoln, Nebraska, where
they will attend the university for the coming year. These two estimable
young ladies will be missed very much in the large circle of friends. The
Register wishes them success. L. F. Root accompanied them as far as Sioux
City.

B.R. Ogden drove to LeMars last Saturday and from there he left for
Columbus, Ohio, to visit at his old home which he left nearly thirty years
ago. He will without a doubt have a pleasant visit.

(From the Tribune:)

M.P. Dunn and R.B. Ogden drove to LeMars Sunday, where they took the train
for Cincinnati, Ohio, to attend the national G.A.R. encampment.

There occurred Thursday afternoon at four o'clock, the marriage of Peter M.
Fulton and Lisa A. Jeffers, at the home of the bride. The hymeneal ceremony
was performed by Rev. J.P. Coffman, of Perry, Iowa, formerly pastor of the
Akron Baptist church, and was witnessed by only the intimate acquaintances
and relatives of the contracting parties.

The public school opened last Monday with a splendid attendance. Principal
Schroeder hands in a report showing that the number of scholars enrolled in
the various rooms on the opening day was as follows: First Primary, 64;
Second Primary, 41; First Intermediate, 54; Second Intermediate, 34; High
School, 43. The total attendance numbered 278 scholars, as against an
enrollment of 259 pupils on the opening day last year.

Last Saturday afternoon, while at work on the farm of W.G. Lillibridge, Roy
Toppings met with an accident from which he narrowly escaped serious injury
or death. He was engaged in driving a four-horse gang plow, when the team
gave a sudden jerk and threw him under the plows. He immediately yelled,
"Whoa!" to the horses, and as good fortune would have it, they stopped, but
not before he had sustained a bad cut on the right arm and another on the
right leg, above the knee, in which two stitches were taken. Roy managed to
get to the house, and the hired girl, who was the only person at the house,
dressed his wounds as well as possible and brought him to town, where he
received proper attention from Dr. Clark. He has now so fare recovered as
to be able to sit up for a short time during the day. besides the cuts Roy
received some bad bruises and is quite lame and sore. It was indeed a
fortunate escape.

REMSEN: (from the Bell)

Misses Katherine and Eva Gill, of Burlington, Wisc., arrived in the city
Wednesday morning and are enjoying a visit with their cousins, Miss Emma
Kass and Kass Bros.

Miss Clara Beatty, of Sabulo, Iowa, who has been visiting with Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Kinney, of Henry Township, left Monday for LeMars to visit with friends.

LeMars Sentinel newspaper
dated September 19, 1898

Frank Draheim visited the Omaha Exposition last week. He says its well
worth going to see.

Born, on September 1, to P. Miller and wife, of Johnson township, a girl.

Mrs. Lutz, of Akron, Ohio, has been visiting at the Gill home.

Mrs. Nuttall is visiting at the Goldie home.

Mr. Scott went to Sioux City last Tuesday to see his brother-in-law, James
Hamilton, one of the returned soldiers who is sick there in the hospital
with the fever. He was not able to be brought home.

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

The Misses Belmond, of Spirit Lake, are visiting friends in this vicinity.

A.M. Cutland, who has charge of a construction gang at Worthington, Minn.,
spent Sunday with his family here.

Mrs. C. J. Zehr visited friends in Sibley a few days last week.

A large number of our citizens attended the fair at LeMars last week and all
considered it a grand success.

John Becker has secured a position with the Peavey Elevator Co. and will run
their elevator at LeMars commencing this week.

Mrs. Penman, of Rock Rapids, president of the W.C.T.U., expects to arrive
Wednesday and hold a meeting at the home of Mrs. R. Collins the same
evening.

Last Sunday morning at 10 o'clock occurred the death of R. G.(error--Alexander) Moir caused by
inflammation of the bowels. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning
at 10 o'clock at the house. Mr. Moir was an old settler in these parts and
leaves a large number of friends and relatives to mourn their loss.

WESTFIELD: (Special Correspondence)

Mrs. P. N. Beaulieu was in Sioux City last week, shopping and visiting with
friends and relatives.

The framework of Fred Dewolf's new residence is nearly completed.

The Northwestern telephone company's linemen were at work in this vicinity
last week, stringing the two new wires which are to connect Sioux City with
Sioux Falls.

