Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1914 — Well Known Good hind Hotel Keeper Dead. [ARTICLE]

Well Known Good hind Hotel Keeper Dead.

V Lemman, a prominent demo crat and former county chairman of Newton county and for the past dozen years proprietor cf the Commercial Hotel at Goadland, died at bis homo in that place on Sunday of last week after an illness < f several months, aged about 75 years. The funeral was held the following Tuesday, from the house, John W. Sage, of Goodland, conducting the services, and burial was made in the Goodland cemetery. Mr. Lemman was a native of Ohio, hut his parents located in indianaI’olis when he was but six years of age, where he spent most of his early life, lie was a h'fo-'ong democrat, a well read and very able man He was in the government service for several years, both rt Washington, where he was eniploved in one of the departments, and in the signal corps on Pike’s Peak He leaves a wife and eight children.