Airmail Route Applications Expand Across East Iowa
The Mercury Development Corp seeks 19 feeder airmail routes serving six Midwest states with direct service to 39 Iowa towns. Circuits would land only at terminals, picking up and dropping mail in flight, with two daily flights to each listed Iowa point including Clinton Des Moines none.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Civil Aeronautics Board
Mercury Development Corporation of
Indianapolis
Raymond B. Townsley
Midwest
Centerville
Bloomfield
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
Montezuma
Grinnell
Newton
Colfax
Keokuk
Fort Madison
Burlington
Hamburg
Sidney
Shenandoah
Clarinda
Villisca
Red Oak
Griswold
Atlantic
Harlan
Woodbine
Logan
Missouri Valley
Clinton
Dent
Tipton
Mechanicsville
Mount Vernon
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Vinton
Belle Plaine
Lowden Cousins Marry Chicago Men in London Church
Lois Richmann and Dr. William Schick wed at Zion Evangelical and Reformed church in London with 18 guests at tea later hosted by bride’s cousins. Schick, resident physician at Leila Y hospital in Battle Creek, will live in Chicago while plans are made.
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Lowden
Lois Richmann
Chicago
Ann Richmann
Toronto
William Schick
E. Schick
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
London
F. J. Abele
Eugene Pau
Elgin
W. H. Witte
Clara Abele
Lowdon High School
Evangelical Hospital
Schick
Leila Y Hospital
Battle Creek
Mich
Dorothy Cassier
Herman Cassier
Lowden High School
A. Hoegen
St. Boniface Catholic Church
New Vienna
Father Ryner
Clara Hoegen
E. Paskar
Louis Hoegen
William Blue
Barbara
Mr. Hoegen
Alexian Brothers Hospital
Dinner and Reception Honoring Monsignor Carroll at K C Hall
More than 200 attended the dinner and reception for Monsignor W E Carroll at the K C hall in Marengo on Sunday. Speakers included Monsignor William L Hannon of Muscatine Rev Father Flynn of Belle Plaine Judge J P Gaffney and R J Gilchrist of Marengo with J Paul Naughton as emcee. Miss Ruth Casey of Blairstown and sisters Alicia and Rita McGivern sang. The program committee featured Miss Kathleen McGivern Mesdames Paul Klein Marvin Hale and Ralph Vogel. Mrs Louis Colson coordinated dinner arrangements.
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Marengo
W. E. Carroll
K. C. Hall
William L. Hannon
Muscatine
Father Flynn
Belle Plaine
J. P. Gaffney
R. J. Gilchrist
J. Paul Naughton
Ruth Casey
Blairstown
Alicia
Rita McGivern
Kathleen McGivern
Julius Sinn 83 Pioneer Blacksmith of Williamsburg Dies
Julius Sinn 83 a longtime Williamsburg blacksmith died at his home Monday night. Born in Moline he moved to Iowa County in the 1860s settling seven miles west of Williamsburg. He came to Williamsburg at 21 learned the trade and ran a shop for 50 years retiring five years ago. Survived by two children Dr I J Sinn Williamsburg and Mrs Robert Connelly St Anthony Idaho funeral services Thursday at Linn residence with Rev William Baird officiating.
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Gazette
Williamsburg
Julius Sinn
Moline
Iowa County
Here
I. J. Sinn
Robert Connelly
St. Anthony
Idaho
Linn
William Baird
Faith Appleton and Roy Haines to Wed in Edgewood
EDGEWOOD The wedding of Miss Faith Appleton daughter of Mr and Mrs Otto Appleton and Roy Haines son of Mr and Mrs John Haines will be solemnized at 730 PM Wednesday in Wood Methodist church. Rev Warren L Feller will read the ceremony. Bridesmaid is Miss Hope Appleton. best man Dr Derald Langham of Caracas Venezuela. Mendelssohn wedding march to be played. singers Miss Doris Frantz and Miss Leatrice Drape. The bride a teacher at Walker and alumna of Upper Iowa and Iowa State Teachers College. The groom a Center Point farmer and Vinton High School graduate. Reception for 300 guests in church parlors.
