Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — Drowned at Oakdale. [ARTICLE]

Drowned at Oakdale.

The pleasure of a jolly party of campers at Oakdale Park was blighted by the death of one of their companions Monday afternoon. They were from FoWler and had come for a few day’s outing and daring the day Frank Lobdeil and a companion went bathing in the Tippecanoe river. Lobdeil was an excellent swimmer but was probably attacked by cramps and sank in sight of his friends with his cries for help ringing in their ears. He was twenty-four years of age. His sweetheart witnessed his struggles for life and was prostrated over the affair. t