The Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota
Thursday, February 1, 1962
RECEIVES CALL
Artesian – The Artesian fire department was called to the Robert Hendrix farm home three miles northeast of Artesian Wednesday morning. A spark fro the exhaust of the tractor ignited a hay stack and it burned to the ground. It was one of a long number of hay stacks and snow in between the stacks kept the fire from spreading. It was partially covered by insurance.
Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
Forestburg News
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Smith and family and John Mack were callers at the John Blow home in Artesian, Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Knutson, of Springfield, Ia., are here visiting his folks, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Knutson.
John Mack went to Carthage, Sunday, to visit his sister, Mrs. John Schmitz.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Nocktigall moved to Witten, S.D., Sunday, where he will be the superintendent of the school.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Briggs left Tuesday for Sulliban, Ill., where he will teach.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ross, of Bancroft, Nebr., came Thursday and visited until Saturday with their cousin, Fred Dralle.
Arland Lindsley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Lindsley, escaped what could have been a serious accident, when the A of a hay stacker fell on him. He was bruised somewhat, but no bones were broken.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Briggs are now residing in Huron. Mr. Briggs has accepted a position as department head in the Gamble store. At present they are visiting with Mrs. Briggs' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rhodes, in Woonsocket.
Vic Olhson is here visiting his mother, Mrs. Charley Ohlson.
Mrs. Albert Goudy is a patient at a Mitchell hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Goudy and family returned home Saturday evening from a trip into Iowa. Mrs. Goudy's brother, Parnell Fredlake, was married and they attended the wedding.
Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
Lane News
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Nissen and Donna, of Pipestone, Minn., spent the week end at the home of their son, Raymond Nissen, and family here.
Marion Lyftogt entered the Methodist hospital at Mitchell, Monday morning and submitted to an operation for appendicitis that afternoon.
Mrs. Bert Swenson was taken to the Methodist hospital at Mitchell, Friday morning, where she is receiving medical treatment.
Duewain Kringen returned on Tuesday from the St. Joseph hospital at Mitchell, where he had spent the past three weeks following an operation for hernia.
Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
Storla News
Schools opened in Belford on Monday, with Mrs. Carrie Scott Walker as teacher for the Storla school; Miss Pearl Olson at the Thompson school; Mrs. Donald Steichen at the Woodmansee school; Miss Bessie Plooster, of Corsica, at the Peterson school, and Leo Scott at Elm Grove.
Miss Betty Scott enrolled on Monday at Notre Dame College in Mitchell as a Normal student.
Miss Viola Scott leaves this week for Canton, S.D., where she is an instructor at the Lutheran Academy there.
Miss Lucille Selland left Monday for Armour, S.D., where she is the principal and will teach English at the school there.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gaulke mourn the loss of their infant baby, born at a Huron hospital, recently. Our sincere sympathy is extended.
Ted Mickelson bought Pete Thompson's Ford tractor, including the plow, cultivator and mower, last week.
Reuben Sonne's friends and neighbors in and around Storla, charavaried he and his bride by driving in for the evening one day last week and wishing them best wishes and enjoying the time socially. They were married recently and will make their home near Storla on a farm. We too, extend our best wishes to this fine young couple.
Mrs. Carrie Walker and children moved into Storla this week and live in the house just south of the Storla store. We all welcome these friends with us once more.
Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
NW of Town
Mr. and Mrs. Oren Teller and Dean returned Monday evening from their vacation in the Black Hills region.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Callan left early Thursday morning for their home in San Jose, Calif., after a two months vacation with home folks.
Tommy Gormally spent several days last week visiting his sister, at Worthington, Minn.
SW of Town
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Neelan called to see Mrs. Alex Regynski at a Huron hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Goergen and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Goergen's sisters at Mitchell.
The two little daughters of Ernest Regynski spent Tuesday afternoon with their grandfather, Frank Regynski.
Mrs. Nick F. Steichen returned home Monday from her visit with relatives in Minnesota.
Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS
Louie Gerleman and family left today for North Dakota, Montana and to Yellowstone National Park for a vacation trip.
