Marion High Declamatory Contest Set for Monday Evening
Marion high school announces a home declamatory contest Monday at 8 p.m. in Lincoln school auditorium directed by Miss Margaret Schrubbe with Mrs. F. W. Orr of Cedar Rapids as critic judge. The program opens with a boys quartet under Miss Rose Wilcox and features oratorical dramatic and humorous divisions with listed selections and performers.
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Marion High School
Lincoln School
Margaret Schrubbe
F. W. Orr
Cedar Rapids
Rose Wilcox
Blanche Hamm
Vincent Hart
Richard Schaefer
Kirk Snell
Helen Biddick
Kent Finger
Ruth Murray
Marion Republicans set caucus to elect county delegates
Marion Republicans and committeemen will meet Monday at 7 30 p m in city hall to elect delegates to the county convention on February 21. Several wards list their committee members and events include church meetings and charity drives across the community.
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Marion
First Ward
Elmer Seevell
Key Snyder
W. Lothian
Grace Bleakly
Ralph Seager
A. R. McElwain
Mary Stitzel
Marion Lodge
A. F
A. M
Masonic Temple
Milwaukee Railroad Women’s Club
Memorial Hall
Father and Son Banquet to be Held at Methodist Church
Dr Samuel Garvin of the University of Dubuque theology department will speak at the annual father and son banquet sponsored by the Methodist Men's Brotherhood on Wednesday at 6 30 p m in the church dining room His topic is Americas Second Line of Defense Other program features include Cyrus Metcalf quartet Cedar Rapids group singing and dinner hour music Tickets are on sale via ticket chairmen A A Schenken and George Burns or at Iowa Electric Light and Power Co men and boys of the city are invited Tickets sold for 200 expected Tickets should reserve early
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Samuel Garvin
Department of Theology
University of Dubuque
Methodist Men’s Brotherhood
Garvin
America
University of Dubugque
First Presbyterian Church of
Colorado Springs
Fred Newlin
L. O. Dickey
Clarence Reiter
Howard Titus
John Raymond
C. A. Bradley
D. H. Smith
Ladies Aid Society of the Church
Engagement and Various Club Notices in Marion
Mrs John C Smith of 1263 Tenth street announces the engagement of daughter Dorothy to Donald Brooks of Los Angeles formerly of Marion with marriage planned in March in Los Angeles. Community groups report meetings postponed or scheduled today and in coming days across churches lodges camps and service clubs in Marion.
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John C. Smith
Tenth Street
Dorothy
Donald Brooks
Los Angeles
Marion
O. O. P. Club Postpones Meeting and Upcoming Programs
The O. O. P. club postponed Tuesday’s meeting. The next gathering on March 3 will be at Mrs. J. J. Wallace with Mrs. Carlton Owen and Mrs. Mary English leading the program. Miss Lenora Dippel attends Iowa State Teachers College and travels to Denver for a Rocky Mountain speech conference.
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Karl Kendall
Ameigo Club
J. J. Booth
Booth
O. O. P. Club
J. J. Wallace
Carlton Owen
Mary English
Lenora ,Dippel
Iowa State Teachers College
Denver
Farmer Feeds 700 Pheasants on Local Land
Sam Henkeling, a farmer near Cylinder, tends a flock of 700 pheasants daily. The Emmetsburg Izaak Walton League president Sam Boies notes the conservation effort as pheasants feed along Cylinder creek with scattered corn.
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Cylinder (Ap
Sam Henkeling
Sam Boies
Emmetsburg
Izaak Walton League
Cylinder Creek
Henkelvig
Buck Creek Pastor Seeks State Office
The Rev. H. E. Morrow of Buck Creek Methodist church in southeast Delaware county announced his candidacy on the Republican ticket for the Indiana lower house. He seeks to succeed Rep. Martin J. Gaughen of Greeley, the Democratic incumbent. Morrow, born in Grundy County, attended Iowa State College, Garrett Biblical Institute, worked in Mexico, and has pastored Center Point, Kenwood Park, Monona, and Buck Creek since 1919 while operating a 16 acre farm.
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Manchester
H. E. Morrow
Buck Creek Methodist Church
Delaware County
General Assembly
Ind
Garrett Biblical Institute
Chicago
Mexico
Board of Foreign Missions
Mr. Morrow
Center Point
Kenwood Park
Monona
Buck Creek
Marriages and lodge officers reported in Iowa brief
Indpendence and Edgewood items note weddings in Independence area with Carl Emry and Lucille McCanta to live in Wilson Oklahoma and Orville Armstrong with Dorothy Foland marry in Independence. Also I O F and Rebekah officers installed in Arlington district and Edgewood mail delays affect deliveries with extra carriers used.
