Elkader Glass Brick School Puts Future in Classroom
Elkader unveils a two story glass brick school serving kindergarten to high school and junior college with an integrated sound system controlled from the superintendent’s desk. The building includes 25 rooms, auditorium for 400, modern laboratories, libraries with 20 000 volumes, and advanced heating ventilation and lighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkader
PWA
J. Dale Welch
Coe College
Oren Thomas
Des Moines
Elkader School
Supt
D. L. Wood
Wood
Modern School Building Brings Comfort for Pupils
After a first day in the new building students show pride in the modern classrooms and facilities. The design reduces eye strain and back ache, promising greater study efficiency once the novelty fades.
Marion area notices and social events highlight week
Local youths prepare to enroll at Iowa State College and University of Iowa while clubs and societies schedule meetings and picnics. Community gatherings include Cornerstoneces Kensington, Tennyson club luncheon, Centennial encampment, Mary Low Dickinson circle activities, and multiple church and Legion events with visits from guests and plans for fall term activities.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Edward and
Eleanor Hanna
Ralph Hawk
Robert Munson
Donald Arp
University of Iowa
Kirk Snell
Gaylord Ward
James Vernon
Robert Titus
Vincent Hart
Harold Miller
Melvin Oldfather
Waldo Lindly
Anna Helen Martin
Visitors Arrive for Weekend in Marion and Santa Rosa Trips
Mr and Mrs Charles Row of New York City arrive in Marion for a weekend visit with Dr and Mrs LL C Dow. The Dow family plan a Santa Rosa trip to visit relatives including Mrs C H Brooks and brothers Park and Frank Lillie in New Mexico and Arizona respectively.
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Charles Row
New York City
Marion
Dow
LL. C. Dow
L. C. Dow
James
Santa Rosa
N. M
L._C. Dow
C. H. Brooks
Park Lillie
Frank Lillie
Duncan, Ariz
Darwin Mason
Tucson
Ariz
Jean Dow
Manly
Marion Service Club to Host Fun Fest and Picnic
After supper the Auxiliary executive committee will meet with Mrs Verne Balster as supper committee chair. The Marion Service club plans a Thursday fun fest and picnic at the Marion Golf club starting at 1 pm open to all with tickets. Activities include golf softball tennis and horseshoe with dinner at 6 pm. Opal McCannon of Des Moines vacationing with her parents went to Chicago for the weekend. Mrs M J Trusty of Chicago stayed Friday night with the McCannon family.
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Athenian Club
Marion Golf Club
Fay Bailey
Emma Klein
Handicraft Club No. 2
Marion Chisman
Fifth Avenue
Roy King
W. G Koppenhaver
Marion Post
American Legion
Legion Hall
Marion
Legion and Auxiliary Merfibers
Ed Kopp
Verne Balster
Ted Bosacker
Ed. Boyanovsky
Cecil Seger
Paul Fiedler
Inn Dye Minor
Marion Service Club
Opal McCannon
Des Moines
C. E. McCannon
Chicago
M. J. Trusty
Student Body Elects Officers In Friday High School Meet
Robert Hense was elected president of the senior class. Other officers include vice president Don Tow secretary Virginia Lee and treasurer Basil Zier. The junior class chose Albert Schenken president Frank Travis vice president Margery Lary secretary and Harry Dunlap treasurer. Sophomores elected Harold Miller president Bruce Phillips vice president Jerry Gerrans secretary Dale Goodyear treasurer. Freshmen chose Robert Fiedler president Martha Ann Young vice president Zella Mae Fenlon secretary Bill Austin treasurer. Vincent Hatt home from Town City for a visit and Capt R L Hatt of Sheridan Wyo recently visited the family en route from Camp Perry Ohio.
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Robert Hense
Don Tow
Virginia Lee
Basil Zier
Albert Schenken
Frank Travis
Margery Lary
Harry Dunlap
Harold Miller
Bruce Phillips
Jerry Gerrans
Dale Goodyear
Robert Fiedler
Martha Ann Young
Zella Mae Fenlon
Bill Austin
Amana Mills Produce Wool Cloth for Army Trousers
Washington AP report says Amana colonies mills are producing cloth for 19 000 pairs of army trousers and CCC use. The contract covers 25 000 yards of wool suiting costing 65 250 dollars with last year 63 618 yards for 98 923 dollars.
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Washington
Amana
Army
Civilian Conservation Corps
Army Quartermaster Corps’ Clothing Branch
Amana Society
CCC
Reserve Officers Of Northeast Iowa Meet Next Sunday
Reserve officers from northeastern Iowa will hold a convention at the President hotel in Waterloo next Sunday. Assembly at 10:30 a.m. precedes a 12:30 dinner with Major M. M. Hoffman as speaker. Major Floyd E. Eller will address the afternoon session beginning at 2 p.m. The gathering aims to promote annual active duty training and appoint adjutants in counties lacking chapters. Open to regular army national guard and reserve officers.