Miss Ledoris Forbes who is employed at Wessington Springs, spent the week here at her home, visiting her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Siegenthaler spent Thursday and Friday of last week in Sioux Falls on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Ward returned Sunday from a two weeks fishing trip at Lac la Croix in Canada.
Miss Dorothy Daharsh, of Sioux Falls, is spending a couple of weeks at home with her mother, Mrs. Wm. Effling.
Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Conway plan to move to Platte where Mr. Conway will be employed in a drug store at that place.
Irene Eddy visited last week at the home of her sister, Mrs. Gene Madsen, at New Underwood, S. D.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bluhm and nephew, of Letcher, visited with Mrs. Rubida Cote on Wednesday evening.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Leines, of Mellette, a daughter, on August 30, weighting 8 lbs. and 11 ounces. She was named Ann Marcile.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Schlomer and daughter, Reva, and Mrs. Moore, of Kansas City, left Saturday for a trip through the Black Hills.
Misses Lois Larson and Helen Gray, who have been working at St. Luke's Hospital in Aberdeen, helping care for polio patients, came home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hardman took their daughter, Mrs. Warren Catron and son, to their home at Fairmont, Minn., last Sunday, after a visit here.
Miss Rose Mary Willson left Tuesday for her home at Sioux City, after making a visit here with her sister, Mrs. Carl Regynski.
Mrs. Will Steichen returned home Sunday from Chicago, after visiting two weeks with her daughters, Wilma and Lorraine, and Leona of Sugar Grove, Ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jordan and son, Robert, of Minneapolis, spent last week visiting here with Mrs. Jordan's mother, Mrs. Ella Newcomb.
Mrs. Paul Bauer and daughter, Marjorie, and son, Roger, went to Huron, Tuesday, to see a doctor. Roger is recovering from a cracked bone in his arm. Marjorie broke a bone in her foot.
Mr. and Mrs. August Peters, Betty Lou and June, and Leroy Regynski returned home Sunday evening from the Black Hills. Betty Lou remained in Rapid City where she plans to attend the National School of Business.
Miss Hazel Hobart left Friday for San Francisco where she will attend the national Legion Auxiliary meeting, where she goes as a delegate from this state. she will also visit relatives while on the west coast.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Nelson, who accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bromwell and son, Robert, of Wessington Springs, returned to their home here Saturday evening after spending two weeks in the Black Hills.
According to a notice from the postoffice at Arlington, Va., to the News this week, Miss Mary Forbes has gone to Lisbon, Portugal, with the American Embassy again. That is the address given the News for her paper.
The News has been notified that a 4 lb. 12 oz. baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Kauffman at Mercy Hospital, Sacramento, Calif., on August 18, 1946, named Janet Odessa. Mrs. Kauffman is the former Florence Gutzmer, of Woonsocket.
Harold Kappel and two sons took over the garage, formerly owned by Kappel & Duncan, the first of the month. Siedschlaw Motor Company which had been occupying the building under lease, moved to their new building on north Dumont Ave. Kappel & Sons have the J. I. Case Machinery Company line of farm implements and Bob Kappel also has a radio repair shop in the building.
Wallace War left Sunday for Rapid City after spending two months at home. He received his discharge from the Navy in July. He will teach in the Physics Department of the School of Mines and Technology this year. James and Donald Ward will attend the School of Mines and Technology, James as a sophomore and Donald as a freshman, under the USNR V-5 Flight training program.
The Aberdeen (SD) Daily News, Wednesday, March 17, 1915
George Grunewaldt of Woonsocket is out $25 because he thought no bull could possibly weight 2,500 pounds. He bet that sum with Theodore Feistner, who expressed the opinion that his big red bull would tip the beam at 2,500 or more. The animal really weight 2,695 pounds, and Grunewaldt is $25 poorer, but much wiser.
Aberdeen (SD) Daily News, Tuesday, Aug 18, 1914
Two French priests from the vicinity of Miller, Rev. Francis Bouter, pastor of the Catholic church at Letcher, and Rev. Nio, pastor of the Catholic church at Woonsocket, have departed from their parishes in response to the call for reserves from their mother country. Rev. Father Nio, who was pastor of a large congregation at Woonsocket, had started the erection of a new church when the call for duty came. It is expected that both priests will enter the hospital corps in the French army.
