Identity Of 2 Year Old Twin Survivor Of Crash Questioned
Parents sister nurse maid dead in Davenport tragedy. A 2 year old twin girl Joyee Accigh survives a crash when a train hit their car en route to Rocgten. Jacqueline Lersch, aunt, and Grace Barkus, nurse, died. investigators seek identity verification and details as relatives split on the fate. The survivor remains hospitalized and unable to speak.
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Davenport
Tarase
DeWitt
Rocgten
Jacqueo Ac
Joyee Accigh
Mac Grace Barkus
Arm Lersch
New Pastor Installed At Hopkinton Parish
St Luke's church in Hopkinton welcomed Father A J Forster as the new pastor. The installation included clergy from Cedar Rapids Monticello Overstille Manchester Worthington and Chicago connected seminaries. Forster, ordained in 1926, previously served in Petersburg and Guthrie Center. The church has grown from eleven families to a parish needing a resident pastor.
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Pery
Gerede Hophin
J Forster
Luke E Catrohe
Rizgh
Herbert
Cera
L Derga
St Patreks
Cedar Rapids
Lorenz
Monticello
Habbach
Overstille
J South
Manchester
J H Schulmoeller
J J Bnietbach
Worthington
Forster
Chicago
Catholic University
Washington, D. C
Petersburg
Hopkinton
Guthrie Center St. Luke's Church
Iowa City Briefs Highlight Local Court and Funeral News
Gazette notes Johnson County court actions including warrants and charges for several residents, plus obituaries and funeral details. It lists names such as Bertha Friedrich and Mrs Van Dee Kirkhave, with service dates and local church connections in Cedar Rapids and nearby areas.
Freshman Week at Iowa University Sets Schedule
The Iowa City Gazette notes University of Iowa freshmen report for freshman week events starting Monday with liberal arts qualifiers and an assembly. Engineering freshmen have separate schedules with later exams and activities. Enrollment at Upper Iowa shows growth as students prepare for the new term.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Liberal Arts College
Lberal
Shea Ghnus
Tao
Dave
Ottumwa Teacher Among Five Placed in Iron Lung
Iowa City AP reports Ottumwa teacher James H Cremnan 34 was in serious condition after contracting a paralysis related respiratory disease. Four other patients including a 17 year old girl and three adults were hospitalized with the illness at the University of Iowa Hospital. Doctors warn recovery may take months and note several respiratory cases have occurred this summer with some patients recovering and others facing paralysis.
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Iowa City
James H. Cremnan
Ottumwa
University of Iowas
Cesptel
Bexines Coeman
Tre Fair Mary
Mary Pace
Burneen
Alice Lee
Charitnn
James Heise
Farmington
Marx
Oelwein Man Heads Iowa Feed Dealers Group
Des Moines report says Ratph Sprague of Oelwein was elected president of the Independence Feed Dealers of Iowa. R W McKee of Muscatine was reelected vice president and J A Olson of West Bend named secretary treasurer. George Schaaf of Des Moines retires as secretary treasurer. Lloyd Darlitz of Cleghorn joins the board of directors.
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Des Moines
INS
Ratph Sprague
Oelwein
Iowa
R Wmckee
M Iscatine
Ce-Prisedert
J A. Olson
West Bend
George Schaaf
Sprague
Lloyd Darlitz
Clezhorn
Cedar County Court Opens Term and Local Updates
Cedar county starts the September term with Judge H. C Ring. grand jury dismissed, petit jurors to report next Monday. County treasurer J Mo Blazek announces Cedar county homestead exemption allotment totaling 206 10920. refunds possible for low-value homesteads. Hopkinton builds a municipal light plant after injunction delay. Riverside elects new board president Cecile Doud and Ray Marner joins. Fayette Boy Scouts receive pins. Manchester couple wed in Minnesota. Urbana hosts school reception. Palo selects district officers and staff. Aurora hosts Buffalo Grove Old Settlers reunion. Amana Welfare picnic features boxing bouts. Decorah high school class officers named. South Bethel fall festival planned with rotated clerical and show duties. Shellsburg consolidates elect officers. Amana reports 86th birthday celebration for Henry Schmieder.
