Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel (Newspaper) - November 2, 1915, Lemars, Iowa 16 I - Society 0mi- Sentinel T | L W W. Published Tuesdays and LE NOVEMBER 2, 1915. $ 2.00 Per $ 1.50 if Paid in Advance DEATH OF A PIONEER HENRY 6UCCUMB8 TO ATTACK OF PNEUMONIA HAD BEEN ILL FOR SIX WEEKS The Deceased Was a Native of Germany and Came to This Country When a Young Was a Successful eury I. for nearly forty years a. resident of Plymouth county aad and one of Use moat widely known citizens of this Had oa Sunday at half past three at the home of his M M I I M. 10 Thirteenth in Sioux after an af three weeks from pleural Mr. Detloff was taken sick with aboat six weeks aea and other precluding his He wont to faaui City to take staying at the home of his where he WEDDING Heary J. Detloff was past nine years of He was born in Pom on Kay 12, 1846, and reared and educated in his native arriving at young manhood When a youth of nineteen he entered the army and served in the ha 186S he came to America to seek aia fortune and shortly afterwards Mad near Ho was in marriage at that plane In with Miss Pauline who with sine mourn his The children Harry of Mrs. W. H. of Mrs. Sam of Mrs. U. V. of Sioux Mrs. H. It. of Mrs. H. H. H. 0. B. P. Detloff and Arthur of One girl died In He also leaves two Mrs. J. C. of 111., and Mrs. * Hs of 8. D. Mr. and Mm. Detloff moved from 111., to Plymouth count s in 1877 and settled on a farm north at in Elgin where they lived until eight years ago when they came to LeMars to make their Mr. was a most Assisted toy his wife ad he the land to 60od ' v a n t a g e a n d w e a t h e r e d t h e hard which were the lot of very early ' settlers and later some of the aest farms In the He was as a stock raiser and of fine cattle and hogs were an- shipped from his place to t he markets in Chicago and S I Q U X City aad commanded and generally evoked conusant as to their Be was a man who had many friends m the community whom h a gained by ate sturdy uprightness and moral Ho was a man of firm in his dealings with his fellowmen aad a good citizen and His have life was ideal in its He vena a devoted husband and father and exerted himself to give his sons and daughters every advantage in He was for many years a member of the Evangelical church and later affiliated with the Methodist The funeral will be held at the home on Eagle street at 1 30 on Wednesday afternoon and services wjn be held a t t h e German st ahurch at two His six inlaw will be t he Popular Young Couple of Johnson Township Are Married Miss Margaret R U B R G I I and John Miller were united in marriage the wedding ceremony taking place at the Catholic church at Rev. Father Connolly Minn Minnie a sister of the and Michael a brother of tho were the The bride was gowned in a pretty dress of white crepe de trimmed with pearl beads and wore a tulle She carried a white prayerbook bound In ivory and The bridesmaid was attired in a dress of pale green crepe de chine and a Following the ceremony the wedding parly repaired to the homo of the bride's parents where a reception was held in honor of the newly married young At noon a six course dinner was served to about a hundred the tables being prettily decorated with white wedding bolls and will to bridal The young people received a large number of beautiful and useful wedding Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of well known families residing in Johnson township and were born and reared in this community and have a large circle of friends among whom thoy are very They will make their home on a farm In Johnson ONE THEORY OF PREPAREDNESS MUENCH MUST PAY BEING - ME THE WE SHOULD WRITE FOR A GUN IMMEDI ATELY MITCHELL DRUGGIST DIES V. B. Former LeMars Succumbs to Apoplexy V. B. of 8. a business man and head of a large drug died suddenly on Saturday night of It is thought that excitement caused by a fire in hlB establishment two weeks ago hastened his For many years prior to moving to Mitchell was a druggist at S. D. He leaves a wife and six Val Diehl was a brother of P. H. now of a prominent druggist in LeMars for many The brothers were associated together in the drug business in LeMars in the early V. M. Diehl going away from here after a few years P. H. Diehl was visiting in LeMars last week and went from here to Mitchell in response to a message the death of his V. H. Diehl was about nine years of Judge Finds That He Dodged Heart Balm Award Sioux City Property and collateral of F. J. a Sioux City are subject to the $ 15,000 judgment obtained by Miss Margaret Morgan against Muench for breaking his promise to marry Judge John W. Anderson ruled yesterday in a sign ed decree which was filed In the dis Charges of Miss Morgan's attorneys that Muench had concealed his property in order to evade payment of the award made by a Plymouth county jury nro sustained in part by Judge Anderson in his He held that the purported deed given by Muench