Washington Centennial Fete Reaches Climax Saturday
Washington Iowa prepares for a county wide centennial parade at 10 30 Saturday as 6 000 people attended Thursday events honoring Rubio Coppock and Bright. Speakers include William Hart and Iowa City Mayor Thomas Martin with 30 minutes each. Fireworks and a kittenball game close the night.
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Washington County
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Coppock
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Riverside
William Hart
Thomas Martin
Iowa City
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Frank Bell
Donald
Delbert Lins
Ina
Nina Morgan
Frank
August Rummelhart
Brighton Band
Ardith Luithly
van Dyke
Dora Dunbar
Lydia Farrier
Mary Davison
Miss Coppock
Emma Merrick
Madam Coppock
Ruth A. Gallaher
State Historical Society
Norma Mae Payne
Margaret Schneider
Nellie Anderson
Record Cigaret Stamp Sales Reach New High in Iowa
DES MOINES RP A check shows the Iowa state treasurer’s department sold $12,002.59 worth of cigaret tax stamps enough to legalize 600000 packs. The figure marks the office’s biggest sale to date and June revenue ran about $1000 daily higher than last year. E F Rahm head of the department attributed the rise to more smoking and broader liquor sales.
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Des Moines
State Treasurer’s
E. F. Rahm
Fourth Celebration Opens at Manchester Fairs and Races
Manchester hosts the July third and fourth celebration sponsored by the Delaware County Fair Society. The program includes horse races, midway shows, band concerts daily, a baseball game between Delhi and Masonville, and wrestling bouts featuring Wild Willie Williams against Friday’s winner Jim Bear or Cyclone Binley. Evening dances and fireworks cap each night at the fair grounds pavilion.
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Woman Sentenced After Postville Raids Echo
WAUKON AP Mrs Ella Thomas Sylvester farm woman was sentenced to an indeterminate term in the Rockwell City women’s reformatory with parole after pleading guilty to changing the color of a car to conceal theft. The vehicle, seized in the Postville raids, was allegedly stolen April 9 from John Doyle of Stockton Illinois by Henry Beese and Art Sweikert who are now in prison. Sylvester was paroled to the county sheriff for good behavior due to first offense and poor health.
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Postville
Ella Thomas Sylvester
Women’s Reformatory
Rockwell City
Sylvester
T. H. Goheen
John Doyle
Stockton
Ill
Henry Beese
Art Sweikert
Nebraska Liquor Seizure In Des Moines Raid
A liquor bureau raid in Des Moines resulted in the arrest of Melvin Talbott and seizure of Nebraska sealed liquor including eighteen gallon jugs, sixty four half pint bottles, and three pints of whisky. Talbott faces illegal possession charges. Earlier two Nebraska sealed alcohol cases were seized May 1 from Talbott’s automobile and he was bound to the grand jury.
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DES Moines
Liquor Bureau
Melvin Talbott
Nebraska
Talbott
Jessup Named Summer Commencement Speaker at Iowa
Dr. Walter A. Jessup, president emeritus of the University of Iowa and former head from 1916 to 1933, will return as speaker for the summer commencement on July 16. He now leads the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and recently lectured here on secondary education.
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Iowa City
Walter A. Jessup
University of Iowa
Jessup
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Iowa pays tribute to Rep. Jacobsen in Clinton funeral
Congressman B M Jacobsen aged seventy four died Tuesday in Rochester. Flags draped the city in homage as state officials and members of Congress joined a service at St John s Episcopal church. The National Guard formed a guard of honor with eight relatives as pallbearers while Governor Clyde Herring attended.
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Jacobsen
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Thomas Horton
National Guard
Clyde Herring
Judge Gaffney Renominated by Mas Dems at District Convention
Democrats in Marengo district hold a judicial convention naming Judge James P. Gaffney of Williamsburg as their nominee for judge of the eighth district which covers Iowa and Johnson counties. Iowa City speakers praise Gaffney while Republicans take no challenger route.
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James P. Gaffney
Williamsburg
Iowa
Johnson Counties
William R. Hart
Iowa City
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P. P. White
Bert Hanson
Frank Messer
Gaffney
J. M. Otto
J. Paul Naughton
Thoen
Henry Negus
Paul Harned
Addie Schaff
Budget estimate and record of filing Palo district
The Board of Directors of Palo Consolidated School District will meet July 15, 1936 at 8 p.m. at the Palo school building to hear taxpayers for or against the proposed expenditures. District Secretary J Warren McClintock lists totals of 18411 and 20401 dollars.
