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Various Local Notes From Remsen and Surrounding Areas
An incomplete summary notes multiple local items including Henry Mesus a farmhand sent to a penitentiary for forgery last summer after cashing a forged check to buy an automobile. It also mentions a death by suicide near Temsen and a farm owner Katia Kaiser aged about 30 who died by self harm, with details about her bank funds and a possible trigger. A Rock Rapids soldier, George Mottux, received a $7.40 Uncle Sam check from 1865 wages. Weather notes from Des Moines forecast late February into March. Sheriff George Wheatley sold personal property for Wasco County farmers, with total sales around $1,692. Update on Sheldon Mail owner sale to M. Stearne, and a probate notice from Orange City, Sioux county Iowa, dated March 26, 1912, at 2 pm, to establish a will.