Ten Lowans Die Across Labor Day Weekend in Iowa
A Labor Day weekend toll in Iowa included tornadoes, cars, and trains killing ten people and pushing the year’s traffic fatalities to 319. Among the dead were Frances May Luke aged 7 from Eagle Grove and Doyt Ashbey 31 of Bassett Indiana. The north central region suffered heavy damage including the Mason City north Iowa fairground and Belmond Beet Sugar buildings. Auto crash victims listed include residents of Rock Island Ottumwa Dubuque Burlington Davenport Bettendorf and Dubuque with several others injured.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Frances May Luke
Eagle Grove
Doyt Ashbey
Bassett
Nashua
Dale Hulick, Jr
Chickasaw
Wright
Cerro Gordo
Butler
Franklin and Humboldt Couries
North Iowa
Mason City
American Beet Sugar Company
Belmond
Hawkeye Manufacturing Company
Wind Storm Flattens Trees and Signs in Tipton
Severe wind swept Tipton Sunday night bringing down several trees and flattening corn fields in the area. Electric signs in the business section were demolished as the storm followed a day of high temperatures.
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the Gazette
Tipton
Drug Clerk Robbery Sees Salary Lost but Cash Box Saved
In Des Moines Higgins drug store, Joe Rullie loses his weekly salary to a bandit who fires a gun and takes $3 from the cash drawer after Rullie transfers funds. The thief had sat near the register and fled with the money.
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Des Moines
Joe Rullie
Higgins Drug Store
Rullie
Grant Approved for Iowa School for the Blind Dormitory
Washington reports the Public Works Administration granted 33750 dollars as the federal forty five percent share for a girls dormitory at the Iowa School for the Blind in Winter. The project totals funds from the last Iowa legislature and requires ninety percent of labor from work relief rolls.
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Washington
Public Works Administration
Iowa School For the Blind
John W. Gwynne
Iowa
Gwynne
PWA
Sturgess Thorpe Dies After Illness in Hopkinton
Sturgess Perry Thorpe 89 died Monday after a ten week illness. Born May 11, 1847 in New Jersey, he lived in Delhi and Monticello before settling in Hopkinton where he ran a store until 1902. He married Margaret Albertson in 1881 and is survived by his widow, daughter Ayla, and brother George. Funeral services are planned at Matthias funeral home with burial in Delhi cemetery.
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Hopkinton — Sturgess Perry Thorpe
Mr. Thorpe
Benjamin
Elizabeth Lasher Thorpe
New Jersey
Delhi
Thorpe
Lenox College
Idaho Territory
Omaha
Virginia City
Mont
Monticello
Hopkinton
Margaret Albertson
Langworthy
Ayla
George
Manchester
Matthias
Delhi Cemetery
Iowa City Theft Suspect Admits Involvement
Ames AP Police Chief W J Cure said Anthony B Wood 22 Indianola and New York City confessed to stealing two typewriters in Iowa City later sold in Davenport He also confessed to twenty three thefts in Des Moines Council Bluffs Indianola and Ames since his arrest Friday for attempting to sell stolen goods Charges of breaking and entering were filed in municipal court.
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Iowa City
Ames
W. J. Cure
Anthony B. Wood
Indianola
New York City
Davenport
Cure
Wood
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
England school medical services perform tonsil operations
The school medical services of England perform more than 70 000 tonsil operations annually.
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The
School Medical Services of
England
Vinton Sweet Corn Day Draws Massive Crowd and Parade
One of the largest crowds in Vinton history attended Sweet Corn day with about 5 000 along a mile long parade route. Miss Louise Bostrom served as corn queen with four maids of honor on a decorated float. Johnson Brothers' service station won first prize on Vinton floats. Taylor township took top honors for outside floats. Twelve tons of hot corn were served at noon. The event featured the Vinton band and Independence Junior V. F. W. drum corps. William F. Schilling of Minnesota spoke in the evening on cooperative dairying.
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Vinton
Louise Bostrom
Johnson Brothers
Iowa Canning Company
Taylor Township
Taylor
Independence Junior V. F. W
William F. Schilling
Minnesota
Federal Farm Board
Cornell Faculty Set Fall Conference at Palisades Park
Mount Vernon Cornell College faculty convenes Wednesday for its pre semester fall conference at Palisades State Park. President H J Burgstahier leads speakers on guidance integration in the college. Deans McConnell Betts King discuss vocational guidance changes and freshmen adjustments. Karl Andrist, new violin and cello professor, gives a short recital.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Palisades State Park
H. J. Burgstahier
T. R. McConnell
Cornell
Alice R. Betts
Albion R. King
Russell M. Cooper
Frank G. Brooks
Karl Andrist
Cornell Conservatory of Music
Biderman Tavern
Vinton Farm Woman Burned In Explosion
Special to The Gate Vinton horsel and Reiss of Big Grove township suffered burns on her arms and body Monday morning in a stove explosion when she mistook gasoline for kerosene while hurrying the fire. The gasoline set fire to her clothing and she smothered the flames with bed clothes after running to the bed. Her clothing was nearly all burned off. Mrs. Reiss is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Welch of Vinton and mother of two young children.
