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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 28, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news fair these Days by George e. Sokolsky a Sai Eha Ulysses s. Grant had been a Brilliant general and had become a National hero he was elected. President of the United states succeeding the unfortunate Andrew Johnson in the Hope that he could end the Post civil War demoralization which affected All parts of the United states. Grant however had Little understanding of the nature of the presidency or of the intricacies of the american form of government. It was a period which required a particularly astute and Alert mind because the predators of great wealth were using what is called the Post War reconstruction to manipulate the Economy of Tho country in their own interests. Avid for great financial benefits were the Railroad builders and manipulators who paid huge bribes to members of Congress As Well As to other Public officials. Collis p. Huntington of California Thomas a Scott of Pennsylvania the new York crowd Daniel Drew Commodore Vanderbilt Jim Fisk and Jay Gould were particularly vicious. Professor c. Vann Woodward in discussing this period in Quot american heritage Quot says of them the cheated and swindled Carli other As Well As Hie Public and cynically boasted of the Legislatures and judges they bought. In moral obtuseness and brass they were fitting contemporaries of such politicians As Bon Butler Roscoe come Ling. Simon Cameron and James g Blaine a vol. 80, no. 132 it. Pleasant Iowa sati hive evening Jine 28. 1038 by Carrier soc per week by mall 17.50 per year ceremony for Brid Nebeulah friends hold reunion these friends of Many years standing All with connections at the Beulah Church ear of it. Pleasant held a reunion recently at the Clyde Wilson Home on Broadway Iii it pleasant they called themselves Quot old timers of the Beulah Church Quot and Bros of Many of those present ranged in the 70s and lower 80 s. There was much Rem in lacing about past years together at the dinner and social time m the Wilson basement front Row seated <1. To re mrs Sam Lee it. Union mrs Elias pricked mrs Walter Brandmeyer new London mis. Eve ret in Walker mrs Alkin Martin new London. Mrs. Eli Van sync. Mrs Nellie Gillis mrs. Laura Robeitson mrs mrs Lula Miller and will Bra second Row Naomi Kopp Clyde Wilson mrs mis. Clyde Wilson Sam Lee m Union Roy i Finis pricked in Fred wat it Fay in Edei m Ilia is Elmer Van sync i Hallie Beattie mrs Mary bidding add. Waite i Brandmeyer. I Gertrude Cannuni mrs. Gear Van Luke Der and i will Snyder both it but Ling Ion Aud Jim pricket new London Myrtle fan. Glace Kopp \ Bdl Linn Ai. Mrs Myrtle Fred Waler new Guidon mrs will soy Charles snide i will break Bromide sunday i a or new Baptist Church or Warren Filkin head of the 1> part mint of Christian id Juca lion. Northern Baptist theological Seminary Chicago will Bung the us age tot the ground by a King services sunday june 25ai i pm for tilt new Baptist Church which will he located on the tract on South main Street i he theme Elwood toss in test Church. Keokuk woman Dies in crash House Bill would Aii railroads Keokuk. Iowa up mrs Virginia Whiteside 50, Keokuk a Well known musician in this area. T Washington up House passed a Bill late Friday to Aid the nation s financial pressed railroads by providing temporary government guarantees in some respects that Jeriod was not altogether unlike our own because Money rather than wigs killed instantly Early today of an unlimited amount of Privat when her station Wagon collided morals i with a meat Truc k from Waterloo. Ruled and duplicity and vulgarity were regarded As proper if adequately paid for. Grant had of course known Lincoln but does not seem to have been inspired by him. Like Lincoln Grant had come out of poverty and Youthful suffering but unlike Lincoln he had developed an inordinate regard for wealth and for wealthy men. Mrs Whiteside was returning from an engagement at fort Madison when the collision occurred about two Miles North of Here on . 