Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-02
Observation-Disclosures !:
: IOWA
NEWS

lowed TOUR tablets of bichlorlde of
mercury, which caused death at st,
Francis hospital
County Attorney Malmbery of New
ton filed information charging George
Young with the murder OF Frank
Parker at Kellogg. Young's father
has arranged for the defense The
plea is TO be self-defense.
George Simms, who made his
escape through a sleeping car win
dow with nothing on but his drawers
and undershirt, was caught at New
| Haven, ten miles northwest of Elma,
by the United States marshal.
Some two months ago, John Sher.
man of Protivin attempted suicide
and a few days ago he completed the
| job by hanging himself in the barn
He was dead when found He leaves
| four brothers, two sisters, and a
mother to mourn his loss.
| Bert IamerouX was drowned in
Crystal lake while out bathing with
three boys all under IS years OF age
| The boys all ventured farther out in
the lake than they should and all of
them We're nearly ready to give up
when they reached shallow water
One boy tried to help Mr.. Lameroux
when he called for help, but he could
| do very little and save simself. and
he had to break away from Lamer-
ouN. Mr.. LamerouX was married Jan
last and has been in the general
merchandise business since Feb. l.
In their farm home some nine
miles southeast of Webster City Mr..
and Mrs. w r. Brown are anxiously
awaiting the arrival of their son,
Alva, who eighteen years ago quar-
relied with his father and left home.
vowing he would never return during
the lifetime of the older Brown. The
young man was then but is years.
He is now 81. But the boys mother
never gave up hope. and through all
the years she made efforts to find
him. She advertised continually in
the larger papers, and finally located
her boy in Mississippi. He has
promised to return and make his
| parents d NlSll
The first pure food case to come
up in Cerro Gordo county was called
before Mayor McConlogue, NJ L.
Endanger, manager of the New York
Brokerage company, being the de
PENDANT. The defendant was fined
S25 and costs. He was arrested by O.
/ Otteson of Otteson, pure food in
spector, who has been in the city for
a few days looking over the business
firms. The firm does brokerage
business and buys, besides much
material secured from bankrupt sales
and such stocks. A quantity of balS
ing powder was secured in this wa.
and was found to be fragrant viola
ton of the law to offer it for sale.
The Rooseveltian example of anti
race suicide is a cardinal principle OF
Cerro Gordo county. which this year
boasts of 2S3 more births than deaths
A total of 37S births occurred witt
$40 deaths. Mason City stands at the
head of the column in birth rate, ac
cording to population with the resi-
of the county, with 1914 births anC
only 81 deaths with population O
500 or 700 people, has no births re
corded and ten deaths. Three town
ships of the county, which are ole
and we'll settled, report no births anC
a total of ten deaths. In the county
outside the city the boys outnum
bered the girls by SO TO sc, while il
the city the male children outnum
bered the female by four.
Uncle Jimmy" Dickerson, the orr
ginal pioneer of Cerro Gordo count.
and one of the best known men il
northern Iowa, was laid TO his fina
: rest at Clear Lake a few days ago
in the very ground that in his pioneer
days he reclaimed from the wilder
5 ness. His grave in the cemetery i:
! on a little raise in the prairie from
> which he viewed for the first time The
! eNpanse of water in Clear lake which
: attracted him from his first low;
, home in Clayton county to the region
5 of Clear Lake James Dickerson diet
aged 80 years. He had lived in low;
5 since 1884. coming here from In
2 DIANA his birthplace, and locatin!
first in Clayton county. where he re
NAMED until 1851 hunting and trap
ping chiefly. and farming a little. IL
/ 1851 he and another famous pionee
{ of northern Iowa, Joseph Hewitt
A were tempted by the stories of tn
, fine inland lakes of northern Iowa, es
g pecially Clear lake, and the fine hunt
1 ing and trapping in that vicinity, ant
D they moved westward stalking on
: homesteads where the town of Clea
1 Lake now stands These two mel
r were alone almost in those days il
J. northern central Iowa, save for tn
Indians. Fort Dodge had been il
existence about a year. North an,
west there were no settlements ant
+ none east until Chickasaw county wa
reached.
: George w. Hayzlett, mayor of La
:, porte City and former agent to thu
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