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Fayette Township
Linn County
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Palo
J. Warren McClintock
Viola Consolidated School District
Brown Township
F. B. Collins
Motor Vehicle Use Keeps Climbing Across Iowa
Mrs. Alex Miller reports record Iowa driving activity with one vehicle per 3.72 people, a 4.62 percent rise from last year. Licensed cars total 591 564, trucks 74 763, new car licenses 29 853, and drivers licenses reach 938 538. Gasoline tax receipts hit a high, totaling 12 968 582 for the year.
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Alex Miller
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Motor Vehicle Department
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Iowa
George Gay Installed as Iowa City Rotary President
George Gay was installed as president of the Iowa City Rotary Club to succeed Henry Negus. Other 2024 25 officers include Henry Negus as vice president Henry Fisk secretary J L Cannon treasurer the Rev Evans A Worthley editor and William E Grimm sergeant at arms.
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Builders plan new cement block shop on West Broadway
F J Kriebs of Elkport tears down all but the brick front of his West Broadway lot to erect a 30 by 50 foot cement block building. M Golob, former renter of the building for used parts, has leased the new structure for five years. In Conesville, Hilda Owen was re elected secretary of the Orono township school board and Mrs John Singleton was re elected treasurer at the annual meeting.
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Edward Wilson
Amos Wilson
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Solon
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Russell Phillips
Muscatine
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Louisa County
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Atlantic City
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Conesville
Hilda Owen
Orono Township
John Singleton
District Deputies Named In Knights Of Columbus Lodge
W D Kearney state K of C deputy who took office July 1 announced district deputy selections in all but districts seven and ten. Appointees include Cretzmeyer Dubuque Waukon Ossian Elkader. Kamler Clinton Davenport DeWitt Muscatine Bellevue. Oster tag Burlington Keokuk Fort Madison West Point. Mitchell Fort Dodge Webster City Ames Eagle Grove. Coulton Marshalltown Des Moines Marshalltown Colfax Newton. Stager Greene Charles City New Hampton Cresco Protivin Greene. Hess Carroll Perry Templeton Jefferson Denison. Boyle Iowa City Harper Victor Washington Marengo. Bormann Cedar Rapids Waterloo Cedar Rapids Oelwein Anamosa Manchester. Brennan Emmetsburg Algona Mason City Estherville. Delaney Missouri Valley Council Bluffs Neola Dunlap Earling. Gautheir Corning Atlantic Creston Shenandoah Corning Stuart. Kehoe Farley Cascade Monticello Dyersville Farley. Sommers Odebolt Cherokee Odebolt Fonda Storm Lake.
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Sioux City
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Brandon Motorist Fined $100 at Vinton
Lewis Likens of Brandon was fined $100 and costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving before Justice J. A. Ruhl. He was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Jack Franklin and Constable Walter Smith on a warrant issued six weeks earlier for crashing into a truck on a residence street and leaving his car when the motor failed north of VIN town. He remains in county jail pending payment of the fine.
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Lost Church drama at Epworth League union meeting
Epworth League members present a drama titled Lost Church at a union meeting in the La Porte Methodist church Sunday at 8 p.m. Rev. C. D. James leads as Man of the World with solos by Mrs. F. E. Lehman and devotionals by Rev. Roy Smith. Rev. Paul Figge to give invocation and benediction. drama coached by Mrs. John Kettleson.
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Lyon County approves bonds for pavement program
Lyon County voters approve a one million dollar paving bond plan by a four to one margin, funding fifty nine miles of main highways and completing paving of all primary routes in the county. The issue had previously been rejected in two votes.
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Thompson Couple Marks Golden Wedding in Monticello
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Thompson celebrated their fiftieth anniversary with a family dinner and open house in Monticello. Married in 1886 in Buchanan county, they have three children and numerous out of town relatives attending from Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Arizona.
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Fulton, Ill
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Glenn
Albany, Ill
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Norway
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Bernie Dunlap
Quasqueton
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Lyle Thompson
Alma
Lyman Thompson
Keota Man Victor In Clash With Bull
Keota barber Clarence Gammon killed a 1000 pound bull after a collision on a country road Monday night. He avoided the ditch by braking and struck the animal in the neck then aided by another driver to remove the carcass. Floyd Mertz owner of the bull paid for car repairs.
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Legion Auxiliary to Meet in Fairfax at Listebarger Home
Fairfax Iowa Legion auxiliary will meet Tuesday at the home of Mrs J F Listebarger 1208 First Avenue West Cedar Rapids Grace Blakely Linn county chairman will install the officers.
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First Avenue
Cedar Rapids
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Linn County
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