218 the truck Driver Arnold Ray. Waterloo was hospitalised in fair condition at St. Joseph s Host ital. He was driving a truck loaded with meat for the Gateway truck without too much learning him j co., Waterloo at the time of the self he avoided men of education j Accident and culture particularly argue mrs Whiteside the Mother of tentative personalities who were1 Elg flit children played numerous Superior to him in intellect. His private Secretary for eight years his closest associate his Eye and his ear was general Orville e. Babcock who controlled entire departments of the government appointed men to office dependent upon him prejudiced the president s mind against men and measures drove men of Talent out of the government and made the Grant administration the plaything of financial gangsters. Engagements throughout us state area of Iowa Illinois Missouri. Her Slaton Wagon a portable Hammond Organ was carrying with her were shed. Tri and and she de find a lost test Parachute professor Woodward explains Grants willingness to permit Babcock to act As he did in the i following terms Quot another Barrier Between the president and men of ability and Independent mind who tried to serve him was Grants military training and service. Once indoctrinated with the military Point of View regarding staff methods the Structure of command and the meaning of discipline and insubordination he Clung to it stubbornly and sought to carry it Over into the political sphere. He was accustomed to command not to consult. Orders were to be obeyed not debated. Resistance from subordinates was suspected As treason. Objectives were to be carried by storm if need be. Men of self respect and Independent judgment naturally did not take to was Ellis kan., i up i a an Iowa scientific team wondered for a while Friday about the old adage that Quot what goes up must come after it was a lost Quot for several i hours a Parachute bearing equip i ment to study cosmic rays landed in a Field near Ellis. It had been released from a huge 200-foot plastic balloon at an Altitude of 118,000 feet. Authorities were notified and the equipment was returned to Moberly mo., where the balloon was launched earlier. A timing device released the Parachute after the balloon reached its ceiling. Loans for capital improvement and maintenance programs tile vote was 348-2. The Bill now goes to the Senate which passed a different version earlier limiting loan guarantees to 700 million dollars. In addition to helping pull railroads out of the red the loan pro Gram was aimed at bolstering Railroad employment. Speakers from both parties said the railroads particularly in the East were in serious financial plight with passenger de Ait. Running 700 million dollars a year chairman Oren Harris i Aik told the House that five Eastern lines Are on the Brink of bankruptcy. The loan program authorizes the interstate Commerce commission to Issue guarantees until March 31, 1961. They would Cove too per cent of Loans for capital improvements and 50 per cent of maintenance Loans i egos Senate to safeguard National guard Washington up it gov award i Simpson of Wyoming urged the Senate Friday to safeguard the National guard in the pending defense reorganization Bill. He charged Here is Quot a definite trend on the part of the Pentagon to destroy the system. Simpson represented the governors conference in testimony before the Senate aimed services committee. Simpson urged the committee to write into the Bill Protection of the National guard Bureau and its Chiel so they can not be abolished or consolidated out of business. Quot the governors of and territories View alarm the Pentagon i eel my the National asks halt to tax liens of the program up and build the following set v ii e tor t in is Quot let us his Nehemiah 2 in i the order of ground breaking the National Simpson said. The states with great policies a f guard mid guard Bureau Quot Mary Ellen White 96 years old Dies kiwanis again sponsors travel adventure series Man killed in gun Accident Grant could not keep decent men in his administration the exception being Hamilton fish his Secretary of state who remained throughout to serve the country in the then intricate foreign relations. The Grant administration was rocked by constant scandals but they did not All occur in the latter years. Quot Black Friday Quot of 1869 should have warned Grant that he was surrounded by thieves. Jay Gould. Jim Fisk. Jr., Abel Rath hone Corbin one of