Society And Club News Highlights From Local Gatherings
Mr and Mrs Roberts hosted a Valentine supper for sixteen at their home. Ga Donzaine pinochle club members and guests enjoyed prizes and a plate luncheon. Various bridge clubs met at homes with high scores and refreshments. The 94 Club held a Friday program. A birthday turkey dinner honored John Matthiessen with twelve at one long table and afternoon visiting.
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B. GC. Roberts
Henry Helms
Harry Hoag
Fritz Hein
W. W. Stickford
Thursday Bridge Club
J. F. Higgins
Albert J. Stuhler
John J. Locher
Asa Lambert
A. B. Grimes
George Wilkens
Cyrenus Cole
Grimes
Abraham Lincoln
Riess G. Stuhler
Harriet Coughlan
Revew
Dwight Morrow
Colin G. Thomas
The
Orient
Stuhler
A.flyer
Arthur Shelley
St. Matthew's Ladies’ Aid Society
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church Ladies’ Aid Society
Luther Hall
Herman Rickels
Ralph Otten
Mieniners
John Matthiessen
B. C. Roberts
Roberts
Halstead Carpenter
Siegfried Guyan
A. M. Maurice
Byron Abel
Ladies’ Aid Society
Presbyterian Church
Carol
Henry Adams
Josephine Innes
Ralph Bone
Beaulah
Will
Herman Schneider
Hans Kettlitz
Linda Kiburz
Karl Keyes
John Wilcox
D. Yount
Joe Messerli
Edwin Wilcox
Ben Cotton
Harrison Lubben
Ellen Smith
W. H. Behrends
Ed Eilers
John Shover
W. S. Wilkinson
Wilbur Stott
Richland Circle
Galen Hein
John Schweitzer
Birthday gifts for Monticello guest at church supper
The article notes Ilies living in Monticello and George Matthiessen from Viola as guests of honor at a Presbyterian church potluck supper in Monticello. Rev Sam George of the University of Dubuque spoke and a quartet from the same university performed. Dorothy Rolff hosted a Valentine party for her Sunday school class with games and refreshments.
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Orvin Yeoman
Valentine
Orvin
Monticello
George Matthiessen
Viola
Christian Endeavor
The
Presbyterian Church
Sam George
University of Dubuque
University of
Dorothy Rolff
Methodist Episcopal Church
Gail Huibregtse
Vernita Vernon
Becky Grimes
Anna Rose Strasburg
Wayne Clause
Bud Hanken
Betty Thomas hosts fifteenth birthday dinner party for Jo McNeill
Betty Thomas entertained high school classmates and friends at a five thirty dinner in honor of Jo McNeill's sixteenth birthday. Guests included Mary Esther McLaughlin Antonette Coxsee Jo Ricklefs Frances Bone and others. Gretchen Rolf of Clermont attended as an out of town guest.
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Betty Thomas
Jo McNeill
Mary Esther McLaughlin
Antonette Coxsee
Jo Ricklefs
Frances Bone
Margaret Deischer
Ruth Roberts
Kathleen Carlsen
Mary Lucile Ricklefs
Gretchen Rolf of
Clermont
Old Check Repaid After 23 Years Joke
Martin Olson of Halfa in Emmett county had a check honored that had sat uncashed for 23 years. In Fenton a drug store found two ancient checks in a cash register including a $2 note from 1913 signed by Olson. Olson then acknowledged the debt and issued a new check.
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Martin Olson
Halfa
Emmett County
Fenton
Kossuth County
Fenton State Bank
Olson
Restless house dog likely saved Des Moines man
Floyd Diggins, employed at a night club, was found injured and nearly frozen in the street near his Des Moines home around 2 a.m. after his wife’s dog stirred them to check on him. The dog’s alarm helped avert a worse outcome this winter.
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Floyd Diggins
Des Moines
Diggins
Milan Cathedral Eighth Wonder of World
The city of Milan touts its cathedral as the eighth wonder, seating over 40 000 with a 360 foot tower. Built of white marble, it features 2 000 carved statues and the largest stained glass windows, begun in the 14th century and finished in 1813.
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B. C
Duomo
Boston Globe
Taine
Milan
Girl Kidnapped Long Ago Becomes Indian Chief’s Wife
A Philadelphia Record tale recalls 1778 kidnapping of five year old Frances Slocum from Wyoming Valley. She lived among Delawares, learned Miami ways, married a Miami chief, bore four children, and refused to return, retaining her Indian identity.
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Philadelphia Record
Frances Siocum
Wyoming Valley
Reserve
Ind
Slocum
Susquehanna
Tramway definition and historical usage in Britain and America
Britannica defines tramway as rails in public roads for wheeled vehicles and notes tram is UK term for street railway. It cites Scandinavian origin for the word and mentions tram in Scottish beam and mining contexts with a 1555 will referencing a log road as a tram.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Denver
England
Muskrat the Cousin of Mouse and Creation Tale
The muskrat is about a foot long with a flattened tail used as a water rudder. It builds dome grass lodges and burrows underwater entrances. Among British Columbia Indians the muskrat is a god and a creature who created land by spitting mud from its mouth.
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British Columbia
Washington Post
Montevideo: A South American Capital of Beauty and Parks
Montevideo stands as a premier South American city with a population around two thirds of a million. It boasts extensive parks, elegant walks, and the Prado district famed as a grand rose garden featuring 800 varieties, a record collection. The city is celebrated for civic initiative and scenic beauty.
