Rural Iowa towns face one third tax loss under homestead bill
An Iowa planning board survey found rural counties would lose about one third of property tax revenue if a $2,500 homestead exemption became law. Urban areas see larger share losses, with detailed figures for Adair Audubon Carroll Cass Clay Jones Louisa Montgomery Page Pocahontas Ringgold Tama counties.
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Ames
Iowa State Planning Board
Iowa
Woody Thompson
University of Iowa
Iown
Clyde L. Herring
Thompson
Planning Board
Adair
Audubon
Carroll
Cass
Clay
Jones
Louisa
Jones County
Louisa County
Tama
Clutier Harvest Fete Set for Saturday Festivities
Clutier plans its nineteenth annual Harvest Festival and Homecoming Sunday with Belle Plaine facing the Tama Indians in baseball. Speakers A C Willford and Justice Carl B Stiger will address attendees. The Hill and Dale Players perform a three act comedy Lets Get Married. Chicken dinner at 11 am, program at 1 30 pm, plus games concessions and bazaar at the amusement park.
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the Gazette
Women of the Immaculate Conception Church
Cedar Ridge school hosts second annual reunion
Center Point reports the Cedar Ridge school will hold its second annual reunion of former pupils, teachers and residents this Sunday at the school house with a basket dinner to be served at noon.
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Center Point
Cedar Ridge School
Get Up Nights Test Ad From May Drug Store
Irritated or weak bladder symptoms prompting a 25 cent test with boiled water guidance and a bladder laxative containing buchu leaves and juniper oil. Two of eight ingredients named. If not pleased in four days, refund offered by druggist.
Halden Attacks New Deal in Ottumwa Speech
In Ottumwa Halden, Chariton Republican candidate for the short U S Senate term, criticizes Roosevelt policies. He warns Youth will inherit a debt and confiscatory taxes from New Deal experiments and urges stopping reckless spending to avoid a gloomy outlook for the next generation.
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Ottumwa
Wapello County
Berry F. Halden
Chariton
United States Senate
Roosevelt
Halden
Grant Brayton Dies Pioneer of Near Manchester
Grant Brayton 69 a Spring Branch pioneer died at his Manchester home after moving from Spring Branch a week earlier Funeral services will be held at First Baptist Church with burial in Oakland cemetery He was born April 10 1865 at Spring Branch son of Matthias Brayton founder of the states first creamery and first farmers cooperative creamery in the U S He never married and was the last of seven siblings survived by nieces and nephews including John M Brayton He was a longtime Masonic member and Baptist church member
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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 of Appleton Wisconsin 21 a Cornell junior won the 1936 Yale poetry prize for writers under 30 His book The Deer Come Down with a Yale Press preface by Stephen Vincent Benet will be issued mid October He receives a 100 cash award and royalties The collection includes 45 poems some previously printed in major magazines Other notable poets who won the prize include Paul Engle Muriel Rukeyser and past Atlantic Monthly contest honorees
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Mount
Vernon
Edward Weismiller
The
Husk
Saturday Review of Literature
Virginia Quarterly Review
Wings, Voices
Fantasy
Prairie Schooner
Kaleidograph
Ladies Home Journal
Household Magazine
Paul. Engle
Cedar Rapids
America
Yale Petry
Weismiller
Atlantic Monthly
Cornell Colege
Maquoketa Studies REA Service for Three Counties
Edgar D. Beach A. G. Nims J. A. Heinz and Joseph E. McGovern urged Maquoketa to supply electrical energy to the Jones Jackson and Dubuque county rural electrification cooperatives. REA signaled possible loan for extension. City will charge 14 cents per kilowatt hour for 25 000 kWh and 1 cent per kWh thereafter, metered at the plant. Rural cooperatives to build their own lines into the local plant.
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Garet Maqueta
Edgar D. Beach
Anamosa
A. G. Nims
Maquoketa
J. A. Heinz
Joseph E. McGovern
Peosia
Jones
REA
Police Chiefs Set to Convene in Mason City
Invitations mailed for the twenty-eighth annual Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police convention in Mason City. The event runs September 9 to 11 with a keynote by Jay Newman, special agent in charge of the FBI at St Louis.
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Mason
Iowa
Minnesota
Harold Wolfe
Mason City
Jay ©. Newman
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Department “of Justice
St. Louis
Escaped Couple Involved In Dr Theft Car Report
A man Edward Snow aged 28 and a woman Mary Martin aged 20 escaped in a car stolen from Dr C W Wyatt after a wreck near Manning. Clarence McClain of Los Angeles was held for questioning. The couple had been treated for injuries and were aided by the physician before fleeing with the car capable of high speed. Police pursued after the theft was witnessed by the physician’s son. Enis Lewellyn Duncan of Columbus Junction died after a long illness at Mount Pleasant State Hospital. Burial and services set at Reformed church with survivors including wife two sons a daughter and a sister.
