Des Moines Reads Names of Fourteen Appointees
AP dispatch notes fourteen gubernatorial appointees will be sent to the state senate before spring recess. Gov Clyde L Herring says the slate will exclude current holders as the state moves toward a broad personnel change following the election. Appointments may be temporary as boards and departments consolidate after the Brookings survey. Herring says selections will be based on ability, not party, potentially crossing party lines.
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DES Moines
Senate
Clyde L
Herring
Wednesay
Brookings
State House
Brookings report triggers new governor appointments
The Brookings study prompts the governor to submit names for fourteen major posts and several examiners and officers. Incumbents’ terms expire and new appointees will assume office on July 1 with Senate confirmation. Positions include budget director health commissioner labor commissioner and multiple board seats across agencies.
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Senate
Board of Assessment and Review State Printing Board
Board of Parole
Board of Control
Highway Commission
Fish and Came Commission
Board of Education
Perry Rate Case Heads To Court After City Rate
The Iowa Electric Light and Power company says the lower electric rate adopted by Perry City Council is confiscatory and will seek an injunction to halt enforcement. The new schedule charges 74 cents for the first fifty kilowatt hours, 6 cents for the next fifty, 4 cents for the next hundred, and 3 cents for all over 200 kilowatt hours. Negotiations between company representatives and council members lasted two weeks before action.
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Perry
Iowan Electric Light and Power Company
Grundy Center Set Vote On Telephone Franchise
Grundy Center council calls an election for March 27 on a community telephone exchange after granting a committee permission to seek a franchise. The move follows a rural patrons drive for lower rates as the Iowa State Telephone company franchise was not renewed.
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Garett Grundy Center
Dorcas Society displays 900 piece friendship quilt block
Mrs. Steven Stastny presented a 900 piece quilt block at a Dorcas society meeting. Her daughter Viola made the piece and earned the contest prize. Second prize went to Miss Gladys Holeis for a 789 piece block.
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Ely
Dorcas Society
Steven Stastny
Viola
Gladys Holeis
Bandits Routed By Gunfire In Des Moines Robbery
Two would be bandits, George L. Zugg and Archie Hoggett, were routed by gunfire when they attempted a Cotton Cafe hold up in Des Moines and were captured after a five mile chase. They demanded money from Anthony Bumpiler and fled as police observed the incident. In a separate Des Moines case Ernest Moore, a dairy clerk, was robbed of about 1200 dollars after being forced to drive the robbers to a city location and open the office safe. Descriptions and details of the suspects and the false safe combination were reported by UP.
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Des Moines
INS
George L. Zugg
Archie R Hoggett
Anthony Bumpiler
Ernest Moore
Fivm
Moore
Manchester Employees Take Voluntary 10 Percent Cut
Manchester city council heard a proposal for a voluntary ten percent salary reduction effective March 1 from City Engineer Victor Collard Marshal John Mitch and Night Officers Larry Pride and Paul Pride The measure aims to extend wage relief and suggests other city workers may follow The council has already cut the city levy from $38000 in 1929 to $15000 for the current year The meeting adjourned to Friday to consider the Town Electric Company's bid to supply water pumping power at a lower rate.
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Manchester
Victor L. Collard
John Mitch
Larry E. Pride
Paul Pride
Town Electric Company
Democrats Move Toward Beer Legalization in Iowa Legislature
In Des Moines a Democratic majority acts to repeal and modify state prohibition. A beer bill in both chambers would permit licenses for manufacture and sale with 3.2 percent maximum alcohol content, revenues split between the state general fund and local school funds, and penalties defined. A caucus plans to draft repeal legislation and push for a constitutional convention.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Assembly
Senate
House
Democratic
Senate Caucus
Hartman
Matt D Cooney
O J. Ditto
Sibley
Nelson G. Kraschel
Congress
State General Fund
Jurors Drawn In Delaware County For March Term
Delaware County district court appointed grand and trial jurors for the March term beginning March 13 with Judge George W. Wood presiding. Grand jurors include Manchester Arthur Ludley Will J Nieman and others from Dyersville Dundee Delhi Greeley Ryan New Vienna and more. Trial jurors from Manchester Greeley Oneida Sand Spring Dyersville Delhi Earlville Edgewood Ryan Hopkinton Strawberry Point Dundee Masonville Coggan Colesburg Worthington and surrounding towns were listed.
