Marion nonpartisan election HQ serves women voters
The Federation of Women's Clubs sponsors a Marion election headquarters in Memorial Hall open 2 to 6 pm Monday. Women needing transport to polls may call Hall No. 152. Volunteers include Mrs. Elmer Neff, Mrs. Charles Engel, Bernice Toms, Lulu Secrist, and others.
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Federation of Women’s Clubs
Memorial Hall
Elmer Neff
Charles A. Engel
Bernice Toms
Lulu B. Secrist
Don Torrence
Reginald Adams
Glenn Larkin
J. A. Beeson
Ethel Hart
Presbyterian ladies aid and circle meet midweek notices
Westminster circle of the Presbyterian church meets Wednesday at 7 45 at 884 Ninth Street. The second and third divisions of the Presbyterian Ladies Aid meet Wednesday at 2 30 at 785 Eighth Avenue hosted by Mrs C L O Kelly and Mrs Mary Gleason. Fourth division picnic luncheon Wednesday at 1 at 1345 Tenth Street. Miss Ethel Harris visiting Springville and Mount Vernon. Dr and Mrs John Patterson of Des Moines arrive to visit brothers James and Sam Patterson and Miss Bess Patterson. The Shop Around the Corner now showing at the Garden with James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. Mr and Mrs Charles Hibner of Chicago weekend in town at Mrs Hibner's mother Mrs George M Hibner. Mrs George Gillmore went to Ottosen to visit son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Leonard Holden. Robert J Bennett of St. Louis and Miss Norma S Bediford of Jackson were married Friday by Justice C E Drummond. For quick sale immediate possession four room modern home with garage and basement at 308 South 11 Street. Marion chapter No 183 O E S will meet Wednesday at 8 with candidates initiated. refreshments and program.
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Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society
W. G. Neill
Eighth Avenue
C L. O’kelly
Mary Gleason
John Patterson
Des Moines
Dr Patterson
James
Sam Patterson
Miss Bess Patterson
Coc
Miss Patterson
Buchanan's Last Veteran of '61 in Independence Memorial
George W. Kays, 92, last Civil War veteran in Buchanan county, rode in the Memorial Day parade and placed a wreath on a comrade's grave. Born October 18 1847 in Mercer PA, he enlisted at Platteville WI and served through the war. He moved to Independence in 1869 and retired in 1914 before settling in the Fifth Ward with his wife and son.
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the Gazette
Independence
George W. Kays
Buchanan County
Mr. Kays
Mercer County
Pennsylvania
Plattville
Wis
Fifth Ward
St Berchmans to honor Rev Barrett at commencement
The Rev Norbert C. Barrett of Loras Academy will speak at St. Berchmans school commencement Wednesday at 7 30 p.m in the school gym. The program includes orchestra and choir music, grade drills, a three act play The Ship in the Wake, and conferring of eighth grade diplomas and athletic letters.
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Norbert C. Barrett
Loras Academy
Dubuque
Sacred Heart Academy
Cedar Rapids
St. Berchman’s
H. G. Hatch
J. R Goodman
Happy Hans
Franz
Little Boys
L. Driscoll
Robert Thompson
Thomas Benedict
D Wilson
Joseph Lehmencker
E. Davin
M. Miner
D. Scholz
William Walsh
L. Jones
Father Goodman
Father Barrett
Father Hyland
Larry Driscoll
Frank Moore
Holy Name Society
John. Reichard
Wil Foster
Billy Walsh
den Wise
Ray Calley
Don Clance
Don Morrissey
Lucien Dphooce
Tom Fenedict
Robert Harriss
Gordon Jones
Martin Steindler
Ralph O'Neill
Dean Keller Thomas Kine
Jimmy Cooke
Doulas Hutchins
Jack Lane
Robert Irving
Mickey Miner
Jack Walsh
Dude Weeman
Wayne Horan
Magnolia Club
Lynn
Richard Boyle
Raymond Wendt
Ernest Davis
Joe Schmencker
Jack Cassell
Don
Divisions Outline Methodist Ladies Aid Meetings
Divisions Comforter 230 Endeavor Gleaners Keystone Loyal Rainbow Sunshine and True Blue hold meetings at various homes across town with picnics and luncheons listed. Some divisions postpone dates while others plan gatherings at Lula Toms Mrs Beyer Mrs Ainley Mrs Bowdish Jr Mrs Booth and others. Additional notes include machinery expansion at Paris Cleaning and Laundry and a Theristrial club lunch.
