Cornwell Ill During Trial In Marriage Conspiracy Murder
Albert Deke Cornwell Manchester junk dealer fell ill during his trial for the murder of Dan Shine Littleport farmer and the court recessed. Cornwell testified Jim Hines first struck Shine with a fist then he hit Shine with a beer bottle. Pearl Hines Shine testified for the state claiming a plot to murder to inherit Shine's property.
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Dysart Considers Extra Funds For New Town Building
Dysart town council votes to hold a special election December 9 to authorize using surplus light and water funds to cover an extra 10 600 toward the municipal building project. No new bonds or tax increases. Total project cost about 36 600.
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Waterloo Seeks Funds To Build Sewage Plant
Waterloo Iowa officials with Senator-elect Clyde L Herring announced a $445 000 Public Works Administration grant for a sewage disposal plant The project awaits funds and remains on the preferred list pending allocations from the next congress Mayor Ralph Slippey said tentative approval exists but no money is yet available.
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Monticello Couple To Observe Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Henry Eilers of Monticello will mark their fiftieth wedding anniversary with an open house at their home Tuesday. They wed in Lovell township on November 24 1886 and moved to Monticello last March. Mary Peters born January 4 1870 in Monticello and Henry Eilers born November 18 1862 in Lovell township. They have children A E Hansen Louis Heiken Grant Eilers Paul Eilers Irving Eilers Herman Eilers and Lou King with twenty five grandchildren.
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Sub-County Play Contest Honors Lost Nation Cast
Lost Nation won first in the sub-county one act contest with Not Tonight. Elwood placed second with The Winner. Lost Nation will enter the county contest. The Wheatland entry About Candle Light Time was presented by Wenell Lohnman and others.
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Record Enrollment In Iowa Journalism School
Iowa City reports 368 students enrolled in University of Iowa journalism courses. The journalism major numbers 160, up from 105 a year ago, with the previous enrollment peak at 341 last fall, according to Prof. Frank L. Mott, director of the school.
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Collision near Menlo injures Varley family and Keswick driver
Miss Fern Varley 24 assistant bank cashier sustained a brain injury in a collision between the Varley car and a car driven by Harlan Axmer of Keswick. Her father M. S. Varley publisher of the Menlo Journal and Mrs. Varley were seriously hurt, with Mrs. Varley also suffering a broken rib.
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Iowa City awaits December vote on Legion building plan
Iowa City voters go to the polls on December 11 to decide a bond issue for reconverting the American Legion building into a community center. The measure failed by 1.6 votes in the November election, but council approves a revised plan with a $35,000 bond and a single polling place to avoid ballot confusion with a constitutional amendment.
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Keller Ready To Take It On Chin As WPA Chief
George H. Keller of Iowa City was named Iowa WPA administrator and said politics will not influence the relief program. He acknowledged controversy over his appointment and stressed that relief work should benefit the people. Keller added he will take the job and proceed, noting merge plans with Pryor era WPA may depend on Herring advisers.
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Williamsburg Woman Heads County Clubs
The Iowa County Federation of Woman's clubs met at the Christian church in North English with forty one members. Mrs. E. E. Worth of Williamsburg was elected county chairman, succeeding Mrs. Roy Evans. The meeting included readings, a vocal solo, a Junior club play, and a principal address by Mrs. Eugene Henely.
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Iowa City Doctor Honored at Mercy Hospital Dinner
Dr. W. R. Whiteis of Iowa City was honored at a Mercy Hospital staff dinner. The physician, a University Medical College graduate of 1886 who studied in Leipzig and Vienna, spoke on Forty Years in the Practice of Medicine.
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Eastern Iowa Notes on Highway Work and Local Events
Winneshiek county completed most 1936 highway improvements with six miles topped in Frankville and Glenwood townships. Other items include a Williamsburg rifle and pistol club, Oxford play, Luther College Women’s club officers, Amana marriage, Hazleton club officers, and various obituaries and community notices across Decorah, Iowa City, Manchester, and surrounding towns.
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Iowa Traffic Study Seeks Car Owner Data
Ames UP More than 515000 questionnaire cards will be sent to car owners in Iowa for a state traffic source study. The plan targets owners registered in 1935 and 60000 cards to truck and bus owners to map rural urban traffic sources and inform taxation and vehicle costs.
