Marion post 298 to elect commander from WWII veterans
Marion post 298 will elect a commander Monday evening from three candidates all WWII veterans J A Beeson Eee McKean and William R New officers of the auxiliary will be installed at the unit meeting A picnic supper precedes the meetings served to post auxiliary and families Mrs DeLancey Butler and Mrs Nellie Patterson of Viola will chair supper Assisting them are Lloyd Kelly H Cooper Jay Patten Sam Workman and N L Gibson all of Springville
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Marion
American Legion
J. A. Beeson
Eeee McKean
William R
Auxiliary
DeLancey Butler
Nellie Patterson
Viola
Lloyd Kelly
H. Cooper
Jay Patten
Sam Workman
N. L. Gibson
Springville
W S C S Circles Set Meetings This Week
W S C S groups plan afternoon gatherings with Mrs James E Cippera hosting Esther circle at Thomas Park for a Wednesday picnic at noon. Miriam circle meets Mrs Carroll Roberts at 570 Eighth Avenue at 2. Martha Deborah and Mary circles cancel meetings this week.
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W.S.C.S
James E. Cippera
Esther Circle
Thomas Park
Miriam
Carroll Roberts
Eighth Avenue
Martha
Deborah
Mary
Ladies club members picnic at Daniels park today
Ladies Progressive club members will picnic at Daniels, instead of Ellis park today. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bauchman of Cazenovia, N.Y., were guests in the G. R. Hagerman home Thursday. Concord Agricultural and Literary club will not meet this month. The Prices Slashed 6:00x16 Gillette Tires, $8.95, plus tax. See Bernard M. Port. Phone 356-W or 3-1779 Cedar Rapids.-Adv.
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Ladies Progressive Club
Daniels
Ellis Park
Mrs
Ed Bauchman
Cazenovia, N.Y
G. R. Hagerman
Concord Agricultural and Literary Club
Bernard M. Port
Cedar Rapids
Presbyterian Women Meet for White Cross Program
The Presbyterian Ladies Aid and Missionary Society gather in the church sanctuary at 2 on Wednesday for the annual White Cross meeting. Mrs Arthur Fairhurst leads the program and Mrs Lee Fitzgerald handles the apportionment. Circle 3 members host. St Pauls Lutheran Ladies meet with Mrs Theodore Pech at 2 on Thursday with Mrs Gerald Ozburn as assisting hostess.
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Presbyterian Society
Presbyterian Ladies Aid and Missionary Society
White Cross
Arthur Fairhurst
Lee Fitzgerald
Circle 3
St. Paul’s Lutheran Ladies and Society
Theodore Pech
Gerald Ozburn
Frying Chickens Fancy Dressed at Gordon Hatchery
Ad touts fried chicken at Gordon Hatchery with a plump product and flavorful, ready pan preparation.
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Gordon Hatchery
Mrs Koppenhaver Returns From Mexico Trip
Mrs Grace C Koppenhaver has returned from a trip to Monterrey Mexico and the Rio Grand Valley. Mrs Lucille Sweeney of Mari on and Mrs Wanda McEndree of Cedar Rapids will return home today from a trip to Tijuana. They also visited Boulder am.
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Mexico
Grace C. Koppenhaver
Monterrey
Rio Grand Valley
Lucille Sweeney
Marion
Wanda McEndree
Cedar Rapids
Tijuana
Boulderam
Fox Lodge 319 Meeting Set for Wednesday Evening
F T Fox lodge 319 of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen will convene at 7 30 PM Wednesday in Memorial hall for the regular session and officers reports.
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F. T. Fox Lodge
B. of
R. T
Memorial Hall
Visitor Party Heads to West Alexandria in Ohio
To Ohio Donald Preckel has gone to West Alexandria to spend a week with Mr and Mrs Dale B Unger. Herbert Richmann of Marion who is spending the summer at Bucyrus Ohio will be a guest in the Unger home this week.
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Ohio
Donald Preckel
West Alexandria
Dale B. Unger
Herbert Richmann
Marion
Bucyrus
Unger
Winfield Couple Guests of Careys in Iowa Trip
Mr and Mrs Harvey Ridings of Winfield Kansas were guests of cousins Mr and Mrs E V Carey last week. The Careys and guests visited Dubuque Friday with the Careys son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Clifford O Johnson. New residents Mr and Mrs E Beavers of Fort Smith Arkansas will move to Marion Wednesday to 786 Eighth avenue cottage. Irving Drake has recovered from surgery and joined Mrs Drake in Whipholt Minnesota for the summer.
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Harvey Ridings
Winfield, Kan
E. V. Carey
Careys
Dubuque
Son-Inlaw
Clifford O. Johnson
E. Beavers
Fort Smith, Ark
J. B. Gerrans
Marion
Eighth Avenue
Minnesota
Irving Drake
Whipholt
Minn
Marion Cardinals Junior Softball Face Ely Twice
The Marion Cardin als Junior softball team will play Ely at 1 30 today on the Marion field. A second game has the Marion Sham rocks against Ely. Bailey's Milk Bar Juniors won the first half of the season by beating the Marion Shamrocks 4 to 3.
