Severe twisters strike Iowa causing widespread damage
Gusty winds and heavy rain swept Iowa Monday night with hail and lightning. Northern Iowa suffered the worst hits with damaged farms, destroyed buildings, and uprooted trees. A barn near Mason City burned after a lightning strike killing 13 Percheron horses. Des Moines reported 31 mph winds and 0.45 inch rain, with a near record high 86 degrees.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Mason City
Charles G. Ames and Son
Ames
Brick and Tile Company
Sheffield
Cerro Gordo
Thornton
Plymouth
Mitchell County
Jack Puckett
Stacyville
Little Cedar
New Haven
Osage
Curt Emerson
Eagle Grove
North Western Railroad
Humboldt
St. Mary’s
George O’brin
Weather Bureau
Omaha
Iowa Falls
Charles City
Dubuque
Nichols And Lone Tree To Lose Railroad Line
An Interstate Commerce Commission examiner recommended the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad be allowed to abandon two Muscatine Town Junction branch line segments in Iowa. The Muscatine to Nichols section covers 14.5 miles and the Lone Tree to Town Junction section spans 5.25 miles.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Muscatine-Town Junction
Iowa
Muscatine
Nichols
Lone Tree
Town Junction
Rural spelling winners to compete in Delaware county event
Verna Beth won first in the oral spelling contest and Winifred Hamblin won first in the written spelling contest at three rural schools east of Delhi. They advance to the Delaware county contest in Manchester.
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Delhi
Verna Beth
Winifred Hamblin
Delaware
Manchester
Shellsburg Students to Present Tulip Time Operetta
Shellsburg high school glee clubs present a two act operetta Tulip Time in the high school auditorium Friday and Saturday nights Violet Wright and Betty Pang born play the leading roles. The cast also includes Gilbert Spurgeon Edna Husted James Thomas Tom Long George Senft and Donald Show man.
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Shellsburg
Lightning Storm Damages Marengo Homes
Special to The Gazette describes a lightning strike at Floyd Bell residence at 7 30 am Tuesday causing about 300 dollars in damage. The bolt followed an aerial into the house smashing windows and mirrors while a door was torn from its hinges and a partition knocked out. Mrs Bell had left moments before. Nearby at John Ehrman home lightning followed an aerial into a built in porch smashing pillars tearing off screens and breaking a mirror before grounding outside the house.
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Gazette
Marengo
Floyd Bell
Benton Rock Crushers Idle Due To Strike
Special to The Gazette reports that 120 Benton county men are idle as fourteen truck drivers quit Saturday demanding higher pay. Garrison quarry and two Vinton quarries employ groups of forty. two outfits operated all winter, the third started after year’s begin. Drivers earn about 5 cents per mile per yard of rock hauled or roughly 15 cents per mile.
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the Gazette
Vinton
Benton County
Garrison
District Meets Next In High School Music
Iowa City reports district music meets ahead of the state festival at the University of Iowa May 5 to 7. Sub district events wrap up Saturday with superior ratings advancing to district contests on listed dates and sites across the state.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Northeast
Charles City
Dubuque
Davenport
South Central
Oskaloosa
Southwest
Atlantic
Northwest
Storm Lake
North Central
Britt
Howard Drew Appointed Mayor of Manchester
Howard Drew longtime Second ward councilman was named mayor of Manchester to fill the unexpired term of Dr. E G Dittmer who died March 14 Forrest K Jones will replace Drew as Second ward councilman Jones and Drew were sworn into office after their election in a ceremony conducted Monday night in Manchester
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Manchester
Howard Drew
E. G. Dittmer
Drew
Forrest K. Jones
Jones
Maquoketa Jackson county dental poster prizes awarded
Prize winners listed in three classes rural urban and high school with Velma Tebbe Leo Bakey and others each receiving first prizes. Second prize recipients Mary L Blake Lucella Mary Schmidt no second prize for high school. Third prize winners Donald Johnson Maxine Marburger Maxine Denlinger noted. Also Shimer Presbyterian church annual meeting reelects Rev F P Hladky pastors and elects elders trustees superintendents and pianists.
