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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1938
Page
3
Editorial notes Emmet county Republicans are said to have the right tone to help nominees across the board while Democrats face criticism for endorsing the New Deal. It praises Judge Morse, laments CIO strikes, discusses taxes, and urges prudent water safety amid drownings. The writer comments on local roads, family size, and water safety.
Claude Lindquist and his wife arrived in England on June 26 after a pleasant voyage. They plan to visit Plymouth Settlement. A postcard received today shows the Holland-American Line ship The P.8.8. Weedam.
Work began last week on the Gardston Hotel remodel expected to finish by mid September. Third floor will add two four room apartments in the northeast, second floor three five room units, six baths. Main floor to house a coffee shop with a private north dining room. Canopies entrances replaced with metal alloy, neon signs added. South and west fronts get black glass upgrades at an approximate cost of $10,000.
A rubbish pile behind the vacant store of Ted Hammes ignited near 3 p m causing smoke and water damage rather than structural loss. Fire likely from spontaneous combustion or a cigarette tossed on boxes and oily rags. The empty coal bin was reached through a hole in the wall. The building is part of the Cordelia Albro estate.
A Saturday night storm in Dunnell Minnesota struck Lake Fremont and Jay townships with near cyclonic wind. Buildings blew down injuring Larson Bros. new 29 by 60 foot gable crib and granary, others lost roofs, barns and machinery. crops suffered significant damage across several farms including Oscar Johnson Hans Jeterson and Oscar Swanson properties. A hard rain accompanied the wind but the storm was brief and many trees fell.
The Spencer city council approved a $5 per man monthly pay raise for the police force. Chief R A Peterson will earn $140 monthly, and every officer will receive $120. Each officer will have two weeks vacation yearly after one year on the force, with changes effective July first. Mrs Ralph Calhan and son of Battle Creek and Miss Katherine Burns of West Union visit Mr and Mrs J B Burns and Bernard Burns.
County attorney Harry Coffie shows strong interest in the Hughes world flight while T. L. Thurlow, a navigator and Stanford graduate, rests on leave from the Army. Thurlow helped design a navigational instrument now patented, as Coffie plans to telegram Fairbanks to greet the arrival. The Hughes plane lands in Paris after a record 16 hours 38 minutes eastbound, with Ed Lund and four others aboard plus Stoddart as radio engineer.
A district meeting of Maur ice Doyle Post, American Legion, attracts many members including B. Oksner Dr A ST Reed Chas Stewart Art Bringle Wm Hiles Harold Woodling Clyde Sathomimt James Dolliver state commander Frank Miles editor Iowa Legionaire Skin Laird state adjutant and Fred Hudson district commander who are scheduled to attend and speak at Emmetsburg today.
Wa-Tan-Ye Business and Professional Women's club meets Thursday at Gardston hotel for a 6:30 dinner then at Mrs. Tr. S. Greig’s home. Greig will show motion pictures from her round the world trip. Dinner committee includes Vera Seger, Ruby Heneman, Cliff Hedrick. Program committee includes Buena Merron, Mary Mauss, Gertrude Mohr.
Miss Everald Anderson daughter of Mr and Mrs C T Anderson and Mr Deemer Lee son of Judge and Mrs N J Lee were united in marriage this afternoon at three at the bride s home on North Sixth street Rev Claude Fausnaugh officiated Attendants Miss Irene Sunde and Mr Robert N Lee The couple will take an eleven day Pacific Northwest tour visiting Portland Vancouver Victoria and Alaska Mrs Lee is a Estherville high school graduate and attended the junior college Her husband attended the University of Chicago and is Phi Delta Theta editor Loo ia edits this issue The first Madame De Love column appears in this issue.
Poulos to visit his father Gus Poulos a hatter in John son shoe store. A wager to send an air mail cachet to Greece yields a reply from Athens before Vincent Maloney. Gus learns his father believed him dead for ten years and may visit his parents after twenty years apart.
State conservation officer C H Davis announced that three hundred adult pheasants will be released in Emmet county during the week of July 17. Fifty farms are needed to host the birds, with volunteers urged to contact the pheasant committee members J L Howe B B Kint Estherville IT C Christiansen Ringsted L P Stillman Dolliver Layman Bown Armstrong Sylvester Berg Wallingford. No more than twenty five birds will be placed in any one section and shelters are needed north of highway 4 and south of no 4.
Sheriff Cliff Fredericksen County Attorney Harry Coffie and Police Officer Ed Case attend a law enforcement short course at the University of Iowa College of Law. Fredericksen and Case went Monday. Coffie, a graduate of the Iowa College of Law, went today.
City Council met at 7 30 pm approving a sanitary sewer contract by Adam Beaver and First and Maple. Trustees for the library were named for six years: Mrs Oscar Sillge, Robert Knight, Theo Myhre. T C Thompson named police commissioner to fill Chas Kilgore’s term due to ill health. Street naming and numbering amended shifting base line to the northwest corner of Lot 7, block 65. Budget hearing set for Aug 1 at 7 30 with public comment. Weather notes record hot day, Spirit Lake absence of observer A O Peterson at Sleepy Hollow cottage. thermometer at Ontario degrees 4 36 pm. minimum 67.
Miss Irene Franks resigns as sophomore English instructor at Irene Franks High School to be married. No replacement hired yet as Supt. F. G. Stith negotiates a new teacher while Franks also directed junior and senior class plays and assembly programs.
