Ackley World Journal (Newspaper) - January 16, 1930, Ackley, Iowa VOLUME PAIR Hill OBTAINED IN MARRIED IN MARSHALL of tbe not Had to Be Tied Resi dent of Grundy Passes Fire Losses at Going through the formalities of is frequently the cause of A couple near Steamboat bck recently married had their ex On December the couple in Clerk Howards office obtained the necessary license Bey then drove to Melbourne in Mar aall where the ceremony was making the license ob lined in Hardin county lie return of marriage certificate as received here in due and completing the record deputy clerk courts discovered the marriage had Ben performed in Marshall clerk immediately dispatched a liter to the couple informing them Bat the marriage was not legal and fiat the ceremony would have to be Icy waters add gravity to storm Floods and Mis rivers drive hundreds from Railroad traffic holds own against snow storms and below zero tempera May place embargo on importation of parrots carry disease several Skirts fortyseven ill parrot JANUARY TAX Important Change in Custom Under New in New York style show HENRY LUIKEN DEAD I any Years a Resident Janitor at Court House Henry died Grundy Thursday after a weeks ill liess of He had been suf ering from He was born in and came to this Country in living Center since coming to the States and was employed at time of his death janitor at fhe court He is survived by daughters a nurse at of Grundy of from four to six inches below Division senators on pro posed sugar tariff schedule men in both parties for and Foreign powers appear suspicious of proposals on navy Small army proposed to patrol bor ders against liquor smuggling the will use flying Governor Green of al ters life for pint law by commuting sentences of convicted Iowas farm bureau largest of any in approximately Washington reports are Only one of Hoovers plans for ment has a Proposal made to give tariff no Cost Policy Holders on the FIRE LOSSES to in 1929 Loss Buildings and Stocks to Losses due to fires at Eldora during amounted to according to the report of Kiels of the fire Fire damage to buildings during ie past year amounted to damage to contents amounted to com for a total loss of the report This with the small loss of only 76 fire in Of this damage to buildings was at and to contents In spite of the bad nine of the the home of Mershon Tues afternoon for the regular meet Plans were made to put the es and poster contest inthe schools this 600 leaflets will be each month in the country of Ackley the enlighten the youth on the evils of The two billion dollars was formerly spent put into food children i the good work go of the home from early morri with her of p killed at a street railroad cross Her foot caught between the and crossing and could not be by the frantic efforts of her before an extra freight jln rushed She was the of nine Wins From In the basketball which was yed in the gymnasium of the tool last Friday visiting team from won n the There was of ep and the onlookers were en but the game went to the by a close son of car arm in a sling coming in top lose contact with an electric saw in he manual training department at he school A slight Carl and children ex Ject to leave here Saturday for Den Her has em there and the family will their home in that Frank were During Insurance in Force Amounts to The Grundy County tual Insurance company at its recent annual meeting reelected the same officers as for DeSeelhorst is president vice president treasurer John Two new directors were Joe Boyenga of German and Kruse of Cost of insurance was per the total losses sustained amounted to but cash on hand amounts to Among other in figures are these Insurance in force Insurance in force Insurance written during 1929 policies written 1929 in force Policies in force 1 Interest collected by Sec Paid Paid additions Dike Fire Department Adding machine Reinsurance Veterinary services Post envelopes and printing Salaries and meeting of One of the most important changes which has been effected in the state law regarding work of the assessors is the change in tjie collection of the township road poll This under the provision in the Bergman secondary road the township as will collect the road poll tax instead of the township clerk and road bosses as in the a change lias been made in the amount of the road poll The new law provides that each town ship shall charge only for each male between the ages of 21 and 45 townships had no set road poll tax and it ranged in Hamilton county between and This year there will be no oppor to work out this tax as the road work has already been taken over by the county board of supervisors who have ample men to handle the necessary Would Aid County Auditor Doolittle requested that notice by made that everyone in the townships have the for the road poll tax on hand whenever the assessor visits the place so as to fa the work and eliminate the necessity of two calls at the same HEYO WESSELS Death Occurred Wednesday Morning at Family Heyo of whose serious ill ness