Local golfer Vaughn leads four way district final chase
The southwestern Iowa golf crown narrows to Vaughn Shenandoah Williams and Woodward as semi finals approach. Vaughn beat Ward Edwards 6 and 5 after a 39 first nine at Crestmoor. Reynolds Woodward and Williams win to reach the semis with 36 holes in finals for championship.
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Iowa
Gene Vaughn
Shenandoah
Claude Williams
Atlantic
Degnan Reynolds
Creston
Dr. D. Kk .Woodward
Bedford
Vaughn
Ward Edward v
Council Bluffs
Walter Hagen
Crestmoor
Reynolds
Woodwards
Williams
H. LaForgue
Woodward
Arthur Glick
Crestmoor Club
Lindbergh Makes Moonlight Flight for Spirit of St Louis
Lindbergh dazzled New York with a moonlight hop to Washington and back in evening clothes to fetch his plane Spirit of St Louis. He flew Mitchel Field to Bolling and back to Long Island then read in Manhattan before another Brooklyn welcome. Tens of thousands cheered as children lined the 20 mile route. He rode in an open car with top down.
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New York
Lindbergh
Washington
St .Louis
Mitchelfield
Bollingfield
Long Island
Park Avenue
Manhattan
Stinl
Brooklyn
Hero
East River
Prospect Park
Lower Manhattan
Crowds Cheer De Pinedo At Flight's End
Italian aviator Franecesco de Pinedo completed a four continent flight arriving at Ostia near Rome at 5 PM. He was greeted by vast crowds and officially welcomed by Premier Mussolini and other dignitaries.
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de Pinedo
Rome
Franecesco de Pinedo
Ostia
Mussolini
Live pheasants released in Union County by state agency
Union County received live pheasants and several clutches of eggs from the state fish and game department. Deputy game warden J E Homan urged residents to protect the birds and help establish the population in the area. The shooting of pheasants is prohibited by law, as with quail.
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Union County
State Fish and Game Department
J. E. Homan
Creston
Union county delegation tours Iowa State College facilities
A 30 member Union county group visited Iowa State College at Ames for an eight hour tour. The program included dairy and poultry farms, a meat laboratory, hog and cattle feeding talks, agronomy crops and soils experiments, greenhouse and home economics facilities, and a tour of the college broadcasting station.
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Iowa State College
Ames
Union County
The
Agricultural College
P. C. Taff
Resignation, party primaries, and bandit duo headline Iowa notes
Assistant Attorney General Herbert Huff resigns to return to private practice as balloting opens in the State Federation of Labor convention. Iowa officers face reelection while Mrs. Helen Schultz Brewer renews a bond in Polk County court over the wheel tax injunction. In Krstadt Krandstadt a naval court condemns a former Baltic fleet commander for espionage. Walter A. Scholl gets life for double murder. Eagles convention in Iowa reports high trapshooting scores. Bank robbery in Protivin involved unmasked bandits fleeing toward Minnesota.
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Des Moines
Herbert Huff
John Fletcher
Huff
Hardin County
Helen Schultz Brewer
Red Ball Transportation Company
Mason City
Iowa Central Express Company
Polk County
Primary Road Rond Election Changes Iowa Funding System
The new law consolidates primary road funds into a single state highway fund directed by the Iowa Highway Commission. Auto and gas taxes totaling about 17 million dollars yearly will fund paving, but annual progress may be limited to roughly 75 miles due to refunds bonds and interest. Union County notes seven years to bridge and grade half its primary roads and waits for full grading before permanent surfacing.
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Iowa State Highway Commission
Union County
Highway Commission
Flares Spark Hope for Lost French Flyers
Officials in Quebec probe rumors that missing aviators Nungesse and Coli were found alive. Flares and signals around Lake St. John, St. Germain and Begin townships prompt searches as a government plane may depart to the districts. The prior claim proved groundless and was later deemed unreliable.