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Vinton Horsel and
Reiss
Big Grove Township
Howard Welch
Vinton
Dundee Opens School Addition With New Gym and Rooms
Manchester reports the $52 000 Dundee consolidated school addition opening providing Delaware county’s largest gymnasium with stage a 55 seat assembly room two new classrooms a basement lunch room and modern facilities. Bond funds and a federal grant funded the project started last March, easing crowding in the old building.
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Manchester
Dundee
Delaware County
General Fund
School Fund
E. B. Castle and Son
Marion
Bert B. Hansen
W. L. Pellet
Norman Hatton
Cedar Rapids
J. E. Hilliger
A. P. Preussner
J. D. Ryan
A. Glass
W. G. Smith
Mt Ida school reunion draws about 200 at Lost Nation
The Mount Ida rural school district held its annual homecoming near Lost Nation with about 200 attendees. The program featured Rem marks by Jesse Fields, musical numbers by local residents, talks by Kellogg and Buxton, and election of officers led by president Jesse Fields and secretary treasurer Mrs. Paul De Vines.
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Lost Nation
Mount Ida
Jesse Fields
Patricia
Carmel Heffron
Mary Fields
Des Moines
Mount Ida School
Marjorie
Marion
Madeyson
Darrell Christensen
J. C. Clapp
Evelyn de Vine
Elizabeth Glenn
Cedar Rapids
Dorothy Clapp
Betty Jane Schroeder
Edward Christensen
Christensen
Kellogg
Nevada
Oxford Junction
F. C
Bowersox
Clinton County
Frank Heffron
Paul de Vines
Lemke Attacks Farm Policies at Davenport Picnic
William Lemke, North Dakota congressman and Union Party presidential candidate, addressed over 20 000 farmers at a Scott County farmers union picnic saying the administration aims to make hired men of farmers and praising the union as the best militant group to defend farmers.
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Davenport (Ap
William Lemke
North Dakota
Union Party
Scott County
Farmers’ Union
Winfield Smouse Dies in Washington Iowa
Winfield Smouse, 87, prominent real estate man and former president of the National Bank of Washington, died at his home Monday after six weeks of illness. He helped found local institutions, funded the nurses home and YMCA site, and owned multiple properties. Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. R. E. Dougherty.
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Washington
Winfield Smouse
National Bank of Washington
R. E. Dougherty
D A R Plans Memorial for Golden Church Woman
Manchester chapter of the D A R will unveil a memorial to Mrs. Charlotte Bixby Taylor, daughter of Lieut Adonijah Taylor, at the Golden Church and cemetery in Delaware County Monday Sept. 14. The event includes a flag placing, a dedication remarks, and a dinner served by Golden church women.
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Manchester
Charlotte Bixby Taylor
Golden
Delaware County
Daughters of the American Revolution
Taylor
Adonijah Taylor
Golden Prairie
Church At
Sarah Hoffman
Iowa City
Ruth Taylor
Donita Charlotte Gilmore
Imogen B. Emery
Cedar Rapids
America
June Ilene Jones
Plans For Rock Creek Improvements West Of Tipton
Deputy State Game Warden Otto Klinge announces plans to build small log or rock dams on Rock Creek west of Tipton to raise water by up to two feet and slow erosion while improving fishing. Work requires landowner entry permissions, will be free to farmers and Cedar county, and use creek rock for dam materials. Over 1,000 smallmouth bass were stocked in Rock Creek last week under Klinge's direction.
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Tipton
Rock Creek
Otto Klinge
Davenport
State Fish and Game Department
Cedar County
Report Two Highway Accidents Near Vinton
Two weekend traffic incidents near Vinton involved five people. Mrs Clarence Helem suffered facial cuts when her husband’s car crashed into a Palo, Iowa, vehicle five miles south of Vinton on 218. On Sunday, Mrs Clarence Leonard and William Schlicht sideswiped on the Prairie Creek bridge six miles west of the 30 218 junction. Schlicht’s car went into a ditch while Leonard’s hit the bridge railing. Minor bruises and cuts reported. no serious injuries.
