Counties Get 4 Million From Sales and Income Tax Receipts
The Iowa state board of assessment and review allocated 4,000,997.99 to 99 counties from sales and income tax receipts to aid property tax relief. Counties will credit October 1 tax bills proportionally, with Polk receiving 227,685 and Van Buren 16,845. Delinquents will be credited or refunded as applicable. current tax payers get a deduction on their 1934 levy.
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Des Moines
State Board of Assessment and Review
Iowa
State Tax Board
Fortyefifth General Assembly
John K Valentine
Valentine
Polk County
van Buren County
Independence Man Heads Legionaires of Fourth District
Paul Smith of Independence was elected commander of the Fourth district American Legion at a Mason City convention this week. Also noted are state budget allocations for 1934-35 and a proposed general property tax to finance 1936 state expenses, with estimated levies and prior relief payments.
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Independence
Legionaires
Paul Smith
American Legion
Mason City
State levy funds to cover general government expenses
Emergency conservation work and funds continue with the state general expenses covered by the new levy. County allocations include Clinton 63141.46, Dubuque 76822.60, Johnson 49610.16, Linn 117947.76.
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Clinton
Dubuque
Johnson
Linn
Boy Crushed to Death Under Car Near Maquoketa
Maquoketa report: Denzil Burkey 13, son of Mr and Mrs John Burkey of Emeline, near Maquoketa, died after being crushed by a car driven by Blair Fenton 15. Burkey rode on the running board as the car hit a rut and overturned. Fenton sought help. Burkey died from chest injuries. Funeral Friday at East Iron Hall church. Inquest ruled accidental death.
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Sperial
Gazette
Maquoketa
Denzil Burkey
John Burkey
Emeline
Blair Fenton
Fenton
Burkey
Rutty
East Iron Hall
Belle Plaine Engineer Pensioned By N. W. Ry. After 51 Years' Work
DES MOINES UP Twenty three more Iowans have been placed on the pension list of the North Western railroad effective Thursday. Patrick O Malley Boone engineer with fifty-two years of service Samuel L Dunlap Belle Plaine engineer with fifty-one years and Ernest Bruhn Clinton carpenter in the shops there for fifty years are among the oldest in the Iowa group. Frank W Kruse What Cheer agent telegrapher forty-five years and Janes E Muhs Cedar Rapids engineer thirty-six years also retired and noted in the list.
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Des Moines
Fire damages Cascade narrow gauge engine
Several children narrowly escaped serious burns when a gasoline engine on the Cascade Bellevue narrow gauge line caught fire while being filled. The Cascade fire department extinguished the blaze after it destroyed the engine room interior and fuel droplets are blamed on hot cigarette ashes.
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the Gazette
Cascade
Bellevue
Cascade Fire Department
Dwarf Shoots Girl At Osage Town Daily Press
Marshall Bascombe a 27 year old Osage dwarf is shown between Deputy Sheriff Wil Dorsey and Sheriff Charles Kathan. He is charged with shooting Miss Ma rie Meggett a 23 year old waitress who spurned his attentions. Bascombe stood on the porch of Miss Meggett s home and fired through a screen door. The girl is in critical condition but expected to recover. Bascombe confessed he shot after she told him she wished to see him no more. He surrendered an hour after the shooting. Meggett recently won second prize in a beauty contest at Osage.
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Town Daily
Marshall Bascombe
Osage
Wil Dorsey
Charles Kathan
Bascombe
Marie Meggett
Miss Megeett
Funeral rites for Earlville youth killed in auto crash
In Earlville at the Methodist church on Wednesday, Francis Brooks 17 died from injuries after a Saturday auto accident. He fractured his skull and suffered internal injuries. He was a Earlville High School student, basketball team member, and son of Frank and (unnamed) Brooks with brothers John Ralph and Lawrence. Burial in Fairview cemetery, Earlville.
