Editorial Comment By G A Nichols on fruit glut and travel
This piece from the Watertown Herald notes West Coast crop misery and overproduction in the Yakima valley with pears and grapes sold for pennies, cites home accident risks, and jokes about politics and advertising. It reflects on travel from Estherville to Florida, Christmas homecomings, and seasonal weather while urging Iowa caution for job seekers heading to Florida.
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Watertown
South Dakota
Robert W. Lumley
Washington Coast
Yakima Valley
Florida
Estherville Eyes U S Regional Research Lab Bid
The Estherville Industrial Committee seeks one of four U S Regional Research Laboratories under the 1938 act to study farm commodity uses and markets. A 40 acre site and facilities are needed with water, power, rail, and local services assessed. Edward Beck chairs the effort with J E Wilson K J McDonald and R S Knight assisting.
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Industrial Committee
Estherville
Ames
Iowa City
Peoria
Illinois
Edward Beck
J. E. Wilson
K. J. McDonald
R. 8. Knight
A. A. Halleck
Rock Island
Rogers Open Their Cafe With New Drip-Olator
Mr and Mrs Homer Rogers opened their cafe formerly The Coffee Grill Saturday. Many changes have been made including a new coffee drip-olator which is the latest on the market.
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Homer Rogers
Elks Lodge Sponsor Christmas Party For Children
The Elks Lodge organizes a free Christmas morning program for local children at Grand Theatre on Saturday December 24 at 10:00 a.m. The show titled Gun Smoke Ranch features Our Gang Comedy and Porky Looney Tunes. Candy bags will be distributed as kids exit. Wallace Berg leads the organizing committee.
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The
Elks Lodge
Grand Theatre
Our Gang
Elks Club
Wallace Berg
High Prices At Auction At Claude Miller Farm
A large sale at Claude Miller farm drew strong bids on livestock and machinery. Grade Holstein and Guernsey cows topped at 110 with lows near 95. Corn cribbed at 41 cents per pound, steers at 62.20, hogs at 16.65. Fashier Burns in the box. Emmet County State Bank clerked the sale, advertised in the Vindicator and Republican.
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Claude Miller
Guernsey
Fashier and Burns
Emmet Countyt State Bank
Vindicator
Republican
Towns push plans for anti infantile paralysis fight
Towns mobilize county chairmen for the Fight Infantile Paralysis campaign led by Keith Morgan and George W. Riley. The nationwide effort plans large fund drives, with surveys showing broad readiness and many states nearly organized for mobilization in the coming days.
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Keith Morgan
Morgan
George W. Riley
Riley
National Foundation
No Change in Clement Weather Forecast
A brief weather summary reports a low of 8 degrees and a high of 35 degrees with a glow of early spring. Official readings show Dec 17 to Dec 20 temperatures and a forecast for Dec 19-24 across the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri Valleys with little precipitation and mostly near normal temperatures.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
Busy Vib. Mayors Court Common During Past Week
Frank McCoy of Spirit Lake jailed for drunken driving after arrest last Thursday. Adolph Samson of Estherville fined 10 dollars and costs for intoxication, with two weeks to pay. Earl Markley of Estherville jailed 10 days for intoxication. Raymond Tracy of Estherville jailed five days for disturbing the peace. Leonard Applequist of Emmetsburg arrested for drunkenness, fined five dollars and costs. Mayor I J Ehlers ordered the sentences. Try the Want Ad section.
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Frank McCoy
Spirit Lake
Raymond Tracy
Estherville
F. J. Ehlers
Leonard Applequist
Emmetsbore
I. J. Ehlers
Has Grand Idea for Santa Claus
Dear Santa This coming Christmas eve will you leave besides the toys you have for me some duplicates for Dad that he may tinker with his own and play As fathers will on Xmas day Gilbert Amdahl Jr VLR
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Santa
Dad
Chamber backs March basketball tourney and abolish poll tax
At a Wednesday Chamber of Commerce meeting directors offered to back the March basketball tournament by selling tickets. The junior college requested Estherville as host. A motion to abolish the poll tax law was approved, awaiting city council decision. Athletics committee will sponsor a ceremony for the Ft Defiance State Park toboggan slide opening. date TBD. Committee members: William Bale, H. H. Drey, Leo Sanders, Jerry Wegs, George Brunskill, George W. Robinson.
