Davenport Daily Leader Davenport, Scott, Iowa January 31, 1897 IOWA NOTES - The new home of A.W. Baird, the contractor at Mason City, was nearly burned to the ground Friday morning, catching fire from a kerosene lamp that was left burning under a frozen water pipe for the purpose of thawing it out. The loss is about $1,000. - Richard B. McDonald of Clinton had his left hand severely pinched while making a coupling in the "Q" yards Monday noon. He was taken to his home and Dr. C.W. Meyers called, who found it necessary to amputate the middle and index fingers. The other fingers were badly jammed but it is thought they will not have to be taken off. - W.A. Cottrell, esq., of LeMars, has invented a corn harvester that looks as though it might revolutionize the methods of caring for the corn crop. The machine is something like a self binding harvester. It cuts tow rows of corn and stalks in a manner similar to the elevation of grain to the binder. At the top of the elevator the cars of corn are cut from the stalks and carried in another elevator to a wagon. The stalks are put into bundles for binding. - Charles T. Westcott, who is well known to the baseball fraternity, was married Thursday at Dakota City to Miss Mary E. Hazelgrove, an accomplished young lady of that place, Rev. Joel A. Smith, of LeMars performing the ceremony. The wedding was quite an elaborate affair and after the festivities were over the bride and groom repaired to their future home, taking with them the best wishes of many friends.-LeMars Sentinel. Cathy Joynt Labath (whose pipe out to the well house is now evidently frozen here in Long Grove, IA) Iowa Old Press http://www.IowaOldPress.com/