Marion Ladies Aid divisions schedule and society notices
Marion church and civic groups announce meeting times and hostesses for the Methodist Ladies Aid divisions including Comforter Gleaners Keystone Loyal Rainbow and Sunshine. Socials, lost dog notice, travel plans, and club events fill a busy community bulletin.
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Methodist Ladies Aid Society
Endeavor
Comforter
Ned Jones
Sixth Street
P. D. McClain
M. W. Courtney
John C. Smith
Tenth Street
Gleaners
Arthur E. Fairhurst
Fifth Avenue
Carmen Bintz
Keystone
George A. Hutchison
Twelfth Street
J. B. Fosdick
R. O. Pinch
Loyal
L. O. Dickey
Forest Blackford
Marvin Edison
Rainbow Division
Octo club hosts Friday picnic luncheon event
The Octo club held a Friday picnic at Mrs. Ralph C Seager's home honoring Mrs. Albert Al baugh of Glendale California a former member Bridge was played with high score won by Mrs Willard Powell Narcissus bulbs from California were given to members Mrs Albaugh received a club gift Helen Burt plans a Cedar Rapids to Chicago weekend to attend the Ice Follies New Year dinner hosts include the Guzzles and several local families plus a list of club meetings and upcoming gatherings around town.
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Octo
Ralph C. Seager
Charles Albaugh
Glendale
Calif
Willard Powell
Helen Burt
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Wisconsin
Independence
Herbert Meister
Harry Schuvincht
James McDonnell
Mids Continent
R. C. Turner
Meister
Buchanan County
Schysvincht
4 County Soils Assn to Elect Directors Friday
East Central Town 4 County Soil Conservation association members will elect directors for 1940 at the annual meeting scheduled Friday at 1 30 p m. A Everitt Hursh of Marengo president announced Saturday in Belle Plaine.
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Belle Plaine
East Central Town
County Soil Conservation Association
A. Everitt Hursh
Marengo
Farm Union Elects New Leaders at Riha Home
Louis Riha was elected president of the Farmers Union Exchange at a recent meeting held at the Riha residence. Mrs. Riha was chosen as secretary and treasurer.
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Ada Peterson
Townsend Club
Jennie Currier
Gertrude Mitchell
Erma Dean
Louis Riha
Farmers Union Exchange
Riha
Former Mare ngo girl opera star rises in Graz and New York
Iowa born soprano Miss Henders, a Simpson college graduate, spent years in Vienna and Prague with Graz Municipal Opera and the German Opera. She joined Graz as leading lyric soprano in 1931, earned 28 curtain calls, Germanized her name, and now navigates New York auditions while cautioning on cafe society.
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Can
New York City
Simpson College
Indianola
Los Angeles
Vienna
Miss Henders
Graz Municipal Opera
Prague
Municipal Opera Company of
Graz
Henderson
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Sudetenland
Rosenkavalier
Leap year worries among state government bachelors in Des Moines
AP reports twenty state government men fear Leap year and election as next year’s two main concerns. Notables include John Zug of Des Moines secretary to Governor Wilson, Rollo Bergeson of Sioux City deputy in the Secretary of State office, and others in liquor, motor vehicle, health and auditor offices across Iowa.
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Des Moines
John Zug
Wilson
Rollo Bergeson
Sioux City
Earl G. Miller
E. F. Brown
Dick Davis
Iowa City
Liquor Commission
James Richards
Eldora
Harold Akers
Marshalltown
William Harvey
Clearfield
Mathew Corcoran
Dale Murphy
Walter Malone
Don Crawford
Cascade
Robert Gernes
Ames
Ray Spatz
Booneville
George Millett
Ottumwa
Charles Bodine
Stratford
John O'Leary
Newton
James Sharon
Bill Schultz
Fort Dodge
Fred Shultz
Hedrick
Charles Campbell
Scotland
France
Genoa
Florence
Reemployed County Agent In Buchanan Meeting
Dale Irwin was reemployed as county agent in Buchanan at the Farm Bureau board meeting. Miss Mary Kane was reemployed as office secretary. Irwin served five years as 4 H club agent and was hired last March after Dallas Western resigned.
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Independence
Dale Irwin
Buchanan
Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Mary Kane
Irwin
Dallas Western
Italy Increases Pig Iron And Steel Output by 1938
Iron production rose from 521444 tons in 1934 to 862829 tons in 1938. Steel output increased from 1849821 tons in 1934 to 2322856 tons in 1938.
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Italy
New Leader Installed for Belle Plaine Rainbow Girls
Marian Holland, daughter of Mr and Mrs Eldon Holland, will be installed as worthy advisor of the Belle Plaine Order of Rainbow for Girls in a 3 p.m ceremony at the Masonic hall. Officers for the term include Helen Palmer as worthy associate advisor Phyllis Hoffman Charity Mary Smith Hope Marian Siefker Faith and others with Mrs Paul Groszkruger as mother advisor and Thais Bernstorf retiring advisor.