Grants thieving Brothers in Law. Entered upon j a conspiracy to Corner the new a Ort Quot Gold Market. To them they add i general Daniel Butterfield an Ald Friend of the president. The came very close to wrecking the country economically bringing distress to Many people. Grant should have been warned because his brother in ,1 was a no terms Crook who had been exposed by a congressional com j Mitt be and the reputations of i Gould and Fisk were of the very a worst yet the president met them and appeared with them in Public he should have been particularly careful after the disclosures of the Ames Iowa up a Marvin these Rohrdanz 27. Ames was killed today when the gun he apparently was cleaning w Cut off. Police said the 12-Guage Shotgun blast struck Rohrdanz in the heart. Rohrdanz. An Iowa state col a loge student in agronomy and his j family were preparing to move to Kansas City and were packing. Rohrdanz was graduated from Newton High school. He is sur Vived by his widow and three i children. Mary Ellen White 96, died at memorial Hospital at 2 15 saturday morning after an illness of a few weeks. She was born at Trenton sept. 17, #1861, the daughter of or. And mrs. George White she had been a lifetime resident of the Trenton Vicinity until a few years ago when she went to the de vol nursing Home to reside. She was a member of Trenton methodist Church. She is survived by a grand Niece in California and other Distant relatives. Services will to get held at the Trenton methodist Church at 2 . Monday with or. E. A. Mathews associate pastor at first n v Rich 507 race Street methodist Church and Rev. Martin died at an Iowa City Hospital sat Greer Wayland circuit pastor urday morning he had been ill Hie officiating. Interment will be at last several months Finley Chapel cemetery. The body j the body was to be brought to will be at the Crane funeral Home j the Crane funeral Home and until time for the services. Funeral arrangements made there the i pleasant club announces it is sponsoring the travel and adventure series for the fourth season. The first of six programs will be presented on october it this year. The committee in charge of the series in 1958-59 includes Dwayne a. Roht Der. General chairman or Raymond Hanks paddle Walker vere Boshart Lester , Paul Mechling Dean Nebel and Orono Means club president. This is a fund raising project to obtain the Money for youth activities of the club. The Money goes to youth groups in of. Pleasant and surrounding Community. Chicago i up i a Federal Lodge called upon the supreme court to Stop the internal reve Nile service from slapping income j Tux liens on going . La s District judge Joseph Bam Perry said the practice was Quot exceedingly dangerous and hardly american Quot Perry Friday lifted an $880,489 income tax Lien filed against in Gally entangled banker Quot Oran men a whose holdings stretch from Florida to California Perry also halted a second Lien. J of $533,341 placed by the internal Revenue service against a Chica i go building corporation owned by j Mensik a relatives All i ran do is meet Force with i Force Quot Perry said. The policy of the government walking in and taking Over a going Bosun s is sex j coed my in dangerous and it us highly in am Riean my Only Hope is that the u s supreme court will halt this four hours later however the appellate court issued a stay on Perry a halting of the building firm Lien u. S. Atty John p i All ski said he planned to ask tot a second stay this one on Tho halting of the Mensik Lien on monday the appellate court derision permits the Lien on the building firm to stay in lore Rye a ruling. Perry had called Quot death sentence Quot to civic on the j pct nut Ary of which Vav ill be held outside pastor it Church a Ali Asili. Iowa president of it. Ali a said ministerial aws it in to Ion. Player Rev tor first ii Madison. Ltd boil a nth i in Quot heal i 1�?