Progress of PWA projects in Iowa report shows multiple grants under construction
Washington notes Iowa’s PWA reformfinanced works nearing completion as Roosevelt moves to new program. The April 1 summary lists projects with grants and loans totaling millions, including Cedar Rapids water mains and Iowa City dormitory. Several large grants finished while others await bids or authorizations, with Northeast Iowa projects cited among recent completions.
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Washington
APS
Iowa
Roosevelt
Sens
Sail
PWA
L. Ickes
PW Sdbmanistrator
Towa
Federel Cranis
Lsbar and
Materals
Cedar Rapids
Center Point
Independence
Iowa City
Linn County
Marion
Mechanicsville
Tama
Toledo
Vinton
West Liberty
West Union
Decorah
Towa City
Johnson County
Miarteile
Waverly
Lowe
Webb Naylor Visits Garrison Traer and Viaton Stores Daily
Webb Naylor's long career as manager of the Garmsean Memorule company store spans twenty years. He oversees the Traer and Viaton locations and remains active in the community, helping needy children and guiding local youths. Naylor, born near Brandon on March 9, 1875, married Mary Allarding in 1891 and has a son, Clarence Naylor, assistant manager of the Traet Store.
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Gazette
Althouh
Naylor
Brandon
Granville Naylor
Mary
Vinton Boy Named Outstanding Prep At State College
Vinton student David Gale Johnson of Vinton was named outstanding freshman student of agriculture at Iowa State College by Iowa Agriculturist. The agriculture economics student aims to be an agricultural statesman and was a former Iowa Future Farmers of America public speaking winner. George Brown of Grinnell also ranked high.
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Gazette
AMES
David Gale Johnson
Vinton
Iowa State College
Iowa Agriculturist
Johnson
Danforth
American Youth Foundation
Agricultural College
Purina Mills
St. Louis
Iowa Future Farmers of America
Iowa State
George Brown
Grinnell
Custodians School Set for Grinnell on April 20
Custodians janitors and firemen from eighty schools across several counties are invited to Grinnell on April 20 for a school of instruction. Engineers Wo Malone D C Faber and Real Holbrook from Iowa State College will lead sessions on the school seating system and related problems.
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Grinnell
Marion
Jasper
Tama
Marshall
Mahaska
Benton
Keokuk
Iowa
Poweshiex
Eneager
Iowa State College
Wo Malone
D.C Faber
Real Holbrook
Iowa State College Safety Drive Cuts Accidents In Half
Iowa State College launched a city-wide safety program in 1931 that reduced auto accidents from 343 to 198 the next year and averaged 168 annually since. More than 2,000 cars have been tested for brakes lights and other safeguards under President R M Hughes, with a four-year period cutting accidents by about 30 percent.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Rca Moyer
R. M Hughes
Two New Courses Planned for Shelbsville High School
Shellsburg announces additions to the fall curriculum with home economics and manual training. A teacher for home economics is to be appointed, while principal E. C. Rector will likely oversee the manual training course.
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Shellsburg
E. C. Rector
Grundy County to set grading contract for 13.5 miles
Grun dy supervisors will set a contract on Monday, April 29, to grade thirteen and a half miles of county trunk and township roads across the county. Two concrete culverts will be purchased, one for Clay township and one to replace a narrow bridge, £9.11 on the Hartman farm on the Beaman road.
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Grundy Center
Grundy
Clay Township
Hartman Farm
Beaman
Monona’s Veteran Druggist Harry C Fox Honored
Monona honors Harry C. Fox one of its oldest business leaders in a life of public service. Since 1892 he has run Fox Pharmacy with G L Guibert, served as mayor during the water work and electric plant development, and held posts including postmaster and school board member. Fox married Tillie Felber and has four children, Irene Rogers, Gilbert Fox, Benjamin Fox, and Magdalene Sister Mary Harrita.