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Manchester
Court House
Delaware County District Court
George W. Wood
Waterloo
Arthur Ludley
Will J. Nieman
Dyersville
Norton Arens
Henry Fangmann
Dundee
Henry Bell Hopkinton
Herman J. Dunlap
Dan Sullivan
Delhi
B. J. Davis
Greeley
John Harris
J. W. Matthews
Ryan
Dan Lyness
New Vienna
Anton Roling
Dan L. Barne
Sam Milroy
Charles Baker
Emma Klaus
E. E. Ryan
Henry Wiley
James R. Wilson
William B. Armstrong
E. A.gurke
Oneida
Henry Anderson
Charles F. Kimber
J. J. Moser
Sand Spring
Stanley Bright
J R. Guthrie
Dyersvile
John Bildstein
Joe Thole
Ollie Cramer
George Green
Glen Petton
Dora Wilson
Chester Wilson
Ralph Hyde
Earlville
Francis Carty
Norton
J. Klaus
Lillian Kahl
Roy Lammers
E. G. Thorpe
Walter Zirtzman Edgewood
Francis Funk
August Meyer
Lucretia Shaffer
Ryan — Grove Flanigan
Herman Hartman
Hopkinton
Cortland Appleby
Henry Himes
James E. Littlefield
Harry Smith
Lillian Mac Donald
Joe Swanson
H. L. Stead
Josephine Smith
D. H. Thompson
G. L. Tibbitts
Strawberry Point
Ed Hebron
John Herrin
Levi Lehman
Masonville
J. E. Lane
Coggan
Joe Mahoney
Colesburg
M. L. Kirschbaum
Worthington
John L. Kramer
Earlville Couple Celebrates Golden Wedding Anniversary
Earlville Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Kenny mark fifty years of marriage with a Wednesday evening gathering at their Earlville home. Cyrus is 70, Mollie will turn 70 in April. Married near Earlville in South Fork township, they farmed south of the town for 33 years before moving to Earlville 17 years ago. They have three children Henry of Manchester, George of Earlville, and Mrs. Fred Voleschow of Oneida, plus three grandchildren Marie and Arnold Kenny of Manchester and Mrs. Howard Holt haus of Greeley.
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The
Gazette
Earlville
Cyrus Kenny
Henry
Manchester
George
Fred Voleschow
Oneida
Marie
Arnold Kenny
Howard Holthaus
Greeley
Cornell Writing Contest Draws Nearly 675 Manuscripts
Nearly 675 entries were filed in Cornell college English department for the Midwest high school contest sponsored by the Cornell English club. Manuscripts came from 119 high schools across Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Prizes totaling 30 dollars will be awarded and winning prose and poetry will be published in the March issue of the Husk literary magazine. Judges included Prof. Clyde Tull, Mrs. Jewell Bothwell Tull, and Miss Winifred Mayne.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Midwest
Cornell English Club
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Cornell College Husk
Clyde Tull
Cornell
Jewell Bothwell Tull
Winifred Mayne
Iowa Night Observance Set For March 13 at University
The University of Iowa which dates from an 1847 act marks its eighty six year anniversary with a March 13 celebration chosen for better broadcasting. Charles H. Maruth, assistant registrar, is chairman of the organizing committee. Alumni groups in Iowa and elsewhere will hold ceremonies.
