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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1912
Page
2
The article surveys aluminum use in packaging and foil including thin sheets for chocolate wrappers and powder production. It notes expanding aluminum powder uses, then shifts to a broad set of industrial and social observations including dance licensing in a city, legal rulings on preaching atheism, and various global manufacturing and labor snippets.
Read fragments report delays in settling Shaw securities and extensions for the Short Line sale. European syndicate to fund via internal drafts. Atlantic district court protest could block further extensions though progress claimed.
A state bank department report notes deposits in state and savings banks up to 10,006,000 actual money, reflecting a healthy rise since last year. The quarterly figures indicate presidential effects are not impacting local banking conditions, with deposits increasing by 28,901 last May and rising into the current year.
A crowd gathered at Leet Island Lake to witness the launch of a new vessel named the Mary Jones. Built by Grange Ship and Arthur Ferg, the 40 by 20 foot craft carries a two ton capacity and a 40 horsepower gas engine.
Mrs Nina Stockdale 38 wife of Charles H Stockdale real estate dealer College View Nebraska died yesterday in Moines Iowa after tonsil operation to remove a mass. Cause given as heart failure possibly linked to anesthesia. Surgeon A Habenicht notes patient weak prior. Stockdale and children present. Burial planned in Leon.
Perry banker Pattee, president of First National Bank of Peru, valued at 380 450 dollars, and a 100 000 dollar farm, figure in local notices. William Norton, “Pap” Norton, a longtime Company C guard, will miss no encampment. Edward Moents of Creek marries his fiancée Olea Peters in New York after meeting her in Germany last fall. Charles Phy lips buys stake in Harrison County News. Denison hosts a strong weeklong chautauqua in Washington park. Mason county sees light frost and crop concerns. Icy accident injures Iowans Ieya F. Low and partner near Okoboji. car over 30‑ft bank. Logan delegation studies pavilion sites across Harrison Crawford Shelby counties.
IOWA NEWS IN BRIEF reports Mrs. GW West, 37, robbed at gunpoint by a 15-year-old boy. Isa Moore charged, denies guilt, neighbor IDs him, Mrs. West to likely recover. Other items note donations to Milwaukee Sinai Hospital by Abraham Simmer, Chautauqua plans near Smithkend, a Manson baseball win, and various civic notes from Des Moines to Dubuque.
In Premouth county July 2 local dealers report strong demand for binding twine with inadequate supply delaying harvest start. Cereal crops show improvement after a ten day period of backward progress as harvest moves toward next week.
Hugh Marlo of Lone Rock Iowa cannot identify a child found in an Indian camp near Lenox as his missing son. Authorities released the alleged abductors after the uncertain lead.
Joseph Frost a switchman for Hingis Central was killed in Tara yards when he fell between boxcars this morning. He was TM years old.
James Hunter of Hamburg was brought to Sidney, jailed in the county jail without bail on a first degree murder charge. He allegedly killed his brother Inch during a June 14 dispute that involved threats to another brother Ida, with a duel ensuing. Inch died, James wounded, and Hunter was moved to the county jail for trial likely at the next district court term.
Dan Cutford Thorne and Judge Henderson head to New York to protest a planned 20 percent freight rate increase on poultry butter and eggs. Iowa dairy and meat groups urge the railroad commission to intervene to shield Iowa shippers from higher costs across the Mississippi Valley.
A Milwaukee area train struck an automobile carrying four girls to a Sunday school picnic. Three girls died at the scene or shortly after, a fourth died later, and a fifth escaped with injuries. The car was torn apart by the impact on the embankment.
The Courtney eighty farm northeast of Mapleton sold for a top price of about 2102 per acre with several earlier sales bringing progressively higher values. Purchaser John Golthomy recently sold land south of Lown for 990 per acre and is said to have resold quickly after the recent purchase.