mention was made in last Thurs days died at the fam ily home in this Wednesday He had not been in good health during the past year or gradually and the past two weeks his condition became more Funeral services are to be held Sat afternoon a short service at the Wessels thence to Johns Evangelical church of which the deceased had been a member for many A more detailed reference will be given in our next DEATH MESSENGER Wreck at Scales of a freight in which eleven freight earn were de according to occurred at Scales near Ga last Tlie wreckage was soon cleared without much interrup tion of 384 1606 1683 the FIRE IN COUNTRY Wilson Residence Place De Sunday Fire of unknown complete ly destroyed the Thomas Wilson resi dence five miles southwest of and within a half mile of the village of Sunday between of 7 and 8 Irvin Wilson thought she detect ed smoke at the noon hour before she and Wilson left but there was no evidence of fire and the thought was The fire truck from Ackley responded to a hurried Some of the household effects were removed the house was com The loss is mated between and Died at Chris born at died at his home at last the result of a tumor on He is survived by his six daughters one family near Ackley for a removing to a farm near Popejoy thirty years Frank publisher of the Elma was buried On Friday while going to his home for he was struck at a cross ing by a Chicago Great his automobile He was 64 end js by bis physically in order to be exempted from paying the road poll must appear before the respective boards of equalization and show proof of the The de of the board is according to The assessors are expected to com mence at once the assessing Among the items will be listed this year are radios which are given a maximum valuation on the assessors schedule of COURTRIGHT DEAD Stricken Last Died at Water Monday taken ill with acute indigestion at his home at Wa Friday died Monday afternoon as a result a stroke of He was familiarly known to many in Ackley and this section of the four He lived at for a quarter engaged in the legal profession be fore becoming a resident of and in the 70s for two or more was one of the publishers of the En in Going to Water he became identified with the legal and business life of the city prominent asan Odd he served Black sena district at the state capital two Twice he is sur vived by his a Harry who served in the Philippine Islands during and after peace still in the chose to remain He too is Funeral services and burial curred at Wednesday SERVE AS JURORS CHOSEN Drawn for Service February Term of Hardin County For the February term of Hardin county that convenes at on the the following named have been chosen Grand Martha May El doia Iowa Falls Dewey Steamboat Rock Etna August Grant Carrie Alden Martin Sherman five oc The firm of Courtright Arbuckle practiced at Parkersburg and in Butler county The Weeks For the week ending with Saturday eleven real estate transfers were filed with Recorder Johnson three the remainder town proper ties the legal transfer indicated with eight the quarter section at town properties at Union and Eleven real estate mortgages were filed totaling the largest single amount for Thirtyfive chattel mortgages were au Workman An Illinois Central car repairer was killed after the work of clearing the track of at the Scales last A box car that had been placed on a truck slipped off and struck He had been employed in the shops seventeen years 56 Trial jurors are scheduled to report at 10 oh the The chosen Ackley George Chris Louise Henry Dan Herman Lambert Ernst Maude Katie Jessie Clara Meribell Kate Stephen Pauline Gladys Maude Ed Hubbard Henry Elmer Engel Adolph Will Carl Lydia Alden Jeanette Joe Lut Elmer Garden Ole El i Iowa Ray Rid Emma Josephine Lar Arthur Lydia James John Fred Edna Steamboat Rock Lena John Barney Har old Ole John Nell Union E SEVERAL ACKLEY HOMES FEEL CHILLING HAND Heyo August Gerald Armstrong Among Number HP H E death messenger brought sorrow to several homes in Ack ley during the past following closely upon others of the week be and homes beyond the family circle have felt the sorrow that has come to those near and dear to No lengthy illness attended in either AUGUST CARSTENS Death Results From Pneumonia Res ident of Community Many Following an illness of a Sally August died at the family home in early Saturday Little more than a week she had been up and about her but contracted a cold that developed into The end came to her the im mediate members of her pres ent at the time of Sally Johanna Dorothea Kahle was born in Verden an der March the child of Christian Kahle and wife nee May she came to going first to where she remained six then going to March she was united in marriage to August Carstens in Hardin The young couple made their home here until when they removed to the farm two miles south of Ack In 1908 the husband was called by death and the widowed mother continued on the farm until when she again moved to re siding here until her which oc curred Carstens