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Earlville
Earlville Methodist Church
Francis Brooks
Dubuque Hospital
L. C. Smith
S. de Best
Hopkinton Presbyterian Church
Brooks
Frank Brooks
Hopkinton
Iowa
Buck Creek
Hngh
John
Chicago
Ralph
North Dakota
Lawrence
Fairview Cemetery
Engineer Presents Sewage Plant Plan To Vinton Council
Howard Green of Green Engineering explained a $33000 sewage disposal plant plan to Vinton City Council. A 45 percent PWA grant would cover part of the cost with the remaining 55 percent sought from the government. The plant would be built north of Riverside park with a pumping station near the current sewer outlet and serve about 4200 residents. construction could start next spring and take about five months.
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Vinton
Howard Green
Green Engineering Company
Cedar Rapids
PWA
Counci
Green
Riverside Park
Oio
Cedar Board Rejects Beer Permit Revocation Petition
TIPTON Cedar county supervisors heard a petition to revoke the CT Lamp beer permit near West Side Park in Tipton. The hearing spanned the day and the petition was dismissed on defense counsel motion. Defendants included JOC France of Tipton and BBC Hackenlooper of Cedar Rapids. Two affidavits claimed illegal beer sales to miners. Also reported: Erwin Steinke injured threshing near Lowden when a pitchfork tine pierced his leg and Mrs William Hein, 78, broke her right arm near her home west of Lowden.
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Tipton
Cedar County Board of Supervisors
CT. Lamp
West Side Park
JOC France
Tipeten
BBC Hackenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Low den
Erwin Steinke
Here
Carl Ho Wenndt
Williaam Hein
Mis Hein
Mies
H F Laeht
Lowden
Benton County Ends Government Aid and Restructures Relief
Special to The Gazette Benton County shifts from FERA to local relief by adopting July 16 board action. The administrative staff drops from eleven to four with state funding for remaining salaries. Miss Margaret Abraham completes local work while state reports coordinate. relief in the south is directed from Belle Plaine with William Jackson in charge.
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Vinton
Benton
FERA
Benton County Board of Supervisors
Houlihan
Margaret Abraham
Kenneth Shirley
John Coster
Francis Kelly
William Jackson
Belle Plaine
Clermont to Host Homecoming Week End in August
Clermont plans a three day homecoming August 16 to 18 marking eighty five years of the village. Governor Herring will attend and speeches by Judge Michael McKinley and local clergy are planned. The event features a town parade and various entertainments as old residents return. ABELLE PLAINE Belle Plaine’s canning plant prepares for sweet corn with about 100 workers and 600 acres contracted, up from last year. Planting faced delays but a record crop is expected and packing may start in mid August.
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Clermont
Edmund Dagstad
Commercial Club
Gov Herring
Michael McKinley
Superior Court
Cook County
Illinois
Abelle Plaine
Belle Plaine
Showers Bring Relief to Iowa
A cloudburst in Atlantic Iowa caused heavy property damage and 4.5 inches of rain. Des Moines reported 0.20 inches while Sioux City and Council Bluffs had trace readings. officials forecast more showers and cooler air in eastern Iowa.
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Atlantic
Des Moines
Iowa
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Charles City
Davenport
Weather Bureau
Phillipsburg
Kan
Topeka
Mercury
Lincoln
Midwest
Portland
Ore
Midwest States
Committees Named for Springville Harvest Home Aug. 27
Springville appoints committees for the Harvest Home celebration to be held August 27. General committee includes R C Hunte E T McShane Jay Patten John Alexander and Ray Wiley with numerous subcommittees for finance dance program advertising seating exhibit barbecue concessions street sports pony show and other duties led by Marionists such as L A Johnston and Paul W Sterner.
