Kossuth County Advance from Algona, Iowa • Page 1

5 TR with possibly IVfejr Mr ALGONA, IOWA, NOVEMBER 6, 1930 12 Pages Number i SI LOSES IN COUNTY INDIT DRAWS ItlFE TERM AT FORT MADISON tenmeyer Plea of JGuilty Meets With Swift Justice. rthu'r. Rosenmeyc-r, 34, the St. idiot farmer arrested in con- Ictlon with recent bank robberies, I Sentenced to spend tho rest ot life' at Fort Madison last iiirselay afternOpn by judge F. C.

at Rosen. pleaded guilty to being an lory in'the robbing of the Bank last August, confessing car for the bandits, lenmeyer's confession also in- helping to rob the Hardy entered the same day-us the bank, and it MUnk at M.er- Minn! 'In both of these cases senmeyer entered the banks and rob them. Lu Verne, Resenmeyer said, at the H'anna Switch for i bandits, Who used a stolen car making the robbery, stolen car was later hidden iind a straw stack, "then Resen. jyer picked the bandits up and them Minnesota later the i day. the Hardy robbery the ban.

drove to the McGregor street out of Algona, and leCt their car; at a point four miles of town, drovo home at St. Benedict, leaving two companions hidden in a Held. That night he took the jto Minnesota, Sentenced by liovrlen. enrrieyer confessed last Thurs- morning and expressed a dei to plead guilty at once and get sentence. E.

J. Van Xess pro. his legal rights, nnd the which consisted of Rosen- MrjjVan Ness, Sheriff Hovey, ty Shumway, and Agents and Scott to Emrnetsburg. Ige Lovrien had been holding at Spencer, but he stopped at i Emmetsburg courthouse on the to home at Humboldt, and to receive Rosen After hearing the Robber Enters Penitentiary The Limelight OWN GUN KILLS AUGUST BECKER LAKOTA FARMER Weapon Goes Off as He Takes It Down From Shelf. Hovey and Paine Win Fight for Sheriff and Recorder PHEASANT FLOCKS FOUND THICKEST court ijer's plea.

at Fort and the- evidence, Judge Lov- said the' law left him no atlve to sentence Rosen to an indeterminate life sen in penitentiary Vnrl lieon. Taken to Penitentiary. 3 party returned directly to and after supper Rosen- was taken to Des Molnes placed in the Polk county Jail night. 'Next morning Rosen- Mr. Shumway, Mr, Hovey, I Agents Scott and Qulnlan drove i to Fort (Madison, where Rosen- entered the penitentiary at m.

made no attempt to during the Journey and led the no other trou- He seemed resigned to hie and though not talkative, ex- no 111'feelings against any- Earlier In! tile week the of- had teared that he might npt suicide, Judging from re- ts he had dropped, but no in that direction was made, neyer was not handcuffed on way to Fort Madison, but a to which a ctoain was attached 1 placed on one This left tree use of both hands. Deulei TWO-Bobberies. The pheasant hunting Saturday was good for sportsmen who knew where to go, but for uninformed strangers it was not so In some groups there was only a fifth of a bird to the hunter when the day was over. These, however, were cases where the hunters merely sought a cornfield and proceeded to hunt without previous knowledge of whether or not the field contained pheasants. Hunters are agreed that the greatest number oE birds is to be found in northeast Kossuth.

Around Union elough they are plentiful. Scattered good-sized flocks are to be'found in the other parts of north Kossuth. Despite the number of counties open for hunting Kossuth drew a large of out-of-the-county sportsmen. Many arrived early in tho morning and left as soon as they had obtained the limit. Many Kossuth citizens are entertaining hunters from other parts of the state.

