Statue Gift From Belgians Center Of Hoover Grounds Improvements
The Hoover birthplace at West Branch features a seven foot bronze statue of a veiled Isis by Belgian sculptor Puttemans, gifted in 1922 by Belgian schoolchildren and soldiers. Improvements around the site include a rustic bridge over Wapsinonoc Creek, flagstone paths, a stone retaining wall from Cedar Valley, picnic tables, and a restored setting aiming to recreate the original home for Jesse and Huldah Hoover. The Hoover Birthplace Society now maintains the grounds amid ongoing restoration and public access developments.
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Hoover
Maud Atratton
Est
Isis
West Branch
Mecca
Puttemans
White House
Ife
Herbert Hoover
California
Wapsinonoc
Cedar Valley
Cedar County
Hoover Birthplace
Allan Hoover
Jesse
Huldah Hoover
Hoover Birthplace Society
Marion library purchases twenty five new book titles
Marion public library has acquired twenty five new titles across adult non fiction fiction and children's books and they are now ready for circulation. Titles include This Is Our China by Madame Chiang Kai Shek and Abraham Lincoln The War Years by Carl Sandburg among others. Local events report the Martin's Creek Community club meeting at Mrs Gerald Scott's home Thursday afternoon and a joint Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodge picnic moved to Vaughn's pasture one half mile north of Marion Golf Club with cars meeting at the hall at noon.
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Marion Public Library
Metta Whitcomb
China
Madame Chiang Kai Shek
Allen
Maurois
Abra‘ham Lincoln
Brede
Truss
Nansen
Hall
Cline
Seredy
Bianco
Simon
Bozo
Sayre
Quirk
Meyer
Martin's Creek
Gerald Scott
Odd Fellows and
Rebekah Lodges
Legion Picnic and meetings set for Monday evening
American Legion and Auxiliary members and families plan a 6 30 p m picnic supper at the Legion hall followed by a 7 30 post executive meeting and 8 o clock individual post and auxiliary meetings Officers to be elected in July will be nominated at the sessions From Springville a long list of supper committee members including Lucy Cooper Ruby Erickson Hazel Wilson and many others Also notes ongoing visits and local club activities across the community
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American Legion and Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Post
Auxiliary
Springville
Mesdames
Lucy Cooper
Ruby Erickson
Hazel Wilson
Bessie Graham
Ina Hunte
Caroline Huske
Esther Hotchkiss
Fanny Pat
Stevens to supervise Daniels Park playground in Cedar Rapids
Michel reports that Mr Stevens will oversee the Daniels Park playground in Cedar Rapids for the summer season. The arrangement places Stevens in charge of supervision and maintenance during the warmer months, ensuring safe and organized activities for visitors.
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Michel
Stevens
Daniels Park
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Presbyterian Synod To Meet At Ames June 24 27
The fifty ninth annual meeting of the Presbyterian synod of Iowa will be held at Iowa State College from June 24 to 27. Host pastor is Rev Walter Barlow of Collegiate Presbyterian. Synod executive Rev W A Harless directs the program. Opening sermon June 24 by Rev C Carson SBransby of Council Bluffs. About 400 pastors and lay delegates are expected.
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Ames
Presbyterian Synod of Iowa
Iowa State College
Walter Barlow
Collegiate Presbyterian Church
W. A. Harless
Synod
C Carson Sbransby
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Baking Milestone: Mrs. Fisher Keeps Saturday Traditions
On her 90th birthday Mary Fisher remains active in baking light bread and rolls each Saturday and pie on Sunday. Born in Scotland in 1850, she came to the United States as a child and has lived in Delta for 58 years. She is the oldest of twelve, widowed, with five daughters and a strong memory of past hometowns and a bridge she played near as a girl.
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Mary Fisher
Wishaw
Lanarkshire
Scotland
Mary Smith
America
Hugh
Margaret Moffatt Smith
Atlantic
Martin Fisher
Delta
Elizabeth Dunn
Fisher
Dunn
Margaret Walters
Des Moines
Roy Bump
F. E. Diersey
Youngstown
Ohio
Ida Fisher
Wayne
Neb
Ida
Barton
Maryland
Delta Christian Church
Tama Man Pitches Perpetual Motion Invention
Tama county farmer Frank Klima claims a home built model of a four coil water driven turbine can generate electricity. He says air trapped in the coils powers a 20 foot wheel and that the device could light a fair sized city though the patent office rejected the concept as perpetual motion.
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Frank Klima
Tama County
S. Patent Office
Klima
Thomases
Tama
Imaginative Tour From Pole Dreams To Classic Adventure
The piece reviews Poulter’s tales from Little America and Bay of Whales with a 61 degree below zero voyage and plans to head for the Pole next fall. It contrasts icy exploration with Iowa farming, praising imagination through Jules Verne and Marco Polo as an escape from present tensions.