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Independence
G. A. Emry
Carl A. Emry
Wilson
Okla
Lucille McCanta
J. F. McCanta
Woodford
Emry
Independence High School
Southeastern Teachers College
Oklahoma
Arlington
H. G. Oleson
West Union
Robert McLeish
Maynard
Rebekah
Odd Fellows
N. G
Dean Wescott
V. G
Edward Hutchinson
Daryl Ross
H. T. Hutchinson
Jay Read
I. G
Chester Vogelsang
O. G
Max Winkler
Will Anderson
Charles Squires
LeRoy Ward
Vern Northrop
Rebekahs
Annetta Hutchinson
Harriet Little
Elma Ross
Christine Ruble
Laura Hendrickson
Myrtle Gordon
Vera Meyers
E. R. Todhunter
Rube Paul
Ernie Putman
Wilson David
J. W. Ruble
Anne Derflinger
Maude Barnes
Mary Leidunguth
Jeanetta Todhunter
Orpha Perkins
Orville Armstrong
William Armstrong
Dorothy B. Foland
George Foland
Methodist Parsonage
Floyd H. Weed
Fred Ulm
Edgewood
Carl Rizer
Alton Rizer
Wood
Dorothy McNeal
Earl McNeal
Garber
Warren Feller
Joseph C. Collins
Littleport
Eileen McNeal
Myrtle Smith
Fayette Camp Fire Girls Decorate Room for 86th Church Anniversary
Camp Fire girls at Fayette Methodist Church decorate a room with Indian moon signs for each month under guardian Mrs. Carl Masters as Fayette’s church marks its eighty six years. Scouts of Fayette Troop No 31 celebrate 17 years of activity with John D. Clinton as scoutmaster and trophies from Hoover and Roosevelt streams.
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Fayette
Boy Scouts
Towa
Camp Fire Girls
Boy Scouts of
Camp Fire
Fayette Methodist Church
Carl Masters
Guardian
Tilene Wooldridge
Janet Koebel
Ber
Nice Campbell
Juanita McLease
Roberta Brown
Joyce Lund
Betty June Strayer
Benny Lund
Carol Carter
Marjorie Masters
Merle Thompson
Iowa
Waterloo
John D. Clinton
Hoover
Roosevelt
Japanese religious reformer Kagawa to speak at Mt. Cont.
The article profiles Kagawa who lived in Kobe slums, endured hardships, and founded labor and farmer classes in Japan. It notes his role in Osaka Tokyo social welfare, seven movement forms, and his stance as an economic pacifist organizer for the National Anti War League while living modestly outside Tokyo with his family.
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Kagawa
Japan
Kobe
America
Princeton
Japanese Federation of Labor
Tokio Social Bureau
League of Nations
Tokio
Church Workers Convene in Monona Meeting Set for Monday
Special to The Gazette reports a Clayton county institute for church school workers planned at Monona Monday. The superintendent's duties and lesson preparation are the main topics. O G Herbrecht state secretary for young people's work will represent the Iowa State Council of Religious Education, under no auspices the institute is held.
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Gazette
Eleader
Clayton County
Monona
Jessons
O. G. Herbrecht
Iowa State Council of Religious Education
Co Ed Defies Cold Living In Auto Trailer Home
Miss Kathryn Hintgen of Buena Vista College and roommate Leona Siebing stay in a rear yard auto trailer to endure a century cold. Kathryn refuses dormitory invitation, saying she will stick it out, while Leona returns to George Iowa.
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Storm Lake
INS
Kathryn
Hintgen
Buena Vista College
Leona Siebing
George
Leona
Takes All Afternoon: To Find 6 Jurors In Oneida
The Oneida jury trial of Callahan in a 0.975 damage suit by Al Scherrer stretched from afternoon into evening as six jurors were selected. Callahan claimed mechanical trouble caused the parked truck and Marion Faber’s car then struck the truck with Scherrer aboard.
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Oneida
Manchester
Callahan
al Scherrer
Couple At Manchester Wed Fifty-Eight Years
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Barry marked their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary in Manchester. Family members including Dr. Walter Barry and Mrs. Joseph OConnor joined the reunion. the couple, born in Connecticut and Bankston Iowa, wed at St Clement church in 1878 and farmed in Prairie township before retiring in 1924.
