Renwick High Pupils Win State Music Championship Trophy
Renwick high school music pupils won the state championship trophy at Britt in a 13-event contest. The orchestra and the senior string group, plus Dale Peterson, earned Superior ratings, with Excellent by girls glee club and mixed choir. The school earned top overall rankings and will send representatives to a pre state contest at Ames.
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Renwick High School
Atate High School
Brittoat
Wriduy Ud
T Heemail
Satol4t
Dale Peterson
Ndorea Blesie
Lois Suxton
Vaulda Martin
Moise Packard
Writte Garmen
Renwick
Amoss
Ames
Retty Beenen
Soprang
Bernard Anderson
Paul Gopedall
Kololat
Ivan Maurer
Renwickigh School
Iown City
Britt
County Spelling Contest At Humboldt April 6th
The annual Humboldt county spelling contest will be held Saturday afternoon at the Humboldt high school auditorium. The event is open to the public with no admission. Each town and rural school enters a contestant. Heten Stupka will represent Renwick. The county winner goes to Des Moines for the state contest, with the state champion earning a trip to Washington, D. C. for the national spelling championship.
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Humboldt County
Humboldt High School
Heten Stupka
Renwick
Des Moines
Washington, D. C
Five Damages House At J. H. Haas Farm
The house on the J. H. Haas farm near Renwick occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Gillespie burned Saturday afternoon. Officials suspect a defective line caused the blaze. firemen and neighbors saved most belongings. Building damage about $1,000 covered by insurance.
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D. A. Haas
Carroll Gillespie
Renwick
Gillespie
Next Community Meeting Friday Evening April 5
The next community meeting will be held at the schoolhouse on Friday evening April. The program includes Community Singing Avocation Rev. A Hurley Vocal Group Pima Solo Marianne Wilson Talk Vocational Guidance Minetion of the School Supt A B Evang LaVerne Music Duet The Renwick High School seniors host a party at the school house Friday evening from 7 30 to 10 6 Sponsor Miss Ech e Lindaay
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D. J. Christenson
A. Hurley
Pima Solo
Marianne Wilson
Schaal
A.B. Evang
LaVerne Music
Voral
Renwick High Schaal
Schaalhouse
Misa E¢he
Making New Boone River Channel for New Bridge
A construction company began digging a new channel two miles west of Goldfield to straighten the Boone River. A new bridge is under construction and concrete work progresses while roads are realigned with Highway No. 10 routing south of the present route. A large five yard truck plunged into the old river channel but the driver was thrown clear and escaped injury.
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Tea
Boone River
Goldfield
Former Renwick Girl Married in Des Moines
Misa Caralyn Carter daughter of Mrs. Emily Carter of Renwick and Gleon A. Marsden of none were married at 11 o'clock last Saturday morning March 23 at the Universi ty Church of Christ in Des Moines Mrs. Marsden was born and raised in Renwick and later attended Renwick high school then moved to Ames with the family where she continued her education For the basic two years she has been employed as a stenographer in Des Moines Mr. Marsden is a student at Ames They will make their home in Des Moines.
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Misa Caralyn Carter
Emily Carter
Renwick
Gleon A. Marsden
University Church of Christ
Des Moines
Vernon Township First in Home Project Work
Vernon township shines in a Humboldt county home project exhibit scoring 395 of 400 as residents gather to view projects. Local notices report residents returning from medical trips, a birthday celebration at a high school event, and a dog bite incident. A Renwick housing shortage is noted with families moving to nearby towns seeking rental-ready homes despite available sites and cash.
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Vernon Township
Humboldt County
Oma
Humboldt
Renwick-thin
Remick
Twenty-One Years Ago Items from Renwick Times
Items from the Renwick Times dated March 26, 1914 note Rev. J. M. Krafft’s upcoming conference in Dysart, visits by Mrs. Roy Stevens and baby in Fairfield, an April Fool basket social planned at Heckwith’s hall, and barber shop sale to Packard Bros. with a transfer of an electric light plant. Also mentioned are the Anderson corn sheller’s winter total of over 70,000 bushels, Bertha Smith’s return from Nevada, two carloads of high grade horses shipped by Vallesen and Leonard, Peter Halfen trading hotel property for an electric plant, The Dear Boy program at the Evangelical church, a Sunday school talent show, a baseball meeting to form a home talent play, and the marriage of Elizabeth Larson and Frank B. Anderson with residence east of LaVernes.
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Mra
Roy Stevens
Baby
Fairfield
Mrs. Church
Heckwith’s Hall
Vallesen
Leonard
Renwick
Peter Halfen
Nebraska
W. N. Smith
Evangelical Church
Alma
Geigel
Hilda Black
M. Jenkins
C. A. Richardson
Qarl Phipps
Clark Nicholson
Elizabeth Larson
Anderson
Morten Larson
J. 8. Nicholson
Goldfield
George Larson
LaVernes
Grow Flax in Place of Oats in Iowa This Year
Iowa State College farm cropsmen urge farmers to sow flax this spring. Flax resists chinch bugs and serves well as a nurse crop for legumes. it yields more per acre than oats and fits standard equipment. Wilt resistant varieties reduce disease, but flax does not suppress weeds. best on heavy soils after clean corn. Jim and Mikey Burnett moved to Fort Dodge to rent nearby farmland this year.
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Iowa
Iowa State College
Renwick Times historical masthead notice
The Renwick Times lists publication details from 1824 and notes edition on Thursdays. It records W. Miller as printer and indicates post office entry and subscription rate of two dollars per year.
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Renwick
Do W. Miller
Party splits loom as 1936 race nears askew third party
The piece projects a possible third party in 1936 led by Huey Long or others on the left, exploring its impact on Roosevelt, and the chances of realignment between Republicans and Democrats amid unemployment and stalled recovery. It notes Roosevelt’s slipping support, the recovery program’s failings, and warnings from General Johnson about democracy fading toward dictatorship.
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Huey Long
Father Coughlin
Roosevelt
Lafollette
Pooh-Pooh
Johnson
Long
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Renwick Savings Bank
Farm Loans and Insurance
Renwick, Iowa
Hubbard
Sargent
Tarmers Co-operative Co
L. Peterson
Mer
McGowan Grocery
Invention Pictures
Jiksaw
Aodel
OPU
Pechai
AL Nics
Popular Mechanics
Ordap
Omari
St Dept
Chirage
Nas
Humboldt Rendering Works
Renwick H
J. H. Haas Farm
A.W. Trumme
Excelsior Springs
August Hoffman
Davenport
Mr. Hoffman
Jaminy' Gimner
Laren Kelling
Roscall
Laura Hippen
Keeper of the
Gene Stratton Porter
Renlah
Maine Yanney
Renwick Times
J. M. Krafft
Dysart
Wi. M. Wright
Packard Bros
H. WL. Peahl
Ceylon
Minn
Bertha Smith
Nevada
Jim
Mikey Burnett
Fort Dodge
Waa
Yaviova
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