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Gazette
Vinton
Twoighway
Sheriff’s Office
Clarence Helem
Waterloo
Donald Rowson
Palo
Clarence Leonard
Mason City
William Schlicht
Laverne
Minn
Prairie Creek
Schlicht
Leonard
Stanwood Man Named Secretary of State Republican Committee
Stanwood man Od Haesemeyer was named secretary of the Republican state central committee succeeding George Lloyd of Dallas Center. He leads Cedar county Young Republicans and runs a Stanwood department store with his father H F Haasemeyer. He left Tuesday for Des Moines to report for duty. Peter Janss of Des Moines was named assistant to the chairman of the state central committee.
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Stanwood
Howard OD. Haesemeyer
Republican State Central Committee
Haesemeyer
George Lloyd
Dallas Center
Cedar County
Young Republicans’ League
That County
H. F. Haesemeyer
Des Moines
Peter Janss
State Central Committee
James Spencer of Onslow Celebrates 93rd Birthday
James Spencer of Onslow observed his ninety third birthday Sunday. Born near Cleveland Ohio in 183? he moved to Iowa in 1854 with his parents Rodney and Mrs. Spencer. Civil War service in Iowa 24th was cut short by illness. Attending the birthday were his niece Mrs. Harriet Lamey and nephew George Lyon, plus relatives from Cedar Rapids.
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Onslow
James Spencer
Mr. Spencer
Cleveland
Iowa
Rodney Spencer
Wyoming
Harriet Lamey
George Lyon
Davenport District M E Ministers Attend Labor Day Conference
Methodist ministers from the Davenport district of the Upper Iowa conference gathered for the annual Labor Day picnic in Mount Vernon. Bishop Thomas Nicholson and Cornell College President H J Burgstahler spoke after lunch, with 136 attendees including many district preachers and their families from Anamosa Mount Vernon Buck Creek Central City Clinton Clarence Delmar De Witt and others. Retired ministers and spouses also attended along with Mount Vernon officials and guests.
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Mount Vernon
Davenport
Upper Iowa
Thomas Nicholson
H. J. Burgstahler
Cornell College
W. Glenn Rowley
H. D. Green
Anamosa
J. B. Eyestone
H. E. Morrow
Buck Creek
A. B. Soule
Hopkinton
E. C. Allen
Central City
J. B. Ackman
R. C. Scott
Clinton
G. H. Goodrick
Clarence
F. W. Court
Samuel Knoer
Delmar
Will Kirwin
de Witt
Paul Clements
Elwood
Joseph Yates
Lisbon
Dorr Whitmore
Low Moor
H. H. Dill
Maquoketa
John Allshouse
Fulton
R. H. Collis
Marion
H. W. Farnham
McCausland
Bishop
J. P. van Horn
A. B. Curran
Cedar Rapids
C. E. Baker
M. J. Locke
H. J. Bowder
James Gallagher
Springville
A. L. Kindred
Earlville
R. V. Porter
Opal Keeny Elected Speech Instructor at Washington High
Miss Opal Keeny of Carlisle has been elected speech instructor at Washington high school and junior college. A University of Iowa graduate with eight years teaching experience, she succeeds J A Taylor who resigned last week to take a position as speech instructor at Copa High School Superior is
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Washington, In
Opal Keeny
Carlisle
Washington High School
University of Iowa
J. A. Taylor
Superior
Missing Wilton man receives phone call from Nebraska
Mrs. Howard Wagner said a call from her husband, missing since his oil truck sank in the Cedar River near Moscow in 1934, confirmed he is alive but offered few details. He spoke from Nebraska but could not specify the town, and gave no clues about his whereabouts or return.
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the Gazette
Wilton Junction
Howard Wagner
Cedar River
Moscow
Wagner
Doctors Injured In Morning Collision Near Belle Plaine
BELLE PLAINE area—Dr. R. H. Westfall of Boone suffered a broken thigh and Dr. Don Newland of Belle Plaine sustained a sprained knee and head injuries in a crash Monday morning west of town. Westfall's car slid off the pavement in heavy rain and, while trying to right it, swerved into Newland's auto.
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Gazette
Belle Plaine
R. H. Westfall
Boone
Don Newland
Lisbon Boy Lands Chemistry Assistantship at Duke University
DeWalt Young of Lisbon who graduated from Cornell College with Phi Beta Kappa honors in June has been awarded an assistantship in the chemistry department at Duke University Durham NC for the coming academic year. He previously accepted a teaching fellowship at North Dakota Agricultural College and has been released. Son of Mr. and Mrs. G B Young of Lisbon he attended Grant High School Cedar Rapids where he was president of the junior class and he majored in chemistry at Cornell serving as president of the Chemistry Club in his senior year.
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Mount Vernon
DeWalt Young
Lisbon
Cornell College
Duke University
Durham
N. C
North Dakota Agricultural College
G. B. Young
Grant High School
Cedar Rapids
Cornell
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