Highway Bill Passes Both Houses With Amendment
Representatives Saunders and Patterson pushed an amendment to empower the state to condemn property or materials for road building including cement. The House invited Fred White, Ames state engineer, to explain the bill and fielded many questions as sponsors and critics debated provisions.
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Saunders
Palo Alto
Patterson
Kossuth
Friends
Fred White
House
Ames
Section Fourteen Under Fire In Iowa Legislature
Section fourteen of the bill attacking bonds from motor vehicle fees and gas tax is under fire in both houses. Senators Gilchist and Patterson seek amendments to specify bonds would be from these sources and pass tests. Senator Fulton offers a facetious resolution urging adding ping pong and poker to university coaching staff with high sport salaries cited.
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Iowa Supreme Court
Senate
Gilchist
Pocahontas
Patterson
Kossuth
Miking
Carroll
Justice Shail
Lagenue
Charles J. Fulton
Fairfield
House
State ‘Board of Control
State University of Iowa
Fulton
State ‘Board of Education
Ity
Department of Physical Education
Weil
Gasoline Tax Hike Bill Introduced in Senate
Senator Browne of Jackson county introduced a bill Friday to raise the gasoline tax to four cents a gallon, advancing one cent over the present law. He secured two-thirds consent for introduction, though objections about germane relation to the road bond proposal were overruled by President Kimball and the amendment was voted down.
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Browne
Jackson County
Senate
Kimball
Governor Hammill Urges Bond Issue Submission to People
Governor Hammill addresses a special session urging the bond issue be put to a public vote. He argues transportation must grow with the state and trusts the people to express their wishes on public questions with a sacred ballot. He praises the voters of Town for their judgment and patriotism.
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Hammill
General ‘Assembly
Question on statewide road improvement program urged
A special session invites legislators to submit to the voters a statewide road improvement program. The speaker emphasizes it is the people's problem and urges that the people, not officials, rule on the decision. The call stresses broad interest and the need for voter input.
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Iit
Vitaly
County Road Improvement Program Defeated in House
The House debated Knudson of Hamilton amendment to divert $3,000,000 annually from the primary road fund to secondary roads maintenance. The proposal was defeated 50 to 56 after striking the original county distribution and adopting a pro rate plan based on relative road construction costs across counties.
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Knudson
Hamilton
Jesus of Nazareth at Orpheum This Weekend
Next Friday and Saturday, March 16 and 17, the Orpheum There wall show Jesus of Nazareth dramatizes the life of Jesus from the Betrothal of Mary and Joseph to the Ascension. Endorsed by ministers of all denominations and presented under the Catholic Daughters of America.
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Jesus OF Nazareth
Orpheum
God
Jesus
Marginal Joseph
Catholic Daughters of America
Local News Briefs From Cedar Rape Area
Twenty years ago D A McKellar attended a telephone convention in Cedar Rape while HAH M Corwin returned from Chicago with four carloads of sheep. Numerous visits and illnesses are noted, including Bert Starr needing surgery for acute appendicitis and the Bryant family battling mumps. The item mentions community members traveling to Hull Hartley Sioux Falls Ruthven Edgerton and Des Moines with various receptions and a family medical crisis.
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D. A. McKellar
M.corwin
Chicago
Kathryn Hogar
Hull
Bac
M. J. Quinn
Bert Starr
Hazel Minard
Hartley
G Bryant
Bryant
Miss Hazel
James Hogan
M. A. Streit
Ashton
H. Schemmer
Ted Handy
Hawarden
Hamilton
Ray Kessman
H. Hulshof
Sioux Falls
Edgerton
Minn
Nick Kooiman
Holland
James Walpole
Sioux City
Interstate Breeders’ Association
Beng
Splear
Mr. Splear
Sam
Henry
Plumbe
Bank Condition Reports From Rock Valley Iowa 1928
Two banks in Rock Valley Iowa file condition reports for February 28 1928. First National Bank shows loans and discounts 373983.52, deposits and reserves totaling 543714.39. State Bank of Rock Valley lists resources 477909.50 and liabilities 417080.55 with capital 55000. Notarized attestations by cashiers and directors dated March 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank of Rock Valley
Rock Valley
Iowa
U.S
Federal Reserve Bank
U. S
State Bank of
Sioux
A. D
State of
County of
Ossi
A. Walhol
C. Rozeboom
Solmenly
C. A. Walhof
Ossiee
Local Land Loans Offered by Scanlan and Son
D J Scanlan and Son advertise land loans up to 106 dollars per acre on good improved land for three to ten years at a low rate. Private money is available as well. If you need a loan, see them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. J. Scanlan & Son
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0.A. Monson
Council Oaks
Nebraska
South Dakota
Monson
Tbs
Buick
Hanson's
Inwood
Sheldon Auto CO
Sheldon
Adolph Riedesel
Big Rock
The
Davenport Times
Sorbol Company
Mechanicsburg
Ohio
Pembers Drug Store
Doon, Iowa
ACME
John Vander Poel
Koster’s
Totat
I. Frank A. Large
Frank A Large
Evelyn Landschulte
I &. Large
McGill Grace J. Large
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