Two Women Burned To Death In Fire At Independence
Two women died in a fire that tore through a two story apartment building in Independence. Victims are Mrs. Mary Lynch Stats Harper 64 and Mrs. Ethel Stats Lamb Chesmore 43 trapped on the upper floor. A son Charles Stats and George Davis were lightly burned escaping. The Louis Kiggins grocery store occupied the front and the building sits northeast of the business district.
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Harper
George Davis
Stats
Louis Kiggins
Kiggins
Murray House
Funeral Held For Tragic Manchester Accident Victim
Leroy McAtee age 23 of Troy Mills died Saturday when he was swept from a load of baled hay by a low hanging telephone wire three miles south of Manchester. Funeral services were held at the Christian church in Troy Mills conducted by Rev Charles Sauer. Burial was in Troy Mills cemetery. He leaves his parents eight brothers two sisters a half sister and extended family.
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Troy Mills
Leroy McAtee
Robert McAtee
Manchester
Christian Church
Charles Sauer
Ethel Schantz
Alburnett
Lois McKee
Walker
Claudia Berry
Leona Masteller
Waterloo
A. D. Washburn
Grundy Pair Escape Injuries When Car Is Struck By Train
Ernest Eckhoff and Edward Tiseman narrowly escaped serious injuries Saturday evening when their car was struck by a Rock Island passenger train at the Wellsburg crossing. They were returning from a Wellsburg ball game, the dust from traffic obscuring the sight of the train. The car was dragged about thirty feet and hurled into a ditch, yet both men suffered only minor bruises.
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the Gazette
Grundy Center
Ernest Eckhoff
Edward Tiseman
Rock Island Crossing
Wellsburg
Pinney Family Injured In Automobile Accident
Mr and Mrs Alden Pinney and Mrs Effie Gayle are in a Mannibal Missouri hospital after a weekend crash as they returned from Elgin to Ewing Mo Their car was struck by a truck and pushed off a road embankment Mr Pinney sustained a double fracture of the back and his wife and sister were badly bruised Mr Pinney owns the Scott County Democrat newspaper and is its editor
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Brecial
Gazette
Elgin
Alden Pinney
Iowa Women Represented In Long List Of Professions
Beulan E Taylor notes Iowa Business and Professional Women's clubs include teachers bookkeepers stenographers secretaries cashiers clerks in groceries dry goods and offices cosmetologists and shop owners. Women run cafes jewelry stores and newspapers and hold posts in music nursing and public offices. A broad range of professions is cited from authors and lecturers to bank officers and government clerks. The piece concludes that women perform many roles once thought male domains, challenging the notion of "the weaker sex."
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TRAER
Iowa Business and Professional Women's Clubs
Iowa
Africa
Red Cross
Sand and Gravel Company
Marengo Man Dies During Amateur Baseball Game
Ralph Smoley, 42, of Marengo died Sunday after noon while playing baseball with the Tama Indians at Koszta. He fell from a bench and died instantly. Survived by his widow Rose and six siblings. Smoley had helped engineer the new Marengo post office since its opening June 1 and previously worked at Carson high school. He was a member of the American Legion and Knights of Pythias.
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Marengo
Ralph Smoley
Tama Indians
Koszta
Norway
Mr. Smoley
Indians
Rose Smoley
Glen
Boyd
Newcastle
Wyo
John
Della House
Milwaukee
Wis
Blanche Lindenmayer
Iowa City
Elsie Chalmers
Sycamore
Ill
Smoley
New
Carson High School
American Legion
The
Knights of Pythias
Fire destroys Keswick farm home of Mrs Stella Axmear Martens
Keswick fire at 6 30 a m destroys the farm home of Mrs Stella Axmear Martens located 11 miles west of Keswick. The origin is unknown and a $7 000 loss is only partly insured. Only a few furniture items were saved, and the family moved into a temporary 3 room house on the premises.
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Keswick
Stella Axmear Martens
Death of Dr Edward R Steel in Kansas City
Dr Edward R Steel 45 a former Grundy Center veterinarian died Sunday afternoon in a Kansas City hospital. He and his family moved to Kansas City about five years ago. He is survived by his widow and six children.
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Grundy Center
Edward R. Steel
Kansas City
Field silences hecklers with Iowa jobs not jags remark
Carroll Iowa Field Republican U S Senate candidate Henry Field spoke before about 10 000 in Carroll Monday. He faced interruptions over prohibition views and ended with the line Iowa needs jobs not jags to calm the crowd then moved on to Toledo and Mason City.
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Iowa
Carroll
ULP
Henry Field
U. S. Senate
Toledo
Mason City
Field
Chester Powell Family Reunion at Central City
The Chester Powell family gathered in Central City for a Sunday picnic marking the third wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Orlin Ich of Alburnett and the birthday of Mrs. I. W. Keller of Troy Mills. Twenty eight members attended with officers elected including President Mrs. Katie Iehl and vice president James Powell.
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Troy Mills
Chester Powell
Central City
Orlin Ich
Alburnett
I. W. Keller
Katie Iehl
James Powell
Helen Powell
Leona Potter
Nona Powell
Orlin Iehl
Harlin Powell
Edwin Powell
Oakley Powell
Opal Keller
Emmett
Charles Potter
Leona
Lucille
Ed Keller
Allie McPike
Walker
Eva
Helen
Eleanor
Vera Fuessley
Lorraine Dunn
Cedar Rapids
Kathleen
Alice
Gowrie Wins Prize at Tama Co Fair
Gowrie American Legion Drum and Bugle corps won the Tama county fair contest with Waterloo second Cedar Rapids third Maquoketa fourth Dubuque fifth Valley Junction sixth and Grinnell seventh. Judges were Adjutant General Charles H. Grahl Major Ralph A. Lancaster Major Frank D. Ringland and Captain Frank Halligan. Prizes: first 200 second 120 third 90 plus 18.20 extra from grandstand receipts. The Cedar Rapids junior corps drew applause. leader Jack Fromm brings two other corps from Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. Also awards in sheep exhibitors and a death notice for Mrs. E C McSweeney.
