Griswold Approves 25-Year Gas and Power Franchise
Griswold Iowa residents vote 268 to 65 to grant Iowan Nebraska Light and Power a 25 year franchise for gas and electric service. The company will lay gas mains, with crosses county lines, and begin piping from the northwest. Mains and service lines expected by September. Also, escape of R M Armstrong from Fort Madison prison reported. he was sentenced in Madison County for 10 years on burglary.
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Griswold
Iown-Nebraska Light
tPower Company
Des Moines
R. M. Armstrong
Fort Madison
State Bureau of Investigation
Armstrong
Madison County
Local News Briefs from Lima and Surrounding Areas
Local notes report Lima visitors and travelers to Ames Minnesota and Omaha. County officials attend Audubon courthouse dedication. Cattle market activity highlights yearling sales and prices. Sheriff Edwards addresses Atlantic Rotary on army training. Civil service seeks explosive chemists under national defense program with salaries from $2,600 to $4,600.
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P. P. Edwards
Atlantic Rotary Club
Hotel Whitney
Army Infantry School
Fort Benning
Edwards
U. S
National Defense Program
Civil Service Commission Today
Wheeler Threatens Split If War Moves Democrats
Washington dispatch reports Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana says he will bolt the party and oppose Roosevelt if the Democrats push for American entry into World War II. He vows to back no candidate who wants war, signaling a possible party rift. In Iowa, Joseph Grimes pleads guilty to a $20,000 horse race betting fraud and begins a five year penitentiary term.
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Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
Dem
Mont
Roosevelt
Senate
Wheeler
Mr. Roosevelt
Sioux City
Joseph P. Grimes
Iowa State Penitentiary
H. W. Geisinger and Son
Arlo
Storm Lake
Board Hires Two New Instructors For Atlantic Schools
The Atlantic board of education tonight hired two new teachers for the Lincoln school. Ruth Ann Hill of Nebraska City Nebraska will teach fifth grade succeeding Ruth Mitchell who recently married. Mary Arneal of Redding Iowa will teach third grade succeeding Agness Dawson who left for Guthrie Center.
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Board of Education
Atlantic Public Schools
Ruth Ann Hill
Nebraska City
Neb
Lincoln School
Ruthe Mitchell
Miss Hill
Peru
State Normal School
Mary Arneal
Redding
Agness Dawson
Guthrie Center
Arneal
Tarkio College
Local Health Notes Across Several Towns
Sick and injured are noted in Atlantic Massena Anita and various nearby towns. Miss Helen Dement and Miss Maryann Cruise are highlighted as patients seeking or receiving care. several residents recover from surgery injuries or illnesses at local hospitals.
Bombs Hit Geneva Area On Paris Front War Bulletin
London reports grim and serious air action near Geneva while Mediterranean operations show Allied initiative in Libya. Officials expect French retreat to continue in good order to wear down Germany, with a potential turning point after two to three weeks if French withstands hammerblows.
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Mediterranean
Italy
Libya
London
Federal funds earmarked for chinch bug control
The United States government allocated 250000 for chinch bug control work, notified to Iowa secretary of agriculture Mark G. Thornburg. The move marks the first federal money for this effort and does not affect a separate 500000 appropriation request in Congress by Representative Robert K. Goodwin.
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Des Moines
United States
Iowa
Mark G. Thornburg
Thornburg
Congress
Robert K. Goodwin
Massena News Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Summer Work
In Massena Iowa on June 12 special notes report Mrs H H Penquite returning from Grinnell after three weeks with Don Penquite. Mrs George Boehler and two daughters visit Louise Platt from Gretna Nebraska. Mrs Tom Cruise from Imperial Nebraska visits relatives including John Anstey. F A Bell travels to Des Moines for weeks with James Carlisle and Fred Odem families. George Anstey and Billy McKee head to Sandusky Ohio for summer work.
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F. A. Bell
Des Moines
James Carlisle
Fred Odem
George Anstey
John Anstey
Billy McKee
James McKee
Sandusky
Ohio
Seek Man Reported Killed at Omaha
Mr and Mrs Jense C Andersen seek help locating Mrs Clough father Harry Clough 48 after he was reported injured in an auto crash near Omaha around May 4 and later said dead A man claimed to know the body location but the relatives did not meet him Official records do not list a Henry Clough death
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Omaha, Neb
Jense C. Andersen
Omaha
Clough
Andersons
Henry Clough
Farmer Hurt as Car Overturns in Iowa Town
Orlo Jones, a farmer east of Wiota, was injured when his car left a rut, struck a ditch and overturned three and a half miles east of Wiota. Paul Williamson, 13, narrowly escaped injury in a separate incident near Wiota as a pony tied by the road was struck. Jones was taken to Atlantic for treatment after suffering a deep arm gash and blood loss.