The second period of the open season began yesterday morning and will close tonight. It was anticipated by the expert hunters that yesterday would see the last of the easy shooting. It was figured that by last night the birds would have become extremely gunehy, also that practically all of the careless birds would have been bagged, leaving only the wiser pheasants at As'usual, manyjmore birds have not be bagged Roaenmeyer 'dented implication in robbery of the Wesley and St. sftlct thquKh believed 1 knows who rob them. One Partners rob- named WalJer-Bfter, is under and stand trial in Mln- next month, Baer confessed Rogemneyer rob the bank.

both the Baep the Rosen confessions, Jflllary Bender- alias Bill Bender- o( Minnesota, was named the robberies. Bender- fe BtlJJ at Jajgp, but both wa officers are looking fefrjteved that he is "'cure hiding place, wh.ere hla a. protract- befora he sen- at a 5 to 20 year 'Q the Minnesota penitentiary to sheri been wounded and could found than have been Pheasants often fall as if killed outright, but run off as soon as they reach the ground, Up to Saturday not as many hunters' licenses had been Issued this year as had been issued up to the same time in 1929. The total up to November 1 last year was 2837, but the total on the same, day this year IJlc -r IQO was 2799- Of the latter number 133 issued by County Recover Laura, Paine Friday. Seventy were aold Saturday, the opening day of the pheasant season.

Scattering license eales this week and next are, however, expected to put the total above last years flff- not as many loca the final open days. sentence in "VKSSS. 9 te The ReV, ThOS- ALGONA meets Fort Dodge at Athletic park next Tuesday, Armistice day, in the afternoon. The Dodgers are said to have one of the best teams in their history. On the other hand, Algona hit its stride last week, and two' backflelds developed in the last two weeks are expected to give Fort Dodge a real battle.

Algona's line Is now showing power both to open holes on the offensive and close holes on the defensive. FUNNEMARK AND BAUJEMftN WIN CtOSE CONTESTS fELLOW BALLOT STIRS DRYS Till EXPLAINED There was undue excitement mong uninformed members of the ocal prohibition forces Tuesday nornlng, when they received yellow onstitutlonal convention ballots at he polls. Suspicion was aroused, and some ardent drys called County Shumway and demanded know whether a vote was being aken on the prohibition amendment. The county attorney was momen- arlly "up a tree," for he had not mown of an extra ballot. Mr.

Shum- vay had to go to the county audi- or's office to find out what the iroting was about. Having no com- letition, and having been busy jhaslng bank robbers, he hadn't Bothered about the election. It turned out tliat the yellow bal- ot called for a decision on whether here should be a convention to re- the Iowa constitution. The vote had to be taken to comply with the jresent constitution, which requires hat the question be submitted every ten years. When a similar vote vas taken in 1920 decision was the negative.

And anyhow no constitutional revision proposed by a convention would be binding un- Supervisor Balgeman, First district, and Olaf Funnemark, In the Third, won hotly contested battles that were in doubt till the last precinct had reported. Supervisor Funnemark, who won by only 67 votes, nevertheless carried all but two of six precincts, losing only -Prairie and Ramsey to J. J. Cosgroye. The vote in the third district was: Funnemark Cosgrove Lakota, Nov.

4 A fatal accident occurred Saturday aUthe August Becker farm a mile east and one and one-hall miles south oC Lakota, when Mr. Becker was shot as he was go pheasant hunting. At 6 a. m. Mr.

Becker went to a feed house, where a gun was lying on a shelf. The Weapon had been there more than a month. On the shelf were also some sacks, rope, and as the gun was taken down something caught the trigger and the weapon was discharged. The load struck Mr. Becker in th stomach, jimt bplnw trie breait bone.

One of his sons, hearing him shout, ran to him at once, and he was carried to the house, where he died in less than an hour, be fore a doctor could reach him. Formerly Jjlvcil Here. Mr. Becker was born at Lu Verne i April in, 1885, and when he was 10 his parentu, Mr. and Mrs.

Franl Becker, moved to Algona. On Jan uary 28, he married Mrs. Mury Wolcott, and tour child ren were born: Martin, Raymond Arnold, and Catherine. Mr. Becker farmed with hi brother -Martin on the B.

F. farm near Algona three years. H016 the partnership was dissolvec and the August Beckers moved the James Stewart farm, also nea Algona. Ten years ago botight the farm near Lakota where August was living at the time of his death. Funeral Held Momlii.vi.

In February 1926, Mrs. Becker led, and March 20, 1928, August as married to Mary Rider, of Ban- roft. Besides the widow and child- Sheritr L. E. Hovey and County Recorder Laura Paine were elected Tuesday, after hard battles against Tony Goedprs and J.

J. Dooley espectively. Both contests were spirited, nnd the result in each case vas in doubt till lat Tuesday night, when both Hovey and Mrs. Paine began to Pile up steady though ow gains. Sheriff Hovey collected a total of 2829 votes to 2274 for Goedei's.

