Fairbanks Daily Times Fairbanks, Alaska Territory February 28, 1913 Blakely's Father Dies At Age Of 72 The last mail brought advices from E.T. Blakely, one of the owners of the O.K. barber shop, who is now on the Outside, telling of the death of his father at the family home in Iowa City, Iowa, during the latter part of January. The elder Blakely was 72 years of age at the time of his death. Blakely says that he intends to be in Seattle about May 1, ready to start for Fairbanks. [transcribers note: Alaskan's still refer to the lower-48 states as "the Outside"] ----- The Correctionville Argus Correctionville, Woodbury co. Iowa Friday, February 28, 1913 Iowa State News. District Judge Albrook at Fort Dodge decided that Hon. L.S. Coffin, 90, noted philanthropist, needs a permanent guardian. The judge said he did not consider the question of Coffin's sanity, but thought a man of his years was rapidly approaching a condition when he could not manage the big estate he had accumulated. The International Council of Women for Missions has announced an institute to be held in co-operation with the Y.W.C.A. at Des Moines beginning March 10. Miss Frances D. Patterson, a missionary in china for several years, will conduct the institute. George H. Paul, the millionaire realty man of Washington, Ia., escaped death remarkabley, when a Milwaukee freight engine colided with his $10,000 Pierce-Arrow. The automobile was torn to pieces inthe crash, but Mr. Paul was scarcely bruised. Fremont Wilkins and Fred Fitzsimmons have been returned to Logan. Wilkins was wanted on a charge of wife desertion and Fred fitzsimmons is charged with knifing his cousin, Roy Fitzsimmons. Both were apprehended in Omaha. Five hundred people witnessed the fourth wedding at the Galloway Agricultural club in Waterloo. Miss Bertha Podeska was married to John Handorf of Marshalltown. Every expense was paid by Mr. Galloway. Louis Gauiter, the oldest citizen of Lamoni, is dead. He was 96 years old. He was a seaman for twenty years. The last ship in which he sailed had carried him from France to America for twenty voyages. The trial of Mrs. Lillian Lawrence, one of the six indicted as an outgrowth of the recent sensation said to involve two girls and many Le Mars men is entertaining the curious crowds in that city. John White, 40, a stockman from Waukon, was killed under the wheels of a Chicago Great Western train at the Nineteenth street crossing in Dubuque. Just how the accident occurred is not known. J.C. Spencer, 48, member of the implement firm of J.C. spencer & Co., committed suicide in the basement of his home in Iowa City, by sending a bullet from a revolver into his forehead. Sheriff Crimmins of Keokuk left for Kansas City to take charge of C. Bruce Lake, alleged defaulting county clerk, who was arrested in that city. The body of an infant was picked up in the brush near dubuque by boys. The body was wrapped in a skirt and newspaper. Isaac Prugh, Iowa's oldest undertaker, passed away recently at Burlington at the age of [illegible, may be 81 or 91] years. He engaged in the business continuously for sixty years and in that period conducted about 11,000 funerals. Miss Katherine Hummer, state agent for the industrial school for girls at Mitchellville, has resigned to become matron of the children's home at Boise City, Idaho. Maurice Handschin, 9 years old, while playing with a revolver, which the family did not know was loaded, shot himself at his home in Boone. Doctors say the lad may recover. Jesse Stewart, a barber of Jewell, drank a bottle of his own hair tonic because he could not buy liquor. He died shortly afterward. Stewart was from Dows and had been in Jewell but a short time. E.R Madden, convicted of conspiracy in connection with the burning of three buildings, was refused a new trial by Judge Maxwell, and was snetenced to three years in the reformatory at Anamosa. Romey Massey, a farmer living near Leon, was killed in a runaway between Woodland and Lineville. The team became frightened and Mr. Massey was thrown to the ground and lived but a few hours. With a bullet hole entirely through his body, Rex, the 12-year-old son of James Peterson of Albia, is hovering between life and death. The bullet was from a rifle he was carrying when hunting with his father. For the killing of Engineer Billy Boyce of the Iowa Central a jury at Mason City awarded his widow a verdict of $8,479. He was an engineer for thirty years and met his death in a preventable accident. Charles Erlandson, the third of a trio of young men indicted on charges of criminal assault upon Cecelia Louis at Dubuque was found guilty of assault and battery, and sentenced to thirty days in the county jail. One of the other young men was also given the same sentence upon the same verdict. The other was found guilty as charged in the indictment and was given a life sentence. The jury in the case of the Rev. E.J. Geddes of Knoxville against the estate of John W. Murphy returned a verdict for the estate. Geddes some time ago procured $20,000 in mortuary notes, payable to a Kansas city university. Later he took a note of $2,300 payable to himself as commission for the $20,000. The jury found the notes without consideration and procured by undue influence. ----- Mountain Democrat Placerville, California February 28, 1914 St. Louis -- That city flat dwellers should raise bees and that a small hive costing $5 will yield enough to keep the average family in honey for a year was the contention of Frank C. Pellott, state bee inspector of Iowa, before the annual convention of the National Bee-Keepers' Association here. Transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall Iowa Old Press http://www.IowaOldPress.com/