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Happenings of Interest in Towns and Country Around Us Jos. Bosma of Boyden recently pur chased the Pete Westra dairy farm just south of Hull for $206.26 an acre. The farm is well improved. The Christian Reformed church at Hull is preparing to make a drive to raise $18,000 with which to build a new church. They now have $5,000 on hand, according to Rev. Geo. Douws tra, the pastor. In O'Brien county the record for digging out the largest den of foxes goes to Frank Roetman of Sanborn, who brought the mother fox and 16 cubs to the office of Auditor I. R. Isen berg in Primghar. He received a bounty of $18. They were captured alive. Oscar Magnuson of Hudson was painfully burned about his face May 14th when helping put tar on a roof. The tar barrel caught fire from a fire which had been built underneath it to make the tar more liquid so that it would spread easier. When Mr. Magnu gan discovered the fire he threw a bucket of water on the burning fluid, not realizing what would happen. The boiling tar was thrown back into his face and while his face was badly scalded his eyesight was not injured. Mrs. Cleo Benedict, Western Union operator at Canton, was injured May 14th when she fell from a car in which she was riding while on her way to Sioux Falls. Mrs. Benedict was riding in a car which was driven by Thelma Amen and when the former attempted to roll down a window she mistook the door latch for the window crank. She pulled and the door flew open and as she tried to pull the door back she was pulled out of the car and rolled to the pavement. A passing motorist drove the radiss back to Canton where it was discovered, that Mrs. Renaslic’ had Apedesiadanaved a broader house at the W. P. Moeller farm near Rock Rapids was the cause of a blaze May 18th. The Rock Rapids fire depart ment was called but Mr. and Mrs. Moeller had succeeded in putting out the blaze before they arrived. Mr. Moeller suffered burns about his hands while Mrs. Moeller's hair and face were scorched while they were attempting to throw the stove out doors. The kerosene burner had gone out and in attempting to relight it oil which had leaked to the floor ignited. The building was not destroyed but Mr. and Mrs. Moeller lost about 200 chickens and 14 geese. About 60 chickens escaped. Henry Tet Wee of Doon recently purchased the Ole Johnson 60-acre farm near Inwood for $105 an acre. Mr. Tet Wee will move onto the farm next spring. A car belonging to Clifford Schoon of Rock Rapids caught fire May 16th while he was driving it. The fire de partment was called but by the time they arrived the entire interior of the car had been gutted by the flames. Mrs. Elsie Smith of Lake View had the misfortune to fall and break her left hip socket May 14th while visit ing in the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. H. Jones in Sioux Rapide. Due to her advanced years, being 88, her in jury is regarded as very serious. The new postoffice at Rock Rapids is completed and the postoffice force moved into their new place of busi ness Monday morning. The building is modern in every way and is a great improvement over their old postoffice. Mrs. Gilman, the postmistress, stated that the building would not be officially dedicated until after congress ad journs ao that Senator Gillette, who was instrumental in securing the building for Rock Rapids, can be pres ent to do the honors. Alvin Houtama, 21, of Orange City, died shortly after being found on the back porch of his home Tuesday morn ing with a bullet wound in his fore head. A 22 calibra rifle was found be side him. The young man was found by his sister Jeanette, who called a physician but he died before medical aid reached him. Houtama was mar ried about two months ago. He went down town alone that morning but re turned home later. No motive for the shooting could be given by friends or relatives. He was employed as a Hne man by a telephone company. He is survived by his wife, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Houtsma, and two sisters. A hearing was held before Justice of the Pesce , so Wooten, of Aeron , form ing box at the Big Sioux Gravel Co. plant, resulting in damage to the ex tent of nearly $200 to the equipment. The copper was disposed of to L. J. Cross, Akron junk dealer, and he was also called in at the hearing. It was finally agreed that the boys would be paroled to Mayor R. W. Brown and they were denied the right of being on the streets after 9 o'clock at night. The parents were compelled to pay for the damage. Two of the five boys were also guilty of damaging the in side of the Akron golf club house and they were also given a warning in connection with that piece of malicious work. The city council of Storm Lake has voted to ask the federal government for $100,000 to construct a municipal light and power system. The city will make a prospective application for a 45 per cent grant and 65 per cent loan to the amount of $100,000. Howard Kunz, 29, of Mallard, was fatally injured near Emmetsburg Monday afternoon when