Federal relief on community basis eyed for Iowa
Iowa officials push for federal aid to individual communities rather than a statewide loan. The governor's executive relief committee favors loans to towns with 3 percent interest repaid via local agreements with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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Des Moines
Executive Relief Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Iowa
T. Rollins
General State Committee
Free Gate Opens at Monticello Fair This Week
Free gate admission is touted as a new feature for the Jones county fair in Monticello, August 23 to 26, with a paid auto gate and open access for people. Attractions include Dodson carnival rides, 4-H and farm exhibits doubled, baseball teams Monticello Dyersville Anamosa Cascade, Friday horse pulling with $100 in prizes, Rosie's Ritz Revue and a lineup including Basset and Bass y, Glenn's Circus, and four elephants.
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Monticello
Dodson Carnival Company
Pig Club
Baby Beef Club
Market Lamb Club
Anamosa
Dyersville
Cascade
Rosie
Basset and Bassey
Glenn
Kenneth Waite
Hilly Frese Shows Tenacious Path Through College
Hildegard Frese, 22, plans to graduate next June from the University of Iowa after funding her education with field work, farm labor, and campus jobs. She traveled to Berlin on a summer scholarship and now writes for WSUI while tutoring German and pursuing a German major.
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Fairbank
Hilly
University of Iowa
ABC
Berlin
Germany
New York
University of Berlin
WSUI
O’brien
C. 8S. O’brien
University Ear, Eye
Rollie Williams
Mortar Board
Independence And Manchester Again On Building List
Treasury plans relief funded construction of federal buildings in Iowa totaling up to 1,000,000 with allocations drafted for Ames Clinton Independence Manchester Osage and Sheldon. Funds depend on Secretary Mills certification that money is available and leases expiring soon.
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Washington
Iowa
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury Mills
Treasury
Secretary Mills
Congress
Mills
Ames
Clinton
Independence
Manchester
Osage
Sheldon
Eagle Scout Donald Van Horne Achieves Eagle Rank
Donald Grady Van Horne twelve year old boy son of Dr and Mrs C W Grady was awarded the Eagle Scout rank at a Boy Scout court of honor He is the second Van Horne boy to gain this honor joining Frank Witte Troop 33 with Dr Grady as scoutmaster Donald led the band and plays the cornet He could not swim a year ago yet earned life saving and Junior Red Cross life saving tests He will enter high school as a sophomore with aim to earn a palm.
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van Horne
Donald Grady
C. W. Grady
Frank Witte
Grady
Dr. Grady
Donali
Donald
Red Cross
Striking farmers vow higher prices as milk truce holds
Sioux City pickets say milk price peace pact will lift milk prices and boost other farm goods. Milk testing at 3.5 percent butterfat set at 1.80 per hundredweight, far from the 2.17 demanded, with embargo on cream and other products continuing. Some dissenters threaten to ignore the agreement as blocks halt live stock and cream routes across Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota.
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Sioux City
National Farmers Holiday Association
Sioux City Milk Producers Association
Nebraska
South Dakota
Spencer
Fred Erickson
Clay County
Harry Wilsey
I. W. Beck
Ed T. Connors
Jefferson
S. C
Producers’ Association
Field To Speak At What Cheer Fair
SHENANDOAH The Monroe county fair at Albia and the Keo kuk county fair at What Cheer are included in the speaking engagements this week of Henry Field Republican nominee for United States senator. No further engagements have been scheduled for the week as Field is returning home on his trip to meet Secretary of Agriculture Hyde who will speak in Shenandoah that evening. During the last week the Republican nominee spoke at Donnell Clarion Eldridge.
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The
Gazette
Shenandoah
Monroe County
Albia
Keokuk County
What Cheer
Henry Field
United States
Field
Woman's Estate Sued Over Fatal Crash Involving Aunt and Nephew
Irene Stribling files a $20,000 damage suit in West Union. The action names George W. Falk of Oelwein as executor of Geneva Zimmerman and cites the April 14 crash in Independence in which William George Fortney of Cedar Rapids and Mrs. Geneva Zimmerman died. Reckless driving alleged against Zimmerman.
