Iowa Old Press

DEATH TAKES OLD SETTLER
William C. Lancaster Was One of the
Pioneers of Elgin Township

Has Many Descendants
Body Borne to Grave By His Nephews

Death claimed William C. Lancaster, a pioneer of Plymouth county, and one of
the very early settlers in Elgin township, at his home in Seney, Friday,
March 30, 1928, after a brief illness from pnuemonia. Mr. Lancaster was
nearly 84 years of age.

William Lancaster was born in Yorkshire, England, June 23, 1844. When four
years of age he came with his parents to America. They came westward
following their arrival in the states and settled near Argyle, Wisconsin,
where William Lancaster grew up. He was united in marriage with Margaret
Knewstubb, of Argyle, August 26, 1866. She preceded him in death eight
years ago on February 13. Since the death of his wife, Mr. Lancaster made
his home with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Alex McArthur.

Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster farmed for many years in Elgin township and were
prominent in church and community affairs.

Mr. Lancaster is survived by two sons and five daughters, who are James
Lancaster, of Faulkton, S.D.; Chris Lancaster, of Mitchell, S.D.; Mrs. Fred
Wonser, of Unity, Wisc.; Mrs. Alex McArthur, Mrs. C.E. Moore, Mrs. T. J.
Rees and Mrs. Albert Penning, of Seney. There are sixteen grand children
and fourteen great grand children. Two daughters died in infancy.

Mr. Lancaster was a good citizen and neighbor and was respected by all who
knew him. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Seney
Methodist church, of which the deceased was a member, the pastor Rev. M. L.
Metcalf officiating, and the interment was made in the family burying ground
in the Seney cemetery. The pallbearers were his nephews.

LeMars Sentinel
Dated Friday, April 13, 1928

SENEY:  (Special Correspondence)

Miss Christine Peterson was a caller here last Wednesday.

Geo. Siegersma took a truck load of cattle to Sioux City for Earl
Chapman on Monday.

Geo. Siegersma took a tuck load of hogs to Sioux City for Lige Mars on
Tuesday.

Rev. S.J. Wallace, daughter Marion, son Harold of Salix were calling
here Saturday.

Mrs. Wanda Marsh and son, Bobbie, came up Saturday for a visit with her
mother, Mrs. Rairden.

The W.H.M.S. society will meet in the home of Miss Virla Cook on
Wednesday, April 18.

Eldon Riter and friend, of LeMars, visited between trains in the W. E.
Hennrich home Sunday.

Orville Swanson was relief man at the depot Saturday and Sunday in the
absence of Mr. Schemmel.

W.E. Hennrich and E.F. Anstine took the Dealy boys and Pauline Riter to
Sioux City Sunday evening.

Mrs. John Deegan went to Sioux City one day last week to see Mrs. Mary
Fitzpatrick, who is sick.

Miss Cerelle Darville, who has spent the past week at the home of her
sisters returned home Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. J. F. March, of Vermillion, S.D., visited in the home of
Mrs. E. March Friday and Saturday.

Fred Riter spent a few days in Sheffield with his friend, Burton Kuger,
returning on Sunday evening.

Mr. Southwick, who has spent the past few weeks in the Connor home, has
hired to Edward Utech for the summer.

Jim Lancaster, of Faulton, S.D., returned to his home on Sunday.  He was
called here by the death of his father, Wm. Lancaster.

Mr. and Mrs. Stulty and Geo. Betsworth, of Sioux City, visited in the
Mrs. Mary Daugherty and Mrs. Wm. Connor homes on Sunday.

Mrs. Mary Wonser, of Unity, Wis., returned to her home Monday morning,
having been called here by the death of her father, Wm. Lancaster.

Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Metcalf, sons Gordon and Kenneth, of Sioux City, were
dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hinde on Sunday.

There is to be a returned missionary to talk in the church Sunday at
9:45.  Remember this is earlier than usual as he has another service
before noon in LeMars.