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Maquoketa
Jackson County
Jackson County Dental Society
National Association
Charles Porter
William Sandlin
Ruth Stoll
Charles F. Martin
H. M. Glen
Preston
Velma Tebbe
Springbrook
Urban
Maxine Denlinger
St. Lawrence
Otter Creek
Conroy
Shimer Presbyterian Church
F. P. Hladky
Marengo
Charles Englebert
Lou Englebert
Kibbie
Elmer Martens
Olin Wyant
H. Thornton
Dorothy Wyant
Center Point Plans Benefit Variety Show
Center Point Community Club presents a two night benefit variety show at the high school gym to raise funds for additional rural fire fighting equipment. More than 100 locals participate in acts ranging from masters of ceremonies to dancers, singers, and clowns.
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The
Gazette
Center Point
Center Point Commercial Club
High School
Ted Kemper
Nancy Ruth Heverly
Zippy
Shorty Woods
Pork Chops
C. D. Heins
Pappy
J. T. Street
L. J. Dennis
Dietz Newland
Maree Lockhart
Mrs. Satchett
Pauline Glass
Freda Steinberg
Mary Clare Smith
Harry S Brookman
Ray Knight
Dale Heins
Tiny Holman
Harold Bugg
Victoria Street
Jean Liabo
Norma Jean Oliphant
Nettie Newland
Margery Holloway
Betty Knight
Beulah Peterson
Lavonne Coffman
Anna Dean Dennis
Arlene Zaborsky
Dorothy Severson
Maxine Maxin
Freda Sternberg
Jeanne Watsabaugh
Virginia Maxin
W. A. Peterson
Merle Newman
George Kirk
Harry Brookman
Leslie Liabo
David Bromwell
Robert Floyd
Don Floyd
Doris Elliot
Jean Newman
Dick Smith
Violet Wray
Leo Max Roseberry
Dick Holman
Theodore Olinger
Donald Smith
Dean Dufoe
Dora Marie Peterson
Sarah Ann Holman
Theo Lavonne Condon
Evelyn Lanning
Doris Jean Martin
Jerry Hendricks
Norma Graham
Marvin Elgin
Mary Katheryn Floyd
Helen Matheny
Oscar Matheny
Lyle Elgin
Eldon Wheeler
Baldwin couple wed in Maquoketa church
Miss Beulah Harding married Lloyd England Saturday at the Methodist parsonage in Maquoketa. Mrs England, Baldwin High School graduate, worked at Palmer House. Mr England, Belle Plaine High School graduate, dairy student at Iowa State College, employed at Peterson Creamery. Wedding dinner followed.
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Baldwin
Beulah Harding
Edward Harding
Lloyd England
Maquoketa
H. H Dill
Methodist Parsonage
England
Baldwin High School
Palmer House
George England
Belle Plaine
Belle Plaine High School
Iowa State College
Peterson Creamery
West Liberty
Lucille Hogan
First Methodist Church
Walter A. Smith
Garfield Hogan
Methodist Church
Thomas Bailey
Junior Blick
Guy Wiencke
Leo Hamer
Robert Hines
Ronald Spohr
Eastern Iowa notices mixed with obituaries and local elections
A compilation from East Central Iowa announces Campbell death and burial in Washington with survivors Mary Campbell and two sons. Blairstown marks Josephine Hayden's 90th birthday. Blairstown mayoral race ends. Cascade holds funeral for John Gearhart. Urbana junior high winners listed. Traer tribute to Mrs Janssen. many town briefs including Toleda, Tama, Tipton, Oelwein, Maquoketa, and Delmar notices on deaths, elections, and civic events.
Davenport protests school audit cost
Davenport school board president Dr. E. F. Strohbehn announced Tuesday that an explanation will be demanded from the state auditing department regarding a bill of 1151.98 for auditing the board’s books for the last fiscal year. He noted the charge was more than twice the state audit fee of prior years and questioned the duration of the on site audit.
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Davenport
Davenport School Board
E. F. Strohbehn
Strohbehn
Anamosa May Bid Sewage Plant for Reform School Joint Use
Iowa interim committee allows Anamosa to advertise bids for a joint use sewage disposal plant with the state men’s reformatory. Project cost estimated at about 101 918 dollars with bids to be reviewed before determining the state’s share. The panel did not act on a 50 000 dollar state share contract and rejected remodeling plans at the Iowa State Teachers College women’s gym.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Anamosa
Executive Council
State Board of Control
Board of Health
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Reinbeck Man Finds Hit And Run Victim
Waterloo AP report says Edward Doyle, 40, a farm hand from Raymond Ta, was near death after a hit and run. Doyle was found unconscious in a roadside ditch one mile east of Waterloo on highway 20 Monday evening by Kenneth Anderson of Reinbeck. He suffered head injuries a concussion and severe shock. The driver reportedly struck Doyle and hurled him about thirty feet.