to Ada to a 320 acre farm near Anthon was made with intent to defraud and delay his creditors and to delay Miss Morgan In the collection of her The court held the conveyance to the land null and void and of no effect or force against Miss Judge Anderson also set aside A. R. of as temporary receiver of the $ 10,000 note of and ordered Mr. Molyneaux to turn the note over to Sheriff E. G. who is named receiver of Mr. property by the Sheriff the court further shall retain of the note until title and warranty deed to Oregon which Muench contracted to buy from L. R. of is free and clear from all liens and in If Muench and Stanoshek elect to carry out their Stanoshek is ordered to give title of the land to Sheriff Dilley as receiver l financial affairs are straightened The $ 15,000 judgment was awarded to Miss Morgan by a jury In the Plymouth county district court last April after a sensational Prior to the trial Muench married his present After the trial was Judge VERDICT FOR COMPANY JURORS NOT BY DENCE OF TWO TRAMPS MAN WAS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED More Corn Contest County Leader Carl Marcue made a trip through the west part of the county Wednesday and secured half a dozen more township leaders in t he Boys Acre Corn Contest and Grant and America are the only two town now not provided a local Most of the boys will pick their corn and select their sample ears and seed corn the first of next week so it Is necessary that all township leaders be named this Following are those secured in addition to the lists previously L. T. J C. L. T. W. Frank S. WILL BE MARRIED WEEK if - ' Miss Cella E. Former LeMars to Wed Marcus Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Luther B. Miller and Miss Cella B. both of which happy event will take place at t h e home of the bride's K. In this at eleven a. on S. * Misses Lillian Miller and Eliza Hully entertained at a china shower at the Hully home on I complimentary to I B S Cella E. a November eight girl friends of the guest of honor were The bride to be found pretty gifts at the and of a yellow which had been stretched through the As she followed up t h e she passed through various places where she will visit on her trip to the At the destination at Lbs she unpacked her which a number of Tory beautiful pieces of gifts of her girl This was followed by a two course luncheon which was Fled out in the wedding yellow aid - - Bring Convention to Hawarden Ha warden W. J. Brownell and B. H. Van who attended the meeting of t h e telephone men of northwestern Iowa at LeMars hurt invited the association to hold its next meeting In Hawarden and the invitation was The meeting will be held in February and it is anticipated that at sixty telephone men will be in It Is not too early to commence to make plans for their entertainment and t h e local telephone officials have the cooperation of every citizen of Hawarden in making the convention a successful affair and showing the prospective visitors that Hawarden is a real live REAP 18 PREVALENT LIVED TO A GREAT AGE Jonathan Street Was Well Known Pioneer In Illinois J. of this received word on Saturday of the death of his Jonathan which occurred at his home in 111. Mr. Street was six years and eight month He had visited in LeMars a number of time and had a number of friends He leaves three eons and two daughters and a large number of grandchildren and great Street was a pioneer of Illinois was widely known in Winona and that part of infantile Paralysis Alarm In Town of Tho little son of Mayor Cosset qf on Friday ji There are several awl ajM the - bee Quick Recovery Hawarden Miss Anna who was caring for Eddie Muth at the home of his parents near McNally for a couple of returned to Sioux City kidd l e ' h a s about recovered from his siege of blood poisoning and pneumonia and hopes soon to be in school From the Des Moines Register and KEPT WEDDING SECRET PERCY KISTLE AND WANDA WARNER MARRIED IN MAY BRIDE WELL KNOWN TEACHER Announcement Made of Marriage Which Occurred Some Ago When Well Known Youth Won Akron Girl For Percy of this and Miss Wanda of Were married the 15th of last May at Dakota but kept their secret so well that neither family knew anything about the wedding until last Saturday when Percy Kistle brought his bride to the home of his Mr. and Mrs. Will and announced that they were married last Shortly after their marriage Percy went WeBt to look up a location but found nothing that suited him and returned to LeMars in a few His bride has been teaching school in Preston township and closed a fall term only last The bride is a daughter of H. G. who lives three miles south of and has grown to young womanhood in that She is a winsome and capable young woman and has been a successful Percy Kistle is t he only son of Mr. and Mrs. Kistle and since leaving school has been associated with his father in the automobile The young people will make their home with Mr. and