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Methodist Ladies Aid Society
Comforter
Lula Toms
Seventh Avenue
Endeavor
Frank Straley
Central Avenue
August Beyer
Fifth Avenue
Jack Ratliff
Keystone
S. C. Ainley
Twelfth Street
Harry Dunn
Marvin Neilson
Loyal
Jack Bowdish
Sixth Avenue
Rainbow
J. J. Booth
Eleventh Street
Raymond Kent
W. C. Sheets
Florence Scott
James E. Bromwell
Sunshine
Wilfred Stickney
Fourth Avenue
W. E. Mitchell
Ray Domer
Lottie Dawson
True Blue Division
Falls From Tractor Injures Marion Hansen at Kittenball Diamond
Marion Hansen of 309 Seventh Avenue sustained severe lacerations to his right thigh Saturday afternoon after falling from a seat on a disc tractor while working at the kittenball diamond. Wounds were treated at a local doctor’s office. Several community notices follow about meetings, picnics, and club events including the Companions Missionary Gund potluck, funeral services for Robert S Oxley, and local social gatherings.
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Marion Hansen
Seventh Avenue
Century Ago S bombs scarred lands and graveyard rows
The Campbell cemetery near Cedar Rapids becomes a quiet focal point in Linn and Johnson counties as readers note war’s toll through aged markers. The 1839 and 1840 gravestones mark early deaths, while veterans from Spanish American and World War I rest nearby under care of Bertram township.
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Campbell
Mount Vernon Road
Bertram Township
Samuel T. Campbell
Samuel Campbell
Linn County
Lewis Williams
Thomas W Campbell
Sarah
N. Beemer Lisbon
Cedar Rapids
Highway 30
Grand Army of the Republic
Commencement Talk At Cornell College Broadcast June 10
The eighty seventh Cornell college commencement address by Dr Ralph W. Sockman will be broadcast from radio station WMT on June 10. The invocation will be offered by Rev Everett A Sabin and benediction by Dr Thomas S Kepler. The baccalaureate sermon, "The Age of Treason," will be delivered by President J B Magee on June 9 with participation by Rev Lloyd A Gustafson and Rev Edward T Gough and special music planned.
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Lloyd A. Gustafson
Mount Vernon Methodist Church
Edward T Gough
Davenport
Methodist Church
Postville Council Approves Resolution for Street Paving
Postville town council passes a resolution of necessity to use funds for paving all unpaved streets this summer in the town.
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Postville
Centerdale Women's Club marks golden jubilee in West Branch
In West Branch on Wednesday afternoon the Centerdale Women’s Club celebrated its 50th anniversary with a 1 PM luncheon. The event featured remarks by president Mrs O E Jensen and toastmaster Mrs W L Pemberton, plus tributes to charter members and 25 year members. The club, born as a Ladies Aid group, recalled its history and federation ties with the Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs, as about 75 members gathered for the formal program and social hour.
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West Branch
Centerdale
Crystal Areingdale
W. L. Pemberton
O. E. Jensen
Pearl Ivey
West Liberty
H. P. Hartley
Hartley
Everett Pownall
Centerville
L. W. Heald
W. H. Erb
Ada P. Hemingway
Lydia Hemingway
Erb
Hemingway
Katie Pownall
Cedar Rapids
Reed Hawthorne
E. C. Branson
C. C. Hampton
L. C. Larson
C. W. Pearson
Frank Owens
Charles Thompson
Commencement at Iowa U adds new graduates list
Long roll of graduates from Iowa University extends across pages in Iowa City. The diploma recipients include numerous BA and other degrees with names such as Mary L. Spencer Charles W Alcock Avery R Arent and many more. The list spans multiple majors and includes Doctoral and Master candidates, reflecting a broad graduating class.
