World needs social architects says conference speaker
The Rev Harold E Fey editor of World Call urged youths at a Des Moines conference linked to the International Convention of Disciples of Christ to build a social base matching advancements in science and technology He called for social engineers to translate dreamer blueprints into community life and adult education He warned of barbarism if societies fail to plan for a humane future.
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Des Moines
Harold E. Fey
Indianapolis
World Call
Disciples of Christ
Doyle Mullen
Rensselaer
Ind
Baptist Delegates Tour Site Of Iowa First Church
Baptist delegates and visitors at the Iowa convention in Burlington toured the Long Creek church site near Danville Iowa the location of the first Baptist church in the territory A brief history was given by John M Mercer of Burlington Young people's sessions featured Dr Frank Anderson and Martin Tarbell A 100 year Baptist history pageant was shown Friday night and Dr John Snape of Los Angeles spoke at the young people's banquet Saturday night.
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Burlington
Iowa Baptist Convention
Long Creek Church
Danville
First Baptist Church
Iowa Territory
John M. Mercer
Frank Anderson
Des Moines
Martin Tarbell
Waterloo
Iowa
John Snape
Los Angeles
Pike's Peak Road Improvement Planned
A federal and state relief project will widen straighten and shorten the grade on Pike's Peak Road near McGregor Iowa. About fifty workers will perform hand labor for several days each week through the winter months.
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the Gazette
McGregor
Pike's Peak
Clayton County
Grinnell Sees 500 Delegates At Regional Church Conference
Grinnell expects more than 500 delegates from nineteen states for the Midwest regional conference of Congregational and Christian churches to be held Tuesday through Thursday. Over 350 advance registrations have been received by local organizers Mrs. O. F. Parish and Mrs. A. D. Talbott. Noted speakers include Rev. Jay T. Stocking of St. Louis moderator of the General Council and President Buell G. Gallagher of Talladega College with other church and academic leaders.
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Grinnell
Midwest
Congregational and Christian Churches
O. F. Parish
A. D. Talbott
Ohio
Texas
Manna
Jay T. Stocking
St. Louis
General Council of Congregational-Christian Churches
T. F. Rutledge Beal
St. Paul
Conference
A. E. Holt
Chicago Theological Seminary
H. C. Herring
Chicago
Council For Social Action
Henry Roe Cloud
Haskell Institute
Lawrence
Kan
Buell G. Gallagher
Talladega College
Storms Justifies Expanded Auditor Office Duties
Des Moines Iowa State Auditor C W Storms defends increased staff by detailing expanded duties since 1932 and 1934. He cites annual audits for 110 cities 4 871 school districts 150 state departments and more, plus building and loan associations and investment houses. He notes cost savings from in house audits dropping from 70000 to 28000 dollars annually.
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Des Moines
INS
C. W. Storms
Storms
Highway and Liquor Commissions
Frank M. Hanson
Certified Public Accountants
Cornell C Club Considers Athletic Policy After Homecoming
Cornell C Club members met during homecoming to discuss the college athletic situation. A committee will confer with President Burgstahler on administration policy toward athletics amid waning interest in football and other sports. Fred Miller was elected president and Walter Gray secretary. The day also featured the freshmen versus sophomores tug of war at Ink's Pond, won by the freshmen.
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Gazette
Mount Vernon
Cornell
H. J. Burgstahler
Fred Miller
Waterloo
Walter Gray
Ink’s Pond
Pioneer Van Horne Couple Celebrate Golden Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Andrew Dietrich longtime Van Horne residents celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with a reunion of their seven children and families totaling about forty, marking seventy years since Mrs Dietrich first came west and their marriage in Eldorado Township in 1884. The event includes a wedding dinner with relatives from Benton County and nearby communities.
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van Horne
Andrew Dietrich
Dietrich
Wilton Junction
Iowa
Benton County
Minnie Hammeister
Pennsylvania
Here
Eldorado Township
Phillip Studt
Luzerne
Emergency college course outlines plan issued
Miss Agnes Samuelson Iowa state superintendent sent circulars to county and city school superintendents and college presidents detailing an emergency education program. The cooperative effort by high schools colleges and the public instruction department offers college credit worthy courses taught by unemployed instructors for high school graduates and college students unable to continue. Credits would transfer when feasible and costs are covered from an emergency fund.