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Iowa
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Charles H. Maruth
Decorah Chamber picks Baker to lead again
Decorah Chamber of Commerce elects W. F. Baker to a renewed term as president. B. B. Amundsen is first vice president, B. Akerman second vice president, E L Amundsen secretary, and E R Haines treasurer. A Tipton dresser fire at Mrs S L Galbraith’s home damages the dresser and wall plaster, quickly controlled by local firefighters.
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Decorah Chamber
Decorah
W. F. Baker
Decorah Chamber of Commerce
B. B. Amundsen
B. Akerman
E L. Amundsen
E. R. Haines
Tipton
S. L. Galbraith
Man Draws Revolver in Crisco Court Panic Ends Arrest Ready
In Cresco Howard county district court a demented man named Wenzel Jestrab drew a revolver, threatening to shoot. Judges and jurors ran for cover as deputies confronted him. A witness named John Hodeina and Sheriff Johnson coordinated a paper settlement, leading to Jestrab signing and being overpowered. He was jailed for a hearing on the incident.
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Jestrab
Kollaf Johnson
Taylor
Johnson
Will Owen
John Hodeina
Hodeina
Van Horne Man Arrested On Liquor Charge
Glenn Willey, 32, of Van Horne, arrested by county and local officers on illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. He remained jailed in default of a $600 bond after a pool hall arrest. three half pints found with him and another half pint at his home. Arraigned before Mayor Reinhardt, held for grand jury.
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Vinton
Glenn Willey
van Horne
Willey
Nile Morena
Walter Smith
Marshal Herzberger
Oscar Reinhardt
Brenton to Join Northwest Bancorporation in Move
W H Brenton president of the Iowa Des Moines National Bank and Trust Co was named vice president of the Northwest Bancorporation headquartered in Minneapolis He will begin March 1 Horton current vice president at the local bank will become executive vice president in charge of the Des Moines institution Brenton will supervise operations and training of bank personnel under the Bancorporation
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Des Moines
W. H. Brenton
Iowa-Des Moines National Bank and Trust Company
Northwest Bancorporation
Minneapolis
Herbert L. Horton
Bancorporation
Brenton
Washington hailed as intellectual beyond schooling
Special to The Gazette from Iowa City reports Prof W Ross Livingston of the University of Iowa says many educated men today are not half the man George Washington was. Education does not make the man, he claims, noting Washington was highly intelligent yet not boastful nor a sociable “hail fellow well met” type who tolerated neither familiarities nor flattery.
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Iowa
George Washington
W. Ross Livingston
University of Iowa History Department
Livingston
Washington
Iowa City Taxpayers Plan Further Meetings
After a brief open forum, the Iowa City Taxpayers association decided to omit each following meeting to discussion of a single phase of the tax reduction problem. The next meeting on Feb. 28 will consider the amount Iowa City should pay in taxes for county purposes.
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Iowa City
Iowa City Taxpayers Association
Yowa City
Decision On Natural Gas Case Expected In Weeks
DES MOINES AP After lengthy disputes and four delays the petition of Natural Gas Pipeline Co of Chicago to supply gas to twenty southeast Iowa cities remains unsettled before the railroad commission. A decision is not expected for several weeks as briefs are filed and objections are heard in Cedar Rapids. The proposed lines would serve Washington Burlington Fort Madison Keokuk Mount Pleasant Centerville Oskaloosa Albia Cedar Rapids Malvern Clarinda Osceola Chariton Ottumwa Fairfield Iowa City and Sigourney. OELWEIN J L Feemster named president of the Elwein Country Club and H M Hints re elected secretary treasurer. Mr and Mrs C D Knapp of Marion re employed as caretakers of the grounds and club house.
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Des Moines
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of
Chicago
Iowa
Railroad Commission
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Washington
Burlington
Fort Madison
Keokuk
Mount Pleasant
Centerville
Oskaloosa
Alebia
Cedar Rapids
Malvern
Clareinda
Osceola
Chariton
Ottumwa
Fairfield
Iowa City
Sigourney
Oelwein
J. L. Feemster
O¢elwein
H. M. Hints
C. D. Knapp
Marion
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