Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — ANOTHER DROWNING AT CEDAR LAKE. [ARTICLE]
ANOTHER DROWNING AT CEDAR LAKE.
The fourth drowning at Cedar Lake this season occurred Saturday, when Gustave Johnson, aged 29, of Chicago, was drowned while in bathing near the Armour ice houses. He was out boating with bis little son and another boy when he decided to go bathing, and, having on his bathing suit, dived out of the boat after testing the depth of the water with an oar. He came op with his mouth full of water and said something the boys could not understand, then went down again and did not come up. It is supposed he either misjudged the water’s depth or beoame entangled in the weeds.
' Estray Taken Up: Came to my farm in Barkley tp., Angaat 17, a black sow, wt. about 250 Eonnda. Owner may have same y paying s ehargee and proving ownerabip. Eorah Daniels.
