Campaign fund listings mask donors says county official
Iowa law lets trade names stand for contributors and does not require listing individual donors for dummy partnerships in party finance. County Attorney Carl Burkman notes no law compels disclosure of individuals. Birmingham claims earlier receipts from Iowa Democracy and Iowa Democratic club. Partners in Iowa Democracy are Vernon Vierth Eugene Feuling L W Drennen Mrs W O Chatterton John F MacMillan. Iowa Democratic club partners include Charles A Housh Vierth Margaret A McNamara.
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Des Moines
INS
Carl Burkman
Burkman
E. H. Birmingham
Iowa Democracy
Iowa Democratic Club
Iowa
Birmingham
Republican Volunteers
Carl Cook
Vernon Vierth
Eugene Feuling
L. W. Drennen
W. O. Chatterton
John F. MacMillan
Charles A. Housh
Vierth
Margaret A. McNamara
Iowa News In Brief highlights local obituaries and notices
Iowa City poem by Edwin Ford Piper to appear in American Prefaces next issue. Vinton hosts Protestant union service with Iowa School for the Blind choir and string quartet. Lowden attendant Fred Hasch injured at coal chute accident. Sigourney court term begins February 3 with nine divorces filed. Dysart Commercial club elects officers and hears speaker plan. Monticello death notices include Hiram Lee aged 78 and service details. Marengo death of Holly Septer at 53 with family survivors listed. Volga City house fire caused by overheated stove. adjacent pump house saved. Traer to install new turbine pump for water plant. Iowa City foreclosure suit over Nu Sigma Nu house bonds. Belle Plaine death of Charles D. Adams. Shellsburg obituaries for John Nabholz and family survivors.
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Monticello
Hiram Lee
Mr. Lee
Williston
Hiram
Harriet Crocker Lee
Iowa
Sand Springs
Jones County
Carrie Tuttle
Lee
Elmer Lee
Vancouver
B. C
Raymond Lee
Hendersonville
N. C
Dr. W. Cummings
Millersburg
Peter H. Septer
Ladora
Lillian Talbott
T. J
Marengo
Cecil
John
TRAER
Traer Municipal Electric Power Plant
Iowa Citfy
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company of
Cedar Rapids
Nu Sigma Nu Medical Fraternity
University of Iowa
Belle Plaine
Charles D. Adams
Independence Hospital
Adams
North Western Railway
Fire destroys Will home near West Liberty
Mr and Mrs Arthur Will and their three children fled in 25 degree below zero weather as their house two miles north of West Liberty burned Saturday at 6 am Neighbors provided shelter The West Liberty fire department shoveled into the yard and saved nearby structures Few contents were saved with losses estimated at 3500 dollars
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The
Gazette
West Liberty
Arthur Will
Will
Will Farm
West Liberty Farmers Dig Through To Town
Farmers from West Liberty organized digging parties to reach town amid heavy cold. About five to six men with shovels left for town from multiple farms, some driving cars and using sleds, delivering food, coal, and supplies to neighbors.
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West Liberty
The
Gazette
Raymond Owens
Cook
Almost Asphyxiated Operating Snow Plow
Marvin Walton narrowly escaped death Friday morning after carbon monoxide fumes from a snow plow filled the cab. He was hospitalized in critical condition. coworker Tom Osborne had minor effects. BERTRAM school closed for days due to extreme cold and blocked roads.
