Perry Man Held On Charge Of Killing World War Veteran
Charles Pickett 55 of Perry faced arraignment on a murder charge for killing Roy Hayworth 42 in Pickett's cabin. He admitted the shooting but claimed self defense after an ax attack. Hayworth’s body was found Saturday night. two neighbors reported seeing the body moved toward the river and offered money to help dispose of it. Investigators found five barrels of mash and a gallon of alcohol at the cabin. Hayworth often ate meals with Pickett. An inquest was planned.
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Charles Pickett
Adel
Roy Hayworth
Pickett
C. A. Knee
Ed Reed
Cha
Jolley man critically wounded after dispute over debt
Paul Clark Jr. 33 of Jolley Iowa remained in critical condition in a Fort Dodge hospital Sunday night after Roy Wyant allegedly attacked him following an argument over a $2 debt at Clark and Son hardware. Wyant, a Milwaukee railroad foreman, fired four shots at the Clark home before being subdued by the town marshal. Wyant is jailed in Rockwell City.
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Fort Dodge
Paul Clark, Jr
Jolley
Roy Wyant
Wyant
Clark
Clark and Son
Milwaukee Railroad
Rockwell City
Wood Influence Shapes Iowa Federation Art Exhibit
Davenport reports show Grant Wood's influence on oil paintings in the second annual Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs exhibit at the Municipal Gallery. Seventy exhibitors display Wood’s contemporary style and Stone City colony instruction appears in many canvases. dates and venues include January Little Gallery Rapids February Younker Brothers Des Moines March Iowa State College Ames April Mason City Public Library May.
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Grant Wood
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs
Wood
Stone City
Jevea
Little ‘Gallery
Ir. Rapids
Younker Brothers Store
Ex-Iowa State Coed Yvonne Ventrees Near Recovery
Yvonne Ventrees, former Iowa State College coed, is recovering after a failed self harm attempt by shooting. Doctors said she is improving and her parents, visiting daily, plan to take her home to Albuquerque, New Mexico once she gains full recovery.
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San Francisco
Yvonne Ventrees
Iowa State College
Albuquerque
N. M
Blind School Scouts Host Benton County Court Honors
Scouts from seven troops attended the Benton county court of honor at the Iowa School for the Blind in Vinton. Twenty two candidates earned ranks, with 19 from Troops 42 and 46 receiving first class honors. Albert Weyer earned the eagle badge for Shellsburg.
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Benton County
Shellsburg
Vinton
Jack Bhowalter
Albert Weyer
Eldon Mackie
Leo Hammond
Blairstown
Carl Kouba
Carroll C. Thomas
Cedar Rapids
W. A. Suthers
Hugh Mossman
F. E. Palmer
Robert Pirtle
Boys’ Glee Club
August Visek
Frank Tietz
Pierce Knox
Mackie
Bsianda
A. S. Weyer
Atkins
Boy Scout Court of Honor
Winton
Tenderfoot
Joseph Admundson
Howard Boring
Bernard Boone
Leroy Byam
Gailyn Matin
Gernard Sheplee
Leo Styles
Paul Trow
Clark Kaiser
Wilson Kouba
All
Dean Conklin
George Merrill
Belle Plaine
John Franklin
Billy Gruening
Robert Roberts
Guy Thorne
Fred Braginton
Grinnell High Yearbook Staff Announced for 1933
Grinnell grades unveil staff for the 1933 Grinnellian with Editor Katherine King and a slate of editors and managers. Mount Vernon notes six new Cornell College music club initiates and party. other items cover hobos at Edgewood waterworks, a Delta high school play, Nichols Rebekah officers, and Winton slate for district court deputy.
