Desperado abducts two Iowa officers and Adel farmer
E. P. Elmer escaped Texas deputy while abducting two Iowa officers and a Adel farmer. He drove toward Tulsa Oklahoma where he freed them after forcing the deputy to travel south and later bound them to trees before escaping. Tulsa authorities linked Elmer to Charles Pretty Boy Floyd.
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Adel
Southwest
E. P. Elmer
Texas
Iowa
Elmer
Tulsa
Okla
Charles
Pretty Boy
al Chase
William Glen
Chase
Floyd
Murphy To Speak At Oelwein Wednesday
The Democratic state committee lists speaking engagements for Louis Murphy senatorial nominee. He will speak in Oelwein on Wednesday after visits to Iowa Falls Tuesday and other towns including Charles City Manly Cedar Falls and Ames Moravia Crawfordsville and Fairfield on subsequent days. Clyde Herring gubernatorial candidate schedules include Swan Indianola Des Moines Oxford Moville Lamont Weldon Dolliver park and Gilbert.
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Des Moines
Democratic State Committee
Louis Murphy
Iowa Falls
Charles City
Manly
Oelwein
New Hampton
Cedar Falls
Ames
Moravia
Crawfordsville
Fairfield
Clyde Herring
Swan
Indianola
Oxford
Moville
Lamont
Weldon
Dolliver Park
Gilbert
Husking Contest Planned by Cedar County Farm Leaders
Cedar County Farm Bureau directors organized a county corn husking contest at a board meeting. Ed Crist Fairfield township Charles Bell Inland Henry Voelker Fremont Ben Schroeder Linn and Ted Worrall Iowa named to finish arrangements. James J. Wallace Marion advisor Cedar Valley Farm Business Association briefed the board, which agreed to cooperate with neighboring counties.
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Tipton
Cedar County Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Ed Crist
Fairfield Township
Charles Bell
Inland
Henry Voelker
Fremont
Ben Schroeder
Linn
Ted Worrall
Iowa
James J. Wallace
Marion
Cedar Valley Farm Business Association
Iowa City Physicians face $20000 damage suit from daughter
Dorothy Anne Dondore, daughter of late Josephine Dondore, files in district court a petition charging Iowa City doctors A W Bennett and F J Rhoner with negligent treatment of her mother. Josephine Dondore died February 20 1931 from heart disease.
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Iowa City
A. W. Bennett
F. J. Rhoner
Dorothy Anne Dondore
Josephine Dondore
Miss Dondore
Drop Of 63,402 In Number Iowa Motor Vehicles
Iowa motor vehicle registrations fell to 676 005 on Sept 1 down from 739 407 a year earlier. Cars dropped 59 122 to 599 556 and trucks declined 4 184 to 72 383. Registrations of motorcycles and trailers also fell, with county totals listed.
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Iowa
DES Moines
State
W. A. Stevens
Delaware W C T U Holds Convention in Earlville
The annual Delaware County W C T U convention met at the Methodist Episcopal church in Earlville with Mrs. Edith Scanlon presiding. Speakers included Harry Brockman of Delhi, Mrs. Scanlon, Mrs. Platner, the Rev G N Nothdurst and Miss Maude Barr. Officers elected: President Mrs Edith Scanlon, Vice President Mrs Clara Irmscher, Secretary Mrs Mertie Le Clerk, Treasurer Mrs Evan Robinson.
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Earlville
Delaware County
Methodist Episcopal Church
Edith Scanlon
Manchester
Harry Brockman
Delhi
Scanlon
Platner
G. N. Nothdurst
Colesburg
Maude Barr
Clara Irmscher
Mertie le Clerk
Evan Robinson
L. C. Smith
Bessie Hunt
IOWA NEWS IN BRIEF REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Louisa County Medical association met in Letts for September talks on traumatic hand injuries with two clinical patients. Dr. J L Klein of Muscatine spoke. a round table followed led by a Iowa State Medical society counsellor from Washington. The group hosts the Southeastern Iowa Medical association in October. A Methodist church dinner honored doctors and wives. West Branch students head to college with names and destinations across multiple schools including Cornell Blair Nebraska Penn Iowa State Coe Grinnell and Chicago. Rainbow Girls elect officers in Belle Plaine. Hilton Willing Workers set annual officers in Conroy with a new point system for 4 H club work and a medal for top scorer. Vinton reports minor roof damage from an undetermined cause at a garage.