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Belle Plaine
Marvin Walton
Walton
Herman Janss
Tom Osborne
Bertram—School
Snowplows Enable Physician To Attend Stricken Morley Woman
Morley Iowa: One hour after county road opening by snowplows Mrs. W D Hart 66 suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at midnight Thursday A physician from Olin attended her but she died Saturday at 6 am Survived by sister Mrs Harlan Miller brother Morton Coppess and adopted daughter Mrs Audrey Walker of Chicago Granddaughter Mrs Walter Hoppe was returned home after more than three weeks in a Des Moines hospital Grandson Malcolm Walker was fatally injured two months ago in a collision with a freight train at Olin
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Morley
Here
W. D. Hart
Olin
Hart
Harlan Miller
Morton Coppess
Audrey Walker
Chicago
Walter Hoppe
Ana‘mosa
Malcolm Walker
Delhi School Buses Marooned In Drifts
Delhi workers spent Friday freeing three marooned school buses stalled Wednesday after returning children home. One bus remains in a snow bank west of town as drivers frost their hands dealing with blocked side roads and seven to eight foot drifts. State plow is stuck above Walter Appleby’s farm until it can be shoveled out.
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the Gazette
Delhi
Clayton Sweaney
Evert Faust
B. J. Davis
Walter Appleby
Mrs. Hannah McBroom 91 Dies in Shellsburg
Mrs Hannah McBroom 91 longtime Shellsburg resident died Friday after a long illness Born November 13 1844 in Ohio she moved to Benton county as a child Married Thomas McBroom April 5 1864 He died May 12 1897 Survivors include daughter in law Mrs Laura Hammon a Shellsburg grandson Frank two daughters Etta Coupeland eight grandchildren twenty two great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren Member Oak Grove church Funeral Monday 2 p.m. Federated church burial in Shellsburg cemetery
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Gazette
Shellsburg
Hannah McBroom
Ohio
Peter Voshel
Benton County
Thomas McBroom
Laura Hammon
Greeley
Colo
Frank
Etta Coupeland
Oak Grove Church
Federated Church
Shelsburg
Boettcher, 80, Pioneer Farmer, Dies At Home
John Boettcher aged 80 of Lowden died Saturday after a long illness at the home of his daughter Mrs. R. H. Stoecker. A native of Germany he came to the United States and farmed south of Lowden. Survived by five daughters Mrs. Stoecker Mrs. Kate Baker Mrs. Mary Custis Mrs. Martha Klahn and Mrs. Ludwig Klahn, two sons Emil and Henry, and a brother Henry of Clarence.
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the Gazette
Fowden
John Boettcher
R. H. Stoecker
Germany
Lowden
Stoecker
Kate Baker
Tipton
Mary Custis
Western Iowa
Martha Klahn
Cedar Rapids
Ludwig Klahn
Wheat
Hold Monticello Man On Car Theft Charge
ANAMOSA Happy Miller of Monticello was arrested at 1 a.m. Friday in Dubuque and is jailed in Jones county on larceny of a motor vehicle owned by M. Griffith of Monticello. Miller, a former inmate of the state reformatory, parole expired three weeks ago. Dubuque officials located the car stored in a Dubuque garage and joined Jones County Sheriff Henry Eichhorn in waiting for his return to arrest.
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Anamosa
Happy” Miller
Monticello
Dubuque
Jones County
M. Griffith
Miller
State Reformatory
Henry Eichhorn
Aaberg Seeks Democratic Nomination for Agriculture Secretary
H C Aaberg of Orange City assistant secretary of agriculture announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for agriculture secretary at the June primary. He has administered the warehouse program, stallion registrations, farmers institutes, short courses, poultry shows and five allied societies, and previously served as Sioux, Winnebago county agents and a Pochontas county farmer. Aaberg is ISU graduate.
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Des Moines
H. C. Aaberg
Orange City
Aaberg
Ray Murray
Murray
Iowa State Dairy Association
Iowa Horticultural Society
Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders Association
Iowa Beef Producers Association
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Association
Sioux County
Winnebago
Pocahontas County
Iowa State College
Lost Nation shuts schools over extreme cold and drifted roads
Lost Nation and nearby rural schools closed since Tuesday night due to extreme cold. Most roads blocked in the area. Public gatherings and social events canceled. Thermometer registered 30 below zero on both Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
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Lost Nation
Funeral services held for Charles E. Norris of Linn County
Funeral services for Charles E. Norris were conducted at his rural Central City home, with Rev. Stratton presiding and burial at Cedar Memorial Park in Cedar Rapids. Born December 29, 1870 in Troy Mills, he married Lottie Persing in 1893 and is survived by two daughters Gladys and Maude, a brother Frank, and several civic roles including Farm Bureau, Farmers Mutual Creamery, and Central City Telephone Company.