This gave Hovey a majority 355. Goeders won Hovey's old home precinct, Grant township, by five votes, and also carried his own word, the Third, but the sheriff won the other three Algona wards by good sized majorities. 20 Precincts for Hovey. Hovey precincts outside Al- Gilchrist Is Easy Victor for Congress Senator F. C.

Gilchrist, Laurens, von Kossuth for Congress Tuesday rom Paul Anderson, Fort Dodge, 296G to 1507, or by nearly a two-to- one vote, and heads the Kossuth ticket so far as contested offices are concerned. In the Tenth district the senator carried all but Webster county, which he iost by 73 votes, and Carroll, which he lost by 800 votes. The vote by counties follows: Gilchrist Anderson en, there survive a stepson, Robert Volcott, the brother Martin at'Al- ona, and four sisters: Mrs. Eugene Caylor, Bancroft; Mrs. David Ste- I'art, Algona; Mrs.

p. Koppen nd Mrs. Nick Koppen, Lakota. An unt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.

August Becker, Algona, and two nephews, Buffalo -139 German 47 Portland 70 Prairie 62 Ramsey 30 Wesley 165 Totals In the First 513 district 127 27 16 69 ,48 159 446 Supervisor 11 it was approved Section. at a general Balgeman won five out of eight precincts, losing Garfield, Riverdale, and Sexton to P. Large majorities in Whittemore and Lu Verne helped swell Balgeman's majority to 153, though he lost two-to- one In Garfleld and Riverdale. The vote was: Balgeman Cresco 64 Garfield 58 Irvlngton 43 Lu Verne -136 Riverdale -1 41 Sexton 26 Sherman 55 Whittemore 195 Totals P. Heiken, unopposed Mersch 37 110 34 26 S3 36 35 104 465 In the ARMISTICE BANQUET SET FDR NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT The twelfth annual Hagg post Armistice banquet will take place at next Tuesday night at the 3.

hall, the local Auxiliary women lervlng. The banquet is free to al x-service men, whether or not they ielong to the Legion. Dinner will be followed by a pro gram, with H. M. Smith, command- as toastrnafiter.

Short talks will given by local Legionnaires. The jrinoipal speaker will be Rev. C. Van Meter, of Mapleton, former army chaplain, After the program there will be dancing, for which the Legion or chestra will furnish music. The or chestra will also play during the banquet and program; Fifth district, was reelected, but Kls vote was below llcan vote.

the usual repub- BOYS SHOOT INSULATORS; LET OFF WITH A LECTURE Small boys armed with 22-callber guns were called on the carpet a week ago by -Marshal Newville and Detective Boardman, Canton, S. the latter representing the Milwaukee railroad. The boys had been shooting insulators from telegraph poles, and In some cases boye had also shot at semaphore lights on tomatic signals. One 1 semaphore felt five time, but It did not break or fall out. If this had.

SappenTd an engineer might have Xved a wrong signal and a wreck might have resulted. Some of the boys had even tampered with Twt- terytuoes and other equipment which the semaphores the bell-ringing crossing signals. Operation of the signals was not affected. The boys promised good behavior in future and were let off. R.

BUss. to Speak. state director of ALGONA SALESMAN INJURED IN CAR CRASH OCTOBER 30 A- salesman for tbe John Deere Co. with headquar t'ers in Algona, suffered deep gashes on one temple and his right arm last Thursday night, when his new Chevrolet was hit by a car from Humboldt. Mr, Holmstrom's was-catapulted off the grade anc turned over several tunes, It was new and had not been; broken in yet, hence Mr, Holmstrom waa drlv ing nevertheless the car was damaged almost beyond repair.

The accident happened at a point be tween Rodman and Algona. Ther was a light fog and mist, which is, beMeved, prevented the, driver from seeing Mr. Holm Mr. Holmstrom hag room at L. yngersoirs.

Boys Bemove Signs. Boys removed all Zender Cald Veil advertising ail-plane signs on Highway No, 18 Ha.Uowe.en night They reerected two of them on th new No, bridge and three wore a the entrance" to the Legion airpori leaving jfoe reft on the grounO, SJg8b.ee, who has a contract maintain tfte iBfens, is offering a re ward tof identification of the cul Down, of automobile lioene ap'far this year to 1939. according V. J. and Henry Becker, Algona leaners and dyers, also survive.

