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Wabasha, Elgin, Kellogg and Lake City Details of Hit and Run Death Recorded by Iron Range Newspaper The Virginia paper of last week contains the following report in connection with the accident in which Park Sylvester was killed. "Police today announced that Lyle Doane, Virginia, had confessed that he was the driver of the automobile that sped away without stopping after striking Park Sylvester, member of the Veteran Conservation Camp at Sandy Lake. Joseph Cook, said to have been Doane’s companion, also is being held. "The youth is said to have admitted that he stole his father’s car and that the accident occurred while they were returning from the Doane farm north of Sandy Lake. After striking Sylvester, he continued on towards Virginia and let Cook off at a hospital to receive treatment for cuts about the face from flying glass suffered when the car windshield shattered by the impact. "After dropping Cook off, Doane allegedly made his way through dark sidestreets and alleys, abandoning the machine near some ore dumps and then returned home, notifying his mother that the car had been stolen. He also set the clocks in the house back half an hour. "Police said that Doane is now under 3 years parole from Federal District County for burglarizing of the Parkville Post Office and that the period is not yet completed. They said that Doane had also served time in the boys reformatory at St. Cloud for burglary. "Doane is said to have told authorities that he did not stop after the accident because of the parole, fearful that it might be taken from him. The youth is also said to have admitted that he and Cook had been drinking at the farm prior to the crash. been disclosed.
June 14, 1935- Mrs. Roy Larson of Minneapolis, formerly Miss Meta Sylvester of Plainview, died at Asbury Hospital last Sunday following a 10 day’s illness. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday. Mrs. Larson was 46 years old. She married Roy L. Holmes. Three children were born to them. For the past 15 years she has lived in Minneapolis and a few years ago married Mr. Larson. Surviving are her husband, two sons, Lieut. M. S. Holmes & John, and a daughter Hettie Marie, her mother, Mrs. E. L. Sylvester, a sister Mrs. J. P. Caldwell, St. Paul, and a brother Edwin, Madison, Wisconsin.
May 29, 1942- Friends here were grieved to hear of the death of Anna Sylvester Baker on May 17. Anna Sylvester was born in Milaca, Minnesota on February 7, 1890. Later she attended and graduated from the Plainview, Minnesota High School. She also attended Thomas Normal at Detroit and Oberlin College at Oberlin. In 1908 she became the bride of Rodney Baker. They lived for the past 12 years in Moline, Ill. until she died May 17, 1942 of a cerebral hemorrhage. Relatives and friends were shocked to hear of her death since she had been feeling quite well for the past several months. Mrs. Baker is survived by her husband, R. J. Baker, two sisters, Katherine Sylvester of Bittendorf, Ia., and Mrs. Lloyd Jewell of Detroit, Mich, and her mother, Mrs.
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* SOURCE: Manzow, Ron (compiler), "The Sylvester Family of Plainview, Minnesota - a collection of information taken from the Plainview News, other newspapers, letters, and diaries beginning in 1884": Plainview Area History Center, 40 4th St. S.W., Plainview, MN 55964. Compiled in 2001.
NOTE: from Ron Manzow, December 2001: "Feel free to reproduce the pages for anyone who wants a copy. It was
compiled to be shared... All I ask is that they consider sending a check to the [Plainview Area] History Center to help us out. That
should be enough."
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