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Chamber of Commerce
Estherville
Ccommmittee
William Bale
H. H. Drey
Leo Sanders
Jerry Wegs
George Brunskill
George W. Robinson
Dorothy Wassum Offered Teaching Post in Council Bluffs
Miss Dorothy Wassum, Estherville vocal music director, has been offered a contract to teach at Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs. If released she will begin in the second semester after Estherville finds a replacement. She graduates Nebraska and has post graduate study in Evanston. she plans a master’s degree next summer.
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Dorothy Wassum
Estherville
Abraham Lincoln High School
Council Bluffs
Miss Wassum
University of Nebraska At Lincoln
Evanston, Ill
School of Music
University of Northwestern
Lincoln Cathedral
University of Nebraska
J. L. Rosborough
Rosborough
Fort Dodge
Estherville Junior College
Wassum
Kathleen Shaw
Council Ate
Corn Loans Coming In From 1938 Crop Loans
Nineteen sealed corn loans filed with county recorder Nattie Osmundson by 3 p m. on the 1938 crop. Loans at 57 cents per bushel ranged from 251 to 1290 dollars. First loan to EB FE Logue for 642 bushels at 308.94 dollars. Loans to EE Anderson 1202 bushels 685.14, Lars Anderson Jr 1000 bushels 570, Geo Bartleman 1254 bushels 866.20, Harold Christensen 765 bushels 486.05, 1821 bushels 752.97, QO E Morton 1836 761.52, O E Morton 1180 bushels 672.60, L P Phelp 1252 bushels 713.64, 2264 bushels 1290.48, TL Phelp 1278 bushels 728.46, Norman Helmers 1981 bushels 1129.17, Herman Helmers 1974 bushels 1125.18, Ralph LaRue 818 bushels 466.26, 442 bushels 251.94, C P Christensen 1274 Hze 570, 1274 bushels 726.18, Marcus G C Hendriksen 864 bushels 49.48, John C Istler 1500 bushels 85. Loans coming in steadily, mostly from county banks.
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Nattie Osmundson
EB. FE. Logue
EE. Anderson
Lars Anderson, Jr
Geo. Bartleman
Harold Christensen
QO. E. Morton
O. E. Morton
L. P. Phelp
TL. P. Phelp
Norman Helmers
Herman Helmers
Ralph LaRue
Ralph la Rue
C. P. Christensen
Marcus GC
Hendriksen
John C. Istler
Accident victim Pat Phillips in line for final recovery
Pat Phillips of Emmetsburg seventeen year old auto accident victim at Palo Alto hospital near Emmetsburg was moved to Sioux City for further care after a recent exam suggested the spinal cord may not be completely severed. He has been paralyzed below the waist since the crash between Emmetsburg and Mallard. Robert Frederick was also in the vehicle.
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Pat Phillips
Emmetsburg
Palo Alto
Emmisburg
Robert Frederick
Mallard
Sioux City
County inmates cost Iowa counties per week in 1936
Data from the Iowa Tax Payers Association shows statewide county home costs at 3.08 dollars per inmate per week in 1936, with Emmet at 5.06 and Dickinson at 1.27. Total county home operating costs reached 789,288 dollars, up from 698,154 dollars in 1935.
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Iowa Tax Payers Association
Emmet
Dickinson
Symbolit
Clay County
Palo Alto
Franklin
Clay
Kloyd
Winnebago
Bremer
Butter
Sue
Wineneshick
Shelby
Rinecold
Adair
Cass
Calhoun
Mills
Howard
Warren
Harrison
Fremont
Gravel road project under way at Mud Lake shore
The west shore graveling of Mud Lake began Friday. Gravel is sourced from a Jack Creek township pit near the Palo Alto line, bought from Emmet county. The work is by the Town State Conservation commission with local labor.
