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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1940
Page
3
The article notes citrus promotions targeting 189,000 national retail outlets amid the second national citrus sale, with oranges grapefruit and tangerines emphasized. It mentions light frost with minor damage in some areas and local temperature dips near 36 in Park i¢, highlighting ongoing farm activity and regional happenings.
Early morning readings show temperatures plunging to minus twelve with forecasts of twenty below tonight. Despite daytime sunshine the official noon thermometer read minus six and was not expected to rise. Weather bureau predicts snow to ease the deep cold, though no snow yet reported in northern Iowa and readings indicate deeper dips ahead. Readings recorded by Mrs. Joseph Orvis.
The City Council approved an ordinance vacating parts of bth Ave North near Eat Side, allowed J W Peterson to buy vacated sections of old primary road No 17, and transferred a cigarette license to Harold Moklestad at 205 North 6th Street. A resolution named Fred Robinson as city assessor.
Workmen are installing floodlights beside the toboggan slide at Fort Defiance State Park to allow night viewing. A large crowd gathered at the shelterhouse as snow and cold weather promise good conditions. Gene Harrison the caretaker notes potential record crowds and says sled speeds could rise past 80 with smoother runs while stressing safety precautions.
A total of 581.48 has been reported in the Christmas Seal Sale with 410.68 from Estherville. Mrs Glenn Pullen heads the city campaign while rural teachers continue reporting small totals, showing progress toward an all time record.
In 1940 the county recorder Hattie B. Osmundson filed the first instrument, a corn loan to Francis J. Kennedy of Estherville. The loan was divided into four parts leaving recorder’s book numbers 1, 2, 8, and 4 already used.
The Bureau of Census established a central office in Fort Dodge to conduct the census for the Eighth District. James B. Irwin is district supervisor and Ray Walsh assistant supervisor with staff including Theodore McGee Florence McCartan Mary E. O’Connor and Dorothy I. Mueller. Thirty candidates are to attend a Dec 26–29 school. the top twenty will be enumerators for 14 counties and others placed on reserve. Enumerators will collect business and manufacturing data starting Jan 2, 1940 and separate censuses will follow. confidentiality is assured and credentials required. The Emmet county enumerator is J R Darnell.
Flooding has begun on a circular skating rink laid on new park grounds north of the Central Avenue bridge. Planned by recreation director Miss Dorothy Perrin, the 75 yard diameter rink will be open to skaters and supervised at times. if successful, the city may build more facilities.
Funeral services for Mrs. R. G. Fordyce 34 were conducted yesterday at Audubon and today at Wallingford home of her parents Mr and Mrs Chris Larson. Services then at Lutheran church Wallingford with Rev Peder Nordsletten officiating. Mrs Fordyce wife of an Audubon Iowa dentist died Monday at home after several days illness with pneumonia. She was a 1923 Wallingford High School graduate and a University of Iowa trained nurse.
Capital Signs of Iowa will establish a neon sign workshop in Estherville, operating from the Hollywood theatre building with Carl E. Furstnaw as staff artist. The venture begins with a sign writers school and plans to promote local business on a broad neon field.
Funeral services were held Sunday at 1 p m in Sternberg Chapel for Andrew E. Anderson 86 longtime Emmet county resident. Burial followed at Armstrong cemetery. He died Friday at his home on W 6th Ave N after years of ill health. Survived by widow three children Alva Anderson of Ft Angeles Wash Chas B Anderson of Estherville and Mrs Ann Holland of Estherville and a sister Mrs Lewis Peterson of Emmetsburg. Born in Ingstad Sweden he came to the United States at about age twenty. He was Rock Island railroad section foreman at Armstrong for 36 years and retired on a pension in 1927.
John Francis Murphy was sentenced to six months in the county jail after pleading guilty to operating a motor vehicle without owner consent. The sentence will be suspended after three months, with parole to Sheriff Cliff Frederickson.
The Estherville city council received a new International truck with an aerial ladder for the electric light department. Merton Mason, a city employee, drove the vehicle from Cleveland, arriving Saturday. The purchase, authorized September 5, includes a power take-off to raise and lower the ladder for accessing poles and street lights. delivery delayed by body construction.
I N Kirby of Greenville was elected president of the Clay County Fair Association succeeding the late H Bruce Noll. Kirby was chosen unanimously by the 27 directors at the association's annual meeting in its Spencer offices.