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Quebec
Nungesse
Coli
Lake St. John
St. Germain
River Bend
Madison Farmers To Visit Ames
Madison county farm bureau officials announced an annual tour to Iowa State College in Ames on Monday June 29. The Madison group will leave Winterset at 7 o clock and reach Ames by 9 45. Morning campus tour for all members followed by separate afternoon tours. A picnic dinner on campus is planned.
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Cedar Rapids
State Federation of Labor
Resolutions Committee
Winterset
Iowa
Iowa State College
Ames
Farm Bureau
Madison County
Afton Boys Trek West on Hiking Trip
Nor val Lehman and Bryson Kelly, high school seniors, set out from Afton on a hiking trip through the west. They will fund the journey by earning expenses on the trail and expect to return around September 1 for the new school year. Norva is the son of Frank Lehman and Bryson of Frank Kelly.
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Afton
Advertiser
Norval Lehman
Bryson Kelly
Norva
Frank Lehman
Bryson
Frank Kelly
Mrs Large 73 Dies After Illness At Daughter’s Home
Lovita Viola Large, 73, died at 1 10 this afternoon at her daughter Mrs John Shay’s home on South Park Street after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at the home at 10 Saturday morning with burial in Oak Hill cemetery.
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Lovita Viola Large
John Shay
South Park Street
Oak Hill Cemetery
Agnew Heads to Des Moines on Business Trip
F. E. Agnew departed yesterday for Des Moines to handle business matters and oversee upcoming assignments.
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F. E. Agnew
Des Moines
Beaumont Is Iowa Masonic Lodge Warden
Council Bluffs Ia June 16 selected last night by the Masonic grand lodge as the next meeting place and the following officers elected David R Tripp Colfax grand master Thomas Beaumont Creaton grand warden Fred G Hansen Clinton junior grand warder James Low Fort Madison grand treasurer Charles Hunt Cedar Rapids grand secretary
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Council Bluffs
Dar Rapids
Masonic Grand Lodge
David R Tripp
Colfax
Thomas Beaumont
Creaton
Fred GG. Hansen Clinton
James Low
Fort Madison Grand
Charles Hunt
Cedar Rapids
Advertising Folders Deemed Worthless By Creston Daily Advertiser
The Creston Daily Advertiser condemns costly ad folders that promise big returns but amount to gifts of money to solicitors. Farmers ignore most second class mail as such folders front high sounding claims about an attractive city and home trading. A promoter offered to mail 1000 pages of these ads to locals, which the paper calls wasteful and useless.
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Creston
Jones Votes On Bonds Today
Des Moines reports a special election in Jones county on a 1.2 million road bond for paving federal highway 161 and state highway 117 grading gravel on state roads 153 and 38 and a new bridge north of Olin. Chickasaw county set June 20 for a 600 thousand bond to pave highways 18 59 and 218. Mass meetings will explain the issues as petitions surpassed required voter turnout.
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Des Moines
Jones County
Olin
Chickasaw
Ruth Knocks 22nd Homer in Yankees-Browns Tilt
Babe Ruth hit his 22nd homer of the season with Combs aboard in the first inning against the Browns as Zachary pitched. Lou Gehrig followed with his 15th homer, delivering another New York run-scoring blast.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Combs
Yankees
Browns
Zachary
Lou Gehrig
Babe
Japan Education Dept Plans Fifty Cent Doll Drive
Japan's department of education approves a plan to solicit fifty cents from each child to purchase dolls for sending to American schoolchildren in exchange for doll gifts sent to Japanese students.
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Japan
Department of Education
Sixty Union County Firms Attend Home Products Banquet
Sixty Union county manufacturers will gather at the LoWaNa Hotel at 7 p.m. under the Chamber of Commerce to learn about local businesses. One hundred places were set with tickets selling fast. extra seating may be arranged. Out-of-town manufacturers attending for the Southwestern Iowa golf tournament were invited. Menu items include flour from J J Pettlacer pork from McKee brothers cherries for pie from Mrs Frank Ickia bottled drinks by Creston Hettling Works and ice cream from Rex Coal and Ice Company coffee from Samuel Mahon Company. Gene Hastings will roast the pig at the Qwen bakery.