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Columbus Junction
Louisa County Medical Association
Letts
J. L. Klein
Muscatine
Dr. of Washington
Iowa State Medical Society
Louisa County Association
Southeastern Iowa Medical Association
West Branch
Cornell College
Margaret Stratton
Clare Hoffman
Doris Albin
Dana College
Blair
Neb
Bernice Pedersen
Penn College
Ruth Moore
Iowa State College
Beryl Schiele
John Pearson
Floyd
Alfred Fawcett
Coe College
Margaret
Ruth Hemingway
University of Iowa
Lois Hollingsworth
Floyd Schell
Merle Zalesky
William Jones
Grinnell
Elizabeth Jones
Kansas Wesleyan
Salina
Kan
Wayne Barnes
Westtown, Friends School
Westtown
Belle Plaine—Assembly No
Order of Rainbow For Girls
Anna Anderson
Marion McCune
Arlene Luedtke
Charity
Edrie Adams
Hope
Beverly Clemmer
Faith
Helen Greenlee
Virginia Hammond
Conroy
Hilton Willing Workers Club
Iowa County
Cleone
Marjory Leahy
Norma Helgeson
Cleone Leahy
Maxine Olson
Winnifred Olson
Marjory Frick
Celesti Jacobs
Mae Stanerson
Vinton
S. F. Partybok
The
Fire Desertmen
Oakdale Supt Edwards to Speak at T E Conference
Des Moines report that J A Edwards superintendent of the Iowa State sanatorium at Oakdale and Mrs W H Griffith will address the Mississippi Valley Conference on Tuberculosis in Indianapolis on Tuesday Others attending from Iowa include Dr T J Edmonds Des Moines and Mrs J W Ballard Cedar Rapids with several physicians speaking at medical and governing council meetings
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Des Moines
J. A. Edwards
Oakdale
W. H. Griffith
Woodbury County Tuberculosis Association
Indianapolis
T. J. Edmonds
J. W. Ballard
Cedar Rapids
John H. Peck
Arlene van Cleave
Logan
G. R. Johnson
Ottumwa
J. Carl Painter
Dubuque
Lost Nation Merchants Day Features Baseball Game and Dance
Friday events include a 3 p.m. baseball game between the House of David and Lost Nation Independents with Flip Flemming returning to the visitors. The Lost Nation concert band plays in the afternoon and evening, followed by a dance at Rutenbeck hall after the concert.
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Lost Nation
House of David
Flip Flemming
Rutenbeck Hall
Paupers Urged to Work for Relief in County Funds
A bulletin urges counties to require able bodied paupers to work for their relief to avoid waste and ensure value from three to four million dollars spent annually. It cites overpayments for coffee and food, unequal relief, and calls for inspections of pauper fund administration to curb dole-like expenditures.
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The
Bulletin
Girl Arrested With Man In Tipton Taken Back To State School
Mae Hannum of Chicago representing the Iowa public welfare department arrived in Tipton to return Margaret M. Flock eighteen to the Geneva Illinois state school for delinquent girls. Miss Fleck and Franklin L. Brashear of Aurora Illinois were arrested earlier in the week by Sheriff Charles F. Murray at federal authorities request. Brashear awaits federal arrival to answer charges including Mann act allegations for transporting Flock across the state line and reportedly deserted his wife and four children after mortgaging the family furniture and driving a mortgaged car into Iowa.
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Tipton
Mae Hannum
Chicago
Department of Public Welfare
Des Moines
Margaret M. Flock
State School
Geneva
Ill
Miss Fleck
Franklin L. Brashear
Aurora
Charles F. Murray
Brashear
Miss Flock
Illinois
Cornell Freshmen Prepare for Opening on Tuesday Morning
Mount Vernon Cornell freshmen week ends as campus readies for the 7 45 a m opening. New students return for registration while faculty resume duties. Harold Paulus and Katherine Echternacht lead the toast, with Burgstahler and Gray addressing.
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Gazette
Mount Vernon
Cornell
Harold Paulus
Dubuque
Katherine Echternacht
Marshalltown
Pauline Jones
Chicago
Alice Davidson
Muscatine
Wallace On War Debt Committee
Henry A. Wallace, Iowa farm magazine editor, will be vice president of a committee of prominent American business men seeking a solution to the World War debt problem. Alfred P. Sloan announced the group in New York, with twelve vice chairs and sixty four others under Sloan as temporary chairmen.
