Survey finds one third revenue drop for rural Iowa towns
The Iowa state planning board reports that a proposed $2,500 homestead tax exemption would cut property tax revenue in rural Iowa counties by about one third. Urban areas would bear heavier burdens, with sums detailed for counties including Jones, Tama, and Louisa, and the total rural losses projected at 9.5 to 11.4 percent in several counties.
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AMES
Iowa State Planning Board
Iowa
Woody Thompson
University of Iowa
Clyde L. Herring
Thompson
Planning Board
Adair
Audubon
Carroll
Cass
Clay
Jones
Louisa
Montgomery
Page
Pocahontas
Ringgold
Tama
Jones County
Louisa County
Clutier Harvest Fete to Be Held Saturday
Clutier suspends plans for nineteenth annual Harvest Festival and Homecoming this Sunday with two speakers A C Willford from Waterloo and Justice Carl B Stiger of Toledo. Belle Plaine faces Tama Indians in baseball while Hill and Dale Players perform a three act comedy Let's Get Married. Chicken dinner at Immaculate Conception church starts 11 a.m. Afternoon program at 1 30 p m at the amusement park features concessions games amusements and a bazaar plus horse shoes pitching.
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the Gazette
Clutier
Belle Plaine
Tama Indians
A. C. Willford
Waterloo
Carl B. Stiger
Toledo
Iowa Supreme Court
Hill and Dale Players
Women of the Immaculate Conception
Cedar Ridge school hosts second annual alumni reunion
CENTER POINT. The second annual reunion of former pupils, teachers and residents of Cedar Ridge school will be held at the schoolhouse Sunday. A basket dinner will be served at noon.
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Center Point
Cedar Ridge
Get Up Nights Test Ad With Bladder Tea Kettle Hint
The ad promotes a 25 cent test for urinary discomfort causing getting up nights and frequent urges. It cites hard water and a bladder laxative with buchu leaves and juniper oil. If not pleased in four days, a refund is offered via the drug store.
Halden Attacks New Deal Spending in Ottumwa Speech
In Ottumwa Wapello county Halden a Chariton republican candidate for the short United States senate term criticized Roosevelt era fiscal policy. He warned youth would inherit debt high taxes and loss of liberty from New Deal experiments and urged stopping reckless spending with a 34 billion dollar debt on the books.
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Ottumwa
Wapello County
Berry F. Halden
Chariton
United States Senate
Roosevelt
Halden
Grant Brayton Pioneer of Near Manchester Dies
Grant Brayton age 69 of Spring Branch near Manchester died Sunday at his Manchester home after moving there a week earlier. He farmed nearby and never married. Survived by nieces and nephews including John M Brayton. Funeral Wednesday at 2 pm in First Baptist Church with Rev C J Brown officiating and burial in Oakland cemetery. His father Matthias Brayton founded the state’s first creamery and the first US farmers co operative creamery four miles from Manchester.
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Manchester
Grant Brayton
Spring Branch
Matthias Brayton
Farmers’ Cooperative
United States
C. J. Brown
First Baptist Church
Oakland Cemetery
Mr. Brayton
Brayton
Farmers’ Co-Operative
Grant
John M. Brayton
Masonic Lodge
Baptist Church
Cornell Boy Wins Yale Poetry Prize
Edward Weismiller 21 of Appleton Wisconsin, a Cornell junior, won the 1936 Yale poetry prize for writers under 30. His book The Deer Come Down will be issued by Yale Press mid October with a $100 prize and royalties. collection includes 45 poems with work previously published in major magazines.
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Mount Vernon
Edward Weismiller
Appleton
Wis
Cornell College
Yale
Stephen Vincent Benet
Yale Press
Weismuller
the Husk
Saturday Review of Literature
Virginia Quarterly Review
Wings, Voices
Fantasy
Prairie Schooner
Kaleidograph
Ladies Home Journal
Household Magazine
Paul Engle
Cedar Rapids
Rhodes
America
Muriel Ruckeyser
Weismiller
Atlantic
Maquoketa Considers REA Service for Jones Jackson Dubuque
Maquoketa city council weighs supplying electrical energy to rural cooperatives serving Jones Jackson and Dubuque counties. REA signals possible loan to extend service. Proposed rates: 1.142 cents per kilowatt hour for up to 25 000 kw hours and 1.0 cent per kw hour after, tied to fuel oil price. Rural cooperatives plan to build lines to the plant.
