La Porte City Progress-Review (Newspaper) - March 2, 1939, La Porte City, Iowa OFFICIAL City and County Newspaper LA PORTE CITY WANT ADS Cost Little But Get Quick Results BLACK HAWK COUNTY'S LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Volume 69 LA PORTE CITY IOWA THURSDAY AFTERNOON MARCH Number 9 REPORT RAMS UNDERDOGS IN TOURNAMENT Fans See Little Chance of Team Getting Past First Round Dysart Traer and Geneseo Favorites in Dysart Tournament La Porte City's Rams will eo in- to the sectional tournament at sart tomorrow night decided under- dogs in the race for the ment Class A title Not only has season record shown the boys still a too to make their best showing but illness has cut into the strenght of the squad in recent days La Porte City will meet Dysart at p m Friday and if the should happen and the should win they will meet the of the at Saturday evening fn the Class A finals However figures that Dysart and Traer will win the preliminary Class A contests and will meet in a toss-up contest the final night Genesco is concededly head and above its in Class B and should take the title without trouble The Class B schedule finds Dinsdale playing at 7 o'clock tonight and Clutier vs Garwin at Traer and meet in a Class A tilt at Friday night's schedule will match with the winner of the game at La Porte City against Dysart at Saturday night's schedule has the Class B finals at and the Class A event at to Be Streamlined Mother of Local Teachers fs Dead Mrs Isabelle McElroy of Vi ton mother of three La Porte community school teachers died suddenly at Cedar Rapids Tuesday on the morning of her day anniversary She had been Jr Cedar two days visiting at the home of a daughter Mrs lola Aossey 1 Daughters teaching in this 1 ity are and Zora McElroy Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p m from chapel Rev William Caldwell of- Burial will be in green cemetery in Vinton The will go modern next week with a new headline type and streamlined make-up An in newspaper make-up which has swept the country from coast to coast in the past year and a half streamlining has been ed by many of the leading daily and weekly of the United States The change is being made on the in keeping with the policy of the of building this paper to the point it will be equal to any in a town of this size in the country Watch for the streamlined next JEAN McCHANE WEDS SUNDAY Jean McChane ot Waterloo Courier Becomes Bride of Leo er in Ceremony Held In Afternoon Jean McChane daughter McChane and Leo Bauer on of Mr and Mrs Herman Bauer U of La Porte City were married at 5 p m Sunday at the Methodist Episcopal church here Rev G D Jaide using the double ring mony in a service conducted by The church was dec- with spring flowers Raymond sang remise Me and Community Club Plans a Meeting Harrison No club meets with Mr and Mrs W A March 3 for their regular business meeting P T A to T A which met Friday February 17 will hold their March meeting with Mrs Mabel Horak as presiding officer J F Naylor of Vinton spent rday and Sunday with Mr and and Mrs Blue urd ELECTRICAL TOYS AND GADGETS An Lf Every boy who wants to know how to harness electricity a copy of Sherman R Cook's lew book giving complete in- how to make automatic clock lights telegraph sets alarms electrical tops Rasher lights magnets and dozens useful electrical devices Details how you can obtain the book without charge are contained in the advertise in this paper AD INDEX Motor Co 6 I Brust Grocery g Variety Store 3 FARM BLAZE BURNS HOUSE EASTOF HERE More Than Damage Done by Saturday Night Conflagration Harold Broad Home and Paul Furniture Are Destroyed of more than was done by a farm fire which destroyed the home on MIC faini nine mill's east of here in Spring Creek ship and burned all of the hold goods of Mi and Mis Paul tenants who planned to move from the farm the middle of this week Damage to tile mated at about with be- tween and loss to the Downings On their and clothing and other household goods The losses aie said to have been partially by The file was discovered at about p m by Dale Stevens a bor Mr and Mrs Downing were in Brandon at the time The new La City lural fire tiuck was summoned and crowd of neighbors soon fathered but the alaze was out of control and little could be saved from the house everything on floor be- g Origin of the fire has not been determined but it appeared to have started under a stairway Heaviest Snowfall of the Season Blankets La Porte City Tuesday i m i ii MINSTREL TO BE HELD HERE Band Mothers Club Will Sponsor a Second Show Here ONLY A FEW PENS REMAIN Only Half Dozen Morrison Fountain Pens Left For Premiums SHOW POSTPONED As we go to press day we loam that the minstrel show Second Night in has been postponed un- til April because of alence of influenza among members of the cast You're Seeing It for the First Time The Second Night in 1 home talent minstrel by the Band Mothers club will be given on Thursday and Friday March 9 and 10 at o'clock in the school This is the second minstrel sored by the Band Mothers club since it was last year The cast this year will be about the same as the cast which A Night in Those having solo parts with the chorus are as C V Raymond BLIZZARD HITS TUESDAY WITH Nine to Ten Inches of Snow Reported in La Porte City Area Rural Schools Close City School Attendance Drops Sharply La City was blanketed un- der nine to ton inches of wet heavy snow Tuesday when a blizzard swept diagonally across Town from the southwest bunging with it the heaviest snowfall of the winter