Bandits Stage Daylight Holdup At Williamsburg
Two men held up a barber shop in Williamsburg stealing about 50 dollars. Employee Mike Lubero was knocked unconscious during the assault and robbed of 16 dollars from his pocket and 35 to 50 dollars from the cash register. A woman companion waited outside in a car as the trio fled. Lee notified authorities but the escape was not stopped.
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the Gazette
Williamsburg
Mike Lubero
J. J. Lee
Lubero
Mr. Lee
Lee
Let Contract For Rebuilding Bridge Over Cedar River
The Benton county board of supervisors awarded a $14 321 contract to Ottumwa Bridge and Construction company to rebuild two spans of the Cedar river bridge on the Shellsburg Urbana highway washed out by high water last spring. Six other bids were submitted and work should start within ten days. The old steel spans were sold for 50 to a Cedar Rapids junk dealer with salvageable plank left for county use. W D Wheeler of Newhall received the courthouse remodeling contract for $910 to rearrange offices for a larger treasurer’s space.
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Gazette
Vinton
Cedar River
Shellsburg- Urbana
Benton County Board of Supervisors
Ottumwa Bridge and Construction Company
Cedar Rapids
W. D. Wheeler
Newhall
Despondent Farmer Hangs Self Over Delayed Crops
Harold Faust, 37, a farmer one mile east of here, hanged himself Friday night in the same place formerly used by D. S. Knight three years earlier. Despondent over rainy weather delaying his crops, Faust had sought medical help two weeks ago for sleeplessness. His wife found the body in the barn Saturday morning. a nine year old son Richard survives.
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the Gazette
Gewood
Harold Faust
Here
D. S. Knight
Faust
Richard
Woman Drowns After Fainting Into Solon Area Cistern
Mrs. Della Hynek Glasgow 54 of Iowa City died in a fall through a cistern board cover at her brother Victor Hynek’s farm two miles east of Solon. She fainted near the cistern, fell in, and artificial respiration failed. Coroner ruled accidental drowning. Surviving: husband George Glasgow, sisters Mrs. Joseph Birka and Mrs. Alex Mehaffey, seven brothers including Dr. Fred Hynek, Edward, Victor, and Charles. Funeral set for 9 am Monday at St. Mary’s Solon. Burial in St. Mary’s cemetery. Public viewing Saturday and Sunday.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Della Hynek Glasgow
East Court Street
Victor Hynek
Solon
J. Y. Netolicky
George Callahan
Glasgow
George Glasgow
Joseph Birka
Alex Mehaffey
Riverside
Fred Hynek
Quincy, Ill
Wesley
Ely
Edward
Victor
Charles
Frank
Louis Hynek
Cedar Rapids
St. Mary's Church
J. E. Michalek
St. Mary's Cemetery
Sunay
Toledo
Fred Brandt
Kocher Hospital
Brandt
Germany
United States
Tamar County
Vertus
Alfred
Henry
Highland Township
Ralph Granger
Tama
Henrietta Harvey
Rosendale
St. Paul’s Church
Devies
Woodlawn
Monona
Peter Hefner
Volney
Earl Allert
Dewey Rush
Waukon
Leo
Chicago
Elmer
Helen
Clara Stafford
Ben Stafford
Dave Stafford
Waterville
Ray Stafford
Sioux City
Hampton Stafford
Postville
Ollie Neubauer
Pickpockets Prey On Commencement Crowd
Pickpockets worked a crowd going to the high school commencement exercises Thursday night, netting about 27 dollars. Henry Mensing lost a purse containing 20 dollars and Carl Prange lost 7. Losses were not discovered until victims reached home after the exercises. Thieves also drained gas from several cars parked near the schoolhouse.
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Lowden
Henry Men« Sing
Carl Prange
Labora Joseph Pirks dies prominent Iowa farmer at 78
Joseph A. Pirks of Labora dies Saturday at age 78. A native of Johnson county he married Mary Kroul in 1883. Surviving are three children Charles Edward and Elizabeth Smith a brother Will and two half brothers Franks and Henry plus two sisters Mary Doschil and Emily Krasta. Funeral at Ohio church Monday at 2 p.m. plus Delta High School presents Heart Trouble directed by Bertha Creswell with cast listed.
