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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: !! Ruthven Free Press; Palo Alto Co, IA; May 7, 1930
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:09:26 -0500


Ruthven Free Press
Ruthven, Palo Alto, Iowa
Wednesday, May 7, 1930

INTERESTING NEWS IN NEARBY TOWNS
- Robert Simonson, proprietor of a meat market at Graettinger, was injured
in an auto accident near Maple Hill. His new Nash sedan was badly wrecked.
- Thieves raided the Charlie Osborn farm near Webb last week and made away
with his poultry. The farmer was away, attending a funeral at the time of
the robbery.
- James Evans, an Indian, was arrested at Algona last week for interfering
with women on the streets during the evenings. He was placed in jail and
held until the next county grand jury meets in September.
- Henry Ballow, resident of Hartley, committed suicide last week by hanging
himself from the banister of the stairway at the house where he was living
and setting the house on fire. Firemen broke into the house, after putting
the fire out, but Ballow was dead.

EMMETSBURG MEN HURT IN AUTOMOBILE WRECK
Harold Bradley and John Mugan of Emmetsburg, were quite badly injured
last Sunday night when their car ran off the road north of Mallard and was
wrecked at the roadside. Mugan, who was driving, claims that he was blinded
by the bright lights of an approaching car and could not see the road.

MEMORIAL DAY COMMITTEES
The following committees have been named by the American Legion for
Memorial day this year:
General arrangement - Art Simonson, R.L. Logan and C.V. Hofstead.
Speaker - L.M. Hadley.
Flower girls - Irene Logan, Hazel Molsberry, and May Mason.
Cars - J.H. Thatcher, W.J. Hughes, and John Osterhaus.
Hall decoration - C.G. Wigdahl, L.M. Anderson, Fred Clasing.
Officers of the day - Thos. Logan and J.H. Thatcher.

ELK LAKE
- John Pilquist purchased a new Ford of the local dealer last Tuesday.
- Leonard Pilquist had the misfortune to get infection in his hand from a
wire injury.
- Mrs. H. Jensen of Mankato, Minn., visited with her cousins, Irvin Miller
and Mrs. Alfred Wichman, in this vicinity.
- Mr. and Mrs. Pete Miller and family, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wichman and son,
Mr. and Mrs. George Bigger and family, and Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Brown were
Sunday guests at the Irvin Miller house.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
Notice of appointment of J.C. Nolan as administrator of the Estate of
James F. Nolan, deceased.
State of Iowa. Palo Alto County, ss:
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed and
qualified as administrator of the Estate of James F. Nolan, late of Palo
Alto county, deceased. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to
make immediate payment to the undersigned: and those having claims against
said Estate will file them with the Clerk of the District Court as provided
by law, duly authenticated for allowance.
J.C. Nolan,
Administrator of said Estate.
By A.J. Burt, His Attorney.
Dated April 29, 1930.

LOCAL NEWS
- Joe Foy of Emmetsburg visited his sister, Mrs. R. Goddard, last week.
- Mrs. Martha Wissinger has been visiting with her grandsons, Harold and
William Roland, and families, this week.
- Emil Skarlved and Miss Dorothy Lawrence, both of the Cylinder
neighborhood, were married at the home of Rev. L.O. Wigdahl in this city
last week.
- The children of Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Thomas are sick with the measles this
week.
- Dr. Molsberry visited in Burlington last Sunday. Mrs. Molsberry is staying
there with her mother who has been quite ill.
- Mr. and Mrs. E.F. Axtell of Spencer, visited at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. R.P. Thomas, and family last Sunday.
- A family dinner was served at the home of Mrs. DeGoff last Sunday in honor
of the birthdays of her two grandchildren, Fern Olson and Margaret Reed.
Fern was 16 years last Saturday and Margaret was 12 on Monday.
- Mrs. Earl Lindsey and daughter, Patsy, arrived here last week from
Pittsburg, Penn. for a visit at the home of her mother, Mrs. J. Hughes.
- Dr. and Mrs. W.H. Thomas and children of Des Moines, visited here several
days last week at the home of his brother, R.P. Thomas, and family.
- Mrs. Mary Thomas and Mrs. Nancy Campbell, mother and grandmother of R.P.
Thomas, who have been visiting here, left last Saturday for their homes at
Allerton.
- A photograph was received here this week from Kent, Ohio, showing Everett
Roland of this city, taking lessons in tree climbing in the top of an
80-foot tree. He was among the uppermost branches of the big tree. Everett
left recently to take a course at the Davey Tree Institute at Kent.

