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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1939
Page
2
The Vindicator and Republican publishing company lists editors G A Nichols Adelaide Nichols and W E Deming with advertising manager duties. It notes post office entry in Etherville Iowa and subscription rates for zones One and Two at two dollars per year and other zones at two fifty.
Miss Marie Sorum county superintendent lists Emmet county teachers for the 1939 40 school year. Names cover Estherville Armstrong Ringsted Graettinger Dolliver Wallingford Ruthven Terril and other communities with many instructors from Estherville and surrounding townships.
Spirit Lake voters will go to the polls Thursday to decide if People’s Natural Gas Company of Omaha may lay pipes in Spirit Lake streets and alleys to build a distributing system. The council had voted no to a special election, but the company circulated a petition to call one, aiming to let all voters express their views on the issue.
Estherville Packing Plant led with 64 calves bought for 5693.89 followed by Decker & Sons 22 at 1713.19 and Wilson & Co 17 at 1259.55. Hormel Packing Co paid 894.47 for 12 calves. total sale 10117.69 with 9c average and 7c low. Grand champion litter and market litter won by Estherville Auction Co along with grand champion hog.
Planned school opening events span Sept to May at Sibley and region. Football schedules, J C visits, homecomings, concerts, plays, exams, and graduation activities are noted with partner towns Wartburg Spencer Emmetsburg Storm Lake Mason City and Waldorf among others.
The 1939 Labor Day free acts will feature ten afternoon and twelve evening performances of Visions of 1940. The night program climaxes with a dramatization of the Star Spangled Banner, including a large star shell and flag reveal on a parachute. Preparations for Labor Day near completion in Graettinger Times.
A late 1930s Emmet County docket lists multiple cases including quieting title actions such as Schildknecht versus Johnson and Hopkins families, several divorces like Stoddard versus Stoddard and Norell versus Norell, and criminal matters State of Iowa versus Hughes and Webb. Six divorce actions are set for this term. details include marriage dates, custody requests, and alimony notes. One note mentions a college fetch for money via a wire.
The government will buy steel bins with a 50 million bushel capacity to store corn as part of the Ever Normal Granary program. Nels G. Christiansen says storage space plus farmer and elevator additions will create an adequate national reserve. Corn under loan in 1933 totaled 271 million bushels, but drought in 1934 showed this was insufficient. Storage carries a 6 cent per bushel allowance to encourage resealing while title remains with farmers or local elevators.
Mr and Mrs Palner Frettem returned from a northern Wisconsin Minnesota vacation with Mrs Thomas Mann joining Dr Mann in Sioux City for the Legion State Convention. Several families including the Burns and Kuebrick gathered in Emmetsburg and Estherville while fishing trips, home visits, and farm life updates tie a day of social travel together with relatives and friends.
Congressman Fred C. Gilchrist of Laurens endorses the defense scheme to position Puerto Rico as a Gibraltar for guarding the Panama Canal and Monroe Doctrine. He praises Admiral William D. Leahy to oversee construction and cites economic relief possibilities for the island amid unemployment and sugar policy friction.
This week of September 10 is Rural Mail Box Improvement Week to urge rural delivery patrons to provide sturdy boxes, inscribe names facing the carrier, keep boxes painted, and ensure weather protection. Carriers will report compliance. Boxes lacking doors lids flags or names or in leaks will fail inspection. Iowa rural carriers served nearly 342 thousand homes and 949 thousand patrons daily, traveling about 65 thousand miles. US rural carriers numbered 32,761 on June 30 1939, traveling over 1.38 million miles daily and serving about 30 million people daily.
Editor J F Temple, 74, longtime head of the Bode Eagle and former mayor, died after a short illness. Funeral services were held in Humboldt with interment in Bode. He published the Bode Bugle for 23 years and was active in civic affairs and the Masonic lodge. He leaves a widow and relatives in Massachusetts.
Miss Ethel DeVries of Buffalo Center returns as home economics instructor at Armstrong under the Smith-Hayes plan for ten months, after a year away to finish at Town State College Ames. Kitchen units, new sinks, stoves, cabinet space, linoleum, redecorated walls, and shades improve the domestic science area. Cafeteria changes, federal aid for salaries in approved programs, and a move of the manual training department to leased rooms from the Masons Opera House are noted along with new power machinery.
The Estherville Chamber of Commerce will sponsor Lard Week from August 24 to 20 in Estherville to promote selling more lard and reduce market surplus. local merchants will cooperate in the campaign.
Expert H L Hoffman of Minneapolis will demonstrate his Perfect Retention Shields in Estherville at Gardston Hotel on Tuesday September 6 at 2 p.m. Free evaluation by appointment. Shields promise to reduce protrusion under exercise and work. suitable for navels and post surgical ruptures. Do not wear trusses that enlarge openings. Home office 305 Lincoln Ridge, Minneapolis.
The Chamber of Commerce partners to offer attractive prices and advertise lard in meal preparation. The committee leading the drive includes Clyde Sahborn H N Schrodt and A Cadieau.
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