Miss Palmer, of Boston, who has been visiting at the home of B. H. Van Vleck
left on the afternoon train Friday.

Mr. Wilson, of Waterloo, who has been visiting for a few days with his son,
H. Wilson, left Wednesday for Omaha to take in the Exposition.
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MERRILL:
The new telephone company known as the Houts secured a franchise in the city
of LeMars recently. After getting this franchise they began building the
line from Sioux City to LeMars. During the past week workmen have been
putting up poles in this vicinity. We notice they have placed the telephone
poles along the entire Fifth Street toward Dalton, but thus far none down
toward the business part of Merrill. The question naturally arises, are
they going to give us the go by, or are they working the town for a bonus?
In either case they will find Merrill equal to the emergency. If they want
a bonus of some kind or other they will find our citizens rather obstinate.
If, on the other hand, they wish to leave us out in the cold, they will find
us equally complacent. Merrill is at present well supplied with means of
communicating with the outside world. We have the Iowa local and long
distance telephone with four wires, we have two telegraph companies and
about a dozen mail trains daily. The new telephone company may come in if
they wish, but we are confident the people of Merrill will not try to buy
them to come.

AKRON: (from the Tribune)

Married, at Tekamah, Neb., September 7, 1898, Mr. Frank A. Edgar, of Onawa,
Ia., and Miss Mamie Waterbury, of Akron. The young people will reside at
Rock Rapids.

LeRoy Adams returned last Saturday from a 700-mile trip on his bicycle.
From Akron he went to Marshalltown to attend the annual I.O.G.T. grand lodge
session, going from there to his old home at Lenox. After visiting the
exposition in Omaha, he returned home, and reports a most pleasant journey.

Twenty-two car loads of young cattle, 862 head, arrived early this morning
for W.G. Lillibridge, from the ranges of North Dakota and Colorado. About
2000 more will follow.

Mrs. O.F. Haskell returned last Friday from Vancouver, Wash. The family
went there May 30, with the intention of making it their permanent home but
the country did not offer the expected inducements. Mr. Haskell will return
in the course of a couple of months. The family of A. E. Robertson, who
also went to Vancouver, have decided to remain.

LeMars Sentinel newspaper
dated September 22, 1898

     Sioux County Herald :  The death of Alexander Moir, Sr., occurred last Sunday forenoon at his home in Sherman township in this county.  The funeral took place on Tuesday.  Deceased was born in Scotland seventy-seven years ago.  While still a young man he came to this country, and settled in the lake regions of Canada .  At twenty-eight (actually 31) he was married to Miss Jessie Ross , who was ten (actually 13) years his junior.  Thirteen children were born to them, five daughters, and eight sons.  In 1882, Mr. Moir and family moved to this county, where they have since resided.  The saving of the many years of faithful toil and wise frugality were invested in Sioux county land, and the natural and divine reward promised to "the hands of the diligent" was realized in this case; those who depended on him were well provided for.  But not only in a material sense did he provide well for his family.  Though not a man of great book learning himself, he realized the value of an education, and did a good deal to educate his children.  Several of them have been teachers in this county, and the high order of their work was recognized.  The thirteen children all survive him and all but one--who is in Oklahoma --were about his bedside in his latest hours.  All the children are married, except three sons who are still at home, the youngest of whom is eighteen.  Although it is forty-five years ago that Alexander Moir and Jessie Ross were married, the faithful wife of these many years kept faithful watch as his life ebbed away.
     Personally Mr. Moir was a man of excellent character; a typical Scotchman, quiet, sober, industrious, honest; honored and respected by his neighbors--they all "liked Mr. Moir ", and why should they not?  He seemed to like them all, and a man cannot well seem that way for a long number of years without its being pretty nearly true.  He was a man of whom the world at large did not hear, but a man of the best social timber.  Of harmonious organization, he was very unobtrusive, and lived "far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife".  A true and faithful husband, a kind and thoughtful father.   The day of his life was calm, and its sunset serene.  He has realized the beautiful benediction that "his children rise up and call him blessed."
     The funeral services were held at the home Tuesday and remains brought to LeMars for burial.  A large number of persons attended the funeral, paying tribute to the memory of the deceased.

