Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California February 21, 1896 Licensed to Wed. Marriage licenses were issued at the County Clerk's office yesterday to the following persons: Alex A. Duncan, aged 32, a native of Iowa, and Ollie Davidson, aged 21, a native of California; both residents of Calabasas. ----- The Correctionville Argus Correctionville, Woodbury co. Iowa Friday, February 21, 1913 Iowa State News LeMars, Ia. - Isaac S. Struble, congressman from the Eleventh Iowa district from 1882 to 1890, was stricken while at the dinner table at 12:30 o'clock Monday and died in a few minutes. He was 70 years of age. Damage actions aggregating $130,000 have been filed by the following residents of Waterloo: W.B. McMurray, $30,000; F.J. Federspiel, $25,000; John Carney, $25,000; Clarence F. Ebert, $25,000; J.H. Seeland, $25,000. All were filed against the Business Men's Temperance association for libelous statements made during the recent "wet-dry" fight. Burglars entered the general merchandise store of John A. Heterick at Logan, blew the safe, took about $75 in cash and checks, and made good their escape without leaving a clue. Mr. and Mrs. Will Cox, living at Belknap, near Ottumwa, are the parents of a baby girl weighing but two and a half pounds. The little one is healthy in spite of her weight. A gelding, weighing a ton and topping the sale at $351, was a feature of the sale at the Nate Nates farm near Nevada. The next horse brought $292.50 and the next $285. Bloodhounds trailed two stolen horses from kalona to Iowa City and then lost the trail on the paved streets. The horses belonged to Harvey Swartzendruber. The jury suit of Mrs. Annis Seley against Dr. C.A. Beattle, a well-known physician, at Creston, in which she charged malpractice, reported it was unable to agree. Mrs. Seley asked for damages in the amount of $10,000. She declared that inattention by Dr. Beattle caused her health to break down and that she will be permanently afflicted. After having been indicted on six counts, including fraudulent banking, embezzlement, and obtaining money under false pretenses, George W. Curtis, Jr., the former banker at Ferguson, was discharged, and the cases against him dismissed. Curtis is a son of a Redfield, Ia., banker and was arrested last fall. John Bangs, a wealthy retired farmer and one of the earliest pioneers of the vicinity of New London, has just passed away. He was 87 years old. He is a direct descendant of the people who came over from England in the ship "Anna" that landed at Plymouth Rock in June, 1621. he came to Iowa in 1836. Fight to a finish is on at Iowa Falls for the postoffice. C.L. Brock has announced that he is in the race. Mr. Brock is a veteran of the civil war and claims the office under the old soldier preference act. S.I. Rutledge, Peter McCallum, Andrew J. Morgan, Richard A. Fiest and C.L. Brock are in the field. Mrs. Mary C. Rockwood, of Keokuk, aged 69, died as the result of a fall down a flight of stairs about four weeks ago. The aged woman never regained consciousness. She was well known in southeastern Iowa. Clarence Dobbe, living six miles north of Estherville, lost his left hand while shelling corn for William Paul. His mitten caught in a cog wheel, pulling his hand between the cogs and completely cutting it off. "Bill" Hogan, the county prisoner and pest house patient who escaped from confinement for smallpox at Sioux City, was captured at Sac City, having been followed by officers in an automobile. President Taft has nominated the following Iowa postmasters: Wm. M. Ricke, at Breda; W.A. Simpkins at Britt; Olich Anderson, at Wesley; John Maxwell at Grand Junction. John T. Rose, nearly 102 years of age, died recently at Montezuma of old age. He was born in New York and came to Iowa in 1870. A message from Los Angeles, Cal., tells of the death of F.M. Johnston of Superior, Neb., formerly a pioneer resident of Boone. Mrs. C.L. Foote of Storm Lake, Ia., was here [Correctionville] Sunday and attended the funeral of her grandmother, Mrs. Adah Sheffield. Mrs. Foote is a daughter of Chas. Lee of this place. Transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall Iowa Old Press http://www.IowaOldPress.com/