Lyle Jackman, 27, pleaded guilty Saturday before Judge F C Davidson to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. County attorney Harry B Coffie presented the case. Jackman received a three month sentence in Emmet county jail and is serving it. He was arrested in Estherville Friday by city police. He did not have a driver's license and his 1937 chauffeur's license had expired.
Dolliver's cream grading team placed third in a state con test linked to the state meeting of the Towa State Brand Creameries cooperative marketing group. Gene Lundahl, manager, trained the team and was among ten top individual scorers. Team members include Louis McKean Lillian Tirevold Ralph Miller Ralph McKean and Virgil Frederickson. Louis was fourth overall. A beautiful plaque accompanies the honor.
Fifteen Emmet County standard schools received state funds totaling 471.70 for 1937 38 to support general improvements. Grants listed include 12 Mile Lake districts and Ellsworth Denmark and Jack Creek areas with individual awards ranging from about 23 to 88 dollars. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Waters and sons returned Sunday from a ten day vacation in Northern Minnesota.
DeMolays from Estherville Carroll Cherokee Denison Emmetsburg Fort Dodge Mapleton Onawa Sioux City Spencer Spirit Lake will attend a Northwest District summer frolic at Templar Park Spirit Lake on July 380 and 31. Thos Hamilton of Estherville senior steward chairs the district dance and Estherville DeMolays assist with planning Spencer handles housing. Events include a Saturday dance Sunday church services and a golf and swimming tournament. Delegates expected from across the state with local hosts Estherville Spirit Lake housing many guests. Additional attendees include Pete Lains o and daughter Jean Dorothy Christiansen Emmet O Donnel and Walter Bedell. Mrs Lains o and Mrs Bedell are former state auxiliary presidents. O Donnel is past sergeant at arms in the state department. Lains o is past district commander in the Legion.
The Rural Electrification Administration preliminarily considers a no loan request to build a rural electrification center serving Emmet Dickinson Kossuth Clay and Palo Alto counties. It requires signed membership applications easements maps and incorporation under Iowa law plus attorney approval and REA forms. A tentative rate suggests 38.50 monthly for 40 kWh and 6.00 for 100 kWh with no payment for rights of way. Progress depends on prompt local cooperation and adequate organization.
Many residents from Estherville attended sessions of the Knights Templar conclave on Spirit Lake last week. Participants included T J Levdahl Oscar Payre George Nichols and numerous couples and families at dress parades and programs. Mrs Merle Galvin heads to Town City for a university hospital clinic with possible operation.
W L Whitman of Webster City suffered chest injuries when his 1988 Ford sedan collided with a southbound Northwestern electric engine near Gridley at 6 15 PM. Repairs estimated at 250 dollars. This crossing has seen three accidents in 20 years, with one fatality. Six young girls escaped injury when their car overturned south of Fort Defiance state park while returning from a picnic. Lois Ridley led the Ford V 8 with passengers Caroline Gilliland Dorothy Danielson Elizabeth Kinnard and Welena Slater. A car forced them off the road, the pick up followed on the wrong side, and the overturned vehicle slid into a ditch. The group was brought to town by the pickup driver.
Mr and Mrs Linus Peterson joined a national farm managers tour across Minnesota from Tuesday to Friday The group represented states from Oklahoma to Washington DC The conference met at Glenwood and the tour paused there for two nights Fifty cars accompanied the party
Emmet County Conservation League will host a Conservation Field Day on September 11 at Okomanpadu State Park. Events include fly casting archery trap shooting and more with named chairs from Dolliver Estherville Ringsted and Ringsted area. Prizes picnic facilities and separate men and women divisions planned. A July 29 meeting of field day committees and officers is scheduled in Dolliver.
John Marcus’ Dukes cafe in Dunnell Minnesota was robbed during the night Tuesday. Thieves removed a back window and entered, stealing seven cartons of cigarettes five dollars in cash and clothing belonging to Mr and Mrs Marcus. No clues found. Sheriff Roehler of Fairmont took fingerprints from the window ledge Wednesday.
Walter Klein and Richard Bryan captured the Doubles under 14 boys title, defeating James Kennedy and John Grover 4 6 6 2 6 24 in the finals. Kennedy and Grover earlier beat Weber and Kelly in the first round of the upper bracket, with Klein and Bryan advancing via byes and defeating Gispson and Oksner and Smith and Carlson.
Mrs William Simpson 72 a longtime resident died at the farm home of her son John in the county Saturday after more than a year of illness caused by complications She lived in Florida wintered there after her son George died last spring The family came to this vicinity in 1900 Funeral services were held Monday at Grace Episcopal Church Interment was at East Side Cemetery The widow had spent time with children Francis and John Moterville and Mrs Mina Charl son Des Moines in recent years known as a quiet capable woman devoted to family and church
Period July 1 to 16 inclusive covers the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri Valleys and the Northern and central Great Plains. Temperatures are normal or above for the most part with likely one or two light shower periods. VR.
In Estherville and Plymouth area transactions, Rouse, Mrs Sharpe, Sam Thorsland, and Ilvng Lo Sande are linked with purchases involving Chevrolet vehicles and related arrangements. Details are fragmented but indicate a local motor trade with multiple names and places.
Year so far for readers and merchants prompts reflection on business success and the impact of ads. Plan the second half of 1938 with a full advertising and selling program in The Vindicator and Republican, reaching thousands. Phone 76.
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