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Edgewood
Faith Appleton
Otto Appleton
Roy Haines
John Haines
Center Point
Wood Methodist Church
Warren L. Feller
Wood
Miss Hope Appleton
Derald Langham
Caracas
Venezuela
Mendelssohn
Doris Frantz
Martelle
Leatrice Drape
New Hampton
Upper Iowa University
Iowa State Teachers College
Walker
Vinton High School
Monticello
Freda Prull
Heinrich Prull
Paul Suchsland
Robert Suchsland
Muscatine
H. L. Adix
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church
Dorothy Prull
Lenore Suchsland
Leonard Suchsland
Marvin Jensen
Arnold Thalacker
Irma Adix
Monticello High School
Wartburg College
Waverly
Suchsland
Tery
Lincoln
Mearl Munson
River Bridge
Blairstown
Grace Lutheran Church
Irene Niebuhr
Roy Meyer
Guernsey
William Niebuhr
Meyer
William L. Meyer
Toledo
Tama County
Clara Anderson
Tama
Gladbrook
Chelsea
St. Joseph’s School
Central School
Calamus — Earleen Dann
Earl Dann
Lost Nation
Howard Muhl
John W. Muhl
Toronto
St. Paul’s Lutheran Parsonage
J. A Miller
Elaine Dann
Merle Muhl
Maxine Hamdorf
Anna Fay Reyerts
Muhl
Calamus Consolidated School
Mt. St Clare College
Clinton
Liberty Township
Wheatland High School
Tama High School
Stoddard Lane
Plymouth Congregational Church
Des Moines
Adrian Neil
J. R. Reid
Board of Education
F. C. Patterson
Ellene Abbott
Cleon Anderson
Irma Backen
Russell Benda
Richard Booth
Virginia Booth
Norma Jeanne Blythe
Eloise Church
Mary Corum
Helen Crane
Harold Croskrey
Lorena Davis
Leo Dolash
Francis Duffy
Devere Fahling
Ramona Fahling
Harold Fulton
Mary Getty
Marvin Hamiel
Douglas Hanlon
Lyle Hanlon
Esther Harden
Lola Haynes
Robert Jacobsen
Charles Lamb
Vera Maiden
Dale Mason
Betty McClure
Patricia McCowen
Ralph Mee- Geee
Harley Mikkelson
Dorothy Morgan
Jo Ann Moyer
Forrest O’connor
Kenneth Overturf
Opal Owens
Harriet Parks
Urbana
Fred Pallies
St. Cloud
Donald Smith
Chicago
Laverne
Vinton
Marvin Schlotterback
Newhall
Donald
Mark Abbee
Floyd Purdon
Waterloo
Iowa aims for debt free government by 1942
Iowa State Treasurer W G C Bagley said the state owes only 2 2 million dollars in outstanding soldiers bonus bonds from a 1922 issue and will retire them by December 1 1942 at 1 1 million annually. He called the finances excellent and noted 62 million in primary road bonds are county obligations, with full retirement planned by 1950.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
W. G. C. Bagley
Bagley
Poppy Poster Awards to Be Presented at Memorial Day Exercises
Presentation of the poppy poster awards will be made to Raymond Clift Collette Vaughan Russell Yerkes Don Arnold Caroline Merkcle and Joreen McCoy during Memorial Day exercises. Lincoln's Gettysburg address will be given by Charles Sloan of Marshalltown son of Mr and Mrs C O Sloan former Toledo residents.
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Toledo
Raymond Clift
Collette Vaughan
Russell Yerkes
Don Arnold
Caroline Merkcle
Joreen McCoy
Lincoln
Charles Sloan
Marshalltown
C. O. Sloan
Heavy Rain Deluges North Iowa Mon Night
West Union reports two inches of rainfall Monday night in one of the season’s heaviest downpours. The storm saturated streets and fields across the northern half of Iowa.
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Iowa
the Gazette
West Union
Warm rain totals 0.69 inch in Decorah
The first significant rainfall of the year saturated Decorah on Tuesday with measured precipitation of .69 inch. Weather officials noted the event as the year's first notable rain, easing dryness in the region.
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The
Gazette
Decorah
Rain Lashes Iowa with Spring Deluge and Heat
Elkader saw 1.69 inches of rain between 5 and 10 p.m. as the Turkey River rose over banks. Des Moines posted midsummer heat with 12 degrees above normal. Sioux City hit 91 degrees. Charles City logged 3.25 inches. Cherokee and Forest City measured near 1 inch. Rain covered northern Iowa. southern half dry. Forecasts called for thunderstorms in northern and western areas and southeastern Iowa later.
