Outlook Bright for Coming Year in Sioux City Area
Sioux City business leaders outline plans for 1930, led by Hoover policy push. Firms like W. A. Klinger Inc plan $60,000 in yard and shop expansion. Davidson Brothers forecast a prosperity boom with new homes and higher payrolls. Kari Keen and Miller Wohl aim to double output and double production. Local bankers and merchants anticipate stronger land sales, building, and retail activity aided by crop prospects and stabilizing markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Hoover
W. A. Klinger, Inc
Browning
Clothiers
M. E. Troutfelt
Frank D. Davidson
Davidson Brothers Company
Davidson
Sunset View Addition
Leon Milleer
Miller- Wohl Company
N. Melham
Standard Radio Supply Company
Kari-Keen Manufacturing Company, Inc
Cecil M. Myers
Otto F. Bridge
N. T. Hanson
W. Clothing House
Mason City
Iowa
Willis G. C. Bagley
First National Bank
Iowa State Bankers Association
Charles H. Barber
Retail Merchants Association
Ed. S. Selby
Jacob E. Decker and Sons
Holton Bristol
Mason City Lehigh Portland Cement Company
Stock Exchange
H. B. Keeler
Mason City Brick and Tile Company
E. H. Wagner
Northwestern Bell to spend six million in Iowa in 1930
Des Moines AP reports H G Conger general manager announces Northwestern Bell will invest 6 million dollars in Iowa during 1930. The program totals 90 500 miles of wire with 20 000 miles in cables and 4 000 miles of open copper wire replacing 1 300 miles of iron. Local and long distance upgrades include burying the Iowa City Cedar Rapids cable and expanding central office facilities.
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Des Moines
H. G. Conger
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Iowa
Conger
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Muscatine- Wilton
Ewart
Davenport Council Bluffs
West Branch men organize gun club and trap shoot plan
Local sportsmen form a West Branch gun club with 20 members led by President L. C. Hutcheson and Secretary Treasurer C. A. Pilkington. An early rabbit shoot saw rival factions led by Glenn Brown and Oliver Endsley clash, Brown's side taking 96 rabbits to 67. The group hosts an oyster supper at Hotel Hoover on Dec 16 and plans a trap shoot for Dec 21 with turkeys ducks and geese as Christmas dinners.
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West Branch
L. C. Hutcheson
C. A. Pilkington
Ray Muma
H. C. Brown
G. O. Shipley
Glenn Brown
Oliver Endsley
Brown
Hoover
Conesville Pupils to Present Program on Two Evenings
Conesville Iowa December 11 two evening program by Conesville school pupils in intermediate room with food sales after each show. Students perform songs recitations plays and drills including The Wedding at Wayback Real Americans All Hanging Out the Wash and Black Clouds among many others.
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Conesville
Dee Douglass
Junior Sprouse
Harold Stratton
Gaylord Holladay
Don Sprouse
Ernest Buckman
Clyde Holladay
Edith Mae Stafford
Max Kemp
Winifred Jones
Leonard Pada
Mary Elizabeth McKee
Elvera Crist
Vera Stratton
Geraldine Holladay
Harold Buckman
St. Claire Monolog
the Sewing Society
Irene Fuhrman
Reuben McCormick
Irene Fuhlman
Debby Coffin
Mildred Stratton
Playlet
Black Clouds
Ruthetta Douglass
Revival services and local social notes from Drury Illinois
The Rev. Caleb Larson leads revival at Pine Bluff Methodist church. A prior dinner supper and bazaar at Pine Bluff church is noted. Local visits include Guy Hildebrand family from Atalissa Iowa and Sadie Kleist in Rock Island Davenport. Farmers report corn husking underway with James Hayes owning 169 acres and William Kranz 100 acres not yet husked.
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Drury, Ill
Caleb Larson
Pine Bluff Methodist Church
Pine Bluff Church
Thurly
Guy Hildebrand
Atalissa
Charles Foster
Sadie Kleist
Rock Island
Davenport
Charles Beigle
Knoxville
Clarence Freyermuth
Otis
Lavonne
Otis Randolph
George Freyermuth
Sophia Freyermuth
Muscatine
Herman Riest
Lizzie Slusher
F. C. Mewes
James Hayes
William Kranz
Wapello P. E. O. meeting includes Christmas party
Mrs. A W Hinderman hosted Chapter ET of the P E O at a Monday session in Wapello with a Christmas party decor. Mrs. Floyd Miller led a program on Christmas carols and customs, and guests exchanged gifts from a decorated almond tree.