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED GRAVEL JOINT DISTRICT
Clay County No. 135. Palo Alto County No. 107.
Notice is hereby given that there has been filed in the office of the
Auditor of Palo Alto County, Iowa, and in the office of the auditor of Clay
County, Iowa, a joint petition for the establishment of a District for the
surfacing with gravel the following described road, to-wit:
Commencing at the Northwest Corner of Section Thirty (30) Township
Ninety-five (95), Range Thirty-four (34) West of the 5th P.M. thence running
north on the County line seven miles (7) terminating near Northwest corner
of Section 19-86-34.
Said district to include the following described real estate:
Sub-Division Sec. Twp Range Owner
NE NW Lot 3 D. & Pt.
W 1/2 NW 19 96 34 Lizzie
McDonald & John A. Berg
Pt. W1/2 NW3/4 19 96 34 Andrew G. Johnson
Lot 4 SE SW; Pt W 1/2
SW 19 96 34 J.C.
Jensen
NW1/4 30 96 34 Detlef
Rosacker
SW1/4 30 96 34 W.J.
Scherrebeck.
W 1/2 31 96 34 Wm Connor
E 1/2 E 1/2 NW 1/4 6 95 34 Henry Wichman
W1/2 E1/4 NW1/4;
W1/2 SW1/4 6 95 34 Mary A. Whitman
W1/2 NW 6 95 34 Henry Clasing
E1/2 SW1/4 6 95 34 C.A. Reely
NW 1/4 & N1/2 SW1/4 7 95 34 Edith, Ethel & Glen
Kahley and Eva Kassel
S1/2 SW1/4 7 95 34 L.R. Moore
E1/2 NW1/4 18 95 34 L.R. Moore
W1/2 NW1/4;
W1/2 SW1/4 18 95 34 Henry H Flood
E1/2 SW1/4 18 95 34 D.H. Morris
Lots 2,3; N1/2 SW1/4 19 95 34 Cornell College
S1/2 SW1/4 19 95 34 Stockholders
Investment Co.
E1/2 SE1/4 24 96 35 Bernie G.
Johnson
W1/2 SE1/4 24 96 35 Merle M Monk
NE1/4 25 96 35 Thomas Clear
Estate
SE1/4 25 96 35 Walter
Dickinson
E1/2 NE1/4;
E1/2 SE1/4 36 96 35 Detlef Rosacker
W1/2 NE1/4 36 96 35 J.F. Monk
Lot 1 in NW SE 36 96 35 J.W. Monk
NE1/4 1 95 35 Henry Clasing
N1/2 SE1/4 1 95 35 Mary A. Whitman
S1/2 SE1/4 1 95 35 John D. Klien
NE1/4 12 95 35 J.B. Schade,
Jr.
E1/4 SE1/4 12 95 35 Geo. W. Culver
W1/2 SE1/4 12 95 35 John M. Schauppe
NE1/4 13 95 35 Ed Stephas
SE1/4 13 95 35 Hans Anderson
NE1/4 24 95 35 Wm Morischeck
SE1/4 24 95 35 W.A. Salton
Said petition will come up for hearing before the Boards of Supervisors
of Clay and Palo Alto Counties in the Court House, Spencer, Iowa, on the
21st day of May, 1930, at 10 o'clock A.M. at which time and place all
persons interested therein may appear in the matter.


Cathy Joynt Labath
Palo Alto Co, IA USGenWeb Project
http://www.celticcousins.net/paloalto/index.htm
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com/



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