LeMars Sentinel newspaper
Dated Dec. 5, 1919

WAIVES KENNEDY CHARGE
Journal Publisher Dispenses With Preliminary Libel Hearing

Sioux City Journal:  W. H. Sammons, president of Perkins Bros. Co.,
publishers of the Journal, yesterday waived preliminary hearing before
D. C. Browning, Justice of the Peace, and is held to the grand jury.
Mr. Sammons is charged with criminal libel in connection with the
publication of a story implicating Culver Kennedy in the attempted
robbery of a bank at Hornick, Ia.  Actions were brought by young
Kennedy's father, C. R. Kennedy.

Culver Kennedy was indicted by the Plymouth county grand jury at this
term of court on a charge of being implicated in the Westfield bank
robbery.

SUFFER LOSS BY FIRE
Granary and Corn Crib Destroyed at Peter Gehren's Farm

Fire on Saturday night destroyed the granary and corn cribs at the farm
of Peter Gehrens, living north of Remsen, entailing a heavy financial
loss.  Many hundred bushels of oats and corn were destroyed by the
flames.  Owing to the extreme cold weather it was difficult to check the
flames which had gained a big headway before the fire was discovered.
The husking of corn had just been completed and all this season's crop
of corn was in the cribs.  The cause of the fire is unknown.

ATTEMPTED HOLD UP
Boy Starts Horses in a Gallop and Gets Away

Carol Parkinson, of this city, was held up by two unmasked men near
Dalton Saturday night at about 7:30 as he was driving a hay rack to the
farm of Albert Parkinson, his uncle west of Dalton.  The men stopped his
horses and were about to board the wagon when Parkinson took a pitchfork
from his wagon and prodded the horses with it.  The horses started out
on a gallop and a runaway resulted but the boy was not injured.