Mrs. Kistle on south Main street until March 1st when they will move into the cottage on tho Harp farm west of town which the senior Kistle purchased a few ago and which Percy will THREE IN THE FIGHT Akron Has Active Candidates For Office of Postmaster Speaking of the meeting of democrats held last week In LeMars when M. W. Redmond was made county the Akron Tribune Mr. Redmond has been a loyal and active worker in the democratic in Plymouth county for years and the honor thus conferred upon him is well deserved and Justly He can be depended upon to carefully and conscientiously look after ills party's In it is believed to b e the first time that a county chairman has ever been named in western Plymouth and experience may prove it to ' be wise for the parties to bestow similar recognition to other sections of the rather than to continually name LeMars men for the Several Akron democrats attended the convention as the choice of county chairman had considerable bearing upon the appointment of postmaster of which is to take place within two - or three The active candidates for the position are P. H. B. F. and The term of Mrs. M. A. present expires next AFRAID OF 8POU8E; Mrs. 18 IN 8ERIOUS E. A. Oldham Is Suffering From Lead Poisoning A. of the firm of Oldham & a well known young business man of this Is very ill and bio gives rise to serious apprehension on t he part of his relatives and He is suffering from lead poisoning and He underwent an operation and was reported a little better yesterday but M B condition is regarded as His Mrs. H. and his Harold arrived here Sunday from 8. called by his serious Albright Objected to His Visit 8o She Calls Police Sioux City Edward 55 years was arrested laBt night In his wife's store at 3310 Riverside avenue and charged with disturbing the The Albrights were divorced last The former wife said that she is afraid Albright will kill Last night he entered the store when Mrs. Albright's sister was A disturbance during the progress of which Mrs. Albright telephoned to her former husband's who said he would come and get the man according to the But before the brother arrived the police Saturday Triple coated blue and white el big values at 49c, Bee - Bowers Hardware v Autos More Dangerous Than Football Cherokee Lawrence who played football with the high school team last had his arm broken in two places a Ford and about to start home from Rook The and according to witnesses of t h e accident Lawrence or a s he is was thrown about ten Lawrence is a good football player and has shown his ability whett v playing with PLANS FOR DEBATING Brother of Curtis Who L M I Life in the Railroad Yards at Thi Place Last Fails to Recover in Damage On the 21st day of 1911, Curtis a wan killed by an Illinois Central freight train in tke yards at this The - curred near the Illinois Central stock who was a mta sixty years of attempted tc board an out going stock Tkr day was cold and stormy and it is d Curtis slipped and as be won gel into a fell between c an and was mangled to at his clothes was found a notebook 1c was In case of William Prim or W. A 4220 Main The body was claimed at the time by relatives from aad later W. M. a suit in the Plymouth county district court for $ 2,999 for the death ef artis alleging that King was thrown from the train by two brakemen while the train was moving at a rapid rate of The was transferred from the Plymouth court to Ida county and came for hearing last a Jury hearing the The case was brought to a conclusion on Thursday night when the jury returned a verdict In favor of the railroad The evidence for the plaintiff was that of two hoboes who claimed they had been riding in a coal car with Members of the train crew swore that one brakeman was riding on the angina when the train was pulling oat of the M a r a a n d t h a t t h e o t h e r brakeman instructed the county attorney of a n d t h e conductor were in the mouth county to prefer a charge of a t t h e t l m e o t t h e a c c I d e n t * perjury Muench because of his n n S L B b e l n * o n testimony In the breach of Henry a farmer living Muench was dieted by t h e M a r l o n was driving along Plymouth county grand Jury last f a U ' t h road near the track when and was arrested in Wisconsin and re- o l d e n t occurred and saw King fall to Muench now out d e r w t t e e t e - 6d to I d a Drove as a witness in on i LE MARS WILL PARTICIPATE HIGH 8CHOOL CONTESTS IN ORGANIZE A LITERARY SOCIETY Account the Lateness in Getting Out the Annual Announcement the Time Limit Was Extended to the First of As a preliminary to entering the contests in debating under the direction of the Northwest Iowa High School Debating association the LeMars High School has organized a literary society which will be supervised by Prof. who will coach the debating Much interest is being manifested and it is hoped a large number of contestants will enter the preliminaries this On account of the