Iowa Reports Decline in State Fire Loss in 1937
State Fire Marshal J. Vincent Pyle reported Iowa’s 1937 fire loss at 4 337105 dollars with 5932 fires. Iowa City faced the heaviest city loss at 450806 dollars. Sixty one deaths occurred, mainly from kerosene and gasoline use, with daily fires averaging 24 and per-fire loss around 83712 dollars. Nationwide losses rose.
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Des Moines
Iowa
J. Vincent Pyle
Remsen
Ovens
Mount Pleasant
Iowa City
Pyle
Death notices Ray Hammond drowned off California coast
Wapello mourns Ray Hammond 41 son of Ida Hammond drowned near Huntington Beach California. Survived by wife a California girl mother Ida Hammond two sisters Mrs M B McNeil and Mrs Nellie Winder both of Wapello and a brother Howard Hammond of Washington Indiana. He worked twenty years for Standard Oil and was a 1915 graduate of Wapello High School.
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Wapello
Ray Hammond
Ida Hammond
Huntington Beach
Calif
California
M. B. McNeil
Nellie Winder
Howard Hammond
Washington, In
Quarantine at Cedar Falls Fraternity for Smallpox
Twenty Town State Teachers College students were quarantined in the Lambda Gamma Nu house after a fraternity brother was diagnosed with smallpox. Ralph Isbel of Stockton Illinois is being treated in a hospital while college and city health officials isolate other members.
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Cedar Falls
State Teachers College
Lambda Gamma Nu
Ralph Isbel
Stockton
Fraternity Brothers
Manchester Couple Celebrates Golden Wedding Anniversary
Manchester Mr. and Mrs. John Eigenberg mark fifty years of marriage with family gatherings at their Manchester home. He is 77, she 70, born in 1860 and 1867 respectively, with four children George Frank and Arthur Eigenberg of Dubuque and Mrs. Fred Hosier of Dundee.
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Manchester
John Eigenberg
Eigenberg
Bremen Township
Delaware County
Delhi
Robert Goldsworthy
Hopkinton
McConnell
Delaware County Telephone Company
Eastern Star
Miami University
Oxford
Vinton
Elsa Demmel
Henry Demmel
Cedar Township
Mount Auburn
Harold Heaton
Maple Park
Trinity Lutheran Church
Theodore Schliepsick
Lorraine Demmel
Kenneth
Joseph Breja
Vining
Maynard
Marie Spragg
Hazleton
Homer Miche
Presbyterian Parsonage
Charles Rabenberg
Eleanor Warnke
Floyd Miche
Jean Burdine
Martha Jane Dawson
Elizabeth Griner
Dorothy Harris
Patricia Lenaghah
Virgil Linder
Ruth McCombs
Dorothy Pfannebecker
James Shepherd
Laura Morris
Geneva Stroble
Gertrude Osweiler
Hazel Lown
C. G. Snakenberg
Billie Plank
Roy Miller
Charles Winegarden
Henry Faust
John May, Jr
H. H. Palmer
Earlville
Earlville Methodist Church
Henry Eichacker
Akron
Will Jenkins
Elmer Faust
Delaware
Ray McGregor
Hartington
Neb
Alta Rembe
Bvylon Faust
Clarence Faust
Iowa City
Howard Faust
Raymond Faust
Minnie Lillibridge
Edgewood
Andrew
Frank Faust
James Faust
Wellman
J L. Stoddard
Paul Hann
Mr. Stoddard
Norwich
Conn
Daytonville
William Stoddard, Jr
Russell Elliott
Center Point
Ore
Oneida
Frances Diesch
Ross Jones
Oneida High School
Marjorie Rector
Orville Offerman
F. L. Gannon
Oxford Junction
Lilac Camp
Royal Neighbors
Grace Stuhr
Blanche Fifield
Grace Burian
Mary Mulvihill
Bess Harms
Tillie Pashek
Berniece Hanwardsen
Clara Claussen
Inner Sentinel
Sylvia Long
Outer Sentinel
Tillie Shedek
Lillian Bees
Rose Karada
Clara Rogers
Marengo
Sophia Wiese
Amelia Misbach
Sophia Rieck
Wiese
Germany
United States
Henry W. Wiese
Sumner Township
Iowa
Kenwood Park
Misbach
Gus Wiese
Plover
Wis
Ella Langlass
Lew Wiese
Hartwick
Congregational Church
William ¥. Williamson
Williamson
Washington To Vote On 96500 School Building
Washington voters are to decide on February 28 a bond issue of 96500 to build an elementary school replacing the 1884 Heights grade building. The planned 300 pupil capacity school marks the start of a plan to replace four old grade buildings with two modern fireproof structures to cut maintenance and costs. Election officials are Glenn Mace, Ralph W. Thompson, and C. W. Tucker, with a 60 percent majority required.