~ulthtulnesi us Baptist it to eel lugs Vav Adeah Beth of the ctr of of pleasant de Tiuliu president of Cha tube of Commerce o i pleasant Iowa Rev a a Ald Blitz Moderator of the Southeastern Iowa Baptist Assoria Pas i of i a thy t May of Frank dedicate five mile Structure Mackinac by i Dor Mich t up i the Mackinac Bridge was int in ally dedicated today to chivas a three Day Celebration held in its Honor. Army Secretary Wilber m Nickel dedicated the too million Span on behalf of the United Stales government in Cere to no new location la tin Anil it not in the the present Church. W eat lid i t Ion held on of steel Quot mighty mar and Concrete. Five a net la prelude inform Tun Asplund bifocal Ion Luck. Pastor chm cd la in Welcome Rev to i i of is upturn Rev Rev William Lockridge Ben a i Bapt is to no i russe a. Hymn message it m let my break in Van by Oil a Ommittee Benediction Rev cts. Pasi of first fair Tell t he Public is i or wan in Filkin id it i round Lemma of Marvin building Geol be Mey Baptist Church my tally invited oat varieties in trial plot now labelled observe their 30th anniversary Twenty one varieties of oat now lit Deled for viewing in Southeast Iowa plot ate the of the Iowa immunity Grain trials slate Dwayne a Roh wed or and a Extension agronomist. This plot is Lorn i erf on the Fred and Bernard Hultquist. Farm at so fleshing and is a Par of the Iowa Community Grain trials Pons died by the Iowa Slat lege Experiment station. These trials Are the official oat testing program of Iowa state College despite Fer tile the Lien it building death claims Harris Logan. 85 n. V. Rich taken by death a suffers leg fracture Kicky Dale Scarff two year old son of or. And mrs. Donald Scarf of West of i pleasant suffered a leg fracture thursday when it was caught in an elevator. His Mother had left him at the Home of mrs. Belle Glover also West of it. Pleasant while she went to Burlington on a business trip. And the Accident happened while Fie was playing. Scandals the presidents Secretary Babcock was brought to trial for his involvement in the whiskey ring scandal Babcock was acquitted under Peculiar circumstances. No one has Ever questioned the i a probity of Ulysses s. Grant his credit Mobilizer rackets which really i Lack of common sense proved him occurred in the previous Johnson to be unfit for the presidency administration. I copyright. 1958, King features after a Long series of outrageous Syndicate inc attend Short course a la delegates to the state boys us Short course held at Iowa state co Liege this week visited experimental farms and laboratories to learn o f some of the new developments in agriculture. These delegates from Henry county Are shown observing a tractor equipped with fluid to veer transmission. From the left Are Jim Wright Cecil Mcdowell c Larence Cory and Ronald Riley All of it. Pleasant individual in Ca p is Frank Buckingham t Harris let Ogan. 85, Dud Al the Kennedy nursing Home Here sat urday morning. He had been ill the past year Ile wigs the son of or Arad mrs William Logan and was born sept 23, 1872, near big mount in Lee county. He had Bern a Amici j during Libs Active years he was a resident of Lee county until six i years ago when he came to i pleasant he is survived by three children mrs. Rex dins on of Hillsboro mrs Shelly Fetters Cantril and William l Logan Bloomfield. Services will la at the Sharon Church m Lee county and Intel ment will im1 at the Sharon cemetery. Time of the service had not been Sot at press time the information May be obtained from the Crane funeral Home i elected Art chairman of state pen women mrs o w Anderson member o the National league of american pen women a elected saturday state Art chairman for Low it Divi Don of the National league mrs Anderson server Chai Man of the Midwest conference which was held at the Kirkwood hotel. Des Moines and which had paintings Hung then from seven midwestern Stales at present mrs Anderson Hie paintings hanging in the Midwest regional which is being held in smithsonian Institute Ai Washington. Do. During May and june the first College in the nation to teach american history and government w As Union College founded in Schenectady new York in 1795 there Are la varieties 111 the trial at Swedesboro including Many of the new varieties just released some in the trial stages and several old varieties used As a comparison flu varieties included have been released by the Iowa station and by several surrounding states Fanner viewing the plot May obtain an idea As to How he various oat varieties will respond to conditions on their own farms or under conditions similar to those at Swedesburg. Anyone interested May View the