First 1935 Corn Hog Benefit Checks Mailed
The Farm Administration mailed more than one million dollars in 1935 corn hog benefit checks to 61,478 farmers nationwide. Iowa’s share totals 1 195 828.05 and includes about 728 116 for Nebraska and over 100 000 for Missouri North Dakota Ohio Kansas Oklahoma Minnesota and Indiana.
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Washington
Farm Administration
Claude Wickard
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
North Dakota
Ohio
Kansas
Oklahoma
Minnesota
Indiana
Jones county 1935 first payments approved for corn and hog contracts
Jones county received approval sheets for 927 first payments totaling 113490.30 dollars for 1935 group 1 contracts. Checks are written and should reach Anamosa by August 6, with Des Moines officials noting Jones will be among Iowa counties to obtain funds within ten days.
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Iowa
Marion
Monroe
Washington
Dickinson
Hamilton
Hardin County
Grundy
Butler Counties
Anamosa
Jones County Corn and Hog Control Association
Lawrence Lorenzen
Carl Smith
Ralph Smith
Des Moines
State Counm and Hog
Elkader Seeks 20000 Loan for Municipal Swimming Pool
The Elkader council filed a loan and grant request of 20000 with the Public Works Administration to construct a municipal swimming pool near the Molumby athletic field. Former county engineer E W Hahn and local attorney F E Sharp are retained to provide information. A riverfront improvement plan may follow if approved, but as a separate project.
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Elkader
Elkader Council
E. W. Hahn
F. E. Sharp
Works Administration
Avith
Molumby
Hopkins Attends Iowa PWA Meeti ng on Farm Roads
Grinnell graduate and top New Dealer Hopkins spoke in Iowa City addressing the western theater conference. He endorsed Iowa's farm to market road program financed by federal aid and urged limiting work to areas with unemployment.
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Hopkins
Iowa City
Western Theater Conference
Grinnell
Top New Dealer
Iowa
Anselm Hearing Set For September Sixteenth
Mount Vernon officials schedule a public hearing on charges against George Anselm of the public schools for September 16 after a heated board session. Anselm faces ten charges including maladministration amid a school feud that led to a high school strike and principal dispute.
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Mount Vernon
George Anselm
Board of Education
R. P. Ink
G. M. Wilson
Anselm
John Klimo
Citizens’ Committee
Perry Jayne lands Muscatine bridge extension contract
The Perry Jayne company of Cedar Rapids won the Salisbury bridge extensions project in Muscatine county with a bid of 5434.73. Otto Wendling of Conesville offered 5511.57. The plan includes 100-foot west end truss and 90-foot east end truss with 28-foot I-beam approach. Work starts August 5 and ends September 21.
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Gazette
Columbus Junction
Perry Jayne Company
Cedar Rapids
Salisbury
Cedar River
Muscatine County
Conesville
Jayne
Otto Wendling
Officials Probe Rock Island Train Derailment
Officials investigated a Rock Island derailment that damaged several hundred feet of track. No injuries were reported and authorities did not release a cause.
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What Cheer
INS
Rock Island
Theater critic Elmer Rice denounces modern drama
Elmer Rice urged Western theater delegates to shake off soft trends and restore vitality to American plays. He said theater must disturb and irritate audiences, criticizing Broadway dominance and praising Soviet theater as a social force behind strong productions.
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Iowa City
Elmer Rice
New York
Western Conference On Theaters
Rice
Wimpole Street
Scotland
Western Theater Conference
East
Russia
FHA Speaker At Mt Vernon Monday
John A Hall of New York City from the Federal Housing Administration will speak at Cornell college on Monday at 10 a.m. in the Law building lecture room. The address is open to the public. Hall is a former executive vice president of the New York State Association of Real Estate Boards and is known as a speaker and writer on business and industry.
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Mount Vernon
John A. Hall
New York City
Department of Public Relations
Federal Housing Administration
Cornell College
Law Building
New York State Association of Real Estate Boards
New York
Huntley Returned on Embezzlement Charge in Washington IA
G F Huntley was returned here from Osage Iowa today for hearing on an embezzlement charge brought by Farm Bureau Oil Co. It is alleged he took between 300 and 400 dollars in collections on his truck route.
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Washington, Ia
INS
G. F. Huntley
Osage
Farm Bureau Oil Company
Grundy Sheriff 15 Seriously Injured in Auto Crash
Grundy Center sheriff M. G. Mamminga is hospitalized in Mason City with fractured ribs facial cuts and extensive bruises after his car was forced off highway 9 east of Manly by a truck and another car. He was unconscious until late Thursday and may avoid X rays due to asthma though doctors expect recovery.