Funeral services wer held at the Sacred''Heart church at Ledyard, Monday morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. Sturm In charge, and burial vas made beside the grave of the gona were Buffalo, Burt, Cresco, Boone Bast Lone Rock, Harrison, Hebron, Irvlngton, Lone Roc Lu Verne, Portland, Seneca, Springfield, Swea, Lakota, and Line- coin. the Third u-ard and Grant township, Goeders can-led Garfield, German, Greenwood, Lotts Creek, Plum Creek, Prairie 1 Ramsey Riverdale, Sexton, Wes ley, Whittemore, and Ledyard. Mrs. Paine's majority over Mr Dooley was an -even 600, the vote totals being 2765 to 21'55.

She car v.ied Algona's First, Second, ant Fourth wards, Buffalo, Burt, Cresco Eagle, East Lone Rock, Fenton 'German, Grant, Harrison, Hebron Irvington, Lone Rock, Lu Verne Plum Creek, Portland, Seneca, Sex ton, Swea, Union, Led yard, and Lincoln. Mr. Dooley cai ried his home Third ward, and. Gat field, Greenwood, Lotts Creek, Prai rie, Ramsey, Riverdale, Sherman, Wesley, Whittemore, and Lakota precincts. Republican Lead is Cut.

Both republican candidates, the only ones who had opposition, lost many votes of republicans wlid turned Democratic in this County' Auditor Bertha B. Johnison, Treasurer N. Kruse, Clerk Clark Orton, who were not opposed, received much reduced support and in some cases got only as many as other republican- candidates who had opposition. This indicated that a majority of the opposition ballots were "straight 1 democratic. County Attorney Shumway and L.

M. Merritt, candidate for coroner, were also not. opposed. TO 87 Congressman in State by Big Reduced Lead, 4057 Calhoun 2552 larroll 2125 Irawford 2495 Emmet 1325 Greene 1987 Hamilton 2371 Hancock 2131 Humboldt 1209 Kossuth 29GB Palo Alto 1SS8 Pocahontas 1983 Webster 4103 Winnebago Totals 31,282 904 1100 2937 2217 244 567 720 358 324 1507797 488 4030 16,193. Bonnstetter Victor! El'UBMCAN state lieadqnM- ters jestcrdnj afternoon reported that Sfcck had the to Dickinson.

showed that 1581 precincts In (lie state lirni given Dickinson 203,097 votes and Stack 157,785. This Is a majority 45,312, -nlilch -nag expected to Incruased to 00,000 or 70,000. Turner iiiisi leading Hagoman two- to-one, Imrlng received 830(699 to Jrag-oinnil's 123,240 In 1578 clncts out of 2442. irst wife ery here. In the Maple Hill ceme- Both Dooley and worked the county Goeders had thoroughly be Tore election.

Mrs. Paine had been able to make only a partial canvass. Sheriff Hovey had been too busy of late chasing bank bandits to take time for a canvass, and he therefore feels that the vote he received is an endorsement of his Conduct of the office. Both Dooley and Goeders used the "two-term-and-out" argument. Mrs Paine was running for a third term Mr, Hovey for a fourth.

Gates Speaks Here. Bruce Gates, head of a Waterloo business college, will speak before the local high school this afternoon at 1:15. A LGONA drygoods stores and close all day Tuesday for Armistice day; other stores will close at noon for the rest-of the day. The main attraction will be an Algona-Fort Dodge football game at Athletic park. In the evening the annual Legion banquet will be given by Hagg post.

TURNER'S MAJORITY IN KOSSUTH 1581 In marked contrast to the way Dickinson ran was a two-to-one ma- ority piled up by Dan W. Turner or governor. Turner got 325,7 irotes, while his democratic oppon- nt. Hagemann, collected only 1676. Turner's vote was, affected by "straight ticket" democrats, "Garfield by, five" vas swamped 209-85 In Greenwood, also dropped Prairie, Ramsey, Riverdale.

Curious voting appears in comparing the Dickinson and Turner results. In La'kota, for example, Turner received 106 votea, while Dlck- nson got only 52. At the same time Steck got 105 and Hageman only 47. Trends throughout the county showed that many Steck votes were either votes against Dickinson or against the party rather than votes for Steck and the democratic party. In Lakota Dickinson and Hageman had nearly the same number of votes, while Turner "and Steck'were only a vote apart.