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Monona
Harry C. Fox
Garnaville
Benjamin F. Fox
Prairie la Porte
Guttenberg
Northwestern College of Pharmacy
Chicago
G. L. Guibert
Fox Pharmacy
Fox
Wilson
Tillie Felber
McGregor
Irene Rogers
Cresco
Gilbert F
Benjamin
Barron Company
LaCrosse
Wis
Magdalene
Mary Harrita
Cornell Will Give American Premiere of English Pageant
Mount Vernon April 20 Cornell college chapel will host the American premiere of The Acts of St Peter a religious pageant by Gordon Bottomley Albert Franklin Johnson directs The drama traces Peters life from conversion to near death and features Edgar Walker as Peter with an extensive cast and period stage design by Nama Lathe and Betty Schmidt
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College Chapel
Peter
Edgar Walker
Mason City
Harriet Crumb
H. A. Crumb
N Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids
Nanthippe
Glenn Low
Judas
Eldon Shoemaker
Red Oak
John
Thomas Nelson
Durant
Paul
Genevieve Greenwood
Geneseo, Ill
Mary
Bethany
Ava Schnittjer
Delhi
Doris Minot
Harvard, Ill
Lawrence Travis
Carl Weber
Columbus Junction
Marjorie Williams
Wyoming
Ruth Burton
Tama
Donald Hutchins
Algona
Dorothy Gilmore
Compton
George Snyder
Elgin
Margaret Lilley
Waterloo
Elizabeth West
Estherville
Rodman Thacher
Minneapolis
Margaret Albright
Lisbon
Betty Schmidt
Evanston, Ill
Lucille Stinger
Margaret Handel
Elva Doris Moore
Jeanne Maulsby
Kansas City
Nama Lathe
Evanston
Paul Wilkerson
Edgerton
Wis
Curtis Moore
Lime Springs
Luella V. Ninde
Lucille Roacn
Nashua
Doris Newstrand
Dayton
Cedar county relief projects employ 135 workers
In Cedar county during the last week, 135 persons worked on eight relief projects for a combined 2,388 hours. They will receive a total of 734.11 dollars for their services.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Z C B J Drill Team Comedy at Clutier April 21
The Z C B J lodge drill team presents Dotty and Daffy a three act comedy at the Z B J hall Easter Sunday April 21 directed by Miss Emma Dvorak. Specialties between acts include songs by Christy Bliss reading by Albye Hess and Bohemian musical numbers by Hartwig and Adam. The plot follows daughters aiding a mother as a wealthy widower arrives and disguises lead to a playful farce with twin sons revealed.
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Gazette Clutier
Z. C
Wadena Pair Observe Golden Wedding With Dog Hero
Mr and Mrs G P Clark celebrate their 50th anniversary in Wadena as a rare operation on their son Fremont in New York City gives hope. Treve a white collie saved Mr Clark from a train after a paralytic stroke years ago and Freckles aided the engineer to stop the train. The couple, born 1868 and 1867 respectively, had eight children with four deceased and have long served Fayette and surrounding communities.
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Gazette
Manchester
G. P. Clark
Wadena
Fremont
New York City
Clark
Treve
Mr. Clark
Freckles
C. M
St. P
Independence
Ilinois
W. J. Ainsworth
Arlington
San Antonio
Tex
Fayette County
Bradley Creamery Company
Raymond Clark
Fayette
Daveson Clark
Fremont Clark
Carl E. Cox
Elizabeth
Wilbur
Lenora
Oscar Clark
Thornburg Man, 79, Joins Seasonal Hobbies in Quiet Life
Thornburg resident William Kirby, 79, stays busy year round. In warm months he tends a truck garden with strawberry and raspberry plants, raising cabbage, tomato, sweet potato and pepper crops. Winter months find him carving wood, notably a walnut Uncle Sam statue, using only a pocket knife and chisel. Born in England, he moved to a Thornburg farm with his family in 1907 and later relocated after his wife’s death.
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Snecia
Gazett
Thornburg
William Kirby
Kirby
Uncle Sam
Mr. Kirby
England
America
Towa Lutherans To Hold Conference At Gowrie This Month
The Iowa Lutheran conference of the Augsburgian synod will meet in Gowrie from April 24 to 28 under the theme A Revived Church. Reverend speakers include P O Bersecil Ot tumwa conference president who will preach the opening sermon, C Reuben Pearson Boone who will lead holy communion, and several ministers from Des Moines Madrid Clinton Burlington Red Oak Marathon and Toledo.
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Gowrie
Iowa Lutheran Conference
The
Augustana Synod
P. O. Bersecil
Ottumwa
C. Reuben Pearson
Boone
A. D. Freden
Burlington
Herbert S
Dust storms cripple machines at Midwest plants
Diesel power engineer Fred C. Grutzner of Beloit Wisconsin told 250 attendees at the Diesel power conference at Iowa State College that dust storms harmed machinery and life. He said dust entered engine lubricating systems causing wear and frequent part replacement and that one plant changed dust filters every three hours.
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Ames
Middlewest
Fred C. Grutzner
Beloit
Wis
Iowa State College
Grutzner
Maquoketa Plans Housing Exposition in April
Maquoketa prepares for a three day housing exposition sponsored by the local federal housing administration committee on April 25 26 and 27. Evening programs feature speakers and motion pictures on federal building plans with cooperation from Des Moines FHA. At least twenty five exhibitors will show booths at the Orpheum theater with half the space already sold. Architects will display home plans of various sizes and prices and there will be guidance on renovating older houses and estimated building costs.