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Poulter
Little America
Bay of Whales
Pole
Europe
South Pole
United States
Mexico
Iowa
Marco Polo
Sinbad the Sailor
Jules Verne
Dice brothers anchor Tipton Centennial turnout
Tipton’s Dice brothers Leonard Clarence Harry of Tipton and Forrest of Wilton Junction share in the town centennial celebrations on July 3 and 4. Descendants of Henry Fulwider who settled Cedar county in 1839, they join about 200 Whiskers club members in a Centennial trip via the special train to Chicago for a double header, returning after the day’s events.
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Tipton
Dice
Leonard
Clarence
Harry
Forrest
Wilton Junction
Henry Fulwider
John
Cedar County
Fulwider
Sugar Creek
Chicago
Whiskers Club
Yale Scientist Kovarik Visited His Spillville Roots
Dr Alois F Kovarik, once a Spillville boyhood resident and now Yale University professor, traces his rise from a Decorah Institute pupil to an esteemed scientist. His career spans Minnesota faculty, Cambridge sabbaticals, and Bohemian honors, including delivering a Bohemian address and earning Charles University recognition.
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B.C. Bailey
Turkey River
New Haven
Labrador
Boston
New England
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
Alois F Kovarik
Spillville
Ike Walton
Kovarik
Decorah
Teachers
Yale University
Wnovarik
Frank Kovarik
Emma Klimesh
Mary Kovarik
County Institute
Decorah Institute
John Breckenridge
Iowa
Dr. Kovarik
Samuel Calvin
University of Iowa
Winneshiek County
Minnesota
Yale
Cambridge University
England
American Society of Scientists
Charles University
Prague
Bohemia
Kovank
Dr Kovarik
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Lincoln
Ethel B. Hart
Arline Halstead
Maxine Elkin
Ameigo Club
E. M. Adams
Central City
Edgar Pyle
Gordon
Adelia Pyle
Hollywood, Fla
Robert S. Oxley
Glenn O Pyle
Carl Hindman
School For the Blind
Vinton
Clara Wilson
Mary Baker
Tom Cook
Sac City
New York
Alice Faye
Fred MacMurray
Melvin Oldfather
Iowa City
Mrs Oldfather
Oren Martin
WR. Barber
D. V. Conwell
Jean
Joan
Halstead
Kan
le Roy Barber
Jeannette Titus
H M,. Titus
Sacred Heart Circle
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Frank Lafferty
Eghth Avenue
Bess Boyles
Milwaukee University School
Frank S. Skinner
Frank Comstock
Madeline Brutsman W
Mercy Hospital
Fred J. Lang
Archie F. Miller
Linioln
Presbyterian General Aid and Missionary Societies
Fred Nelson
John A. Beeson
Dorothy Ford
P A. Osborne
Kellogg
M. C. Birchard
Excelsior A. and L. Club
Bernard Tudeen
R. W. Overfelt
Billie and
Marilyn
McGill, New
Overfelt
B. F. Brockman
Mary Lowe Dickinson
King's Daughters
Cheerful Companions
The
Christian Church
Bever Park
Melvin H. Schmidt
Lorraine
Steinmetz
J. W. Dukek
Sixth Street
Ladies Aid Society
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Harry Fox
Fifth Avenue
William Fowler
U. S. Circle
Harry Hammond
Carl Falcon
Harold Scott
Bernard G. Tudeen
E. J. Reed
Joseph Dumbalton
Ed Reed
Eddie
Anamosa
Stone City
Stanley Stevens
Kenneth
Manston, Wis
Marion News
W. S. Starbuck
L. M. Phelps
Davenport
Arthur B. Nolisch
Ben
Anna Mae
Emma Jean
Terris
Nollsch
E. L. Hodge
Thomas ‘Park
Marion Lodge No. 6
A. F
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Masonic Temple
Dr. Booth
Virginia Self
George W. Self
Sheffield
General Aid Society of the Methodist Church
Thomas Park
Lang
Legion Pool
Rocky Road Hutchinson's
Owen’s
F. A. Hankins
Mrs. Francis Tanner
Cedar Falls
Shirley Nichols
Cheley Camp
Estes Park
Colo
Glenn E. Kinser
Ninth Avenue
Earle Nichols
Susan Hankins
Marshalltown
Mrs
Betty Blok
I Try Missionary Girls of the Christian Church
Patty Landis
Caroline Caldwell
Geraldine Caldwell
Donna McCalley
George Michel
Cornelian Club
Garden
Cecil Seger
F. J. Seger
Iowa Presbyterian Synod
Tama Man
Dice Brothers
Leonard, Clarence, Harry and
Lowan
Minnesota UI
Dr Kovaruk
Land
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Alois F. Kovarik
Walker Scheel
F. W. Lindaml
Walker, Jews
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