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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1913
Page
1
Earl Trapp died in the Snokomish River Washington while employed on a log boom. The tragedy involved one worker and occurred during standard river operations. Authorities reported the fatal accident and investigation is expected to follow.
Earl Trapp, 28, fell from a log boom at Cascade mill in Snohomish while working overtime on Tuesday night September 16 and drowned. His body was recovered the next day beneath the boat house at the mill foot. Deputy Coroner Bakeman ruled accidental death. He leaves a wife and two children. his sister Mabel died six months earlier of aplastic anemia. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. F L Trapp, lived on a farm four miles southwest of Estherville. The Cascade mill closed Wednesday during the search and Trapp was a respected Forester member.
E J Hoots, John Sweet and Floyd Costs of Estherville have homesteaded in Montana and plan to move spring to their new homes. Al Petersau of Albert Lea also homesteaded nearby. They drew no desirable land but chose trade land. and a separate sale advertises 50 grade Holsteins and 20 milch cows plus calves, to sell by November 1918 due to poor health.
President Wilson grants pardon to Charles A. Isaacs cashier of the Forest City National Bank after a June 20 sentence for false entries. The case involved concealing loan activity to a stockholder while farm land deals were in play, with the trial judge and prosecution recommending clemency. Additional local items note misdirected telegrams and a bank swindle attempt, plus community notices from Armstrong Spaner area churches and clubs.
A Chattanooga letter from Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Milburn describes crops very poor due to three months without rain, high prices for corn wheat and butter, and livestock shortages. The writers recount travel from Superior to Chattanooga amid flood damage, encampment attendance dampened by rain, and a new tunnel project near Missionary Ridge. They plan a Lookout Mountain trip and note a county Sunday school convention on October 14-16.
In Martin County a car carrying Chas GQ Storm of Prastan Iowa and companions turned over off a grade near Fox Lake while a fishing trip was planned. Storm died, others injured as Sheriff Carver, J J Palmer and J W Lovell arrived. Eye witness Arthur Airhart described the sequence and救 help. Coroner Brodt dispatched to the scene.
Items from Spirit Lake and surrounding areas recall events from twenty years ago. Highlights include Frank Harber in Chicago eight, visits by E. J. Sandrol to Clear Lake, Lizzla Montgomery returning with Mrs. A. D. Koot’s mother, a Spirit Lake political convention nominating Buyder of Digk ingon county, and A H Cumming speaking at RKatharville. Other notes mention a paint theft, Fuller couple’s trip from Swan Cake via Chisago, a fire destroying wheat stacks at Fred Schulis farm, J. S. Cox’s hand injury, the marriage of Brick Johuck and Lola Washburn, engineers viewing the world’s fair, J G Myerly nominated for representative with 2264 ballots, J F Glover as Bibley chair, and The Deestriot Shew at the Episcopal church.
The letter argues for continuing seining to remove nuisance fish and raise revenue within Iowa boundaries. It urges state control, local purchase of fish at near cost, and funding for lake dredging and proper stocking, opposing widespread draining and drought of sport fish. It defends Scandinavian readers and links meat shortages to fishing policy.
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