Fy Herrick, 50, a Storm Lake real estate dealer, was found dead in a hotel room from a self-inflicted wrist wound. He had been despondent over drinking and unable to restrain his thirst, with his wife present and empty liquor bottles nearby. Local police reported the tragedy occurred yesterday.
In Webster City Franklin Corbin and George Wilburn at the city electric plant allowed grafting of large skin sections onto Jacob Weber, severely scalded in a plant explosion three months earlier and a patient at St Joseph's Mercy hospital.
In Dubuque Iowa agitation grows as police oppose the curfew ordinance. They say enforcing it would require doubling the force due to a provision arresting youths under 16 on streets unescorted after 9 15 p m and before 4 20 a m. Mayor Lyons will neither veto nor sign, predicting repeal pressure.
In Alason City Judge Kimball’s court W. J. Coleman alias Jerry Bailey, accused of bigamy, gathered his wives in a surprising scene. Wife No. 3 Mamie Massey of Evanston Illinois testified, then met Wife No. 3 who greeted Coleman warmly. Coleman was bound over to the grand jury and to remain jailed until the September session.
Burlington July 19 A rear end collision involving the Burlington fast mail and a Burlington passenger train at Hinsdale Hl Sunday morning killed 23 and wounded 25. Mrs Ellis M Brownson now bears a family history of three railway wreck losses including her husband Engineer Brownson and earlier relatives Hewitt Bone and George Bone.
James Stewart & Co. win the contract for a 20 foot dam and hydro electric plant for Northern Iowa Power in Fort Dodge Iowa. The project begins with laborers at work as Alax Toltz, a noted hydro electric engineer, oversees construction. Estimated investment stands at 300000.
Des Moines announces a plan to install an automatic telephone network with the Chicago Automatic Telephone System Co. The system aims to serve 20 000 phones with 10 000 instruments initially. Promoters claim faster, more reliable service and toll quality comparable to Bell. Sir Henry Beigieman announced the July 18 decision and engineer Reigleman evaluated Chicago and Grand Rapids installations.
Des Moines announces Iowa patent grants for the week ending July 9 1912. Named inventors include T Barnard Schaller for a soil pulverizer W P Bettendorf deceased for a railway car A T G Bio for a calculating apparatus R A Creakfield Madrid for a rendering tank H I Brehm Waterloo for starting devices for explosive engines J A Brown Cedar Rapids Keater W J Dwyer Bernard for cement reinforcement and more across Cedar Rapids Mason City Marshalltown Fort Dodge and Carlisle with assorted inventions such as piston packing insulators and nursing bottle nipple fittings.
In Western Springs a body sent for burial with Mr. Tudor and his daughter Lois was found not to be Mrs. Tudor. A dentist, who had crowned teeth for Mrs. Tudor, identified the remains as Mrs. Tudor in Chicago, delaying the Tudors’ triple funeral.
Ida Grove Iowa July 1 Dr J E Conn buys his brother Carl E Conn’s share in Conn hospital Battle Creek and will run the facility personally. The hospital has eight years of operation with thousands of procedures and only five deaths since opening.
Des Moines Iowa July 18 The surgical operation on George Cosson attorney general at Rochester Minnesota was more serious than anticipated Surgeons removed the appendix the gall ducts and an abscess on the duodenum The report says the operation was immediately successful Cosson had been warned of a condition requiring surgery and had long realized its inevitability
The Fourteenth district judicial convention at Estherville stalled after 79 ballots with no result and adjourned to August 6 in Emmetsburg. On the 11th ballot N F Lee of Emmetsburg led the trading candidates included D D Bailey Buena Vista F G Kirkpatrick Clay F E Harrington Kossuth F C Davidson Point Alto and Fred Shehris Pocahontas.
Marshalltown reports the Republican state convention nominated Judge Frank R. Gaynor of LeMars for the Iowa Supreme Court. Gaynor, a former Brooklyn practitioner, moved to Marshalltown in 1875 after marriage in 1878 and early years with Judge John Scott. Other notes include local marriages and various regional incidents across Iowa.
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