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Elkader
Turkey River
Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Sioux City
Mercury
Charles City
Cherokee
Forest City
Swisher Officials Fight to Lift Dance Injunction
A district court in Swisher heard a motion Monday to dissolve an injunction restraining Mayor G. C. Chadima and Town Marshal Ed Smahel from prosecuting Frank Stangler over Sunday dances at his Swisher ballroom. The petition argues the injunction was improvidently issued and harms a municipal corporation, while Stangler asserts the town ordinance is invalid for lack of proper assembly and excessive penalties.
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Iowa City
Frank Stangler
Swisher
G. C. Chadima
Ed Smahel
Harold D. Evans
Stangler
G. K. Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Equity
Edward L. O'Connor
Towa City
Whittier Couple Wed Sixty Years
Whittier Mr and Mrs Isaac DeWees celebrated sixty years of marriage at home with messages of congratulations. They were wed at the Hopewell meeting house near Viola and spent most of their married life on a farm before retiring to Whittier twenty seven years ago. He is 85 and she 80 but they remain active in household chores and attend Friends meetings. Their family includes six children, thirteen grandchildren, and one great grandchild with relatives in Pasadena Sebring Doylestown Marion and Washington DC.
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Whittier
Isaac DeWees
Elizabeth Talbott
Hopewell
Viola
DeWees
Brown Township
Barclay
Joseph
West Branch
Edgar DeWees
Pasadena
Martha Hinshaw
Sebring
Fla
William
Doylestown
Clarence
Marion
Anna
Mary DeWees
Washington, D. C
Drop Notarizing Of License Renewals
DES MOINES Iowa state safety commissioner Karl W Fischer announced that renewal applications for the new driver's licenses will not require sworn notary public endorsement this time. Licenses cost 50 cents each, cover two years, and will be issued starting June 9 in all counties and at Des Moines headquarters. current licenses expire July 5.
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Des Moines
INL
Iowa
Karl W. Fischer
Reverend Charles McDonnell Opens Mission in St Martin’s
The Rev. Charles McDonnell S J of St. Louis begins a weeklong mission at St Martin’s Church. The parish pastor is the Rev. M J Farrelly.
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Cascade
Charles McDonnell
S.J
St. Louis
St. Martin’s Church
M. J. Farrelly
Marriage announcements span Iowa towns and states
Announcement lists multiple weddings from Anamosa to Vinton across Iowa and Missouri. It covers Jessie Krouse and Howard G. Robertson in Kohaka Missouri, Hazel Tadlock and John J. Suter in Omaha, Freda Prull and Paul Suchsland in Monticello, and Irene Niebuhr and Roy Meyer in Blairstown among others with details on backgrounds, schooling, and future homes.
Farmer Swindled of 1300 Dollars in Ottumwa Case
Four people were arrested as police investigated the alleged 1300 dollar swindle of Grover Caster, a 31 year old Wapello County farmer, in Ottumwa. Caster withdrew the money on a wager that a bank was sound, then found tissue paper inside the handkerchief after the suspects left.
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Ottumwa
Grover Caster
Wapello County
Burlington
Illinois
Monmouth
Ill
Rhode Island
C. M. Higdon
Caster
Ottumwa man says three suspects fleeced farmer of 1300
Ed Stremming of Ottumwa, former Burlington credit bureau manager, helped arrest three men accused of swindling Grover Caster of 1300. He noted car license numbers after seeing the trio rush into vehicles, then identified them in Monmouth Burlington. Police found about 600 hidden on one suspect.
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Burlington
INS
Ed Stremming
Ottumwa
Burlington Credit Bureau
Grover Caster
Wapello County
Stremming
Monmouth
Jil
Trial Begins Over Disability Payments in Auto Accident Case
In Iowa City district court Erwin J. Brannen sues Mutual Life Insurance of New York to restore $100 monthly disability payments. He claims permanent injury from a May 29, 1937 auto crash and seeks back payments with interest and future support. The Phi Mu house was sold to Prof. Baldwin Maxwell for residence. Dr. Wallace R. Brode of Ohio State will speak June 2 on his Russia eclipse expedition experiences.
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Iowa City
Erwin J. Brannen
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York
Phi Mu _ sorority
Baldwin Maxwell
University of Iowa English Department
Bird T. Baldwin
Wallace R. Brode
Ohio State University
Iowa
American Chemical Society
Russia
Eldorado Couple Honored on Golden Anniversary
West Union honors Mr. and Mrs. Mike Schatz for their golden wedding with a surprise party Sunday at St. Peter's Lutheran Eldorado attended by about 200 relatives and friends. The couple, married 50 years ago, moved from Eldorado to Dover and Windsor townships then Eldorado in 1926. He 73, she 69, known for artistic pools and rock gardens.