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Springville
R C Hunte
E. T McShane
Jay Patten
John Alexander
Ray Wiley
L. A Johnston
Don Colehour
Roy Schwab
Ralph Waln
Paul Sterner
Earl George
W. S. Palmer
Paul W. Sterner
Emil Levsen
L. A. Johnston
R. F. Wiley
Mike Stanlaugh
H. R. Briner
Wilbur Stearns
Dick Bishop
E. T. McShane
Norman Graham
Glenn Bowdish
Kendall Gibson
S. L. Thompson
F. S. Jordan
A. C. Rodman
Harry Raff
Fred Taylor
D. Pirre
KK. Wild
J. S. Bowdish
Meryl Roberts
Lula Batchelder
L. L. Batchelder
Lucy Cooper
Gus Clausen
Roy Stambaugh
Fred Duncan
Willard Lacock
A. L. Little
Willard Groves
Frank Irons
J. T. Yocom
A C. Rodman
Clarence James Dever Port
Marshal
H. H. Cooper
Coralville Sees 10 Percent Cut in Gas Rates
Iowa City Light and Power chief Joseph F. Porter announced a 10 percent reduction for Coralville residents citing more customers as the reason. He noted Coralville’s gas rate is 17 percent below the manufactured gas rate in Iowa City, amid a denied permit for natural gas installation.
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Coralville
Iowa City
Joseph F. Porter
Iowa City Light and Power Company
Porter
Mallard and brood swim to river levee shores
McGregor river watchers saw a mallard duck with nine wild fledglings swim to the shore of the Mississippi river levee on Thursday. The unafraid brood stayed near shore as spectators gathered and corn was tossed to lure them closer. The mother and youngsters likely drifted downriver from a breeding area miles north.
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Gazette
McGregor
McGregor River
Mount Vernon Teacher Returns Her Contract
Mount Vernon high school history teacher Dorothy Ann Flint returned her contract to school board president John Klimo amid ongoing disputes within the Mount Vernon school system. A Cornell graduate, she had taught five years after starting in physical education before switching to history.
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Gazette
Mount Vernon
George Anselm
Dorothy Ann Flint
John Klimo
Cornell College
Expect Full House At State College
Ames reports rising enrollment at Iowa State College with projections of 4000 to 4100 students, aided by a large freshman class. Admissions in some divisions are capped and about 50 veterinary first-year applicants are rejected for the five year program. Rooming and housing are tight as Ames sees early-summer demand outstripping supply.
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Gazette
Ames
Iowa State College
Division of
Veterinary Medicine
LaPorte City Plans Aug 29 Vote On Water Plant Purchase
La Porte City council sets August 29 special election to decide buying Central States Electric water plant. Petition with 206 signatures supported the election. Proposal offers $30,000 purchase price. bonds of $35,000 being discussed for improvements and extensions. Also, Bernice Stout chosen for third grade. school to open September 2.
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LA Porte City
Central States Electric Company
Central States Company
Bernice Stout
Cedar Falls
Edna Taylor
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines WPA Director Nomination Favored for Keller
Postmaster L. S. Hill urged Prof. George Keller of Iowa City be made permanent progress administrator with a leave of absence from the University of Iowa arranged. Hill sent Keller's name and other officers to Howard S. Hill in Chicago for approval along with Jones Harrington Michel Hall Hawthorn Dunlap for key posts.
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Des Moines
INS
L. S. Hill
Works Progress
George Keller
Iowa City
Keller
Hill
University of Iowa
Howard S. Hill
WPA
Chicago
IL. T. Jones
J F. Harrington
A. E. Michel
Robert E. Hall
Jessie Hawthorn
Flora Dunlap
Iowa Emergency Relief Council
Gala Days Carnival Comes to Earlville This Weekend
Earlville hosts Gala Days on Friday and Saturday with a 2:30 p.m. baseball game between Greeley and Colesburg, 7:30 p.m. speech by Milo Reno, and at 5 p.m. Saturday a kittenball game between Quasqueon and Prairie du Chien girls. A bowery band, ferris wheel, merry-go-round, races and concessions fill the fairground. Proceeds support establishing a state park.
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The
Gazette
Earlville
Greeley
Colesburg
Milo Reno
Farmers Holiday Association
Quasqueion
Prairie du Chien
Earlville Community Club
Ringling Brothers to Appear in Iowa City
Ringling brothers and Barnum and Bailey's combined circus will perform in Iowa City on September 3. Mayor Thomas E. Martin announced arrangements with the show's advance agent, noting the circus will not appear in any other eastern Iowa city. The event features seven rings stages 1600 performers and 1009 animals.
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Iowa City
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey
Thomas E. Martin
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