Marion High Alumni Banquet Set for Thursday
The forty first annual Marion high school alumni banquet will be held Thursday at 6 30 p.m. in the Legion hall with Miss Lulu B Secrist attending. Secrist, class of 1900, has not missed a banquet, and taught 13 years at the high school. Carrie Davis Reichert, class of 1854, has missed only one. Stanley Kellams will act as costmaster in the absence of alumni president Miss Annie Laura Davidson. The program includes invocation Clyde Scott class presentation Lyle N Warren welcome and musical selections by the senior and boys quartets led by Ruth Ostrander and Harold Miller with accompanists. A brief business meeting precedes dancing in the Lincoln building gym. Other officers: Miss Louise Cippera secretary and Richard Starry treasurer.
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Marion High School
Legion Hall
Lulu B. Secrist
Twelfth Street
Secrist
Carrie Davis Reichert
Tenth Street
Stanley Kellams
Annie Laura Davidson
Clyde Scott
Lyle N. Warren
Ruby Secrist Hanscom
Mary Mullaley
Harold Miller
Ruth Ostrander
Dorothy Ford
Robert Oakley
June DeWees
Bruce Phillips
Bob Oakley
Robert Ozburn
Melvyn Arp
Lincoln Building
Louise Cippera
Richard Starry
Mrs Delbert Skow Hosts May Social and Wedding Plans
Mrs Delbert Skow hosts a afternoon gathering at her West Ninth avenue home for sister Miss Gwen Newlin ahead of Gwen and Oscar Wente of Waterloo wedding on June 6. Numerous local club events and notices follow including May breakfasts at Marion Golf Club and church suppers, garden club tours, and advertisements for local hardware and rentals.
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Delbert Skow
West Ninth Avenue
Gwen Newlin
Oscar Wente
Waterloo
Skow
Richard James
Martelle
Richard Bond
Joan
Phyllis Anderson
Cedar Rapids
Charles Hart
Anamosa
Verne Miller
Quasqueton
Helen Newlin
Mount Vernon
Half Century Apart Marking Two Marion High School Graduations
Mrs Luella White Hutton 848 Eighth avenue and her granddaughter Betty Lou Scott will receive diplomas from Marion high school next Friday evening marking half a century between the two graduations. Hutton, a 1890 graduate, recalls the origin of the junior senior banquet and the early school staff including Superintendent E J Baxgate and teachers Miss Lizzie Marshall and Miss M Witter. The piece notes other 1890 graduates and 1917 1918 alumni Clyde Scott Grace Hutton Scott and Emma Slater among names and connections to Marion history.
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Luella White Hutton
Eighth Avenue
Betty Lou Scott
Marion High School
E J. Bxgate
Hutton
Lizzie Marshall
M Witter
Frank McBurney
Belmond
Bert Bailey
Jesse Peck
Will Goudy
East
Ina Wilson Fernow
George Reichard
Marion
Emma Slater
Grace Seaton
Lucy McKean
Hutton Betty Lou
Baccalaureate service and community notices from town churches
Tonight at 8 Rev C V R De Jong will deliver the baccalaureate sermon at the Methodist church with Bonnie Carey organist and Melvyn Arp pianist accompanying the processional. The mixed chorus under Miss Rose Wilcox will sing with Mrs La Verna Crew as accompanist.
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C. V. R. de Jong
Presbyterian Church
Bonnie Carey
Melvyn Arp
Rose Wilcox
la Verna Crew
Community Notes and Social Gatherings
Mrs Richard M. Clark and her children visit Clinton for the weekend with Mrs Clark's sister. The Theristrial club meets Tuesday at 7 30 p m at 657 Sixth avenue with a surprise program. Complimenting Miss Bertha Roberts who marries June 5 to George Schrimper, Mrs Leon R Blinks hosts a handkerchief shower for 40 guests at 1177 Tenth street. Mrs Clara Reiter and relatives host Iowa City guests at Mr and Mrs P G Harlan's home. The Cheerful Companions class meets Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the Christian church basement with E C Hamm leading the devotional. Mrs Fay Marsh and others plan entertainment and refreshments. guests bring their own cup, saucer and spoon. Mrs C C Carpenter travels to Dubuque to visit her son-in-law and daughter Francis Kelly.
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Theristrial Club
Mabel Galliven
Sixth Avenue
Bertha Roberts
George Schrimper
Leon R Blinks
Tenth Street
Clara Reiter
Mary Orelda Reiter
Lorraine Soens
Lucy Kasemus
Bob Strabley
Iowa City
Reiter
Inlaw
P. G. Harlan
Cheerful Companions
The
Christian Church
E. C Hamm
Fay Marsh
Ray McCalley
Hazel van Gorkom
McCalley
Floyd Emmons
Russell G. Rodgers
C. C. Carpenter
Dubuque
Francis Kelly
U S U Starts 84th Commencement at Upper Iowa
The 84th Upper Iowa University commencement runs May 21 to May 27 with the baccalaureate given by Rev Clarence E Flynn and the commencement address by Bishop Edwin F Lee. A busy schedule includes senior dinners violin recital dramatic society events and alumni meetings across campus.