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Mary L. Spencer
Charles W Alcock
Avery R Arent
Howard W. Bailey
Patricia Baldwin
Roger E Bardsley
Margaret A. Beck
Maxine R. Beckett
Wayne S Bishop
Melvin O Brown
Mary E. Browning
Robert F. Burns
Marlin J. Busch
Mary M Campbell
Harry R. Carns
Caroline I Cole
Irene R. Donohue
Cora A. Eaton
Don E. Floyd
Iowa City
Evelyn E Fox
Arthur Goldberg
Donna M Hambrecht
Loren L. Hickerson
Thomas D Horn
Doris F Houlihan
Ruth D House
Robert S. Ivie
Ethel M. Kaspar
Catherine M Kessler
Alice I. Knight
Robert J Knoepfler
Mary BE. Lahr
Barbara M. Lillick
Margaret A. Love
Marjorie PT. Mangold
Floyd C. Mann
Dorothy A. Martin
Forrest. C. Mercer
Stanley EB. Nelson
Parker Pelzer
Thomas J. Phillips
Mary F. Regan
Melvin A. Rummells
Susan A. Runner
Edward 4. Shannon
Herbert B. Smith
Mary R. Spencer
Geraldine E. Spratt
Mary E. Stork
Robert K. Tindall
Campbell F. Watts
Donald M. Anderson
Leon C Karel
Samuel Osdoba
Hugo A. Lindholm
LAM
Ina N Copeland
Helen H. Polsen
Bernice E Stormes
Richard 8. Gibbs
Paul R. Carrigg
Melvin L. Oldfather
Alvin W. Green
Melvin A. Minish
Alan W. Baldwin
Wener G. Moeller
James G. Bielenberg
Hubert W. Lewis
Robert P. Miller
Vernal L. Wagner
Hilton L. Yakish
Louise PT. Axen
Richard W. Cambridge
Robert J. Coen
Eleanor M. Droll
Lauren B. Housel
Suzanne D. Krueger
Clarence J. Lang
Edward McCloy
Hartung Named Guest Director for Cornell Summer Drama
Mount Vernon professor Albert Johnson announces Robert Hartung of Mount Vernon as guest director for Cornell’s seventh annual summer theater colony on the Cornell campus. Hartung, a Cornell graduate, recently completed Yale graduate work and was named director of speech and dramatics at Simpson College. The season opens June 20 with Seven Sisters followed by What a Life and Playboy of the Western World.
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Mount Vernon
Albert Johnson
Robert Hartung
Cornell College
Hartung
Cornell
Yale University
Simpson College
Seven Sisters
Manchester theater owner nearly loses finger at cabin saw
Manchester theater owner Wayne A. Dutton suffered a near severing injury when his hand struck a small power driven saw at his cabin resort near the Quaker mill northwest of Manchester. Physicians expected a full recovery.
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Manchester
Wayne A. Dutton
Quaker Mill
Luther College marks Sihler fifty years as instructor
Prof William Sihler will address Luther College graduates on June 4 completing half a century on the faculty. Since 1890 he has taught German and other subjects, authored German texts, composed music, played varsity baseball, aided needy students, and remained loyal to the college despite offers from larger schools.
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Boc Bailey
Ecorah
William Sihler
Luther College
United States
Sihler
Fort Wayne
Luther Couese
Concordia College
Concordia Theological Seminary
St Louis
University of Wisconsin
Sachs
Luther Grad
Billy Sihler
Middle West
Prof. Sihler
Dave
Luther
Sthler
Sibler
Lather
Concordia
Crerman
Amalia Schust
North Street
Margaret
Chicago University
Hay Kenneds
Miles City
Mont
Henry A Buenneke
Maynard
Ernest
Wittenberg
Wis
Van Horne Couple Mark 60 Years of Marriage
Mr and Mrs Patrick Kelly celebrate their sixty years of marriage with an anniversary gathering at their son Roy Kellys farm near Van Horne. The event brings together nine children sixty grandchildren and four great grandchildren for a noon dinner and open house from 2 to 5 pm.