Irwin C. Nichols reports 56 persons charged with crimes last year across 44 cases. Of 56, 38 pled guilty and 12 were sentenced to state penitentiary, four on probation, ten jailed, eleven fined. One juvenile appeared. 9 cases pending. Major offenses include 18 for operating motor vehicle while intoxicated and 12 for larceny. Other counts cover embezzlement, burglary, rape, and resisting an officer.
Nels C. Osher of Wallingford was chosen chairman of the Emmet County board of supervisors at their organization meeting in the courthouse. He succeeds E. S. Camden who held the post last year. The board will set wage scales and budgets for county offices and township assessor salaries. Several appointments to the office of county engineer, assistant county engineer, county bridge crew members, and foreman will be made.
The Northern Vindicator marks its seventy-first volume after a long history dating back to Fort Defiance origins. Originating in old buildings, the paper adopted the Blizzard term for a winter storm and merged with the Emmet County Republican about forty years ago under Geo A Nichols.
Irwin C. Nichols, clerk of courts, received an air mail letter from his son Fred in the United States Navy. The note, mailed December 5 from the Philippine Islands and delivered 15 days later, confirms Fred’s promotion from third class gunner to second class gunner after three years in the service. He has progressed through several ranks and expects further advancement to first class gunner or a commissioned post in two years or more, with current duties in the Philippines before a possible move to Shanghai.
A county clerk office report shows marriage license sales reaching 283 this year, the highest on record. Deputy Jessie Hepp notes 1934 had 183 licenses, 1938 had 281, and over the past five years 1167 licenses were issued. Divorces in the same period totaled 109, with 28 in the last year. The fewest divorces occurred in 1986 with only 11.
A. J. Stefey regional director from the Department of Public Instruction will address county superintendents in Ringsted on Wednesday January 10 after a 6 30 dinner at the home of E W Hamand. He will present a bulletin A Plan For Directed Study Through Work Type Reading to show how work type reading skills apply in high school content subjects. Attending will be Miss Marie Sorum county superintendent and several district superintendents and their spouses including N Demoney Estherville Reed P Jordan Maple Hill W A Ortmeyer Armstrong H O Miller Grover James H Smith Dolliver Vernon Anderson Emmett Township Consolidated KK CG Hill Haifa and others.
Local Union No. 79 of the United Packing House Workers of America will sponsor a benefit dance on Thursday January 11 at Danceland for the Pan-Hellenic milk fund. Skippy Anderson and his band from Omaha will play the dance. Admission is one dollar per couple.
The infant daughter Marietta Grace Burkart aged six months died Tuesday night. Funeral services were held at 2 this afternoon in the Mahlum and Anderson chapel with Rev. John Fortsell officiating and burial at Oak Hill cemetery.
A nine pound boy, son of Mr and Mrs Bolliver DeLoss of Estherville, was the first baby born in 1940 at the local hospital. Born Monday morning at 10 o'clock, the event was noted in the community news with a lighthearted aside about catsup bottles.
Frederick South, 20, charged with breaking and entering the D E K office during the night. Bound over to the Emmet county grand jury meeting January 28 after a hearing before Judge F C Davidson in Emmetsburg. Theft of $60 to $100 from the cash box reported. South, then employed by the National Youth Administration, allegedly possessed keys and discussed debt forgiveness to conceal the keys. He previously spent time in the state reformatory, with a prior breaking and entering conviction and later parole to grandparents. He also accompanied girls to Sail Inn at Orleans and showed a watch bought after the burglary.
The Lutheran Inter Synodical Conference will hold its convention in Estherville again this year. No exact date set yet, likely May or June, following last year’s May gathering. Miss Bernice Wold, secretary of the organization, accepted the invitation.
Returns at the H. S. Barrick sale drew a large crowd with active bidding. Cows not grain fed averaged about $65 per head, a mule team sold for $186, and all nine head of horses and mules sold high. The $3600 sale total came largely from thousands of small articles accumulated over 26 years. Auctioneers were Wm. Hoshier and Bernard Burns, with clerking by the Iowa Trust and Savings Bank. A free lunch was provided at noon from Pantry cafe wagon. Machinery was usable but not new, and the sale was advertised exclusively in the Vindicator and Republican.
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