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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [Palo Alto] !! Ruthven Free Press; Palo Alto Co, IA; March 15, 1939
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:56:25 -0600


The Ruthven Free Press
Ruthven, Palo Alto, Iowa
Wednesday, March 15 , 1939

Sentence of Butter Thief is Upheld by State Court
The Iowa supreme court has affirmed a 10-year sentence in Fort Madison
penitentiary imposed on Harvey Mighell, 36, of Holstein, Ia., in connection
with a robbery of a Kimballton, Ia., creamery in 1936.
Mighell was sentenced in Audubon county district court last May.
He was accused of being a member of a "butter theft" ring alleged to
have stolen $17,000 worth of butter from 21 Iowa creameries in 1936.
Mighell was the fifth man convicted in connection with the thefts. He
also served part of a 10-year term in Anamosa reformatory for robbing a
store in Buena Vista county in 1931.

DESCENDANT OF ALDENS DIES
Mrs. George Carson, 83 years of age, member of the D.A.R. and said to be
a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden who came over in the Mayflower,
died at her home in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Tuesday of this week.

INTERESTING NEWS OF NEARBY TOWNS
- Mrs. Ed S. Reese died suddenly in a beauty shop at Estherville last
Friday.
- William Blanchard, who has been employed on a farm near Emmetsburg died
last week without leaving any information about his home or his relatives.
- Hans Westergard of Graettinger died on Monday of this week and the funeral
was there this Wednesday afternoon.

RUTHVEN AND VICINITY
- The silver wedding anniversary celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Carl John
Carlson will be observed next Sunday in the Lost Island neighborhood.
- A representative for the government was in Ruthven last week to see that
folks around here were living up to the socialism security law.
- Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Brand are the parents of a baby boy born on Wednesday,
March 1st. He has been given the name Gerald Francis.
- Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Schroeder and family were dinner guests at the home
of her parents, Mr .and Mrs. W.A. Thayer, in Emmetsburg on Sunday of last
week.
- Mr. and Mrs. O.F. Spies and children visited Mrs. Spies' father, O.B.
Anderson, at the P.J. Duus home in Graettinger last Sunday. Mr. Anderson has
been quite ill.
- Harness, harness repairing, harness oiling, tires, batteries, oils,
electric light globes, washing machines, and light hardware at the Gamble
Store Agency. Ellis Amick, owner. adv.
- Plans are being made for observing a 60th wedding anniversary at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Christianson on Thursday afternoon of next week. The
celebration will take the form of an open house for their friends and
relatives.
- Sparks from a chimney started a fire on the roof of the N.C. Bale
residence last Thursday noon. A stranger passing by saw the fire and gave
the alarm and the fire department put the blaze out. A hole about four feet
wide and fourteen feet in length was burned in the roof and some damage was
done to the interior of the house by the water needed to extinguish the
fire. The loss was covered by insurance.


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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