Earl Rogers Dies After Long Illness at Grover Home
After eight years of illness Earl Rogers died at his parents home near Grover. Funeral services were held at the Grover church and burial was in Oak Hill cemetery Estherville. Born May 28 1889 in Lennox Iowa he married Eula Dunlap March 24 1908. The couple lived on farms in Ryan Lake township Emmet county and Pomona California before returning eight years ago. Survived by daughter Vivian Ewart parents one sister one brother and two grandchildren. He was a past Chancellor Commander of Leatherville Knights of Pythias.
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Earl Rogers
H. EB. Rogers
Grover
Grover Church
Oak Hill
Estherville
Mr. Rogers
Lennox
Iowa
Eula Dunlap
Emmet County
Ryan Lake
Pomona
California
Rogers
Vivian Ewart
Calif
Guy Begga
Clearfield Town
Homer Rogers
Leatherville Knights of
Pythias
New Marines Are Sent to California
The United States Marine Corps seeks twenty five young men of good character to enlist at Des Moines and transfer to San Diego. Applicants receive steady employment, good pay, quarters, food, clothing, medical and dental care, and opportunities to complete education or learn a trade. Write to the U S Marine Corps or visit Recruiting Offices in Des Moines Sioux City or Omaha to apply. Violations of Iowa conservation laws rose in November with 284 cases. total cases September to November reached 483. Convictions were 871 of 383 prosecuted, fines $11788.26 and 3478 days jail. November hunting violations numbered 200 with five fishing and fourteen trapping cases. three months totals show 924 hunting, 72 fishing, 21 trapping. Confiscations rose, including one net two spears six fish eleven steel traps fifty two guns and 120 game birds and animals.
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United States Marine Corps
Des Moines
San Diego
Calif
U. S
Marine Corps
Federal Building
Commerce Building
Sioux City
Federal Office Building
Omaha
Iowa
Autos Purchased In Estherville and Surroundings
Miss Martha Volog leaves Tuesday for Minneapolis to visit a few days before returning to her work in Muron North Dakota. She had been a guest for the past ten days at this time of Miss Priscilla Booth. The item lists autos purchased from dealers in Estherville and nearby towns including Chevrolet and Ford trucks and a Studebaker.
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Martha Volog
Minneapolis
Muron
Dakota
Misa Priscilla Booth
Davis Packing Plant Opens With First Slaughter
The Davis Packing Company plans its first slaughter Wednesday as they begin operations after building and equipment installation delays. About seventy five horses will be killed tomorrow with numbers rising as production expands. The plant, affiliated with Hill Packing Company of Topeka, Kansas, will ship products to Eastern markets and Europe. Horses are being sourced from across the United States and Canada. forty plus employees are expected on payroll once fully operational.
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Davis Packing Company
Ated
Canada
Davis Serene
Europe
Hill Packing Company
Topeka
Kans
Go Reno One Better Go Reno One Better
Mrs Julia Schoening was granted a divorce from Lynn Schoening on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. The decree, granted by Judge Hudson after dinner, notes the couple married in Canton South Dakota in June 1938. They have no children and Mrs Schoening resumes her maiden name Cernock.
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Julia Schoening
Lynn Schoening
Hudson
Schoenings
Canton
South Dakota
Schoening
Cernock
Fire Loss Figures by City and Cause in State
State Fire Marshal reports Des Moines led the losses at $666,965 with Ottumwa and Cedar Rapids following. Other cities ranged from $50,000 to $100,000. statewide causes include chimneys $410,449 defective wiring $836,545 defective flues $272,049 overheated stoves $212,367 and unknowns $2,809,877. Estherville totals unavailable until Fire Chief Koster returns from California.
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Mitcee
Igang
Des Moines
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Waterloo
Burlington
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Fort Dodge
Former Local Folks In Bad Fire At Sidney
Fire of unknown origin damaged a Sidney duplex occupied by Mr and Mrs Floyd Rokenbrodt. The blaze confined to the roof but smoke and water ruined the interior forcing the couple and other tenants to seek temporary housing. Mrs Rokenbrodt is known locally as Miss Doris Logue.
