Marion clubs plan annual banquet and meetings
Marion service club hosts annual banquet in Memorial hall Monday with elections for 1937 officers, reservations via A McElwain. Lions cancel dinner to attend. Women’s Relief Corps serves. Public invited. Linden County oil firm holds Thursday meeting. other local groups schedule events and birthdays as community notices roll on.
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Marion Service Club
Memorial Hall
A. McElwain
Lions Club
Women’s Relief Corps
Marion
Linn County Cooperative Oil Company
Iasi Bethea
Restore
Charles ‘W. West
R. B. Blinks
Iowa City Woman One Of Nation's Leading Teachers
A reminiscence on modern teaching methods contrasts rote memory with engaging, multimedia lessons. The speaker describes early classrooms lacking inquiry and wonder, urging hands on exploration with lava samples, images, and interactive discussions to spark curiosity about volcanoes and geology.
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Iowa City
Delwein Named For Man Who Gave Land For Town Site
John Cotnam reports Delwein town origins tracing to G A Oelwein who donated 50 acres to establish the town in 1873. The article follows the Oelwein family from Baltimore to Fayette County, remarks on the railroad surveys, founding dates, early postmaster mayor Israel Pattison and the growth linked to the Great Western line. It notes Frederick and Gustav Oelwein marriages to Saxony natives, two streets named for Frederick and Charles, and three living Oelwein daughters Miss Rose, Mrs Krausse, and Mrs Barr on the family farm east of town.
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John Cotnam
Elwein
Frederick Oelwein
Fayette County
Dubuque
Baltimore
Germany
Oelwein
Otsego
Congress
Gustav A
Schmidt
Saxony
Frederick
Gustav
Charles
Charles Oelwein
G. A. Oelwein
Rose Oelwein
Mary Oelwein Krausse
Emma Oelwein Barr
Town
Emma Watkins and the Joy of Teaching in a Welsh Classroom
Emma Watkins inspires pupils with beauty and psalms while reading classic poetry and showcasing Grant Wood paintings. In her first grade room a mother hen hatches eggs, delighting children as they watch the chicken family emerge. At Fy Cartref Llawen she keeps a quiet home filled with old family pieces that charm visitors.
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Emma Watkins
Grant Wood
Miss Watkins
Llawen
Contested Iowa Governorship May Come Today
Gov Wilson faces a Feb 13 filing deadline or 30 days after Kraschel’s inauguration for the gubernatorial contest. If filed, a 14 member legislative recount committee will be chosen by lot, with seven senators and seven representatives. The panel’s composition, likely GOP favored, will be final and unappealable.
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Kraschel
Wilson
Iowa
Senate
House
Golden Wedding Mass Planned Despite Father Ament Ill
Special from Worthington Ia an Archdiocese allowance enables Rev Ernest P Ament to set an altar at the Ament home for a mass honoring Mr and Mrs Ament on their fiftieth anniversary. Mr Ament ill in bed gathers nine children by his side as Father Ament conducts the rites. The couple married January 25 1887 in Worthington and have long been civic and musical leaders in the community. Their children include Leo Hopkinton Herman Worthington Lester Hopkinton Frederick Maquoketa Benjamin Monticello Albert Anamosa and Rev Father Ament Dubuque plus daughters Mrs Frank Baum Cascade and Mrs John Pins Petersburg. Mrs Ament helps care for him as family aids.
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Worthington
Beckman
Dubuque
Ernest P. Ament
Theodore Ament
Father Ament
Columbus College
St. Francis Convent
St. Patrick's Day
Elizabeth Werdel
Oelwein
Ohio
Iowa
Ament
Leo
Hopkinton
Herman
Lester
Frederick
Maquoketa
Frank Baum
Cascade
John Pins
Petersburg
Benjamin
Monticello
Albert
Anamosa
What Cheer Clock Tells Day Month And Hour
Fifty years ago Ferdinand Clemens, a carpenter and blacksmith, built a monumental eight foot clock weighing over 700 pounds with a walnut case and hand carved wheels. The clock uses weights and sand as driving power requiring five men to move it and a continued winding ritual. The piece, now a family heirloom in Altis Clemens hands, sparked plans for restoration and possible placement at What Cheer city hall.
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Ferdinand Clemen
Clemens
Mr. Clemens
Altis Clemens
Kendric Chapel
Walford Church to Dedicate Redecorated Holy Trinity
Francis J. Beckman archbishop of Dubuque will dedicate the redecorated Holy Trinity church in Walford on Wednesday. A pontifical mass at 10 am will begin the ceremony followed by a church blessing and sermon. An evening bazaar and chicken supper with dancing to German Bohemian and modern music will cap the day in Walford on Highway 149, ten miles from Cedar Rapids.