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Gazett
REA
Police Chiefs To Meet In Mason City This September
Invitations mailed for the twenty-eighth annual state convention of the Iowa Associations of Chiefs of Police. The event will be held in Mason City September 9 10 and 11. Key program will include an address by Jay C Newman special agent in charge of the FBI St Louis.
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Mason City
Iowa Associations of Chiefs of Police
Iowa
Minnesota
Harold Wolfe
Jay C. Newman
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Department of Justice
St. Louis
Couple Escape In Car Of Physician Who Treated Them
In Audubon a man and a woman with serious injuries fled in a car stolen from Dr. O. W. Wyatt who had treated them. Edward Snow aged 28 and Mary Martin aged 20 were identified. Clarence McClain of Los Angeles aided the pair near Manning after wrecking a car stolen near Denver. The girl suffered a pelvic bone injury and could not walk. McClain remained at the wrecked vehicle and later rode to Audubon, where he was found asleep near a creek.
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Audubon
INS
Edward Snow
Mary Martin
Clarence McClain
Los Angeles
Snow
Miss Martin
Denver
Manning
O. W. Wyatt
McClaine
Longtime Columbus Junction Resident Dies at 55
Fais Lewellyn Duncan died Monday at Mount Pleasant state hospital after a long illness. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at the Reformed church, with burial in Columbus City cemetery. Survived by widow Jessie Church Duncan, two sons Jack and Eugene, daughter Mrs Theodore Gallagher, sister Mrs Clark M Barnard, and one grandchild.
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Columbus Junction
Fais Lewellyn Duncan
State Hospital
Mount Pleasant
The
Reformed Church
E. Jasmann
Columbus City
Duncan
Jessie Church
Jack
Rock Island
Eugene Columbus Junction
Theodore Gallagher
Cedar Rapids
Clark M. Barnard
Muscatine
Woman Hurt In Car Crash Near Labora
Mrs William Phil lips of Des Moines 73 is in Mineral Springs hospital with serious injuries after a head on collision on highway 6 near Labora Monday morning. The Phillips car passed a line of autos and collided with a New Jersey car. Kenneth Hoeck of Sioux Falls was uninjured.
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Marengo
William Phillips
Des Moines
Mineral Springs
Labora
Kenneth Hoeck
Sioux Falls
S. C
Marion
Hoeck
Phillips
New Jersey
Johnson's Rural School State Appropriation Is Largest In Twelve Years
IOWA CITY Johnson county will receive $2 025 35 for forty eight standardized rural schools the largest sum in twelve years County Superintendent W N Leeper said checks arrived with the top one room grant of 100 65 for Sharon No 9 which opened last Monday enrolling fifty one pupils The county has two two room schools and forty six one room schools under the program.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Johnson County
W. N. Leeper
Leeper
Bennett Boy Hart Barnes Riding Running Board
Leon Geibelstein 17 of east of Bennett is in Mercy Hospital Davenport with a fractured left leg after the Geibelstein car on which he rode the running board was sideswiped by a Linn County car on Highway 74 Sunday afternoon three miles east of Bennett.