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Washington
Washington School Board
Heights
Glenn Mace
Ralph W. Thompson
C. W. Tucker
Music Contests Planned Across Northeast Iowa
Charles City High School principal Harry M. Clark announced sub district music contests for March across five northeast Iowa centers Cresco Waverly West Union East Waterloo and Anamosa with managers named for each site. Sub district events run March 17 to 19 at three sites and March 25 to 26 at two others. The district contest is slated for April 7 to 9.
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Charles City (Ap
Harry M. Clark
Charles City High School
Northeast Iowa
Iowa State Music Association
Cresco
David J. Robbins
Waverly
J. H. McBurney
East Waterloo
Fred J. Miller
West Union
Marvin T. Nodland
Anamosa
G. B. Kinser
John Frederick seeks mandamus to reinstate road patrolman
John Frederick of near Cedar Bluff, a World War II veteran, filed in district court Monday for a writ of mandamus to compel the Cedar county board of supervisors to reinstate him as road patrolman. He alleges he was released in mid December without a hearing and seeks benefits under the soldiers preference act.
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Tipton
John Frederick
Cedar Bluff
Cedar County Board of Supervisors
Frederick
Army Captain Killed In Des Moines Crash
DES MOINES AP Capt Earl L Downing 46 formerly Shenandoah died of injuries after a car train collision that killed Capt Hale E Moore 52 formerly Boone Both men stationed at Fort Des Moines served as Army inspectors for the Civilian Conservation Corps covering seventeen counties The wreck occurred when their car was struck by a Great Western train at S W Ninth Street and the Raccoon river bridge Moore died on arrival from a crushed chest Downing suffered facial cuts
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Des Moines
Earl L. Downing
Shenandoah
Hale E. Moore
Boone
Fort Des Moines Army Post
Civilian Conservation Corps
Downing
Great Western
S. W. Ninth Street
Raccoon River Bridge
Moore
Groundhog Day Weather Delays Shadow Sight in Iowa
In Des Moines the forecast shows mostly cloudy conditions with snow across Iowa on Groundhog Day. Temperatures will range from 10 to 15 degrees above zero in the north and 15 to 20 above in the south, with snow expected to begin Tuesday night in the west and Wednesday in the east. Roadways were largely normal except central east and southeast, where icy conditions prompted sanding efforts.
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Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Mt. Ayr
Iowa Falls
Dismiss Trial Jurors At Vinton Court Term
In Vinton district court a settlement of 1000 dollars ended two damage suits arising from a February 1936 auto collision on highway 218 six miles northwest of Vinton. Plaintiffs Rubin and Benesovitz settled for 750 and 250 respectively. Alcorn was represented by Tobin firm. Judge Kirkland dismissed jurors after the term. Merle Jones pled guilty to a statutory charge, six months jail, suspended and paroled to attorney Hugh Mossman.
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Vinton
Charles D. Alcorn
S. N. Rubin
H. B. Benesovitz
Minneapolis
Highway 218
Alcorn
Rubin
Benesovitz
Felix Moses
Hugh Mossman
Tobin, Tobin and Tobin
L. J. Kirkland
Merle Jones
Kirkland
Jones
Tenderfoot Badges Presented By Hopkinton Scouts
In Hopkinton Troop 30 Boy Scouts awarded Tenderfoot badges at a candle lit ceremony led by Scoutmaster Douglass Muneeer and assistants Donald Miller Loren Boots Richard Cline and Stanley Steiner. A poplar log drilled with twelve candle holes symbolized the twelve basic laws of Scouting followed by a social hour.
