Iowa Club of Boston Annual Dinner Highlights Hawkeye Ties
The Iowa Club of Boston held its April 13 dinner at the Commander hotel in Cambridge with George Greene of Cambridge as a notable member. Malcolm R Bean presided. Joe Mitchell Chapple and Aaron M. Jones spoke, and Dr. Mark D. Littig of Boston, a former Davenport resident, was its first president. The club counts about 709 members active in New England, planning a June Iowa picnic and baseball and horseshoe events among ex-East Towans.
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Iown Club
Boston
Hawkeye State
Commander Hotel
Cambridge
George Greene
Cedar Rapids
C. G. Greene
Malcolm R Bean
Sigo
Davenport
New England
California
Iowa
East
Simon P. Townsend
Tracer
William Shubert
Iowa City
Harry Weinrebe
Julian E. Jackson
C. B. Rhea
Don Fawcett
West Branch
Ruth Evans
Glenn H. Browning
Mount Vernon
Clyde Cassidy
Ia City
Tipton Farm Couple To Celebrate Their Golden Anniversary
Tipton couple Mr. and Mrs. John Strauser observe their golden wedding anniversary on Wednesday. He is 79 and she 72, living on their Tipton area farm. Daughter Mrs. E W Bolton will host a family dinner. Parents of three children and four grandchildren plus two great grandchildren, they attend Red Oak Grove Presbyterian Church.
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Tipton
John Strauser
Strauser
E. W. Bolton
Rehearse Bach Mass For Cornell Music Festival
The Bach B Minor Mass marks the Cornell festival's forty-second year with a May 9 10 11 performance by the Cornell oratorio society led by Jacques Jolas and a May 10 concert with Hans Lange and the Chicago Little Symphony. Soloists include Thelma von Eisenhauer Joseph Victor Laderoute Ruth Pinkerton and Francis German. Eastern Town members of the society from Mount Vernon and nearby areas are listed among 150 singers.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Cornell Oratorio Society
Jacques Jolas
Chicago Little Symphony
Hans Lange
Frederick Stock
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cornell
Germany
Thelma von Eisenhauer
Joseph Victor Laderoute
Detroit
Ruth Pinkerton
Francis German
Geraldine Cook
Mechanicsville
Virginia Bolton
Tipton
Lois Brower
South English
Antoinette Coxsee
Pioneer Walker Couple Wed Sixty-Two Years
Mr and Mrs P H Burke celebrate their sixty second wedding anniversary at home in Walker Tuesday. Mrs Burke born Beloit Wis January 18 1856, Mr Burke born Maysville Ky June 15 1853. They married at Monti lived six years there before moving to Walker. They have two children Marie Ernst Walker and Lucile Mikota Minneapolis with three grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
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Walker
P. H. Burke
Burke
Beloit
Wis
Mr. Burke
Maysville
Monti
Farm Bureau Warns Against Political Activity in AAA
The article warns farmers about political activity linked to the American Farm Bureau and AAA with criticism of a Jones Wheeler bill. It notes letters from F W Roewe and A G Black promoting Wallace era farm policy and calls measures government control of farmland financing and debt actions.
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Farm Bureau
AAA
Mr. Wallace
Iowa Triple A
F. W Roewe
Iowa Agricultural Conservation Committee
Roewe
Wallace
The
Farm Credit Administration
A G Black
Camp Y Conference At Cornell April 27 And 28
Cornell College hosts the Camp Y Conference at Palisades State Park April 27 and 28 with 21 colleges attending. Kirby Page, renowned writer and lecturer, is the main speaker while Patricia Sleezer and Elbert Beaver serve as co chairs guiding the two day program on the campus Christian organization role.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Palisades State Park
Cornell
Iowa University
Kirby Page
Patricia Sleezer
University of Iowa
Elbert Beaver
Former Vinton Man Sits Ringside In War Theater As Diplomat
Maynard Bertram Barnes, formerly of Vinton, serves as first secretary at the US Embassy in Paris. He handles press relations, guides American journalists, and represents US news to French and international writers. Barnes is a leading Turkey and Near East expert and earned rapid rank after evacuating Americans from Smyrna in 1922.