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Walford
Francis J. Beckman
Dubuque
Holy Trinity
Highway 149
Cedar Rapids
University Theater Lighting System One Of World Best
University of Iowa theater uses a modern lighting system with twenty miles of wire controlled from a desk sized control board. The $14,000 setup enables dynamic tone and focus, with a rear control room, cyclorama lighting, and specialized lamps and dimmers. Dramatic arts officials say few theaters match this system.
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University Theater
Robert W. Houston
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Dramatic Arts ‘Department
Alaska
Linnebach
Dramatic Arts Department
Europe
Allamakee County Roads Spend $166 431 in 1936 Report
Special to The Gazette WAUKON According to the annual report of Harry Orr county engineer 166 43163 was spent in Allamakee county during 1936 in construction and maintenance of its county trunk and township roads More than two thirds of that amount was spent on the township roads Road construction on the county trunk system cost 42142 60 and maintenance amounted to 12767 84 On the local county roads 63042 48 was used for construction and 48478 64 for maintenance Permanent bridge construction on county roads cost 17577 94 with 751 61 on the township roads Grading on county roads cost 1511 83 with 23131 20 on township roads surfacing 20787 33 county and 31074 66 township Maintenance of county roads cost 8180 29 township 16015 31
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Waukon
Harry Orr
Allamakee
Allamakee County Road Mileage and Bridge Spending
The county reports no funds spent on bridges for county roads while township road bridges cost 4 497 09. Allamakee has 31 87 miles paved on the primary system with 61 85 miles rock faced and most of the Waukon Postville road black topped. Of the county trunk system 8 64 miles remain un faced and 224 miles are not graded. County rock surfaced roads total 123 06 miles. Township roads total 840 25 miles with 547 miles unimproved.
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Allamakee
Waukon
Postville
Rock Island Prison History and Burials Revealed
A detailed account of Rock Island arsenal prison camps outlines layout, housing 13 000 capacity though never reached, daily life, and escape attempts. It notes 2 500 Civil War soldiers buried in two cemeteries, including about 2 000 Confederates and 500 Union men, with graves marked along the avenue and in Rock Island National Cemetery.
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Ing
Nothstein
Louisville
Rock Island Arsenal
Mississippi River
C. A. Reynolds
U. S. Quartermaster’s Department
le Mnfereolate
Avenue
Rock Island Bridge
Moline
Union
Rock Island National Cemetery
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Ed Ainley
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Andrew Kershner
Harley Erwin
Oxford Club
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Willard Powell
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S. F. Carey
Athenian Club
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Faye Bailey
E. W. Decker
Rockwell City
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Robert Martin
Martin’s Creek
Frank Arnold
Milwaukee Railroad
Cedar Rapids‘ Hospital
Yocom Chapel
Addie Zuck
Emma’ Puterbaugh
Mary 'Searle
Lanark
Sarah Fritz
Morrill
Kan
David
A. R. McElwain
Red Cross
Grove City
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LeRoy Michel
Knoxville, Tenn
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George Whitney
Lillian Stevens
Musical Literary Club
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Hugh Hutton
Tenth Street
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Starled
Lee Fitzgerald
W. S. Campbell
Robert Mitchell
Thelief Corps
Educational Fund
Cotteg
Gram
William McKinley
Ositava
S. A. Fontaine
Jacquelyn Clay
Public Library
Woodgatherer’s Tank
Irene Harris
Pat Benedict
Marjorie Meota
Roberta Vore
Betty Peck
Charlotte Smith
Marilyn Fontaine
Jacquelyn’ Clay
Virginia Boyle
Geraldine Brown
Fontaine
Mildred Etzel
Frank Etzel
Donald Harford
George Harford
C. O. Monroe
Free Methodist
Arthur Lint
Dorothy Etzel
Frank Etzel, Jr
Ninth Street
West Marion
George Knapp
Glenn Hempy
Harold Wood
Maxine O’kelley
Masonic Temple
Cleora Kellams
Oral Crowner
Entre Nous Club
F. A. Shumack
Twelfth Street
Betty Pickerell
Christian Endeavor
Presbyterian Church
Book Club
A. A. Hardin
Ina. Miller
Laura Bailey
F. C. Newlin
Marion Nature and Garden Club
George Hutton
Lula Toms
Quasqueton
B. G. Franck
King’s Daughters
Junior
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Claudia Crawford
Virginia Buchanan
Jean Hebel
First Ward
Pompeii
Delwein
J. B. Bureh
Aments
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Dubuane
Ben Ini
Naina
Indiana State Board of Pharmacy
Retail Crug- Fists Association
Fort Wayne
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Boule
Hutzell
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