Holtz Named Treasurer of Benton County
LELAND Holtz was chosen by Benton county Republicans to fill the vacancy as treasurer, succeeding the retiring Henry Buxton who moves to Sheffield Savings Bank. Buxton’s departure ends 11 years in the treasurer’s office with nine as assistant under McElroy. Charles Allen of Vinton was elected county chairman for the Democrats, succeeding State Senator Harry White who had led since Lyle Woods’ resignation last February.
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Vinton
Leland Holtz
Benton County
Honargensie Poort
Henry
Sheffield Savings Bank
Holtz
Buxton
Sheffield
Riverside Park
George D. McElroy
Charles Allen
Vinton Insurance
Harry White
Lyle Woods
Belle Plaine
Tipton Cedar County Republicans Democrats Name Delegates
Republicans list A L Mensing Alda Crew D A Donahue E C Schluter G W White W B Anderson Reid L Hunt Gordon Smith E C Fresse Harold Toerber George A Fowlie J E Chamberlain Marie Richards Mrs O A Gable George Walton T A Moore N P Olson Mrs Lulu Gill A V Mather George D Harling J G Engel E D Hinkhouse C E Kroemer John Nie L J Nicoll E L Crist Claude Stine. Democrats list Mrs Glen Agne Mrs Kate Thomas Mrs Leanna Thomas Glen Agne John Crock James D France C E Shawver Tom Crees La Mar Foster Mrs Gladys Ferguson Everett Ferguson Mrs Helen Frederick Jack Jansen.
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Tipton
Cedar County
A. L. Mensing
Alda Crew
D. A. Donahue
E. C. Schluter
G. W. White
W. B. Anderson
Reid L. Hunt
Gordon Smith
E. C. Fresse
Harold Toerber
George A. Fowlie
J. E. Chamberlain
Marie Richards
O. A. Gable
George Walton
T. A. Moore
N. P. Olson
Lulu Gill
A. V. Mather
George D. Harling
J. G. Engel
E. D. Hinkhouse
C. E. Kroemer
John Nie
L. J. Nicoll
E. L. Crist
Claude Stine
Democrats
Glen Agne
Kate Thomas
Leanna Thomas
John Crock
James D. France
C. E. Shawver
Tom Crees
la Mar Foster
Gladys Ferguson
Everett Ferguson
Helen Frederick
Jack Jansen
West Union Republicans elect county chairman at convention
West Union Iowa Republicans chose W. H. Antes as county chairman at the convention and announced delegates to the state convention in Des Moines, listing twenty eight named individuals including Juanita Tibbetts Joyce Appelman J F Miller W P Lauer George Hartman B W Patsey George Metcalf Paul Templeman and others.
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West Union
Fayette County
W. H. Antes
Des Moines
Juanita Tibbetts
Joyce Appelman
J. F. Miller
W. P. Lauer
George S. Hartman
B. W. Patsey
George Metcalf
Paul Templeman
R. B. McCormack
Paul P. Stewart
L. H. Buenneke
J. H. Wilson
Mary Ogle
Elizabeth Smith- Kennedy
Charles Rueffel
Harold van Denover
Florence M. Streight
M. C. Hanson
Vera Carlson
E. A. Grimwood
J. C. Davis
H. V. Hoyer
John Falk
Harry Johnson
Harry Stolle
Grace Gilbert King
M. M. Cooney
Martha Anfinson
Ellen E. Williamson
Lola Whitney
Tama county Republicans elect leadership and fill ticket
Zelic Sime of Toledo was re-elected chairman of the Tama county Republican central committee at the county convention. Mrs. H. G. Ross of Toledo was re-elected vice-chairman. L. E. McEltree, a Toledo pharmacist, nominated for county treasurer. Harold Turbett withdrew after accepting a Tama schools post. Kenneth Muirhead, a farmer, chosen for second district supervisor to serve the unexpired term of William Lorenz. The Dems elected M. W. Hyland, Tama attorney.