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West Union
William George Fortney
Cedar Rapids
Geneva Zimmerman
Irene Stribling
Fortney
George W. Falk
Zimmerman
Power Plant Between Tama and Toledo Is Completed
The Iowa Electric Light and Power company has completed a $300 000 power plant located midway between Tama and Toledo. A formal opening with officials from both towns will be arranged soon. The brick steel and concrete building measures eighty three by seventy six feet with a basement and a two eight cylinder 840 kilowatt Diesel generating units. The station includes a switchboard high voltage gear cooling systems and a cooling tower.
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Tama
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Toledo
Tion
Lead Mining Talk Revived By Guttenberg Prospectors
In Guttenberg Clayton county prospectors report lead ore found on the John Schlueter farm near Miners creek after shafting to 32 feet. Four shafts yielded about 150 pounds of galena ore, with belief three veins converge near the last shaft. Some foresee profit if market demand rises, others doubt. Local history notes early explorers and past shipments from the bluffs.
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F.leader
Clayton County
Guttenberg
John Schlueter
Miners’ Creek
al. Prommelt
William Dryer
Galena
Dubuque
Thomas P. Park
Robert Campbell
Daniel Justice
E. Cornish
Herman Graybill
Christian Wise
Noble End
Iowa
Wisconsin
Holmes
Elkader
Turkey River
Springville's Oldest Man Fiddler Turns 87 Monday
H P Gillilan Springville’s oldest resident and Civil War veteran will celebrate his eighty seventh birthday Monday. He’s lived in the area most of his life and recently played several numbers at the local band concert Thursday night.
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Springville
H. P. Gillilan
Former Iowa Girl Heads Photoplay
Katherine Dougherty of Boone named publisher and president of Photoplay magazine in New York. Known to readers as Kaydee, she succeeds James Quirk who died in Hollywood this month. Dougherty rose through the company in seventeen years starting as an assistant bookkeeper.
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BOONE
INS
Katherine Dougherty
Photoplay
New York
Kaydee
James Quirk
Hollywood
Community Day Promises Music, Food and Fun
The annual Community Day is set for Friday August 25 in Palo. The Shellsburg band will provide music with ball games and other attractions. A chicken dinner will be served at noon and again at 5 30.
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Palo
Shellsburg
Runaway Boy Wires Parents For Clothes
Dave Hirschfield 14 ran from Sibley Iowa and St Paul Minnesota to seek fortune in New York. He wired his parents Isadore and field to send his school certificate and clothes, leaving in tennis shoes overalls a blue shirt and a gray coat. His father is a local merchant.
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Sibley
Dave Hirschfield
New York
St. Paul
Large Crowd Attends Garrison Watermelon Day
A crowd of about 3,000 gathered in Garrison for the annual watermelon and creamery day on Friday. The event featured thirty thousand pounds of watermelon.
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Garrison
Anamosa Woman Miss Helen Shaw Dies in Italy
Miss Helen L. Shaw of Anamosa died August 18 in Via Reggio Italy. She founded the Francis Shaw chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and aided Anamosa library funding and planning. She chaired the DAR chapter until 1906 and served with the Colonial Dames. Her leadership helped establish the local library with a $10 000 gift from Walter S Benton estate.
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Anamosa
Via Reggio
Italy
Helen L. Shaw
William T
Helen Crane Shaw
Miss Shaw
Francis Shaw
Daughters of the American Revolution
Pannie Dutton
Col. Shaw
Rome
Colonial Dames
Walter S. Benton
Black Hawk T B Test Case Taken To Supreme Court
An order staying tuberculin testing of cattle from 75 herds in Black Hawk county was signed by Justice Truman S. Stevens in the Iowa Supreme Court. A hearing date for the case brought by H G Peverill was set for September 27.
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Des Moines
H. G. Peverill
Black Hawk County
Truman S. Stevens
State Supreme Court
Justice Ag
Verill
Supreme Court
A. B. Lovejoy
District Court
Waterloo
Narcotic Agent Suspended After Davenport Detention
Davenport AP report says federal narcotic agent D F Ellsworth was suspended for fifteen days without pay after allegedly forcing three Mississippi youths into his car for questioning about a federal case. A H De La Gardie, district supervisor, is reviewing the matter and has reported to Treasury officials in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
D. F. Ellsworth
A. H. de la Gardie
Minn
Orth
Treasury Department
Washington
Farmers blockade cramps style of rum runners
Sioux City reported only one load of alcohol reached the city since farmer strikers began patrolling roads and turning back all produce. The lone load was allowed through after the driver disclosed the cargo. Bartenders predicted higher prices for highballs if the blockade lasts.
