Census Taker Busy as Dirks Family Totals Large Lineage
A Langworthy Diedrich Dirks family spans seven children sixty one grandchildren and seventy one great grandchildren living within miles. Surviving children include daughters Gord Dirks Langworthy Amber Minno Zimmerman Olin and W J Oltman Anamosa and sons Henry Olin Gord Wyoming and John Amber. Three children predeceased their father including twins. The feature notes multiple Gerds in one family with ties to Center Junction Langworthy and Wyoming.
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Langworthy
Diedrich Dirks
Jones County
Drees
Gord Dirks
Wl Dorks
Amber
Diedrich
Center Junction
Gerd
Wyoming
Gerd Dirks
Dirks
Capitol Currents: Iowa WPA projects face private-contract cost clash
Iowa contractors and union leaders told the interim committee that private contracting can build proposed WPA projects at far lower costs, warning that continued competition with WPA may push skilled workers onto the federal program. Washington correspondents reported parallel national debates on the same topics.
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Eansatee
Towa
Cnld
State Fairgrounds
Rabbi Binstock to Speak on Hebrew Literature in Mt Vernon
Rabbi Louis Binstock will lecture Monday at 8 pm in Carnell Chapel Mount Vernon on the romance of Hebrew literature. He formerly led Temple Sholom in Chicago and served in New Orleans. He has traveled abroad recently to Russia Germany and Prussia. Admission is free.
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Mount Vernon
Louis Binstock
Carnell C¢Hapel le Mall
Chicasa
Temple Sholom
Binstock
New Orleans
Sasiteye An Rasia
Germany
Prletine Noa
Marion group hosts Easter program at First Methodist
Apollo Commandery No 26 Knights Templar of Cedar Rapids will be special guests at Marion Commandery No 27 Easter program in First Methodist church at 3 pm. Dinner for Marion commanders and guests follows in Masonic Temple. Public invited. WCTUY meets Thursday at 2 20 at A E Blinks home.
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Apollo Commandery
Knights Templar
Cedar Rapids
Patmos
Marion
First Methodist Church
Ces
Masonic Temple
WCTUY
Thesday
Wis
A. E Blinks
Eighth Avenue
Social Swift Easter Visits and Home Gatherings
A busy weekend includes Mr and Mrs Andrew Munsen hosting twelve at 1700 Eighth Ave for their son Robert’s birthday. Guests include Betty Baer, Melford Delzell, Lewis Alcorn, and others from Marion Cedar Rapids and Fontanelle. Also noted are visiting relatives from Chicago and Ottumwa spending Easter with relatives, plus club meeting details and residents moving houses.
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Andrew P. Munsen
Eighth Avenue
Robert Munsen
Betty Baer
Fontanelle
Melford Delzell
Lewis Alcorn
Howard Holman
Franklin Kemp
Franklin, Jr
Cecar Rapids
Arminta Davidson
Lois Stitzel
Luis Lockwood
Marion
Dale McEnany
Perry
Davenport
Mr. McEnany
Margaret McEnany
Robert Titus
Towa City
Miss la Verna
Titus
Dike
Howard Titus
Chamber meet to plan eight softball teams for season
Sponsors and organizers of softball teams are asked to meet with the Chamber of Commerce athletic committee Monday at 7 30 pm in City Hall. The committee plans eight teams this year and a new diamond may be built in the high school parking area with funding from the Chamber for night-game lights.
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Chamber of Commerce
Republican Caucus Aims to Elect Delegates Tuesday
Republican caucus set for Tuesday at 7 p.m. in city hall council rooms to elect delegates to the county convention. Also, Mr and Mrs W J Konigsmark of Omaha visit Mrs Konigsmark’s relatives, and several club meetings are announced including Child Study and PE O Chapter CS at specified homes.
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Pe.o
Arthur E. Crew
Ninth Avenue
Community notices and gatherings in Marion area
Local groups announce events and visits including open house at Balster and Hall Funeral Home for its second anniversary with a film on modern casket manufacturing. Multiple meetings and social events are listed with names such as Linn chapter De Molay and Electa circle Daughters, plus visits from Patricia Pratt and Ben Murray family.
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Balster and Hall
Night Watchman's Life Not Dull On College Campus
Cornell college’s genial night watchman Ian Lowell Emerson keeps vigil on campus from 9 pm to 9 am. He patrols Law building and dorms, notes late study habits, and even handles a running pipe organ until it’s shut off. He travels three miles and climbs 800 steps nightly, with occasional mischief like a dummy in Guildhall.
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Night Watchman
Emerson
Law Building
Cornell
Guildhall
Bowman Hall
Bowman
Cac-Cornell
Sigourney Man Takes Up Art After 75-Year Gap
Sigourney resident John Bruce Sherlock now age 89 pursued painting two years ago after rug making became impossible following his wife’s 1935 death. He has given eight works to Girl Scouts and more to relatives. His titles include Down By the Old Mill Stream and The Little Brown Church.