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Sidney
Floyd Rokenbrodt
Rokenbrodta
Rokenbrodt
Doris Logue
Ringsted Creamery to Hold Annual Meeting in February
The Ringsted Co operative creamery will hold its annual meeting at the Ringsted opera house on Saturday February 3. The creamery credits a strong year and outlines plans for an even more successful 1940. The date shift aims to better suit Ringsted merchants business days. A separate item notes a bushel of Turner Hybrid seed corn sold at Robb auction for 40 to benefit the Finnish Relief Fund. Ray Janssen buys the Wm Hangartner 160 acre farm east of Huntington Iowa. the former owners Mrs Janssen and George Clark relocate, with the Janssens moving in Saturday.
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Ringsted Co-operative Creamery
Ringsted Opera House
Turners
Golden Sun Milling Company
Robb
Finnish Relief Fund
Ray
Janssen
Wm. Hangartner
Huntington
George Clark
Training school discussion on farm family and world trade
Miss Frances Byrne leads county sessions for rural women on how a typical Iowa farm family makes choices, income, and expenditures. Participants study the Armstrong family mock scenario to decide purchases and desires and then link farm needs to global trade, noting many foods and autos rely on multiple countries.
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Iowa
Frances Byrne
Armatronga
Armstrong
Laurens Woman Reaches 100th Birthday
Thursday January 28 marked the 100th birthday of Mrs. Philip Kemp of Laurens. She celebrated quietly with five children and lives with daughter Mrs. L. O. Putnam. Grandma Kemp recalls Abraham Lincoln as neighbor and friend and her lineage spans 33 grandchildren, 75 great grandchildren, and 30 great great grandchildren. Her mother lived to 94 and her grandmother to an older age.
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Philip Kemp
Laurens
L. O. Putnam
Grandma Kemp
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Springfield
Ill
Dickinson County Sets 2 A.M. Beer Closing for Rural Sites
The Dickinson County Board of Supervisors on January 3 established a 2 a.m. closing hour for beer permit venues not governed by town ordinances. Noncompliance may trigger permit revocation. The rule applies to the business premises, not the sale statute, which bans beer from 12 o'clock Saturday night to 7 a.m. Monday and at 1 a.m. each other week night.
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Dickinson County Board of Supervisors
Dickinson
Livestock and Egg Prices From Local Markets
Local market listings show heavy and light poultry prices with Leghorn and heavy hens and stags. Hogs sell at a range around four to five dollars for packers, with general price highlights across creamed dairy and egg entries.
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LOGAL
Extreme Cold Breaks With Temperatures In Northwest Iowa
Thermometers rose to 24 degrees above zero on Monday while the day’s low reached one degree below. A brisk north wind pushed readings back down with forecasts of colder weather to come for Northwest Iowa. The week’s readings stayed below normal despite predictions of 30 below last Thursday failing to materialize. Newspapers warned of sub zero weather last Thursday, then reported eight below that night.
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Iowa
Townsend plan praised by founder's son at Spencer meeting
Robert Townsend, son of the Townsend founder, spoke to a large Townsend Organization gathering in Spencer. He urged the plan as necessary to boost buying power, create 400,000 jobs for youth, and secure old age income via a 2 percent sales tax. Funds would be distributed to Americans over 60 and spent quickly on American products to spur business.
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Robert Townsend
Townsend
Spencer
Wallingford Co-op Meet at Town Hall February First
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company of Wallingford will be held at the Town Hall on Thursday February 1 at one o'clock. Elections of directors and reports on business will be discussed.
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Farmers Co-operative Creamery Company of
Wallingford
Graettinger Sewer Project To Restart Soon
WPA engineer C F Roebrick reports Graettinger sewerage work to resume this week with Mr Steinfelt of Sioux City as foreman, filling the role previously held by the late Frank Ahrens. Ongoing work remains in the eastern Graettinger area.
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C. F. Roebrick
Spencer
WPA
Graettinger
Steinfelt
Sioux City
Frank Ahrens
Local Woman's Brother Injured in Auto Accident
Merle Grodland of Graettinger brother of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson of this city, was badly injured last week near Forest City as his car was sideswiped by a Forest City doctor's vehicle. He received a severe head gash, was unconscious for hours, and suffered a slight concussion. He will miss school for a couple weeks. he teaches in the Clear Lake schools. Schrodt will take a bus trip to Des Moines Thursday.
