Carroll County News Articles Aggie Brown Little Aggie, the youngest daughter of John Brown, is dangerously ill with pneumonia. [Carroll Sentinal, Published May 09, 1884, submitted by Linda Dietz] From History of Carroll County, Iowa, Vol. 1, 1912 January 8 - The board of supervisors refused to grant permits for the wholesale liquor business in the county. January 15 - A temperature of 40 below zero, marked by the thermometer at 4:30 A. M. Sunday of the date above written, is the lowest mark the mercury has reached so far as any record is known. The storm began on the 13th with heavy snow and wind. Friday the thermometer was 28 below and continued to fall until the low point was reached. March 5 - The Carroll city election gives these results: Mayor, Frank M. Powers; recorder, James Thompson; assessor, Henry Marnette; councilmen, C. H. Heitz, John Nestle, J. C. Delaney. March 14 - The controversy arising in the division of the Catholic parish of Carroll, represented in the suit of Arts et al vs. Guthrie et al, is decided by the supreme court in favor of the plaintiff and judgment of $3,400 affirmed. May - Since the closing of the saloons in Carroll many holes-in-the-wall have sprung up from which drinks are dispensed to the full measure of the business done on Fourth street in its palmiest days. Engaged in this traffic are several shanties built on skids to which a team can be attached and the buildings transported from place to place as the needs of the owners require in dodging injunctions, which are of no value unless the fines inflicted can be made a lien against property. Booze is also sold from stables and outbuildings and these depots are scattered all over town and are known only to the initiated. A profitable business is also done by bootleggers, who carry their stock on their person and peddle it out in bottles or by the drink. An alley running north from Fifth street, in the business center of town, has been converted into a nesting place for blind-tigers. Drinks are dispensed at these places through a solid petition in which there is a small aperture closed by a wicket. The customer nominates the prize desired and deposits the price for the same on a shelf in front of the wicket, where the silver is quickly converted into Dutch cocktails or rattle-snake by a sleight of-hand that does not expose to sight the ministering angel behind the barricade. The city treasury is on the point of collapse from the loss of the revenues drawn from saloon licenses, and at the same time the liquor traffic, instead of being abolished, seems to have been many times augmented and its evils increased by the vicious hands into which it has fallen. The only thing necessary to get any kind of a drink desired (except pure beer and whiskey) is a thirst. May 9 - The Carroll city ordinance imposing a license on transient peddlers and merchants is set aside in a decision by Judge Conner in behalf of one T. C. Creed, an itinerant slop-shop dealer. May 16 - Two car loads of beer have been received at Carroll to be sold in the "original package." May 23 - The Rochester Loan & Trust company with $100,000 of paid up capital, organized at Rochester, N. H., with Sumner Wallace as president and G. W. Wattles as managing director, the western office of the company to be established at Carroll. August 20 - Congressional convention of the Tenth district at Webster City nominated Johnathan Prentis Dolliver on the sixteenth ballot. J. P. Conner of Denison on the eleventh ballot received within four votes of the number necessary to nominate, and on another ballot, Major Holmes, the incumbent, was but one vote short of a nomination. B. I. Salinger of Carroll county was chairman of the convention. August 22 - Democratic county convention nominated—representative, Oliver Horton; auditor, F. W. Krause; treasurer, W. Kennebeck; recorder, J. H. Brunning; county attorney, J. C. Engelman; supervisors, Samuel Bowman, G. von Glan. September 19 - Republican county convention nominated—clerk, O. G. Prill; recorder, C. H. Heitz; county attorney, Geo. W. Paine; supervisors, James Mattison, Robt. Dixon. October 10 - Joint debate between J. P. Dolliver and Captain J. O. Yeomans. rival candidates for congress at the courthouse, being Dolliver's first appearance in Carroll and the manner in which he acquitted himself was superb. Captain Yeoman was strong, but no match for him. November 5 - General election, presidential vote in Carroll county: Cleveland, 2,052; Harrison, 1,593—Cleveland's majority, 459. Yeoman's majority, 476. Entire democratic county ticket elected, with the exception of C. H. Heitz, (rep.) whose majority for recorder is 156. December 8 - The preliminary trial of James Molseed of Vail for the murder of Wm. Hunter at Arcadia before Justice J. M. Drees results in holding the defendant to the grand jury under bonds of $5,000 for murder in the second degree. Molseed is a Crawford county constable and Hunter was a saloon keeper at Vail until ten days before the shooting, when, under a jail sentence for maintaining a nuisance, he closed his place and moved to Arcadia, where he resumed business as a saloon keeper. Molseed served papers of arrest on Hunter at Arcadia and Hunter agreed to accompany him to Denison to serve his sentence, when he asked and was given the privilege of saying good bye to his family. He failed to return as was agreed. Later Molseed discovered Hunter at the station. When the latter saw the officer he started to run and paid no attention to a command to halt. A shot followed, striking Hunter in the head and penetrating the brain. History of Carroll County, Iowa, Vol. 1, 1912 Submitted by Cathy Danielson John Karstens Adjudged Insane John Karstens, the young man that was so badly hurt a few weeks ago by being thrown under a corn-stalk cutter on the farm of Joseph Brinker, was adjudged insane on Tuesday last by our County Insane Commissioners and taken to the asylum at Independence by Sheriff Hamilton. [Carroll Sentinel, Published May 16, 1884, submitted by Linda Dietz] Schumaker Children The children of John F. Schumaker that have been sick for some time with scarlet fever are improving nicely. [Carroll Sentinal, Published May 16, 1884, submitted by Linda Dietz] Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.