Ottumwa Plans New Outdoor Athletic Plant Near Field
Ottumwa school board moves toward a new outdoor athletic complex costing about 28,000 dollars. The plan addresses facilities needs relative to Muscatine and the Packer City, with Ottumwa’s site proposed near the current field as backers push for improvements.
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Bill Bayliss
Burlington Hawkeye Gazette
Ottumwans
Ottumwa School Board
Ottumwa
Bill
Muscatine
Packer City
Bayliss
Bulldog field improvements aim to shield from biting winds
School officials plan to excavate a natural amphitheater style field on a hilltop to protect spectators from winds that make the current Bulldog field undesirable. The project mirrors Burlington football fields with a sunken layout and natural seating to improve wind survivability.
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Bulldog
Burlington
Mad Creek Municipal
Messenger
Musky High
Charlie Meerdink
Joe Cronin
Boston Red Sox
Philadelphia
Round-Up Of Interesting Notes
A miscellany of sports and urban rumors from AP items. Henry Armstrong may lose his light title tonight while Bobby Jones notes Pam Barton’s golf study. Rumors place Bert Niehoff with the Giants, Blondy Ryan managing Jersey City, and Sambo Leslie at Clinton. Bahrain Texas Tech’s aspirin order teases a football season. Max Baer’s $10,000 payday sits in the bank for a Baer vs Ritchie bout in Texas. Dizzy Dean may move if promoted, while a Texas league game faced a beer polka interruption. A bass jumped into a fisherman’s boat, and Wake Forest football outlook is debated. A Wake Forest coach claims ample material. a Birmingham marquee jokes about Joe Louis vs Gaento.
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New York
A.P
General Phelan
Henry Armstrong
Jim Crowed
Bobby Jones
Pam Barton
Mayor Hague
Bert Niehoff
Giants
Blondy Ryan
Clinton
Ila
Jersey City
Sambo Leslie
Nat Fleischer
Ring
Leo Rodak
Nick Camarata
New Orleans
Saratoga
Lexington
Estelle Lawson Page
Hubby
Dad
Max Baer
Babe Ritchie
Lubbock
Tex
Houston
Beaumont
Norm de Weese
Philly
Morrie Arnovich
N.L
Selman
Ala
Clover Leafs
Joe Anderson
Baton Rouge
Georgia
Etowah
Dewey Doss
Big Field Ready To Start Play in Iowa Open Meet
A crack field of about 200 players from midwestern states prepared to begin the first 18 holes of the Iowa open golf championship at Des Moines Golf and Country Club. Defending champ Joe Brown led contenders with a 70 in partners play, while Pat Willcox paced driving with 273 yards per three drives. The second 18 holes were set for tomorrow as the 36 hole finish approached.
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Big Field
Des Moines
Joe Brown
Des Moines Golf and Country Club
Joe
Hyperion Club
Amos Jencks
Boone
Max Hall
Edgar Updegroff
Updegraff
George Cook
Ottumwa
Charles Rupe
Fort Madison
Brown
Jencks
Pat Willcox
Waterloo
Big Pat
Merle Lint
Willcox
Clarence Yockey
Viola Nine Prevails In Illinois City Kittenball Meet
Viola Nine won the Illinois City Kittenball Meet at Brisbane Field beating Reynolds 8 to 3 in the final. Dierolf Dairy took third by defeating Carlisle Market 5 to 4 in the consolation final. Other results include Reynolds over Grandview 13 to 1 and Dierolf Dairy over Rock Island 12 to 4.
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Illinois City
Viola
Brisbane Field
Reynolds
Drewolf Dairy
Carlisle Market
Grandview
Dierolf Dairy
Rock Island
Andalusia
Joy
Carlille Market
Modern Dairy and McKinley Dominate Junior League Wins
Modern Dairy walloped Buick Garage nine 11 to 0 and the McKinley team crushed St. Marys 13 to 4 at Fletcher avenue field. Causey allowed seven hits for McKinley while Atkins held Buick to one hit in five innings and Proffitt broke up the no hitter with a fifth inning single. McKinley tallied 12 runs in the sixth and seventh frames.
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Modern Dairy
Buick Garage
McKinley
St. Mary’s
Fletcher Avenue
Causey
Saints
Atkins
Proffitt
Buick
Gatherings At Columbus Junction Park Spotlight Family Reunions
About 450 people attended one of the season’s largest gatherings at Columbus Chautauqua park for the Wehmeyer thirteenth annual reunion and related family picnics. Officers include Christina Miller of Wapello president and Fred Wehmeyer vice president. numerous guests from Iowa towns joined the event. The Deppey and Beauchamp family reunions also held at Chautauqua park with dozens of attendees from nearby cities.
