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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1897
Page
3
A speaker in a Chicago Journal poem laments being away from home. He contemplates staying, yet insists he must return before winter. He recalls Cedar Row memories, the farm, and his mother’s influence, hoping a path will bring him back home soon.
In a tense frontier tale, Lt. Lambert confronts a night of chaos as Capt. Close returns to a town where Parmelee reports the jail mobbed, inmates freed, and the deputy marshal missing. Close accuses Parmelee’s posse and leaves Lambert to manage a fragile aftermath amid charged locals and unanswered questions.
Iowa state brief reports Gov Drake pardoned Mrs Anieila Evans who, with husband Daniel Evans, was once sentenced to 15 years for murder at Anamosh. She is dying of consumption and would have been freed in 1902. Their baby, born after sentencing, has lived with its grandmother. The Evans case linked to Daugherty Albin murder ended with a motion to dismiss due to unavailable key testimony, delaying the third trial set for May 17.
In Rock Rapids the community is shocked by the flight of J J Bailey a 70 year old respected resident who drew several thousand dollars from banks and disappeared with a woman named Stoltenberg also known as Laura D Berkborn noted for a shady reputation.
The state crop bulletin notes fair ground prep and planting progress with one third to three fourths of acreage planted, corn acreage near 1918 levels, and generally satisfactory yields for spring wheat oats and barley though slowed by cold winds. A tragedy at Forest City reports F Knoblock found hanged in a barn, once a prosperous hardware merchant, leaving a wife and six children.
The State Photographers association at Des Moines elected officers for the coming year. President G. S. Comon of Storm Lake. Vice presidents E Frey and W H Jacobs. Secretary J K R Hall of Monroe. Treasurer T A Brown of Marshalltown. Finance committee W C Edinger Des Moines, H Reuvers Pelra, and G S Knowlton.
The year 1896 reports 48 123 hogs dying from cholera across Madison county towns, costing farmers at least 250 000 dollars or about 16 dollars per person. Other items include Daniel Hooker’s death in Eldora after a stroke, a Dubuque car robbery by hoboes, Osceola county’s push to elect a legislator, a girl killed crossing in Dubuque, Epworth League convention dates, burglaries at J B Pearsall Co., and multiple local deaths and incidents across Iowa.
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