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Wapello
A. W. Hinderman
Floyd Miller
Santa Claus
Ada Smith
Opal Arms
Kathryn Hiller
Ruth Huddle
Phyllis Willson
Dorothy Blanchard
Cedar County Farm Bureau to Hold Twelfth Annual Meeting
Tipton Iowa December 11 the Cedar County Farm Bureau will hold its twelfth annual meeting at the Methodist church on Monday from 10 30 in the morning to 3 30 in the afternoon with a noon banquet. The program lists men and women sessions, reports, elections, music by the Lang Hahn quartet and county agent Emmett C Gardner photo slides.
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Cedar County Farm Bureau
Tipton
B. H. Hambright
County Farm Bureau
Bennett
Lester Kelly
Clarence
Emery Hemingway
West Branch
State Farm Bureau
Church Auditorium
Farm Bureau
Lang- Hahn Farmers
Muscatine County
Emmett C. Gardner
Lang- Hahn
Russel Willer
Beulah Dodds
William Davidson
Fremont Township
Frank Thomson
C. M. Estle
Winifred
George Moore
Frances Abbott
Isaac Abbott
Rex
Donald
Marks
H. H. Owen
Anna
Hilda
Amos
Harry Hants
Billy
Harold Hunter
Harold Nietzel
Ernest Wagner
Vere Walker
Ruth
Jessie Vera
A. W. Jean
Haney Forbes
Harold Scabilion
Columbus City
Wehmeyer
Mt. Union
Verne
Muscatine
Charlies Gould
Baby
Ottumwa
Mr. Gould
Masonic Club Hosts Progressive 500 Night
Stockton notes say Mr and Mrs G F Broders hosted the Masonic club with six tables of Progressive 500. Honors went to Mrs Robert Bennewitz Mrs Charlies Neilsen Mr Fred Kronenberg and Dr W S Fitch. Also local news on a serious car accident and near record road conditions.
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Stockton
G. F. Broders
Masonic Club
Robert Bennewitz
Charlies Neilsen
Fred Kronenberg
W.S. Fitch
Paul Riessen
Davenport
Elmer Riessen
Riessen
E. A. Holst
Aaron
D. B. Ormsby
All Weather U. S. 71 Road to Reach KC by 193?
Shenandoah Iowa December 11 An all weather road from Council Bluffs to Kansas City on U S 71 to be completed next year Bids to grade and gravel No 71 in Nodaway county Missouri between Braddyville and Clermont will be opened December 20 This is the last unsurfaced gap on the road.
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Shenandoah
Council Bluffs
Kansas City
U. S. 71
Maryville
Missouri
Nodaway County
Braddyville
Clermont
Wilton Masons Name Officers For Year Ahead
Wilton Lodge No. 167 A F and A M elected Gale McClean worshipful master at a December meeting and dinner in Wilton Iowa. Other officers chosen include C T Schacht senior warden M F Collier junior warden D A Burrows treasurer G G Leith secretary and A R Leith trustee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilton
Gale McClean
Wilton Lodge
A. F
A. M
Masonic Temple
C. T. Schacht
M. F. Collier
D. A. Burrows
G. G. Leith
A. R. Leith
Merry Maids
Bridge Worker Scarred After Mast Pole Incident
Lou Curtin, a Gedney Lake bridge worker in Conesville Iowa, was struck on the head when a mast pole broke and released a heavy cable. A four inch scalp laceration was torn away. He is staying at the Turner home for care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conesville
Lou Curtin
Gedney Lake Bridge
Curtin
Turner
Robert Conaway
Ralph Crawford
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Rex Yockey
Hamilton County
Yockey
William H. Campbell
Charles Closz
Seymour Eichman
E. G. Fardal
R. E. Jones
Farmers National Bank
E. S. Johnson
Knapp-Monarch Company
Drury News
Wapello P. E. O
A. W
E. C. Rogers
Burlington Hospital
Studebaker
Rogers
Burlington
Theo. Wilton
Esther Nyemaster
Herbert Wilton
Henry Young
W. C. Hunt
Anna Paris
W. C
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Moffett
Winslow Mehaffey
Oakdale
H. O. Weaver
Max Stone
Public Service Company
Harvey, Ill
George Stone
F. G. Wright
Charles
Paris
Marylee
Mary Bowman
Thomas Morgan
Louisa Center
John Wirth
Chal Elliott
Verlee Harris
Porter Wickhart
Burr Harris
Tom Baird
Newport
Donald Pogemiller
Wilton Masons
Charles A. Hacke
The
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Lone Tree
Grace Reformed Church
J. M. Newgard
A. T. Nelson
Bernice
Jane
William
Plainfield
Thomas Perry Nelson
Beryl Grings
J. W. Lenker
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Edwins. Raynor
Don M. Hoover
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