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Hopkinton
Boy Scouts
Troop 30
Douglass Muneeer
Donald Miller
Loren Boots
Richard Cline
Stanley Steiner
Average Taxpayer Begins His Reports
Des Moines reports reveal an average taxpayer who keeps 1938 records but paid no property or income tax in January yet remitted 31.19 to government. His income runs about 185 a month, with 92.50 spent on taxed purchases and 250 plus on liquor from state stores. He rents, spends on gas, cigarettes, and other items, aiming to track monthly taxes throughout 1938.
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Des Moines
The
Gazette
Iowa Daily Press Association
IDPA
Charming for Days At Home Button Front Frock Pattern 4705
Rushed days are in the offing for active housekeepers. Anne Adams presents an easy-to-don coat frock in dimity chambray or tissue-gingham with puffed sleeves and a fitted waist. Pattern 4705 fits sizes 14 through 42. requires 43 1/2 yards 36 inch fabric and 1/54 yard ruffing. send 15 cents for pattern. Also promote The New Anne Adams Book of Spring Patterns with 100 styles. price 15 cents for book, 15 cents for pattern, 25 cents for book and pattern together. Send orders to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department, New York address.
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Anne Adams
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pattern Department
West Seventeenth Street
New York
Blairstown Declamatory Contest Winners Named
Blairstown high school held its fourteenth annual declamatory contest with awards in oratorical, dramatic, humorous and other categories. Judges included J. H. Hill, Mrs. G. A. Ellis and Mrs. Della Gray. coach was Mrs. Paul Evans of Marshalltown.
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Blairstown
Blairstown High School
Shirley Jackson
Marlyn Voss
Phyllis Drake
Ilene Niebuhr
Charlotte Jackson
Marjorie Nicland
J. H. Hill
G. A. Ellis
Della Gray
Marengo
Paul Evans
Marshalltown
Sleepy driving dangers and fatal crashes warned
About 2,000 traffic deaths yearly result from sleepy drivers. Some victims are drowsy while losing control, others actually nap behind the wheel. Resting is fine in bed, but not when driving. Let someone else drive or pull over to nap. Sleepy driving crashes are severe due to lack of defense in a crash.
Geologist Dr Howard E Simpson Dies at 63
GRAND FORKS N D AP Dr Howard E Simpson 63 head of the University of North Dakota geology department and a state geologist died Monday night in a hospital here He was born near Clarence Ia and graduated from high school there He earned bachelor of philosophy and doctor of science degrees from Cornell college and taught in Iowa public schools
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Grand Forks
N. D
Howard E. Simpson
University of North Dakota
Simpson
Clarence
Cornell College
Iowa
Iowa U Students Vote On Co-Op Bookstore Plan
Iowa City campus politics shape a student drive to open a cooperative bookstore. University President Gilmore blocks operation on university property, prompting a student ballot on campus sentiment and possible future plans if interest grows.
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Iowa U
Iowa City
University of Iown
Eugene A. Gilmore
Liberal Students’ Alliance
Iowa Memorial Union
Ann McPhee
Toledo Obits And Notices Chronicle Local Events
Funeral services for Mary E. McAnulty were held in the Henderson chapel with Rev. F. C. Scott officiating. She was a United Brethren member and survived by daughter Else teaching in Elberon. Also noted are resignations, garden club actions, a Toledo wedding, Fire company hospitality, and local civic notices.
