Monuments of Time at Spillville
SPILLVILLE IOWA MAJOR LOCAL LORE STORY ABOUT JOSEPH AND FRANK BILY CZECH IMMIGRANT BROTHERS WHO CARVE 24 HAND-CHERISHED CLOCKS. THEY CREATED THE AMERICAN PIONEER HISTORY CLOCK IN WALNUT AND CHERRY WOODS WITH 20 PANELS DEPICTING FAMOUS AMERICAN EVENTS. The Bily clocks reside in Anton Dvorak’s former Spillville home and are to stay museum property after their deaths.
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Spillville
Iowa
Anton Dvorak
Joseph
Frank Bily
John
Mary Bily
Frank
Tippecanoe
John Alden
Priscilla
Washington
Bily Brothers
Bily
Dvorak
Old Town Square
Arthritis
Associated Press Creative Brothers
Joseph Bily
Lawrence Phillips
Ottumwa
Joseph and
Mrs Leo Elthon 67 Dies Wife of Solon
Lynneva Elthon of Fertile Iowa died in Mason City after a brief illness. She was married to Leo Elthon a long time Iowa official who served as state senator for ten terms and acted as governor after Beardsley’s 1954 death. The couple wed Feb 28 1922 and had six children.
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Mason City
Lynneva Elthon
Leo Elthon
Fertile
Elthon
Iowa Senate
William S. Beardsley
Senate
Elthons
Second annual policemen's ball planned in Waukon
The second annual policemen's ball will be held on November 7 at the Waukon Opera House.
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Waukon
Waukon Opera House
Sigourney Brothers Plead Guilty to Embezzlement
James Tremmel 40 and Larry Tremmel 24 of Sigourney pleaded guilty to embezzlement. James received up to five years’ prison with bench parole. Larry got a suspended five-year term with parole. Charges stemmed from a pig-raising contract with Dodds and Grinstead of Danville.
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Sigourney
James Malcolm Tremmel
Larry James Tremmel
Sigourney Brothers
James Tremmel
Ft. Madison
Larry Premmer
Reformatory
Anamosa
Iowa Board of Parole
Dodds and Grinstead
Danville
Shaff Fees Cite Lobbyists Stand On Reapportionment Plan
Iowans Against the Shaff Plan, led by Duane Dewel of Algona, say lobbyists endorse the reapportionment proposal claiming little legislative change. The group warns farmers and small townspeople should be alarmed by the idea that small county legislators are more easily influenced by lobbyists.
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Des Moines
Duane Dewel
Algona
Iowa
Cornell Professor Receives $650 Biology Grant
Mt Vernon. Dr T Edwin Rogers chairman of biology at Cornell college has been awarded a $650 Rockefeller Foundation grant. The funds support a week long trip to Universidad del Valle Cali Colombia to study biology department procedures. He will depart Nov 13 for the Colombian university. Rogers, a Mt Vernon native and Cornell alumnus, joined the faculty in 1955.
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MT. Vernon
T. Edwin Rogers
Cornell College
Rockefeller Foundation
Rogers
Universidad del Valle
Cali
Colombia
Department of Biology
South American University
Cornell
Tama candidates in city election listed
Candidates for the Tama city election include Mayor Incur? bent E. C. Carnal Dale Carver Raymond H. Crawford John G. Peters and Lauren E. Sadler for mayor councilmen at large Wm A Kaliban and Ben Morris vote for two First ward Charles J Ku pka Second ward Paul R. Duffy and Vernon R. Olsen Third ward Mrs Cleo Melissa Fred Pieper and Glen H. Potter.
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TAMA
E. C. Carnal
Dale Carver
Raymond H. Crawford
John G. Peters
Lauren E. Sadler
A. Kaliban
Ben Morris
Charles J. Kupka
Paul R. Duffy
Vernon R. Olsen
Cleo Melsa
Fred Pieper
Glen H. Potter
Train in Crash Engineer Fired After Illinois Collision
George R Breeze 60 a Santa Fe railroad engineer was dismissed after the October 19 Willow Springs Illinois crash that injured 39 people. An Illinois division official ruled the accident stemmed from human error when the passenger train ran a yellow signal and a red stop signal, colliding with a freight being switched to a siding. Breeze said something entered his eye and he removed his glasses.
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Fort Madison
Santa Fe Railroad
Willow Springs
Ill
George R. Breeze
Santa Fe
J. T. Spears
Illinois Division
Spears
Breeze
West Union Names P E Teacher for North High School
Mrs Larry Reed of West Union will teach girls physical education at North High and the junior high. She replaces Ruth Egeland who remains paralyzed in a Rochester Minnesota hospital after an accident on Sept 15.
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West Union
Larry Reed
Ruth Egeland
Rochester, Minn
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