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Fayette
Upper Iowa University
Clarence E. Flynn
First Methodist Church
Mason City
Edwin F. Lee
Methodist Church
Ladies’ Professorship Association
Vivian T. Smith
Kathryn Hetzel
Arlington
Alpha Psi Omega
National Honorary Dramatic Society
Coffee den
School of Music
Pi Kappa Delta
National Honorary Forensic Society
Sugar Bowl Cafe
Alumni Association
College Hall
Board of Trustees
College Library
Sigma Tau Delta
Bowl cafe observes commencement exercises schedule
At 10 30 am a bowl cafe announces commencement exercises followed by a 2 30 pm baseball game between Upper Town and Luther on Derman field.
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Derman Field
Buchanan County Graduates 105 From Rural Eighth Grade
Independence reports Buchanan County rural eighth grade graduation exercises with 105 diplomas awarded by County Superintendent F. J. Kiple. The list includes graduates and their township schools such as Buffalo Byron Hazleton Liberty Middlefield Sumner Washington Westburg Cone Fairbank Fremont Homer Jefferson Newton and others.
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Independence
Buchanan County
F. J. Kiple
Buffalo
Donald Boise
Agnes Mazur
Norma Rathbun
Alice Schumacher
Shirley Smith
Herschel Vargason
Byron
Claude Catt
Marilyn Deke
Darlene DeMoss
Gerald Lohman
Dorothy Tempus
Hazleton
Lucille Gerstenberger
John Givens
Joe
Mary Lou Gaffney
John Kearney
Gerald Klaren
Anna Mae Moroney
Robert Whitnes
Denise Doyle Sumner
Betty Mae Habben
Deloris Higgins
Richard Main
Washington
Maxine Bantz
Mars Eva Bare
Robert Crawford
Maurice Hennessey
Jarry Johnson
Ross King
Andrew Kroeger
Lillian Snyder
Westburg
Robert Bonefas
Laurence DeSotel
Arthur DeSotel
Kenneth Hopkins
Daniel Kantz
Merritt Cline
Maxine Ulm
Betty Wessels Cone
Vivian Arnold
Esther Cherry
Marjorie Gericke
Dorothy Manson
John Mausser
Mary Smith
Helen Stoll
Margaret Wedge
Vivian Zimpfer Fairbank
Loryola Burke
Arlene Kauten
Rita Matthews
Gladys Meany
Clifford Polark
Robert Trebon
Fremont
Lois Atchison
Boyd Coleson
Marian
West Union Man Given 5 Years For Receiving Stolen Goods
Burl Johnson, 27, of West Union, was sentenced to five years in the Iowa state peniten tiary at Fort Madison on a charge of receiving stolen property. He was also sought in West Union Marengo and Independence on breaking and entering charges.
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Waterloo
INS
Burl Johnson
West Union
Iowa State Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Johnson
A. B. Lovejoy
Marengo
Independence
Attempt To Oust Phone Company In Wright County
Clarion reports Wright and Franklin County Telephone company faces suit in Wright County District Court over use of streets for lines and equipment without legal right. Town asserts franchise expired in 1937 and renewal denied in two elections, and the company refused to vacate. Another suit by Mrs Dave Neilly seeks 2345 dollars in overtime and liquidated damages.
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Clarion
INS
Wright and
Franklin County
Dows
Wright County District Court
Dave Neilly
D A R Executive Speaker At Fayette Historical Event
Mrs C S McMartin of Phoenix Arizona vice presidents general of the D A R will speak ten minutes at the June 2 dedication of the boulder marking the site of Fayette County's first white settler cabin The event includes a Des Moines address by Henry L Adams invocation by Rev John P Clyde of Fayette and a bronze tablet presentation by Mrs Roy Richards Waucoma chapter DAR with the Oolwein band performing The guest later visits West Union as a house guest of Mr and Mrs E M Phillips
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West Union
C .S. McMartin
Phoenix
Ariz
National Organization of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Fayette County
W F. Pfeiffer
Fayette
Henry L. Adams
Des Moines
John P. Clyde
Roy Richards
Waucoma
DAR
Oolwein
Ool
Four Men Injured In Doon Affray
Four men were treated for injuries after a shooting scrape at Doon Iowa Friday. George Miller of Doon beat badly. William Kerschbergen, Doon garageman, and August Kahl, Doon beer hall proprietor, shot by Miller. Bernard Mann of Rock Rapids shot in the hand while disarming Miller.
Lincoln Attended Convention Named Lincoln by Byron Newberry
Byron Newberry recalls his first Republican convention in 1877 at McGregor and a long career as Iowa lawyer and politician. He reflects on Lincoln era politics, abolition, and civic duty while praising youth participation in primaries and elections.
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Tember
Oberlin College
Oberlin
Ohio
Byron Westfall Newberry
Iowa
Iowa Conservation Board
John Hammill
Clayton County
Elkader
Des Moines
Walter Leichendorf
McGregor
Byron Newberry
Abraham Lincoln
Byron
Lincoln
Brownhelm
Lorain Counts
Cleveland
Byron W. Newberry
Strawberry Point
Little Country School
McGuffey
Congress
Third
W. G. Doonan
Independence
D. N Cooley
Dubuque
Thomas Updegraff
South
John C. Fremont
Free Soil Party
James Buchanan
Sixty Years in Print Shop at Decorah Posten
Henry Davidson, 74, veteran Decorah Posten printer, begins his sixty first year with the Scandinavian newspaper. He started at 14 as a printer’s devil, helped with folding as presses expanded, and has worked at the keyboard the last forty years.
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Ecorah
Henry Davidson
Decorah Posten
Davidson
the Posten
Posten
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