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Labora
Joseph A. Pirks
Johnson County
Mary Kroul
Charles
Edward
Elizabeth Smith
Will
North Liberty
Franks
Henry
Cedar Rapids
Mary Doschil
Swisher
Emily Krasta
Ohio Church
Mrs. Sarah Skelley 87 Dies in Monticello
Monticello notes the death of Mrs. Sarah Skelley aged 87 after a brief illness at her home. Born in Harrisburg Pennsylvania March 15 1850 she lived in Waubeek and Monticello with periods in Cherokee and San Francisco. She leaves four sons and one daughter, siblings, and burial is planned at Oakwood cemetery.
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Monticello
Sarah Skelley
Nettie Jacobsen
James Skelley
Will Skelley
Alvy Skelley
Harry Skelley
San Francisco
Reuben Ely
Sam Ely
Independence
Josephine Willmore
Wheatridge
Colo
Emma McNeill
Seattle
James Shelley
Oakwood Cemetery
Wills filed for Traer men in Tama County court
The Tama county district court clerk records two Traer wills. John Sutherland dated May 20 1933 leaves most of the estate to his wife and specific shares to daughters Lottie Susan Mabel and Sarah Luella with remainder to wife and two others. John Kerr named executor. Addison Morse dated June 16 1921 provides an antenuptial income for Ida Morse and equal shares of the rest to Amy See man and Hilda Leuch with executors named.
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Toledo
Traer
Tama County District Court
John Sutherland
Lottie L. Sutherland
Susan Mabel Sutherland
Imogene S. Sutherland
John Kerr
Addison W. Morse
Ida Morse
Morse
Amy Seeman
Hilda Leuch
B.F. Thomas
K. P. Moore
Iowa City School Bond Vote Sought and Local Appointments
The Iowa City school board plans early next week to call an election for 595000 in bonds to fund a centrally located school building. They may place three propositions before voters: a central high school, a new high school, or a high school in east Town City. Two additional candidates joined nine seeking the unexpired county superintendent term after W N Leeper's death. Supt William J Kincaid and R E Newcomb added to the list. The council won comptroller approval to move 3000 from unapportioned taxes to airport WPA project costs. Prof W Ross Livingston of the Iowa history department will attend a Kingston Canada America affairs conference June 14 to 18. He is among Carnegie Endowment invitees. Iowa City hosts an annual June conference on physical education with speakers Dr Frederick R Rogers and Miss Helen Hazelton. Other June events include Child Welfare and Parent Education and a physics colloquium.
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Iowa City
East Town
W.N. Leeper
William J. Kincaid
Grand Junction Normal Training School
R. E. Newcomb
Crescent
Iowa City City
C. B. Murtagh
W. Ross Livingston
University of Iowa History Department
Kingston
Ont
Livingston
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
University of Iowa
Frederick R. Rogers
Boston University
Helen Hazelton
Purdue
Buck Creek car wreck injures two youths
At the old Flannagan farm west of Buck Creek two young men Ralph Wilson and Roy Reed were thrown from a new car owned by John Wilson as it failed to negotiate a curve. Both suffered severe facial and limb cuts but had no fractures. Reed shut off the ignition to prevent a fire before leaving the wreck. They were treated at Hopkinton.
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Nopkinton
Flannagan
Buck Creek
John Wilson
Hopkinton
Ralph Wilson
Roy Reed
Cliff Reed
Buck Creek Consolidated School
Wilson
Reed
Columbus Junction
Alice Foreman
Richie
W. A. Bloomquist
Methodist Church
J. Carson Duncan
J. K. Helmick
Eli White
Harry Paschal
Daniel Smith
H. M. Duncan
Camp Ground Cemetery
Columbus City
Dorothy Taylor
Hayfield
Grinnell Farmer Reports Seventeen Suspected Stolen Cattle
Grinnell Judson Blakley, a farmer three miles south of Grinnell, reports seventeen yearling feeder cattle found wandering by his farm. He has them on pasture awaiting their owner. Sheriff suspects theft and says the cattle were dumped after truck marks were found. The cattle are valued at about $800.
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The
Gazette
Grinnell
Judson Blakley
Sheriff’s Office
Blakley
Mason City worker injured in scaffold fall
Lester Wilson of Traer suffered a severe back injury while masoning a filling station in Mason City. He fell onto jagged concrete, fracturing a vertebra and crushing another, now wearing a body cast for at least two months and unlikely to work again before next year. He and wife Flossie Caldwell have six children.
