Candidates Trade Brickbats As Senatorial Race Nears End
In Iowa pre election stumping Henry Field and Senator Smith W Brookhart trade barbs as Brookhart campaigns Mason City and Spirit Lake while Field visits Des Moines Iowa Falls Webster City Winterset Adel and Stuart. Col Glenn Haynes labels Brookhart’s record incompetent and extravagant in Centerville address citing spending and failures to boost industry.
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Des Moines
Henry Field
Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
Brookhart
Mason City
Field
Iowa Falls
Webster City
Winterset
Adel
Stuart
Smith, Jr
Spirit Lake
Byron Allen
Storm Lake Field
Independence
Glenn Haynes
Haynes
Centerville
Col. Haynes
Senate
Cornell College Alumni Day Celebrated at Mount Vernon
Alumni day at Cornell college in Mount Vernon features reunions starting with Saturday breakfast and ending with a banquet in the Methodist church parlors. The class of 1882 marks the golden anniversary with Dr. R F Hurlburt of Hollywood as representative. the class of 1907 observes silver anniversary with Louise Freer assisting. A sports program pits alumni against current Cornell athletes, and President and Mrs Burgstahler host open house for campus guests.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
R F. Hurlburt
Hollywood
Calif
Toledo
Cornell
Louise Freer
Univern of Illinois
Cornell Alumni Association
Methodist Church
H. J. Burgstahler
Franken Couple Observes Golden Wedding at Farm Home
Mr and Mrs C G Franken of Colfax township celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Monday at their farm. They were married May 30 1882 at the Drake church. He born in Germany 78, she born in Mount Morris Ill 66. They have five children two of whom died in infancy. Living children are Mrs Andrew Stahl Mrs Jake Stahl and Mrs John J Stahl. The Franken family are longtime church workers with Mr Franken serving as Colfax Presbyterian church trustee for 40 years and treasurer 15 years. He also serves as president of Farmers Savings Bank at Holland.
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Grundy Center
C. G. Franken
Colfax Township
Vander
Drake Church
Mr. Franken
Germany
Emma Steinemeier Franken
Mount Morris
Ill
Andrew Stahl
Jake Stahl
John J. Stahl
Franken
John Rabenburg
Chris Frater
Colfax Presbyterian Church
Farmers Saving Bank At
Holland
Woman Escapes Kidnappers By Moving to Independence
Mrs. Charles F. Grey fled from Evanston to Independence after threats to abduct her two children Carol age six and Charles Jr age three. She reported receiving three letters demanding $5,000 under penalty of death for her kids.
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Independence, In
Ins
Charles F. Grey
Evanston
Traer Bank Preferred Claim For $9,270 Draft
The Traer State bank has allowed a preferred claim of $9,270 for a town draft that failed to clear, with immediate payment ordered. The draft covered bonds and interest due November 1 and faced initial denial as a nonpreferred public deposit, but the state banking department reversed position and approved the claim. Prior preferred claims against the bank’s assets totaled $3,094 and were paid with the first 50 percent dividend to depositors.
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Traer
Traer State Bank
State Bank
Davenport
State Department of
State Banking Department
State Department
Grundy County Taxpayers Form Protest Group
Two hundred Grundy County taxpayers met at the Legion hall to organize a taxpayers protest association. Henry Mast was named chairman and Claus Haren secretary. Bert Roskamp spoke on aims while others urged wage cuts and reduced government spending. a countywide petition seeks a 50 percent tax payment limit and salary cuts from officials.
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Grundy Center
Grundy County
Legion Hall
Henry Mast
Claus Haren
Bert Roskamp
Joe Newell
H. B. Kelly
Chas. W. Mooty
J. B. Dunn
Reinbeck
Iowa
United States
Grundy County Rural Pupils GraduationSaturday
Eighth grade graduation exercises will be held at the Grundy Center high school auditorium Saturday. County Superintendent D R Earl will award medals. Royal Holbrook of Cedar Rapids will deliver the address. The program includes eighth grade choir numbers an invocation by Reverend J B Bird and a vocal solo by Esther Meyer.
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Grundy Center
Grundy County
D. R. Earl
Royal Holbrook
Cedar Rapids
J. B. Bird
Esther Meyer
Awards Given Out At Graduation In Maquoketa
Maquoketa commencement exercises honored top students in high school and junior college. June Silberhorn won the scholarship award. Margaret Moyle, citizenship letter for the girls, followed by Grace Wylie and others. Boys recipients included Elmer Wilms and Owen Seamonds with Frederick Swift, Elroy Gruenwaldt, and Duane McMurray in order. Perfect attendance honors went to Mark Filisch, Alverda Grager, and Katherine Longschwager. Timber City versatility cups went to Margaret Dyer and Wilmer Lary in the junior college.