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Tipton
Cedar County District Court
H. C Ring
Cedar Rapids
J Mo Blazek
State Board of Assessment
Cedar County
Hopkinton
L F McCorker
de- Sate
Farbarks Morse Company
Town Electric Company
O F Lewis
P R Wheeless
Riverside
Riverside Board of Education
Cecile Doud
E. F. Wheelan
Doud
Ray Marner
Wheeelan
Fayette
Methodist Church
Guy Carter
Upper Iowa University
Delhi
Robert Welch
Eugene Carter
Lester Bass
Bruce Carter
DeWitt Clinton
Manchester
Methodist
Mabel, Minn
Mabel Williams
William Spoerl
Ryan
A Olson
Elizabeth Williams
Roger Williams
Mabel
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
W.oam Spoerl
Ryan Urbana
Seth Wyckoff
Lester Barr
Lester Hoer
Adcock
W. E. Wagner
Guy Yates
Ben Yates
John A. C. Krueger
James Moubray
Aurora
Buffalo Grove
Peter Swarts
James Trotter
Rex Matteson
AMANA
Amana Welfare Association
Gesang Verein
Henry Petersen
Cedar Rapids Saengerbund
Decorah
LaVerne Blount
Edna Mae Ellingson
Ruth Seim
Charles Christen
Robert Alien
Gladys Glesne
Hale Coffeen
Robert Symonds
Norma
Trinity Evangelical Reformed Church
Keith Vetter
Herschel Flater
Harold Walthers
Paul Hain
Odetta Wildisin
Geraldine Daut
Louisa Langfeldt
Mildred Wildisin
Violet Witmer
Margaret Flater
Leroy Witmer
F. M. Baker
W. S. Waldisin
Elwood Heabner
W. R. Witmer
E. P. Hain
Shellsburg
Shellsburg Consolidated School
Rolland Brecht
Betty Pangborn
Carl Penny
Superintendent Fossler
Amelia Hayenga
James Thomas
Bernadine Potthoff
Geraldine Rank
Lenora Wright
Don Graham
Jack Schlofelt
Miss Blanche Mumm
Jean Pangborn
Bessie Woodson
Tommy _ Long
Erma Brouchard
Atkins
Manchester Man Hurt In Runaway
Special to The Gazette Manchester Burlington John ston 23 was dragged a quarter mile behind a runaway team and mower and is hospitalized with injuries of unknown extent. Johnston, a state highway employee, was mowing weeds on highway 20 seven miles west of Manchester near Phillip Fritz farm. A Metro Motor Freight truck driven by Henry Adams of Kalamazoo Mich followed and tried to pass as Johnston slowed for a hill crest. The right front wheel failed, the truck and trailer upset, striking part of the mower and causing the team to run away. Passersby found Johnston unconscious and he was taken to Manchester with highway officers aiding at the scene.
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the Gazette
Manchester
Burl Johnston
Johnston
State Highway Commission
Highway 20
Phillip Fritz
Metro Motor Freight Company
Henry Adams
Kalamazoo
Mich
Adams
Vernon Burns
Alfred Rissler
Highway Commission
Iowa Falls Defeats School Bond Issue
Iowa Falls voters defeated a 50 000 bond issue for a 150 000 high school and grade building by thirty votes. Observers blamed opposition to including an auditorium in the plans. A federal grant depended on the bond election result.
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Iowa Falls
Urbana To Celebrate Completion Of Bridge
Urbana business men sponsor a Sept 21 celebration for the completion of the Urbana Shellsburg bridge over the Cedar river. The old bridge was torn out by an ice jam last spring. Free pancakes will be served at the celebration.
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URBANA—Business men _ of
Urbana
Urbana-Shellsburg
Cedar River
Blind veteran ready for fourth corneal transplantation
Fremont C Clark a World War II veteran from Wadena left Manchester with his wife to travel to New York City for a planned fourth cornea operation in a bid to restore sight. He previously received three cornea transplants, two from stillborn infants and one from a monkey.
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Manchester
Fremont C. Clark
Wadena
New York City
Omaha
Clark
Carl Cox
Soviets Hire Iowa U Man To Prepare Paper
Professor Ralph M Barnes of the University of Iowa engineering college was tasked by the Russian government to write two technical papers on factory production for Soviet industry. His articles will be translated into Russian and appear in the Soviet magazine American Technique in Industry later in September. Smolianoff of Chemical Industries of the USSR authorized the assignment.
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Iowa City
Ralph M Barnes
University of Iowa
Delaware County Jurors Drawn for October Term
Fifty petit jurors are drawn for the Delaware county district court in Manchester for the October term to convene October 4 with Judge A. B. Lovejoy presiding. Names include Marian Ashbine Edgewood James Arnold Hopkinton John Barclay Masonville Leonard Bockenstedt Earlville M. F. Barger Harvey Burbridge Manchester James Cummings Masonville and others from Manchester Earlville Ryan Strawberry Point Delhi Hopkinton and surrounding towns.
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Delaware County District Court
A. B. Lovejoy
Waterloo
Marian Ashbine
Edgewood
James Arnold
Hopkinton
John Barclay
Masonville
Leonard Bockenstedt
Earlville
M. F. Barger
Harvey Burbridge
James Cummings
Mary Ellen Casey
Coggan
Mary Ellen Crowley
Ryan
Basil Confare
Tony Cash
John L. Clute
J. E. Clendennen
Howard Clark
C. M. Dunlap
Ray Englehorn
George Edmonds
Strawberry Point
J. R. Guthrie
Donald Goldsmith
Delhi
Ray Gearhart
Robert McTaggert
G. H. McGee
George Moody
George Nordman
Ben Odell
Greeley
William Rossow
Chris Rohr
Ed Robinson
Cecil Ryan
Don Rhines
Russell Smock
Bernard Swanson
Ora Scanlon
Blanche Sullivan
Earl Sandhagen
Dundee
Robert Shearer
Louis Schultz
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Campbell
Genrze van DeeRiracove
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Heswck
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Emerys Maske
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Julius A Friedrich
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Bertha
Methodists
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Iowa U
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Gasport
New York
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Ladies Union
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Yewe
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William McCullock
Surer
Iouse Swajlom
Jean Kanellis
Inez Krueger
Ellsorth Eve
Elsie Siarr
Howard Yates
Howard Yates, Assistant Librarrian
Hazeldell Yates
Leta B Turner
Earl High
Edna
Henry Schmieder
Johanna Schmieder
George Schmieder
Irma
Fred Seifert
Irene
Mary Jane
George Bopp, Jr
Betty Dickel
Willard Dickel
William Ochl
Carl Schmieder
Helen
Iowa U. Man
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Smulekoffs
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