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Toledo
Mary E. McAnulty
Henderson Chapel
F. C. Scott
United Brethren Church
Carl Gray
J. E. Stevenson
Cedar Rapids
H. C. Hunnicut
N. R. McAnulty
E. H. McAnulty
Ed Box
Dysart
Absolom
Rebecca Hill
Tama County
Wes McAnulty
Large class awards at Iowa U convocation
At Iowa University's largest mid year convocation 171 degrees and ten certificates will be awarded Tuesday at 8 p m in Iowa Union. Fifty nine BA degrees head the list of ninety six first degrees and thirteen B S in commerce, plus seventy four advanced degrees including thirty seven M A twenty three M S and fourteen Ph D candidates. Dr George H Gallup will lecture. The audience includes eastern Iowa cadets and degree recipients with names listed from Iowa City Cedar Rapids Williamsburg and other towns.
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the Gazette
Spugwa City
University of Iowa
Iowa Union
Bachelor of Arts Desgrees
Commere
WSUI
George H. Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Iowa
Code Regiment
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Ridgeway
Town Daily
Winneshick
Vinton Court
John PD. Zug
Cigaret
Iowa News
Kalona
Joel Gingerich
Atkinson
Gingerich
Jones County
T. E. Watters
C. A. McLaughlin
Castle Grove Township
E. C. Gotch
Martello
Delbert Stingley
Olin
Halisted Carpenter
Monticello
Lee Sherrill
Wyoming
W. H. Buckner
Cass Township
Cc. R. McLaughlin
Alfred Remley
J. E. Remley
Nellie V. Morey
A. R. Embree
Clifford Strawman
Edgar Beach
R. D. Cooley
Decorah
Margaret Ammer
Pearl Rice
Bertha Rice
Frank Bishop
Almoral
Little Brown
Nashua
Martha Timmer
Tommy Bramley
Earlville High School
J. B. Flory
Brethren Church
Liberty Township
Flory
Samuel
Orville
Harold
Homer Caskey
Bennett
Bennett Boy Scout Troop
John Engel
Donald Motz
Robert Hambright
Fred Abraham
Donald Mendrickson
Lowell Bolon
Norman Regenitter
Richard Hambright
Harry G. Carl
John Willison
DAFEY
National Safety Council
Howard Simpson
Clarence, N. D
E. J. Hutchison
Court House
Garden Club
Henry Wilhaur
Ed Gingerich
Harvey Freel
Milo Smith
H. E. Ross
Mildred Eleanor Minard
Earl Minard
Emmett G. Ryan
W. E. Ryan
Hopkinton Fire Company
G. G. Brown
Legion Hall
C. T. Smith
Howard House
A. R. Stanger
Ostrez
May Drug Co
William Horn
Darrell Huff
Frances Huff
Helen Kadlee
Beryl Weekes
Margaret Grisse Marion Hurst
Miriam Shupp
Joh Robert Stansbury
Williamsburg
John Keil
Harriett Off
Belle Plaine
Bernard Sparrowsgrove
Henry Miller Carris
Elkader
David Griffith
Wilton
Robert Mason
Fayette
Barbara Pfeiffer
Waukon
Ruth Webster
Towa City
Frances Jones
John Pelzer
Clyde F. Herring
Felix Pickworth
Morse
Lester Sanger
Harry Dobson
Commerce
Eleanor Balluff
Gu Junis
Genevieve Newman
Independence
Mary Glenny
Mildred Boyd
Elizabeth Crone
Mayzee Regan
Melvin Wren
Delma Harding
Car Moore
Lawrence Phillips
Berendina Smith
Forest Hoglan
Paul Conrad
Dwigl Deardorff
Margaret Hall
Dorthea Miller
Laila Packman
William Furnish
Maquoketa
Glenn Nichols
OWS
Lewis Leeney
Robert Berry
Arthur Canfield Vernon Capen
Richard Healy
Howard King
Donald Neider
Ler Ruppert
Harold Krogh
James Basley, Jr
Charles McClenahan
Sigourney
Melvin H. Witte
Harold Amrine
Edward Myers
Everett Waters
James McGreevey
Frederick Anderson
William Craig
Charles Donohoe
Harold Foerstner
South Amana
Franklin
Eddy
Arlo Gill
Werner
Moeller
John Howard
Fredric Rubins
Wilbur Schindler
Gaylord Watland
St. Joseph
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