Similar results are noted in Plum Creek, Ledyard, Letts Creek, Sexton, Wesley, and Whittemore. An avalanche of democratic elected A Bonnstetter, West Bend, representative, and also nearly won the county for Dan Steck from L. Dickinson, home countjc. candidate for the Senate. He- publican candidates for county 7 of- flees had difficulty In maintaining- leads, as retuins came In Tuesday night Supervisors Olaf Funrip- maik and Balgeman were elected only by narrow margins.

0 Congressman Dickinson's majority- over Senator Steck in the county 1 uas only 87 He received only votes Tuesday, whereas in the prl- mary last June he received 3SW4, or 1000 more Steck collected votes, or more than six times many as Governor Harnmlll ceived against Dickinson In primary. Dickinson carried his home the First, by- a 062 OTTOSEN-WEST BEND PAIR HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Fred Lentz, Rodman, and Olson, of the Ottosen-West Oleya Bend neighborhood, bruised when a car in which they were riding Sunday ran into a Mr. Lentz had been driving, and the pair were changing The car was moving slowly. Neither knows just how the accident occurred. They were brought to the Kossuth hospital, where Mr.

Lentz received treatment for cuts and bruises about his face. Miss still at the hospital, the extent of her injuries being unknown. X-ray pictures will be made ae soon as she has recovered sufficiently to be moved to x-ray machine. Fourth Wards, but he lost that: Third ward to Steck, "Dick's" majority Algona mUK only 172 out of 1206 votes Representative Jensen Beatoi. J.

H. Jensen, Fenton, lost for presentative to Mr. Bonnstetter bgp a vote of 2020 to 2667. This WM majority for Bonnstetter of Jensen lost the Second and Thteft wards in Algona, and lost many other normally republican including his own precinct ot Seneca, where he collected 58 his opponent's 63. Bonnstetter ran away from sen In the South End and the side of the county.

His home cincts, Whlttemore and OarfteM. gave him handsome majorities. Jensen's precincts, besides gona's First and Fourth were Buffalo, Burt, Cresco, East Lone Rock, Fenton, Germta. Harrison, Hebron, Lono Rock, Lot Verne, Portland, Swea, and Untoiu Bonnstetter carried Algona's Second and Third wards, Garfteld. IV Grant, Greenwood, Iryingtoni Creek, Plum Creek, Prairie, sey, Riverdale, seneca, Sexton, Sherman, Springfield, Wesley, Whittemore, Ledyard, and Uo- coin, 4 "Dick" Wins 90 FreelneU.

Besides the First, Second, Fourth wards, Dickinson Official Kossuth Election Returns I en Ward II 62 Ward 253 Ward Ward Buffalo -Burt Cresco Eagle East Lone Rock Fenton German Trr Grant Jsa 133 144 124 64 40 31 86 34 39 30 63 2 Hebron Irvington Lincoln Lone Rock Lotta £reek Lu 7 Plum Creek Portland') Ramsey' 44 52 4S 10 40 35 30 6: 3 15 24 2 92 178 169 78 108 77 43 18 10 89 122 27 22 58 10 41 19 95 90, 175 292 162 152 193 162 77 44 38 120 70 49 34 85 20S 47 5Q 106 46 .55 56 127 125 55 51 37 27 11 a 52 75 11 15 32, 47 84 8 29 2,8 i IV 188 168 72 95 43 26 IB 5 52 83 14 VI 220 56 4 Buffalo, Burt, Cresco, Harrison, In Verne, Portland, Seneca, Swea, Union townships by ities and Eagle, Eiast Lone German, Grant, Hebron, Lone Rock, and Springfield cincts by smaller majorities, Besides carrying the Third. easily, Steck ran high in Plum Creek, Prairie, Lakota, Lincoln, Ramsey, Wesley, Whittemore, In he received 231 votes to jft 63; Sherman he a While the returns -were in Tuesday night, Steok rap of Dickinson a ny tlpw, have his lead cut by for Dickinson. However, with three precincts to hear front day morning, Steok was Three precincts, which came reported Dickinson votes awing the county the gressman's column- The cause of the the republican party iiij was the subject ot teBSrtby'ij Tuesday njght while'the BUQh antipathy to buted te his strong supp.