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Zelic Sime
Tama County
Republican Central Committee
H. G. Ross
L. E. McEltree
Harold Turbett
Tama
Kenneth Muirhead
Farmer
William Lorenz
M. W. Hyland
Honest Find Restores $650 Rainy Day Savings
Waterloo Illinois report says Christopher Benthroft lost his $650 savings while repairing a local store on Thursday. On Sunday the man found the billfold and money, saved for six years, in his mailbox thanks to an honest passerby.
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Waterloo
Christopher Benthroft
Benthroft
Dr Francis McNamara Dies Dubuque Pathologist
Dr Francis P McNamara a Fin ley hospital pathologist for 23 years died Sunday He was a past president of the Iowa State Medical Association and president of the Dubuque County Medical Society Surviving are his wife and a sister
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INS
Francis P. McNamara
Finley Hospital
McNamara
Iowa State Medical Association
Dubuque County
Elkader Air Medal Awarded to Harnack for Missions
S/Sgt. Kenneth L. Harnack the son of Mr and Mrs Roy Harnack of Elkader received the Air Medal for meritorious achievement in five bombing missions over Europe during World War II.
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Kenneth L. Harnack
Roy Harnack
Europe
Waterloo Man Killed on Highway 63
Edwarda Wallace of Waterloo was struck and killed on Highway 63 seven miles north of Waterloo by a car driven by F. H. Carlson of Decorah. Wallace was standing on the pavement about to enter his parked car when the accident occurred in heavy rain. Surviving is his brother David Wallace of Cedar Falls.
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Edwarda Wallace
Highway 63
Here
F. H. Carlson
Decorah
Wallace
Carlson
David Wallace
Cedar Falls
Pulpit Bible Presented to Cedar Rapids Methodist Church
Glenn Mobry presented a PALO A leather bound pulpit Bible to the Cedar Rapids church on Sunday. Guy Yates, board president, accepted the book as Dr. Will Kirwin gave the morning sermon in the pastor’s absence. Kirwin had been Mobry’s student pastor when Mobry was a Sunday school pupil.
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PALO
Methodist Church
Glenn Mobry
Avenue NE
Cedar Rapids
Guy Yates
Board of Trustees
Will Kirwin
Fourth Avenue SE
Kirwin
Mobry
Hollywoods film notes tease new companion feature
Dorothy Manners reports Leo McCarey plans a companion film to Going My Way about three boys of Catholic Jewish and Protestant faiths who bond during the war and reunite in peacetime. Rosalind Russell slated to replace Ruth Gordon in Over 21. Deanna Durbin shifts to Lady On a Train. A Country Home romance hints at Theda Bara-era pair Virginia Pearson and Sheldon Lewis contemplating remarriage after years apart.
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Leo McCarey
Leo
Rosalind Russell
Ruth Gordon
Frank Sinatra
Lana Turner
Theda Bara
Virginia Pearson
Sheldon Lewis
War Casualty and Missing Paratrooper Reported
In France on June 3 Pfc. Ernest L. Wilson 26 was killed in action. His wife Carolyn Wilson of 1573 First Avenue SE was notified by the War Department. Wilson had been sent to England in April. his parents live at 200 First Street NW and he worked at the Wilson packing plant. Pfc. Warren Carney 26, a paratrooper, is missing in France since D day. sister Mrs. Zola Melsha reports. Carney’s wife and three children live in Hannibal Missouri. he worked for Tucker’s Auto Salvage in Cedar Rapids.
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France
War Department
Carolyn Wilson
First Avenue SE
England
H. C. Wilson
First Street NW
Wilson Packing Plant
Warren Carney
D-day
Zola Melsha
Third Street
Hannibal
Tucker's Auto Salvage Company
Cedar Rapids
Traer Lions elect new officers and plan youth center
Dr. G M Delbey is president of the Traer Lions club with F E Brutsman and C E States as vice pres tails. Kubik Finch post plans Traer hall as youth center if civic group forms to manage it. A series of weekly teenage dances to be held Friday nights in July and August is announced, sponsored by the Legion auxiliaries Lions and Band Mothers club.