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Waterloo
Iowa
President Hotel
R. B. Davidson
Iowa Department
Reserve Officers’ Association of the United States
M. M. Hoffman
Dubuque
Floyd E. Eller
Infantry Reserve
Minnesota Department
Clover Leaf
Eighty-eighth Division Magazine
Seventh Corps Area Council
Italy Eyes Danakil Salt Lake Project
Italian engineers attached to the colonial office study old explorers reports to revive a plan for a vast salt lake in Eritrea and Ethiopia's Danakil desert. They propose a canal from the Red Sea to inland waters to modify climate, reduce heat, and generate hydroelectric power for a large Eritrean and northern Ethiopian area. The Danakil basin sits below sea level, easing lake creation.
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Rome
Danakil
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Red Sea
Quasqueton Schools Report 15 Percent High School Increase
Quasqueton schools show total enrollment 180 with 110 in grade school and 70 in high school. The high school enrollment reflects a 15 percent rise from previous figures, which were reportedly corrected from Gudette figures.
Urbana Bridge Rebuilt Opens After Ice Gorge
The Cedar river bridge on the Shellsburg Urbana highway carries traffic again after being out of service since March 25 when an ice gorge destroyed a pier and two spans. Built in 1889, the bridge was repaired by Zika Construction of Ottumwa at a cost of 14 280 dollars. Approaches were raised above high water. Urbana plans a Pancake Day celebration Tuesday to mark the reopening.
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Cedar River
Shellsburg-Urbana
M. A. Hall
Winson
Center Point
Board of Supervisors
Zika Construction Company
Ottumwa
Sande
Urbana
Paul Engle Writes Novel in Seclusion at Stone City Home
Poet Paul Engle and his wife Mary live in Stone City pursuing quiet work on his first novel. They have no telephone, rely on sunlit rooms for writing, and invite limited visitors while he balances university duties at Iowa City with ongoing creative writing and later publication hopes.
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Marvin Cone
Cedar Rapids
Cone
Die Stuermer
Engle
Europe
Oxford
Paul Engle
Stone City
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Illinois
Mississippi
Grant Wood
Graphic
Yale Press
New York Times
Malcolm Cowley
New Republic
New York
Mary Engle
Polk County Fights for Relief Funds
A county relief dispute over leadership and funding ends with the state withdrawing 40,000 dollars monthly support. The plan centered on Miss Dunlap as a limited head, sparking objections about full‑time office management and curbing alleged waste.
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Polk County Fights For Relief
Miss Dunlap
Polk County Relief Administration
Polk County Relief Committee
Polk County
County Relief Administration
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State
BY Darrell Huff
Welch
Marion News
Kensington
Claude Scott
Twelfth Street
Tennyson Club
Celan Rollins
Eighteenth Street
Centennial
10. O. Fy
Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church
Jesus
God
Alice Wallace
Fred Blakeslee
J. E. DeWalt
Sioux City
Pittsburgh
Ellen Koch
St. Luke's Hospital
H. A. W. Koch
Central City
Andres P. Munsen
Robert Hutchinson
Catlettsburg
Minneapolis
Hattie Fisher
Huntington
W. Va
Munsen
Mary Low Dickinson
King's Daughters
Harlan Knight
Vivian Ruth Smith
Hermina Roscamp
University of Minnesota
St. Luke’s Hospital
George Nelson
Alice Johnson
Lillie Jacobsen
George Schrimper
Phyllis Johnson
Russell E. Waldron
First Presbyterian Church
Richard
Huldah Johnson
John Johnson
Alfred Johnson
Oxford Club
The
Methodist Church
J. E. Cippera
Dora Nunaly
Joy
General Aid Society of the Methodist Church
Keystone Division
H. R Livingston
Mary Elizabeth Erwin
George L. Erwin
Columbia University
Townsend Club
James Currier
Fourth Avenue
Glenn Larkin
Cary Club
Alta
Elva Emmerson
Lutheran Ladies Aid Society
Fred Rauch
Alfred Rinderknecht
A. F
A. M
Masonic Temple
A. A. Hardin
Rose Wilcox
West Marion
H. S. Massingale
Charles Houseman
Ernest Cole
Covington
Grace Robert
Ralph Lee
L. M. Phelps
Conesville
Phelps
I. A. Summers
Summers
Alice Phelps
E. Voris
Fairhope
Ala
Manon
Springville
Santa Rosa Ranch
Josephine Wiggins
Donald Torrence
Marion Congregational Church
Congregational Christian Churches
Davenport Association
Anamosa
Congregational Church
Theristrial Club
A. J. Keyes
Seventh Avenue
Mary Clements
George Murdoch
la Jolla
Calif
Kenneth Murdoch
Service Club
Vincent Hatt
Town City
Elizabeth Hatt
Capt
R. L. Hatt
Sheridan, Wyo
LeRoy Cooper
Elizabeth Hart
Camp Perry
Ohio
Italy
Urbana-Shellsburg Bridge
J. E. Green
Vince Engle
George D. Stoddard
Graduate College
United States
Towa
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