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Bennett
Leonard Geibelstein
Theodore Geibelstein
East of
Mercy Hospital
Davenport
Geibelstein
Linn County
Highway 74
Grand And Trial Jurors Named For Winneshiek County
DECORAH The September term of district court for Winneshiek county opens September 28 with Judge T H Goheen presiding. Trial jurors listed by town include Decorah Ed Ringdahl Arthur Macal W O Thornton Louise Bergan Peter Molden Bess Beard and others. The grand jury includes Pollit Koenig Becker Barth Oleson Langland Zbornik McIntosh Sersland Hovey and more.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
T. H. Goheen
Calmar
W. N. Johnson
Ed Ringdahl
Arthur Macal
W. O. Thornton
Louise Bergan
Peter Molden
Bess Beard
Bluffton
Roy Halse
Bloomfield
Harlan Stee
Harold Harvey
Burr Oak
Walter Ward
J. E. Borlaug
Elmer Tweet
B. P. Huber
L. A. Meyer
Alvin Klimesh
Fremont
Martin Pederson
Walter Daskam
Frankville
Wesley Barnett
Ray Runkle
Glenwood
Albert Loven
Highland
Selmer Ackerson
Ole Sanden
H. E. Reyne
Hesper
Charlie Smith
Lincoln
Alice Brekke
Ross Kirschman
Evelyn DeCoy
Leo Scheidel
Joe Kipp
Madison
Selvin Engen
Carl Gulbrandson
Gilbert G. Howden
Pleasant
Arthur Ellingson
Harry Stoskopf
Sumner
Lawrence Howe
Lewis J. Novak
Springfield
Carrie Eimers
Phillip Lansing
R. G. Sandager
Charles Pollit
F. H. Koenig
J. D. Becker
Sam A. Barth
Nick Oleson
C. M. Langland
Mike Zbornik
Jackson
Alex McIntosh
Halver Sersland
Peter Hovey
Orleans
P. L. Anderson
William Sluka
Washington
Central Stores Building Addition To Start October
The state board of education accepted a $13,500 PWA grant to aid expansion at Iowa State College Ames. Work on the central stores building addition will begin October 1 and require about twelve months to complete at an estimated cost of $30,000. Application for the project was filed July 23, 1935.
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Iowa City
State Board of Education
PWA
Iowa State College
Ames
W. H. Gemmill
Wyoming man loses sight after roofing accident at church
Chris Anderson, 71, of Wyoming was struck on the face and ear when a steel fragment broke from a chisel while laying shingles on the Presbyterian church roof. The fragment pierced his left eye socket and lodged behind it.
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Wyoming
Chris Anderson
Presbyterian Church
Iowa Receives 339000 For Vocational Education Expansion
Federal allocations under the George Deen act will provide Iowa with 339000 for vocational education next July 1. Funds span agriculture 123000 trades and industry 64000 home economics 108000 distributive occupations 23000 and teacher training 19000. The act adds distributive occupations and teacher preparation fields and allows 50 percent of funds to be used without state matching through 1942.
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Gazette
Washington
Iowa
George Deen
Bureau of Education
George Ellzey
Bennett Fall Festival Saturday Features Street Sports
Bennett plans a fall festival hosted by the Legion post with a full program including Colt and horse shows, agricultural products, fruit and flowers, oven products and fine arts. A 2:30 PM baseball game pits Lowden against Dixon in the Eastern Iowa league amid band concerts, midway entertainment and dances.
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The
Gazette
Bennett
Legion Post
Colt and Horse
Lowden
Dixon
Butter theft case leaves woman with suspended sentence
Zelma Conley, 30, arrested in Omaha in the butter and egg theft ring tied to Iowa, received a thirty day suspended sentence on condition she travel to Iowa to aid investigations. She pled innocent, saying she mistook three men at her apartment as magazine men. she was to marry Clarence Wright of Centerville, Iowa, one of those arrested, with Franz Harvey and Boyd Green the other two detained.
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Omaha
Iowa
Zelma Conley
Zelma
Clarence Wright
Centerville
Franz Harvey
Boyd Green
Iowa Temperatures Kept On Cool Level By Thundershowers
Des Moines report says thundershowers and cooler air will keep Iowa temperatures under 90. Forecasters expect central and east showers with fair weather in the central and west and cooler temperatures in the west. Albia hit 93 degrees, while Iowa City logged 59 degrees in the past day.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Albia
Iowa City
Iowa City Doctor Named Acting Research Director
Dr. Rus sell E. Jonas of Iowa City will become acting director of research in the Iowa state department of public instruction on Sept. 15. He replaces R. C. Williams, who will begin a year’s leave for graduate study at the University of Iowa. Jonas, who earned a doctorate at the State University of Iowa this summer, has served as teacher, superintendent, county superintendent, and deputy state superintendent.
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Des Moines
Russell E. Jonas
Iowa City
Iowa State Department of Public Instruction
Agnes Samuelson
Jonas
R. C. Williams
University of Iowa
State University of Iowa
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Johnson
Bennett Boy Hart
Board of Auto
S. A
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OWA
Chesterfield
Dr. Jonas
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