Prizes Awarded At Oelwein Horse Show In Fourth Annual Festival
Oelwein hosts its fourth annual colt and horse show tied to the Fall Farm festival with about 100 horses entered. Leo Cone won the farmers draft class, Vince Harrington and Matt Diercksen took top foal honors, and Marian Reese led the Maynard yearling class. Several other exhibitors from Ryan Dixon Brothers Fayette Independence Winthrop and Shell Rock earned blue ribbons in multiple classes. The 24 head dairy heifers were judged by Floyd Arnold with firsts for Guernsey Lamont Brown Swiss Randalia Holstein Oelwein Jersey and a street parade closed the event.
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Oelwein
Independence
Ryan
Maynard
Sonia
Winthrop
Waverly
Shell
Harry Linn
Des Moines
Leo Cone
Vince Harrington
Dixon Brothers
Fayette
Harry Burk
Bert Kiel
Oclwein
Matt Diercksen
Harrington
Diercksen
Boto Schrage
Allison
John Slattery
Masonville
Albert Fry
Lamont
Ionia
Burk
Welter
Schrage
Peter Collins
Louis Brandt
Tom Price
Fairbank
Ray Rowan
Shell Rock
Rowan
Cone
Floyd Arnold
Ames
Donal Oedrich
Lowell Mabon
Randalia
Robert Adams
Fire Destroys Barn and Granary at Wheatland farm
A Wheatland fire at 9 15 a m Saturday destroyed the hay barn and the granary on William Fey’s farm three miles southwest of Wheatland. The loss is partly insured. The Wheatland fire department saved the farm home.
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Wheatland
William Fey
Edgar A Guest The Poet of the People
A repurposed verse critique questions the obsession with money over character asking if a man is clean loyal truthful and kind. It contrasts societal focus on wealth with a deeper inquiry into virtue and family values.
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Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Notice to Bidders for 1940 Automobile Purchase
State Car Dispatcher in Des Moines invites sealed bids by October 1 1939 for a new 1940 four door sedan with standard equipment and a 1935 Madison four door sedan to trade in The 1939 State Reformatory Anamosa Iowa hosts the display of the used car Bid forms available from Foss Davis Warden at Anamosa or from Des Moines State Car Dispatcher Bids must not exceed 1000 as listed under House File 327 Section 3D and may be rejected or accepted in the best interest of the state
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State House
Des Moines
Madson
State Reformatory
Anamosa
Iowa
Foss Davis
Warden
Eastern Iowa News Social to the Gazette
Shueyville High School's International Correspondence club elects officers for the year. Ossian funeral services for Mrs. Myrta Burns note Bloomfield township birth, marriage to O W Cooper, daughter Hazel and later marriages. Norway class officers listed by grade. Clarence High School class officers detailed. Troy Mills church basement dig. Hopkinton wedding at St Luke's parsonage. Dyersville fall festival prep and college drift. Grinnell benefits for Jim Hicks family with racing event. Oxford Junction classes elect officers. Wilton high school officers named. Independence Wapsipinicon Golf Club officers set. Central City Ladies Aid reelected. Independence death of Mrs. Mary Raines Vogel. Alburnett marriage Dean Lyon Evelyn Miller Center Point.
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Ossian
Myrta Burns
Troy Mills
Elza Jeffries
Ray Carson
Dick Main
Paul Wilson
Harlin Cook
Hopkinton
Esther Klaren
Glen Harden
St. Luke’s Parsonage
Betty Thompson
Gilbert Klaren
Lawrence Klaren
Harden Farm
Dyersville
Commercail Club
Wilfred A. Schmitz
Charles Goerdt
John Brueckner
Hugh Wild
Francis Kluesner
Herbert Mueller
Iowa University
Fred Bahning
Francis Meis
Francis Weber
Tom Gillon
Loras College
Frances Marold
Mary Louise Marold
Thelma Brunkan
Briar Cliff
Sioux City
David Ungs
Iowa
Robert Steger
Yale University
Grinnell
Earl Mitchell
Sportsmen's Park
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jim Hicks
West Liberty
Hicks
Independence
Wapsipinicon
P. J. ‘Travis
E. J. Belgarde
J. G. Weepie
J. E. Belgarde
R.E. Bland
G. Weepie
W. G. Whitney
PAS. 'Traivs
L. G. Simmons
Leo Molloy
Central City
Madge Henderson
Ladies’ Aid Society
Federated Church
Edith Mills
Nettie Heaton
Esther Heath
Mary Brown
Clarissa Rowley
Richard Ford
Belle Crane
Lois Geesey
Stella Sawyer
Mildred Finson
Ruth Morton
Father Heaton
Ric. Finson
Pern Hutchins
Gadlevell
Henry Drexler
Lois Palmer
Charlotte George
Edith Winfrey
C. E. Butters
Dean Lyon
Evelyn Miller
Marion
Christian Church
Center Point
Swisher
Aouple
Fire destroys old Taylor county home killing 77 year old Ella Hoover
Ella Hoover a 77 year old Iowa spinster living alone in a rambling Taylor county farm house died when fire engulfed her home ten miles southeast of Bedford. Neighbors found her body under an iron bed frame on the first floor. smoke and possible floor collapse may have trapped her. Cause of the blaze was undetermined. deputy sheriff and coroner investigating. survivors include two brothers and two sisters.
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Bedford
Ella Hoover
Here
Miss Hoover
Taylor County
T. V. Lacy
Roe B Reed
St. Joseph
Ox Team
Des Moines Child Killed After Being Hit by Car
Barbara Jean Evans, aged 3, died from head injuries and a fractured skull after being struck by a car in front of her Des Moines home on Friday. The incident occurred in the street, leaving the community shaken.
