Interesting Industry News From Iowa This Week
Albia and Ottumwa report diverse local activities with new meat and fish bait industries, hog product data, and lime distribution. Notes on bank robberies in Iowa, Delicious apple origins, corn yields in Poweshiek and surrounding counties, and army nurse postings. Also covers thefts at creameries and Des Moines air mail surge before Christmas.
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Albia
Monroe County
Ranger Packing Company
J. Hanson
Chicago
Ottumwa
Hawkeye Product Company
Towa
Harry Wilkinson
Chicago Banker
Walter D. Schultz
Commercial Bank and Trust Company
Wenatchee
Phn Beebe
State Bank Division
Walter
Cooperative Association
M Bers
Missouri
Washington
Iowa
Hiatt
Peru
Madison County
Stark Brothers
M. J. Regg
Des Moines
Winterset
Kiwanis Club Delivers Toys to 2500 Children in 800 Homes
The Des Moines Kiwanis club distributed more than 5000 toys to 2500 children in 800 homes where Santa would not have appeared without the club’s generosity. Each child received a candy box and packages were prepared with the child’s number age and sex in mind.
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Des Moines Kiwanis Club
Santa Claus
Dredgingneeded to preserve river channel costs loom
The text argues rivers would require ongoing dredging at high cost to keep the channel, noting the millions already spent on wing dams and revetments would be wasted if not maintained.
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Missienippl
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
H. L. Griffith
Elkader
Griffith
Upper
Mississippi
Community Notes From Castle Grove And Nearby
Castle Grove hosts and visitors fill a busy period with dinners and travel. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ohe of Dundee Illinois spent holidays with relatives. 24 guests attended their dinner. Local students Hugo Fleckmeier and Arthur Moore visited during holiday break.
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Henry Ohe
Herman Ohe
Dundee
Ill
Hugo Fleckmeier
Arthur Moore
Dubuque Seminary
G. Wolf
Texas
C. A. Fairbanks
Princeton, Jr
Lester
L. E. Black
Chicago
Will Hiller
G. J. van Buren
H. A. Deischer
Anamosa
D. A. R. Rev
W. E. van Buren
Tipton
Iil
Castle Grove
S. M. Hosford
Jones County Farm Bureau
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Lutheran Church
Langworthy and Monticello Families Dine Together NY Day
Sand Spring households led by J H Batchelder and J L Batchelder hosted New Year’s Day dinner with Pearl Everett and Ray Hayes visiting from Langworthy and Monticello. Erma Bradle spent New Year’s Day at the Fred Egger home. C C Slauson and family dined with Jack Aldrich’s near Prairieburg. Grant Eilers Paul Eilers Hei ken and Henry Eilers with families joined the social gathering.
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J. H. Batchelder
Pearl and
Everett
Langworthy
Ray Hayes
Monticello
J. L. Batchelder
Erma Bradle
Hopkinton
Fred Egger
C. C. Slauson
Jack Aldrich
Prairieburg
Grant Eilers
Paul Eilers
Louis Heiken
Henry Eilers
Local Social Notes From Monticello And Surrounding Areas
New Year festivities include Ruth Nelson and other guests dining with the Kings in Monticello. Clinton visitors Mrs. I. C. Kester and family called on Ray Chaplin, while Batchelders dined with Balsters in Monticello. A baby girl was born to Stanley Bright’s family. Harriet Marshall and Russel Chaplin visited Ray Chaplin on New Year’s Day. Helen Egger married Dean Morton in Galena Illinois. Mrs Morton will teach in Minburn. Mildred Arduser spent time with Clifford Arduser at Langworthy.