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TRAER
Lester Wilson
Mason City
Claude Wilson
Leonard Wilson
Flossie Caldwell
Parnell
John Giblin
Ann Grimes Murphy
Fort William
Ont
Murphy
Fillmore Township
Phillip
Catherine Grimes
James Murphy
Fillmore
Canada
James
Francis
Ellen Beg4ley
North English
B. Gaffney
Williamsburg
James P. Gaffney
Rosetta
Wyoming
Wyoming High School
Hotel Lafayette
Clinton
Reynold Fishwild
Dorothy Rohwedder
Vera Tompkins
Dollie Greer
Supt. Scarcliff
Lee Lincoln
Phyllis Steele
Robert Hansen
Elizabeth Marshall
Jean Carson
Opera House
H. W. Farnham
M. E
Delaware County
Roberta Gaulke
Buck Creek
Phyllis Thompson
Earlville
Jo Sloan
Betty Young
Manchester
Excellent
Corrine Milroy
Doris Steinfadt
Colesburg
Gene Guetzke
Delaware
Francis Rice
Marjorie Odell
Greeley
Mildred Brady
Lotus Meader
Bernita Grapes
Helen Vesey
Delhi
Wanda Brause
Vivian Liddell
Oneida
Charles Talmadge
Phyllis Marolf
Hopkinton
Little Symphony Delights Cornell May Festival
The Friday concert featured a 15 musician small orchestra as a warm preface to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's appearance. Frank Mannheimer delivered a polished Mozart Piano Concerto in C minor with two encores, while Hans Lange led an expressive program of seventeenth and eighteenth century chamber works and a lively Workout for Small Orchestra.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Frank Mannheimer
Hans Lange
Purcell
Mannheimer
Palo baccalaureate to honor class at Methodist church
Palo high school will hold baccalaureate services Sunday at 8 p.m. at the Methodist church. Rev. F. M. Beck will deliver the address. The event marks graduation week across the region with several related commencements and community notices.
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Parnell
William B. Schmidt
Keokuk
Parnell Consolidated School
Iowa Press honors three editors at annual awards dinner
The Iowa Press association awarded master editor publisher honors to W. H. Lovejoy of the Jefferson Bee E P Chase of the Atlantic News Telegraph and Thomas W Purecell of the Hampton Chronicle at the annual convention dinner Also announced were best community service awards for small and large communities best service to agriculture and best special editions for various papers including the Sumner Gazette Decorah Public Opinion Iowa Falls Citizen Toledo Chronicle Clayton county Register and Washington Evening Journal.
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DES Moines
Iowa Press Association
Iowa
W. H. Lovejoy
The
Jefferson Bee
E. P. Chase
Atlantic News- Telegraph
Thomas W. Purecell
Hampton Chronicle
Association For
Sumner Gazette
G. Wiley Beveridge
Decorah Public Opinion
A. C. Bishop
Iowa Falls Citizen
T. B. Purcell, Jr
Toledo Chronicle
C., M. Richards
Clayton County
Troy Mills Pioneer Celebrates Birthday
Troy Mills Iowa May 1875 Frank Elliott a retired farmer aged eighty seven celebrated his birthday at home Born May 6 1850 Kokomo Indiana he moved to Troy Mills at fifteen and became a landowner He has ten living children and made a 10000 mile auto trip last spring He and wife celebrated their sixty fifth wedding anniversary last July 11 He remains active in garden and lawn care and visits neighbors daily
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Troy Mills
Frank Elliott
Elliott
Kokomo
Ind
Mede
Winthrop
Rolla
Independence
Florence Fry
Cedar Falls
Iola Weber
Davenport
Roy Walton
Dale
Den~ver
Garner
Des Moines
Guthrie
Denver
Bonnie Pickell
Earl
California
Mrs. Elliott
Long-Lived La Porte City Man Celebrates 90th Birthday
H H Scott of La Porte City Iowa marks ninety years born in Indiana and arriving in Iowa as a child. He and wife married in 1883 and kept a farm four and a half miles southeast of La Porte while he turned pocket knife crafts into a hobby with first prize at Waterloo show.
