The Iowa State Register

Friday, May 6, 1904

TOLEDO - The new Presbyterian church at this place will be dedicated next Sunday.  The building is the first structure to be erected in the county out of cement blocks, and it is a handsome and comfortable building, costing something over $12,000.  The dedicatory sermon will be preached by elder Crabe of Chicago.

The Iowa State Register

Friday, May 6, 1904

TRAER - The body of Samuel Young, who died of typhoid fever in St Louis while serving as a guard at the exposition, arrived here Monday.

The Iowa State Register

Friday, August 4, 1905

Young People's Department

I am a boy 10 years old.  I live on a farm 4 miles south of town.  We have a telephone and mail route.  My school was out in June.  I study reading, physiology, arithmetic, spelling, language, music, geography, history and writing.  I have three sisters and one brother.  My sisters are all married.  One lives up in Michigan and the others close around here.  I will go up to Wesley tomorrow.  For pets I have a dog named Trixie and a cat named Kitty.  We have about 300 little chickens, I feed them every morning and night and give them water.  We have seven working horses and three driving horses.  One is my brother's horse.  My brother has a horse and buggy.  I started to plow corn yesterday for the first time.

Lester L. Lease.

Corwith, Ia.

The Iowa State Register

Friday, August 4, 1905

Young People's Department

I am a boy 13 years old.  I have five brothers and one sister.  We have one of the finest gardens in the state of Iowa.  We have corn 6 feet tall.  We live on a 160 acre farm.  We have a horse named Cora that works on a stump puller every day.  I am glad all of you boys and girls had a fine Fourth.

Orie Beck.

Long Point, Ia

Lake City Graphic
Lake City, Calhoun Co. IA
Jan. 4, 1900

Misses Ethel and Hazel Doughty went to Tama Tuesday for a visit.

Chas. E. Wood has a permanent situation as stationary engineer in Tama.

Conductor Clark and family passed Christmas in Tama.

Lake City Graphic
Lake City, Iowa
March 6, 1902

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hoover went to Tama Thursday and returned Saturday.

The Lake City Graphic
Lake City, Iowa
Feb. 14, 1901

Mrs. H. M. Hillman and Miss Zelma Zedlker visited in Tama last week.

Mrs. L. S. Riddle of Tama is visiting her husband at this place for a few days.

Mrs. Bromley returned to her home in Tama Tuesday after a few days visit with relatives in this city.

The Lake City Graphic
Lake City, Iowa
Feb. 7, 1901

Mrs. Morrison, mother of Mrs. Frank Morgan and Mrs. W. E. Rash, after a weeks visit with them, returned to her home in Tama Monday

The Lake City Graphic
Lake City, Iowa
Jan. 4, 1900

The families of W. H Gadbury, Geo. Childs, J. R. Gadbury, W. L. Jackson, and Mrs. Ida Smith and little daughter of Lake City, partook of Christmas turkey under the parental roof of J. R. Gadbury, Sr. in Tama.

Mrs. Mary Laughlin and Miss Julia Uchityl of Toledo, Ia. are guests at the Dr. H. M. Humphrey home

The New York Times
New York, New York
July 17, 1887, pg. 2

THE MAN WAS NOT DEAD.

AN INNOCENT MAN'S NARROW ESCAPE FROM LYNCHING.

ST. LOUIS, July 16.--Four months ago John Hohn, a citizen of Toledo, Iowa County, Iowa [Toledo is in Tama Co.], mysteriously disappeared from home under circumstances indicating foul play. He was in the employ of a prominent farmer named John Rhone, and just before his disappearance was charged by Rhone with alienating his wife's affections. On the night that he was last seen he had a violent quarrel with his employer and was driven from the house, Rhone following him out in the darkness. Rhone returned home an hour later and in two weeks was arrested for murder. He said that he had not seen Hohn after he had passed out the door. He had followed him out and remained about an hour in the year. It was firmly believed that he was guilty of murder, and that one of his neighbors was an accomplice. the neighbor was strung up to a tree three times and left almost dead. He was asked to reveal the place where Hohn's body had been concealed, and, declaring each time that he knew nothing of it, was repeatedly hanged by the neck until he was black in the face.

After the preliminary examination was over, and Rhone was released, public anger rose to fever heat. A mob visited his house twice with the intention of lynching him. The first time he made his way out of a back door and concealed himself in the woods. The second time he crowded himself under a barrel in the cellar, and during the search one of the mob leaned his arm on it without discovering him. Finally matters grew too warm for Rhone and he left the country. This fastened suspicion upon him stronger than ever, and a large reward was offered for him by the people at a mass meeting. Placing $1,000 in his pocket he started to hunt up the man he was accused of killing. He engaged a professional detective and the pair traveled over Iowa and Missouri. Hohn had often referred to Kansas City, and the pair decided to make a thorough search at that point. Yesterday the supposed victim was found in a restaurant at 571 Walnut street. He volunteered to go back to Toledo and reached home this evening. The appearance of Hohn produced the greatest excitement, and a reaction set in which resulted in a mass meeting at which Rhone's character was vindicated and a subscription started to indemnify him.

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