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Ing
Monticello
Ruth Nelson
Center Junction
Lou King
I. C. Kester
Clinton
Ray Chaplin
J. L. Batchelder
Robert Balster
Stanley Bright
Russel} Chaplin
Onslow
Harriet Marshall
Wyoming
Helen Egger
Fred Egger
Dean Morton
Minburn
Galena
Petit Jurors Drawn For January Term
Petit jurors are drawn to serve the January 1931 term of the district court in Jones county Iowa. Names listed include J O Austin Morley Verlin Baker Martello Lloyd Ballou Clarence Henry Behrends Monticello Percy Bray Anamosa F M Byerly Monticello Ernest Carpenter Monticello Walter Carr Cascade R P Clark Monticello J W Commey Anamosa Herbert Connell Anamosa W B Ditch Anamosa Rosemary Dolan Anamosa L A Dreibelbis Center Junction Ed Eilers Monticello Allan T Fairbanks Monticello Mrs John Figherty Anamosa E H Frankfort Anamosa W D Frantz Martello C C Freeman Olin J R Goatee Anamosa Harriet Hansen Wyoming C H Hartman Anamosa Mrs Charlotte Hartman
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Jones County
Iowa
Anamosa
Herbert Connell
W. B. Ditch
Rosemary Dolan
L. A. Dreibelbis
Center Junction
Ed Eilers
Monticello
Allan T. Fairbanks
John Figherty
E. H. Frankfort
W. D. Frantz
Martello
C. C. Freeman
Olin
J. R. Goatee
Harriet Hansen
Wyoming
C. H. Hartman
Charlotte Hartman
Local Residents and Officials Listing
A dense reader-friendly list names individuals from Anamosa Center Junction Monticello Oxford Junction Morley Wyoming and surrounding areas. The compilation includes Hartman Heliken Hellberg Hughes Treland Kennedy Lemmer Moffett Mirick O Rourke Peters Petersen Rohwedder Scherer Seehusen Stadtmueller Tyler Wag goner Warren Wroblewski Zimmerman and others in multiple communities.
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Anamosa
Robert Hartman
Benjamin Heliken
Center Junction
W. F. Hellberg
L. J. Hughes
Scotch Grove
R. E. Treland
Harry Jones
Fred Kay
Monticello
Etta Kennedy
Onslow
John Kennedy
Mike Lemmer
Cascade
T. A. Manuel
Wim. McCormick
Frank Moffett
Clarence
Lulu Mirick
Jim O'Rourke
Henry J. Peters
Mildred Petersen
Oxford Junction
Milo E. Phelps
Morley
Charles Podhaski
Zelma Rickels
John Rohwedder
Joe Scherrer
H. H. Seehusen
Wyoming
Earl Sherman
P. N. Smith
Edward Stadtmueller
J. E. Tyler
Harold Waggoner
Olin
Anson Warren
Martelle
Marjorie Wroblewski
Ralph Zimmerman
Traveling man complains of hard times and money trust
In a local restaurant a traveler blamed Wall Street money trust for hard times and then lost $3 at a slot machine, a small vignette amid mentions of economic worry in the area. Bishop Frederick D. Leete exits on a trip through the Orient and will be away until May, with Bishop F. T. Keeney taking charge in his absence.
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Victrola Records
Holland
St. Paul
Rabbi Cohen
Quin O'Brien
Clarence Darrow
Manchester Press
Money Trust
Wall Street
Frederick D. Leete
Omaha
Methodist Episcopal Church
Towa
Orient
F. T. Keeney
Atlanta
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Iowa News
J. W. Jarnagin
Hawkeye State
Dave Sutherland
Montezuma
Poweshiek County
J. J. Boatman
George Monroe
Washington County
Sunshine Club
Chicago Rotary International
Waltonians
Cedar Rapids
State Fish and Game Department
Towa State College
Ames
Colburn
Waverly
Bremer
Butler
Black Hawk
Roach & Sons of
Plainfield
Acre
John Wesley Holland
First Methodist
Milton
van Buren County
Iowa Wesleyan
Mount Pleasant
Rock River
Illinois
Upper Iowa
Methodist
Cedar Falls
United States Bureau of Census
United States
Air Mail
Fort Des Moines
U. S. Army
Army Post Hospital
Ethel Gordon
Des Moines Methodist Hospital
Isabelle Vogt
Colorado General Hospital
Eliza Weaverling
Gordon
Vogt
Fitzsimmons General Hospital
Denver
Colo
Miss Weaverling
Fort Leavenworth
Kaw
U. S. Army Nurse Corps
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association
the Presbyterian Church
Benedict
F. C. Cramer
Loren
Pauline
Charles C. Livingstone
John van Buren
Union Township
Hosford
Florence Black
Durango
Gladys Hosford
Matthiessen Auto and Supply Company
Snow White Bakery
Edmund Lowe
Beery
Sale
Coats
Amana
Cotton Blank
Robes
Momme
Steven
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