in almost part of the state was almost at a still here Tuesday morning with automobiles heavy of snow and those cars which attempted about town usually ending stuck in the wet I slippery snow Main highways were kept open throughout the storm Charlie Peterson of St Louis Mo fancy shot champion of the world after trying for hours balances billiard balls atop one on a table claims be only one In In this lick Notice the on the face of man in the Grobe L L Sides Warren Bun Eiwin Goff Although the Progi is making every effort to get its quota for Morrison fountain pens raised to permit it to give the beautiful pens a few more weeks as premiums with subscription payments it has not succeeded as yet and as we go TO press there are only five or six pens left to be distributed These will be given out to the first persons coming in with their come first served We cannot lay pens back for future redemption The difficulty is lhat only a number of these tain pens were allotted to cast Iowa as iin stunt 0 on the part of the pen company and J E Lynch The will be C V hart M J Burr and Art They will work with M H Taylor Other members of the cast which will put on novelty numbers and nonsense Paul K Figge W D Lyle Fred Bob Keith Anton George Gaide Ralph Brown Lewis Larson Keith Kline Lee and Several others have been asked but arc not sure about ing part in the show The specialty numbers this year will include the Girls Sextette Zoan The and the Jr Boys Choir The ad- band will present a short LOCAL EASTERN STAR CHAPTER HAS A SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION Large Attendance Monday Afternoon and Evening As District Instructor Handles Ritualistic Work For La Porte City Lodge program before the This is one show you will ant to miss companied by Mrs Clifford Burr The couple was attended by Maxine Elliott and Lawience er brother of the The bride wore a dress of cap- rice blue crepe with navy sories and carried a bridal bouquet of pink rosebuds The bridesmaid wore a gold colored dress with a corsage of talisman roses Immediately after the ceremony a dinner was served to close tives at the home of the bride's mother The bride graduated from La Porte City high school a year ago and has been employed at the Pastime theatre Mr Bauer is an employee of the Spahn Rose lumber company They will make their home with Mrs McChane City Council Has Short Meeting La Porte City council held its regular monthly meeting Monday night with little but routine tion on claims coming before the members Several of the men were absent reportedly fering from the flu and several other newspapers are also giving them away The has already given away its shaie of this allotment and cannot obtain additional pens unless some other paper falls short of using its share A up is being made now to see if this newspaper ran get a shipment allotted to some laper which is not using us many aa first planned AT SESSIONS Irwin Goff Attends Meeting Of National Bandmasters Association Board d er's Supply Corp Peng V Shoplifters Rob Electrical Shop Two electric razors and an clec trie iron were stolen night bv at the La Porte City Electric shop No clue to the identity of the thieves has been discovered Grocery Ven 3 and Fischer Bank s Grocery Invin Goff local band was one of the members of the Iowa Bandmasters association who were fortunate enough to be mitted to attend of the national convention of the National Bandmasters association held ir Ft Dodge dining the past several days Mr Goff attended the sessions of the convention He he was permitted to hear some of the nation's leading bandmasters the Ft Dodge municipal band by members of the national sociation in the and then heard the band ir a concert in the A of the evening's program was trumpet solo by Sidney Mear for a long time solo with thi Horace Heidt band Lions Meeting Is Postponed The regular meeting of the Lion's club was postponed Tuesday evening due to the illness of many of the members and also climatic conditions William Druin of Trenton N J arrested for buying 10 lons of whisky explained that it was to celebrate the birth of a son to his wite With such a ply I should think your wife had commented the judge fining Druin ELLIOTT TO ENTER RACE Decides Thursday Noon Will be Candidate for Re-Election Ralph H Elliott told the Prog Thursday noon tha although he had not run for re-election to the LA ran board he has decide make the race The boys wanted me explained Up to Thursday noon was the only file for the portion close at noon Friday rl j Clyd not SHOPPE TO CLOSE OUT Announces That Women's Store Will Quit Business Leota proprietor of the announced this week hat salu of the building in which icr store is located will force hei o close hei The store vas sold last week to C M J on owner of the store here who plans to open a modern store there late his month Miss Dritcoll is advertising clog sale prices on all her mer in a large display ad jn this week's issue of the Progress lev lew Miss Driscoll in announcing hei talc said her store Wil ic closed all day Friday The door will not open until 10 a m uiday to give farmers an equal chance with city residents in the bai gains which are sure to be snapped up fast SKATING PARTY PLANS TALKED Parties to be Held Every Other Week Hereafter It Is Decided School chapter of instruction for Order of Eastern Lyra Stnr was held Monday afternoon under the direction of Mrs Maria Grew of instructor for district 11 An initiatory service at B p m as attended by a large number of local members as well as gations