George H. Dietz was born at Walcott, Scott county, Iowa, June 5, 1864, and died here Saturday, January 15, 1927, age 62 years, 7 months and 10 days.

Mr. Dietz married Miss Agnes Arp at Walcott December 23, 1888. Four children were born to this union, three boys and one girl. One boy died in infancy and one at the age of four years.

The young couple came to Carroll County in the spring of 1889, settling on the farm of 240 acres in Section six, Warren (now Ewoldt) Township, which was their home for 31 years. Seven years ago they moved to Manning and built the pleasant home on First Street where Mr. Dietz died.

Mr. Dietz is survived by his wife, his son Albert of Blackfoot, Idaho, his daughter, Mrs. Emil J. Opperman of Manning, two granddaughters and two grandsons, three brothers, Conrad T. Dietz of Manning; Louis Dietz and Edward Dietz of Davenport; two sisters, Miss Minnie Dietz of Walcott and Mrs. Henry Goettsch of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2:00 o'clock in the Presbyterian church, Rev. E.E. Zimmerman, the former pastor will officiate. Interment will be in the Manning Cemetery.

Mr. Dietz was, during all his life on the farm, one of the outstanding farmers in this community. The environment of his birthplace, where he lived until his marriage, was undoubtedly conducive to the establishment of his habits of industry and frugality which were the main characteristics of his whole business career.

A newspaper article a few years ago stated that Walcott was the richest small town in the state of Iowa. That there were no residents in the town who were not well-to-do and many of them were no way in the big figures.

Mr. Dietz realized early in life as a farmer and businessman that the so called "unearned increment" referred to by F.M. Hubbel of Des Moines, the richest man in Iowa, on his 88th birthday, was the logical and certain way to accumulate a competency. So far as possible he invested his surplus in land that would by its income and increase in value add to the sum total of his estate without physical effort on his part.

Mr. Dietz purchased the home place previously referred to from Robert Macklin, who some of the oldest residents remember.

Mr. Macklin erected the buildings near the north end of the farm, a long distance from the highway, because the creek there would furnish water and the land unfit for cultivation would afford fine pasture. Mr. Dietz intended for many years to build near the road along the south line but never did.

Mr. Dietz was not an initiator but had original ideas to which he adhered with great tenacity.

His reversal of the usual method of making improvements was characteristic of his line of thought. He first built a hog house, saying it would build the barn and the barn would build the house, so lived in the old house until this plan accomplished just what he predicted it would. This hog house and barn did not cease to function when the old house was replaced by the new but kept right on working with the result that Mr. Dietz died possessed of another 240 acres in Ewoldt Township, two farms of 240 acres each in Washington Township, 91 acres just across the line in Crawford County from the home farm and 160 acres a little farther west in Crawford County.

Mr. Dietz came to Carroll County 38 years ago at the age of 24 with $1500 and a fitting helpmate. His habits of industry and frugality might well be adopted by many young people of today.