Essay Contest Promotes Civic Crime Discussion In Laurens
Laurens and area teachers sponsored a state essay contest on crime with 100 percent school participation. Winners were Miss Ruby Ljungren Pocahontas first, Elinor Brokaw Pocahontas second, Merrill Knotts Laurens third, and Randolph Carlson Laurens fourth. Ljungren argued crime trends, noting 1910 prison counts and England’s lower crime rate due to its prison system.
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Eldo G. Reid
Laurens
Ruby Ljungren
Pocahontas
United States
England
Solomon
America
Ellwood
Ross
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Lutherans Launch Forest City Endowment Drive
Forest City Iowa begins a campaign to raise funds for Waldorf college endowment. A 127-member volunteer team organizes the drive, with gifts totaling 10 500 from twelve residents reported at the opening dinner attended by 123 workers.
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Forest City
Iowa
Waldorf College
Oscar A. Larson
Red Cross
L. W. Roe
St. Olaf College
Waldorf
H. C. Holm
Eagle Grove
Selmer A. Berge
Fort Dodge
Endowment Appeal
C. B. Helgen
Alumni speakers rally support for Waldorf appeal
St Olaf College and figures Dr. Martin Hegland Rev Lester A Pierson and Rev O L N Wigdahl head a donor drive. More than 1 700 Waldorf alumni and former students in Iowa and southern Minnesota back the appeal with a 15 member committee.
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St. Olaf College
Martin Hegland
St. Olaf
Lester A. Pierson
Ames
O. L. N. Wigdahl
Mason City
Waldorf College
Iowa
Minnesota
Detours Planned For Fort Dodge via Primary No 16
Highways officials announce closures for several months as grading and paving proceed on Primary No 16 into Fort Dodge. Culverts go in north of the city while Lundgren Reis Co begins wrecking the Badger bridge over the Des Moines River for a $40,000 replacement. Travelers are routed east from Badger Corner into Badger then south to the city, turning west at Twenty second Street and proceeding along Fifteenth Street to Second Avenue.
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Ft. Dodge
Fort Dodge
Lundgren-Reis Co
Des Moines
Badger
Badger Corner
City
Fifteenth Street
Second Avenue
Laurens Library Reports Busy Year of Lending Growth
In a yearly report city librarian Edna G. Coffin notes Laurens public library loaned 11,601 books in the past year, with daily circulation peaking at 258 and 346 new books added. A statue of Andrew Carnegie, the library’s benefactor, was also erected.
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Edna G. Coffin
Laurens Public Library
Andrew Carnegie
Byron Green Escapes From Palo Alto Jail
Byron Green and Steil escaped from the Palo Alto county jail in Emmetsburg by prying open an iron gate and climbing from a window. They have not been located. Green's brother Boyd left Emmetsburg at the same time. Speed Hines, implicated in the hijacking, has not yet been apprehended.
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Byron Green
Estherville
Steil
Palo Alto County
Emmetsburg
Green
Boyd
Speed Hines
Gilchrist for Congress Highlighted by Farm Legislation Record
Editorial praises Senator Fred C. Gilchrist of Laurens for a farm oriented legislative record in Iowa. It notes laws on farm warehouse loans, butter product standards, single county senatorial representation, crop pest control, state agriculture department creation, dairy product safeguards, farm program funding, and poultry disease research. The piece urges voters to choose the candidate with a proven record over unknown rivals.
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Congress
The
Algona Advance
Iowa
Gilchrist
Senate
State Department of Agriculture
Ames College
House
Fred C. Gilchrist
Otf Laurens
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M. W. Linnan
W. J. IM. Evans
B. W. Allen
Pocahontas County
Baghate
J.T. Grant Rolfe
Laurens Library
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Congress Club
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C. A. Carlson
Sherwin
Williams Paint Headquarters
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Ster
Webb’s
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