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Newspaper
Iowa Falls Citizen
Location
Iowa Falls, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1940
Page
1
Iowa Falls welcomes Dollar Day buyers with a parade of values. Stores cooperate to offer outstanding merchandise for the yearly event set for Friday and Saturday. Favorable weather aids the sale as shoppers read ads and a special Dollar Day section appears on page three.
The Iowa Falls municipal band will present its final evening concert of the year Tuesday evening in Estes Park. Director Martyn Ridout announced the program which includes marches, vocal and saxophone solos, and selections by Sousa, Berlin, and Hoagy Carmichael. The band plans a September Sunday concert as the season’s closing event.
A barn and its contents were destroyed on the Merton Stinson farm southeast of Iowa Falls in a blaze likely started by spontaneous combustion Friday night. The fire, reported shortly before 10 p.m., caused about 4000 in losses with 70 to 80 tons of hay lost and most of the value insured. The Warren Johnson home previously occupied the property is also noted in local memory.
About 1000 people attended a Sunday evening concert by the 128th Field Artillery band in Estes Park. The event, sponsored by the Town Falls Chamber of Commerce, was arranged through C R Lee after a talk with Captain Hann, who led the field artillery unit camping in Jones park on its way to Camp Ripley Minnesota. Hann said a second unit from Maryville Missouri would camp there Sunday night, and permission was granted for the concert.
Bids for six Hardin county road projects will be let by the Iowa State Highway Commission on Tuesday August 13 as part of a large bid package including 60 projects and about 20 miles of paving. The listed items include thirteen culverts on county road F east toward Ley and twelve culverts on county road A from Union to road M, plus four culverts on county road B from Highway 175 north to road R. Grading plans show six and four tenths miles on county road O from road F east toward Ackley and extended work on county road Oe. The notice emphasizes major upcoming work in the state roadway program.
Iowa Falls stores and offices will close this afternoon as local business and professional men and employees travel to Eldora to enjoy Iowa Palis Day at the Hardin county fair. Today’s events include the regular fair program plus a short program on the grandstand with town talents.
Herbert Ohrt longtime advertising manager at The Citizen accepts a position in KGLO radio station's advertising department in Mason City. He will start August 19 with family expected to relocate the last week of August. Ohrt joined The Citizen in September 1938 after graduating from Iowa State College and has been active in the Lions Club and Junior Chamber of Commerce.
A Fair and Festival plan was discussed by the Iowa Falls fair board on Monday. The board voted to ask all departments from last year’s fair to serve in the same roles at the upcoming event and to include amateur talent from the area in the program.
Four marriage licenses were granted last week by Clerk of Court Fred L. Miller. Recipients include E W Burke 29 and Margaret Dornsbach 22 of Eldora Gordon Jacobson 19 and Phyllis Parks 18 of Minneapolis Minn Wilford John Brady 24 of Eldora and Lucille Beasley 18 of Lawn Hill Oswald LeRoy Sheldahl 27 and Joyce LaVogne Varland 22 of Radcliffe.
Mary Chase, formerly of Webster City, begins duties as society editor and bookkeeper for the Iowa Falls Citizen succeeding June Adams who will teach at Union this fall. Chase, a Webster City graduate, worked last year as secretary at Firestone Home and Auto Supply and studied journalism and English at the University of Iowa. She is the daughter of Mrs. Helen Chase of Webster City.
Not appreciated by Marlyin Ridout band director as a King trumpet valued at over two hundred dollars vanished after the band concert. Stanley Chute played the instrument during the performance, and Ridout seeks the punchline and asks observers to share the joke.
County Superintendent H. G Doeringsfeld announced that all school children in Franklin county may enter the Franklin county fair free on Tuesday evening August 20. Tickets were mailed to sub-directors in each district and can be obtained from them. in Popejoy tickets are available from Ed Anderson or Superintendent A W Fischer.
A Sunday night windstorm in Owasa caused a freak accident injuring Emma Freeman. Her right hand suffered the loss of the end of a finger when a door slammed shut due to the gusts.
Hardin county residents who traveled to Des Moines praised Wendell Willkie as surpassing expectations. A petition signed by 3,568 farmers urged him to visit Pine Lake state park for a rural farm gathering, presented by local leaders including C. A. Bryson and Joan Hanson. Ed Willkie’s visit also drew favorable interest.
Neva Luttschwager Clinker of Alden filed for divorce from Charles T. Clinker portraying cruel and inhuman treatment. They wed June 14, 1937 in Vermillion South Dakota and have no current children. Neva seeks temporary alimony of 70 dollars monthly and 4000 dollars permanent alimony plus restoration of her maiden name Neva Lutzschwager and court injunctions barring disposal of property and interfering with her home. Judge S A Clock granted the injunctions Friday.
July brought above normal temperatures and rainfall, offsetting each other to protect crops. The summary notes record heat in 1936 and 1894, a cool spell in 1924, and July rainfall averaging 3.94 inches with 10.28 inches in the wettest July 1962.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority asks Ellsworth officials to survey interested community students for a student pilot training program. Eligible applicants are US citizens aged 18 to 26 with two years of college work, or who earned one year of college credit in 1939-40. A limited number of girls have been accepted elsewhere. Apply by August 10 to the college or Dean Arthur L. Williams.
Garold and Ronald Altes, formerly of Mingo and Woodward, announce a new automobile body shop in the Welden Auto Company building. The brothers, expert body workers, will offer wreck repair and related services. Garold is married and plans to move his family here soon. Ronald brings background from a Woodward shop and formal autobody training.
Deenard Ogren resigns from New Providence High School after two years and accepts a post at Madrid High School. He was re elected for another year but released from his contract by the New Providence board of education.
Hard county American Legion units to elect new officers for the coming year at a county Legion and Auxiliary meeting in Ackley Legion Hall starting at 8 p.m. Present county commander Glen Whorral of Eldora and Auxiliary president Mrs Glen Whorral are listed among attendees.
Jim McDonald was fined $100 for intoxication at a mayor's court hearing Monday after a Saturday arrest north of Iowa Falls. He was given a choice of 30 days in the county jail or the $100 fine and was allowed to pay in weekly installments.
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