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C. W. Wyatt
Manning
McClaine
Audubon
Columbus Junction
Enis Lewellyn Duncan
State Hospital
Mount Pleasant
The
Reformed Church
E. Dasmann
Columbus City Cemetery
Duncan
Jessie Church
Jack
Rock Island
Eugene Columbus Junction
Theodore Gallagher
Cedar Rapids
Clark M. Barnard
Muscatine
Woman Hurt In Car Crash Near Ladora
Mrs. William Phillips of Des Moines aged 73 is hospitalized with serious injuries after a head on collision on highway 6 near Ladora. Her husband, the car’s driver, and Kenneth Hoeck of Sioux Falls were traveling to Marion where Hoeck will coach at the high school. Mrs Phillips has a scalp wound, facial bruises, and a broken collar bone. Mr Phillips sustained head and arm cuts and partial ear severance. Hoeck escaped with bruises.
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Marengo
William Phillips
Des’ Moines
Mineral
Springs
Ladora
Kenneth, Hoeck
Sioux Falls
S. D
Marion
Hoeck
Phillips
New Jersey
Johnsons Rural School State Appropriation Largest In Twelve Years
Iowa City Johnson county rural schools will receive 2025.35 dollars from the state the largest sum in twelve years County Superintendent W N Leeper announced forty eight standardized schools include two two room and forty six one room schools Checks have just been received the largest one room grant 100 65 for Sharon No 9 which opened last Monday with fifty one pupils enrolled
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Iowa-City
Johnson County
W. N. Leeper
Leeper
Sharon
No. 9
Bennett Boy Injured Riding Auto Running Board
Leonard Geibelstein 17, of east of Bennett, is hospitalized with a fractured left leg after the car on which he rode on the running board was sideswiped by a Linn county car Sunday afternoon on Highway 74 three miles east of Bennett. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Theodore Geibelstein.
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Bennett
Leonard ‘Geibelstein
Theodore Geibelstein
Jurors Named for Winneshiek County Grand Jury Panel
The September term of district court for Winneshiek County will convene September 28 with Judge T H Goheen presiding. Trial jurors and the grand jury are listed by town and name, including Decorah and Bloomfield entries, with jurors from multiple townships.
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Gazette
Decorah
District’ Court
Winneshiek County
T.H. Goheen
Calmar
N. Johnson
Ed Ringdah
Arthur Macal
W. O. Thornton
Louise ‘Bergan
Peter Molden
Bess Beard
Bluffton
Roy Halse
Hesper
Charlie Smith
Lincoln
Alice Brekke
Ross Kirschman
Evelyn
State Board OKs 13500 PWA Grant for Ames Central Stores Addition
The Iowa State Board of Education accepted a $13 500 Public Works Administration grant to fund an addition to the Central Stores building at Iowa State College Ames. Work to start October 1 and finish within twelve months at a total cost of about $30 000. Application filed July 23, 1935.
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Iowa
Man Loses Sight After Steel Shard Splits Eye
Chris Anderson, 71, of Wyoming, suffered a severe injury when a steel shard flew from a chisel while he laid shingles at a Presbyterian church roof. The shard cut his ear and face and passed through the eye socket, lodging behind the eyeball.
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Wyoming
Chris, Anderson
Presbyterian
Iowa Gets $339000 for Vocational Education
Washington AP reports Iowa will receive over 339000 dollars for vocational education when the George Deen act takes effect next July 1. Allocations by service include Agriculture 123000, trades and industry 64000, home economics 108000, distributive occupations 38000, teacher training 19000. The act creates new fields in distributive occupations and teacher preparation in agriculture trades and home economics.
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Gazette
Washington
George Deen
Bureau of Education
Iowa
Department
George Ellzey
Bennett Fall Festival Planned by Local Legion
Bennett plans a Bennett fall festival Saturday hosted by the legion post. The program features street sports and shows in agriculture products fruit flowers ovens and crafts plus a 2:30 p.m. baseball game between Lowden and nearby leaders. Additional attractions include band concerts midway entertainment free vaudeville and dances.
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Gazette
Bennett
The
Legion ~Post
Colt and Horse
Lowden
Iowa
Woman Given Suspended Sentence In Butter and Egg Heist Case
Zelma Conley, 30, of Omaha was given a thirty day suspended sentence on a condition to return to Iowa and provide information about robberies tied to a butter and egg theft ring. She pled innocent, claiming the three men arrested at her apartment were magazine men. Clarence Wright of Centerville and others Franz Harvey and Boyd Green were named among the arrestees.
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Omaha
Towa
Zelma Conley
Iowa
Zelma
Clarence
Wright
Centerville
Taiwho
Franz Harvey
Boyd Green
Iowa Sees Thundershowers Keep Temps Below 90
Des Moines reports a forecast of thundershowers and cooler air across Iowa to hold temperatures under 90 on Tuesday. Federal meteorologists expect central and eastern showers with fair conditions in the west. Albia reached 93 degrees Monday, while Iowa City logged a 59 degree low over the past day.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Albia
Iowa City
Iowa City Doctor Named Acting Research Director
Des Moines AP reports Dr Rus sell E Jonas of Iowa City will become acting director of research for the Iowa state department of public instruction on Sept 15 He will replace R C Williams who begins a yearlong leave to pursue graduate study at the University of Iowa Jonas earned a doctor’s degree at the State University of Iowa this summer and has broad experience as teacher and administrator in county and state roles.
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DES Moines
Russell. E. Jonas
Iowa City
Iowa State Department ‘of ‘Public Instruction
Agnes Samuelson
Suwa
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Jones, Jackson and Dubuque
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Bennett Boy
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Central Stores
Dr. Jonas
Towa City
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