Local men sentenced for poultry theft and auto crime
Ox ford Junction residents Powlishta aged 30 and Koranda aged 19 pleaded guilty to poultry theft from Dr D B Staggs in Monmouth and received 30 day jail terms. Maquoketa defendants Lester Nabb and Frank Shirley pleaded guilty to auto theft without owner consent and drew 15 day sentences. In Tama a church wedding joined Miss Pearl Gearaghty and Lester Pospichal as relatives looked on. In Iowa City Albert Bo Sidwell became president of the Kiwanis club at a Tuesday luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maquoketa
Louis Powlishta
Samir Koranda
Oxford Junction
D B Staggs
Monmouth
Towa City
Albert Bo Sidwell
Iowa City Kiwanis
Sidwell
C M = Updegraff
University of Iowa College of Law
Hasleton Couple Celebrate Their 50th Anniversary
Hazleton Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miguet celebrated their golden wedding at home. Mrs. Miguet Phoebe Katherine Jarrett was born in Otsego and lived there until marriage. The couple, longtime Hazleton residents, have two children Frank F. Miguet of Evansville Indiana and Mrs. Fred Nolan of Cedar Rapids plus two grandchildren. Relatives and friends visited to extend congratulations.
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Hazleton
Henry Miguet
Phoebe Katherine Jarrett
Miguet
Otsego
Here
Milguet
Hazleton Township
Frank F
Evansville
Ind
Fred Nolan
F Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids
Maquoreta
Eleanor Starr
J W. Starr
West of Maquoketa
Meryl G Fields
Jesse S. Fields
Oxford Junction
Ava Marie Starr
Jesse S. Fields, Jr
Geraldine Andrews
Rock Island
Killoren
Maquoketa
Fields
West Liberty
Dorothy Marie Vanatta
George Vanatta
Edward H. F. Voss
Frank Voss
Tipton
W A. Smith
Methodist Church
Donald Anderson
Rochester
Cedar County
Washington—County
Washington County
Washington County Court House
George W. Wallace
Highland Township
Wallace
C. M. Livezey
Wellman
G F. Dold
Coppock
Board of Supervisors
Ethel Grecian
J.R Griggs
West Chester
Walter Boyer
Grinnell
Robert Wilcox
Mount Carroll
Ill
Grinnell College
Donald Soper
Eldora
Central
Wilcox
Soper
Budapest
Hungary
Jeaders
Frank Geyer
Geyer
Val Wagamon
Grant Griffith
Grant Geyer
Gritman honored as town marks eighty second birthday
SPRINGVILLE Special tao The Gazette notes the eighty second birthday of Gritman at his home with Mrs Gritman hosting a dinner. Gritman walks daily to his nearby farm while neighbors and local residents join in celebrations.
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Springville
J. C Gritman
Central City
Hatch
Iowa City
Johnson County
Dr A V Scarborough Dies of Heart Attack at 57
Dr. A V Scarborough head of Oakdale tuberculosis sanatorium for nineteen years died suddenly Monday in Grand Junction from a heart attack. Funeral set Friday at 2 pm at Grand Junction. burial to follow. He also directed the Henrietta Brown Memorial Foundation in Lyons and previously led Sunnyside sanatorium in Indianapolis. Survived by widow, two daughters Miss Erma Scarborough and Miss Dorothy Scarborough, and son Winston. born Pulaski Illinois February 5 1876.
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Pulaski
Ila
Dallas L
Katherine T. Scarborough
Grand Junction High School
Simpson College
University of Iowa
Erma Scarborough
Baltimore
Dorothy Scarborough
Chicago
Winston
Little Brown Church County Gains in Marriage Licenses
In Chickasaw county, home of the Little Brown Church in the Vale, marriage licenses rose 475 percent in 1933 after Iowa repealed the five day marriage notice law. County Clerk Florence Kearns reports 290 licenses in 1932 and 428 in 1933, with a surge to 21 licenses in February after repeal and a peak of 80 in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW Hampton (Lp
Chickasaw County
Little Brown
The
Vale
Iowa
Florence Kearns
Two Children In Serious Condition From Burns In Decorah
Marylin Luren nine year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Luren living eight miles east of Decorah was seriously burned when her dress caught fire from matches handled by other children. Jamie Bakken two year old son of Mr and Mrs Waller Bakken fell backward into boiling water used to clean a chicken and was seriously burned from neck to hips. Hans Ruud Bakken lad’s grandfather fell on the ice and broke a leg. Doctors Svebakken and Larson attended both cases.