Mrs. James Alderson returned to her home in Elgin, Neb., on Sunday after
spending a week with relatives here and attending the funeral of her
brother-in-law, Wm. Lancaster.

Miss Deana Crowel, of Sioux City, came Saturday evening returning on
Sunday evening.  Miss Lucile March, who has spent the past week at the
home of her mother, Mrs. E. March, returned with her.

Mrs. Ernest Schemmel went to Heron Lake on Thursday of last week to
spend Easter with her people.  Mr. Schemmel left for St. James Friday
evening and returned with Mrs. Schemmel on Sunday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ewin had the misfortune to lose their house by fire
on Sunday night about 11:30.  The neighbors helped to get their goods
out all but a rug and articles that were in the back porch and cellar.

Mr. and Mrs. D.F. McArthur visited relatives in Sioux City Wednesday of
last week.  Mrs. Wm. McArthur returned with them and attended the
funeral of Watson Freeman.  After visiting relatives a few hours she
returned home.

A number of our people went to LeMars to attend the services at the
cemetery for Geo. Councilman Monday.  Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Councilman
are well known here, having lived here a number of years ago before they
went to Gayville, S.D.

Miss Ethel Darville, who has been teaching the Albert Lundgren school
the past year, was married in Morningside Saturday to Vera Burris of
that place.  Mr. and Mrs. Roy McArthur of this place, and her mother,
Mrs. Charley Darville, of Gayville, S.D., attended the wedding.  Rev.
Reed was the officiating minister.

LIBERTY:  (Special Correspondence)

Saturday is regular P.T.A. night.  Let's have a good meeting.  Parents
all come and help decide what to do with the play money.

There have been a great many absences reported from all the rooms of the
consolidated school as well as the small schools of the township due to
colds and grip.

Viola Holtzen, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Holtzen, has been
confined to her bed with a serious attack of flu.  The little girl is
some better at this time.

Friends of Miss Marie Bauerly will be glad to know that she is
convalescing rapidly after her recent operation.  She returned to her
home from the hospital last week.

A wedding of interest in the neighborhood took place last Saturday when
Miss Marguerite Leopold and James Hamilton were married.  The newly weds
were given the usual noisy reception on Monday evening.

The Frank McMahon family, who moved from this locality to Climbing Hill
last spring, wrote friends here of a rather strange accident.  Their
son, Owen, was driving the cattle across the road to pasture when a
truck loaded with hogs driven at a high rate of speed, crashed directly
into the herd, killing two cows and crippling several more.  The driver
promised to return and settle damages but the next morning he had taken
his family and departed for parts unknown.

LeMars Sentinel
Dated Friday, April 20, 1928

LIBERTY:  (Special Correspondence)

The senior class play of the Liberty Consolidated school will be given
on Friday, April 27.

The juniors of Liberty held a class meeting recently to plan for the
Junior-Senior banquet.

A delegation of ladies are planning on attending the P.T.A. convention
in Sioux City on Friday of this week.

A spread was enjoyed in the domestic science room Monday evening by
members of the P.T.A. play cast.  A school board meeting was held the
same night.

The spread made possible by the newly weds, Mrs. and Mrs. James
Hamilton, was held at the Geo. Newman home Tuesday night.  Everyone had
a good time and plenty to eat.

The play held at Ellendale was well attended and much enjoyed.  It will
be repeated on Thursday night of this week. The social hour afterward
will take place just the same as when the cast parties are held.

Mrs. Fay Knapp was the victim of an accident when a table upon which she
was standing to clean a ceiling overturned, causing her to take a fall.
She sustained only a few bruised and sprained muscles which though
painful are not serious.

A large crowd came out for the regular Farm Bureau meeting Wednesday
night.  It was decided to hold a meeting of milk producers in the
basement of the Ellendale church next Tuesday.  Free ice cream and
ladies please bring cakes.  The ladies made some plans for a booth for
Achievement day.