from other chapters in this part of Iowa Presented during the evening were Mrs Frank Sherwood past grand Adah Mrs Inez Glime past grand marshal Mrs A E Jewett grand of South Carolina in Iowa Mrs A J grand of Indiana in Iowa Mrs Mure i a district instructor Mrs Beulah worthy mation of Lhc Mrs Dana der mation of the loo chapter Mis Arthur Miller worthy of the Becker tor and Fiank worthy patron of the Becker chapter Tulks given by od guests ind n gift was presented tile instructor by chapter The gills sextette entertained with cal s serving of following the meeting Mrs Georgia Oren tion of Lyin announced the regular meeting for March 14 Mrs 11 D at u dinner evening honoring Mrs McGrew was a guest of Mis Oien here Record Toothache Roller parties for ilies of local business and men will be held every two weeks instead of every day it was decided Monday night The next party will be held day night March 13 with a com- including Mrs Charles Kocher Mrs Marvin Schafer and Mrs Gail Ballheim in charge Mrs Don Olson handled ments for week's party at mens which a covered supper was served late in the evening In spite of continued cold weather a large crowd attended Mrs H Hilmer Breaks Her Hip Herman Hilmer fell last night about a block from her and fractured her hip She was taken to the St Franca pital in Waterloo where her con- dition is reported satisfactory HUDSON WILL HAVE FILTER Community Hopes to Take Sediment and Odor From Water but many of the country roads in vicinity of La Porte City were of the schools in this part of this county were closed nil day but La Porte City schools kupt open with greatly reduced attendance In the lower grades in particular the list of absentees was heavy School attendance had already noun a sharp decrease in recent due to the prevalent flu epi- demic and to other illness but the number of absentees was amost doubled Tuesday School authorities the following of absences the first half of thit 16 per cent Tuesday 31 per cent Wednesday 18 per cent High School Monday 13 per cent JG per cent Wednesday 13 per cent In cases Tuesday rural residents who had sent their to school in the morning came for thum at noon fearing that the high wind would drift the roads hut by night Unlike many blizzards this one failed to bring cold weather in its Thq mercury fell only u few degrees below freezing of the storm and bright sunshine Wednesday sent the soaring well above freezing melting the drifts of the day be- fore the city finished of u water filler in Hudson Waler in com- munity will be and should taste installation the town system The is to be placed in tbu building in Hie park the water Lower is and thr building is to be remodeled foi thu pin pose Hudson water in the past has contained larire amount of ment and at limes gives off an of- fensive odor Can To the For the first time m three years all young men who arc accepted for attendance at Citizens Military Training camp ill the Seventh Corps Area next summer will be permitted to go to camp by any method of they wish This announcement wan made today by Major Percy P Bishop commanding the Seventh Corps Area Approved applicants may pay their own way to camp and be re- at the rate of five cents per mile for the distance from their homes to camp or they may be furnished with railroad tickets Some time nco year-old male hippopotamus and colossal pet of the Uono Zoo in Tokyo tried to chew a piece his steel cage Daitaro looked at his keeper who decided that its nerve had been exposed giving the hippo excruciating pain A hurried call was sent to Dr Toshiichi Tokoro who yanked the tooth RAMS TAKEN BY GENESEO Class B Tourney Favorites Win Easy 32 to 14 Victory The La Porte City Rams closed their regular season last Friday night taking a 32 to 14 trimming from on the Buckinham floor Genesco took an 18 to 8 lead in the first half and then continued to gain during the second half with a flock of substitutes playing most of the time Lockhart led the Rams with aix points The Geneseo second the preliminary 19 to 13 Charging that her husband lost in a dice game Mrs Ida Freeman ot Indianapolis is suing lour men to the money The council has been considering from home if they ot the filler for Ihc so baid General Bisnop past year Former Resident Dies February 6 Word has been received here of the death in Humboldt la of Mrs Sara Strong formerly Sara man of La Porte City Mrs Strong diol of a heart attack Monday evening February 6 after an ness of only a few hours services were held day February 10 at the church in Humboldt MARKETS Prices paid in La Porte City Thursday Subject to change out notice Stags Old roosters Leghorn roosters Tc Hena heavy Hens leghorns Eggs No 1 c Eggs No 2 c Cream No 1 Cream sweet GRAIN Elevator No 2 Yellow corn 30 pound old oats Benefits Paid Des More than n unemployed weekly benefits were paid to through the Waterloo of the Iowa State Unemployment ing the months of December and January The exact amount at by the Iowa Unemployment sation Commission is B4 Payments in December were much heavier than in January tha amount reported being while the January payment total 55 The total amount in benefits paid out through this office since benefits began in July is up to February 1 The Waterloo office of the State Employment Service serves three counties Black Hawk and Grundy with branch offices in Wa- verly and Grundy with branch of verly and Grundy Center John of Preston Eng was fined for ducking into a milk tank a dairy maid who he declared was lazy 30 pound new oats Ear Corn Soy Beans r i
