Pythians Plan for Big Outing at Blackhawk Park
The sixth district Knights of Pythias plan a district picnic for August 6 at Blackhawk State Park in Rock Island. Delegations from eastern Iowa and western Illinois will meet in Davenport and travel in a police escorted caravan to the park. Activities include kittenball, races, tug of war, and various sports with prizes, plus a noon basket lunch.
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Blackhawk State Park
Rock Island
Bureau of the Knights of Pythias
Durant
Iowa
Illinois
Davenport
Muscatine
Edward Weber
C. M. Mason
Leo Paulsen
Tigris Temple No
Wyoming Lodge No
Mulford Will Not Probated Administratrix Appointed
Miss Ella E Mulford was named administratrix of her sister Alice Mulford estate after a probate refusal. The will was not admitted because it was not properly attested or witnessed. Bond of $1000 filed to qualify. Alice Mulford died June 10, document drawn in Miss Mulford handwriting and not witnessed.
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Ella E. Mulford
Alice Mulford
Miss Mulford
D. W. Jackson
Joint Meeting of Supervisors Sets Refinancing Plan
Members of Muscatine and Louisa counties boards in a joint session as drainage district No 13 discussed refinancing the district debt with federal aid. Engineer C H Young was tasked to prepare data for the RFC refinancing proposal while claims were settled. Howard Farnsworth argued for improvements at Michael Creek.
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Boards of Supervisors
Muscatine
Louisa Counties
C. H. Young
Young
Howard Farnsworth
Michael Creek
Summer News From Muscatine Reflects Community Life
Local residents and visitors are noted in Muscatine with travel plans and family news. Mrs Edna L Jones and son Jun ior from Minneapolis visit relatives. Miss Harriet Fellmer heads to Boston. Lelia Lintner recovers from appendectomy at Hershey hospital. Births, hospital admissions, vacations, and events at the Y M C A Beacon City fair, Four H camp planning, and the World’s Fair in Chicago are reported along with local sales contest winner Carleton Mull and other community notes. Hog receipts rise to 514 head. Dr N M Percy performs operations at Hershey hospital. animal dyes affect chicken plumage. London Zoo reports long-lived animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna L. Jones
Minneapolis
Lydia Vanatta
Chestnut Street
Alice Cassabaun
Columbus Junction
Bellevue Hospital
Elsie Smith
Moscow
Robert Houtz
Burlington
Lawrence Hoffman
Park Avenue
Sidney H. Pipe
Gordon
Toronto
Canada
E. J. Zeidler
West Sixth Street
L. A. Berg
West Fulham Avenue
Chicago
Milwaukee
Ted Brockway
Maple Grove Road
Imogene Conley
West Fourth Street
Louise Havemann
Oregon Street
Carleton M. Mull
Yakima, Wash
Muscatine
Beloit
Wis
Mull
Farm Bureau Girls’ Club Committee
Rotary Lodge
N. M. Percy
Hershey Hospital
Bituminous Coal Code Adopted by Regional Operators
A conference of bituminous coal operators from 14 states and United Mine Workers officials completed a code of fair competition. It calls for a basic wage of 5 dollars a day and leaves the maximum hours to be settled at a later conference. The code, adopted unanimously, will be handed to Hugh S. Johnson, industrial recovery administrator, as a report. A group of Iowa operators led by Sam Ballentyne walked out before the final vote over the wage scale.
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Washington
United Mine Workers of America
Hugh S. Johnson
Johnson
George Harrington
Chicago
Iowa
Sam Ballentyne
Ballentyne
Narvis Named on C M T C Staff for Service This Year
Narvis named to the Citizens' Military Training Camp staff at Fort Des Moines in August. He holds major rank in the officers' reserve corps and is attached to the 338th field artillery. Attendance may depend on business duties. Other staff include one lieutenant colonel two majors and four second lieutenants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens’ Military
Fort Des Moines
C. Stewart Narvis
Record Printing Company
Narvis
Officers’ Reserve Corps
338Th Field Artillery
Scattered Showers Forecast for Iowa Weather
Unsettled conditions expected with scattered showers tonight and likely Friday in south central and extreme east Iowa. A temperature drop is seen Friday with cooler readings in northwest and northeast areas. 7 am temp at 74 degrees, down 4 degrees from Wednesday. Mississippi River level at 7 am measured 4.2 feet, down 0.5 foot since Wednesday.
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State Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Former Muscatine Sailor Retires After 20 Years Service
Pee Milton Geltz, once a Muscatine resident, has completed 20 years in the Navy chiefly on submarines. He earned a steam torpedoes course and served as a deep sea diver, retiring as chief torpedoman. He trained at Hampton Roads and was discharged from the receiving ship Boston. He plans to live in Fall River Massachusetts with his wife and two children and holds a clean service record.
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Milton Geltz
Muscatine
Navy
Fall River
Mass
Mr. Geltz
Getz
Hampton Roads
Boston
Military Honors For Former Iowan At Rites
Military honors were accorded Col. Roche Mentzer 46 former Iowan who died Monday in Wyoming at his funeral in Des Moines. Mentzer formerly lived in Pleasantville and Knoxville Iowa and enlisted in the Iowa National Guard in Knoxville in 1904. His company D of the 55th Infantry was disbanded in 1914 and he had become a captain. Mentzer died while on field maneuvers with the Wyoming guard.
