Sioux County, Iowa News Articles
Announced Engagement Mr. and Mrs. Neal M. Punt announce the engagement of their daughter Gracia and Mr. Donald Brink, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eben Brink. Gracia is attending the American Institute of Business at Des Moines and Don left for Jefferson Barracks last Sunday as an Air Cadet Reserve. Sioux County Capital, April 10, 1952
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Caught a Horse Thief at Hills Rock Valley, Iowa, Aug. 4.—Herman Wilts, a farmer, had a valuable horse stolen from him last week. He engaged a party here to capture the thief, and a young man named Boderblom was run down near Hills, Minn., and returned to Rock Valley. He pleaded not guilty and was bound over. [Minneapolis Journal, Published August 04, 1896, submitted by cd=fofg]
Close Call Harold Baker, 10 year old son of Mr. And Mrs. John Baker living 3 miles north and 2 miles east of Orange City, had a close call Saturday morning when he swerved on his bike in front of the Peter Kortlever car and received a broken collar bone. Harold was riding west on a county road near his home, on the right side of the road when the Kortlever car pulled up behind him and honked to pass. The boy turned to the left and the car hit him squarely. He rolled up over the hood of the machine, hit the windshield and tumbled to the road. The crack against the windshield probably broke his collar bone but Harold is lucky to escape with injuries this slight. The bicycle was wrecked. Sioux County Capital, March 4, 1943
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Cremated In His Shanty Hawarden, Iowa, Jan. 29.—Richard Millet, who lived in a shanty on the outskirts of the town, was burned to death in his shanty. He left for the shanty the evening before in an intoxicated condition. Early next morning neighbors discovered the place on fire. They succeeded in carrying the body out of the burning shack, but life was extinct. [Grand Forks Herald, Published January 30, 1908, submitted by cd=fofg]
Daughter Born A daughter, Charleen was born to Mr. and Mrs. Pete Kortlever, Dec. 6. Sioux Center News, December 16, 1954
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Death In The Wind Terrible Cyclone Carries Destrucion to Iowa Towns Hundreds Killed School Houses Toppled Over on the Heads of Prattling Children and They Slept Then Rain and Darkness Fell Over All and Impeded the Work of Rescue – Railroad Tracks Washed Away, Wires Down and Roads Impassable Omaha, Neb., May 3 – A special to the Bee from Sioux City, Ia., says as dispatch was received here by the Sioux City and Northern Railroad company this evening from their agent at Sioux Center, forty-five miles north, telling of a terrible cyclone near there in which many people were killed and injured and in which much property was destroyed. The wires where the storm is wee blown down and telegraph reports are consequently very meager. The first dispatch received by the railroad said the cyclone passed three miles northeast of there at 5 p.m. A schoolhouse near town was destroyed and the teachers and a number of small children killed, the exact number not being known. The whole country in the track of the storm is devastated. The Sioux City and Northern tracks between Perkins and Doone are washed out for several miles. Dispatches from Sioux Center at 9:30 p.m. say three schoolhouses and at least twenty residences and barns are swept away. At the schoolhouse two teachers and three pupils were killed and many injured. Two women were found dead about 6 o’clock not far from where one of the school buildings stood. One man who arrived in Sioux Center late in the evening reported his house was blown away and his family killed. He himself escaped and reports that at least two or three hundred people must have been killed. Parties have been sent our from Hull, Sioux Center and Orange City, nearby towns, but the work is being carried on in total darkness in the midst of a tremendous wind and rain storm. It is consequently progressing slowly. A number of bodies have already been recovered, although the exact number can not be learned. Every one is violently excited and definite accounts cannot be obtained. It is said Perkins, a small town between Sioux Center and Doone, was directly in the path of the storm and was almost entirely wiped out. The wires leading to it are all down. The railroad tracks are washed out and the wagon roads can not safely be traveled over, owing to the manner in which they were gullied by the rain. It is consequently no east matter to reach it. Physicians have already set out from Hull, Orange City, and Sioux Center, but are finding obstacles of every conceivable character in their effort to reach the scene of the storm. Help has been requested from here and if the same character of reports continue to come in a train may be sent out. Definite reports are beginning to come in as to the path followed by the storm. The cyclone originated about a mile and a half southwest of Sioux Center. It moved from there in a northeasterly direction and passed directly through Perkins. After