Mrs Laura Starbuck Honored On Ninety Second Birthday
Mrs Shaffer G Klink hosted a birthday party at 1540 Fifth Avenue for Mrs Laura Starbuck who turned ninety two. Friends and Sunday school members from Marion and nearby areas gathered as Mrs Starbuck, born May 15 1846 southeast of Marion, celebrated with her family including sons Norris Nat and Frank and grandchildren visiting from Seattle Chicago and Walley Mount.
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Laura Starbuck
Shaffer G. Klink
Fifth Avenue
Walier Mont
Frank
Chicago
Marion
Campus Quarantine senior play at Marion High School
Marion high school presents a three act comedy The Campus Quarantine under Miss Elmire Russell Thursday and Friday at 8 p m in the Lincoln auditorium. Norman Givens and Lillian Ann Harding headline a cast including Mary Ellen Granger Bernice Gough Betty Wallace Martha Jane Snell Lucille Cone James Fry Bob Newlin Bernard Ringland Charles Schaefer and Jack Price.
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Marion High School
Lincoln Auditorium
Elmire Russell
Southern
California
Lauretta Starry Weds Gene F. McDaniels in Brookings
Lauretta Starry daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray Starry married Gene F McDaniels of Harris on August 21 at a Methodist parsonage in Brookings South Dakota. Mrs McDaniels a Shelby schools music instructor and a graduate of Anamosa High School and Iowa State Teachers College. McDaniels is a Harris contractor and they will live there. Mrs McDaniels visited her parents here this weekend.
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Ray Starry
Marion
Lauretta
Gene F. McDaniels
Harris
Methodist
Brookings
S. D
Starry
McDaniels
Shelby
Anamosa High School
Iowa State Teachers College
Butterfield Divorce Filed in Independence Court
Charlotte Butterfield petitions for divorce from Carl E. Butterfield in Independence district court alleging cruel and inhuman treatment and non support since their Cedar Rapids marriage on September 26 1936. She seeks alimony from his property and notes two minor children.
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Independence
Charlotte Butterfield
Carl E. Butterfield
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
A. B. Lovejoy
Buchanan County
Buchanan County Fairgrounds
Agatha Ann McGrath
Westbury
James Burk
Byron
Dorothy Wedge
Good Hope
John Buckman
Ruby Byersdorfer
Ruthie Byersdorfer
Lois Bare
Ross Cut
Eight-year perfect attendance award noted at Seward school
Robert Gaffney Everett Jacobs Arlene Kayser Lois Mumaw Pauline McMillan Maxine Pooler Lucille Quass Paul Ryan Ann Rowan Genevieve Satterlee Leona Smith Audrey Joyce Everett Jacobs of Seward school received a special award for never being absent or tardy in eight years. Decorah funeral set for Gustav Moen 69 with service Monday at First Lutheran Church. Velma Stoneman granted divorce in Independence court. Herbert Day Paine 72 dies in Decorah after five years illness. burial and services planned.
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Decorah
Gustav Moen
T. A. Hoff
First Lutheran Church
Norway
Winneshiek County
Karen Bertina Selsvold
Allamakee County
Velma Thom
Herbert Day Paine
Florida
Ohio
Nelle Allison
Stella Paine
Paine
Elks Lodge
Knights of Pythias
The
Oneota
OWA Criticized in Report on Prisons
An American association faulted an unnamed juvenile and women's reformatories for meager provisions. It cited five failings including misused physical plant, negative discipline, poor staff and academic resources, and lack of records and planning. The commissary was described as disgracefully dirty during the 1937 visit.
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Criti
Reformatory Report Urges Living Quarters and Staff Reforms
The 1937 report cites overcrowding and long confinement in punishment cells as key issues. It calls for new living quarters and administrative action, notes the cells are called the hole, and urges a larger staff, a pension plan, and regular psychiatric services while praising housekeeping and inmate morale.