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the Gazette
Decorah
Marylin Luren
Lloyd Luren
E. F. Hagen
Jamie Bakken
Waller Bakken
Vitamin A touted as wartime cough remedy
The text claims a strong wartime cough treatment using Primary Vitamin A from Smith Brothers Cough Drops. It describes Vitamin A as nature's defense that boosts resistance and speeds relief from coughs and colds, asserting it prevents reinfection and drives relief fast.
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Enushe
Cotd
Nature Aves
Ssrith Brothers
Delay in Iowa execution for Brewer and Griffin
Elmer Brewer and Patrick Griffin, condemned for the murder of Deputy Sheriff W F Dilworth in Black Hawk county, will not face the hangman as scheduled. Appeals filed mean a formal stay is unnecessary, with hearings set for late February in the Iowa Supreme Court. Both men remain on death row at the state penitentiary in Waterloo.
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DES Moines i
UBP
Orma
Elmer Brewer
Patrick Griffin
B . Garrett
Iowa Supreme Court
Tuesav
W F Dilworth
Black Hawk County
Supreme Court
Garrett
Griffin
Brewer
State Penitentiary
Waterloo
Iown
Professor Boller Shot Dead at Texas Tech
The body of Samuel J. Boller 34 a Texas Tech assistant professor was found in his office in the engineering building. An inquest opened with county and city officials noting the death may have been accidental and a friend cited careless handling of a gun. He leaves a wife two children his parents live in Iowa City. Boller born April 30 1899 in Lone Tree Iowa. He earned a mechanical engineering degree from Iowa in 1922 and taught at Hedrick Oklahoma A and M before joining Texas Tech.
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Lubbock
Tex
Samuel J. Boller
Texas Technological College
College Engineering
Boller
Justice of the Peace J
Connell
Vaughn E. Wilson
Wilson
Ralph Lewis
S. J. Boller
Iowa City
Prof
Lone Tree
University of Iowa
Hedrick
Oklahoma A. and
MacGugin Appointed Wellman Postmaster
Postmaster General James A. Farley named acting postmasters on Tuesday Harry A. Northup Audubon Iowa and Harris D. MacGugin Wellman Iowa Tama Installation ceremonies for the Order of the Eastern Star Tama will be held Tuesday night at the Masonic hall after a 630 dinner Officers to be installed include Worthy matron Mrs W O Cory worthy patron R C Richardson associate matron Mrs George Irwin associate patron William Copp secretary Mrs Ethel Carpenter treasurer Mrs Charles Butterfield conduc tress Mrs Grace Withington associate conductress Mrs Frank Fowler chaplain Mrs Fred Goza marshal Mrs R C Richardson organist Mrs W W Tenhoff Adah Mrs Ben Jones Ruth Mrs Graydon Robeson Esther Lillian Harrison Martha Mrs Orion Schallar Electa Mrs W Bissell warder Mrs H E Fox sentinel E E Ehret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springville
J W. Brown
Fancy Work Club
J. C. Gritman
Elizabeth Gritman
T. W. Pollock
Isaah Pearson
John Patten
R. C. Wilson
Hattie
Minnie
Fred Falcon
Lucy Lacock
Fred
A J. Greenawalt
Charles Calvert
Anna Hodgin
W . Mce- Neilly
John
Rebecca Ellis
Riverside
Leo Edlestein
Iowa City
Joseph
Theresa Edlestein
Illinois
Frank Edlestein
Magdalen
Elizabeth
Ida
Louise
Myrtle
Rose West Liberty
Henry Holst
Here
Holst
Christina Holst
Germany
America
Kansas
Minnie Johnson
Bennett
Scott County
Alma Reiland, Nichols
Norma Sorensen
Erma Holst
West Branch
Leonard Marengo
Everett
Edward
Dorothy Gladys
Mars
May
Lioyd
Emil Holst
Herman Holst
Walcott
Amanda Woods Bennett
Minnie Kramer
California
Wioming
Wyoming
Order
Helen Heath
Grace Dick Marshal
Pearl Rogers
Dora Thomson
Leota Wherry Warder
Lillian Roberts
Sentinel
Charles Rogers
Ada
Mae Peck
Ruth Bernice Bramer
Esther
Dorothy Hubbard
Martha
Isabelle Barber
Electa
Alice Alden
Mars Plate Ner
Howard Gee
TAMA
Enid Elliott
Traer
John F O'Connor
Rock Island Ti
Leo Schulz