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Columbus Junction
Columbus Chautauqua Park
Wehmeyer
August
Wilhemina Wehmeyer
Christina Miller
Wapello
Fred Wehmeyer
Grace Kasten
Burlington
Lawrence Fisher
Bettendorf
Charles Korte
Muscatine
Earl Eversmeyer
Little York
Ill
Ernest Wehmeyer
Pauline
Davenport
Victor Kasten
Pearl Wehmeyer
Union
Henry Brauns
William Brauns
E. Schmeiser
Agnes and
Morris
Emma Otto
Gilbert Eversmeyer
Oakville
August Wehmeyer
Herman Wehmeyer
Walter Hamiston
Charles
Lena Owen
Frank Deford
Loris Greene
Woodruff Clan Kemp Relatives Hold Separate Reunions
The Woodruff family reunion at the Columbus community building drew 65 attendees with Mrs. Leon Daily elected president. Officers include Ansel Dunham as VP and Ruth Chandler as secretary treasurer. next gathering set for August 1940. Closest out of town guests included Daily and Dunham families from Nebraska Iowa Missouri Texas and Illinois. The Kemp family held its eighteenth annual reunion at hautauqua park with a picnic dinner and John Godwin elected president at the business meeting.
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Chautauqua Park
Deppey
Wesley Shipman
Wapello
Marie Shaffer
Pt. Louisa
J. W. Story
Jackie
Rock Island
Columbus Junction
Woodruff
Columbus
Leon Daily
Anselmo
Neb
Ansel Dunham
Rock Island, Ill
Ruth Chandler
Steven Daily
William Dunham
Rose Lambert McMurray
Texas
Missouri
Illinois
Kemp
South Club
Hautauqua Park
John Godwin
Washington
Busi
Gilletts Entertain For Reunion Guests
Mr and Mrs J L Gillett hosted a family dinner at their home Monday noon in honor of guests John P Attig Anna Quatt and the Stoneman family from St Charles Illinois who attended the Freyermuth reunion in Muscatine Sunday. Several relatives including Arlene and Gertrude Gillett of Muscatine visited during the day.
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J. L. Gillett
John P. Attig
Anna Quatt
William Stoneman
Loren
St. Charles
Muscatine
Russell Watson
LaVanne
Marion
Arizona Foster
Betty
Adele
Joe
Briar Watson
Leonard Dungan
Walter Feldman
Janet
Marilynn
Clarence Freyermuth
Jeaneen
Donna
Otis Freyermuth
George Freyermuth
Fred Freyermuth
Roy Schildberg
Leona
Kenneth Gillett
James Walter
Gertrude
Ino
Emeline
Arlene
Gertrude Gillett
J. L. Gilett
W. H. Gilkey
Lloyd Cecil
Gerald Breneman
Harold Parks
Lillian Bliven
Burlington
Manford Gentzler
Ray Greene
Mary Cherwinker
L. W. Kirkpatrick
Lynxville
Wis
Gregory Landing
Ronald
Norma Finke
Davenport
Edgar Newman
Chicago
M. D. Fulton
Harold Edmondson
West Liberty
W. S. Kight
Ulrick Garrett
Letts
Kentucky
Burnett Watterfield
Murray, Ky
J. M. Robertson
Harry McAvoy
North Platte
Neb
Miss Mae
Clifton
Raymond Fuller
Patty
W. T. Orris
Warren
Martin, Mich
Alice Orris
William Brock
Wichita
Kas
Earl Matthews
Emmett Boyd
Richard
Arkansas City
H. P. Osborne
Geneseo
John H. Hanft
Leon Daily
Steven Daily
Anselmo, Neb
Will Dunham
Rock Island
Maude Woodruff
Louisa Center
Roy Skipton
Harve Skipton
Lyle Brumbaugh
Cedar Falls
Lee Folson
Melba
Dubuque
C. H. Brumbaugh
Elmer Paul
Iowa City
Joseph Bujewski
Harry Maurer
Irving Lenker
Joe Bujewski
Council Bluffs
Audrey Bujewski
Lela Kellow
Clinton
Tillie Hendrickson
William Hendrickson
Columbus Junction
Peter Bouland
Nima Mé¢Peek
Andrew
Lottie Smith
Leo Dickson
Junction Girls Camp Atalissa Lodge With Group of Boys
Rev and Mrs V A Bloomquist took girls Monday to Rotary hut near Atalissa for camp until Thursday morning while a group of boys will join for outings until Saturday evening. Read as many given names and places as readable, ending with a light humorous note about a cat mothering an orphan pig and a future 300 pound porker.