POTOSIA:
The Ladies Aid met with Mrs. H. Williamson on Wednesday and the amount
raised paid the last cent due on the pastor's salary from this charge.
Election of officers took place which resulted as follows: President, Mrs.
D. Baker; vice president, Mrs. Andrew Crouch; secretary, Mrs. Ed Swansen.
Thanks was voted the retiring president, Mrs. J. Van Dusen, for the good
work she has accomplished in behalf of the society. If it had not been for
her untiring efforts and zeal, the society would not have accomplished what
it has. The next Aid will meet with the new president, Mrs. D.M. Baker,
next Wednesday.

James Pavlovic will go to Omaha in a few days to visit the exposition a
week.

O. King, of Adaville, basked on the shady side of the store with the boys
Sunday.

Mr. Cleary, who has been sick at the home of T. Cleary, is better and he and
his sister returned to their home at Hornick Friday.

Mrs. Frank Crouch visited from Wednesday until Saturday with relatives in
Merrill.

Linda Baker went to LeMars Saturday and will work a short time for Mrs. J.
Cooper.

Cora Van Dusen and Claudia Crouch spent a few days in LeMars last week
visiting friends and attending the fair.

Joe Barels, from near Oyens, visited friends here Sunday.

Lee Hurt went to Doon Saturday after his team. He expects to be back in a
few days.

F. Richardson and wife expect to go soon to visit for a few weeks with their
daughter, Mrs. Levi Waddington, near Moville.

A county bridge will soon be put in on the road past Mr. Kavarnas' farm.

Earl Remington, of Sioux City, visited Saturday at D.M. Baker's.

Roscoe Small and family, of Millnerville, visited relatives here Sunday.

Dr. Hess was out to his farm here Sunday. The doctor has been real sick for
some time and this is the first time he has been out since his illness.

Rob Crouch, of Merrill, visited his son here Sunday.

The school board met in the Potosia school house on Monday and quite a
lively time was had. A petition objecting to one of the teachers was
brought before the meeting which produced a good deal of discussion. The
director claims he will contest the case. No charge was made against the
teacher whatever and we would suggest that for the good of the teacher the
director let the matter drop as quietly as possible. The school for which
she had applied has the name of being a "hard one" and the patrons thought
another teacher should be chosen.

SENEY: (Special Correspondence)

C.A. Rodolph transacted business at Akron Monday.

Miss Anna Brunken, of Sterling, Ill., arrived Tuesday evening for a visit
with relatives in this vicinity.

Mrs. Stella Penman, district president of the W.C.T.U. arrived here Tuesday
evening and perfected a Union at this place with eight charter members.
Mrs. C.A. Rodolf was elected president; Mrs. Miles Kennedy, secretary, and
Mrs. Wm.Collins, treasurer.

On last Sunday evening Rev. Hotchkiss closed his year's labor as pastor of
the M.E. Church here.
Mr. Hotchkiss has made hosts of friends here who will wish for him much
success wherever his lot may be cast in the future.

Born, on Monday morning, September 19, 1898, unto Lou Smith and wife, a
daughter. Lou is the proudest man in the county.

Among those who attended the Omaha Exposition from this place this week were
Mr. and Mrs. H. Becker, Watson Kennedy, James and Ella Deegan and their
mother.

Rev. Mr. Hotchkiss left Monday morning for Emmetsburg to attend the M.E.
Conference.

Next Friday evening there will be a camp fire and sociable at the home of A.
McArthur in honor of the returned volunteers and old soldiers. Everybody is
invited to be present and enjoy a good sociable time.

H.R. Foster, of Deer Creek, Ill., arrived last Wednesday morning for a few
week's visit with his sister, Mrs. C. J. Zehr.

One night last week someone threw a hammock into W.C. Lancaster's yard.
Owner can have it by calling and identifying same.

The fall term of the Seney school began last Monday with Miss Briggs as
teacher.

JAMES: (Special Correspondence)

Otto Zeiglein is threshing for the Claney boys.

Ben Dean and Chas. Reid are threshing for J.H. Woolworth.

Wheat on James Fulton's farm yielded 21 1/2 bushels per acre. Rob Woolworth
is the renter.

Mrs. I.N. Foss and Mrs. D. McCartney were callers at Chaneys Tuesday.

Mrs. Robinson from Manchester is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Jos.
Creamer.

Mrs. C. E. Chaney is visiting Prof. J. H. Austin and family at Minneapolis.