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Iowa
Giant Elm and Early Fayette County Pioneers Center Centennial
The 1940 centennial of Fayette County’s first white settlement centers on the Pfeiffer farm two miles southwest of Fayette. Key sites include Franklin Wilcox’s 1840 cabin, Beatty and Orrear’s dwelling, and the Alexander elm with Robert Alexander’s mansion. The Tegarden massacre of 1843 and the founding of Fayette Seminary, later Upper Iowa University, tie to Alexander’s endowment. The elm tree, now near 150 years old, remains Fayette’s largest.
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Fayette County
W. F. Pfeiffer
Fayette
Pfeiffer
Franklin Wilcox
Beatty and Orrear
Robert Alexander
Tegarden
Alexander
Nathaniel
Illinois
James Beatty
William Orrear
O’rear
Wilcox Cabin
Fort Atkinson
Andrew Hensley
Wisconsin
Nathaniel Wilcox
Delaware County
Andrew J.hensley
Beatty and
Orrear
Hensley
Andrew J. Hensley
Henry Tegarden
Beatty
Wilcox
Lima
Tennessee
Indiana
Fayette Seminary
Upper Iowa University
Mr. Alexander
Cutshall Reports Six Month European Tour Impressions
Dr Elmer Guy Cutshall former Nebraska Wesleyan president and his wife toured Europe Asia Minor and Africa visiting 24 countries. He praised Stockholm Rome and Italy while noting Egypt contrasts and rising German influence. He lectures widely and has held church and academic positions.
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Vienna
Hitler
Elmer Guy Cutshall
Nebraska Wesleyan University At
Lincoln
Maria Cutshall
Cutshall
New York
Europe
Asia Minor
Africa
Floyd H. Weed
Holy Land
Cyprus
Egypt
Mediterranean
Catshall
Anamosa's Pioneering Century Remembered In Local History
The article chronicles Jones county's early growth including Dr Clark Joslin the first physician, Gideon Ford and the first hotel keeper, land sales at $1.25 an acre, the Fisher mill, and the 1853 Anamosa school bell. It recalls the 1856 first mayor Col William Shaw, the creation of the public library, and notable founders like Hosea White and Dexter Cunningham shaping the town’s development.
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Clark Joslin
John G. Joslin
Jones County
Walworth
Dublin
Lexington
Anamosa
Ford Street
Booth Street
Main Street
Edmund Booth
Peet
Clement Russel
Russel
J. B. Dumont
Dumont
Marion
Booth
Wapsipinicon
Buffalo
Dubuque
Hazel Knoll
Bishop Isbell
Troy
Illinois
Col. Springer
D. M. Strawman
C. L. D. Crock
Crock
Waverly
Col. Shaw
William Shaw
Shaw
E. B. Fenton
Helen Shaw
Italy
Francis Shaw
Walter S. Benton
Minneapolis
Hosea White
Dexter Cunningham
Methodist Church
Cunningham
Emily
Harriet Cunningham
Iowan Freddie Fisher and the Schnickelfritzes in Gold Diggers in Paris
Freddie Fisher a top clarinetist and novelty band leader stars in the Schnickelfritzes feature of Gold Diggers in Paris alongside Rudy Vallee. He doubles on saxophone ocarina slide whistle and flute while serving as comedy bellwether. He recalls wintering in a Winona trailer in 1936 37 and contemplates farming in California if the band hits hard times.
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Bell Wether
Fisher
Hank
Freddie
Joan
Winona
Minn
California
Iowa
Tama Seniors To Give Play Friday
Tama high school presents Headed for Eden senior class play Friday in Mills theater with leading roles by Tama Beulah Overturf and James Sheker directed by Miss Dorris Long a matinee for school children and a cast including Eloise Ryan Florence McCoy James Thill Beatrice Krezek Pearly Tyler Irene Weatherly Emma Nan Crane Laura Jane Novotny John Neil Harriett Olson Steven Bacino Marge Nelson Milton Porter Mason Feisel Harry Olsen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence McCoy
James Thill
Beatrice Krezek
Pearly Tyler
Irene Weatherly
Emma Nan Crane
Laura Jane Novotny
John Neil
Harriett Olson
Steven Bacino
Marge Nelson
Milton Porter
Mason Feisel
Harry Olsen
Fire damages Turkey Brooder House. All Turkeys Saved
NEWHALL fire crews responded to a break in a pipeline that ignited beneath a large turkey brooder house on the Lewis Weichman farm Friday. The blaze was extinguished with no interior damage. exterior smoke marks the surface. MANCHESTER Rainbow Girls elected officers for the coming year at a Thursday meeting in the Masonic hall with Vanita Harris as worthy advisor and other named officers from Earlville and Manchester.