The regular P.T.A. of Liberty Consolidated school was held Saturday
evening with an extra large attendance.  A good program was presented
after the business meeting.  A number of the high school girls presented
a very pretty Swedish folk dance in costume.  Everyone enjoyed Miss
Boardman's reading as that young lady is especially talented in that
line.  Mr. Linder is always a welcome addition to the program as
everyone enjoys both his music and his pleasing vocal numbers.  It was
decided at the business meeting to plant some trees on the school
grounds.  Wm. LaBahn, Fred Trometer and Fay Knapp comprise a volunteer
committee to get the trees in the N. L. Knapp timber west of here.  A
few of the more rapidly growing trees such as box elders will be
interspersed with the slower growing and more permanent kinds such as
maple, oak and ash.

SENEY:  (Special Correspondence)

Rev. S. J. Wallace, of Salix, visited here on Tuesday.

Edward Shearer, of Des Moines, was a visitor here on Tuesday.

Mr. Norton, of Carnes, spent the weekend with Ernest Schemmel.

Mrs. A. Jeffers was a visitor at Alton on Sunday in the C. Hendricksen
home.

Walter Baldwin is looking after farm interests at Worthington, Minn.,
this week.

Mrs. Fausette, a returned missionary from India, gave a talk Sunday
morning here.

H.S. Becker, of Sioux City, is visiting in the home of his brother,
Frank and wife.

Relatives here received word that Ralph Hinde is in Texas where he has
land interests.

Mrs. and Mrs. Ralph Obermeier (sic-Obermire), of LeMars, were visitors
in the Charley Ewin home Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dean, of Merrill, were calling on friends here on
Thursday of last week.

Mrs. Ernest Cliff is in a hospital in Sioux City following an operation.
She is as well as can be expected at this writing.

Word was received here of the death of an old settler here, John Owings.
He died in Oklahoma recently.

Dan McArthur, a cousin of Alex and D.F. McArthur, passed away at his
home in Wichita, Kansas, last week.  He formerly lived in this county.

Mrs. Ernest Schemmel left here on Friday to go to the bedside of her
sister, who is seriously ill in Colorado Springs, Colo.  Her mother who
lives in Minnesota accompanied her.

Mrs. Omer Topf, of Sergeant Bluffs, was operated on for appendicitis
last Saturday in Sioux City.  She is well known here as Florence Deegan.
Her many friends are pleased to know she is getting along nicely at last
report.

Mrs. Elizabeth March received word on Tuesday of the death of her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. W.L. March, of Cedar Falls, on Tuesday, April 17.
Funeral was held at Cedar Falls on Friday afternoon.  Mrs. March has
visited here with her husband.  A brother of Mr. March, J.F. March, of
Vermillion, S.D., and sister, Mrs. Jessie Kennedy, left Thursday to
attend the funeral.

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The planting season has just started.  Owing to the cold weather it has
been delayed and it is not too late to plant any kind of nursery stock.
The Gateway Co., phone 440.

OBITUARY
James Elmer Bammer, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Bammer, was born
near Eldridge, Scott county, Iowa, on October 30, 1892, and died April
9, 1928, at the Methodist hospital, Sioux City, Iowa, at the age of 35
years, 5 months and 10 days.  When he was three months old he moved with
his parents to Cherokee county.  He grew to manhood on the farm where he
met his death.

He was united in marriage in April 1916, to Hulda Husse, of Kingsley,
Ia..  To this union were born four children;  Dorothy L, age 11 years;
Wyndham H., age 9; Elmer Jr., age 7; and Quentin, age 5.  Besides his
wife and children, he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A.
Bammer, of Cherokee;  one brother, Howard of Washta; four sisters; Mrs.
H. N. Harrison, Washta; Mrs. Jacob Lauer, Cherokee; Mrs. Charles
Goodman, Ft. Madison; Mrs. E.P. Tucker, Panora; a host of other
relatives.