Arrangements have been made to begin shelling the corn stored here next
Monday. Jas. Enrsby from Sioux City will do the work.

Mrs. Gracie E. Claney returned from a two weeks visit at Primghar Wednesday
morning. Mr. Claney is acting agent for the Central at Storm Lake.

LeMars Sentinel newspaper
dated September 26, 1898

CRATHORNE: (Special Correspondence)

Rev. Emil Mueller, now of Nora Springs, will preach at Plymouth church next
Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, September 28. This will be a great
pleasure to the many friends of Rev. Mueller in this neighborhood.

Mrs. Gill and Mrs. Geo. Doty and children and Will Davis, started Friday for
an overland trip to visit in Emmett county.

Donald McKinnon, of Hawarden, was calling on friends near Crathorne the
latter part of the week.

Miss Ella Zimmerman has been visiting at Crathorne, with Mrs. Blakeway, for
a few days.

John E. Erickson has gone over to do plowing on his farm near Adaville.

It is hoped all of the friends, both old and young will be in attendance at
the Sunday School picnic, Wednesday, September 28, at the Ross grove,
southwest of Crathorne.

John McGillvery and family move this week to Dakota to make their future
home. May success go with them is the wish of many friends in this
community.

School began today at the Glezen school west of Crathorne, with Miss Minnie
Bixby, teacher.

Some from this neighborhood attended church Friday evening at Dalton.

Miss Bessie Ross was a Crathorne visitor Monday night with Mrs. Blakeway.

WESTFIELD: (Special Correspondence)

C. Meigs and party of land seekers left Tuesday for Minnesota.

Mr. Huchins, of Sioux City, was in town last week looking after the contract
for the doors and windows of the First Congregational Church.

Milo Mills and E.W. Mass shipped a couple of cars of wheat last week.

H.G. Chapman and wife, of Sioux City, visited Sunday with his brother, Wm.
Chapman.

Miss Mille Martin is to teach the coming winter in the new school house in
this district.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dewolf, on Saturday, September 17, a boy.

John Adams and G.A. Sammis, of LeMars, were in town Friday.

HANCOCK: (Special Correspondence)

C. O. Bess and Mr. Posten, of Marcus, were in this vicinity last week after
cattle which they had in the pastures here.

A few of the farmers are still putting up hay in this neighborhood. The
grass is getting very dry and haying cannot last much longer.

H. A. Carlisle marketed a load of wheat in Sioux City last Wednesday.

Frank Baker, who has been in the Indian Territory for some time past, is now
in this vicinity. He has been suffering with the ague for several months
and is still very low. He hopes , however, that our northern climate will
soon put him in a condition to be able to walk about with the best of our
young men.

T. A. Ross left for Iowa City two weeks ago. He intends to spend two years
at college and will study law. Mr. Ross has many friends in this vicinity
who heartily wish him success. If any young man is worthy of success in
life it is T. A. Ross. During the years which he spent upon the farm at
this place he has been a most diligent scholar and has striven nobly to
prepare himself for a station in life which few under the same circumstance
would ever have attempted to obtain. Again we say may success attend him.

Threshing is getting well along in this vicinity.

C. E. Ross is preparing to have a fine new barn built within a short time.

REMSEN: (from the Bell)

Misses Kate and Eva Gill, who have been visiting at the Kass home, went to
LeMars Wednesday evening to visit with their cousin, Mrs. J. J. Gehlen, for
a few days.

W. J. Kass departed Monday evening for Ann Arbor, Mich., where he will enter
the State University and study law. Willie's many friends here wish him all
kinds of success.

Among the many curiosities to be seen at the Plymouth County Fair were all
the candidates on the Democratic and Republican tickets for the various
county offices.

Of late every stranger in Remsen is looked upon with suspicion by a deputy
United States Marshal. Uncle Sam's representatives promise some sensational
developments here in a few days.

The school board met in annual session last Monday afternoon, pursuant to
law, and transacted the usual routine of business. Nic Kass was re-elected
secretary for another year. The books of the secretary and treasurer were
checked up and found correct, with a balance of $1084.10 cash on hand.

