Tipton Man Perishes in Brush Fire
Thomas W Ma honey 41 died after suffering a heart attack and falling into a brush fire he tended on Tipton's edge. His body found late Monday, clothing burned. Born Tipton March 12 1906 he never married. Survivors include his mother Mary Mahoney a brother Francis and sisters Eileen Meyer Loretta Mahoney. Services set for 9 am Wednesday at StMarys Church with burial in StMarys Cemetery.
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Tipton
Thomas W. Mahoney
E. N. Hemingway
Mahoney
Hemingway
Mary Mahoney
Francis
Eileen Meyer
Loretta Mahoney
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary’s Cemetery
All-State Speech Course Set at University of Iowa
The seventeenth annual all state high school speech course will run June 16 to 25 in Iowa City. High school juniors and seniors must apply with recommendations and demonstrated scholarship and interest in speech. Enrollment limited to upper grades with Prof. C. W. Edney directing, assisted by Leland Zimmermann and Horace Hoover. Sponsored by the university, the program includes forensics, a drama course, and a full length play. Students will stay in university dormitories under supervised study and recreation plans.
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Iowa City
INS
University of Iowa
C. W. Edney
Leland Zimmerman
East High
Waterloo
Horace Hoover
Oelwein High
Earlville votes for bond issue to expand school
Special to The Gazette. Earlville citizens in the consolidated school district vote 313 for and 132 against a bond not to exceed 40000 dollars to finance additions to the current building. The plan calls for a new gymnasium and home economics and manual training rooms, with the existing gymnasium from 1916 deemed too small. The gymnasium is expected to double as an auditorium.
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Earlville
Earlville Consolidated
Iowa City Grants Raises For Police Firemen In 1946 Plan
Iowa City city council approved a blanket pay increase for police and fire departments retroactive to May 1, raising patrolmen and firemen to 192.50 per month and chiefs to 222.50 per month. Additionally 35 other city employees receive monthly raises from 12 to 40 dollars.
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Iowa City
Girl 12 Dies After Bike Struck by Car
Alberta Hruska, 12, of Calmar township, died in Decorah hospital from injuries when her bicycle was struck by a car driven by Arthur Zweibhohmer on Highway 52 south of Decorah as she was returning home from school.
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Decorah
Alberta
Hruska
Albert Hruska
Calmar
Arthur Zweibhohmer
Highway 52
Checks Recovered After Polk County Bank Incident
Des Moines AP reports recovery of $18 805 in checks on May 3 by Polk County cattle buyer John C Wisdom. Checks were found by E Conway while fishing at the Des Moines River bank. Wisdom noted $600 in cash originally with the sack was removed.
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Des Moines
John C. Wisdom
Polk County
E. Conway
Wisdom
Mayor Dies During Waterloo City Council Meeting
Knapp F. Matthews age 56 collapsed from a heart attack during a council meeting in Waterloo while discussing a plan to expand the fire and street departments. An inhalator squad and a physician failed to revive him. Matthews had been mayor since November 13, 1946, after replacing the resigned mayor. He previously served a decade as city clerk and had worked in printing and as a newspaper reporter.
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Waterloo
Knapp F. Matthews
Matthews
Death notices for Springville Linn County residents
Two Iowa death notices list Springville resident Frank Armstrong age 75 and Charles Geator age 75 with funeral details. Armstrong is survived by a daughter and a son with services set at Hunte funeral home and burial in Jordans Grove. Geator’s services are at Fry-Holland funeral home with Urbana cemetery burial. A Dubuque hospital patient W J Beck dies at 72 after heart attack.
Obituary notices from Iowa towns list multiple families
Native of Missouri, she moved to Wyoming in 1897 with her husband. Surviving are two daughters. Oxford Junction services were held for Anna Henak, 80, who died at her son's home. Burial in Mayflower cemetery. Born in Czechoslovakia Oct 17, 1866. Survived by two sons Frank and Anthony, a daughter Mrs George Dusanek, and three sisters all of Oxford Junction. Anamosa services for David Grassfield, 75, who died at home. burial Center Chapel cemetery. Born March 10, 1872, lifelong Jones county resident. Survives include wife Kizzie Miller Grassfield and five children. Belle Plaine services for Minnie Shirley, 63, who died in a Cedar Rapids hospital. burial Oak Hill cemetery. Survivors include three sons, four daughters, two brothers, and four sisters, all of Belle Plaine. Elkader services for Gustav Mentzel, 74, pioneer of Clayton county. burial in Freiden's Evangelical church. Lifelong resident of Cox Creek township. Survives include wife, two sons Julius and Arthur, a daughter, and a sister.
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Oxford Junction
Sacred Heart Church
Anna Henak
Frank
Mayflower Cemetery
Anna Wasoba
Czechoslovakia
Anthony
George Dusanek
Wyoming
Albert J. Burda
Sadie Tech
Frances Wasoba
Anamosa
Smykil
David R Grassfield
Center Chapel Cemetery
Jones County
Kizzie Miller Grassfield
Marilyn and
Sanford
Bruno Jansen
Noel Grassfield
Olin
Warren Johnson
Martelle
Belle Plaine
Minnie Shirley
Cedar Rapids
Peffer
Oak Hill Cemetery
Marston
Lloyd
Leslie
Lloyd Kimmel
Clemmet Hecht
George Kranitz
Cline Sniffin
Oliver
William O'Hara
Emma Fisher
Elkader
Gustav Mentzel
Clayton County
Freiden
Cox Creek Township
Julius
Arthur
Waukon
W. C. Wright
Mollie Schroeder
Wadena
Former Iowan Dies in New Jersey Heart Attack
Howard L. Kern, 61, general counsel for Central Railroad of New Jersey, native of Charles City Iowa and Cornell College graduate, Mt Vernon Iowa, died Monday of a heart attack in West Orange New Jersey.