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Waterloo
Edward Doyle
Raymond
St. Francis Hospital
Doyle
Highway 20
Kenneth Anderson
Reinbeck
Election of teachers and board president at new Alburnett school board
At the Alburnett meeting the new board elected three teachers for next year Carl R. McCalley as superintendent Kenneth Wilson as high school principal and A Lloyd Kratzer for seventh and eighth grades Elmer Moore was reelected board president In Independence Miss Mary Agnes Taggart 74 died at home Funeral set for St John s Church with Msgr W T Donohue Bennett residents celebrate the 52nd wedding anniversary of Scott and Catherine Jane Hestler Kessler Mr Kessler born 183? in 1856 details note his 82nd birthday and long Iowa Nebraska connections Mrs Kessler 6 when came to Iowa she serves Bennett Methodist Sunday school secretary
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Cascade
Michael J. Geary
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
England
John
Catherine Geary
America
Mr. Geary
Ida Lange
J. M. Farrelly
Keystone
Gustav Henry Jensen
St. John’s Lutheran Church
A. W. Brauer
Luzerne
Mrr. Jensen
Flemsburg
Germany
Sophia Paulson
Clinton
Benton County
Jensen
Gustav F. Jensen
William Jensen
Ed Jurgemeyer
Chris Oehlerich
Alfred Jensen
Rockford, Til
Helena Jensen
Blairstown
B. F. Paul
Paul
Citizens
G. W. Goss
Town
Ralph Robinson
Roy Thompson
Mr. Goss
P. G. Young
N. C. Ransom
Henry Frantzman
T. J Thompson
G. T. Kelly
George Wolf
Carl Wilson
John Gearhart
C. E. Richardson
Gearheart
Mabel Astehgen
West Cascade
Worthington
John Gearheart
Geareheart
Ralph
Mabel Astwigen
Lydia Vandever
Sioux City
Jacob Gearheart
Manchester
Charles
Hopkinton
Urbana
Elnora Burrell
Delores Kramer
Gandce Wolfe
Erma Lee Burrell
Warren Barr
William Scarcliff
Maynard Newhouse
Violet Wolford
Gande Wolfe
TRAER
F C Janssen
Marshalltown
Sterling
FC. Janssen
Tama County
Tama
Hermon
Oelwein
Hartwig
Clarence
Hugo
Arthur
Otto
J. M. le Fevre
Tracer
Marie Frerich
Bertha Herlemer
John Cordis
Morrison
Ill
Buckingham Cemetery
Clutier
Clutter Women’s Catholic Order of Foresters
Emma Hushak
Vera Husak
Tillie Pokorny
Cecile Caslavka
Des Moines
Adaline Caslavka
Helen Kopecky
Louise Caslavka
Albina Cizek
Hermine Novotny
Grayce Foley
Lorenz Lorenzen
Kleppien
J. P. Novak
A. E. Flaharty
J. C. Konicek
M. E. Mundt
O. H. Chitty
F. J. Stodola
Albert Hach
Toledo
Clifford F. Cooper
Ferne Cooper
A. P. Meyer
Father Meyer
Thomas O'Connell
Dennis Hagerty
Peter Doyle
Patrick Gilmartin
Steve Musel
William Duggan
Margaret Haley
Patrick
Bridget Hagerty Haley
Warren
John Quinn
Helena
Clyde Quinn
Chicago
Mary Whalen
Tipton
Cedar County Board of Supervisors
District
John Frederick
Cedar Bluff
Cedar County
Frederick
Aloysius B Fedler
Iowa City
Fedler
Great Western Round House
J. H. Fedler
St. Louis
William J
Minneapolis
Charles C
Los Angeles
Lawrence R
Milwaukee
William Roepke
A. J. Maillie
Maquoketa
Arthur F. Janssen
Arthur Hodgson
Maquoreta
Harold G. Hayes
John Harrison
Imogene McIntire
John A. Wherry
Hayes
L. W. Romer
Bennett
W. F. Blair
Harvey Lamp
Herman Weich
Hoyt Battolph
William Kelting
Chris Lausen
William Motz
Delmar
J. J. Hopkins
Nolan Settlement
Morse
St. Patrick's Church
James
Dice
Methodist Episcopal Church
H. H. Dill
John A
Ellen Fulton Dice
Virginia
Martha Jane Oder
Sangersville
Floyd
Portland
Ore
Davenport
Dce Taylor
John Donley
Clara Dice
Alburnett
New School Board
Jake Shaffer
Clarence Flitsch
Walter Quaas
Clarence Peterson
Elmer Moore
Carl R. McCalley
Kenneth Wilson
Lloyd Kratzer
Independence
Mary Agnes Taggart
St John's Church
W. T Donohue
Miss Taggart
Ireland
Alexander Taggart
Scott Kessler
Catherine Jane Hestler
S. S. Kessler
Fred Franco
Kessler
Iowa
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
Old Bennett Bank
Bennett Methodist Sunday School
Iowa and Texas men trade jobs and homes
Onslow residents L. M. Smith and R. W. McPhillips have received postal department approval to swap jobs and exchange houses and furniture. Smith, a rural carrier from Onslow for five years, will move to El Paso, Texas, where McPhillips is a city carrier. The families plan to move while keeping only personal belongings, with both men starting new duties on April 1.