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G. M. Delbey
Traer Lions Club
F. E. Brutsman
C. E
Kubik-Finch
The
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Lions and Band Mothers Club
Tipton Pioneer Jack Clark Dies After Illness
Tipton pioneer Jack Clark born July 5 1853 in Maine died at a Cedar Rapids hospital after several weeks of illness. A painter by trade he never married and is survived by a niece Mrs Jerome Mears Clark of Tipton. Services were held at Wilson funeral home in Tipton with other Obituaries for Carl Durland Jacob Haas Lyman Woolstrum George Schwab and William Stable noted from Decorah Marengo Waukon Oxford and Iowa City areas.
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Frank J
Jack” Clark
Ceder Rapids
Maine
Jerome Mears Clark
Wilson Funeral Home
Oxford
George C. Schwab
Iowa City
Germany
Minnie Albright
Lena Crawford
Williamsburg
Kate Gillin
Chicago
Fred Muller
Dunlap
John
Columbus Junction
Jake
George Brothers
Peter
Orange
Calif
William
Springville
Frank B Jacobs Dees Dies At 55 In New York
Frank B. Jacobs Dees, 55, longtime manager of buyers for the F. W. Woolworth company, died last Saturday in New York. He was born in Independence, Iowa.
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New York
Frank B. Jacobs
F. W. Woolworth Company
Independence
Fourth of July Celebration at Hawkeye Downs Big Fireworks
The tenth annual Hawkeye Downs Fourth of July show opens at 4 pm with gates at 4 and program starting 7 30 pm featuring Professor Cheer radio comedian Bert Henderson Louise Belur the Griswold train team Ethel Reed and the Carro Rhythm Rockets An American Legion band concert and three drum and bugle corps will add music as an LST boat bombardment centerpiece lights up the Eastern Town sky with the largest fireworks display in the area.
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Professor Cheer
Bob Burns
al Pierce
Bert Henderson
Louise Belur
Griswold
Ethel Reed
Carro Rhythm Rockets
Hanford Post No. 5
American Legion
Hawkeye Downs Hill
Picnic Tuesday at New Iowa County Bible Camp
MILLERSBURG The cornerstone of a new Bible camp four miles west of Millersburg will be dedicated Tuesday at a public picnic. The camp, to operate in August for boys and girls, will include 18 to 24 cabins. A 30 by 60 foot chapel and a registration building were erected with lumber from a Keswick razed structure. Water comes from a deep well. Organizers include Rev. Rhodes of Tama as president, Alfred Wyant ex-vice president, Rev. Pickett of Shellsburg as secretary, and Elim of Cedar Rapids as treasurer.
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Iowa County
Keswick
Rhodes
Tama
Alfred Wyant
Pickett
Shellsburg
Elim
Cedar Rapids
Lightning Kills Waverly Youth Destroys Barn
Joseph Cretzmeyer, 21, was struck by lightning Saturday night while loading hay outside a barn at his farm home in Waverly. The bolt is said to have followed a rope to his son, igniting the hay and destroying the barn and its contents including two small calves. His father Peter Cretzmeyer reported the event.
Movie Schedule Highlights at Local Theaters
Monday showings list the Paramount with Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble and short subjects, Iowa with The Mask of Dimitrios, State with Cry Havoc and Knickerbocker Holiday, Palace features The Gang's All Here and Timber Queen, Rialto screens My Friend Flicka and Oklahoma Raiders, Times includes King's Ion and Natty Nuisance, plus Marion's Cover Girl and Swingtime Johnny listings.
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Knickerbocker
Palace
Rialto
Flicka
Oklahoma Raiders
King
Ion
Marion
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