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Mud Lake
Jack Creek
Palo Alto
Emmet
State Conservation Commission
J Kizer Killed By Train At Arnolds Park Crossing
J W Kizer a 56 year old former Estherville resident was instantly killed Monday afternoon when his ice truck was struck by a Milwaukee passenger train at a crossing near the Arnolds Park depot. The truck, owned by Kizer, was demolished and ice blocks scattered along the tracks. The body was found between the train and truck. Witnesses were Bruce Root and Clarence Jordan. Kizer, a Knights of Pythias member, left a widow and four children.
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J. W. Kizer
Estherville
Milwaukee
Arnolds Park
Kizer
Bruce Root
Clarence Jordan
Highway 71
Knights of the Pythias Lodge
Wayne
Harold
Merle Hartman
Lyle King
Archie Evans 74 lifelong Estherville resident dies
Archie Evans 74 lifelong Estherville resident died early this morning at Coleman hospital from pneumonia after being taken there Friday He worked as a carpenter for years He is survived by his widow and nine children Funeral planned for 2 30 at the Arnolds Park church with Oddfellows Lodge Spirit Lake and Estherville Knights of Pythias attending Incumbent relatives listed include Mrs Wallace Lynch William Evans Lucille Evans and others No funeral arrangements made yet
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Archie Evans
Estherville
Coleman Hospital
Evans
Wallace Lynch
William Evang
Lucille
Arnolds Park
Oddfellows Lodge
Spirit Lake
Estherville Knights of Pythias
Roy Bartleman
Graettinger
Joe O’brien
Emmetsburg
Joe Evans
Fairmont
Mr and Mrs John Oudes Move to Florida for Winter
Mr and Mrs John Oudes, staying in the Adelade Nichols home since before Thanksgiving, left this morning for Florida to spend the winter. They will travel by trailer house in easy stages, visiting several Florida points before returning.
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W.R
South
John Oudes
Adelade Nichols
Lefty
Florida
Hand Caught in Wringer. Local Man Hurt
A. MacDonald suffered a painful injury when his hand was caught in the wringer of a home electric washing machine Monday morning. His housekeeper Mrs. Roy French released him after he tore flesh while attempting to pull it back through the rollers.
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Vanes
A. MacDonald
Roy French
Local Auto Purchases and Family News in Estherville
AUTOS PURCHASED Fred Klingbeil Estherville Ford Estherville Packing Co Estherville Oldsmobile Nadine N Gray Estherville Chrysler Clem Dotsen Armstrong Olds mobile John Hanson Estherville International truck Mr and Mrs Fred Ehlers visited Minneapolis last Thursday afternoon They met with Mr Ehler s brothers William Faribault and George Goodhue Lorraine returned from University Hospital training Friday Mr and Mrs Wm Sykes and family plan Christmas in Id Grove with Mrs Sykes parents J J Lindsay and Mr Sykes parents A Sykes They will be joined by Mr and Mrs J B White Mrs White and Mrs Sykes are sisters Mr and Mrs Russell Peterson are the parents of a baby daughter born Friday morning Their third child Mrs B B Anderson at Mort Spirit Lake is seriously ill but slightly improved since last week
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Gildner-Beck, Bagan and Sons
Leuthold-Tibbett
Boone Jewelry
Robinson Jewelry
Wilders Mariety
Court House
Chamber of Commerce
Credit Bureau
Farm Bureau
Wholesale Houses
Estherville Packing Co
Estherville
Postoffice
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Fred Klingbeil
Ford
Oldsmobile
Nadine N. Gray
Chrysler
Clem Dotsen
Armstrong
John Hanson
International Truck
Fred Ehlers
Minneapolis
Mr. Ehler
William
Faribault
George
Goodhue
Lorraine
University Hospital
Wm. Sykes
Id Grove
Mrs. Syke
J. J. Lindsay
Mr. Syke
A. Sykes
J. B. White
Mrs. White
Mrs. Sykes
Russell Peterson
B. B. Anderson
Mort
Spirit Lake
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Town City
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Concordia
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George VanCura
Eau Claire
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Raymond Moore
Soil Conservation Office
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