A mass meeting was called for Tuesday evening at the town hall by Mayor
Jorgensen, for the purpose of securing volunteer donations for the purpose
of erecting a monument in honor of the dead heroes of the Spanish-American
War. The attendance was small and no action was taken. The opinion of the
public as near as The Bell is able to feel their pulse is that the
government will care for such enterprises when the proper time comes. They
have done it before and no doubt will do it again.

A deputy U.S. Marshal has been in Remsen for several days and on Tuesday
evening arrested E. Burdorf and took him to Sioux City to answer to the
charge of shipping spirituous liquors under the name of mineral water, in
violation of the internal revenue laws. Mr. Burdorf plead guilty to the
charge and at the present writing his sentence has not been pronounced. C.
C. Baughmann, the I.C.R.R. agent, was taken to Sioux City as witness. We
understand a large number of other people are on the program to appear
before the bar of justice and that a large number of arrests will soon be
made for violating the revenue laws in various ways.
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Charles Labreche, one of the oldest, most widely known and wealthiest
farmers of South Dakota, died at his home near Jefferson last Tuesday. He
moved to Union county in 1862 from Dubuque, Iowa, and was born 72 years ago
at Montreal, Canada. He had served three terms as county commissioner from
his district and was also a member of territorial and state legislatures.

People of Akron who were awake at about 4:05 last Friday morning were rudely
startled by the violent trembling of the earth. The sound resembled that of
the approach of a heavily loaded train, and the reverberation continued for
over a minute, passing from west to east. Dishes and lamp chimneys were
jostled and broken, clocks stopped and people in bed roughly jarred. The
earthquake was felt at various places south and east. A similar shock was
felt here a few years ago.

MERRILL: (from the Record)

G. W. Tibbles, of Pennsylvanian, visited at the A.C. Demaray home Sunday.

At the county fair last week the Ellendale creamery butter took second
prize.

J. E. Sanford left this week on an extended land seeing trip into Manitoba
and other Canadian points.

John Eberhard received the congratulations of his friends Tuesday morning
over the arrival of a big baby boy at his home that morning.

Uncle George Haylock informs us that he has sold more building hardware the
past thirty days than at any time before in the history of his hardware
store.

Mesdames W. H. Parsons and B. L. Gates of Marshall, Minn., have been
visiting their sister, Mrs. Van Winkle, this week. Mrs. Gates returned to
Minnesota yesterday upon receiving word that her husband had arrived from
Circle City, Alaska, where he and W. H. Parsons are in business.

Edgar Van Winkel seems to be pursued by a Geni of misfortune. One day last
week he reached up and took a saucer containing fly poison from the dining
room table. He drank a portion of it, but by prompt and energetic medical
assistance his life was saved. Tuesday evening his little sister was
wheeling him about the depot platform. In a moment of thoughtlessness she
stepped into the depot, leaving the chair and its occupant on the platform.
A sudden gust of wind swept the chair along the high platform, dashing the
baby head-foremost onto the railroad track. The little one fell so as to
strike a large burr with his forehead. A physician was again called and
found the child quite badly injured. It took eight stitches to sew up the
ugly wounds. Edgar is a bright little fellow, but somehow seems to be the
victim of many painful accidents.

AKRON: (from the Tribune)

Alfred Waterbury painfully hurt the middle finger on his left hand last
Tuesday while cleaning away the chaff on the sifter of a separator. He will
not lose the finger.

Married, at the home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Kennedy, in
Akron, Wednesday evening, September 21, 1898, David Eugene Kennedy and Iva
Violet Ervin.

There occurred in Sioux City yesterday the marriage of Oliver H. Winfrey and
Maggie E. Peterson, both residents of Akron. The bride is a step-daughter
of Lawrence Barr. The groom has recently been employed on the farm of Frank
Bohner, near Chatsworth.

At a caucus held at the engine house last Saturday afternoon, with J. B.
Jarvis as chairman and H. K. Mosher as secretary, the following township
officers were nominated: Justices of the Peace, R. R. McCorkell and R. A.
Smith; constables, Alfred Waterbury and George Byrne; trustee, Wm.
Tremaine; clerk, A. E. Holler; assessor, outside of corporation, Chas.
Kershner.

The family of T.W. Lias is enjoying a visit from Wm. Gibson of Andrew
Jackson county, Iowa, whose father and Mr. Lias were comrades in Company M,
Second Iowa Cavalry, during the Civil war.