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Sioux City
Cedar Rapids Man Sentenced For DUI in Vinton Court
VINTON August Roettmer of Cedar Rapids was sentenced to 105 days in the county jail by Judge Clarence Nichols after pleading to a motor vehicle while intoxicated charge. He was arrested in Belle Plaine on August 4 and will have his driver's license suspended for three months after release.
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Vinton
August Roettmer
Cedar Rapids
Clarence Nichols
Roettner
Belle Plaine
Plan Reduction In Tama Co Budget
Material reductions in the Tama county budget were agreed on Saturday at a Tama County Taxpayers league meeting. County officers and citizens thrashed out economy proposals to cut the tax levy for the coming year. Eight committees reported and Senator Harry C. White of Vinton spoke with E. BE. Taylor of Traer.
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Toledo
Tama County
Tama County Taxpayers League
Harry C. White
Vinton
Ane E. BE. Taylor
Traer
Grinnell Man Breaks Arm and Back in Fall
Donald King 21 son of E F King suffered a broken arm and fractured back after a fall from a tree Saturday while trimming branches. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
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the Gazette
Grinnell
Donald King
E. F. King
Alburnett School to Open August 29
Alburnett consolidated school will open Aug. 29, announced by Superintendent Carl R. McCalley. Faculty includes Kenneth Wilson as high school principal, Miss Mar Acheson in domestic science, Miss Nyal Pardon, Mrs. Othy Hense, Miss Hilda Stirm and others for grades seven through four.
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Alburnett
Carl R. McCalley
McCalley
Kenneth Wilson
Burkey Injured After Gravel Truck Turns Over Near Garri
Bert Burkey of Garri son is believed injured when his gravel truck toppled into a ditch three miles southwest of his home at 11 am Saturday. He was passing a car when the road caved in beneath the heavy wheels and he was sent to a hospital where doctors were assessing his injuries Saturday night.
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Vinton
Bert Burkey
Garrison
Burkey
Rescue of Thousands of Small Fish as Mississippi Recedes
Government seining crews along the Iowa shore rescue tens of thousands of fingerlength bass perch and crappies from drying ponds. Ponds along the Upper Mississippi reach historic low stages as fish spawn perish unless moved to the main stream.
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Mississippi
U. S
Missis
Iowa
Suae Seeminien
Hoover seen as likely winner in Illinois Iowa
Dr. Roy L. Fernald of Winterport Maine predicts Hoover will win Illinois and Iowa in November citing a Hoover swing after his acceptance speech higher commodity prices and stock gains. He says August would be close and Massachusetts shifts Hoover wins by over ten thousand. Fernald notes nationwide break for Hoover as he spends summer in Boston.
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Mount Vernon
Iowa
Illinois
Hoover
Roy L. Fernald
Winterport
Maine
Fernald
Cornell College
al Smith
Massachusetts
Boston University
Ralston Receives The Purple Heart
Springville farmer Ralston, a Balangiga massacre survivor, is among Linn county’s first recipients of the Purple Heart. The medal honors exceptional bravery in U S military service and is being offered this year for the first time since its initial use by George Washington.
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Springville
E. N. Ralston
Philippines
Linn County
U. S
George Washington
Buttermilk Day Planned in Amber on Labor Day
Amber business men organize a Buttermilk Day event on September 5 with the Amber creamery supplying buttermilk. Activities include two baseball games street sports airplane stunts horseshoe pitching a band concert and a political speech.
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The
Gazette
AMBER
Amber Creamery
DeWitt Boy Killed In Auto Collision
Arthur Wallace a 10 year old from DeWitt died when a car driven by his father J M Wallace was struck by a car driven by Arthur W Licht of Toronto Iowa near DeWitt on Saturday afternoon.
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DeWitt Boy
Dewitt
Arthur Wallace
J. M. Wallace
Arthur W. Licht
Toronto
Fire destroys Cedar Rapids man's house Saturday morning
A blaze of undetermined origin destroyed the residence occupied by B. Sheets Saturday morning. The property belonged to W. C. Cain of Cedar Rapids and was insured.
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Palo
B. ©. Sheets
W. Cc. Cain
Cedar Rapids
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