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Des Moines
Agnes Samuelson
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Department of Public Instruction
Hale couple marks fiftieth wedding anniversary
Mr and Mrs Vince Pegarek of Hale celebrated their 50th anniversary with a surprise dance at the Oxford Junction hall. A large crowd attended. they are parents to eight children including Anna Fritz Emma Trelish George Tillie Koranda Mary Kostacheka Josie Soukup Elmer and Louis.
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Hale
Vince Pegarek
Oxford Junction
Pegarek
Anna Fritz
Emma Trelish
George
Wheatland
Tillie Koranda
Maquoketa
Mary Kostacheka
Olin
Josie Soukup
Morley
Elmer and
Louis
Iowa Plans Forest Areas Across Nearly Two Million Acres
The Iowa state planning board recommends purchasing 1 922 381 acres of state land for national forest areas from a 2 402 978 acre base across 74 counties. Privately owned land totals 480 597 acres with districts along the Des Moines Cedar and Maquoketa rivers. The plan envisions an employment program tied to forestry, some grazing lands, and restoring eroded fields not suitable for farming.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State Planning Board
Alon
Des Moines
Cedar
Maquoketa
Herring Reports State Institution Expenditure Cuts
Gov. Clyde L. Herring announced that total expenditures of all state institutions for the 1933-34 fiscal year fell to 9,339,000 from 11,721,000 the year before, with notable cuts at the Fort Madison penitentiary and Iowa State College aided by the comptroller’s oversight to keep within income.
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DES Moines
INS
Clyde L. Herring
Herring
State Board of Control
Board of Education
Fort Madison
Iowa State College
Board of Control
State Comptroller’s Office
Budget and Finance Control Act
Comptroller
Counties Of Iowa Spent 11 806 499 On Roads In 1933
Des Moines AP reports Iowa counties spent 11 806 499 on 94 583.48 miles of trunk and local roads in 1933. Construction costs totaled 4 290 263.92 dollars and maintenance 7 518 235.78 dollars. Trunk road construction included 311.83 miles graded and 487.73 miles gravelled for 1 115 184.08 dollars. Local county road figures follow.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Church Forum Conference Opens At Cornell College
The Church Forum Conference at Cornell College runs Oct 21 to 24 with Dr E G Hominghausen of Indianapolis and Butler University among speakers on Barthian theology. Notable talks include Frightened from the Heights by Dr Joseph M M Gray and World for Prophets keynote by Dr Joseph Gray.
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Gazette
Ount Vernon
Europe
Cornell College
E. G. Hominghausen
Carerellton Avenue Reformed Church
Indianapolis
Butler University
Wheatland
Hominghausen
Carl Barth
Barth
Barthian
Cornell
Church Forum
Iowa
Joseph M. M. Gray
American University
Washington
Methodist Church
Horace Alden Miller
Tgvo
Clarence Senior
Socialistic Party
Samuel S. Wyer
Senior
Socialist Party
Columbus
Ohio
Wyer
College
Joseph Gray
Paul K. Walp
League of Nations Association
Eugene Mannheimer
Des Moines
Casper Schenk
Candidates For Congress From Second Iowa District
The article outlines Republican candidate Andelfinger of Dubuque and Democratic incumbent Jacobsen of Clinton for Iowa's Second District, with third candidate George Buresh of Cedar Rapids on the farmer labor ticket. It details Andelfinger's background from Oswego New York, his Dubuque mayoralty, and Licorice Products leadership, while noting Jacobsen's long service in Congress since 1931 and earlier career in Clinton.
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Iowa
Linn
Jones
Dubuque
Jackson
Clinton
Scott
Andelfinger
Jacobsen
George Buresh
Cedar Rapids
NRA
Oswego
N. Y
Wartenberg
Toj
Road work totals and county trunk road status report
Road construction figures show 1 297.81 miles graded and surfaced and 1 655.61 miles at a total cost of 1 653 317 37. County trunk roads total 4 008 27 miles with 65 745 88 miles of local roads not yet graded and surfaced. Twenty nine counties have all trunk roads graded graveled and paved. Maintenance averages 152 per mile on trunk roads and 68 per mile on local roads.