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New York
Henry A. Wallace
Iowa
Des Moines
United States
Alfred P. Sloan
General Motors Corporation
Sloan
Andrew Woman Again Heads Jackson W C T U
Mrs A J Mc Connell of Andrew was re elected Friday to lead the Jackson county W C T U at Preston county convention. Officers include M K Miller Maquoketa vice president Blanche French Preston secretary Carrie Brown Maquoketa treasurer Rose Koon Maquoketa flower missions superintendent. About a dozen Maquoketa members and a similar number from Andrew attended. Maquoketa union re elected Miss Elizabeth Wilson president for the fifteenth year.
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Maquoreta
A. J. McConnell
Andrew
Jackson County Organization of Women's Christian Temperance Unions
Preston
M. K. Miller
Maquoketa
Blanche French
Carrie Brown
Rose Koon
Flower Missions
Maquoketa Union
Jackson County
Elizabeth Wilson
Heavy Rains Sweep Iowa Breaking Sunshine Spell
Rain fell across nearly all of Iowa on Sunday ending a two week spell of sun. Federal Meteorologist Charles D. Reed predicted more moisture in the southeast and east as clouds pressed eastward. The heaviest showers totaled 1.83 inches at Van Meter and other notable readings included Webster City 1.56 inches Fort Dodge Inwood 1.27 inches Atlantic 1.22 Ames 1.08 and Decorah dropped to 52 degrees with Burlington at 88.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
van Meere
Webster City
Fort Dodge
Inwood
Atlantic
Clarinda
Ames
Iowa Falls
Burlington
Decorah
Enrollment hits record in Iowa vocational schools
Des Moines AP report states Director F. E. Moore announced that enrollment in all Iowa vocational schools and classes in 150 cities for the year ending June 30 reached 16 051 students, the largest in state history, excluding teacher training programs.
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Des Moines
F. E. Moore
The
Board For Vocational Education
Iowa
Cedar County Marriage Licenses Quiet Since August Fifth
Special to The Gazet reports no marriage licenses or applications have been issued in Cedar county since August 5, indicating a prolonged pause in civil ceremonies.
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Gazet
Tipton
Cedar County
Kadjec Family Reunion Sets Officers at Bittner Camp
Solon attendees gathered seventy four at the Kadjec family reunion held at the Bittner camp near Cou Falls on the Iowa river Sunday. John Kadjec of Cedar Rapids was elected president, Mrs. Anna Zellar of Solon secretary, and Frank Bittner of Solon treasurer. The committee for next year includes Mrs. Fred Beranek, Mrs. Charles Foote, both of Solon, and Mrs. Joe Petska.
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Solon
Kadjec
Bittner
Cou Falls
Iowa River
John Kadjec
Cedar Rapids
Anna Zellar
Frank Bittner
Fred Beranek
Charles Foote
Joe Petska
Tipton Woman To Head Cedar Rural School Teachers
Miss Jane McCormick county superintendent led a rural teachers’ institute in Cedar county court house with over 100 attendees. Jessie Parker spoke on reading and language while Edith Holstrum covered dental hygiene and McCormick outlined safety plans. Officers elected include Mrs. Eleanor Dice president Paula Ruprecht secretary Norma Kruse treasurer, with four district groups to meet monthly starting October at Prairie school south of Tipton.
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Tipton
Cedar County Court House
Jane McCormick
Jessie Parker
State Department of Education
Edith Holstrum
Iowa City
Iowa
Eleanor Dice
Rural Teachers Association
Norma Kruse
Bennett
Paula Ruprecht
London
R. L. Gillam
Ethel Collison
Cedar County
Prairie School
Judge Ellison Opens Cedar County Court
Cedar County court opens with Judge F O Ellison of Anamosa presiding over jury term as jurors report for the September session. Judge John T Moffit of Tipton leaves for Cedar Rapids to handle equity cases. Ellison to cover Linn county equity matters later, Moffit to Anamosa for Jones county term. Court session expected to be brief.
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Tipton
Cedar County District Court
F. O. Ellison
Anamosa
John T. Moffit
Cedar Rapids
Ellison
Linn
Moffit
Jones County District Court
Restore Vitality with S S S Tonic From Drug Stores
An old advertising copy urges readers to consult a physician if fatigue signals serious illness. If not, it promotes S S S tonic to rebuild red blood cells and hemoglobin, claiming improved oxygen delivery and energy. It notes two sizes and two weeks of treatment with emphasis on economy.
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S.S.S
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