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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
1
Le Grand Reporter appears in The Le Grand Pub Company edition delivering local news and brief insights. The piece highlights community events and updates across Le Grand with a concise, period-voiced briefing.
A week’s leading items note Mrs. Taft’s sister-in-law death at Johns Hopkins Hospital under Dr. Harvey Cushing with details largely unavailable. English statistician George Parish compares Britain’s wealth per person to the United States, while Gen. W. W. Dudley dies in Washington. Millionaire John E. Berwynd donates 100000 for maternal care and infant treatment. Emmett Delton Williams, Rhode Island founder Roger Williams descendant, dies in Kansas City. Charles N. Crittenton leaves 2 to 5 million, half for rescue missions. Taft nominates Horace Harmon Lurton to the Supreme Court. George A. Carpenter to the Northern Illinois district court.
A nationwide Knights of Columbus pilgrimage to Rome and Genoa next August is announced in New York. The long list of items includes sensational charges against Charles Miller of Federal Life Insurance and related alleged fund manipulation and improper loans.
Governor Carroll rejected the parole board’s pardon recommendation for Dr. J. W. Crofford of Lamont, sending the case back for further deliberation. Crofford, convicted of second degree murder in an alleged operation on Maud Stone, was sentenced to twelve years at Fort Madison in 1905. The board had urged clemency after Dr. Artemus Brown testified he believed Crofford not guilty, claiming Stone admitted she performed the operation herself. Governor Carroll cited protest letters questioning Brown’s reliability and will await further investigation.
Mason City official Colby was denied a divorce from Florence Leavenworth Colby and custody of their son for most of the year. He faced alimony claims of 3000 dollars and trial costs. The decree by Judge Kelley favored Mrs Colby, granting her the divorce, custody from Sept 1 to June 15, requiring clothing for the son and payment of 1000 dollars to Colby for services rendered.
Des Moines report: town state grange principal officers were unanimously re-elected for the coming year. At the night session the full slate was installed and a large class of candidates received degrees. Grandmaster Judson of Balfour, vice president overseer Meade, secretary Meade, treasurer Wild, chaplain Mrs Wild, lecturer McLain, steward Richardson.
Bertram H. Grace a conductor for Des Moines Fort Dodge and Southern interurban railroad was instantly killed at the M and St. L crossing in Perry when a lone passenger engine returning to Valley Junction crashed into the interurban freight caboose Grace headed.
Train No 7 westbound on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line derailed two miles east of Bayard. Engine tender and train including baggage mail cars two coaches and two sleepers left the track. Thirteen passengers were injured, none seriously.
Several young men climbed a roof to disturb a party of girls and became mired in a quantity of tar spread over the surface. They had to call the girls for help, and the incident spoiled about 75 dollars worth of clothing.
Iowa City's two existing telephone networks will be merged into the Bell line currently in operation as soon as possible, announced by C. E. Hall, president of the Iowa company.
Clinton Louis Stith, a temperance lecturer from Indianola, was struck by a Milwaukee train near Lost Nation and killed instantly. Rey Davis, an Elwood Methodist minister, was injured.
The Iowa Supreme Court voids C. M. Brown as district court clerk for Emmet County and rules L. Heffalfinger the duly qualified successor. The case states the district court cannot fill vacancies, and the December board of supervisors had appointed Heffalfinger after the death of John Amundson. Brown refused to relinquish the keys, leading to quo warranto action. Justice Weaver wrote the opinion affirming the district court.
Judge McHenry of the district court ruled Iowa's hotel inspection statute unconstitutional in Hubbell versus Higgins. The suit challenged the law creating a state hotel inspector and mandating fire escapes and ventilation devices for hotels. The decision marks the main ruling on the legality of the measure.
Dan Lackey described as Iowa’s tallest man went with Mr. Gillam of Iowa Mausoleum Co to a Monroe restaurant. While meal was prepared he shot himself in the rear room, dying instantly. A stock buyer in Des Moines, he leaves a mother and three sisters. no cause is known.
Chief of Detectives Johnston secured evidence of the feared Black Hand Society in Des Moines. The operation includes blackmail and threats of sudden violent death for noncompliance as authorities launch a campaign to crush the group.
Martin Vandersyle a wealthy farmer living nearby fell sixty feet from a windmill. He landed on the back of a cow passing below and escaped injury. The cow suffered a broken back but valued at $375 a Shorthorn.
A Nevada girl describes an unknown man who grabbed Florence Knight, a 10-year-old resident, near a church door. The assailant was frightened away by the girl’s screams, and she is certain she knows him based on her detailed description.
The Arlington hotel at New Hampton burned to the ground from an overheated furnace causing 40000 in damage. Twenty five guests were rescued by firemen who wrapped them in blankets and guided them into the snow amid a near zero degree night.
Attorney General Byers has filed suit in the district court claiming title to 260 acres of land in the bed of the former Boyer Lake. He asserts the property belongs to the state, while nearby landowners contend ownership lies with them.
Voters in Webster City will decide at the regular spring school election whether to bond the district for a new high school building costing between 30 000 and 40 000 dollars.
A Des Moines woman returned a bag of jewels valued at 5,000 dollars that had been lost by Mrs. John Reynolds last September in the Chicago and Northwestern waiting room. She received a reward in the form of a check for several hundred dollars from John Reynolds.
Fort Dodge reports fire damages to the Corn Bell Packing company packing plant. Insurance on buildings listed at 19,603.46 and on machinery at 9,834.42, totaling 29,500.00.
The state board of control purchased eleven acres from Dr. N. E. Mignell for additional home grounds at a cost of 10000 dollars.
The piece touts a booming 1909 wheat season in Western Canada with estimated farm income of 100 million from wheat, plus 69 million from oats and barley and 40.6 million from other crops and livestock. It quotes American settlers thriving in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta, notes high elevator capacity, rail expansion, and optimistic forecasts for livestock and land values. It includes remarks from Taft and Canadian observers about settlement, governance, and frontier life.
Mrs Matilda Holtert of Providence praises Allen's Foot Base describing quick relief for tired feet. The advertisement claims the remedy is rare good for sore feet and notes it is sold by all druggists for 2 cents with a prompt prompt cue to ask today.
Readable bits show a line about whiskey, chewing WRIGLEY'S SPEAR MINT, and Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets promising stomach liver and bowels relief. Also a stray note about a married man getting leniency for misbehavior and a remark on a woman’s steadiness tied to a hat.
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