Iowa House passes scavenger tax sale bill for governor
The Iowa House adopted the scavenger tax sale bill 7 to 0, sending it to the governor. The measure requires counties to buy delinquent property for the amount of taxes if no higher bid is made, aiming to curb predatory purchases and boost county receipts.
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Castrez
Fish and Game Commission
Board of Conservation
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Senate
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Board of Education
Iowans receive relief aid in February totals 280000
Des Moines reports that over 280000 Iowans received some form of relief in February through the Iowa emergency relief administration. The largest group, 271128, received unemployment and drought relief, with transient aid aiding 8276 people through 6788 cases. The SRE program assisted 2500 college students and 459 teachers were employed under emergency education. Residents in Linn County totaled 2403 employment relief cases.
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Des Moines
E. H. Mulock
Iowa
Iowa Emergency Relief Administration
Mulock
Linn
Religious Pageant To Be Given At Cornell
The Acts of St Peter, Gordon Bottomley’s religious pageant, will premiere in the Cornell chapel on April 20, Easter Eve. Part of Cornell’s Cycle of International Drama, the production is led by Albert Franklin Johnson and features collaboration among speech, music, art, and home economics departments with cast from the speech department and Purple Masquers.
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Mount Vernon
Johnson
Purple Masquers, Dramatic Society
Hanna First Dist G O P Committeeman Wins Unopposed
Walker D Hanns the Burlington securities dealer was unanimously chosen as First district Republican committeeman in Washington Iowa after Sanford Ziegler Jr. resigned to join the Iowa house. About 20 delegates attended the meeting held to name Ziegler’s successor with no campaign policy discussed. DELMAR Directors finalize old business and organize new board with Frank Ebersole and Charles Reilly sworn in.
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Washington
Walker D. Hanns
Burlington Securities
Sanford Ziegler, Jr
Fairfield
Hanna
Ziegler
Iowa House of Representatives
Delmar
Delmar Consolidated School
Frank Ebersole
Charles Reilly
J. F Farrell
Janet Goodjohn
Mildred Walrod
Mary Waters
Doris Watters
E. V. Guiles
Costs Schra der wedding in Tipton
The marriage of Miss Jeanette Costs and Truman Schrader of Victor occurred Sunday in Tipton. The Rev Jerrell of the Methodist Episcopal church officiated. Attending were Mr and Mrs Bruce Coats of Tipton, siblings of the bride and groom. The couple will reside in Victor where the groom works as a barber.
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Victor
Jeanette Costs
Truman Schrader
Tipton
Res
Jerrell
Methodist Episcopal Church
Bruce Coats
Tower
AWAIT LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON PENSIONS
Des Moines report shows 8,624 grants totaling payments from Nov 1 1934 to July 1 1935 with an average of 1341 per month. Linn county accounts for 288 grants, 40 517 of 1 035 219 tax revenue directed to pensions, and 18 000 to 20 000 applications still awaiting county board action.
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Speetsl
Des Moines
State Commission
Byron G. Allen
Commission
Linn County
Leo J. Wegman
Allen
Iowa
Delta School Board elects Joe Stein as president
At the first meeting of the newly elected school board on Monday, Joe Stein was re elected president indicating continuity in leadership.
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DELTA
Joe Stein
Inheritance tax collected on dog trust in Des Moines
Des Moines AP The state treasury collected 20.97 inheritance tax from Bub a six year old Eskimo Spitz dog. Bub's former owner Anna Dingman left the dog a $1000 trust fund to care for it during its life. Chief Examiner Wicklund estimated Bub could live about six more years and the tax amounted to 10 percent of the value.
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Des Moines
State Treasury
Bub
Anna Dingman
Floyd
John V. Wicklund
Inheritance Tax Department
Wicklund
Bob
Iowa Poweshiek Institute set for Brooklyn in 1930s event
Plans are complete for the annual Iowa Poweshiek county mid winter institute to be held at Brooklyn on Friday and Saturday with registration at 4 pm and a 6 30 pm banquet toastmastered by Glenn Schwiebert. Notables include H H Henry J W Todd Owen Geer C B Reed Harold Lancaster and others with two pennants to be awarded for Epworth League attendance and county delegation size. Harold F Miller will lead a class on Christian Principles of Agriculture. 4 H members from both counties are invited.