Aberdeen (SD) Daily News, Wednesday, July 18, 1917
ACCIDENTAL DEATH IS THEORY
Iowa State Sleuths Hold That Woonsocket Girl was Not Victim of Murder
Special Investigator For Department of Justice to Help Unearth the Case
Sioux City Journal, July 17 -- Miss Thoela Gerken, of Woonsocket, S.D., who was shot near Ninth and ones streets on the night of June 27, was accidentally killed and not murdered. George Ward, superintendent of the department of public safety, implied last night in discussing the arrival of state agents of the department of justice to investigate the case.
Oscar Rock, chief investigator for the state, and J. E. Risden, a special investigator for the department of justice, arrived in Sioux City yesterday morning to investigate the mystery of Miss Gerken's death.
"They may find the man who killed her, but they won't find a murderer," Mr. Ward declared.
Chief of Police Harve Hawman also disapproved the statement made by Miss Mabel Houlihan, 922 Ninth street who was with Miss Gerken a few minutes before the shooting occurred, that a young man in overalls passed the two girls a few moments before they parted at Ninth and ones street.
"We have the best kind of evidence that no one passed the young women at Ninth and Jones streets," the chief said. "We can prove that when Miss Gerken started up ones street after leaving Miss Houlihan, that she was alone in the street. There was no one but the two girls in the street."
Neither Mr. Rock nor Mr. Risden had been at the police station last night when Mr. Ward and Chief Hawman departed for their homes.
"Of course, chief," Mr. Ward said, "we have not any information that might aid them in conducting the case. They did the right thing by not coming to us because we couldn't help them anyway, could we?"
"No," the chief replied: "they went to the newspapers first, and then reporters know all the inside of the case anyway."
Commenting on the attitude taken by the Woonsocket people, Chief Hawman declared that when Miss Gerken's uncle came to Sioux City to accompany her body back to her home, he did not call at the police station nor take any steps towards assisting the Sioux City police in any way that he could.
"He came to town and got the body and went away without coming near us," the chief said.
The chief also declared that if the people of Woonsocket could read letters which he asserts he has, they might change their attitude concerning the discreetness of Miss Gerken.
Mr. Rock last night declared that he would not put a great deal of time on the case. Mr. Risden will do the bulk of the work, Mr. Rock stated. He will assist the special detective.
The two state agents were in conference yesterday afternoon with County Attorney O. T. Naglestad and Assistant County Attorneys J. W. Kindig and Don G. Mullan. The men were sent here by Attorney General H. M. Havner at the request of Prosecutor Naglestad after the police had failed to solve the murder mystery.
TO COOPERATE WITH POLICE
Mr. Rock intimated that he and Mr. Risden would follow clews outside of the state. He asserted that the department of justice has a large fund which is set aside for investigation of crimes and that nothing would be left undone to bring the slayer of the Woonsocket school teacher to justice.
"We will work in cooperation with the police department," said Mr. Rock. "We recognize the fact that the police have been handicapped in their investigation by a shortage of funds."
Mr. Rock gained local reputation as a sleuth by running down the Charles Ford gang of gunmen. He obtained the conviction of Ford and a half dozen members of his gang, manyh of whom confessed their crimes and took prison sentences without a court trial.
A private detective also has been set to work in solving the Gerken murder.
SLEUTH GOES TO WOONSOCKET
Police investigators of Sioux City have been in conference with the detective. Members of the police department stated that they will cooperate with the outside investigators in the endeavor to bring the murderer to justice.
The newly employed detective left Sunday night for Woonsocket, where he will spend time necessary to obtain facts concerning the life of Miss Gerken. He spent Sunday in Sioux City working on the case.
The Sioux City police department will not drop the investigation, according to Chief H. H. Hawman.
Aberdeen (SD) American
July 6, 1911
The 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Rummelfeldt of near Woonsocket had a foot cut off by the sickle bar of a mowing machine.