lateness in getting out the annual announcement the time limit for enrollment in the Northwest Iowa association was extended to November 1. The number allowed Is nine schools have already enrolled and a re as Storm Webster Sioux Sioux Lake Spirit Grand Galva and These schools are paired off for the first Cherokee will debate with LeMars probably January 14. Debates will then be held two weeks apart until all but the champions are L - question That the several states should establish a schedule of minimum wages for unskilled constitutionality A Wide Preaching Mission The Episcopal In the United States has entered upon a plan to hold wide preaching mission throughout the whole nation and in the mission fields of all nations where the church is at The work will J begin at Advent and continue through the Advent and Lenten The plans have been perfected for the diocese of The clergy of the diocese and many from outside will be In each parish a will conduct the the rector being present during his after he will go to another parish to conduct the In St. George's church work will begin November 28, and end December 6. Rec. Harold Edward of Des will be the The rector desires that every member of the church and all people of other churches or of no church will attend the Especially do I hope that all who have been baptized or confirmed in the but who for any reason have not been affiliated for any will attend this Seth M. BADLY HURT IN FALL William Thompson Painfully Injured When Ladder Slips Will the Janitor at the court suffered a painful acci dent on Tuesday afternoon which Buy lay him up for some He gaged in putting up storm windows at the office When the ladder on which he was standing slipped and Mr. Thompson was thrown violently to the ground several feet B e alighted on his hands and His knee cap was badly wrenched aad tke ligaments in his leg were bis face was cut and When picked ap and assisted to his feet Mr. Thompson complained of great pain in his A was summoned aad Thompson was conveyed to his I t is difficult at present to the extent of his injuries as It la feared he may be hurt M. A. Teager is attending to Thompson's as Janitor in New M. E. Pastor at Merrill Storm Rev. Metcalt haB spent the past four years pastor of the Methodist Episcopal churches in Truesdale and and to say that he has been successful is putting it mildly The membership of the churches has been At Rembrandt a fine new parsonage has been At Truesdale the property has been much and all of the churches are in fine financial Mr. Metcalf has been ably aided in the work by who has been of great help In t h e They have both endeared themselves to the Fred Chosen Mayor Merrill At a meeting of the town council held Monday Mayor D. H. Shea handed in his which was accepted with Mr. Shea has made a good administrating the affairs ot his office with Impartiality and justice to but on account of moving to Nebraska the first of November he found it necessary to resign his Fred who has been a member of the council for many was promptly elected to fill the Mr. needs no words ot introduction from the He was one of the first homesteaders in central Plymouth He retired from farm life a number of years ago and moved to where he engaged in the mercantile business with splen did For the last ten years he has been in the Farmers and Merchants Bank as assistant For the past two years he has not been In business of any He will make a good the town team In a games w TiT V ' this He is the fourth football p e o P o f * h e w w to an wishes ot them as go to P * he player to be hurt this season in an automobile 11 i 4- Hurt In Runaway WW residing east of was hurt in a runaway accident He was driving along the road near Oyens with a sitting on a wagon when coming along soared the horses and they ran throwing from the He was ufe and brought t { * ow W to a p o j l a n He Mr. the LAr TO ROCKFORD Former LeMars Pastor Call to Iowa Rev. M. O. who resigned the pastorate of the local Congregational church last July and has since been making his home In Sioux City where he supplied the First Congregational church pulpit for a has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Congregational church at and left last evening for that town to take up the Rev. and Mrs. Lambly came up to LeMars Saturday to load their household goods for shipment and Mrs. Lambly will remain here for a visit with friends for a tew Rev. Lambly is an able minister and goes to his new field with the best wishes of many friends He says the church at Rockford Is an active and prosperous organization with a good church and parsonage and h e if certain he will be pleased with his new Senator Kenyon Here Senator W. S. Kenyon was In l * Mars Saturday night and Sunday M tag on his way to where he talked In t h e church 8ttnda7, n fM ator Kenyon Is over the and talking over the t a a m ' ' S W r come up before th. t with his He o * of he return to totf S B