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Newhall
Lewis Weichman
Manchester
Rainbow Girls
Masonic Hall
Vanita Harris
Earlville
Elizabeth Charlton
Baron
Charity
Susan Cloud
Hope
Jeanne Roller
Faith
Manchese Ex
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Neil Leaf
Inez Stambaugh
Ina Hunte
Springville
Frances Wahl
Mary Doyle
Richard James
Donald
Martelle
James
C. J. Newlin
George C. Oxley
Betty Young
Maywood
Lll
Carl Atkins
Fred Luther
Oelwein
George Oxley, Jr
Grinnell
Camp Fire Girls
Memorial Hall
Robert Mitchell
Missionary and Ladies Aid Society
First Presbyterian Church
Hugh Gordon
Harley Erwin
Latin America
Emma Klein
Frances Hildebrand
Prairie Chapel Church
W. G. Rowley
Mount Vernon
E. E. Clements
Colesburg
Marion Lodge
A. F
A. M
Masonic Temple
Handicraft Club No. 1
1. O. O. F. Hall
General Aid Society of
the Methodist Church
Gleaners Division
Cheerful Companions
Christian Church
S. C. Rice
Townsend Club
Max Berlin
Priscilla Guild
Congregational Church
Tennyson Club
Thomas Park
West Marion
Carolyn Hagerman
Linn
Dry Creek A. and L. Club
Robert Sloan
Roy Houser
LeRoy Benedict
Charles Benedict
Art Hanson
Iowa City
University Hospital
Lillian Ann Harding
Norman Givens
Martin’s Creek
Rex Hampton
Kellerton
Jack
Edward Higgins
Gerald Thomas
Ashley Steele
San Francisco
Harriet E. Moffit
Bernice Moffit
Entre Nous Club
Guy W. Miller
Tenth Street
Marion Lodge No. 6
Masonic Sanatorium
Bettendorf
C. A. Bradley
Edna Roberts
Anna Webber
Mary Chalmers Cory
Floyd Robson
Richard Little
LaVerna Crew
Ruth Qstrander
Dewitt H. Smith
Edyth Gordon
Harriet Moon
Marion Golf Club
C. A. Zieske
T. L Bosacker
Dorothy Zieske
Clara Turngren
Albert Lea, Minn
John Peters
Milwaukee
Son
August Peters
Ethel Harte
Margaret
Norman Murfield
Mrs
Or. W. McBride
Wilbur Sebern
Council Bluffs
Mr. Sebern
Mrs. W. B. Sebern
Excelsior A and L Club
Mr. and Mire Orar Martin
Eighteenth Street
Iowa News
the Gazette
OWA
Anamena
George A. Wilson
Mark Thornburg
Secretary of Agriculture
Guy M. Gillette
J. J. Myers
U. S. Senate
American Legion
Frank Miles
Iowa Legionaire
Otha D. Wearin
B. B. Hickenlooper
Vinton
Vinton High School
Presbyterian Church
Virginia Blocher
Glenn Peterson
Harold Jenson
Supt. C. E. Knapp
Cecil
Edith Reed
Marian Satterfield
Lloyd Callison
J. C. L. Penney
Evelyn Lucas
Y Blanche M. Beale
Elfie Magnusson
Stockholm
Rome
London
Berlin
Copenhagen
Mrs. Catshall
Paris
France
Dr. Cutshall
Cutshalls
Holland
Great Britain
Palestine
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Sweden
West Virginia
Iliff School of Theology
Denver
Cornell College
Northwestern
E. Guy Cutshall
Queen Victoria
Prince Albert
Justice Joslin
Joslin
Nye
Davenport
Edinburg
Dartmouth
Gideon Peet
Iowan
Tama
James Shoker
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