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Montevideo
South America
Hemisphere
Prado
Academy Funded by 19th Century Ohio Lottery Petition
A century ago Ohio residents supported public lotteries to fund education. In St Clairsville a petition by doctors lawyers magistrates and clergymen urged the assembly to authorize a lottery to raise 7000 for an academy. The piece also notes the Chacalacca bird and its Texas Guan nickname with a Mexican regional description.
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Ohio
St. Clairsville
General Assembly
Fox traps backfire in Iowa farm tale of three foxes
Gus Elliott of near Sidney in Fremont county sets a wooden fox trap to remove crafty foxes but finds his wife’s cat inside. A second inspection captures a polecat, but the foxes remain at large. Earl Jackson of Clinton County outfits tires with spikes and shields to power a car up icy hills, transforming a slow climb into a rapid ascent.
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Gus Elliott
Sidney
Premont County
Elliott Farm
Gus
Earl Jackson
Clinton
Clinton County
Jackson
Grocer Henry Williams Finds Pearls in Oysters
Henry Williams of Waverly Bremer county a grocer and produce dealer began pearl fishing in oysters. He found a pinkish quarter inch pearl valued at about 500 dollars and later another pearl over a quarter inch with a blue white color and finer shape.
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Henry Williams
Waverly
Bremer County
Williams
Farm hand rescues buried employer from corn crib collapse
Ralph Thornsberry found Ralph J. Barrett buried beneath twenty feet of shelled corn after Barrett climbed into a corn crib to shake corn down. Barrett was buried twenty minutes but suffered no ill effects. In a separate note, explorer Martin Johnson's death adds value to a relic owned by Claire F. Bartlett of Strawberry Point, a tanned eland skin from Africa linked to Johnson.
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Ralph Thornsberry
Dallas Center
Dallas County
Ralph J. Barrett
Thornsberry
Barrett
Martin Johnson
Claire F. Bartlett
Strawberry Point
Clayston County
Bartlett
Africa
Johnson
Iowa
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Fire scares and soot fill Hawarden and Ida Grove homes
Mrs. B. Ingalls of Hawarden faced a home soot cleanup after an oil furnace explosion loosened a chimney smoke pipe and triggered a Hawarden fire alarm. In Ida Grove a car heating incident caused smoke from a kerosene lamp after occupants fled, firemen arriving to find the door opened by Arthur Burgoyne and the driver gone.
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B. Ingalls
Hawarden
Sioux County
Ingalls
Ida Grove
Ida County
Calhoun County
Arthur Burgoyne
Musical cows and dairy gains with farm radio
Farmer Alfred Schenck near Algona, Iowa uses a barn radio to entertain cows while milking. He claims the cows have musical ears and respond with increased milk, naming the Iowa Corn Song as most effective followed by Dixie as another favorite.
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Alfred Schenck
Algona
Kossuth County
Schenck
Homestead Law Front Page Details Pension Plan for Teachers
The article outlines a proposed teacher pension system with an annuity of 1.5 percent of average salary per year of service for age 60 and disability benefits at 1.35 percent times final average salary times service, minimum 25 percent. Retirement at 70. Employee contributions range 4.52 to 8.54 percent plus 1 percent for administration. State covers deficits. A board administers the plan.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Legislation Sees Positive Outlook for Passage
The bill is supported by two members of the body and is described as having a good chance for passage in the legislature.
Tax Relief Bills Considered In State Legislature
Senators Beardsley and Love push extending first half 1937 tax deadlines to July 1 with penalties only after that date. Gov Kraschel seeks to extend the retail sales tax and cap homestead relief funding at 2 million annually. House passes Lookingbill’s deficiency judgment bill and a separate foreclosure sale reform bill, though one version was blocked in committee.
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Lookingbill
Story
House
Lockingbill
To Keep Hands Off The Iowa House Has Concluded
The item notes the Iowa House has concluded its session with lawmakers not taking further action on the issue described. No related details on outcomes, dates, or involved entities are provided in the readable text.
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Iowa
House Defeats Resolution on Supreme Court Expansion
In a party line vote the House rejected a resolution urging the Town delegation to oppose President Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court, outlining the typical partisan divide on the issue.
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Roosevelt
Supreme Court
House
Senate hears Ernie Moore remark on aging legislature
The senate heard a brief talk by former Lieutenant Governor Ernie Moore at Senator Byers of Linn county’s suggestion. He singled out Senator Kimberly Scott as the oldest member and joked the senate “goes on forever.” Senate File 143, a farm to market road bill, was introduced by the highways committee led by Millhone. A public hearing is planned before legislative action. Lobbyists would register with the secretary of state and later with the secretary of the senate. bills by Senator Lee Elthon and Rep Earl Fishbaugh were noted.
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Senate
Ernie” Moore
Byers
Linn County
Moore
Kimberly
Scott
Kraschot
Senate Committee On Highways
Millhone
Secretary of State
Lee Elthon
Worth County
Earl Fishbaugh
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Will Hiller
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Eunice Howland
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Foreign Missionary Society
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Ed Hulbreetse
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Lou Lang
Wm. J. Macaulay
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Alpha Delphian
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Clarence Matthiessen
Will E. Corbin
Rev. George
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Ray Adams
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Kenneth Howie
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Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid
Cathedral
Los Angeles Times
Mexico
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Iowa News
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J. W. Jarnagin
Pearl Fisher
Days of Grace
Elmer
William S. Beardsley
Warren County
Kraschel
Princess
Mae Clark
John Payne
Devil Diamond
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Walter Kelley
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