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Toledo
Gowrie
American Legion
S. C. Nelson
Frank Miles
Iowa Legionaire
Cedar Rapids
Drum and Bugle Corps
Jack Fromm
Des Moines
Division
Sheep
Robert Dowd
Montour
Dean Dolash
Roger Fleming
Dinsdale
Ram
Sues 68 Nieces, Nephews To Break Livingston Will
Bertha Hyde files suit against J R Grimes and sixty eight Colesburg relatives after Amos Livingston leaves an estate valued around 21000. Hyde claims a promise to leave all property due to nine years of care and service. Also, Mrs Walter Kelley sues for divorce on cruelty and intoxication charges.
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Manchester
Bertha Hyde
Burton Clark
J. R. Grimes
Colesbury
Amos Livingston
Colesburg
Livingston
Hyde
Mr. Livingston
Walter Kelley
Cedar Rapids Good Will Tour To Feature Edgewood Homecoming
Edgewood hosts Homecoming activities on Wednesday with a Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce Good Will tour arrival. A 1 p.m. band concert precedes Guy Linville’s 1 30 address. Local bands and a Elkader drum corps perform, a noon barbecue is planned, and Edgewood teams play kittenball and baseball against Earlville and Littleport. Children’s games and races are featured. nearly 1 000 attended last year.
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Gazette
Edgewood
Edgewood Commercial Club
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Guy Linville
Cedar Rapids
Oelwein
Elkader
Earlville
Littleport
1800 Teachers to Meet at Waterloo Iowa
The 39th annual Iowa Teachers Association session will be held in Waterloo September 30 and October 1. Headlining speakers are Augustus O. Thomas and Bess Goodykoontz. Activities include general meetings round table discussions luncheons and a Barber of Seville performance. Eighteen counties are in the association's territory. Officers include Malcolm S Hallman president A O Vaala vice president E Blendie Byers secretary T M Cleven ger treasurer and E D Cline chairman.
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Waterloo
Hotuneas Iowa Teachers Associaon
Augustus O. Thomas
World Federation of Educational Associations
Bess Goodykoontz
United States Commissioner of Education
Washington
Festival Opera Company of
Chicago
Association
Malcolm Scott Hallman
Washington High School
Cedar Rapids
A. O. Vaala
Chickasaw
New Hampton
E. Blendie Byers
East Junior High School
T. M. Clevenger
Waverly
E. D Cline
Dubuque
Last Week Healthiest Week For Iowa Health Officials
Iowa reported the week ending September 1 as the healthiest of the year with eight typhoid, five scarlet fever, nine whooping cough, three diphtheria, two smallpox, two chicken pox, and two mumps cases. Tuberculosis rose to seventeen cases, the only increase. State Health Commissioner D. C. Steelsmith announced the figures in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Iowa
D. C. Steelsmith
Hendrickson Death Evidence To Come To Court Tuesday
County Attorney Morrison was to present evidence to the district court grand jury Tuesday in the case linked to the death of John Hendrickson. Walter Mickey is jailed on the charge related to the incident following a drinking party with Joe Adams and Carl Ragan. Mickey claimed amnesia about the fight that caused Hendrickson’s fatal injuries when his head hit the cement sidewalk.
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Washington
George F. Morrison
District Court
John Hendrickson
Walter Mickey
Mickey
Hendrickson
Joe Adams
Carl Ragan
Brighton
Mrs. J. E. Beckner Dies At Fayette
Phebe Mathilda Freeman Beckner widow of Joseph E. Beckner died at Fayette Sunday after a long illness. Born in Cambridge New York December 6 1850 she moved to Greeley at age nine and married Joseph Beckner at eighteen. Survived by sister Mrs. Martha Jenkins of Greeley and brother Martin Freeman of Maynard. Funeral Tuesday at the Christian church with Miss Elma Hutson singing and pallbearers listed.
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Greeley
Phebe Beckner
Joseph E. Beckner
Fayette
Phebe Mathilda Freeman
Cambridge
N. Y
Manley
Hannah Freeman
Beckner
Martha Jenkins
Martin B. Freeman
Maynard
Christian Church
Elma Hutson
Martin Freeman
C. B. Trewin
Dubuque
Laurence Gras
Fort Dodge
Peter Oleson
Herbert Stone
Henry Hilsenbeck
Urges Economic Stand for Farmers at Labor Day Picnic
Edward A O Neal president of the American Farm Bureau urged 5000 western Iowa farmers at the Shelby County Farm Bureau Labor Day picnic to vote on economic lines. He said farm problems across states are alike and unity of agriculture and labor is needed for victory. He warned politics must not dilute economic issues and emphasized the ballot as the potent tool against prohibition and other distractions.
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Harlan
Edward A O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Iowa
Shelby County Farm Bureau
Arkansas
Tennessee
California
La Porte City Home Damaged By Fire
La Porte City home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Henry was badly damaged by a fire of unknown origin about 3 30 Monday morning. Three rear rooms and the kitchen were destroyed. The Henry family escaped, their son Evan climbing from a window. Damages are insured. Wheatland Couple Celebrates 25th Anniversary
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the Gazette
LA Porte City
Thomas Henry
Henry
Evan
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Custer
Little Big Horn
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
J. E. Beckner
Wheatland
William Meyer
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