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Belle Plaine
Marian Holland
Winifred Miller
Joy Hoffman
Charlene Stettler
Ruth Ann Shields
Jayne Isle
Joyce England
Mary Hunt
Jean Groszkruger
Mary Margaret Beyer
Paula Anderson
Helen Pfingston
Paul Groszkruger
Thais Bernstorf
Iowa Starts Business Census Tuesday Across State
Iowa begins 1940 business census Tuesday with 155 enumerators for western and eastern areas. Ross Ewing in Des Moines and Milo Sedlacek of Cedar Rapids supervise district offices across 46 and 53 counties. Questions cover eating and drinking places and tobacco shops with strict confidentiality and no tax or enforcement purpose.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Ross Ewing
Milo Sedlacek
Cedar Rapids
Dan McEntry
Council Bluffs
Roger Warin
Sioux City
Lloyd Prince
Cherokee
O. J. Ditto
Fort Dodge
J. E. Irwin
Mt. Pleasant
John A. Wallbank
Dubuque
David J. Murphy
Waterloo
Daniel C. Wolf
Mason City
Stanley Comfort
Ottumwa
Fred Cc. Luce
Randalia Youth Tops 4-H Dairy Contest in 1939
Lowell A. Mabon, 15, Randalia, won the state 4-H dairy club record book contest with a 2 year old class record score 99 5. Robert Hansen, Randalia, was 1st in the yearling class with 99.7. Wallace Lang, Brooklyn, won first year book calves with a perfect 100. Over 320 record books entered in the event sponsored by the Iowa State Dairy Association.
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Ames
Lowell A. Mabon
Randalia
Ernest M. Wright
Iowa State Dairy Association
Wright
State Dairy Association
Mabon
Robert Hansen
Wallace Lang
Brooklyn
Tomatoes Trebled By Tear Gas Uplift Says Scientists
At a Columbus AAAS meeting the use of tear gas chloropicrin to fumigate soil and curb bacteria was credited with tripling tomato yields at the Rhode Island station. Fred Crandall and Frank Howard reported 1937 358 percent 1938 and 243 percent gains, noting high costs but potential profitability.
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Columbus
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Rhode Island Experiment Station
Fred K. Crandall
Frank L. Howard
Decorah Museum Grows Into National Attraction With 14000 Items
The Norwegian American Historical Museum in Decorah, begun in 1877, now houses more than 14 000 artifacts attracting visitors from every state. Highlights include Norse jewelry and costumes, a Fort Atkinson replica, full sized ships, civil war relics, and Norse genealogical and literary holdings from 1662 to 1636.
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Decorah
Trondheim Cathedral
Norway
Independence Hall
Dr. Sandvik
Maihaugen
Lillehammer
Fort Atkinson
Harold and
Hans Hamran
Arthur Andersen
Chicago
Oliver Cromwell
Fifteenth
Wisconsin Regiment
Sherman
Telemarken
Winneshirk
Crown Prince
Olaf of
Norwegian Historical Museum
America
South Dakota
Knute Ulrickson
Canton
S. D
Iowa Retail Trade Gains Signaling Economic Upturn
Iowa reports a strong 11 month Des Moines building total of 7.747 million, up from 5.946 million a year ago, and bank debits rising by 58 million. Des Moines clears 1.0268 billion in debts through Dec 1, 1939, vs 968.269 million in 1938. Payrolls rise in nine of eleven months, with job gains across several months. Unemployment compensation falls to 1.5 million from 2.585 million the prior year, as claims drop in 1939.
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Ionar
Des Moines
State of
Iowa
New Year's Day Birthdays for Wanda and Leland Smith
In Manchester Mr. and Mrs. Arlie T. Smith celebrate New Year’s Day as the birthdays of Wanda Marie 14 and Leland Duane 12. Wanda, a high school student, studies voice and sings in glee clubs and church choir. Leland, in seventh grade, dodged a school-year accident when struck by a car. The father and his brother Elmer shared a July 1 birth date.
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Manchester
Arlie T. Smith
Wanda Marie
Leland Duane
Wanda
Arline
Presbyterian Church
Leland
Arlie Smith
Elmer Smith
Rail compensation accounts shift to national board cuts
The report shows aggregated 41,500 against 82,489 the previous year. The drop partly reflects moving all railroad compensation accounts to a national railway board setup, reshaping administrative costs and oversight.
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National Railway Board
Capitol Currents From Des Moines State Notes Rent Taxes and Appointments
Capitol Currents reports Des Moines state rent payments totaling near 100000 dollars annually for relief offices insurance and liquor control spaces with lease changes reducing Mulberry building rent from 30000 to 20000 yearly. It notes nomination papers for Lookingbill to Iowa Senate and describes gasoline tax funds routing into road and farm markets programs. It also covers Governor Wilson vetoes on pay raises with targeted raises for a few clerical staff and a deputy.
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Des Moines
C. Fred Porter
Valley Bank
State Relief
Southern Surety
Insurance Department
Mulberry
Liquor Control Commission
Hampshires Bring High Bids Near Cedar Rapids
Lee O Connell a farmer west of Cedar Rapids sold 40 head of choice Hampshires in Chicago at 5 70 a hundredweight. The hogs averaged 5 70 per hundredweight.