varieties states Rohweder sentenced on forgery Harge fifty five guests attended the Golden wedding anniversary open House Munday june 22 honouring i and or Tom mammon of Trenton Iowa the hours were from i to 4 p a i and mrs summons received Many Nice gifts and seven Lovely banquets of Flowers also Many cards. Their daughter in Law mrs. Melle Sammons wits hostess for the occasion the serving table was appointed with red roses and a two tier wedding cake decorated with roses gel-1 and Gold leaves ice Cream and Coffee also were served. Out of town guests included mrs Rex Roberts and daughter and i and mrs Charles Roberts of Albuquerque new Moland friends and relatives from Ottumwa Riverside Donnellson and i pleasant \ i Bon. I of \ 11 it olm tul care Monte and of the not the witnessed the Al a Grandam borage pier. Thousands of other spectators Hen re it Over loudspeakers in my Ignace and Mackinaw Ciu taking Queens visa Bridge count Ini hey w Eny 21 a a a it Miles each Side of part were Mackinac i rom Michigan. 83 to pull preen ribbon from the Span to it Point near the Center when it was to be knotted symbolizing by linking of Michigan s upper and lows r Peninsulas. And it ill goes Well nearly a seme of big lakes freighters blowing their booming horns will pass beneath the Bridge As the ceremonies Leach then Climax with tilt unveiling of a Bronze dedication plaque. John meal of 22, i pleasant . Sentenced by judge George o Van Allen in District court. Saturday morning to one year in the county jail on a charge of forgery Scarff had pleaded guilty to the charge earlier in the week the sentence was suspended and lie was riddled to Sherif Russell vim to ill Lur two years. Been Register new motor vehicles the following persons and firm have registered new motor Winch at the county treasurer s office in the courthouse where no town is listed person of firm is from it pleasant Ais William m Hoaglin Chi v Lei Lloyd w Linden Winfield. Chevrolet. Carl a Lonz new Lon Don. Ford Bali m Barringer Buick Thomas Vav Keefe Chevrolet Shafer motors two Chevrolet John a Hale new Isom fun Chevrolet Laurence w going Lockridge Chevrolet Edna m Michette Chevrolet Charlesl Moody. Winfield Ford Earl w Benge Ford Jack of Cowen Ford Ferdinand j or Max Schaefer lock Ridge Chevrolet Arni Leslie k alter Pontiac. Trucks shale motors Chevrolet and Nicholson Brothers it. Union transport Semi trailer. Deeds recorded for properties i in following deeds have recorded at the courthouse Alma it it Shive and husband to Leslie r Peterson and , two deed., property in Section i of Scott township Rex ii Tillman to a vile t. Simmons and w Ife property in Brentwood Heights Lena to Harold Ric Heibei get property in Brentwood Heights c. E. Mathers and wife to Dean d. Davison Aud wife property in new London Elmer i Nett or. And Wile to Dickie Lee Schlatter and wife property in Wayland Robert w. Riepe and wife to Theodore w. Scherer and wife property in new London Ora b. Conover to John in Smith and wife property in Salem. Robert j. Oppenheimer and wife to Halver fido and wife. A and w Root bedside on West Washington. Florenc ill Bilbie it a1, to Ernest Morgan and wife quit claim deed. Property m Hillsboro Frank v. Cotes to Eugeni c. Mccoid property Oil Jefferson Street North of Post office. Rita Plait it a1, to Lula Snodgrass 8 lots near Lincoln and Maple Leaf streets loin in Odra. J it a1 to Rita Piatt property on North Lincoln. Lowell school District no. 3 to Oles w. Washburn quit claim deed. Property in Lowell. Marlin v. Donnolly and wife to Martin c. Zaccone. Property in a Webster and Harrison streets. Payoff a $50 performance payoff is made to members of Cargill s it. Pleasant hybrid Corn Plant suggestion advisory committee by Donald b. Butler left hybrid Corn general manager. The four Man commit tee was in charge of a recently completed program that won Cargill a six month suggestion plan contest for processing plants. Receiving his Check from Buller is Gary Van Amerongen. Other committee members include Donald Roach second from left. William Smith third from left Aud Dwight Davis third from right. Floyd Aliner far right Plant manager and Allan ring second from right assistant Plant manager i Tress the presentation

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