LeMars Sentinel, Tuesday, October 13, 1925

School Boy Taken
     Raymond Hughes, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Hughes, 126
Fifth Avenue, SE., died Saturday following a brief illness of pneumonia.
The lad was only sick a week and his death is a great shock to his
parents.  He was their only son and death had already bereft them of two
little girls.
     Raymond Hughes was born December 10, 1910, and was 14 years and ten
months old.  He was attending school and was a scholar in the seventh
grade.  He was a bright and cheery lad and well liked among a large
number of playmates.
     The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at the First Methodist
church, Rev. C. H. Seward conducting the services.  The pallbearers were
schoolmates of the dead lad and were Roger Lobdell, Drexel Edwards,
Lester Witt, Howard Pattison, Eldred Morrisey and Willard Seward. 

MEETS OLD COMRADES
EARL LINDERMAN DROPPED OUT OF SIGHT FOLLOWING THE WAR

Randall Ivey, who among other members of Wasmer Post, attended the Legion
meeting in Omaha last week, while there met Earl Linderman, a former LeMars
boy.  Earl Linderman dropped out of sight following his return from service
in the war and his friends were at a loss to know of his whereabouts.  He
has been in California and other western states traveling on business.  He
was not aware of the death of his father, George Linderman, which occurred
some time ago at Paullina, until told by Mr. Ivey, nor that his mother and
sisters had moved from Paullina.  He told Mr. Ivey he would go and see his
sister living near Gaza and his mother and another sister, who are now in
DesMoines.
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Mrs. J. E. Bird, of Watertown, S.D., is visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Von Berg.

Le Mars Daily Sentinel: Friday, October 23, 1925

ECHO OF SUIT IS RESOUNDED
PARTIES LINKED TOGETHER IN SENSATIONAL TRIAL, JOIN THEIR FORTUNES

Rev. John E. Hill and Mrs. Lillian Stinton, of Merrill, who figured
prominently a year ago in an alienation suit in court here were married at
Lake Andes, S.D., September 26, according to information received at this
office. The ceremony was performed by J.F. Nichols, a justice of the peace
at Lake Andes. The witnesses to the ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. Ira Stinton,
well known Plymouth county people.

Last year the town of Merrill was rocked when Mrs. J.E. Hill
brought suit against Mrs. Lillian Stinton for damages, claiming Mrs. Stinton
had alienated the affections of her husband, Rev. J.E. Hill, former pastor
at Merrill, and asking $25,000 balm. After one of the most sensational
trials in the Plymouth court in recent years, a jury returned a verdict in
favor of Mrs. Stinton.

At the April term of court Rev. John E. Hill obtained a divorce
from his wife, who figured as chief witness in the alienation suit for the
prosecution. The divorce was tried before Judge Hutchinson. Attorney T.M.
Zink, who appeared for Mrs. J.E. Hill in both cases, appealed from the
decision in the divorce proceedings and the appeal is pending in the supreme
court.

The Merrill paper in a recent issue stated that Mrs. Lillian
Stinton was making arrangements to leave Merrill and make her home in the
West.

Rev. J.E. Hill has been living in Aurelia of late, and has been
engaged in various lines of work, among them auctioneering and clerking.