passing Perkins nothing was heard of any damage. Late this evening, however, news was received from Sibley to the effect that a storm stuck there about 6 p.m., destroying the house of John Watterson, killing Mrs. Watterson and injuring Mr. Watterson and his son. No names can yet be learned of the people injured about Sioux Center and Perkins. The Sioux City and Northern train which arrived at 10 o’clock p.m. brought in several passengers who witnessed the storm. They reported thirteen dead bodies had been brought into Sioux Center at 6 o’clock. They estimated fifty people must have been killed. The Northern train barely escaped a smash-up near Doone, but was stopped by a sectionman before it passed upon the dangerous territory. The death roll so far as known is: Mrs. John Koster, Mrs. Pest, Miss Anna Marsden, Chas, Marden, George Marsden, a child of A. Verhoof, two children of L. B. Coombs, Miss Mamie S. Haggie and five brothers – Jamison and two Custer children. Their deaths were all in the vicinity of Sioux Center. The names of a few injured near Sibley, where considerable damage was done by the storm are known. Besides John Watterson, who was killed by flying timbers, Herman Bolkusp, a farmer living near Sibley, was killed by lightening, and Mrs. Frey and the Roseberg brothers are badly hurt. [Dallas Morning News, Published May 4, 1895]
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Killed Two For $900 Loot South Dakota Hired Man Slays Employers for Purpose of Robbery Bodies Found Thrown Into Well on Farm Pursuit Started After Suspect and He Confesses When He Is Caught Kodoka, S. D., June 12.—Bodies of J. Gooder of Rock Valley, Iowa, and D. Toney of Sioux City, were found in a well on the McNally ranch, two miles north of here. Michael Maloney, who was in their employ, is under arrest, confessing their murder. They were known to have had about $900 in cash on their arrival May 18. Ten days later Maloney came to town and said he had bought his employers out and taken them to Phillip the night before. The city marshal started in pursuit of Maloney and arrested him at Cottonwood. Maloney said he killed one man with an ax and the other with a club, and the condition of the skulls of the murdered men bears out his statement. Robbery was the motive for the crimes. The prisoner will be taken to Fort Pierre and placed in the county jail. [Aberdeen American, Published June 13, 1909, submitted by cd=fofg]
Looking Back Forty Years Ago (1898) C. F. Haselman arrived home in Alton Sept. 29 from his gold-seeking trip to Alaska. J. M. Starbuck and many other members of the party were at the Mallamooth river and getting ready to winter there. The party found fine gold in every pan on the bar they were on and felt sure there was much gold farther up, according to a letter from Al Brownslow of Cherokee to his wife. A son was born to Mr. And Mrs. Cornelius Vander Meer of Alton on Sept. 30. At the Fred Lechtenberg home near Granville there was a new baby boy. A baby son arrived at the Hansen home in Alton Sept. 29. And there was also a new boy at the Barney Minten home two miles southeast of town, born Sept. 27. Sparks from the engine set fire to the grain and two stacks burned at the Henry Scholten farm northeast of Alton. Two miles southeast of Carnes, the Kramer separator and six stacks of grain burned, sparks from the engine causing this fire also. Eighty-four years of age, J. Korteweg, well known Alton citizen, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Gleysteen. Born at Klundert, Netherlands, he married Miss Sya Anna Vogelaar there in 1854. They had two children, Mrs. W. H. Hospers of Orange City and Mrs. John Gleysteen of Alton. The wife and mother died in 1860. He came to Sioux county in 1870 and watched the county develop. In 1871 he married Miss Reintz Koopmans, who died 8 years later. C. F. Haselman arrived home in Alton Sept. 29 from his gold-seeking trip to Alaska. J. M. Starbuck and many other members of the party were at the Mallamooth river and getting ready to winter there. The party found fine gold in every pan on the bar they were on and felt sure there was much gold farther up, according to a letter from Al Brownslow of Cherokee to his wife. Sparks from the engine set fire to the grain and two stacks burned at the Henry Scholten farm northeast of Alton. Two miles southeast of Carnes, the Kramer separator and six stacks of grain burned, sparks from the engine causing this fire also. Sioux County History, Alton Democrat, September 30, 1938, Forty Years Ago (1898)
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Looking Back Forty-Five Years Ago (1893) Arthur L. Nelson, former editor of the Sioux County Herald at Orange City, died at Omaha where he was editor of the Omaha Western Laborer. He was a man of rare accomplishments it was stated. Theo. Scott of Remsen purchased the Henry Minten hardware store at Alton. At Sheldon, on Sept. 27, Louis C. Hollenbeck and Miss Edna F. Gillespie were married. Theo. Scott of Remsen purchased the Henry Minten hardware store at Alton. Sioux County History - Alton Democrat, September 30, 1938.
