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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1932
Page
3
All farmers, business and professional men and their families are invited to a general meeting at Riverside Park on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. National Chairman Milo Reno will address the gathering, discuss progress, and offer guidance for future action. The event is expected to be one of the largest in years, with broad local interest.
Estherville church women plan a hard winter for the poor and will can fruit and vegetables for city welfare. Lutheran ladies have put up over 300 quarts for Beloit and city charity. Methodist, Baptist, Free Methodist and Grace Episcopal groups join in canning efforts with church basements and private homes. Catholic ladies also gather jars and produce for the needy.
The State Fish and Game department released several thousand game fish into Medium lake at Emmetsburg last week. Species include 1250 black bass 2 to 4 inches, 375 black bass 6 to 8 inches, 100 adult bass 2 to 3 pounds, 300 sunfish 2 to 4 inches, 10 adult sunfish, 100 perch 4 to 6 inches, 30 pickerel 4 to 6 inches, and 20 adult pickerel. Fish were netted from the Mississippi River near Lansing.
Milford schools will drop several subjects this year including the Bible class in the first semester, agriculture, home economics, and manual training in the seventh and eighth grades. Geography and commercial law may also be cut from high school offerings. A Ringling Brothers circus stop was not on the Es t herville route but played in Mason City Sioux City and Des Moines. Mons O Flestead, 62, died after a bull gored him while applying fly spray near Willmar.
A large Emmet County rural teachers meeting at the county courthouse elected officers across townships including Elizabeth West as county president and Mary Benesh as vice president. The event featured a lecture by Ida Hugheen on Language and Reading and a full roster of rural teachers listed by township and role.
A Saturday night fire severely damaged the Robert West house on East Main Street started from an unknown source. The building sustained about 300 dollars in damage, insured, and household goods were badly burned, also insured. Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Reed and sons Robert and Russell attended the Iowa State Fair the past week. They visited Indianola Ogden and Jefferson before returning Sunday evening.
At a meeting last evening the Estherville Drum and Bugle Corps organized for the coming year electing Dr A I Reed as manager with Henry Paulson as assistant. The board of directors includes Dr Thos Mann Gerhard Borlaug Henry Paulson and Harold Sorensen. Svl West named secretary G F Wilder chief musician and drum major with Gerhard Borlaug and Harry Jones as instructors. Rehearsals set for Mondays and Thursdays as four new members joined and two more switch to more challenging instruments. The corps plans a Bancroft drill this evening for a Legion day program with about 24 men making the trip.
Sylvia Sidney and Frederic March star in Merrily, We Go to Hell at the Grand Theatre. The film follows a wife and a wild playwright as success inflates the husband and the couple works to repair their strained marriage.
Estherville and nearby areas will witness a total solar eclipse noted in Massachusetts. The event runs from about 1:02 to 3:24 PM local time with Des Moines and Estherville experiencing the shadow. Viewers are advised to use smoked or dark glasses to observe safely.
The Groves pool hall front plate glass window was broken Saturday at 6 30 pm during a scuffle that knocked Joe Sifrit unconscious with O D Johnson of Maple Hill. Sifrit had been drinking and disturbing Johnson for some time. Johnson knocked him down and Sifrit’s foot went through the window. Mr and Mrs F A Macdonald anticipate a visit this week from Aldo Del Missier of Chicago who will stay several weeks with Robert Macdonald.
A fragment from a historical recital recounts the stoic scene when the French flagship Casabianca burned amid Napoleon’s Egypt campaign. Captain Louis Casabianca clung to his post as the ship sank, his ten year old son rushing to his side to share the doomed fate while British forces watched in awe.
Miss Mark Sorum, county superintendent, announced that 564.00 in state aid from the Department of Public Instruction will be distributed to Emmet County rural schools for 1931-32. Funds cover books and supplies, allocated by district and approved by the superintendent and directors, with each teacher listed receiving specific amounts.
Mrs Olive Morse 78 of Osage died Thursday at her Osage home after a two month illness. She fell June 27 injuring her head but recovered only to worsen until she died August 25. A Wisconsin native, she came to Mitchell county by covered wagon and lived in Osage 52 years. Survived by Lois Wolff Albert H Morse and Atty J W Morse. Funeral services were held Saturday at the Morse home in Osage.
Dr. A I Reed and son Robert swept minorca classes at the Iowa State Fair. Reed birds captured firsts, seconds, and thirds across cockerel pullet and hen entries, plus the champion male in all Mediterranean breeds. Robert Reed 4 H showed about 150 birds, with top placings in multiple cockerel and pullet events. plans include Spencer and possibly Waterloo and other midwest shows.
