Iowa News Roundup Highlights State Draft, Finances, Pioneers
Des Moines reports Gov Harding praised state draft boards for processing 623578 registrants and preparing 67044 to camp with 35000 more ready at armistice. Iowa's appropriations total 11,291,000 with 7.21 million to be raised by tax levy. Survivors include Frederick Schuck’s bequests to Wartburg institutions and German connections. War footnotes cover pottery progress, university visitors, and a brick patent offer. County tales note floods of visa, school, and livestock health efforts, plus a Goos Lake drainage project and wildlife notes. Iowa Week aims for Oct 19 to 25 with statewide observances in schools and industry displays.
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J. W. Jarnagin
Des Moines
Iowa
W. L. Harding
Towa
War Department
Washington
Thirty-eighth General Assembly
Board of Control
Code Commission
Crease County
Nas Deen
Lea
Coose Lake
Goose Lake
Board of Supervisors
38Th General Assembly
Theas
State Department For Public Instruction
Greater Iowa Association
Greater Town Association
Iowa Steeplejack Heroine and Other Rural Tales
Ottumwa readers recall Mrs. H. H. Smooth of Burlington, a steeple jack who painted a 145 foot power plant smokestack with her husband, noted for climbing many flagpoles. Also, James Degera of Gladbrook shot a gray eagle mistaken for a wolf, later mounted for the state university. Fifty years ago, fifteen young married men left Clayton county in ox-teams seeking homesteads in Cherokee county, forming a tiny prairie colony later commemorated by John Potter and C. A. Styles as the original group faded away.
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Ottumwa
Burlington
Jack
Smooth
America
James Degera
Gladbrook
Tamalounty
Wright Wilson
J. E. Nauerth
Traer
State University
Clayton County
Cherokee County
John Potter
Sioux City
C. A. Styles
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Jonas Clark
Kansas
Iia
Goocwe Wo Garver
Simpson College
Tadionola
Anos
State College
Eso
Hernias A. Edisom
Carver Issu
Tuskegee Institute
Prof
Carver
Ames
Drop
James Wilson
Aericulture
State Farm
Tie
Experiment Station
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
George H. Pethybridge
Royal College of Science
Dublin
Ireland
A. D. Cotton
Kew Botannical Gardens
England
N. M. Quanter
Holland
Claus H. Light
United States
Canada
Blanche Grahan
Hter
M George Jim
Burt
Kossuth County
Iowa City
Girls’ Training School
Mitchellville
Capitol
Nashville Trust Company
Nashville
Tennessee
Louis Leightenberger
Mt. Pleasant
Leightenberger
Scott County
Trust Company
Maxel White
Bremer County
Arizona
Hfon
Cato Sells
Vinton
Indian Affsica
Lieutenant McGuire
Marshall Town
Postville
Kerdinanda A. Reichman
Geddes
South Dakota
Sions City
Reichman
McGregor
Josiah Cleveland
Peterson
Estherville
Alfred Jensen
Dolliver
Harry Dybdahl
Fairmont
H. J. Fenricksen
J. P. Nelsen
Maso City
Z. L. Holmen
Algona
W. E. Hohn
Lizzie Jensen
Graettinger
Truesdell
Henry Fink
Sac City
Friends
John Schultz
J. M. Resh
Minneapolis
M. C. Houritsen
Oklahoma
A. J. Theesfield
Richard
Victor
August Sorensen
Sauk Center
Chas. O. Jacobson
Arthur Ingvolstad
Harry Cwissant
Harlan
Peter Mortensen
Mora
Minnesota
M. O. Grodland
Dagmer Evers
Clinton
Eleanora Johnson
Effie Gunnestrap
Anna Mouritsen
H. C. Madsen
Ole Roon
John Jorgensen
Robert Kyhl
Jons Michel
N.G. Chaetianeat
H.C. Jensen
Henry M. Larsen
Carl F. Nelsen
Frank Lae
Dig
Jens J. Jensen
H. C. Christiansen
Peter Johansen
Jena P.larsen
H. P. Rasmussen
J. P. Rasmussen
Ole Berkland
Ole Solberg
Geo. Behrends
Carl Iverson
Chicago
New York
Mankato Commercial College
Mankato
First Trust and Savings Bank
I. Rhodes
Spurbeck-lambert Go
Walker Motor Co
Lutherville
Spirit Lake
Big
Poland
China
Rolfe
M. F. Olerich
Rolfe, Iowa
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