the lost con trol of a light coupe which he was driving and was hurled 12 feet from the car into a field as the machine plunged from the graveled road. The car struck a 100-pound rock and mov ed it 20 feet before crashing into a fence and overturning in the ditch. No one saw the accident but it is believed that Kunz lost control of the machine when it struck a rut in the highway. Kunz was removed to a hospital in Emmetsburg where he died as a re sult of his injuries. He is survived by his parents and several sisters and brothers. An alleged hit-and-run driver was involved in an automobile accident near Holstein May 15th in which Mar vin Jors and his sister Benita, aged 10, were injured and their car badly damaged. Authorities are searching for the driver who is charged with having failed to stop and render aid after his car had struck the Jors car. Miss Jors was badly hurt about the mouth and one leg. Several teeth were knocked out and others pushed into her jaw and lower lip. The wounds re quired a number of stitches, Jors was not seriously injured. Jors stated he had brought his car almost to a stand still when he was struck by the car swerving down a hill. Deputy Sheriff Dan E. Danielson and Supervisor Chas. B. Headley of Cherokee were the victims of an auto mobile accident May 12th when the right rear tire of the Studebaker sedan in which they were riding blew out. The two men were en route to Tripp, S. D., to look after Mr. Danielson's land interesta when the mishap oc curred, Mr. Headley was driving and when he attempted to get the car under control after the tire blew out, the machine careened across the high way into a guard rail, breaking off several posts. Headley was momentar ily dazed and he suffered severe cuts and bruises on one side of his face. The car was not greatly damaged. Harvey Mighell of Holstein was found guilty of larceny in the night time in connection with a creamery theft at Kimballton, Iowa, by a dis trict court jury at Audubon May 19th. Mighell ‘will receive his sentence May 26th. The defendant was accused of participating in the theft of $1,179 worth of butter from the Crystal Springs creamery at Kimballton more than 8 year ago. Mighell is one of a band of thieves that operated in north west Iowa a year or two ago and pull ed off robberies in which George Hart of LeMars was an accomplice. Hart is doing time in the Nebraska peniten tiary in Lincoln on conviction of the theft of a quantity of bands at Madi son, Neb. The question of whether or not there ‘would be a street dance at the 60th anniversary at Hull June 7th and th, caused a great deal of disturbance but ‘according to reports there will be a street dance. The firemen of Hull were planning to put on the celebration and when they put the chance question up to the council they were denied their approval. As a result the firemen threatened to resign in a body and this led to the resignation of three councilmen, Walter Van Dyk, Jake Hanenburg and Wm. Clearbout. May or Kirk Sheldon and the remaining two councilmen filled the vacancies by appointment and Hull still has a fire department and presumably will hold a chance in connection with the cele bration. Herb Brown of Akron met with a bad automobile accident the night of May 17th when an approaching car, driven by an apparently drunken man, trowded Mr. Miller from the highway so far that the auto slipped off the muddy grade and slid backwards into the ditch. The rear of the Miller car was smashed in and Mr. Miller suffer ed cata on the back of his head and hand. Mrs. Miller escaped with minor injuries. The meandering car also nearly collided with the James Cole man car which was following the Mil ler car and itself finally ran off the road. The driver of the car causing the trouble was W. L. Maxfield of Sioux City and he was sentenced to three months in jail and fined $300. On pay ment of $100 and costs the rest of the fing and the jail sentence was sus pended during good behavior. The 80-acre farm known as the Arie Yardorn place near Boyden has been sold to Alf. Van Dyke of Hespers for $276 an acre. It is stated that the farm ‘is an exceptionally good one. A small twister destroyed the chick whoop and killed just one chicken on the Gerrit Hatskamp farm near Sioux Center May 17th. Various minor shake-ups occurred to other buildings at the farm. Although he returned the wool the game night he stole it from the farm of Walter Goedicke near Spencer, Guy Simington of Langdon, Town, a for mer convict, received a five year sen tence at the state penitentiary at Fort Madison. Simington confessed to the attempted theft but said he returned it and dumped the wool in the farm er a driveway after the police at Shel don, where he planned to sell it, gave him suspicious looks. He was accom panied by Albert Thompson of Spen cer, who was sentenced to five years at the men’s reformatory at Anamosa and then paroled.
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Hawarden Independent
Hawarden, Iowa, US
Thu, May 26, 1938
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