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Grinnell
Brooklyn
George Norden
Guernsey
Glenn Schwiebert
Victor
H. H. Henry
Iowa City
J. W. Todd
Ottumwa
Owen Geer
Chicago
C. B. Reed
Agency
Harold Lancaster
Gladys Morris
Harold Nehre
Batavia
J. H. Freedline
Jeanette Mann
Des Moines
Roland Jones
Oskaloosa
O. J. Fix
Harold Miller
Poweshiek County
Illinois Girl Heads W A A At Cornell
Miss Ruth Coffman Cornell college junior will head the Women's Athletic association at Cornell this coming year. Home in Polo Illinois. Other officers chosen include Helen Klousin Hampton vice president Margaret DeWolf Reinbeck treasurer and Mary Gertrude Bellamy Rapid City S D secretary.
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Mount Vernon
Ruth Coffman
Cornell College
Women’s Athletic Association
Cornell
Polo
Women's Athletic Association
Helen Klousin
Hampton
Margaret DeWolf
Reinbeck
Mary Gertrude Bellamy
Rapid City
S. D
Willis W. Mercer Heads Iowa City School Board
Willis W. Mercer of Iowa City was elected president of the local school board. W. R. Horrabin and Dr. George Maresh were installed as new members. The board announced an agreement with the Social Service league to provide land for subsistence gardens in exchange for labor and a fence. A financial report showed a $500 balance on hand from football and basketball seasons.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Willis W. Mercer
W. R. Horrabin
George Maresh
Social Service League
Bill seeks ban on highway extension in Iowa
A subcommittee of the roads and highways committee prepared a bill to ban any extension of diagonal highways, including No. 88 beyond Marshalltown, and to prohibit new diagonals into Des Moines. The measure, approved unanimously, would hamper proposed northeast northwest southeast and southwest routes, with disputes over farm to market funding and matched federal aid.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Roads and Highways Committee
House
Marshalltown
Roy J. Sours
Floyd
Charles F. Putnam
Pottawattamie
A. H. Avery
Clay
West Union
Souis
Waterloo
Highway Commission
Sours
D. W. McLean
Marshall
McLean
The
Fred White
Hartwick man nearly killed in corn sheller accident
Leo Kaufman narrowly escaped death when his sweater caught on a shaft in a W. S. McLennan farm corn sheller on Tuesday. Stripped of clothing except shoes and half a sock, he suffered bruises and shock but was not seriously injured and returned home in an overcoat. He lives north of Hartwick.
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Hartwick
Leo Kaufman
W. S. McLennan
Kaufman
Dead Man in Texas Identified as Iowa Missing Since 1931
San Antonio AP report identifies Joseph Light 58 of Carroll Virginia as the man who vanished from his home in 1931 after leaving his car in Omaha. Light died after six weeks illness, his widow traveling from Carroll to San Antonio. He had lived on the relief rolls and worked on a truck and fruit farm near Pleasanton and Jourdanton before illness.
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San Antonio
Joseph Light
Carroll
Omaha
Neb
Light
J. S. Light
Paul Anderson
Pleasanton
Jourdanton
Anderson
Anderson Sai
Widow of Iowa Governor Shaw Dies in New York
Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw widow of former Iowa governor L M Shaw died Tuesday at her daughter's home in New York. Funeral services will be held Friday morning in Denison.
Lowden Couple Celebrates Golden Anniversary at Open House
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dircks observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary with an open house. The home featured yellow roses and daffodils. A golden book welcomed guests and relatives from nearby towns attended dinner for sixty two with a two tier gold cake.