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Grinnell
Grinnellian
Francis Hawk
Katherine King
Constance Clark
Louise Jackson
Elizabeth Ramsey
Bob Work
Mary Shifflet
Ruthe Wilson
Marveen Cranny
Tom Sawyer
Mary Truesdale
Bob Neely
Wen
Mildred Floyd
Lisbon
Frances Stansell
Dixon, Ill
Dorothea Davis
Mediapolis
Irene Bragg
Greene
Arlene Herdklotz
Woodstock
George Tracy
Mount Vernon
Edgewood
DELTA
Delta High School
Ruth E. Green
Gerald Moore
Eva Sellers
Mitchell Dale
Geraldine Millikin
Marguerite Kriese
Walter Coble
Gerald Reed
Paul Hill
Letha Roberts
Louie Arendt
Agnes Denny
Florene Kiester
Nellie Bitner
George Metheny
John Wildman
Conesville
Winton
W. T. Woods
John Doughty
Doughty
Benton County
Local Clerk Job Seeker Draws Twenty Five Applications
Woods noted the candidate has taken short courses at Ames and clerical experience. He said fifty applications have been received for the position.
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Ames
Woods
Full pardon sought for Iowa fugitive evangelist Lemon
Attorney James Grehan said he would ask Iowa Governor for a full pardon for Thorold Lemon former Iowa fugitive and evangelist. Lemon served a manslaughter term in Iowa and escaped from a prison farm before being found as a lay evangelist at Bethel Pentecostal temple. Governor of Washington denied extradition, but pardon would avoid return to Iowa if Lemon travels outside Washington or if a later governor signs extradition papers.
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Towa
Bethel Pentecostal Temple
Lemon
Benton County Relief Committees Appointed in Area
Relief committees appointed across Benton County Chapter of the American Red Cross with George Reynolds of Vinton named general supervisor. The temporary relief effort will gather clothing shoes vegetables and other items for distribution while avoiding duplication with the Community Relief League in Vinton.
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Vinton
Benton County
American Red Cross
Clare O. Donels
Iowa
Leroy
St. Clair
Florence
George Reynolds
Community Relief League
Reynolds
F. W. Shoquist
Charles Lynk
L. J. Kirkland
G. M. St. Clair
Urbana
Charles Moore
Shellsburg
Crum
Atkins
Mary Fritz
Newhall
Clarence Paulsen
van Horne
Bush
Keystone
F. W. Schenken
Garrison
Hayes Henkle
Mount Auburn
Elsie Hill
Newhall Couple to Celebrate Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary
Pioneer Benton county residents Mr and Mrs M J Schultz of Newhall celebrate their golden wedding Tuesday. Minnie Kunstorf Schultz born in Germany as a child moved across the country with her family eventually settling near Newhall. Henry J Schultz born in Mauch Chunk Pa grew up in coal regions before moving west. They farmed near Palo and Shellsburg then retired to Newhall in 1919. They have five children and seven grandchildren residing nearby.
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Henry J. Schultz
Benton County
Schultz
Minnie Kunstorf
Germany
America
Pennsylvania
Clayton County
Iowa
Mississippi
Watkins
Mr. Schultz
Mauch Chunk
Shellsburg
Schulzes
Palo
Martin Werning
John Werning
Wesley Schulze
Harry
Walter Schultz
Winthrop Women Injured In Icy Car Skid East Of Waterloo
Mrs. Lorma James 24 and Miss Lorraine Bheely 20, both of Winthrop, were injured Monday when the car they rode in slid off an icy road five miles east of Waterloo.
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Waterloo
Lorma James
Lorraine Bheely
Winthrop
Here
Birth and marriage record of Hungerford family in Wisconsin
The excerpt notes Mayville born Hungerford daughter caene ee 2Sana Hungerford born Mayville Wis Nov 3 1849 Her father died when she was seven and her widowed mother moved to Delhi with her children On Nov 20 1867 she married John L Wheeler of Edgewood They had two children Ida Clark and Louis M Wheeler both of Delhi.
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Caene Ee
George Hood Wins Buchanan County Speech Contest
George Hood of Byron township school No. 3 won first prize in the Buchanan county declamatory contest held at the high school auditorium. Norbert Duffy of Union school won second. Russell Schaffer of Sunnyside school took third. Eleven contestants were chosen from 350 students across eleven districts with judges from Hazleton Jesup Independence.
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Independence
George Hood
Byron Township
Buchanan County
Norbert Duffy
Union School
Fairbank Township
Russell Schaffer
Sunnyside School
Jefferson
Amandabel Postle
Ruth Haderer
Ferne Howard
Agnes Coggins
Hazleton
Bertha Staver
Jesup
Elizabeth
Turnell
Anna Mazur
Buenah Miller
December lightning kills livestock at Brandon farm
A Saturday storm near Brandon Iowa struck the Henry Lassen farm two miles northwest, killing two horses a cow and a bull. A corner of the barn was torn off by the lightning as well.
