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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1940
Page
2
Publication notice lists editors Adelaide Nichols and W. E. Deming with association, stamps, and post office entry. Subscriptions priced within zones one and two at 2.00 dollars per year and all other zones at 2.50 dollars.
Iowa officials announced plans to intensify patrols against seven major reckless driving types. Drunk driving will be prosecuted. speeding, weaving, and wrong-way curving will be targeted. stop sign running near mains, defective lights, brakes, steering will be checked. overloaded trucks and convoys will be controlled. a rigid physical and mental fitness examination will be required for licensees.
The report covers district No. 4 including Emmet Lyon and nine other counties. It shows 1939 fines and tax evasions totaling 46774 dollars and 15 cents, with fines going to the state school fund and taxes to the general fund. The patrol issued 11800 warning cards and aided 6628 motorists, cleared 2995 obstacles, issued 2616 summonses including 44 for drunken driving, and recovered stolen property valued at 9360 dollars.
A C of C banquet excerpt argues that sovereignty lies with individuals, cites Russia and Germany as contrary examples, and praises free private enterprise as the foundation of liberty while urging citizen-led problem solving over government panaceas. It notes the American Enterprise Association’s role and details a Dunnell Creamery annual meeting with directors reelected, butterfat prices, and a postmeeting program.
Ringsted residents and guests including Petersen, Myers, Fink, Larsen families gathered at Estherville with Kink and Mredricksen. Jorgensen visited Hansen at Matt Mont hospital. Bonnimensen broke wrist after a fall. Eastern Star and Presbyterian Ladies events noted. Several bridge games, parties, hospital visits, and travels among local families. Bonnie Johnson funeral attendees came from Parkersburg, Lanesboro, and Wisconsin.
Petitions in Estherville seek Willis G. C. Bagley of Cerro Gordo for state treasurer and Jay Griffin of Polk for the Iowa State Commerce Commission.
The University of Iowas alum ni I Club has 365 members across about 22 states and is nearing 500 enrollment before fall. Led by M W Hy land of Tama as 1939 40 president the group is rapidly becoming one of the Big Tens largest active clubs.
Community members and visitors shared meals and hospitality across Estherville Laurens Spirit Lake Milford Hartley Graettinger and nearby towns. Recounted are dinners banquets and visits among Carnahans Smiths Kissingers Bringles and local families with notes on an emergency appendix operation for Norman Hogue and ongoing social engagements through Sunday.
John van Guilder offers creative tricks for unusual pictures. Try floor-lit bulbs for eerie shadows, deep stairwell angles, up-angle building shots, perspective with near feet, and double exposure contrasts with a newspaper and a person against a dark backdrop to yield novel effects.
Mr and Mrs Oscar Gross spent Sunday in the Clifford Bredy home at Ocheyedan Ia and related social visits noted in Stolp at Allendorf Iowa on Sunday.
Dunnell residents held a 6:30 chicken dinner at Kleine cafe before a city hall business session Tuesday. The annual Community sale chaired by Fred Mathwig and auctioneer Reuben Deering is set for Saturday March 16. Advertising committee members include E. G. Swanson, Robert Appelquist, and Rudolph Mathies. The cemetery association maintained its traditional dinner. Also noted were Jay 4.H club meetings, a Rural Woman’s Chorus visit to the Community Club, and various visits and hospital recoveries.
Several relatives of the E. C. Headley family plan indefinite stays in California. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Jennings and Lionel Headley left for Los Angeles. Mrs. Jessie Fuss and nephew Richard Nobles of Minneapolis traveled to Riverside by car. John Oelkers received Monday visitors, and Dean Anderson, a three year old, broke his left arm after falling from a high chair.
Miss Johanna Larson and John Thomas united in marriage at Wallingford Lutheran church in a single ring ceremony. The bride wore grapevine velvet and carried roses and sweetpeas. A reception followed at the Gardston hotel Blue Room with about 30 guests. The couple left for a wedding trip through Florida Texas and the eastern states.
Mrs Edward T Norton at 80 years old gains from a late 1980 marriage split as her husband left with $7000 in personal property and a new car a week after the ceremony. If she presents the marriage certificate she will collect her share of an inheritance Norton left in Arkansas.
Martha Aanonson born December 22 1862 in Ulvik Hardanger Norway baptized and confirmed there immigrated to America in 1882 with her mother and two sisters married Chris Aanonson in 1885 lived 50 years on a Swan Lake Township 40 acre farm purchased at $7 per acre died February 11 1940 at age 87 with three children and twin sister to Knute Aanonson funeral held February 13 1940 at Immanuel church with local and Norwegian language selections interment in High Lake cemetery
A Dickinson County grand jury watches the Spirit Lake term as Judge Hudson oversees the accident on the Y at No 9 and 71 east of Spirit Lake in which Millard Brown of LeRoy Illinois and Ralph Warner of Hollandale Minnesota died. Floyd Gustafson of Estherville drove the car involved.
Otis L. Lang, Pastor, announces German service at 9 80 Sunday and English at 10 30 with Sunday school at 10 00. Young people meet Tuesday at 8 00. Weekday passion service Wednesday at 8 00. Sermon: Christ's declaration before Caiphas. Public invited to all services. Children's instruction Tuesday Friday 4 00 and Saturday 2 00 in church basement classroom.
Sunday services across Christian Science Churches will center on Mind with Psalms 147:6 as Golden Text, stating God’s great power and infinite understanding. The Lesson-Sermon draws on Bible verses such as Prov 4:1 20–22 and Science and Health, stressing that God is the only Mind and true health.
The Danville church program lists Sunday school at 10 a.m. devotional service at 11 a.m. Lenten service at 7:30 p.m. The Dorcas Society meets at the K. K. Nau home with Helen Nau and Lorraine Mortenson as hostesses. Ladies Aid and prayer meetings are scheduled with named hostesses. Confirmation class and inner mission society events are noted along with special meetings at Armatroing and Wallingford through the week. Union State Line Lutheran Services set for next Sunday at 10:45 a.m. with hostesses S. A. Knutson A. S. Knutson and Rudy Stade.
Confirmation class meets Wednesday at 2 30 p m and Faith in Action Works Study Group gathers Wednesday at 7 45 p m. Last week drew a fine attendance and organizers hope for more this week.
A Sunday February 25 conference begins at 2 30 with Rev L A Mathre introducing Romans 6 1 11. Rev Rei der Haakonson from LaMoure ND attends Monday and Tuesday. Bible study Thursday at 8. Choir rehearsal Friday at 8. Palestine Church service in English at 11. Confirmation class meets Saturday 1 30 at Albert Anderson home.
The column lists multiple February nuptials and names with ages and towns including Madelia Red Wood Falls Lamberton Wallingford Minneapolis and Worthington. It also notes a murder misery feature by Adela Rogers St Johns about a former stage star and motion picture feuds and tragedies.
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