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Gazette
Lowden
Fred Dircks
William Penningroth
Bernice Eiler
Red Oak
Fred Doerman
Big Rock
William Lange
Toronto
John Benning
Grand Mound
Ida Gunther
Wheatland
Sam Winter
Frank Winter
Clifford
Kenneth
Vanita Pauls
E. McQuillen
Lee
Tipton
Joan O'Meara
Iowa City
Arnold Pruess
Vivian
William Dircks
Elizabeth Ann Racker
Clarence
Tipton Cedar County Dog Population Noted in Annual Listing
Tipton Cedar county reports 2,100 dogs in the annual listing by town and township assessors. Center township, Tipton city, and Springdale and Springfield townships lead in dog numbers. County auditor Hermann Onken says 1,447 dog licenses have been issued to date.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Center Township
Springdale
Springfield
Hermann Onken
Sioux City Bandits Sought After Iowa Hold Up Kidnap
An overnight manhunt failed to locate four bandits after a running gun battle near Woodbine and Sioux City. They fled with hitchhiked victims Cliff Gardner and Albert Martin driving under duress before releases near Sioux City. Martin suffered a head wound and was treated at the station.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Woodbine
Grover Philson
Cliff Gardner
Harlan
Charter Oak
Ames Graduation Confers 79 Degrees in Winter Exercises
Dr. R. M. Hughes presided at Iowa State College winter quarter graduation and conferred 68 B S degrees 5 M S degrees 6 PhDs and 8 certificates. Eastern Town students receiving B S degrees included Harlan E. Geiger Cedar Rapids Charles E. Sundberg Cedar Rapids Eugene L. Seeley Toledo Elyot R. Scott Decorah John F. Pearson West Branch Irvin Milton Schlesselman Cedar Rapids Raymond M. Deming Fayette.
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Ames
R. M. Hughes
Iowa State College
Division of Agriculture
Harlan E. Geiger
Vinton
Charles E. Sundberg
Cedar Rapids
Division of Engineering
Eugene L. Seeley
Toledo
Elyot R. Scott
Decorah
John F. Pearson
West Branch
Division of Industrial Science
Irvin Milton Schlesselman
Raymond M. Deming
Fayette
Funeral for Frederick Stavenhagen at Victor age 92
Funeral services for Frederick Stavenhagen were held Sunday at Victor for the 92 year old who died at his son Henry Stavenhagen’s home. He had lived in Iowa county since 1872 and is survived by his son and three grandchildren. The service was led by Revs. O E McBride and O J Fix with pallbearers Fred Warnke Louis Carl George Henry and William Maschmann.
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Victor
Frederick Stavenhagen
Henry Stavenhagen
Iowa County
O. E. McBride
O. J. Fix
Fred Warnke
Louis
Carl
George
Henry
Willam Maschmann
Liquor Probe Delayed by Senate Call in Des Moines
DES MOINES AP The liquor investigations committee suspended hearings after a senate call of all members stalled pending basic sciences bill action. Probe counsel Floyd E Page said hearings would proceed Thursday despite the call, with further inquiry into the White Line Transfer contract continuing.
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DES Moines
Senate
Liquor Investigating Committee
Floyd E. Page
Commission
White Line Transfer Company of
Three Music Contests Set for Weekend Across Iowa Districts
Sub-district music contests occur Friday and Saturday in Wellman West Branch and New London with the district contest at Sigourney two weeks later. Schools mapped to sub-districts include Wellman Washington Marengo Sigourney and various other towns in classes A B and C across the three sites.
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Washington
Wellman
West Branch
New London
Sigourney
Marengo
Blakesburg
Crawfordsville
Delta
Eddyville
Eldon
Hedrick
Kalona
Keota
Kinross
Richland
Thornburg
West Chester
Williamsburg
Davenport
Muscatine
Iowa City
West Liberty
Tipton
Ainsworth
Columbus Junction
DeWitt
Lone Tree
Lost Nation
Springdale
Wilton Junction
Burlington
Ottumwa
Fort Madison
Fairfield
Mount Pleasant
Birmingham
Denmark
Donnelson
Keosauqua
Mediapolis
Montrose
Morning Sun
Troy
Wayland
Winfield
Yarmouth
Funeral services for Mrs Frances Henik
Funeral services for Mrs Frances Henik who died early Tuesday will be held Thursday at 9 30 am at Johnston chapel Mount Vernon and at 10 am at St Johns Catholic church Lisbon with burial at Linwood cemetery The Gazette notes an earlier erroneous report of Tuesday services.
Tipton Band Reorganizes With New Officers
The Tipton concert band reorganized with George R. Geller as president Yaro Matucha as manager F B Wilson as secretary and treasurer and F A McCoy of Springdale as director Rehearsals will start next Monday.
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Tipton
George R. Geller
Yaro Matucha
F. B. Wilson
F. A. McCoy
Springdale
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