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Gazette
Sigourney
John Bruce Sherlock
Sherlock
James Griffin
Martinsburg
Little Brown
Gibson Couple Observe Fiftieth Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Samuel A Vail celebrate their golden wedding today with open house from 2 to 6 pm in their Gibson home They were married in Rose Hill He born 1864 to Edward and Hulda Vail who moved to Iowa from Pennsylvania in 1869 She born 1870 in Warren county and is Eva White Their nine children include Edward and James of
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the Gazette
Gibson
Samuel A. Vail
Family mentions and business ties noted in local notes
What Cheer, Mrs. Ray Phillips of Palisades Colo, Mrs. Everett Hutchinson and Mrs. Harold Augustine of Rose Hill, Mrs. Walter Dewitt and Mrs Harold Dewitt of Lacey, Mrs. Lowell Robertson of Ottumwa, and Hazel of Des Moines are listed. There are 20 grandchildren and one great grand daughter. Mr. Vail has had business connections with the Gibson bank and the Farmers elevator since their organization.
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Ray Phillips
Palisades
Colo
Everett Hutchinson
Harold Augustine
Rose Hill
Walter Dewitt
Harold Dewitt
Lacey
Lowell Robertson
Ottumwa
Hazel
Des Moines
Vail
Gibson Bank
Farmers Elevator
Edwards Farms Pork Production Tactics Highlight Efficiency
The article profiles Mr Edwards a leading Iowa pork producer praised for 25 years of disease-free care and seven ages of pig life. He uses deep bedding windows in farrowing houses weighing each litter daily to track gains and aims for 200 pound pigs by five months.
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Edwards
Hemmer
Mr. Edwards
Towa
BE. L. Quaife
82 Year Old Woman Designs Quilts For Experts
Mrs. Sara Wieder at West Branch marks and stitches quilts for the Methodist Ladies Aid for over 15 years. At 82 she designs patterns, draws stencils, and keeps two quilts in progress while crocheting lace and afghans. Her work history includes guiding patterns since age 80 and a Birthday visit from her son Harry.
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Mald Stratton
West Branch
Sara Wieder
Harry
Hamburg
Ada Rumsgardner
Ladies Aid
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Maquoketa
Ethile Wood Birmingham
Penopics
Guardens
Mintian Ebaste
Ainles
Stat - Commee
T. A Levasseur
Long Beach
Calf
Levasseur
Athenian Club
Catherine Cheadle
Frank Cheadle
Glenn Cheadle
Janet
Newton
W Oh. Dunahugh
W. OD. Dunahugh
Gary
Raymond Dunahugh
Theristrial Club
Ed Sigtred
C. G. Ellinger
C E Drummond
Robert Mitchell
Memorial Hall
Munsene Entertain
Charles Hibner
Chicago
Mr Hibner
George M. Hibner
Tranhoe Club
Earl Welsher
Seventeenth Street
G A. Storck
Fred Horak
Whittier
Thirteenth Street
Mr O
Fred Lutz
Marengo
WS. Venables
W. J. Goodwear
Venables
Catherine A. Knowles
Ellen Knowles
Knowles
Don Kassner
Hutchinson
Owen's
R. O Shively
Son
Frank Shively
Milwaukee
Minnie Whitehill
W. H. Needham
Whitehill
North 12Th Street
F. A Shumack
J. J Booth
Margaret Patterson
Marshalltown
Mason City High School
Anthony B. Lake
Helene Lake
Lake
Helen Lake
Patterson
Guttenberg
WG. Bowen
Savanna
Inl
Joyce Lanning
George Lanning
Gerald Hartman
Mount Carroll
Lanning
Dickey's
W. G. Bowen
Carol Rae Snyder
Minneapolis
H. N. Strader
The
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Kenneth E. Cornell
Tenth Street
Lee R. Fitzgerald
Laura Bailey
Methodist Church
Ed Allen
Twelfth Street
W. J. Konigsmark
Omiaha
Konigsmark
Inlaw
Donald Torrence
Child Study Club
Hugh Hutton
West Eighth Avenue
Louise Braska
G. A. Hutchison
E. E. Godwin
Patricia Pratt
Sydney Cornell
Charles Beadle
Eleventh Street
Linn
Order of de Molay
Kay Kyser
Jesse B. Howell
Iowa City
Betty Howell
University of Iowa
Magh Kuhn
Iowa State College
Ruth Murray
Roy Wy. Murray
Bill Murray
Bloomington, Ill
Roy W. Murray
Blair's Ferry Road
Lyal Ness
Atkins
Ness
Murray
Claude S Evans
Eloise
Byron Evans
Cora Rice
Grove City
Rebekah Lodge
O. F. Hall
Anamosa
Donovan Goodyear
George Goodyear
L. E. Fuller, Jr
Janet Lothian
Mrs. W. KK. Lothian
Russell Benedict
Comanche
Electa Circle of
King’s Daughters
Bertha Barnes
Twenty-second Street
L. M. Phelps
L. S Dove
Keanayi
the Guardian
W. H. Booze
Allen Groll
Portland
Ore
Mr. Groll
Charles F. Groll
Linn County
Republican Women's Club
YWCA
Armstrong McCullough
Clinton
Margaret Dilley
Vernon
Ian Lowell
Cornell College
Emerson Duhbiously
Sigourney Man
Shakespeare
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