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Des Moines
Roche Mentzer
Wyoming
Mentzer
Pleasantville
Knoxville
Iowa National Guard
55Th Infantry
Wyoming Guard
Ross Rites Held at Grave
Funeral services for Silas E. Ross were held at the grave in Montpelier cemetery at 10 a m burial followed. Pallbearers were Paul Wright George Goodall George Franklin Charles Fridley and Jacob Sanders. He had been an inmate of the county home since April 24 1921 and is survived by four children Ernest Clarence Virgil and Kenneth Ross and Mrs William Ward all of Muscatine one brother William Ross and four sisters Mrs William Sprague Mrs William Estabrook Montpelier Mrs H F Wright Fruitland and Mrs Liebbe of Gilbraith Ark.
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Silas E. Ross
Montpelier
Paul Wright
George Goodall
George Franklin
Charles Fridley
Jacob Sanders
Ross
Robert Ross
Ernest
Clarence
Virgil
Kenneth Ross
William Ward
Muscatine
William Ross
William Sprague
William Estabrook
H. F. Wright
Fruitland
Liebbe
Gilbraith
Ark
Governor Herring to join Sac and Fox tribe at Tama
Des Moines reports Governor Herring will become the first white member of the Sac and Fox at the Tama reservation. He accepted an invitation to a pow wow on August 20 for initiatory ceremonies.
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Des Moines
Herring
Tama Reservation
State Council Can Hold Clark Hearing
Des Moines reports the attorney general says the state executive council has authority to conduct a hearing of a complaint against State Insurance Commissioner Clark. If substantiated, the council may remove him. The complaint, filed by an out of state stock holder in Royal Union Life Insurance now in receivership, alleges Clark knew of insolvency months before a temporary receiver was appointed. Clark is co receiver of Royal Union with L A Andrew, former state banking superintendent.
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State Council
Clark
Des Moines
State Executive Council
Executive Council
Royal Union Life Insurance Company
The
Royal Union
L. A. Andrew
Milwaukee Man Injured In Highway 20 Crash
George C. Lange, 54, Milwaukee, was in St. Francis hospital after an afternoon crash on highway 20 eleven miles east of here suffering shock and head bruises. He said he picked up a hitchhiker before the accident and his pocketbook containing 141 dollars was missing.
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Waterloo
George C. Lange
Milwaukee
St. Francis Hospital
Highway 20
Miss Robinson Advances in Iowa Woman's Golf Tourney
Des Moines player Lucile Robinson moved into the semifinals at Sunnyside Country Club by defeating Des Moines resident Mrs Victor Shewbert 4 and 3. Defending champion Robinson will face Waterloo's Mrs Herb Mucha in the semis on Friday.
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Sunnyside Country Club
Waterloo
Lucile Robinson
Des Moines
Iowa
Victor Shewbert
Miss Robinson
Herb Mucha
Shewbert
Mucha
Home Guards
Edith Estabrook
Dubuque
Miss Estabrook
Betty MacPeak
Mason City
Mildred Gallmeier
Mrs. Shewbert
Des Moines Youth Found in Jungles Near Minneapolis
Robert Beckham, 14, from Des Moines, was found in Minneapolis in the Jungles with hoboes. He said he left Des Moines to find an aunt in Newton Iowa, but rode trains after older boys taunted him and now awaits pick up by a guardian or relative.
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Minneapolis
Robert Beckham
Des Moines
Jungles
Beckham
Newton
U S Court Costs at Des Moines Fall in Fiscal Year
The U S marshal's office reports Des Moines federal court operations cost $21,577 less in the year ending June 30 than the previous year. Total expenditure was $116,134 versus $137,711 for 1931 32, with pay cuts among the savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
United States Marshall’s Office
Physical Training Talked at Congo Des Moines program discussed
Louis E. Hutto of Des Moines urged that elementary physical education is crucial for emotional and temperamental control and learning efficiency. A rural program drafted at the request of Miss Agnes Samuelson will be tested next school year at the eleventh Iowa county school superintendents conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutto
Agnes Samuelson
D W. Morehouse
Drake University
C. B. Murtagh
Jessie M. Parker
Clara M. Wallace
F. L. Mahannah
R. C. Williams
State Department of Education
W. Earl Hall
Mason City
Iowa
American Legion
Legion
E. S. Baird
Iowa State College
Edsel Ford Angles as Possible Mediator in Detroit Bank Standoff
Detroit bankers and officials consider Edsel Ford a potential broker as Washington huddle aims to unlock the bank reopening crisis. Judge Keidan adjourns after Ford, Longley, and Emory Clark discuss a hoped for government solution as First National and Guardian National await federal decision.
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Detroit
Washington
Edsel Ford
Michigan
Harry B. Keidan
Ford
Clifford B. Longley
Union Guardian Trust Company
Emory Clark
First National Bank
Guardian National Bank of Commerce
First National
Guardian National
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East Second Street
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Sac and Fox Brave
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O. A. Hammer
Frank Drake
John Hall
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Joe Broad
A. J. Altekruse
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Frank Albert
D Carl
C. Schmarje
Henry Christopherson
Henry Kath
A. A. Johnson
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Uniya
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U.S
Congo
Joan of Arc
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