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Columbus Junction
V. A. Bloomquist
Rotary
Atalissa
Ruth Church
Joan Huston
Kathryn Woodruff
Rosemary Boulton
Mary Morgan
Mary Lou Swails
Delores Marshall
Audrey James
Joan Huber
Shirley McRoberts
Jeanette Lewis
Jean Woodruff
Evelyn Bloomquist
Junior Harbison
Jack Harbison
Jack Boulton
Tommy Huston
LeRoy Orris
William Swails
Junior Woodruff
Master Bausch
Lyle Maurer
Monte Coffelt
Junior Dean
Max Fulton
Charles Bloomquist
Donald Bloomquist
Junior
Reunion Marks C. O. Kemp Birth Anniversary in Columbus Junction
The Columbus Junction group held a reunion on the birth day anniversary of C. O. Kemp with officers including Miss Mae Kemp and Mrs. Mary McGrew. Out-of-town attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Miller and the Kemp family from Adra Oklahoma, plus visitors from Illinois. The next reunion is set for August 18, 1940 at Columbus Chautauqua park club room.
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Columbus Chautaui
Qua Park Club Room
For Sale Classified Items and Contact Numbers
Multiple sale notices including Grapes 3¢ lb at Geo Bahr 1425 West Fulham phone 2271 J Evergeen sweet corn for canning phone 77 F 22 Blacksmiths force and cottage phone 1688 Motor boat for sale at 40 Evans Shelled popcorn 5c lb 314 Jefferson phone 2516 W Monuments and markers available Alfred E Olson 403 Mulberry phone 993.
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Bahr
West Fulham
Jefferson
Alfred E Olson
Mulberry
Wilton Area Sees Weekend of Visits From Nearby Families
Dakotas and Waterloo guests joined Wilton residents for a weekend of visits and church attendance at St Marys. The Feltman and Jarr households hosted relatives from Chamberlain Webster County and Clinton area for the Feltman family reunion at Weed Park. Local residents note appendicitis surgery for Marion McClean and planned Rininsland family reunion at Eagle Point Park Clinton.
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Feltman
Roscoe Feltman
Bobby
Chamberlain, S. D
George Feltman
Wilton Township
John Black
Claude
Anna Ruble
Edna Walrod
Herman
Floyd Foehl
Webster County
Herman Jarr
Mary Feltman
Muscatine
Weed Park
Marion McClean
Gale McClean
Bellevue Hospital
Rininsland
Eagle Point Park
Clinton
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Graham Drug
Iowa
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Nichols
Choice Farms
C. C. Hakes & CO
W. D. Luellen
Harry Aufmann
Wilton
Hartman Wardrobe
Cannon
Oak St
West 4Th
National Cash Register
Mulberry Ave
Evans
Memorial Park
Fair Oaks
Pontiac
Ford
Muscatine Buick Co
East 3Rd St
Uptown Theater
Dodge
Studebaker
Oldsmobile
Chrysler
Chevrolet
R. F. Thompson Garage
West Second St. Muscatine, In
Colin Bros
Sunnyside
Dakota, Waterloo
Father
Baby of Muscatine
Henry Romann
Elbert Wiebel
Eileen
Gary
Kate McNulty
J. L. Kaufmann
Josephine
Toledo
Pemberton
Lydia Kaufmann
C. C. Kaufmann
Henderson
A. Nash Co
Golden Rule Nash
Elim St
Cincinnati
Ohio
Henderson's Drug Store
A. Beisner
Women of the Moose
Moose Hall
H. J.P
Harmony Hall
Grand Hotel
State of
Muscatine County
Northern Gravel Company
Greg van Lines
W. L. Hillier
Harold Oetzel
Electrical Service
East Second St
Nellie E. Robertson
J. W. G. Vetter
Lincoln Cafe
O. K
Ensilage Knives
Hopkins Law Shop
Chestnut St
California
Asthalter’s
Towa Ve
P. Morain
Schmelzer’s
Cohn Bros
East 4Th
West 2Nd
Frigidaire
East 8Th St
East 10Th
West Hill
River View
East Front
Eastman Kodak
Call
District Court
Said
Mary Nolte
Said County
Pronte
B. B. Tipton
Cour Earel OG
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