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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1923
Page
2
Majet Lizabeth Caldwell of the Salvation Army Rescue Home in Des Moines told the board that fifty unmar ried mothers were cared for in one month. Most came from towns within a hundred miles. city applicants were rare. The report notes the trend and the board’s response.
Des Moines mourns H L Benjamin a civil war veteran and longtime resident who spent three years with Buffalo Bill and survived a notorious outlaw attack on the wild west stage. R Z Orton, last of the Orton brothers, ran a midwest circus and menagerie touring widely from Independence to Dallas county where Ortonville bears their name.
Maquoketa residents celebrate as forty seven pupils in the high school normal training course take the state examination with no failures. Questions for the Normal Training test are prepared by the State Department of Public Instruction and graded in their offices. Maquoketa High School claims the state championship.
Polk County reports total dependents at 84 with county costs ranging from 12.50 at Davenport children’s home to 65 at Oakdale tuberculosis sanatorium. State costs include 2,100 monthly for blind residents and 2,987 for widows’ pensions. State patient counts: Mt Pleasant 15 Davies Davenport 66 Cherokee 6 Toledo Juvenile 12 Clarinda 207 Vinton 5 Glenwood 162 Woodward epileptic 32 Woodward feeble minded 10 Oakdale 54 Independence 1. Local hospitals hold 25 tuberculosis 155 insane 85 paupers. Sioux City plans a monument for War Eagle on War Eagle hill, with iron fence to separate it from Sergeant Floyd and mark the dawn and disappearance of the red man.
Frederick H. Seligman of Grinnell is cited for a storied military career from South Africa to World War I. He attended West Point three years before a hazing incident led to his departure, then served in the Spanish American War, Philippine insurrection, China, Mexico border, and earned the Distinguished Service Cross and Croix de Guerre in the Great War before retiring due to disability. Also reported are Cedar Rapids master builders adjusting labor scales for 1921, and Iowa’s 58th Sunday School convention plans in Denison May 25 and Washington May 8–10 with leaders from the International Sunday School Council.
Attorney General Gibson announces that traveling spectacle peddlers have no right to operate from house to house and orders county attorneys to arrest all such sellers. The Iowa AG’s decision imposes another restriction on house to house canvassing, as agents have been active in selling glasses in parts of the state.
In O'Brien county the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway fights a state highway law requiring abutting property to pay 25 percent of paving costs. The railway argues it should not be taxed as real estate. The county levied 2500 dollars against the road for benefits from the Iowa Pike paving. The company presented witnesses claiming damage from the paved highway as freight and passenger receipts declined significantly between Sheldon and Hartley. The railway has about 100000 dollars in similar assessments elsewhere and seeks to set a precedent.
The Des Moines river dam project at Harvey in Marion County is abandoned after Oskaloosa agrees to lower electricity rates. The city will pay a maximum of 9 cents per kilowatt and a minimum of 2.1 cents, using Des Moines central plant power, while bond issues are held in abeyance. The McKinley interests pushed the plan before the deal. A later quip cites a governor and corn freight scheme, attributed to the Ames college president.
Carl Abend of Estherville left his possessions behind about three years ago and, with his family, returned to Germany to live in ease. He converted his American money to German marks and upon arrival in Germany, he...
A fragment recalls a migrant who arrived in 1921 with no funds and found work through a brother-in-law in Egg Harbor, M. J. The piece notes his later prosperity and contrasts Abend’s fate with others who trusted German marks as a safe investment after expecting a republican government.
Northwestern Iowa weighs early boundary history noting Lieut. Robert E Lee from Fort Crawford led a patrol with an ox team to place the iron marker at the Iowa Minnesota line near New Albin Iowa. The post stands about five feet high with Minnesota and Iowa inscribed on opposite faces bearing 1849 and 43 degrees 306 minutes. Lee later rose to command the Confederate army and surrendered at Appomattox.
Thirteen Iowa boys and girls earned medals in February in the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps contest. Across the nation 558 medals were awarded. The long winners included Pauline Duquette Twyla Holmes Blossom Bloy Georgene Ferguson Belle McLaughlin Edith Rapp Mary Roarch Moyne Chalmer Ethel Marie Ferguson Beatrice Meier Doris Yost Lillie Larson of Council Bluffs and Edward Times of Mason City.
A 1922 regional feature highlights Iowa as a strong farming state with deposits of 889 million across banks, 199,755 farms, and a farm property value of 7.65 billion. It notes extensive road spending, stable rainfall, and a dense network of colleges and rail access, urging nationwide broadcast of these Iowa facts and touting land as a bargain at 175 to 200 dollars per acre. GEO. B. ANDERSON, Estherville, Iowa.
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