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Des Moines
Barbara Jean Evans
Sacred Heart Kinross to Host Fall Festival Oct 29
The Rev. D. C Brown of Sacred Heart church Kinross announced a fall festival and bazaar will be held October 29 at the Kinross church.
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Sigourney
D. C Brown
Sacred Heart Church
Kinross
Amended Articles of Mall Manufacturing Company in Cedar Rapids
Special stockholders meeting in Cedar Rapids Iowa on July 48 1939 approved reducing authorized capital stock to 100000 split into 5000 common shares of 20 par and reclassifying 1000 preferred shares into three common shares and 1000 common shares into two, with further terms on certificates and treasury stock and board authority. All changes become effective on amendment. D M Halt President. Attorneys Simmons and Trewin.
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Corporation Wall Manufacturing Company
Mall Manufacturing Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Unis Corporation
Treasury
Corooration
Secretary of State of
ALL Manufacturing Company
D. M. Halt
Ewin Simmons and Trewin
Attorieve
Funeral services for Hattie E. Summer in Iowa City Sunday
Funeral services are set for Sunday afternoon for 68 year old Hattie E. Summer who died Thursday after a two month illness. Rev Ilion T Jones will officiate. A Iowa City resident for 22 years she is survived by two brothers Frank and Oscar.
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Iowa City
Hattie E. Summer
Ilion T. Jones
Frank
Oscar
James P. Gaffney
Johnson County
Doran A. Kessler
Luella E. Kessler
Ira P. Marsh
Fannie L. Marsh
Waterloo
Dairy Cattle Congress
Emmett C. Gardner
Lowell Adams
Gerald Schwimley
Russell Winborn
Walter Shaffer, Jr
Katona
Gardner
University of Iowa
Johnson County Board of Supervisors
WSUI
Federal Communications Officials
University
Indictments Hit Tiffin Night Spot Operators
Kenneth Ingham and Fern Ingham of Tiffin face indictments and bench warrants after the July 20 raid on Ken and Ferns night spot. The Johnson County grand jury charges them with maintaining a liquor nuisance. They and Club 88 operators John and Rose Agnew were released on $1000 bonds.
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Iowa City
Kenneth Ingham
Fern Ingham
Tiffin
Ken
Fern
Johnson County
Grand Jury
John
Rose Agnew
Frost In Prospect For Iowa Tonight
Des Moines reports a light frost possible tonight in the north central and extreme northern Iowa counties as autumn starts. A light rain was noted at Estherville with traces possible elsewhere. Friday high reached 92 in Inwood and 49 in Marshalltown.
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Des Moines
Towa
Prospect
North
Estherville
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Drs
Inwood
Marshalltown
Ladies Aid elect officers at Union church meeting
At a Thursday meeting of the Ladies Aid the Union church elected officers. President is Mrs. Claude Kimball, vice president Mrs. B A Wade, secretary Mrs. George Polk, and treasurer Mrs. Lyle Walton.
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Quasqueton
Ladies Aid of the Union Church
Claude Kimball
B. A. Wade
George Polk
Lyle Walton
Notice of Probate for William J. Pentz Will
In the District Court of Iowa a notice announces the September 25 1939 hearing at 9 oclock AM for proof and admission of the Last Will and Testament of William J. Pentz late of Linn County deceased Filed September 22 1939 in Cedar Rapids Iowa Clerk Edwin W Lundquist Crissman Bleakley Attorneys listed as counsel
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State of
Tawa
Linn
William J. Pentz
Said
Ordar Rapids
Towa
EDWIN _W. LUNDQUIST
Crissman & Bleakley Attorneys
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Gazette Farm
Leiter
Crankmire
Politeon
Gazette Photo
the Gazette
Shueyville
International Correspondence Club
Shueyville High School
Genevieve Novyotny
Dorris Gregor
Leona Jansa
Leona Andrick
Norway
Howard Steinbeck
Mary Jane Farrell
Ivan Bys
Marvin Brecht
C. T. Johnson
William Emanuel
Hazel Rose
Miss Martin
Jeannett Griffin
Margraet Tuttle
Walter Waychoff
Marcella Merritt
Marcella Bunge
Carl Burbridge
Glenn Tehel
Marvin Levering
Teresa Bangee
Miss Burroughs
Clarence
Clarence High School
Robert Lane
Glenn Pruess
Frances Bachman
Russell Robinson
George W. Case
Robert Joslin
Donald Bixler
Kathryn Crist
Lois Cassill
Irma Hulse
Kenneth Meeves
Avis Shriver
Mildred Chamberlain
Grimidl
Ewart
Elks Lodge
Oxford Junction
Joseph
Kulhavy
J T. Kulhavy
Cleo Alderman
William Alderman
Muscatine
Oxford Junction High School
Iowa State College
Davenport
ET. Jansen
Dolores Shedek
Mark Bisinger
Helen Hass
Miss Edna Robinson
Junior McGruder
Ruth Raymond
Helen Henky
Kenneth Blackman
Eleanor Kolarik
Darathy Blythe
Clayton Rost
Wilbert Peterson
Gretchen Mobrtin
Betty Mann
Melford Knoftse
Edward Moylan
Harriet Happel
Arlene Birkhofer
Glenna Wacker
Sally Henderson
Leo Einfeldt
James Norton
Frost
Lowa
Olio
Schutter’s
Golden Harvest
Mick
Schutter
Chicago Sunday Tribune
Skagerrak
Europe
Chicago
Sunday TriBune
Sandhills
O'Neill
Neb
Bassett
Sand- Husaoe Hn Livestock Sales
Budness Men
O'Neill and
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Nebraska
Jas. W. Rooney
Loverickson
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