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Merle Grodland
Graettinger
Woodrow Wilson
Forest City
Grodland
Clear Lake
Northwest conference tourney heads to Estherville this week
Eleven Northwest conference teams enter a regional basketball tourney to be staged in Estherville January 25 to 27 with Fort Dodge Boone Britt Sheldon Worthington Emmetsburg Mason City Waldorf Webster City Northwestern and Estherville. Mason City makes its debut in the event. Sessions run Thursday night Friday afternoon and evening Saturday afternoon and finals. Trophy by Estherville Chamber of Commerce and a sportsmanship trophy donated by George Robinson will be awarded. Estherville Jaysees beat Sheldon 88 to 35 led by Hynes 20 points while Vern Nordeen's B team beat Excelsior 19 to 9 in a curtain raiser.
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Estherville
Fort Dodge
Boone, Britt
Sheldon
Worthington
Emmetsburg
Mason City
Waldorf
Webster City
Northwestern
Estherville Chamber of Commerce
George Robinson
NYA district supervisor named for Emmet area
8 000 Are Receiving Aid describes TODeeeehn Gage Carmody former Mie gona lawyer now NYA district supervisor for Emmet Kossuth and Palo Alto counties. He may locate in Algona, with funding from NYA unsettled. NYA aids 8 000 Iowa high school and college students with work aid. Local projects include Algona swimming pool park improvement for 25 youths six months. Also notes NYA presence in courthouse REA and Farm Service Station fires. The piece ends with a quip about British tea deliveries to the front.
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Todeeeehn Gage Carmody
Miegona
National Youth Administration
Emmet
Kossuth
Palo Alto
Carmody
NYA
Algona
Thomas Carmody
Whittemore
Iowa
N.Y. A
REA
Bank Sponsored Clubs Helpful Says Journal
The Banking Journal notes editorials from January 1940 praising bank sponsored youth programs. It highlights cooperation with 4 H and Future Farmers, and cites Emmet County State Bank of Estherville Iowa calf club as a model project. The piece defends banking support as educational and beneficial for future citizens and customers.
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Ite
Onaterverille
Nfairket
Call Club
Emmet County State Bank
Estherville
Iowa
Dead bass mortality shocks Iowa lakes near Ringsted
Conservation workers counted hundreds of dead bass in Swan Lake twelve miles northwest of Ringsted after seining on Saturday. A poisonous bloom blamed for the die off, with bass averaging 12 to 14 inches. Bullheads remained unaffected, and High Lake bass appeared in good condition earlier in the week. A separate Iowa State College survey estimated pheasants killed on each mile of improved highway in the pheasant range last year.
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Swan Lake
Ringsted
Anton ,Dahl
C. J. Sauers
High Lake
V.R
Iowa
Iowa State College
Annual Meeting Planned for Estherville Creamery
Plans for the Estherville Co operative Creamery annual meeting are nearly complete. The session in city hall on Thursday January 26 opens at one. A C Christensen from Minneapolis will report on the creamery’s past year business. Prof M Mortensen of Iowa State College will give the main address on cream scoring and care to produce high grade cream. P C Cromer will discuss. M P Christiansen of Algona will speak. A lunch will follow in city hall basement with P E Frettem in charge.
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Estherville
Dairy Industry Department
Iowa State College
Ames
P. C. Cromer
Extension Service
M. P. Christiansen
Algona
P. E. Frettem
DeMolays Hold Winter Frolic at Spirit Lake
About fifty Northwest Iowa DeMolays attended a Sunday winter frolic at Spirit Lake featuring hockey tobogganing and ice skating. Delegates came from Estherville Emmetsburg Spencer Spirit Lake and others. oyster stew was served at supper by Spirit Lake Mothers Club. William Carver chaired, with Thomas Hamilton helping plan. the event aims to become an annual Northwest Iowa DeMolay gathering held at Spirit Lake's toboggan slide.