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West Union
Mike Schatz
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Eldorado
Adalyn Kuhn
Rosina Lauer
Eugene Lauer
Richard Vagts
Verna Gross
Mildred
Grace Foege
Bonita Mittelstadt
Luetta Mittelstadt
Roland Lauer
Gertrude Lauer
Gertrude
Dorothy Pape
Leonard Pape
George P. Schatz
Clara Gross
Esther Pape
William A. Foege
Windsor Townships
Iowa Democratic Chief Would Fire Non New Dealers
Iowa Democratic chairman E. H. Birmingham says Iowans holding government jobs who are unsympathetic with the national administration should be dismissed. He forecast removals from office Monday and urged heads of federal agencies to replace such workers with sympathetic appointees. Birmingham predicted a shakeup and warned there are capable people who could fill the roles.
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Washington
E. H. Birmingham
Iowa
Democratic
Birmingham
Monona Educator Groth Named Farmersburg Superintendent
Monona mathematics instructor and girls athletics director N C Groth has been elected superintendent of Farmersburg public schools for the coming year.
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Monona
N. C. Groth
Monona High School
Farmersburg Public Schools
Wauken Girl Wounded By Mysterious Shot
Jean Richter a 15 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs G B Richter of Waukon was wounded in the left arm by a gunshot fired in the darkness Monday night as she walked home from high school commencement. The bullet hole was near the elbow and she saw no one or any motive for the shooting.
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Waukon
Jean Richter
G. B. Richter
Wauken
Waukon High Names 1941 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
Bernadine Bray and Betty Olson are valedictorian and salutatorian of the Waukon high school 1941 graduating class. Commencement exercises were held Monday evening.
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Waukon
Bernadine Bray
C. G. Bray
Betty Olson
Andrew Olson
Waukon High School
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Yagers
Yager
Iowa News
Anamosa
Jessie Krouse
Howard G. Robertson
Kohaka
Robertson
Theodore Krouse
Corydon High School
Cedar Rapids Business College
Anamosa Eureka
James Robertson
Anamosa High School
Penn College
Westphal's Market
T. C. Tadlock
Wellman
Hazel L. Tadlock
John J. Suter
A. J. Suter
South English
Ames Avenue Methodist Church
Omaha
Verne Ekfelt
Delhi
Minn
Allen Hurley
Suter
Ogden
Wayne Stoner
George Stoner
John Geary
West Liberty
West Liberty High School
Samuel Stevens
Grinnell College
Walter A. Smith
Richard Wolters
Mary Edith Kirby
Vera Cacherell
Paul Klinefelter
K. C. Smith
Marcella J. Blair
Robert E. Bretting
Catherine Brooke
Howard D. Brooke
Catherine Brugman
Dale W. Christison
Catherine A. Endersee
Mildred Grodon
Robert E. Hawker
William R. Heasley
Dorothy V. Holmes
Lois Jean Horn
Lorna James
John H. Kerr
Howard B Kile
Dorothy Kleinert
Marjorie Lou Morris
Alan D. Nichols
Loretta Nortman
Waneta Wilson
Virgil D. Askam
Charles O. Jackobsen
Leonard J. Kaalberg
Russell L. Lamp
Howard L. McGowan
Kenneth W. Ruess
Harold H. Wilkerson, Jr
Betty A. Campbell
Virginia Crees
Ruth Morrison
Eleanore L. Wolf
Alice J. Kingsbury
Jeanette Maxine Reedy
Charlotte Mae Bohac
George Wolters
Joe Otting
Otting
Otting Brothers
Wellman High School
C. E. Hillis
Willard Swartzendruber
Barbara Fjelland
Robert Wehrle
Lois Brown
Ethelda England
Harold Steiner
Surmae_ Stead
Maynard Bauer
Bettye Turnipseed
Wellman Band
Legion Post
E. D. Miller
G. L. Heiserman
Iowa City News
Peonies
Oakland Ave
R. W
Dews Building
Lecall
Y Owned and Operated
Firestone
Beara
Tone RD Tire
Idabelle Firestone Merigold
Richard Creeks
Firestone Symphony Orchestra
Alfred Wellcastele
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Red
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