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Gazette
Grundy Center
Mm. G. Mamminga
Park Hospital
Mason City
Highway 9
Manly
Mamminga
Grundy County
St. Anthony
Grundy School Board Hires Cedar Rapids Springville Teachers
Grundy Center supt J L Larson reports two new instructors have been signed to fill vacancies. George Turner of Cedar Rapids, Coe College graduate, will teach band and voice with other high school subjects. Dale Moore of Springville, a graduate of Iowa State Teachers College, will teach commercial subjects. he previously taught in a CCC camp at Maquoketa.
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Grundy Center
J. L. Larson
George Turner
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Will
Tipton
Dale Moore
Springville
Moore
Iowa State Teachers College
CCC
Maquoketa
Iowa farm women join harvest effort in pioneer fashion
Des Moines AP reports farm wives and daughters in Iowa take up tractors and binders to aid harvest amid labor shortages. They wear overalls and blue shirts, often doing field work while husbands handle heavier tasks. Small grain harvest proceeds in many counties as relief workers are scarce and wages remain low.
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Des “Moines
Iowa
Thomas Owen
Polk County
Des Moines
White Oak
Clarion
Iowa brief notes report deaths and local changes
Multiple short items across Lisbon Mount Vernon Tipton Brandon Troy Mills West Liberty Oelwein Keswick Grinnell Belle Plaine and Grinnell report a death hospital notes police actions elections and civic developments. Notables include John Rieger 72 retiring farmer died in Lisbon and Evelyn Brittell hired as teacher in Brandon.
Mass Meeting Called by Des Moines Bakery Strikers
Des Moines union bakers and drivers plan a mass meeting outside the Colonial Baking plant after six Master Bakers association sites failed to reach a settlement. George Comfort said no re opening plans, while unions pressed for a closed shop or union first hiring clause amid a 16 day strike affecting about 600 workers and $35,000 in wages.
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Des Moines
Colonial Baking Company
George Comfort
Clyde Herring
Master Bakers Association
Comfort
Clear Lake
Couple Arrested For Maintaining Liquor Joint On House Boat
Two transients Mrs. Art Withee and J L Downey bound over to the grand jury on liquor nuisance charges. The Guttenberg Iowa case alleges a houseboat on the Mississippi River where whisky and alcohol were found. Withee lists Lynxville Wisconsin and Downey Akron Ohio as homes.
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Eleader
Art Withee
J. L. Downey
Grand Jury
D. E. Gleason
Mississippi River
Guttenberg
Button Factory
Bennett Names Committees For Fifth Annual Horse Show
Special to The Gazette Bennett Commander Veno Conrad of Rixe Lausen post 104 American Legion appointed committees for the fifth annual fall festival and colt and horse show to be held in Bennett on Saturday Sept 7. Committees include Colt and horse show A R Stephenson and Omer B Wright. Agricultural show H E Botolph Albert Kluever and H H Siemsen. Concessions Art Bachus Dr L E Bees and W F Blair. Advertising Edward A Kruse M F Bullis and L E Bees. Amusement J G Engel Frank Wehde and C W Pollock. Police Emil Kluever Aug Hormann William Sieffert and William Heick. Refreshment stands Paul A Hambright chairman. Dance C W Pollock chairman. Stand construction Albert Thiering and William Stuhr. Ticket sales W H Dugan chairman.
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Bennett
Veno Conrad
Rixe Lausen
American Legion
Colt
Colt and Horse Show
A. R. Stephenson
Omer.b. Wright
H. E. Buttolph
J. Rixe
Albert Kluever
H. H. Siemsen
Art Bachus
L. E. Bees
W. F. Blair
Edward A. Kruse
M. F. Bullis
J. G._ Engel
Frank. Wehde
C. W. Pollock
Emil. Kluever
Aug. Hormann
William. Sieffert
William Heick
Paul A
Mrs Roland H Bowman of Mount Vernon Dies
Margaret Eyestone Bowman age 60 wife of Roland H Bowman died at her Mount Vernon home after a yearlong illness. She is survived by her husband and three children Roy Izyl and Ralph all at home. A native of Washington county she moved to Mount Vernon thirty years ago and married in 1911. She was a member of the Methodist church and several clubs. Funeral services Monday at 4 p.m. at the Methodist church with Rev E T Gough and Dr S L Chandler officiating.
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Lisbon
John Rieger
Federated Church
Mount Vernon
Martin Rigby
Cedar ‘County
Tipton
Cedar/county
Tipton State Bank
Brandon
Evelyn Brittell
Ackley
Henrietta Homewood
Strawberry Point
Gorene Mount Vernon
Margaret Eyestone Bowman
Roland H. Bowman
J. B. Eyestone
J. W. Eyestone
Washington County
Mount Pleasant
Roy
Izyl
Ralph
Methodist Church
Ps E. QO
Linn and
Franklin ‘Corn’ Club
The
E. T. Gough
S. L. Chandler
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