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Benton
Black Hawk
Boone
Buchanan
Buena Vista
Calhoun
Cedar
Cerro Gordo
Clay
Dallas
Dickinson
Emmet
Floyd
Franklin
Greene
Hancock
Howard
Humboldt
Jasper
Kossuth
Linn
Lyon
Mahaska
O' Brien
Osceola
Palo Alto
Sac
Story
Wright
Governor Day Torchlight Parade At Independence
Independence hosts a Governor Day democratic rally Monday at the Grand theater with a torchlight parade. Veterans of Foreign Wars junior drum corps Decorah and Elkader American Legion drum and bugle corps perform. speakers include Governor Herring Congressman Fred Biermann and State Treasurer Wegman. Dinner precedes the rally for state and county candidates with about sixty attendees.
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Independence
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Decorah
Elkader American Legion
Grand Theater
Herring
Fred Biermann
Wegman
Hering
Buchanan County Central Committee
Funeral Services Held For Former Elwood Postmaster
Funeral services were held Friday for James William Anderson a prominent Clinton county resident who died in Elwood Oct 15 He was born April 14 1861 on the Anderson homestead east of Elwood and was the son of George Harvey and Mary Dunlap Anderson He lived on the farm for more than sixty years and his father came to Iowa in 1856 from Virginia to take government land The homestead was farmed by Mr until 1921.
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Elwood
James William Anderson
Clinton County
Anderson
George Harvey
Mary Dunlap Anderson
Iowa
Virginia
Anderson Dies. Former Public Servant and Postmaster
Anderson retired in 1921 to serve as Elwood postmaster and held various public offices. He married Johanna C. Jepson in 1899 and is survived by two daughters, two sisters, and three grandchildren. He belonged to the Presbyterian church, later serving as a Methodist church trustee, and had long been a member of I. O. O. F. lodge at Maquoketa.
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Methodist Church
I. O. Ka Bi Lodge
Maquoketa
Last River Show Boat Manitou Sails Toward Sale
The Manitou, last of the floating dance palaces on the Mississippi and Ohio, sits moored at Guttenberg with a For Sale sign. Owner Lyman Howe notes dwindling demand as patrons fade, and dismantling proceeds with chairs, mirrors, upholstery sold off and the boat readied for scrap.
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The
Gazette
Guttenberg
Mississippi
Ohio
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Lyman Howe
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Jack Slyfield
McGregor
Pittsburgh
Cassville
Toto
Howe
Iowa Candidates Fight for Independent Voters
In Des Moines AP reports Iowa candidates target silent independents two weeks before the November 6 election. Democrats expect to hold gains while Republicans seek to recapture votes with taxes and state issues shaping campaigns. Both parties anticipate gains in Congress with Iowa’s nine seats up for election.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Erangueiatuens
Arenthe
Congress
Campaign Urges Iowa Parents to Register Babies
Dr Walter L Blerring urged all Iowa parents to participate in the new register your baby campaign run by the health department with the U S census bureau and FERA. About 650000 Iowa families will receive postal cards this week requesting registration of babies under one year.
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DES ‘Movies
Iowa
Walter L. Blerring
Health Department
U.S. Census Bureau
FERA
Census Bureau
Washington
Des Moines
Bierring
Iowans Debate Byrd Expedition Vote by Radio
Des Moines IA AP Gov Clyde L Herring received a telegram from Charles Michelson of the Democratic National Committee asking if two Iowa members of the Byrd expedition could vote in the November election by radio. The request involved Dr Charles P Poulter and Arthur Zuhn of Mount Pleasant. Assistant AG Harry Garrett said Iowa law has no provisions for absentee radio voting.
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Des Moines
Clyde L. Herring
Charles Michelson
Democratic National Committee
New York
Iowa
Michelson
Richard E. Byrd
Charles P. Poulter
Arthur Zuhn
Mount Pleasant
Harry Garrett
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Federal Council of Churches
United States
Christian Church Commission
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First
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Pike’s Peak
M. H. Morse
Wyoming
Mr. Morsey
A. T. Moats
Center Junction
Henry Zimmerman
Ole Nelson
Slater
James W. Willett
Tama
J. P. Risley
Mr. Morse
Eugene Allen
E. F. Byng
Burgstahler
Pioneer van Horne
Homrighausen
Indiana
E. G. Homrighausen
Congress Froom
Tary
United States Volunteers
Porto Rico
National Licorice Company
Brooklyn
Licorice Products Company
Germany
Repay Schiels Working Iin
Clinac
B. M. Jacobsen
Martin Andelfinger
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