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Onslow
Postal Department
L. M. Smith
R. W. McPhillips
el Paso
Texas
Smith
McPhillips
Chinese Leader at Cornell Describes China Plight
Dr. T. Z. Koo, Chinese leader and World Student Christian Federation secretary, spoke at Cornell on China’s fight, reconstruction, and need for time and freedom. He blamed Japan for aggressive aims, cited university destruction in Shanghai, urged American lead toward cooperation, and argued Christianity offers lasting global order.
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Mount Vernon
China
Japan
Cornell College
T. Z. Koo
Student Christian Federation
Dr Koo
California
Dr. Koo
Koo
Shanghai
America
Iowa City Child Dies After Burns
Nancy Hotz seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs George Hotz of Iowa City died Tuesday from burns sustained when gasoline with which her mother trying to light a fire exploded She mistook gasoline for kerosene Survivors include her parents a sister Marilyn Dale and grandparents Mr and Mrs W C Wadsworth and Mr and Mrs B L Hotz Funeral services were set for Wednesday at 2 pm at the OakHout chapel with burial at Oakland cemetery
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Nancy Hotz
George Hotz
Marilyn Dale
W. C. Wadsworth
B. L. Hotz
Oathout Chapel
Oakland Cemetery
Clarence Anderson to become railroad agent here
Clarence E Anderson of Nevada Indiana will assume the agent post for the North Western railroad on April 1 when pensioned station master H A Caldwell exits the company's employ.
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Clarence—Charles E. Anderson
Nevada
North Western Railroad
H. A Caldwell
Iowa Streams Stocked With Trout In Northeast Iowa
Iowa conservation crews stock 30,000 adult rainbow, brook, and brown trout in 24 northeast streams with another 30,000 to follow by Sept 1. The opening trout season starts April 1 at 5 am. Fish from Decorah and Backbone state park hatcheries average 7 to 9 inches. Fishermen may keep trout caught with flies, worms, salmon eggs, and dough balls. tagged fish with metal clips require size and location reporting.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Clayton County
Bloody Run
Buck Creek
Kleinlein Creek
Delaware County
Cedar Rapids Boy Wins Poster Prize
From 50 entries, Junior Rockwood 17 of Sioux City won the Iowa Centennial State Fair poster contest. Winners listed include Dennis Seavey and Marjorie Pullman of Sioux City, with honorable mentions across Iowa. The posters will promote the fair nationwide, with emphasis on attracting California visitors. The event runs Aug 24 to Sept 2, announced by Secretary A R Corey.
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Des Moines
INS
Junior Rockwood
Sioux City
Iowa
Sac City
Ruth Pearson
Cedar Rapids
Ruth Johnston
Center
Earl Volen
Orbin Echols
A R. Corey
California
Jowans
Citizens ticket filed in Lowden city election
The citizens' ticket is the only slate filed for the March 28 Lowden city election. It includes current officials such as treasurer Charles Strackhein, assessor Arnold Koch, and council members Emil Freese, Chris Hansen, A. L. Mensing, Herman Steinke, H. O. Hoffmeier, and L. H. Stolte.
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Violet Wright
Burton Campbell
Mary Hervey Campbell
Charlotte
Ottumwa
Hayden
Vinton Hospital
David Toney
Dr. Doherty
Star Jewelry CO
Second Street SE
Cornell
N. E
J.G. Craven
PwAdel
Feye de Vie
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