Iowa in Brief highlights across towns and events
In Columbus Junction Clark McKean was fined ten dollars for carrying a loaded gun outside its case. Winners in Columbus high declamatory contest were Mary Elizabeth McKee Robert Greene Marian Pugh Ruth Ellen Thompson and James Merritt. Funeral services for Mrs Lee Wathan Atalissa were held in Wilton with burial by the Atalissa Royal Neighbors camp. Other items note plays at St Marys auditorium Colesburg Eveready Grange program Delta Baptist church speakers Atkins declam winners Williamsburg conservation meeting.
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Columbus Junction
Clark McKean
Justice of Peace
E. H. Wiegner
Columbus High School
Mary Elizabeth McKee
Robert Greene
Marian Pugh
Ruth Ellen Thompson
James Merritt
Bud Lynn
Atalissa
Lee Wathan
Wilton
Iowa City
Presbyterian Church
L. Blaisdell
G. J. Norton
B. L. Norton
F. A. Martin
Charles E. Kelley
Emma Holzhauser
Atalissa Royal
James
Edwin
Lee
Cecil Wathan
Walter Cachezell
Junior Baker
Dorothy Wathan
Gladys Wathan
Florence Blanck
Vera Cacherell
Millie Wathan
Rochester
William Baker
Leander Wathan
Leota
Cecil
William
M. J. Lair
Alexis, Ill
Stassen Orders State Conservation Chief Removed From Office
Gov. Harold Stassen declares Herman C. Wenzel guilty of misconduct in office and orders removal after a five week public hearing. Wenzel, suspended for refusing to resign, faces an appeal to the state supreme court. Wenzel, a farmer laborite appointee, would have served until 1943.
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Wenzel
State Supreme Court
Farmer-Laborite
Dysart Trucker Fined For Reckless Driving
Arthur Lincoln, 45, of Dysart, was fined $50 and costs by Justice H. R. Churchill. He was stopped at 11:20 p.m. on Mount Vernon avenue SE near Memorial drive after his coal truck straddled the highway No. 30 line. Lincoln passed the sobriety test and said he had only one glass of beer.
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Arthur Lincoln
Dysart
Justice H. R. Churchill
Lincoln
Highway Patrol
Mount Vernon Avenue
Memorial Drive
Illinois
Jan Hus and Praha Degree Staffs to Drill in Kansas City
The Jan Hus I O O F degree staff and the Praha Rebekah degree staff travel to Kansas City Friday night at 10 p.m. on a Milwaukee line special train of seven cars to perform a exhibition drill at the six state meeting. The large Odd Fellow unit will not compete but will present a special routine. Return trip departs Kansas City at midnight Saturday with several lodge members also joining.
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Jan Hus
Praha Rebekah
Kansas City
Southern Grand Lodge
Milwaukee Railroad
Harland Snyder Heads New Consistory Class
Harlan E. Snyder elected president of the new Consistory class at the reunion this week. Elmer M. Seevell from Marion named vice president. Glenn A. McCollister from Cedar Rapids, secretary-treasurer. Harold A. Lockhart, orator. Ellis M. Ellingson, historian. Other Cedar Rapids members include Herbert C. Brand John P. Galway Wilmot A. Wilson Charles W. Hepler. Marion member John R. Hanstrom Arlington resident Herald E. Haywood and Oliver Z. Stout of Independence also listed. The group plans the thirty second degree conferment after tonight’s banquet. William Koch, sovereign grand inspector general in Iowa, attends.
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Harlan E. Snyder
Elmer M. Seevell
Glenn A. McCollister
Harold A. Lockhart
Ellis M. Ellingson
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Seevell
Marion
Herbert C. Brand
John P. Galway
Wilmot A. Wilson
Charles W. Hepler
John R. Hanstrom
Herald E. Haywood
Arlington
Oliver Z. Stout
Independence
William Koch
Des Moines
Iowa
DeFore to Lead Broadway Drama Low Hangs The Moon
Don DeFore, who starred in the railroad pageant at the World’s Fair, visits his parents in Cedar Rapids and then heads to New York to lead in Low Hangs The Moon, a Broadway drama preparing to open. DeFore, formerly with the Community Players, has appeared in Hollywood films.
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Donald DeFore
J. E. DeFore
Seventh Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
New York
DeFore
Hollywood
School debate over brute force rule sparks remark
A man who spoke to the school argued that rule by brute force is just beginning, dismissing it as old news while questioning the meaning of a switch in authority.
Sally Rand Offered House Mother Role by Richmond Fraternity
The University of Richmond requires a house mother for all fraternities and the Kappa Sigma chapter invited Sally Rand to live with them after hearing of her financial troubles. The telegram asked her to come be their new house mother, noting they would prefer her over anyone else.
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Richmond
Sally Rand
University of Richmond
Kappa Sigma
Tests Show No Typhoid Carriers Found
In examining 55 people previously affected by typhoid fever, City Physician Dr Vic Hasek said on Thursday there is no evidence of any carriers among them.
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Vic Hasek
Cornell Quartet Performs at Roosevelt High Assembly
Under Prof Karl Andrist direction the Cornell college string quartet played at Roosevelt High School Thursday morning. Members John Mallonee Anne Culbertson Catherine Lilley and Phyllis Pearson performed Mozart Rondo Boradine Nocturne Hayden Allegro from Hayden The Mill and other numbers.
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Karl Andrist
Cornell College
Roosevelt
John Mallonee
Anne Culbertson
Catherine Lilley
Phyllis Pearson
Mozart
Boradine
Hayden
Mill
Raff and Minuet by Bocherini Encore Announcement
The article notes a musical program featuring Raff and Minuet by Bocherini followed by school club announcements for tenth grade and 11B students. It lists three new clubs under various teachers including a girls discussion group, a mixed social studies club, and a mixed sports club led by Miss Duncan, Miss Paul, Daryl Pendergraft, and Harold Sill. A brief wartime dispatch reports Japanese forces pressing on Nanning with heavy casualties.
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Lucille Duncan
Mary E. Paul
Daryl Pendergraft
Harold Sill
Pendergraft
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