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van Horne
Patrick Kelly
Roy Kelly
Kelly
Mr. Kelly
Benton County
Union Township
Ellen
Mr Kelly
Geneva
Ellen Darcy
Ellen Darcey Kelly
New York State
Darcy
Prairie Land
Charles P
Walker
Garret
Blairstown
Will
Roy
Osborne
Clarence
Emmet
Elizabeth Power
Boone
Vivian
Irene Briggs
Kenneth
Marguerite
Lorena
Clar
Local Names Enumerated in Boone Area Obituary List
The record lists numerous individuals including Donald Shirley Ann Walter Kelly Marcella Blackwall Veronica Kelly Raymond Bernadine Raphael Paul Dorothy Ann Wil ford Dale Cecil Dolores Gayle Francis Patriniera Kelly and Lavon Kanke all of Van Horne along with others from Boone Cedar Rapids Davenport Blairstown and Van Horne.
Fine Arts Festival at Cornell College Next Sunday
The Gazette reports Cornell College hosts a fine arts festival next Sunday with a 2:30 p.m. Family Portrait viewing for guests of graduates in Tittle Theater led by Prof Albert Johnson and Bertha French Johnson. The student art exhibit opens 2–4 p.m. in the Fine Arts building. An 8 p.m. commencement recital lands in Cornell Chapel. Commencement week runs June 7–30 with Dr John B Magee as baccalaureate speaker and Dr Ralph Sockman as commencement speaker.
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Gazette
Mount Vernon
Cornelis
Tittle Theater
Albert Johnson
Bertha French Johnson
Cornell Conservatory
Cornell
John B Magee
Ralph Sockman
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Whittier
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Ninth Street
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Springville
James Stewart
Margaret Sullavan
Charles Hibner
Mr. Hibner
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George Gillmore
Ottosen
Leonard Holden
Robert J. Bennett
St. Louis
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Jackson
C. E Drummond
Joe German
Eau Claire
John J Booth
South 11 Street
Buchanan
Norbert Barrett
Paris
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Masonic Temple
R. J. Kendall
George Busby
Theristrial Club
Marion Golf Club
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C. FE. Drummond
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G. J. Lorenzen
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H. E. Carson
Clinton
Richard Wager
Jeanne Louise
Central City
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Preston
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R. A. Crew
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Dewey Alexan
Gund
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Clarence Meggers
Robert S Oxley
Yocom Chapel
Arthur W Henke
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Oak Shade Cemetery
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Wilona
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Spokane, Wash
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Hubert G Frus
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Russell L. Wagner
Cornelia C Cameron
Carl B. Cone
Helen L. Fairbanks
O. Ronald Lippitt
Juan Lopez Morillas
James M. McGuire
Janet P Piper
Edward M. Spencer
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Charles A Smith
North Liberty
Clifford A Rugger
Oxford
Cameron R. Campbell
Sharon Center
Frances A. Kopecky
Swisher
Louis E. Kopecky
Mary L. Crozier
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Jones County
Thornburg
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Jimn
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Ene N. Bunce
Maxine F. Burke
Carl N. Etlinger, Jr
Fleannt M Hurka
Cornelia F Himrod
John A Hfuteh
Elizabeth A. Konsinger
Mary F. Lee
Genevieve A. MecCulloch
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Della M. Nash
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Edward J. Poyneer
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Paul M. Keyes
John W Linsley, Jr
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Grundy Center
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Clara M Lauderdale
Washington
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Ainsworth
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John R Day
Brighton
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Robert F. Edmondson
Victor J. Hesseltine
Crawfordsville
Victor J Taylor
Crawfordsvide
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Keota
Richard A Snyder
Riverside
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Ruth ‘A Stewart
Mary FE. Lytle
Daryl LL. Fetters
James P Kyle
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Hayden T. Hughes
Sara M. Hluber
Wellman
Duane C. For
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Fort Atkinson
Dorothy A. Swaren
Ridgeway
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IBF
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Centerdale Women’s Club
Maud Stratton
Iowa U
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