was the mother of four children of whom died in early Her other chil wife of Marie and Beside them her passing is mourned by four Dorothea and George Weber and Wilma two Fred of Ackley and Minna and one brother Henry Kahle of Four brothers and one sister ed her in iji 3rd Carstens became ill imPI I J 1 WHOLE Volley Basket Two games of interest to local sports are to be played Friday ih the public school The game of volley ball is to be played Legion play ers and the The basket ball game is between the boys team of Parkersburg public school and our Ackley lads from the high Fire Little An alarm of fire Thursday after noon took the department to the Methodist Little damage resulted overheated chimney ANNUAL MEETING Johns Congregation Held The annual congregational meeting of Johns Evangelical church was held at the church Monday afternoon the attendance was representative of the congregation and considerable interest and enthusiasm was mani with hope influenza at for first there was but on Monday at Waterloo years of Another snow flurry Monday fore A heavy fall of snow Saturday afternoon and In ail be tween four and five inches on the And since then an other fall of ten to twelve inches of Shry Pythian Installation of the newly elected officers of the Pythian Sisters oc curred last Thursday Fol lowing the regular proceedings the members present enjoyed themselves The newly elected are Miss Mildred Gladys Flora Bonnie Clara Had nah Jule of and Daisy pf Anna Following are the newly elected of the Helping Hand society Johns Jennie Hannah vice president Helen she began to fail and then gradually weakened until the which came to her peacefully at GERALD ARMSTRONG Death Occurred at Sunday Burial Here Tuesday Gerald Armstrong died at a sanitarium in the city of Sunday last because of the condition of her health she was taken to that city late in and although the seriousness of her ailment was known and hope was entertained she might Announce ment of her death came as a surprise to many and occasioned a feeling of sorrow for the three little children left the husband and her and John She was born April 1900 reared she attended both Sacred Heart academy and Ackley high a graduate of the She was united in marriage to Gerald November Funeral services were heJd at Marys church Wed celebrant of the and her re mains interred in the Catholic An was re too late for this issue it will appear in our JOHN MARTENS Passed Away at the Home of Her This Thursday John a resident of Ackley during the nearly fifty years died at the home of her this forenoon advanced in she had not been well the past Funeral arrangements have not been She was in her Martens preceded her in death by sev eral The congregation is in flourishing condition with upwards of 300 voting members until a year ago only the heads of families were entitled to The board of trustees includes Ru dolph Henry Fred Sailer and William The meeting was adjourned to re convene on Monday afternoon in case of inclement weather that deferred until a later SNOW lily RIFTS Heavy Fall pf Snow Driven by High Wind Makes Travel The fall of twelve to fifteen inches of snow during Monday and Tuesday changed the appearance of things mightily up last there was very little trace of snow and in most part the customary wintry blasts were only a memory only a week previous cardinals robins were bobbing chirping and singing from treetops the change came after the whole central west ast of the Mississippi river was bu ried beneath a foot and a half of from Louis to Kansas and from portions of Kentucky and Tennessee reports came of heavy Mrs Sprung Sprung passed away in the hospital at Hampton Tuesday She had been taken there for treatment a few hours after a week of illness at her She is survived by her an aged father living at Steamboat a sister in North five daugh ters and one Funeral services wwe held the Baptist and beyond About four inches pf snow covered the earth Saturday morning it con to fall through the day and night of Sunday and by the time that the early birds had cleared the another consignment of beautiful this time to a depth of twelve to fourteen and the air is still filled with Glacier Trail is little more than a trail in the coun try are blocked and farmers are get ting to market with New Cases in Hardin Henry Klem me et foreclosure of lot 11 and Bank vs foreclosure on Minnesota BRIEFLY TOLD Near Neighbor and Community of General Lafe veteran editor of the Rockford announces him self candidate for state senator from the county dis He is a Iowa Falls firemen were tendered a supper at the Green Lantern cafe by the genial and That is courtesy and Vane Burbridge of claims to have culled He has finished testing a flock of Silver Lace Wyandottes for Harley Constantino at The Chicago Great Western raiU road and several firms are cutting ice at Lake at The ice is 14 inches Grant Reynolds of Tarante is visiting her parents Sheriff and at Running into a at Carl top pf new Plymouth m i V T igt cial and appoint ed Cay gnus t
