DROWNS IN NISHNABOTNA
George Dinsmore of Farragut was drowned in the Nishna Botna river last Friday evening, when he went swimming with four other men after working in the hayfield all day. The river was low, and although everyone in the party knew the hole was there, they did not anticipate any danger. The first they noticed was when Frank Palm, who was on the bank saw Dinsmore had his mouth submerged, but he went down before they could reach him, and did not rise. None of the crowd were expert swimmers, so they telephoned to town from the Cutler place, near which the tragedy occurred.
A hayrake was used to drag the hole, and it wasn't until nine o'clock Saturday morning that the body was recovered. The funeral services were held at the Methodist church, 2:30 Sunday afternoon, being conducted by Rev. R. E. Harvey, and burial was made in the Locust Grove cemetery. George Ashby Dinsmore was 37 years of age at the time of his death, and leaves a father, Frank Dinsmore, and three brothers, Harry of Hamburg, Leon, who lives at Balfour, and Frank Levi, who is with the 168th Regiment, in France. PAGE COUNTY DEMOCRAT, Clarinda, Iowa, Aug 8, 1918
son of James M. and Eliza A. on 1900 census Fremont Co, Ia; says born Jul 1881
George Dinsmore of Farragut was drowned in the Nishna Botna river last Friday evening, when he went swimming with four other men after working in the hayfield all day. The river was low, and although everyone in the party knew the hole was there, they did not anticipate any danger. The first they noticed was when Frank Palm, who was on the bank saw Dinsmore had his mouth submerged, but he went down before they could reach him, and did not rise. None of the crowd were expert swimmers, so they telephoned to town from the Cutler place, near which the tragedy occurred.
A hayrake was used to drag the hole, and it wasn't until nine o'clock Saturday morning that the body was recovered. The funeral services were held at the Methodist church, 2:30 Sunday afternoon, being conducted by Rev. R. E. Harvey, and burial was made in the Locust Grove cemetery. George Ashby Dinsmore was 37 years of age at the time of his death, and leaves a father, Frank Dinsmore, and three brothers, Harry of Hamburg, Leon, who lives at Balfour, and Frank Levi, who is with the 168th Regiment, in France. PAGE COUNTY DEMOCRAT, Clarinda, Iowa, Aug 8, 1918
son of James M. and Eliza A. on 1900 census Fremont Co, Ia; says born Jul 1881
DROWNS IN NISHNABOTNA
George Dinsmore of Farragut was drowned in the Nishna Botna river last Friday evening, when he went swimming with four other men after working in the hayfield all day. The river was low, and although everyone in the party knew the hole was there, they did not anticipate any danger. The first they noticed was when Frank Palm, who was on the bank saw Dinsmore had his mouth submerged, but he went down before they could reach him, and did not rise. None of the crowd were expert swimmers, so they telephoned to town from the Cutler place, near which the tragedy occurred.
A hayrake was used to drag the hole, and it wasn't until nine o'clock Saturday morning that the body was recovered. The funeral services were held at the Methodist church, 2:30 Sunday afternoon, being conducted by Rev. R. E. Harvey, and burial was made in the Locust Grove cemetery. George Ashby Dinsmore was 37 years of age at the time of his death, and leaves a father, Frank Dinsmore, and three brothers, Harry of Hamburg, Leon, who lives at Balfour, and Frank Levi, who is with the 168th Regiment, in France. PAGE COUNTY DEMOCRAT, Clarinda, Iowa, Aug 8, 1918
son of James M. and Eliza A. on 1900 census Fremont Co, Ia; says born Jul 1881
George Dinsmore of Farragut was drowned in the Nishna Botna river last Friday evening, when he went swimming with four other men after working in the hayfield all day. The river was low, and although everyone in the party knew the hole was there, they did not anticipate any danger. The first they noticed was when Frank Palm, who was on the bank saw Dinsmore had his mouth submerged, but he went down before they could reach him, and did not rise. None of the crowd were expert swimmers, so they telephoned to town from the Cutler place, near which the tragedy occurred.
A hayrake was used to drag the hole, and it wasn't until nine o'clock Saturday morning that the body was recovered. The funeral services were held at the Methodist church, 2:30 Sunday afternoon, being conducted by Rev. R. E. Harvey, and burial was made in the Locust Grove cemetery. George Ashby Dinsmore was 37 years of age at the time of his death, and leaves a father, Frank Dinsmore, and three brothers, Harry of Hamburg, Leon, who lives at Balfour, and Frank Levi, who is with the 168th Regiment, in France. PAGE COUNTY DEMOCRAT, Clarinda, Iowa, Aug 8, 1918
son of James M. and Eliza A. on 1900 census Fremont Co, Ia; says born Jul 1881
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