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Wieta
Orlo Jones
Here
Paul Williamson
Leroy Williamson
Wiota
Jones
Maurice Coomes
Paul Mailander
Atlantic
Williamson
Mike Metz
Methodist Church
Mason City
Adair Briefs Reflect Funeral and Travel Updates
Mr and Mrs Arthur Wedemeyer and William Tiepermann attended William Burgstadt's funeral in Denison. Miss Maxine Freeze left for Drake summer school in Des Moines. The Parrotts returned from Albia after a week with C B Parrott. Mrs Grace Winnett and Mrs Helen Dick with Peggy visited Mrs W H Burr in Eldora. Ruth Burr returned from a Colorado New Mexico trip. Slow thinking and fast driving don't mix.
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Adair
Arthur Wedemeyer
William Tiepermann
Denison
William Burgstadt
Maxine Freeze
Des Moines
Drake
Billy Lee
Martha
Tommy Parrott
Albia
C. B. Parrott
Grace Winnett
Helen Dick
Peggy
Eldora
W. H. Burr
Ruth Burr
Colorado
New Mexico
Infant Dies in Minnesota Couple's Loss
Word comes from Massena that Kenneth Nichols, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Nichols of Minneapolis, has died.
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Massena, la
Kenneth
Lester Nichols
Minneapolis
Parade Precedes Flag Day Program Friday Night
A flag parade through the business district led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce will start at 7 30 p m from the Elks club and move north on Poplar to Third then to Chestnut and down to the uptown city park where the Flag Day program will be held. Participating groups include the American Legion and auxiliary national guard Boy and Girl Scouts the Elks and Docs Veterans of Foreign Wars and auxiliary and the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Elks Club
Poplar Street
Third
Chestnut
Uptown
American Legion and Auxiliary
National Guard
Boy and Girl Scouts
The
Elks and Docs
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary
They called him lucky for short but not for long
A brief note notes that a person nicknamed "lucky" faced a change or challenge that would end his short luck. The item hints at a forthcoming shift in circumstances affecting the individual.
Greenfield Woman Dies After Des Moines Visit
Casey, Iowa June 12 Special Mrs. Fred Kellenberg learned Tuesday night of the sudden death of her cousin Mrs Art Sturdy of Greenfield. Mrs Sturdy had just returned from Des Moines where she was with her daughter who had undergone an operation and planned to return there the following day.
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Mary Hicks
Charles Simonsen
Elizabeth Bisom
Joe Gearhart
Grant
Stanley Ruhl
Carolyn Sue
Harold Stinemates
John Weathley
Elmer Shafer
Mercy
Council Bluffs
Casey
Fred Kellenberg
Art Sturdy
Greenfield
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Cass County
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Chrysler
Behnken Motor Co
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Economy Shoe Co
Max Rutledge
Sue
Lima, O
Ames
Lester Soukup
Minnesota
Raynor Fanborg
Faaborg
Kimballton
Doris Jo Steffens
Loreen Carroll
Steffens
J. P. Steffens
City
Boone
Harold Disney
Disney's
Disney
Fred Diehl
Hawley Lynch
G. E. Eshelman
F. W. Wiese
W. H. Wolenhaus
Board of Supervisors
M. E. Hubbard
Fred Herbert
Audubon
Harry Hopley
L. O. Wheatley
Harold Mills
Demos
Edward Small
Madeleine Erica Carroll
Aherne
Teus Hayward
MY Son
Son
Laraine Day
Henry Hull
Josephine Hutchinson
United Artists
BOARD
George Talty
Locuat Street
Harold F. Shranger
Atlantic Hospital
Lucille Eden
Cumberland
David Jones
Julia Ann
John Westphalen
Anita Nurse
Anita, Ia
Helen Dement
St. Joseph's Hospital
Floyd Dement
Massena Girl
Geneva
Paris
Massena News
Adair News
Rolls & Rolls
Oxydol
van Camp’s Pork & Beans
Christensen’s
Court House
Plymouth
Grand New Plymouth
Henningsen Motor Co
Plymouth and
Desoto
Poplar
Coca-Cola CO
Coca-Cola
Atlantic, Iowa
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