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The
Gazette
Brandon
Iowa
Henry Lassen
Plan Change In Iowa City Milk Ordinance
Iowa City considers amending the milk ordinance to require all raw milk or cream sold in the city to be grade A or B and labeled accordingly. The proposal adds that grade B milk must be produced on dairies complying with sanitation rules for grade A, with cooling adjusted to 70 degrees F.
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Iowa City
Alleged Collicott Slayer To Go On Trial Dec 14
Norman O. Luce, arrested after an eight year hunt, will face murder charges in district court in Davenport on December 14. The case stems from the Collicott slaying. Luce’s trial date was announced amid long legal proceedings and investigations. He was captured last summer after a lengthy manhunt.
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Collicott
Davenport
Norman O. Luce
Luce
Con
Belle Plaine Man Killed in Local Yard Accident
Fred Potter age about 45 a air brake inspector for the North Western railroad was killed in the local yards Monday about 9 45 am when a brake rod broke and fractured his skull He was working alone under a car inspecting a brake prior to repairs Coroner J R Burrows was called Potter was prominent in church and civic affairs a former mayoral candidate active in the Methodist church and railroad brotherhood work Surviving are his widow and one son
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Belle Plaine
Fred Potter
North Western Railroad
Potter
J. R. Burrows
Man Afraid Of His Bootlegger Returns To Iowa And Jail
Elmer McDonald 28 walked to a Chicago patrolman and surrendered over bootlegger debts claiming a bootlegger threatened him. Police sent him to Des Moines to answer four 1929 robbery charges and he will be returned to Iowa promptly.
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Iowa
Chicago
Elmer McDonald
Des Moines
McDonald
The Cherokee Night to be shown at Iowa University
Lynn Riggs will present The Cherokee Night at the University of Iowa theater this week with performances Wednesday Thursday and Friday evenings. The play focuses on the small Cherokee Indian blood among descendants and portrays characters as citizens without a state.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Lynn Riggs
Santa Fe
University of Iowa Theater
Riggs
University Theater
Belle Plain Royal Neighbors elect 1933 officers
Royal Neighbors of America Camp M63 elected officers for 1933 on Friday evening. Margaret Huron named president physician Minnie Shirley marshal Myrtle Adams assistant marshal Lauretta Hamilton delegate to the Des Moines convention with Margaret Huron as alternate. Installation set for January. Sarah Jane Mansfield and Lottie Mae Quigley admitted as transfer members.
Students from nine colleges seek Rhodes scholarships
Iowa colleges will send delegates to Des Moines for Rhodes competition on Dec 10. Ten finalists from Iowa then join six other states in a regional meet to select four to study at Oxford. Representing schools include Chase and Amsen from Iowa, Birchard and Evans from Iowa State, Mackaman from Drake, Engle from Coe, Wulfseberg from Luther, Inman from Simpson, Tima from Cornell, Schwarzenbach from Grinnell, and Harris from Grinnell.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Rhodes
Oxford University
England
University of Iowa
William H. Chase
Ames
Arthur G. Amsen
Robert Cornoy
Iowa v
Iowa State College
Wayne
Ottumwa
Grinnell College
Lathrop Harris
Gromel
Alfred F. Onard
Ioway
Buchanan Auditor Files Election Contest Against Opponent
Buchanan county auditor and Republican candidate for re election files a petition with the board of supervisors contesting the election of Democrat Lloyd P Todd. Canvass shows Todd ahead by 114 votes amid alleged misconduct by election judges. Oxford Rebekah lodge elects Anna Kienk noble grand for six months with Lottie Cook Vivian Eddy and Vers Rapp as other officers.
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Ecial
Pondependeng
Charles PF. Raffauff
Buchanan County
Board of Supervisors
Lloyd P. Todd
Todd
Oxford
Anna Kienk
Rebekah Lodge
Lottie Cook
Vivian Eddy
Vers Rapp
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