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Washington
Paris
Iowa
Maynard Bertram Barnes
William Bullitt
Barnes
C R Fagan
Vinton
Jean Cattell
Grinnell College
Archibald Cattell
Chicago
Grinnell Board of Trustees
Grinnell
Bullitt
Europe
Foreign Service
U. S
International College
American Board of Foreign Missions
Standard Owl
Manchester Rainbow Queen Named Miss Char mion Lane
Miss Char mion Lane daughter of Mr and Mrs Atlee Lane was chosen queen of the Manchester Rainbow assembly in a statewide contest. Her photo will be sent to Hollywood for judging with others from districts and the state Rainbow queen will be crowned at Davenport. The article also recounts the long career of Barnes in the state department including postings in Constantinople Ankara Lausanne Berlin Sofia and Paris and his purchase of a 300 year old southern Maryland house with over 100 acres needing soil restoration.
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Manchester
Charmion Lane
Atlee Lane
Manchester Rainbow Assembly
Smyrna
Barnes
Patras
Greece
Admiral Bristol
Constantinople
Ankara
Anatolia
Kemal Pasha
Near East
U. S
Lausanne
Switzerland
St. Gall
Berlin
Germany
State Department
Sofia
Bulgaria
Legation
Washington
Paris
Maryland
Lutheran Mission Group To Meet In Des Moines May
The Town Lutheran conference Woman's Missionary Society of the Augustana synod will hold its 34th annual convention at Bethany Lutheran church Des Moines May 2 to 4 with Astrid Erline missionary guest from China. Theodore Matson of Chicago will speak at the missionary festival service May 2 and the banquet May 3 at Grace Lutheran church featuring Mrs A M Simonsen and Mrs FE A Biedermann. The society counts 2441 members in 58 units statewide.
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Mason City
Woman's Missionary Society of the Town Lutheran Conference
Augustana Synod
Bethany Lutheran Church
Des Moines
T Erholm
Astrid Erline
China
Theodore Matson
Chicago
Home Missions
Grace Lutheran Church
A M. Simonsen
FE .A Biedermann
Women's Missionary Society
Shirley Temple takes spotlight in North English program
OWA Shirley Temple North English Janet Van Auken daughter of Mr and Mrs Theodore Van Auken North English steals the show with singing tap dancing and comedy numbers Not yet of school age she wins demand for entertainments in North English and nearby towns She recently appeared on a Federated club program here and at South English Music teacher Mary Elaine Mahannah accompanies her.
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the Gazette
Janet van Auken
Theodore van Auken
North English
Mary Elaine Mahannah
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Grace Stull
Malcolm R. Bean
Sigourney
Joe Mitchell Chapple
la Porte City
Aaron M. Jones
Tipton Farm
Bredal
Gazette
Dia
Jewelry CO
Serondg
Monticello
Marian Fowler
Marcella Kouba
Belle Plaine
Erma Lincoln
Wyoming
Florence Marr
Ainsworth
Louise McColum
Anamosa
Helen Biddick
Marion
Virginia Ann Jones
Town City
Mary Miller
Wilton Junction
Margaret Siggins
Lisbon
Harriett VanderBie
Lime Springs
Elaine Klait
Clarence
Fredric Taylor
Springville
John Wherry
Forrest Clark
Maquoketa
Gordon Rahn
Stanley Strosahl
Joyce Kidder
Gwenneth Young
Ruth Houstman
Eleanor Gough
Bernice Gough
Dorothy Beach
Alice Marie Bigger
Dorothy Fisher
Eloise Magee
Jean Minish
Helen Peet
Eunice Wallace
Leo Lusted
John MacGregor
Delbert Richardson
Elwood Young
Special In the Gazette
Federal Land Bank
Land Bank
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Agriculture Committee of
House of Representatives
Roeve
Agricultural Committee of the
Black
Maynard B. Barnes
U.S
Hadley
Aegean
Mark Bristol
Arthur Hepburn
Grinnell Graduate
Lutheran Mission Group
Pontiac
Mich
General Motora
Aica’s
Culver Motors
Second Ave. SE
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S. Cedar St
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