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Maquoketa
June Silberhorn
Margaret Moyle
Grace Wylie
Frederick Swift
Josephine Graul
Marjorie Reynolds
Mildred Marlowe
Margaret Smola
Elmer Wilms
Carl Wilms
Delmar
Owen Seamonds
Elroy Gruenwaldt
Duane McMurray
Mark Altfillisch
Alverda Grager
Katherine Longschwager
Timber City
Margaret Dyer
Wilmer Lary
Bids Open For 790000 St Francis Parish Building
Bids for a 790000 project by the St Francis parish in Dyersville will be let June 10. Plans include a new Roman type rectory behind the church, a cloister from the rectory to the sacristy, a 36 by 66 foot addition for sisters, and enlargements to the rectory. The old school will be rewired, the auditorium floor replaced with concrete, and steel beams installed.
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Dyersville
St. Francis
J. B. Herbers
Sisters of St. Francis
Suspension of The Lisbon News Publishes by Other Papers
The Lisbon News weekly has suspended publication and its subscription list moved to the Mount Vernon Hawkeye Record and Lisbon Herald. The paper, founded by R. B. Stahl, was later sold to L. M. Slaght and G. G. Schuknecht, who ran it briefly before moving to the Springville New Era.
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Lisbon
Lisbon News
Mount Vernon Hawkeye Record
Lisbon Herald
The
News
R. B. Stahl
L. M. Slaght
G. G. Schuknecht
Cornell College
Slaght
Mr. Schuknecht
Springville
New Era
Reassessment Ordered for Highland Township by State Board
Des Moines reports the Iowa state board, led by Dr. J. W. Reynolds, ordered Highland Township reassessment after Tama county officials alleged trustees destroyed records and altered assessment rolls. Trustees allegedly raised and lowered values arbitrarily without notifying affected individuals, prompting the first direct order to reassess and reconvene an equalization board.
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DES Moines
INS
Highland Tama Board
Tama County
Highland Township
J. W. Reynolds
State Board
Township Board of Equalization
Reynolds
Graduation Program Shines at Washington Commencement
Washington, Ia. High school and junior college commencements were held at the Methodist church on Thursday evening. Gov. Dan Turner gave the principal address. The program featured invocations, quartets, a salutatorian address by Cora Mae Hotle, valedictorian Marjorie Pratt, musical selections, and diploma awards by President A. E. Atchison with Supt. J. H. Peet presenting the classes.
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Washington
Methodist Church
Dan Turner
C. W. Klein
Cora Mae Hotle
Marjorie Pratt
Supt
J. H. Peet
A. E. Atchison
Planes Collide at Le Bourget Airfield Amid Crashes
Two military planes collided near Paris at Le Bourget Airdrome and crashed into buildings. A week later another military aircraft, driven by a fierce wind, struck a hangar and careened toward the streetcar line before somersaulting away.
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le Bourget
Paris
Bonus Army stops in Beverly on westbound parade
A 210 veteran unit from San Francisco and Yakima joined a Washington bound march, disembarking from five North Western freight cars in Beverly. They received meals from American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts before continuing eastward toward their demand for full payment of adjusted compensation certificates. The men, calling themselves Herbert Hoover's gentlemen of leisure, said they were not hoboes as they paused briefly in Beverly and watered the meat train before resuming the journey.
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Boone
INS
San Francisco
Yakima
Wash
Congress
North Western Railroad
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Clin
Ralph Conn
Herbert Hoover
Six Iowa U Men Will Make Talks At State Bar Meeting
Five University of Iowa College of Law faculty members and James E. Carroll a Davenport senior law student will appear at the state bar association meeting in Burlington on June 9 and 10. Professors Percy Bordwell Odis Patton Clarence Updegraff and Mason Ladd will speak on legal education uniform state laws Integrated War and law reform. Carroll will discuss legal education from the graduate perspective.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa College of Law
James E. Carroll
Davenport
State Bar Association
Burlington
State University
Percy Bordwell
Odis Patton
Clarence Updegraff
Mason
Backwards Watch Created by San Antonio Maker
A San Antonio watchmaker unveils what is claimed to be the only watch in the world that runs backward, offering a novel timekeeping mechanism and a novelty for collectors and enthusiasts.
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San Antonio, Texas
Grundy Center Car Damaged In Accident Near Vinton
A Friday crash at the intersection of highways 8 and 218 west of Vinton involved three vehicles. L. P. Herger of near Grundy Center was uninjured and his car was damaged. John Des Maris and family in Grundy Center sustained a badly damaged sedan. Mrs Des Maris received minor treatment after first aid in Vinton. The Minnesota driver attempted to pass and caused the collision, sending Des Maris’s car into an eight foot ditch.
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Vinton
Ar L
Northfield
Minn
L. P. Herger
John Des Maris
Grundy Center
Minnesota
Herger
Des Maris
Mount Vernon
I Will Appreciate Your Support Primaries
Primary event note requests support on a Monday date marked June 6. The item reads as a political appeal urging voters to back candidates or a campaign on that day. No specific candidates or jurisdictions are named in the fragment.
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