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Marion Cardinals
Ely
Marion
Marion Shamrocks
Bailey’s Milkbar
Congregational Women's Association Picnic at Thomas Park
The Congregational Women's Association will hold a picnic at Thomas Park at 2 30 p m on Wednesday in the afternoon.
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Congregational Women’s Association
Thomas Park
Baptist Guild to End Thursday with White Cross Meeting
The Rachel Booth guild of the Baptist Church will conclude Thursday with Mrs Ray Nett at 118 Dawley Street NE Cedar Rapids. This will be a White Cross meeting. Members needing transportation should meet at the church at 11 a.m.
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Baptist Guild
the Baptist Church
Rachel Booth Guild
Raynett
Dawley Street
Cedar Rapids
Prairie Chapel W S C S Meeting At Church
Prairie Chapel W S C S will meet at the church at 2 p.m. Thursday. Mrs Albert Martin will conduct the devotional period and Mrs John Coons will lead the lesson. The Mmes Earl Bailey Herman Falcon and David Hindman will be joint hostesses.
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Prairie Chapel
W.S.C.S
Albert Martin
John Coons
Earl Bailey
Herman Falcon
David Hindman
Miller to be buried in U S Cemetery in Missouri
Lieutenant John Scarborough Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emery J. Miller of Marion, will be buried Tuesday at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis with his B 29 crew. He died Sept. 4, 1945 near Koriyama Japan during a mission to drop food and medicine to a prison camp, when their plane crashed in fog. The family will attend the funeral along with his aunt, Miss Lala Scarborough.
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Emery J. Miller
Sixth Avenue
Marion
John Scarborough Miller
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
St. Louis
Lt. Miller
Koriyama
Tokyo
Saipan
Japan
Miller
Marion High School
University of Iowa
San Antonio
Hondo
Harlingen
Texas
Victorville
Calif
Alamorgordo
N. M
Topeka
Hamilton Field
Sigma Chi Fraternity
The
Episcopal Church
St. Vincent’s Guild of Acolytes
Lala Scarborough
Randle Family Arrives for Visit in Stevens Home
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Randle arrive Saturday from New Jersey for a visit at the Roscoe F. Stevens home. Mrs. W. I. Randle and Mrs. Stevens are sisters, and the group includes their son, daughter-in-law, and grandson Jay Randle.
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New Jersey
W. I. Randle
Janna Randle
Jay Randle
Roscoe F. Stevens
Mrs. Stevens
Palmer Family Weekend Visit
Mr and Mrs James Palmer of Waterloo spend the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs B A Spence and their children.
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James Palmer
Waterloo
Mrs
B. A. Spence
Cook Kill kills ants and flies at Sorg Drug ad
Ant and fly killer advertised at 69 cents a pint from Sorg Drug.
Kenny Family Plans Alaskan Motor Trip
Mr and Mrs Ken Kenny and their daughter Jacquelyn will depart Wednesday for Anchorage Alaska after visiting Mrs Kenny s parents Dr and Mrs R E Ldigh and his parents Mr and Mrs Fred Kenny at Webster The trip will be by motor over the Alcan highway.
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Alaska
Ken Kenny
Jacquelyn
Anchorage
Mrs Dayton Lininger Returns Home After Minor Surgery
Mrs Dayton Lininger leaves Cedar Rapids hospital to recover at home following a minor surgical procedure performed locally.
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Dayton Lininger
Cedar Rapids
Birthday Dinner for Mrs. Ford on 80th Birthday
Mr. and Mrs. A E Miller of 995 Eighteenth street host a family dinner today for the 80th birthday of Mrs. Miller’s mother Mrs. Sarah Scott Ford. Fourteen relatives will attend. Also note an ad for real estate listing by E T Brockman and a family trip: Mr. and Mrs. L R McMullen with children John and Kathleen at Camp O Delphi near Manchester for the week.
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A. E. Miller
Eighteenth Street
Mrs. L. R. McMullen
John and
Kathleen
Camp O’delhi
Manchester
Seattle Doctor to Visit Relatives in hometown
Dr. Raymond Cooney and Mrs. Cooney of Seattle will arrive this week to visit his parents the W. F. Cooneys and other relatives. He recently was released from the army and will return to Seattle to practice veterinary medicine.
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Seattle
Raymond Cooney
W. F. Cooneys
Cooney
McLean Families Attend Funeral then Return Home
Return home notices that Mr. and Mrs. N. A. S. McLean of Gering Nebraska and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McLean of Council Bluffs Iowa, guests of Mrs. F. C. Rasmussen, left Friday after attending the funeral of Mrs. Laura Peters Rasmussen’s daughter who died in Gering and was buried in Cedar Rapids last week.
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N. A. S. McLean
Gering, Neb
Hugh McLean
Council Bluffs
F. C. Rasmussen
Two new Marion Corn Festival queen candidates enter race
Marion voters can support Barbara Trimble and Pat Armstrong along with listed contenders Mary Tucker Joan Brooks Edna Mae Kemp Onalee Paul Sandra E Blazek Rosalie Hess Donna Jean Kolda Laura Lee Freeman Elaine Petrusch Veda Mae Pollock and Sue Cary by purchasing merchandise at local Marion stores. The corn show will be supervised by Floyd Robson as superintendent per Chamber secretary George Goodyear. The festival runs September 15 16 17.