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West Orange
N. J
Howard L. Kern
The
Central Railroads of New Jersey
Charles City
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Iowa Justice Leaves for Nazi War Crimes Trial
Iowa Chief Justice Charles W. Wennerstrum receives leave of absence starting June 1 to serve on a military tribunal at Nuremberg. Gov. Blue to name a temporary replacement. Wennerstrum may be away six months or until the case ends. Ralph A. Oliver to act as chief justice during his absence and the interim period.
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Des Moines
Charles W. Wennerstrum
Iowa Supreme Court
Neumnberg
Robert Blue
Wennerstrum
High Court
Truman
Wennerstrom
Edward F. Carter
Nebraska Supreme Court
Bruce Blake
Washington Supreme Court
Ralph A. Oliver
Sioux City
Miss Iowa of 1946 To Become a Bride
Des Moines reports Jacque Means 20, Miss Iowa of 1946, will wed John L. Strait Jr. 21 in Des Moines after obtaining a marriage license at Polk County Court. Strait works in insurance. The couple plans to marry Saturday.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
John L. Strait, Jr
Jacque Means
Atlantic City
Polk County
Strait
One Dead After Crash Seven Others Injured
Des Moines area crash leaves Mrs. Austin H. Gardner 78 dead and seven others injured. Austin Gardner 79 and six Dallas, Iowa residents were in a two car collision on highway 60 about 16 miles southeast of Des Moines. State patrolmen say the Gardner car was struck and overturned by the Bote auto. The Gardners were trapped inside and removed through the trunk.
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Des Moines
INS
Austin H. Gardner
Carlisle
Widow Bequeaths $10,000 to Cornell College
Mrs. Annie Merner Pfeiffer widow of Henry Pfeiffer left most of her estate, about $3.97 million net, to religious and educational groups. The Methodist Church board of missions and its Christian service division receive $1.32 million, foreign and home missions $660,368 each, and Cornell College Mt Vernon Illinois gets $10,000. Pfeiffer died January 8, 1946, with gross assets of $5.25 million.
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New York
Annie Merner Pfeiffer
Henry Pfeiffer
Board of Missions and Church Extension
The
Methodist Church
Christian Service
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Band Queen Patsy Boots Crowned at Jamboree
Patsy Boots crowned band queen at the recent high school jamboree. She is the daughter of Mrs Leone Boots of Cedar Rapids the residence listed as 1031 Second Avenue SE. Her father is Jerry Boots of Manchester.
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Manchester
Patsy Boots
Leone Boots
Second Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Jerry Boots
West Amana Engagement for Viola Leona Chrisman
Iowa marriage notices list engagements and weddings including Viola Leona Chrisman to Walter C Schau fuss of High Amana an Army Air Corps veteran. The wedding is planned for June. Other items include Virgil Bruhl and Russell Hart Jr wedding in Vinton. Dorothy Kapler engaged to Daniel Lansing with ceremony May 21 at St Mary's church in Waucoma.
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West Amana
J. L. Chrisman
Viola Leona
Walter C. Schaufuss
High Amana
Army Air Corps
Vinton
Virgil Bruhl
C. P. Bruhl
Clarion
Russell Hart, Jr
John Cox, Sr
Francena Dixon
Arthur Ratiman
Redfield
Kan
Decorah
Lee Kapler
Jackson Junction
Dorothy
Daniel Lansing
Joseph Lansing
Fort Atkinson
St. Mary's Church
Waucoma
Guild Loses Election At Register Tribune Des Moines
In Des Moines AFP reports four Register and Tribune departments voted 68 to 59 against designating the American Newspaper Guild CIO as their collective bargaining agent. Only five of the eligible employees did not vote. Voters were non supervisory staff in news editorial promotion and research departments.
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Des Moines
AFP
Register and Tribune
American Newspaper Guild
CIO
Man Admits He Ran Down Two White Women in Omaha
Omaha police said 21 year old Black veteran John L. Cox admitted he rammed his car into two white women, including 20 year old Marjorie Swanson who was injured and hospitalized. Cox, still in Army uniform, was arrested after a volunteer follower trailed him. He said he had been drinking.
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Omaha
INS
Fred Franks
Franks
John L. Cox
Marjorie Swanson
Ernest Swanson
Cox
Henry Wallace's Second Granddaughter Born in Des Moines
DES MOINES INS reports former Vice-president Henry A. Wallace is now a grandfather for the second time. A daughter was born Monday to Wallace's son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs Henry B. Wallace of Des Moines. The younger Wallaces already have a daughter named Joan, age 3.
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Des Moines
INS
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Henry B. Wallace
Wallaces
Oan
Iowa Farm Boy Killed By Bolt of Lightning
Cherokee Iowa area story reports 14 year old Richard Peterson son of Clarence and Mrs Peterson farmers was killed by lightning Monday afternoon while rolling wire in a field. His father on a nearby tractor escaped injury.
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Iowa
Richard Peterson
Clarence Peterson
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Vinson
Charles S. Geator
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