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Maquoketa
Federal Housing Administration Committee
Des Moines Fha
R. J. McNerney
Orpheum
Dysart Pastor Notches 193 Confirmations in Five Years
At Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Dysart Iowa the Rev W F Domres recorded 193 confirmations and instruction over five years including a strong emphasis on Bible preaching and evangelism. The article lists dozens of named confirmands in children and adult classes and notes the pastor invites renewed membership while allowing withdrawal if one chooses.
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Dysart
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
W. F. Domres
Iowa
Harold Baker
Lucille Bruger
Margaret Buck
Irene Burger
Mary Ann Burkey
Blanche Dengler
Ethel Dengler
Marrill Hach
John Holtz
Glenn Jacobsen
Ervin Jurgens
Walter Kusel
Frederick Tass
Merle Luze
LaVonne Manderer
Lawrence Michel
Loretta Schreck
Lorena Schreck
Dean Short
Anna Mae Siemens
Ralph Tompkin
Richard Arp
Ernest Dengler
Harry Dengler
Herman Dethlefs
Elsie Dethlefs
Albert Dethlefs
Elizabeth Gein
Henry Jansen
Alvin Jansen
Roy Lorenzen
John Matthiesen
Jacob Meeks
Arthur Norden
Edward Norden
George Oster
Fritz Schutt
Katharine Selk
LeRoy Selk
Loyd Selk
Rudolph Selk
Willie Selken
How A Dane Became An American by T M Nielsen
West Union pastor T M Nielsen chronicles a Danish boy’s dream of America and his family’s path to Cornell college and beyond. The autobiography traces early life hardships, tempering faith and work, and a move through Melbourne Clinton and Mount Vernon to become a Methodist minister.
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West Union
Dane
Cornell College
Denmark
The
Torch Press
T. M. Nielsen
West Union Methodist Church
Nielsen
St. James Methodist Church
Cedar Rapids
America
North Western
Mount Vernon
Cornell
Harriet Taylor
Melbourne
Iowa
Belle Plaine
Greenhorn
Clinton
Tom Nielsen
Federal Funds Expected for Iowa Road Work
Washington AP reports possible federal aid surge for Iowa roads under the work relief bill. If allocations reach $800 million nationwide, Iowa could receive about $3.2 million for secondary and feeder roads, part of a historic rise in road funding since 1917, with total Iowa allocations potentially nearing $26 million for new road work.
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Washington
Iowa
Groundhog Adopts Manchester Game Farmer As Foster Parent
The piece profiles Hugh Parker a Manchester area game farmer who adopted a wild woodchuck named Johnnie twelve miles northeast of Manchester. Since a year ago Johnnie thrived on eye dropper milk and later cake and milk, sheltered under a box car, returning to the same burrow as winter neared. Johnnie reappears after winter hibernation, living near his underground home and even whistling at Mrs Parker for cake, while Parker reflects on the curious bond.
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Gasette
Manchester
Hugh Parker
Johnnie
Parker
Steele
Elk Creek
Greeley
Winter
Spring Jobs Cut Down Tama Co Relief Expense
Special to The Gazette Traer Tama county spring creates private jobs for winter unemployed. Relief spending reduced from 5528 to us in Toledo federal offices reports February relief down 6 036 21 while March shows 54 cases. Direct relief and work relief payments totaled 3445 57 and 2590 64 in February and 3003 94 and 2522 60 in March.
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TRAER
Tama County
Toledo
Iowa Academy of Science Meets at Grinnell Leaders Named
At Grinnell April 19 and 20 the Iowa Academy of Science will host meetings led by five Iowa State University faculty. L C Raiford conducts organic and biological chemistry sessions, J J Runner chairs two geology roundtables, George D Stoddard heads the psychology division, Robert L King leads zoology, and Edward Bartow will head the Iowa delegation.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Iowa Academy of Science
Grinnell
L. C. Raiford
J. J. Runner
George D. Stoddard
Robert L. King
Iowa
Edward Bartow
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Viaton Stores
Tre-At Cat Webb Naylor
State College
Eteran
Ben Fox
Tru
Harry C, Fox
Z.C.B.J
Mamma Phyllis
Florida
Mamma
Phyllis
Emma Dvorak
John Kopecky
Mildred Kosnar
Vivian Mochal
Dorothy Konicek
Anna Dalecky
Viasta Stary
Libbie Kremenak
Elsie Mochal
Tina Balvin
Blanche Stary
Adaline Fikejs
George Stary
Tony Kupka
Dog Hero
Mrs
Diesel Man
W.F. Domres
Blanche M. Beall
East Iowa
Marshalltown
Elsie Taylor
Truart
Congress
Public Works Administration
Groundhog
Manchester Game Farmer
Tama Co
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