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Iowa
Spirit Lake
fFnix
Pitteen
Despre Fom
Estherville
Emmetsburg
Spencer
Mother's Club
William Carver
Thomas Hamilton
Carver
Northwest Iowa
Fire truck plan for four Iowa townships
Swea City reports the Eagle Grant Swea and Harrison townships discuss forming a rural fire district. Options include voluntary contributions or a tax district with up to one fourth mill levies after a local election. Proposals consider joint ownership of equipment, with farmers paying for calls or subscriptions. Modern rural trucks with 250 gallon tanks and pumps could serve farms timely.
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Swea
Eagle
Grant
Rural Fire Company
Local J. C. Enrollment Is Steady
An Estherville junior college reports steady second semester enrollment with eighty five students. About seventy remain from first semester, while new registrants include Richard Andrews from Mesatherville and other locals such as Robert Calahan Estherville and Lillian White Estherville.
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Estherville Junior College
LSB
Cere
Richard Andrews
Msathervile
Bixby
Estherville
Robert Calahan
Wiliam Deining
Robert Kwat
Kay Krause
Spencer
Don Nicholson
Lillian White
Howard Adams
Cecil Adcock
Pauline Adcock
Wayne Arnold
Helen Bigney
Francis Boggess
Lois Bormann
Raymond Bringle
Edwin Burt
Marlys Bush
Robert’ Crim
Bruce Dahibo
Richard‘. Dawson
Paul Erickson
Arnie Hipeset
Maurice
Eveleth
Gene Fagttlund
Phil Gilbert
Keith Griffith
Giga Groth
Alice Handeland
Kathryn Hayswoods Lenore
Mel Raeings
Ruth Jackson
Ethyl Jand&n
Junior
Jensen Pat Kelly
Roger Kettleson
Morgan King
Wallace Knutson
Dale Knutson
Harold Krueger
Vary Lamb
Donald Larson
Velma LeVan
Robert McCoy
K. J. McDonald
Donald McKirby
Loren Madden
Selmer Matre
George Mousel
Keith Nelaga
Leonard Tindal
Wesley Tomhave
Mary Tostenrud
Robert Tyedte
Helen Waildee
John Watts
John Waite
Fred Weir
Grace Weydert
Trella Whitacre
Bill Yule
Internal Revenue Deputies Listed for Tax Filing Help
A Des Moines office schedule lists four Deputy Collectors assigned to Algona and Spencer on February 26 and 27 to assist the public with filing federal income tax returns for the current year. It notes that state county municipal and other public officials and employees including teachers must file if they have sufficient income.
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Collector of Internal Revenue
Des Moines
Algona and
Spencer
Fire damages Spencer Reporter plant on Monday
The Spencer Reporter plant suffered fire damage about 4 30 a m Monday from a faulty flue in the mechanical department. Water used by the Spencer fire department caused small explosions when contacting hot furnaces, but no injuries occurred. The blaze stayed in the mechanical department, with smoke and water causing most of the damage estimated at several thousand dollars. The paper still published on schedule.
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Spencer Reporter
Spencer Fire Department
Town Volunteer Firemen and Rural District Service
Town firemen and other volunteer members are farmers stationed across the fire district. They receive a small payment for attending fires, but they say it does not compensate for ruined clothes or lost time. The volunteers are drawn by excitement and the satisfaction of helping others.
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Albert Hardecopf
Dolliver
Chevrolet
Co. Operative Creamery
Gray
Dodge
Elwin Bunde
Anton Ricke
Gruver
Pontiac
Orlo Johansen
Ford
Studebaker
Clarence Huber
Gruyer
Perry T. White
Ord
Reno
Koster
Ste
Laurens Women
Wallingford Co-op
V.r—H. N. Schrodt
Hynes
Estherville Jaysees
Vern Nordeen
Excelsior
Pickle
Kelly
Donahue
Boggess
Beenee
Burteae Seene
Schryver Eeene
Griffith Q' McKirchy
Kelly Steee Veee
King Ceay
Ose
PRT
Donahue Feneen Ae
Wessell Oe
Bartels Veene
Zager
Bell
Teene Landwehr
Eb Nielson
Ates Seveal Foreman
Cones AG
George Carmody
N.Y
Leland
Lloyd Simonson
Simonson Boys
The
Banking Journal
UP the
American Banker’s ‘Association
Wide
Chicago Tribune
J. C
Internal Revenue
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