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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1939
Page
4
Emmet County Music Festival will be held Friday May 12 at the local Methodist Episcopal church replacing the annual boys and girls institute. All fourth graders and older expected to sing choir songs while younger children perform primary songs. Solos duets trios quartets and choruses from many schools plus instrument selections welcomed.
The American Legion Auxiliary of Estherville invites Emmet County schools to enter a two class Poppy Poster Contest for grades four to six and seven to eight. Prizes of 1.50 and 1.00 awarded per class, with first prize entries advancing to district. posters must include American Legion branding, feature red Flanders poppy, and avoid the U.S. flag. Posters due May 8 and judged on appeal, artistry, originality, and neatness.
Britt hosts the annual junior college music festival with entrants from Mason City Waldorf and Britt Estherville group departs at 8 am to perform before critic Prof Paul MacCollin at 1 pm The boys and girls glee clubs and mixed octet present their selections Miss Burnette Thompson is local music director Accompanying the groups are Dean N E Dempney List of participants includes Lavonne Anderson Mary Barrett Marjorie Dow Betty Duffy Louise Fouts Dorothy Grimm Kathryn Haywood Doris Hollenbeck Janice Thlan Ruth Jackson Ethyl Jansen Margaret Jones Vivian Jub Isabel Paul Phyllis Robinson Florence Schildknecht Evelyn Sunde Alte Thorsland
Estherville's Northwestern Bell Telephone Company will hold an Open House at the local central office on May 4, 5 and 6. Hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily with guides showing operating rooms, business office and equipment. The event features a See Your Telephone Voice demonstration of central office gear and functions.
Lad and Boy two Springer Spaniel dogs owned by James Stillman left home for a day in the country. Lad returned at night. Boy vanished and was thought missing. C P Stow on a freight trip to Ceylon reported seeing Boy caught in a wire fence near the viaduct. He alerted Stillman. Boy had only an injured foot and was unharmed.
Estherville police captured George Thomas after three years sought as a bootlegger, watching him hide bottles near a fence row. He handed a bottle to a party at his home, then attempted to break a bottle when confronted. Federal charges followed for changing liquor from one brand to another. he was taken to Mason City, previously fined $100 in 1936 and released from district court.
Alvin Stueland, 20, was arrested around 10:30 last night for unknown charges as reported in a garbled police notice. The fragment provides few verifiable details beyond the name and time.
A novel and highly interesting lighting facilities program was presented Wednesday night at the annual boys and girls 4-H club banquet in the Armstrong Methodist church. A large group of 4-H members attended as toastmasters and guests. Invocation by Rev J S Hutchings opened the event. Darlene Logan and Glenn Groth sang solos, with group singing led by Mrs T C Burton. Toasts centered on the REA lighting theme with Delman DeVoss, Virginia Voetmann, Lester Rosenberg, and Verna McKean delivering talks on Poles, Lines, Transformers, and Meters respectively.
A Spirit Lake grand jury returned two indictments against Gail Manley and one against Roy Barnes for burglary after a cottage breaking wave near Arnolds Park. Louis Jenkins Jr and Francis Hawn face upcoming grand jury action. Harlan Kiltz and James Crawford pleaded guilty and remain jailed as the Spirit Lake jail runs at capacity. Virginia Bedell, county attorney, led the filing with aid from H. E. Narey of Spirit Lake.
Fire started in the basement of the Clarence Ingvall farm Sunday morning and could not be extinguished. The blaze burned the structure to the ground after the fire department was misdirected to the J D Ingvall farm due to a call error. Noe Cummings of Spencer was undoubtably injured.
Schultz and Clark real estate and insurance men, located over the Rexall Drug Store, have purchased the insurance and real estate business. H J Bongney will take over his books in May, with related candor for the transfer.
Floyd Brady was sentenced after a Saturday night incident at Mrs L. J. Nipher Justice of the Peace Court. He was fined 100 dollars and costs, and when unable to pay, sentenced to 30 days in jail.
County Auditor Gladys M. Bringle notifies presidents and secretaries of Emmet County Iowa school districts to send representatives to a May 9 1939 convention at the county courthouse. The meeting will elect a County Superintendent and three members of the County Board of Education with representation by district presidents or alternates per law.
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