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Central City
Charles E. Norris
Co. F. Stratton
Cedar Memorial Park
Cedar Rapids
Norris
Troy Mills
Benjamin
Rebecca Norris
Lottie Persing
Gladys
Great Neck
Long Island
Maude
Atlantic City
N. J
Frank
Waterloo
Farm Bureau
Farmers’ Mutual Creamery
Central City Telephone Company
Wapsie Valley Fair Association
Federated Church
Traer Club Hosts Town Farm Mixer At Amity
The Traer Commercial club plans the second town-farm mixer of its annual series Tuesday at Amity church in Grant township. Farmers and townspeople from north and west will attend the oyster stew stag party with humorist David Riley Earl of Grundy Center as headliner, plus male chorus and Traer high school musicians.
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The
Gazette
Traer
Traer ‘Commercial Club
Amity
Grant Township
Dupanda Hall
David Riley Earl
Grundy Center
R. G. Stoakes
Traer High School
E. A. Franklin
Petition Drives Over liquor Store Plan Stir Local Dry Sentiment
Committees circulate petitions for or against the state liquor control commission proposal to open a state liquor store here. Local churches and the dry faction mobilize as sentiment heats up.
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State Liquor Control Commission
Requirements For Dental Degree At Iowa U
Iowa City AP reports University of Iowa will require six years of college for a dental degree starting September 1937. The College of Dentistry will demand two years of liberal arts for admission, up from one year. Dean Alvin W. Bryan notes the change follows a national survey by the American Association of Dental Schools. A grade of C will be needed for admission.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Alvin W. Bryan
Dental College
Bryan
College of Dentistry
American Association of Dental Schools
Wilton Junction Purity chapter 365 installs 1936 officers
The Wilton Junction Purity chapter No. 365 of the Order of the Eastern Star installed its 1936 officers. W M Mrs Mark Collier. W P Mark Collier. A M Mrs James Walton. A P Louis Gill. secretary Mrs Homer Ochiltree. treasurer Mrs Verda Cole. conductor Mrs Ima Biester. associate conductress Mrs Eva Baumgartner. chaplain Mrs Lela Norton. marshal Mrs Arlo Arp. Ada Mrs Mildred Wildasin. Ruth Mrs Velma Van Camp. Esther Mrs Virginia Schiele. Martha Mrs Lucile Davies. Electa Mrs Buelah Hall. warden Mrs Coletta Chatfield. sentinel A B Cole. musician Elizabeth Martin.
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Ada
Mildred Wildasin
Ruth
Velma van Camp
Esther
Virginia Schiele
Martha
Lucile Davies
Electa
Buelah Hall
Coletta Chatfield
Sentinel
A. B. Cole
Elizabeth Martin
Woman near Tama dead of exposure
Miss Clara Morford sixty five year old woman living on a farm near Haven southeast of Tama died from exposure after several days of illness. Her brother Orville Morford suffered frozen feet arriving to call for help and was treated at the county home. No inquest will be held.
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The
Gazette
Tama
Clara Morford
Haven
Orville L. Morford
Miss Morford
Morford
Emil Vajnar
Vajnar
Harvey Jones
Tama County
Elkader Club To See Bell Telephone Picture Show
Elkader Commercial club members will view sound pictures next Monday evening explaining ship to shore conversations, national radio hook ups, and manufacture of telephone components. The Northwestern Bell Telephone company, led by local manager C I Yount of McGregor, brings the program to town.
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Elkader
Elkader Commercial Club
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
C. I. Yount
McGregor
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