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LA Porte City
H. H. Scott
Iowa
Mr. Scott
Indiana
Mrs. Scott
la Porte
Waterloo
Sigourney
Cotton Etter
Blairstown
Presbyterian Church
Carrie Vail
Miss Vail
Charles I. Vail
Presbyterian Church and Social Circle
The
Missionary Society
Alice D. Cherry
Omaha
Mary Vail
Independence
J. C. B. Peck
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Columbus Junction
Columbus High School
R. N. Chord
Marjorie Reaney
Jean Gentzler
C. S. Ramsdale
Cherubim
W. A. Bloomquist
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Wayne Zeiger
Webster City
Meinard Schurfield
Franklin
Frank Vrba
Charles Celsi
Lincoln
Charles Finch
Roosevelt
Sue Marie Schreiber
Roosevelt, Des Moines
DELTA
Bertha Creswell
Winifred Keck
Helen Leathers
Maxine Hicklin
Colleen Dawson
Florence Morrow
Kenneth Spears
Dale Auld
Glen Stanley
Frank Aten
Theodore Sampson
Oxford Junction
August Krolik
Ella Cubbage
Dubuque
Justice Barrett
Prof
Max Daehler
Tipton
South Spruce Street
Tipton Cheese Factory
J. H. Michel
West Brooklynn
Ill
H. L. Michel
Grand Mound
Kraft
Freeport
C. R. I and P. Railway Company
Chelsea
Chelsea High School
W. F. Panek
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Agnes Mercer
Guy Elroy Allee
Guy Allee
Vernon Fermer Bennett
Clem Bennett
Charles Perry Boyer
P. W. Boyer
Warren Leo Boyer
O. P. Boyer
Ellen Dorothy Christianson
Eloisa Christianson
Mildred Olivett Graham
Arthur Graham
Lucille Ollie Hlavacek
Joseph Hlavacek
Edward Peter Malina
James Malina
Donald James Mercer
Marie Helen Sheda
John Sheda
Oelwein
Wapsipinicon
Henry Hoyer
Herbert Werlaufer
Charlie Chambers
Ben B. Little
Kenneth Robertson
Lucia Harper
Donald Ross
Sid Cotham
Oclwein
Park Board
Grinnell High School
Paul Behm
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa News
Degorah
John Henry
Winneshiek County
Bluffton Township
Decorah Hospital
Louis J. Grunewald
Mr. Henry
Canoe Township
Decorah
Katherine Sexton
John
Orvin
Herbert
Vincent
Mary
Gerald
Strawberry Point
Bert Heddleson
Thomas J. Elwick
Elberon
James P. Gable
Heddleson
Jacob Heddleson
I. O. O. F. Lodge
Kate Heddleson
Jessie Heddleson
Pearl Heddleson
Carmel Cram
Vern Cram
Lester Meyer
Fred Meyer
Stanwood
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Anamosa
Knights Templar
Mount Olivet
B. E. Rhinehart
G. R. Wilkinson
C. J. Tyley
A. L. Remley
W. G. Yount
Warren J. Rees
L. D. Murfield
L. H. Lowry
A. G. Remley
E. F. Miller
G. W. Beaman
A. Ray Fairbanks
O. T. Rhue
J. L. Gierhart
A. S. Knapp
Allah Lota Alofa
Gladys Womachka
Nettie Brown
Nelda Strawman
Clifford Strawman
Dorgeloh
Eleanor Strawman
Green
Rosalie Brickley
H. D. Green
Ethel Palmer
Jessie Henderson
Smithfield Cemetery
Ralph Drollinger
Dennis Mitchum
H. V. Snodgrass
Margaret Strabala
Irma Gingerich
Cleola Shalla
Violet Vodicka
Norma Tilden
Blanche Nejedly
Pauline Petersclm
Clifford Perkins
Gail Swartzendruber
Roman Gingerich
William Fry
Vernon Stagner
F. H. Strackbein
George Hubbell
Lilly Farnsworth
Philadelphia
Oakland
Harold
Wash
Hubbell
William John Marvin
Rock Island
Claire F
James F
Louis
William
Francis van Homebrek
Velma Cleveland
Albert Weirather
Walter Wales
le Claire
O. Hurlbert
New London
Hilda Thoms
Theodore Thoms
Bennett
Ralph Gehrls
Charles Gehrls
F. J. Adele
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
Minnie Gehrls
Marvin Rutenbeck
Lost Nation
White Lily
Order of the Eastern Star
Shellsburg
O. A. Rife
Rife
Edith Bergen
C. F. Stookey
Katie Soden
Doris Hagan
Isabel Young
Mattie Johnson
Elizabeth Fish
Eunice Coupland
Virginia Holmes
Alex Holmes
Norman Baumgartner
Martin Baumgartner
Esther Zwanziger
Vivian Davis
Berniece Malone
Marvin Chevalier
Katherine Boland
Helen Smith
Edythe Litts
Agnes Schuchmann
Congregational Church
Louise LaChappelle
Helen Kellogg
Lee Sanner
Laura Mae Ireland
Nylene Lincoln
Harriet Sanner
Margaret Ann Trevarthen
Phyllis Miller
S. M. Beggs
Dorothy Crist
Roberta Livingston
Nancy Sue Bray
Troy Mills Pioneer
Aurora
Baptist
Charles Moshers
Paul Hoaglan
Rodney Miller
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