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Marion’s
Barbara Trimble
Pat Armstrong
Mary Tucker
Joan Brooks
Edna Mae Kemp
Onalee Paul
Sandra E. Blazek
Rosalie Hess
Donna Jean Kolda
Laura Lee Freeman
Elaine Petrusch
Veda Mae Pollock
Sue Cary
Marion
George Goodyear
Chamber of Commerce
Floyd Robson
Rate Slowing Up For Creation of New Businesses
Des Moines AP reports Iowa sees 719 firm articles of incorporation in the first half, down from 922 in 1947 and 924 last year. Nonprofit filings surge to about half, while domestic and foreign corporations decline. Dissolutions drop from 89 to 54. cancellations rise to 161 with no foreign cancellations so far this year.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Secretary of State
California travelers skirt US tax on Mexico bought tickets
Americans can dodge the 15 percent US tax by buying cross border airline tickets in Mexico. San Diego agencies report a surge in sales as tickets like 230 dollars in San Diego cost 200 dollars in Tijuana. Internal Revenue officials say they cannot stop the practice without new legislation as law currently exempts foreign purchases from US taxes.
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Tijuana
Mexico
U.S
Internal Revenue
San Diego
la Jolla
Calif
Sen. Downey
D-Calif
Downey
George Schoeneman
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Schoeneman
Internal Revenue Department
Congress
All-Iowa stock shows expand under farmer driven plan
The All-Iowa fair adds the new All-Iowa beef show at the urging of beef breeders and the Iowa Beef Producers Association. The dairy beef swine sheep and horse departments will run in two sections at Hawkeye Downs with 600 dairy cattle and 500 pigs scheduled. Committees from breed organizations plan rules and premiums as farmers help shape the livestock program.
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Iowa Beef Producers Association
Charles
Ith
Penningroth
Parish
Canton
Iowa Swine Producers Association
Iowa Sheep Association
Draft Horsemen
Palomino Breeders Association
Hawkeye Downs
Andy Hanson
Farm Youth Center
Iowa
Linn County
Brannan Outlines Plans for Better Farm Housing
Agriculture Secretary Brannan announced a multi million dollar housing law to aid about 135 000 farm families. The act would authorize 275 million dollars in loans over four years for improving dwellings and farm buildings with an average loan around 2200 dollars.Loans run 33 years at four percent interest and funds depend on congressional appropriations.
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Washington
INS
Agriculture
Brannan
Friday
Congress
Budget Bureau
Linn County Farm Bureau Sports Festival Set for July
The annual Linn County Farm Bureau sports festival will be held July 28 at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids. The event is sponsored by the Junior Farm Bureau.
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LINN
Linn County Farm Bureau
Ellis Park
Cedar Rapids
The
Junior Farm Bureau
Iowa Great Corn Crop Sets Record Yield in 1948
The 1948 assessor's census confirms Iowa harvested 11,125,780 acres of corn yielding 60.5 bushels per acre for a record 672,580,317 bushels. Cedar Grundy and Johnson counties led with yields above 71 bushels, while Springdale township in Cedar reached 85.7, and several southern counties posted well above average.
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Iowa
Harry D. Linn
Cedar
Grundy
Johnson
Springdale
Cedar County
Clay Township
Grundy County
Fairfield Township
Marion
Madison
Warren
Union
Henry
Washington
Mahaska
Des Moines
Floyd County
Bremer and
Winneshiek
Bremer County
Maxfield
Butler
Floyd
Cerro Gordo
Howard
Chickasaw
Linn
Iowa State Department of Agriculture
Country Diary: A Week of Farm Life and Garden Pests
Jane logs a week of lodge life with wrens nesting and a busy farm routine. Harvests, dusting of pests with DDT and Paris Green, bean and kale work, and neighborly notes frame days of oats, hay, and garden chides. Cats, pigs, and wellhouse antics pepper the entries.
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Jim
Tiger
Tubby
Cinder
Tag
Foxie
Jane
Rex Conn
Buck Hole
Cindy
New Animal Measures Food Supply Across Sectors
Lawrence N. Eldred explains an experimental multi-species figure the "animal" combines beef cattle poultry sheep and hogs to simplify meat milk and egg production data. H Edward Babcock Ithaca NY chairs the effort with R C Pollock of the National Livestock and Meat Board, urging a two animals per person standard.
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Lawrence N. Eldred
Animal Kingdom
H. Edward Babcock
Ithaca
N. Y
R. C. Pollock
National Livestock and Meat Board
Babcock
Cornell University
Rere
Lundeen Sells 15 Steers in Chicago Market
Carl Lundeen of Marion sold 15 head of 1393 pound steers in Chicago for 26.50 per hundredweight. The day’s top price reached 28.25.
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Carl Lundeen
Marion
Chicago
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Dude Ranch
Doris Scott
Frances Rees
Wildhorn Dude Ranch
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Third Street
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Riverside
Highland Palace
District Court
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Woodrow S. Swenka
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