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Colorado Governor Recommends Pardon for Iowa Convict
Governor Ed C. Johnson of Colorado urged Iowa Governor Clyde L. Herring to grant a full pardon to Christian W. Sorensen who escaped from an Iowa prison farm while parole ordered. Johnson cited Sorensen’s good conduct in Colorado, marriage after escape, steady work, and local support. If returned to Iowa he would face seven years remaining of a 10 year sentence.
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Popular Bachelors Chosen at Iowa University Spinsters Spree
Robert Hogan Monticello Edgar Cochrane and Dave Evans North English were named the most popular bachelors at the University of Iowa during the Spinsters' Spree. They were selected by women’s groups and presented on Friday night in Iowa City.
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Name Trial Jurors For Delaware Court
Delaware district court jurors for the December term were named this week. The term opens a week earlier with Judge Ralph W. Hasner on the bench. Jurors include Manchester’s Clark and Davis. Hopkinton’s Culdice and Reggintin. Strawberry Point’s Barr. Oneida’s Long. Delhi’s Shearer. Masonville’s McRoberts. Dundee’s Preussner. Coggan’s Saathoff. and Dyersville’s Steger among others.
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Dedication of new Kalona school attracts 500 attendees
More than 500 people attended the dedication in the gymnasium. The program began with a school band processional and invocation by Rev. J. T. Perkins. Agnes Samuelson, state superintendent of education, spoke on early schools and dedication services. The event featured musical performances by various local artists and was conducted by Dr. S. C. Ware with a closing song by Mrs. I. E. Grady.
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Professor Clyde Tull lecture in Tipton on Mexico trip
Cornell College professor Clyde Tull spoke Thursday to the Tipton A A W on his travels in Mexico. He displayed blankets wood carvings and ornamental items gathered there. Dinner preceded the lecture as the A A W observed its annual guest night.
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Accident 15 Fatal to Hedrick Girl
Miss Dian Roquette aged 16, Hedrick high school senior among six injured in an auto train crash at a M. and St. L. crossing in Hedrick Thursday morning died at 7 15 a m Saturday in a hospital there without regaining consciousness. Other patients Doris Manning 21 Ferne Whitmer 21 and Forrest Hicklin 21 were said to be slightly improved Saturday.
Georgia Doctor To Direct Iowa Health Department Service
Dr. Marvin F. Haygood of Atlanta named director of local health department services in Iowa by state health commissioner Dr. Walter L. Bierring. He will oversee county and district units formed under the national security act, succeeding Dr. F. J. Swift. Haygood has ten years in public health in the southern states and studied at Johns Hopkins under a Rockefeller fellowship.
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Foreclose Two Farms in J. W. Reeder Estate
In Tipton district court two foreclosures were issued against J. W. Reeder estate. The actions target 274 acres and 130 acres near Tipton, reflecting a drastic shrinkage of an once wealthy Cedar county fortune from about 1000 acres and a quarter of a million dollars. Reeder, a former teacher and civic figure who backed Herbert Hoover, died in 1931 at 95.
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Alburnett Hunters Bag Four Coons In One Night
Dick Mounce Hubert Mounce and Glenn Pflughaupt with five dogs hunted near the Wapsie river south of Paris Monday evening and brought back four raccoons. No guns were used as the dogs bayed and killed the quarry on the ground. Coons weighed twelve to twenty two pounds. Mounce, a veteran hunter, says he has caught more than a hundred raccoons with dogs, but four is his best single evening total.
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Iowa City Legion Post Wins Membership Cup
The Roy L. Chopek post of Iowa City won the Robert L. Calflesh cup in the Iowa department membership drive. The Iowa City post reported 144.5 percent of its quota set Armistice Day to win the cup.
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Five siblings reunite after twenty five years in Manchester home
At Mrs. William W. Hockaday’s residence in Manchester a reunion brought together five brothers and sisters and their families after a twenty five year separation. Attendees included Vern Livesay of Bend Oregon and Manchester natives Charles Morris William W. Hockaday Masonville and others from Manchester and nearby areas.
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