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Union County
Lowana Hotel
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa
J. J. Pettlacer
McKee Brothers
Frank Ickia
Creston Hettling Works
Rex Coal
Tce Company
Creston
Samuel Mahon Company
Gene Hastings
Qwen
Iowa meeting backs Lowden bid for 1936 nomination
Major Frank J. Lund led a gathering of Lowden supporters in Emmetsburg Iowa as he launched a campaign to urge Frank O Lowden of Illinois as the Republican presidential candidate. He criticized President Coolidges veto of farm relief and accused Secretary W M Jardine of betraying farmers.
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Emmetsburg
Iowa
London
Agricultural West
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Frank J. Lund
Lone Lowden Committee
Lowden
Major Lund
Coolidge
South Dakota
Lincoln
Secretary of
Pettinger Earns Doctorate From Illinois University
Nicholas Albert Pettinger, son of Mr and Mrs J J Pettinger near Creston, received the doctor of philosophy degree at the University of Illinois commencement in Champaign on Wednesday. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Iowa State College Ames in farm crops and soils and plans to enter agronomy work as a specialist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Albert Pettinger
J. J. Pettinger
Creston
University of Ilinois
Champaign
Mr. Pettinger
Iowa State College
Ames
University of Illinois
Charlotte Collings Injured At Home In Fall
Locals report 10 year old Charlotte Collings daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Collings 704 East Lucas street sustained a leg cut requiring twelve stitches after a fall on machinery at home Monday. W H Brady returns from Santa Fe New Mexico where he attended ordination services for his son Rev James Brady. Father Brady will celebrate his first Solemn High Mass Sunday.
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Charlotte Collings
Ed. Collings
East Lucas Street
W.H. Brady
Santa Fe
N. M
James Brady
Father Brady
Orchard Urges Union County Road Bonds as Essential
W R Orchard editor of the Council Bluffs Nowparell told a large last night meeting in the county courthouse that road bonds for Union County would not raise property taxes. He outlined the new road law effective July 4 and the plan to circulate a petition for a special bond election proposing a $690000 issue to pave primary roads and secure state and federal aid.
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Union County
W. R. Orchard
Council Bluffs Nowparell
Good Roadsa
Orchard
Bualesa Menaca
M. F. Black
Creaton
County Road Eleven
A. W. Crane
Permeriie
Moston County
Orechared
Conway
Matt Conway
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Crown
Glick
Dr. Woodward
W. R. Phillips
W. C Richardson
W. C. Martin
Harry Trump
F.L. Wetmore
W. D. Vogel
W. N. Graham
L.E Finley
G. W. Smith
Kk. E. Herring
K. R. F Parquar
Jim Wareham
H. White
H. L. Messmer
Robert Boyce
J. G. Macrae
George Gault
C F. Buntz
G. H. Mayne
C. W. Hickok
H. Peacock
F. Dougherty
K.C. Mellenbacker
Joe Richardson
H. E. Wise
Ben Bower
D. W. Midleworth
Loren Reckner
J. C. Darby
Edwin Phillips
Billl Herring
J.J. Reese
Henry Wiley
Alabama
United States Fleet
Charles F. Hughes
Hughes
Naval Operatings
St. Louis
Given
Agricultural School
College
W. J. Harmans
Ray Long
Frank Forbes
Glen Hardman
Moscow
Krandstadt
Vstmander Klepikoff
Baltic
Great Britain
Valparaiso
Ind
Walter A. Scholl
Grant Crumpacker
Marshalltown
Order of Eagles of
J. C. Murtagh
Waterloo
Eagles
Meier Grundy Center
H. J. Chapman
H. Shepherd
Protivin
Bohemian Savings Bank
Minnesota
Minnesota-Iowa
Union County Good Roads Association
Madison
Afton Boys
Beaumont
Masonic Lodge
Jones
Ruth
LUNE
Laingres Sveen Bem
Presteeney
Flays Coolidge
Jardine
Pettinger
Ilinois U
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