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Looking Back Fifty Years Ago (1888) According to Jno. E. King's Orange City page the following marriage licenses had been issued:J. H. Smith and Nellie Jons Ockinga; Will R. Day and Hattie A. Warfield; Remko Koul and Grada Kastien; Albert Helder and Eva Jan Korden. Newly naturalized citizens were G. W. Hageman, P. Berghuis, Herman Berghuis, Jan Kortlever, Jerry De Bruin, Johannes Andringa, Gerrit Klay, Jouke Molder, Jan William De Roos, Jan Noomen, Anton Van Rooden, Henderik Gerrink, Francois Hesse, Jan Los, Albertus Van Kerkhoff, Jan E. Sterkenburg, William Moojen, Albert Jan Florjen, Aalt Blerpenberg, Cornelius Bersma, Gerrit Roetman, Henderick Beckman, Henry Winter, Frank Krogman, Anton Krogman, Piet Bamberg, George Tott, John G. Prekel, J. N. Hasseth, Ole Low, Engle Henderson, Barney Brunsmann, Anton Leverman, John Henry Wilper, and P. H. Rupert. Twin Boys were born to Dr. and Mrs. Owen of Orange City. A. F. Geselschap of Orange City was a new subscriber to The Alton Democrat (and continuously until his death a few years ago). Judge Ladd, Judge Fouke of Dubuque, L. N. Deck, Geo. W. Argo, W. S. Palmer and G. W. Pitts were speakers at a bar banquet held at Wyatt House, Orange City. The Sioux county fair was "slightly embarrassed" financially and able to pay premiums only at 62 cents on the dollar and some "were complaining of their inability to get even that." "Michael Kinney's elegant residence on his farm near Carnes station is nearly completed. It is 16X30 and two stories high." D. B. Horton, postmaster at Calliope, was recovering from a tough tussle with rheumatism. Fred Mels, Alton Barber, was building a two-story structure on Main street with Nie. Henrich and brother, assisted by Frank Young, doing the work. Editor Will A. Wells received a photograph of the Democratic twin baby sons of J. P. Selig of Hospers. A. F. Geselschap of Orange City was a new subscriber to The Alton Democrat (and continuously until his death a few years ago). Judge Ladd, Judge Fouke of Dubuque, L. N. Deck, Geo. W. Argo, W. S. Palmer and G. W. Pitts were speakers at a bar banquet held at Wyatt House, Orange City. The Sioux county fair was “slightly embarrassed” financially and able to pay premiums only at 62 cents on the dollar and some “were complaining of their inability to get even that.” “Michael Kinney's elegant residence on his farm near Carnes station is nearly completed. It is 16X30 and two stories high.” D. B. Horton, postmaster at Calliope, was recovering from a tough tussle with rheumatism. Fred Mels, Alton Barber, was building a two-story structure on Main street with Nie Henrich and brother, assisted by Frank Young, doing the work. Editor Will A. Wells received a photograph of the Democratic twin baby sons of J. P. Selig of Hospers. Sioux County History, Alton Democrat, September 30, 1938, Fifty Years Ago (1888)
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Three Iowa School Girls Are Drowned Hawarden, Iowa, May 12.—Three Hawarden high school girls—Edna Borman, Neva Johnson and Marjorie Fairbrother—were drowned in the Big Sioux river last night when a boat in which were five pupils and a teacher was carried over a dam. One girl clung to the boat, the teacher and the other pupils held to the dam and these three were rescued. The bodies of the girls were recovered. Twenty-five high school girls picnicking on the river, witnessed the drowning. [Bellingham Herald, Published May 12, 1916, submitted by cd=fofg]
Tornado Swept Iowa Woman and Three Children Are Injured Hospers, Iowa, June 5.—A small tornado visited Hospers and outlying country late today. Mrs. Neth Hoogsterp and her three small children were seriously injured when their farm home was blown down. A farm hand named Sorenson is missing. Much property was damaged. [Tulsa World, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Published June 06, 1914, submitted by cd=fofg]
Two Daughters Born Births: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kortlever, Orange City, a daughter, Feb. 3; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hulshof, Ireton, a daughter, Feb. 7. Sioux County Capital, February 11, 1960
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