Funeral services were held from the Congregational church, Thursday
afternoon, Rev. C.V. Hulse, pastor of the Kingsley Methodist church,
officiating and interment was made in the Kingsley cemetery.

LeMars Sentinel
Dated April 27, 1928

SENEY:  (Special Correspondence)

Miss Pauline Riter, of Sioux City, was a weekend visitor in the home of
her father, E. H. Riter.

Miss Norma Leek, of Sioux City, was a weekend visitor in the home of
Mrs. E. March.

W. W. March, of Sioux City, visited Tuesday and Wednesday here with
friends.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hennrich and Mrs. Henry Detloff motored to Ireton
Sunday to visit in the home of Mrs. Hennrich's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Hennrich.

Mrs. Jessie Kennedy and J. F. March of Vermillion, S.D., returned from
Cedar Falls Sunday where they were called by the death of Mrs. W. March.
Mrs. J. F. March and son, George, of Vermillion, S.D. came over after
Mr. March in the afternoon.  Mrs. Dan McArthur, of Sheldon, arrived at
the home of her mother, Mrs. E. March, on Wednesday and stayed until
Sunday when Mr. and Mrs. Miles McArthur and daughters came down Sunday
afternoon and Mrs. McArthur returned with them.

Miss Lucile March, of Sioux City, spent the weekend in the home of her
mother, Mrs. E. March.

Mrs. J. J. Deegan returned from Dubuque last Friday after spending the
past three weeks wither sister, who was sick.

Mr. and Mrs. White, of Sioux City, visited in the home of Mrs. A.
Jeffers on Sunday.

A number of our people attended the funeral of Mrs. Perry Albro in
LeMars on Tuesday.  Mr. and Mrs. Albro lived here a long time until she
needed so much care they went to spend the past two or three years in
the home of their daughter, Mrs. Harry Britton, in Spencer, Iowa.

Win S. White, of Sioux City, was a visitor at the home of Mrs. E. March
on Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. J. J. Deegan gave a party for the school children on Saturday
afternoon at her home in honor of Joseph's birthday which was on Friday.

Friends are pleased to learn that Miss Mildred Berkenpas won the first
prize in the amateur typewriting contest held in Sioux City last
Saturday.  She wrote sixty words a minute for fifteen minutes and
received a silver pencil as a prize.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wormley, of Kingsley, were calling in this town on
Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ira Lancaster and daughters, Geraldine and Lois, went to
Mitchell, S. D., where Lois enters the Interstate spelling contest there
Friday, April 27.

E. H. Riter and E. F. Anstine had a truck load of hogs on the Sioux City
market on Wednesday, Geo. Siergersma took them down.

Rev. L. M. Metcalf came up Wednesday and held a board meeting in the
evening.

Nate Connor shelled corn on Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Chapman visited in Sioux City Friday at the hospital
where Mrs. Chapman's sister is sick.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Cook and children, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Criswell and
son, Irwin, and Albert DeRaad were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Donlin, on Sunday.

The Ladies Aid society will meet May 2 in the home of Mrs. Elam Chapman.

Mrs. C. W. Cook, Virla Cook and Mrs. Bert Criswell went to J. Donlin's,
near Hinton, on Wednesday to attend a missionary meeting held there.

Mrs. Philip Hayden, of south of LeMars, visited in the C. W. Cook home
Tuesday.

Charles Riter, of Sioux Falls, visited his brother, E. H. Riter, Monday.

Frank Becker is fixing up the Knowlton house, putting on a new porch and
new shingles and has a foundation in for a garage to put up soon.

A force of men are fixing the depot and making new walks and other
improvements.

ORIGINAL NOTICE
In the district court of State of Iowa, in and for Plymouth county,
September term, A.D. 1928.
Fullerton Lumber Company, a corporation, plaintiff, vs Zoa Burnight,
Agnes Burnight McMahon, and Geo. McMahon, her husband, and First Trust
Joint Land Bank, of Chicago, Illinois, defendants.