Hide Article Text (OCR)
; ‘ . v ' V. ' - •With Which Is Consolidated The Hawarden Chronicle■SHAWARDEN, SIOUX COUNTY, IOWA, JULY 15, 1948FOURTEEN PAGESNo. 23Per Cents Tax Levy of 21.10 MillsTo Take EffectEagles to Play Akron in GameAt HawardenTraditional Struggle Between - Rival Baseball Clubs to Spotlight' This Week’s Program on the Diamond .Swimtning Pool “Safe, Sanitary”Charles Keehn,In what traditionally is one of the main features of the baseball season, Hawarden will encounter Akron under the Hawarden floodlights Sunday night. .Last year the two teams played five times with Akron taking the .odd tilt. Sunday night the Eagles will he trying to even the score with Akron for this year,• In an - important Border-Nit’e . League game here last night/ the Eagles lost 10 to 7 to give Yankton . first place in loop standings. Hawarden now is behind both Vermillion and Elk Point. 4 Tomorrow night Hawarden will travel to Spencer for a return encounter with the team which Hawarden defeated here recently.Next Wednesday night the Eagles will be hosts to the strong aggregation from Rock Valley. The Eagles will travel to Vermillion Thursday, JulyDue to baseball trips, the summer recreation program's 3 o'clock bus service to the north swimming pool will beTdiscontinued on Fridays only, Director Aaron Linn announced today.%All other trips—twice each afternoon—will continue as scheduled, Mr. Linn said.Contrary to rumors, Mr, Linn said he had been informed by local physicians that there is no infantile paralysis in or near Hawarden and that the north pit is both safe and sanitary.Pioneer of Iowa,With September Bills from CityDies at Age 79Funeral Services To Be Held At 2;3G This Afternoon In Baptist Church of HawardenHawarden ToParticipate In Auto Caravan22.theUp to last night's encounter Eagles had won -10 and lost five encounters.Kingsley overcame the 'Eagles on the Hawarden diamond, 6 to 1, last Sunday. The exceptionally strong visiting team never was in clanger of being defeated.Last Thursday the Eagles boosted their league standing by whipping Beresford, 12 to 9, at Befesford.'*. •Thk superior pitching of Thayne Bowden, former Hawarden mounds-man, was too much for the Eagles last Friday when Ireton invaded the local■fiftlH fn ron mif a Q fn 1 mVfAr\rResidents From Here, Sioux City And Other Towns to Hear Explanation of Ft. RandaH Dam'Residents of the Hawarden vicinity will join a caravan of automobiles from Sioux City on July 22 with the Ft. Randall dam project at Pickstown, •S. D., as the destination.As the caravan proceeds through Elk Point and Vermillion, S. D., it will pick up other cars. The purpose of the trip is to give persons in this area an opportunity to get acquainted with the Ft. Randall project.The Hawarden Chamber of Commerce will form a local caravan that will meet the Sioux City unit of the Pickstown caravan at the junction of Highway 77 and Highway 50 east of Vermillion. To make connections, tho local caravan must be at the junction by 9^a. m. on July 22.Anyone in the Hawarden territory interested in joining the group may contact Harry Lankhorst, president of the Chamber of Commerce, or CharlesTl iC ^ K iv .. ra n nnnvinf n mr T f nChas. Keehn, 79, a pioneer of Plymouth county and a resident of Sioux county for 53 years, died at his farm home four miles north of Hawarden about 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.While Mr. Keehn had been in frail health for some time, he had been in Hawarden Monday afternoon. While here he suffered a heart attack at the Ward Lumber company office. He was removed to his home in an ambulance.Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Baptist church at 2:30 with Rev. Leon Nelson in charge. Burial will be in Hawarden.Charles Keehn, son of Joseph and Catherine Mockler Keehn, was born at Freeport, 111., August 11, 1868, and was the third child of seven.When a youth of 13 he came west with his parents, locating at Le Mars. He came to this vicinity 53 years ago and for 13 years he lived southeast of Hawarden. In 1908 he moved onto a farm four miles north of Hawarden where he had lived for 40 years.In 1897 he married Miss Mary Ford of Galena, III., and to this union were ibom three sons. She died January 10, 1917.He married Mrs. Faith GiJten of Hawarden December 3, 1918.Survivors include his widow; three sons, Ray, Robert and Lee Keehn, of this vicinity; a sister and 'brother, Miss Mary and John Keehn of Hawarden; seven grandchildren and’ three great grandchildren. Thomas, Joe, Katherine and Henry Keehn, three brothers and a sister, preceded him in death.Higher Cost of Operation Plus Necessity to Pay Off Light Plant Bonds Cited for Action By CouncilA 12 per cent increase in^muni-cipal electric and water rates was voted at a special meeting of the Hawarden city council Monday night.The increased rates will go into effect during the August meter readings and will first show up on bills to be paid September 1.Higher cost of fuel oil, which is up about 300 per cent since 1943 and has almost doubled since the start of 1945, and the increased cost of labor, which is approximately 50 per cent more than it was in 1945, were cited as reasons for the jump in prices. Freight rates on oil are up 20 per cent. Repair and maintenance costs are higher.Plant Profits DownThe city is obligated to pay off $11,900 plus interest anually in light plant bonds. Monday night City Clerk Elmer Bricson produced figures to show that in the last nine months the light plant has had a profit of leas than $1,000. However, there are sufficient bond retirement funds on hand to take care of the payment due September 1.Losses of $400 for October, November and December and $136 for January, February and March were reported. The next three months of April, May and June showed a profit of $1,527.'It k the second time in two years that the city has increasedthe rates for water and electricity. In September, 1946, another council increased the rates 10 per ...cent, and predicted that they would have to go higher unless costs of operation declined sharp- tly. •The new electric and water rates
Newspaper Details
Hawarden Independent
Hawarden, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 15, 1948
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Marsha B.
NA, 30 May 2018
Other Publications Near Hawarden, Iowa
Independent
Hawarden Independent