Thomas E. Kelly of Emmetsburg son of the late Daniel E. Kelly and former law student at the University of Iowa and Minnesota edits a new magazine titled Short Short Story Magazine. It features one page stories and appeared at newsstands last week.
The Estherville municipal band under director Jems Cox will give the season’s final concert tonight drawing large crowds. The program features popular classics and lively numbers. Mr and Mrs A J Anderson attended the Jackson county fair yesterday.
Grace Martens recounts a California trip from Williams Arizona to the Grand Canyon and Southern California. She describes canyon views Hopi dances at Hopi House rain praying, Emery Kolb’s Colorado River tale, and a canyon rim schoolhouse serving Indians Mexicans and white children.
Kenneth Huntsinger of this city and M Delp of Aberdeen 8 D will own the Red Front grocery opening Saturday in the former Youngs Radio Shop building on Tth street. Delp has grocery experience at Aberdeen and Huntsinger has years in Fistierville. The store will offer a full grocery and cold meat line and operate on a cash and carry and delivery basis.
Leif Dahl, former Estherville boy, is in Washington training for agricultural research across the middle west. He will work for Farm Bureau Research Inc. of Washington, leave soon for Sioux City, Fargo, Minot, Montana, and South Dakota. Francis Cain of Raleigh arrived to visit his parents, Dr. and Mrs. P. Cain.
The Grand theatre screens two films for one day Sunday. Shop Worn stars Barbara Stanwyck and Regis Toomey in a tale of a girl sent to an institution then rising to actress fame as she seeks to outgrow a love affair. American Madness stars Walter Huston in a banker saga about faith amid a bank robbery and a wife’s affair. Templar Park to Close Sept. also noted with season decline but no major loss, manager Snyder says. Herb Webber moves to Rose Anton property at Third and Walnut streets.
Emmet county's 4-H entries at the town fair in Des Moines earned multiple placements in canning and poultry. Robert Reed won three firsts and two fourths with black Minorcas, while the livestock judging team faced tough competition and failed to place. Demonstration-team members Berniece Reid and Leona Dominy performed, with awards pending until all demonstrations end. Celia Hiles represented the county as health girl, and the judging team included Wayne Davidson Andrew Larson Cecil Christiansen Merri Christiansen Harvey Nelson. Prizes in canned goods included several seconds and a third for varied jar collections.
R W Siemens transfers to B E Knudson in WD 48 19 32 NW 24 99 34. Anthon R Ronalt conveys to Eline K Ronalt WD 6 18 32 SWirts 19 98 31. John Osgood to Ivy Osgood QCD 4 91 31 Ks 21 22 Molts sub Lot 38 10 99 34. Martha C Wells to B E Orris WD 9 15 31 S s Wh NW SW 6 98 33. A W Sumpter transfers to Alice Sumpter 8 16 48 WD N NW44 32 09 34 WD 8 16 32 Lt 3 B53 OP. E J Knudsen to J R Siemens WD 8 19 32 NW 24 99 34.
Manager Henry Hower organizes a Friday matinee at 7 pm offering a Mickey Mouse comedy and news. Attendees bring a quart fruit jar with lid and new rubber to exchange for admission. Jars collected by Girl Scouts at the Community Club office aid welfare workers distributing canned fruits and vegetables to the needy.
Fire believed to have started in the kitchen range destroyed the farm home of J E Tim mons on Saturday morning Mrs Timmons baking bread in oven went to garden and returned to flames The smoke in the telephone room prevented neighbor or Estherville fire department from aiding The loss is covered by insurance. The Fallow kitten ball team won the annual kitten ball tournament at Gracttinger near Elseibast field with a 2 1 victory over Ruthven Ten teams competed including Maple Hill Motherville Flmlmersburg Wall ingford Aryshire Ospood Fallow Rouhven Cylinder and Crnettinger
The First Trust and Savings Bank of Armstrong received a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The loan indicates bank security is sound. The Curt Youman family moves to the Hunt duplex on North Sixth Street. Mr and Mrs Dan Woodley relocate to the cottage on West Des Moines Street, vacating the Nichols residence. the Busch family moves from the Nichols residence to the Soper cottage on North Fourth Street.
Work on No 17 will begin before September 12 as announced today. The paving totaling 648 miles will parallel the Rock Island tracks and the area was surveyed when No 9 was studied. Contracts not yet set. Over 160 people have registered for highway work at the Chamber of Commerce office.
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