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Manchester
W. H. Barry
Walter Barry
Dyersville
Joseph O'Connor
Masonville
Joseph Doyle
Dubuque
Loretta Duffy
Manning
Estella Barry
Barry
West Meriden
Conn
Catherine Quirk
Bankston
St. Clement Church
Prairie Township
Trial of Riverton Murder Case Resumes Monday
Sidney reports the Charles Brown murder trial from Riverton Ia will resume Monday with a jury of two women and ten Fremont county farmers. Jurors seated at Sidney hotel include Minnie Rose Etta Hartman John Kingsolver Elmer Leffler L H Jackson W H Bigman Percival C L Finley D A Boyer Russell Rector Benzel Bugger Blake Strait and Bruce West. Brown allegedly killed William Mawder after an argument over Mawders alleged intimate relations with Browns daughter while she was his housekeeper.
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Sidney
Charles, Brown
Sioux City
William Mawder
Riverton
Fremont ‘County
Sidney Hotel
Minnie Rose
Etta Hartman
Pharman
John Kingsolver
Elmer Leffler
L. H. Jackson
Shucks Continue Debate Over Creamery Pricing Practices
A dairy board laments unjust pricing by creameries harming local businesses. They urge adherence to Chicago and New York market prices, argue against higher home prices, and warn of wasted spending on advertising. The speaker questions feasibility and vows to act if needed.
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Creamery Board
Chicago
New York
Farm Editor Admits Error in Snowbound Edition
The Gazette acknowledges a circulation error in the snowy edition with wrong walnut price figures from Batavia. Central meat prices shift after hog tax repeal with New York and Chicago retail prices showing declines and minor changes through January 31.
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Center
New York City
New York
Supreme Court
Chicago
Doctor summoned to Long Beach for ill father in law
Manchester reports Dr. R. L. Van Voltinbergh has been summoned to Long Beach California due to the serious illness of his father in law Rev. E. R. Leamon a well known local pastor. He and Mrs. Leamon had left for the coast weeks ago for the winter.
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Manchester
R. L. van Voltinbergh
Long Beach
Calif
E. R. Leamon
Leamon
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Pilgrim
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Walter Staves
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Robert Mitchell Woman's Relief Corps
Myrtle Snyder
Eleventh Street
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D. R. McCreery
Alburnett
Grace Fernow
Daytona Beach
Florida
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Milwaukee
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R. J. Kendall
Willis Jordan
Robert Bickel
Marion Nature and Garden Club
Theristrial Club
George C. Oxley
Eighth Avenue West
Josephine Whitacre
Ladies Aid Society
the Methodist Church
Loyal Division
W. J. Fleischer
22Nd Street
Alhambra
Charles I. Wilson
Clarence Wilson
Lois
P. O. Michel
C. G. Schultz
Harold Mullaly
le Roy Benedict
C. K. Linge
Lions Club
Michel Tea Room
North Marion
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QO. M .Carson
Electa
King’s Daughters
Woman's Progressive Club
Dry Creek
H. F. McCalley
Fidelis Circle of the
Frank J. Hardenbrook
North Twelfth Street
Children’s Hospital
Iowa City
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Grove City
Rebekah Lodge
Geraldine
Muriel Gordon
Sixth Avenue
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Dale Peterson
Margaret Jacobs
Zollars
Jessamine Rundquist
Roy Houser
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Charles Benedict
Catherine Heffron
Dorothy Cherry
Wyona Carey
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Central Avenue
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F. L. Jaggard
Congo District
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Winicket
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Ralph Hall Collis
Kathryn McElwain
Epworth League of the Methodist Church
Excelsior Agriculture and Literary Club
C. R. Creglow
W. S. Winter
Cary Club
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
W. F. Kruger
Walter Kruger
Walter Reinsch
Martin's Creek
Ladies Aid and Missionary Societies of the Presbyterian Church
J. F. Hunter
North Tenth Street
W. E. Fisher
Dorothy Smith
Qwen Fernow
Africa
Sherman A. Fontaine
Hunter
Marie Ewald
Reading Circle
H. O. Young
Addie Shumack
Robert Cessford
Iowa News
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DeWitt Clinton
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Don Neuenschwander
Kenneth Mangold
Bob Burdick
Bob Welch
Bob Wilson
Eugene Carter
Roehm Sexton
John Kappmeyer
Lester Bass
Scoutmaster
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Vern Proctor
Allan Payne
Merle Butts
Yokohama
Dumb Farm
Gazette Farm
Batavia
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