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Lee O'Connell
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Hahns to Observe 55th Wedding Anniversary on New Year
Mount Vernon couple Mr and Mrs H F Hahn mark their fifty fifth anniversary with a family dinner on New Year’s Day. The couple, Linn county pioneers since 1862, have nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Their children include Alma Cooley Clinton Ruth Simmonds and Howard Hahn Cedar Rapids area relatives.
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Mount Vernon
H. F Hahn
Linn County
Alma Cooley
Clinton
Ruth Simmonds
Howard Hahn
Henrietta Hartwig
Edith Townsend
Cedar Rapids
Hazel Chisen
Denver
Colo
Hahns
Hahn
Amos Hahn
Hampton County
Hester Leese
Peter Leese
Lisbon
Reading
Economist Urges Farm Labor Unionization Movement Proposal
Philadelphia report notes Lowry Nelson of the University of Minnesota urged farm labor unionization at the American Farm Economic Society meeting. He argued unemployment migration and low wages demoralize workers and urged inclusion in social security and old age pensions. He cited California and Atlantic coast farm regions as likely beneficiaries.
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Philadelphia
America
Lowry Nelson
University of Minnesota
American Farm Economic Society
Nelson
California
Atlantic Seaboard
Wellman Farmer Traps 44 Foxes This Season
Matt Jaynes a Wellman area farmer reported trapping 44 foxes in Iowa and Johnson counties this season. He turned in 24 pelts to the county auditor and noted seven were caught on a single morning on one farm.
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the Gazette
Washington
Ita
Matt Jaynes
Wellman
Washington County
Jaynes
Iowa
Johnson
Hog cholera vaccination school aids Jones county farmers
Seventy one farmers attended a hog cholera vaccination school in Anamosa sponsored by the Jones county Farm Bureau and built by Dr F W Stouder. Sixty two farmers received state permits from the Iowa Department of Agriculture to vaccinate their own hogs.
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Anamosa
Jones County Farm Bureau
F. W. Stouder
Ames
Iowa Deepartment of Agriculture
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R. A. Crew
Virginia
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W. G. Koppenhaver
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George C. Oxley
Koppenhaver
Frank Larkin
Salt Lake City
Catherine Larkin
James P. Larkin
Adella Hobart
O.E.S
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K. V. Cafe
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Mrs. W. B. Sebern
Patmos Commandery No
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South
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Tillie Buresh
Henry Zak
I.C.C.F
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Milwaukee Railroad Women’s Club
Mutual Benefit
O. W. Lundquist
Margaret Leming
Harry Murphey
Charles Wescott
W. G. Bowen
R. B. Houston
George Barnoske, Jr
Ways and Means
Guy W. Miller
Sherman A
E. E. Parsons
Grace H. Starr
Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society
Owen Fernow
Thirteenth Street
O. M. Carson
Frank J. Cleveland
L. R. Blinks
Keokuk
Mr. Blinks
Mrs. T. L. Bosacker
Jean and
Bill
Mrs. Bosacker
Minneapolis
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G. R. Hagerman
O. O. P. Club
Eleventh Street
Katherine Bogart
Augustus Thomas
John Peter
Carl J. Kassler
Robert Williams
Rodger Hutchison
Jimmie Bailey
Donnie Fairley
Rudy Schenken
Bobbie Williams
Companions Missionary Guild of the Christian Church
M. G. Linkletter
Harold Halstead
D. C. Marchant
Gail Postel
Adeliza Daniels
Priscilla Guild
The
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Emma _ Kendall
Minnie
Metta Whitcomb
Ninth Street
Lawrence Brenneman
Carl Falcon
Arthur W. Henke
Cecil Seger
Monticello
H. P. Bancroft
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Harley Guzzle
E. F. O’brien
Aurora
L. A. Klumph
George Bristol
Marilyn
Mary Lou
Merle Robison
Calvin
Charles Guzzle
Arlene
John Gooley
Robert Donat
Delia Stark
Central City
Lloyd Stark
Rural Garden Club
D. B. Storck
Noble Grands Association
Harry J. Murphey
Charles Granger
H. B. Leasure
Mary Brenneman
la Grange
Ill
Owen Drugstore
Norman J. Waffle
Mr. Waffle
O. G. Waffle
Earl Waffle
Gerald Thomas
Dale
Don
Eugene Newlin
Fred C. Newlin
Fort Wayne, Ind
Indiana Technical Colege
Seventh Avenue
Donald Arp
Mrs
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Moline
Cary Club
J. Lawrence Bigger
Farm Union
Marengo Girl
Europe
Rainbow Girls
Earth Photo
Decorah Museum
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North Dakota
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Koren
Wanda and
Leland Smith
Capitol Currents
John HO Cuapman
Associated Press
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Story County
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Lookingbill
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Overnor Wilson
Hampshires
H, F, Hahn
Wellman Farmer
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