Holland, Mich
O'Connor
Amos Elliott
Traer High School
O’conner
Frank Oconner
Order of the Eastern Star of
Masonic Hall
W., O. Cory
R. C. Richardson
George Irwin
William Copp
Ethel Carpenter
Charles Butterfield
Grace Withington
Frank Fowler
Des Moines Sightings Tie Desperado Floyd to Cafe
Police follow up in Des Moines after a waitress identifies a man in a cafe group photo as Charles Pretty Boy Floyd. She recalls a companion whispered the nickname and notes Floyd is known for brazen public appearances despite a nationwide manhunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretty Boy” Floyd
Des Moines
Cafe
Charles
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Six Johnson County Banks Get Insurance
Iowa City reports deposits up to 2500 dollars in six Johnson County banks insured under the new federal insurance corporation. Five banks outside Iowa City and the First Capital State Bank received certificates Monday. Banks named include Solon State, Farmers and Merchants of Lone Tree, First Trust and Savings of Oxford, Swisher Trust and Savings, Lone Tree State, and First Capital State Bank of Iowa City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Johnson County
Federal Insurance Corporation
First Capital State Bank
Solon State, Farmers and Merchants of
Lone Tree
First Trust. and Savings of
Oxford
Swisher Trust and Savings
Lone Tree State
First Capital State Bank of
Walter J. Cummings
The
Federal Deposit Insurance Fund
Kirchoff Ice Harvest Kickoff at Lakehurst
Kirchoff Ice company began harvesting ice at Lakehurst on Tuesday. The layer is ten and a half inches thick and of good quality due to rapid freezing in last week's sub zero weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maquoketa
Kirchoff Ice Company
Lakehurst
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H. V. Scarborough
Oakdale
Mabel Gearaghty
la Crosse
Wis
Pearl Gearaghty
Lester Pospichas
Genevieve Bergman
Sparta
Frank Fitzgerald
Pospichal
St Joseph's High School
St Paul Minn
Central Iowa Business College
Marshalltown
Frank Pospichal
Tama Theaters
Hasleton
Tru-Art
Iowa News
Special Tao the Gazette
Anamosa
Carl Grabbe
George Grabbe
United Brethren Church
Olin
Grabbe
John Westphal
Justus Grabbe
Ed Sieveka
Center Junction
Stanley R Price
H M Price
Indianapolis
Price
Notre Dame
Washington
Floyd Dayton
Howard Disney
Marc Lowery
George Morrison
RH McCarty
Harold Putnam Disney
Lowers
Dayton
Robert Allen W R
Mamie Bailey
Irma Heitzman
Edna Bushek
Carrie Iden
Kate Ingram
Anna Griffin Coard
Rose Lietchter
Fstelle
Man
William Hockaday, Jr
William W. Hockaday
Henry Higman
Ulmer
R. L. Dittman
Hockaday
Manchester High School
Iowa Highway Commission
CCC
Maquoketa Caves State Park
Maynard
Florence Miche
Albert Miche
Orvile Odell
A. J Odell
A. Haferman
Neva Odell
Alden Davis
Randalia
Odell
Jones County
Jesup
J. B. Boldt
Boldt and Meyer
St. Francis Hospital
Frank Freund
Joseph Freund
Wilbur Geyer
Oral Moore
Harry Wagamon
Floyd Griffith
Clarence Morrison
J. E. Wagamon
George Miller
Irvin Goodwin
Ellis Bell
Naomi
Nellie
Dorrance
Leonard Geyer
J. E. Palmer
Ray Jennings
At & Am
Frank Bechly
Montezuma
District Court
Commercial Savings Bank
Charles Schmoeller
George F. Morrison
John Shalla
Anita White
Clarence L. White
Della Little
Earl Little
W. H. Jordan
D. C. Shantz
Jordan
Shantz
Columbus Junction
L. D. Minick
Esther B. Stafford
Jack Troutman
First Methodist Church
James Stafford
Muscatine County
Wapsie Ever Ready
Mary Troutman
Calmar
First Bank of Calmar
Iowan
Grand Jet
H Y ¥. Scarborough
Little Brown Church County
Smith Brothers
Parmmausta
Gary Cooper
Fredric March
Miriam Hopkins
Horton
Noel Coward
Ernst Lubitsch
Hedges Company
Kryptok
H. G. Fussell
Okinow
Tedar Rapids, Ia
MacGugin
James A. Farley
Harry A. Northup
Audubon
Harris D. MacGugin
Wellman, Ta
Smulekoff
Third Avenue West
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