LeMars Sentinel
February 6, 1934

THIEVES HAUL OFF
MODICUM OF FUEL
FROM SCHOOL HOUSE

Thieves stole about five hundred pounds of coal from the school house in
district No. 1 Hancock Township, the night of January 29, according to a
report made by Theodore Soloman to the office of the sheriff last week.

A stalled car was found on the road about two hundred yards south of the
school house. The car bore a Woodbury county license.

The same evening about 10:30 a stranger, disheveled and dirty, called at the
home of Charles Baxter in the neighborhood and asked permission to use the
telephone. While in the house, he phoned to a wrecker company in Sioux City
calling for assistance.

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