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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1934
Page
2
The fragment lists staff roles with NCATOR as the title style and credits Editor Adelaide Nichols Assoc Editor W E Deming and Advertising Manager.
A detailed month by month summary shows Camp Okoboji in Milford drawing six thousand four hundred and ninety five dollars for housing and subsistence with most funds circulating locally. Payrolls stay mostly within the lake region, and Emergency Conservation Work allocations total about twenty nine thousand two hundred thirty dollars with ninety percent spent in the territory.
The piece endorses the American Liberty League with figures like Secretary Roper and Al Smith, predicts Roosevelt endorsement, and outlines nonpartisan aims to defend the Constitution and promote property rights. It also rails at social issues, cites a homeless dog tale from Estherville, critiques Roosevelt, and muses on agriculture and Iowa State Fair publicity amid a August chill with a light frost in places.
Mrs. Floyd Lytle visits St. Cloud and St. Quoud with her daughter Mrs. Henry Ahrens. Miss Idella Lytle returns from St. Cloud after days with her sister and cousin Doris Belle Flindt in Kimberly. Porter Heneman and family travel to Sioux Falls with visits to Vermillion to see Mrs. Frank Dean before returning Sunday.
The 4-H exhibit rules specify entry requirements including club member status in Emmet county, record book completion under the department superintendent, and show by the feeder club members unless illness or multiple entries require permission. Premiums are listed for poultry, sow and litter, market pigs, lambs, colts, baby beef, dairy cattle, farm records, and record books with various prize amounts and top placement notes.
The record lists prizes and winnings by category including lamb sow and litter and various livestock events. Payouts include firsts and seconds with amounts such as 50c to 2.00 dollars, across dairy, colt, pig and other divisions.
The Estherville Luther League attended the Forest City Estherville circuit convention at Thompson starting Friday. Miss Benora Shaw presented a paper on daily Christian life, Elmer Valen led an open forum, and several Shaw sisters sang. Cora Sunde of Estherville was elected pocket testament secretary, with officers including Prof. Stanley Olson president, Ingolf Kronstad vice president, Olga Coltvedt secretary, Bennie Gillidseth treasurer. Local attendees from Estherville listed alongside families and the Rev. L A Mathre.
J. J. Waldron learned Friday that his brother in law Wm. Stricker died Thursday night at Rolfe. Waldron and his son Leonard traveled to Rolfe the same day. Stricker was an uncle of Clyde and C. D. Wylder.
Distinguish visitors arrive for a Sunday gathering at Paul Laidley’s home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark and sons Harold and Billie of Garner attended. Billie Clark is a naval academy football star on furlough. Mrs. Owen Morton and children Sherman and Carmel Jean, and Miss Ethel McArdle plan a trip to Berwyn Illinois to visit Mrs. Glotfelty and see the Century of Progress Exhibit in Chicago. Miss McArdle will resume teaching duties in Independence after summer in Estherville. Lucile Peterson and Mrs. Peter Christensen of Algona depart for a Minnesota trip, returning Thursday evening.
Palo Alto deputy sheriff Harvey Sprout, missing since August 1, is located in Reno Nevada establishing residence to pursue a divorce from wife Vera Sprout. He mortgaged his car for 175 before leaving with it for Reno and has been appearing in boxing exhibitions there. He was a former professional fighter in Emmetenburg.
L L Bingham and Hazel Brown sue Home Investment Company and Kirbys for return of cash balances. Last week saw mortgage foreclosure Emmet county v John Johnson. Landlord writ sought John L. Johnson against Olaf Martinson et al. Various accounts and writs of replevin, evictions, and appeals from appraisals are listed against multiple parties and entities including State of Iowa and Iowa Highway Commission. U S Rubber Products seeks accounting from Hammes and Son Inc. Midwest Timmerman Co seeks accounting from E J Knudson. Grand jury not expected this session.
A small fire near the chimney Sunday afternoon caused slight roof damage at the Horace Soper apartment house on South Eighth street. Firefighters used chemicals to extinguish the blaze. Betty Gabriel of Armstrong, a delegate to the American Legion auxiliary convention, stayed in Des Moines afterward to visit friends and her Marshalltown parents.
Local notes show John Warrington in Des Moines on business and Alma Valen off to Chicago for the World's Fair. Numerous visits, nursing trainee enrollments, and family gatherings span Spirit Lake Sioux City Cedar Rapids and Minneapolis with trips to Des Moines Belmond and West Bend.
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