Memorial Day Observances in Estherville
Memorial Day events in Estherville featured ceremonies at city cemeteries for Civil War Spanish-American and World War veterans with prayers, volleys, taps, and color guards. The Riverside Park program included songs and tributes to G A R survivor G W Alb ee and Spanish-American veterans, ending with a poppy song and a salute by the firing squad. Judge A A Herrick warned against unnecessary war, urged universal conscription and preparedness, and argued wealth should not exempt manpower.
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Estherville
Nature
American Legion
J. Kaiser
L. A. Mathie
A. G. Bailey
F. W. Ortmeyer
Oak Hill
Riverside Park
Mathie
Rev. Ortmeyer
America
Estherville High School
Riverside
G. W. Albee
G.A.R
Betty Thomas
American Legion Auxiliary
Service Star Legion
Esther Floyd
Irving Ellerston
Auxiliary
Arlene Lekin
Henry Paulson
Gus Welch
A. A. Herrick
Legion
Mrs Delavan Jr Dies After Short Illness
Word comes of the death of Mrs. Margaret Delavan wife of George Delavan Jr of Los Angeles California. She died Sunday night May 26 at 2 o'clock after an appendectomy during which rupture and peritonitis developed. She leaves husband two daughters and is cousin of Mrs N H McKerral. Friends of Mrs Delavan Sr learn her eyesight is failing due to cataracts.
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Margaret Delavan
George Delavan, Jr
Los Angeles
Calif
Delavans
N. H. McKerral
Delavan
Has Money to Burn It Costs a Helpmate Ten Dollars
Leonard Smith received ten dollars from his wife to pay bills. He forgot the cash on a stand and burned the papers in a basement furnace, thinking the money worthless. The mishap proved the bill value did not survive the blaze, leaving him with nothing but a deflated lesson.
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Leonard Smith
Leonard
Adams Electric Shop Hosts One Day Home Service School
Adams Electric Shop sponsors a one day Home Service School for women of Estherville at Grand Theatre on June 56. Sessions start at 10 a m with lecture demonstrations by Ann Woodall on cold cookery and modern range cooking. The event features Norge Kitchen range and refrigerators, a film short Norging Ahead Together with Beverly Bayne, and other surprises to entice home makers to attend.
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Estherville
Adams Electric Shop
Norge
Grand Theatre
Adams
Ann Woodall
Norging
Beverly Bayne
Mr. Adams
Michael Reynolds joins honor society and service star legion meeting
Michael Reynolds receives membership in the League of Curtis salesmen for boys who sell its publications. Admittance hinges on school attendance and customer service. teachers note increased responsibility and self confidence. Service Star Legion to meet Thursday at city hall with social chair Mrs Norman Maine and hostesses listed. members to attend at 2 30.
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Michael Reynolds
League of Curtis Salesmen
Curtis Publishing Company
Mike
Service Star Legion
City Hall
Norman Maine
Peter Tornell
C. J. Lungren
Eli Erickson
Amos Boyster
City appoints Dr Reed as city physician
Dr A J Reed was appointed city physician at a regular city council meeting in the city hall succeeding Dr C E Birney. The council rented upstairs rooms in the old city hall for local Iowa Reemployment service offices. A beer permit was issued to Glenn Crook for a cafe to be Green Gables in the former Virginia Cafe on East Lincoln Street. Miss Jean Richardson underwent an appendectomy Friday at Birney hospital and is recovering well. Mr and Mrs Nels Ellingson and Alfred Albertson of Keister were yeasts Sunday at the Emlet Twito h.
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A. J. Reed
City Hall
C. E. Birney
Old City Hall
Iowa
Glenn Crook
Green Gables
Virginia
East
Lincoln Street
Jean Richardson
Birney Hospital
Nels Ellingson
Alfred Albertson
Keister
Emlet Twitoh
Templars Mark Graves In Oak Hill Cemetery
Esdraelon Commandery No 52 Knights Templars decorate graves on Ascension Day at Oak Hill. Committee: Oscar Fagre commander and others. 30 members resting in local cemetery. List of names includes F E Allen John Amundson A A Anderson Don Booth Dr Dillon W H Foote Orestes Graaf John Griffith and more. Records note other former members buried in Fergus Falls Minneapolis Emmetsburg Spirit Lake Cedar Rapids and Los Angeles with incomplete records.
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Esdraelon
K. T. No. 52
Oak Hill Cemetery
Oscar Fagre
John Petersen
J. Hansen
J.lerdahl
M. K. Whelan
Rompine Sondrol
Geo
A. Nichols
Chri
Knights Templars
Esdraelon Commandery
F. E. Allen
John Amundson
A. A. Anderson
E. W. Bachman
Don Booth
Ds. Dillon
N. B. Egbert
W. H. Foote
Orestes Graaf
John Griffith
A Houltshouser
Robert Hamilton
A. M. Jefferis
Fred Jones
John Montgomery
John L. Guest
George Stuart
Armstrong Cemetery
Woodhouse
Fergus Falls
L. Heffelfinger
Grundy Center
Wm. Tweedy
Minneapolis
Alexander Peddie
Emmetsburg
P. Narey
Fred Gilbert
E. L. Johnson
Spirit Lake
Geo. Goodell
John Seymour
Buffalo Center
Jo, Carberry
Jim Forest
Cedar Rapids
George Lyon Westmore
Vermont
George Godden
Los Angeles
California
Dolliver Honors Newlyweds at Creamery fete
The Farmers' Creamery Company board honored Mr and Mrs Gene Lundahl at a May 31 gathering in the I O O F Hall. About 200 guests attended with talks by H D Mereness M O Moklebust and Rev C R Reager. Guests from Petersburg Minn and Spirit Lake joined in gifts ice cream drinks and dancing to close the evening.
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H. H. Lundahl
Gene Lundahl
Petersburg
Minn
Maurine Harker
Spirit Lake
Riverside Park hosts 160 at McKinley School picnic
At Riverside Park the McKinley School picnic drew 160 attendees including students teachers and parents. Superintendent J S Hillard and Miss Dorothy Ehlers attended as guests.
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McKinley
Riverside Park
J. S. Hillard
Dorothy Ehlers
All Drivers Must Renew Auto Licenses Statewide
Renewal licenses are required for all drivers in the state of Towa. Each license costs 25 cents and must be paid to the department via application blanks available in towns. Blanks arrive June 11 and forms ask name address sex weight hair color eye color height race and require the previous license number.
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State of
Towa
Chouity
Estherville
Clift Fredericksen
Armstrong
Heinrich’s
Ringsted
Farmers Elevator
Dolliver
L. P. Stillman
Maple Hill
Wallingford
Fredrickson
Highway Patrol
Des Moines
Manu
Vacancies Open in Estherville Teaching Staff
The Estherville board of education will fill three teaching vacancies before fall. Resignations include Miss Frieda Andresen from first grade and Miss Dorothy Latchem from English, with several contracts pending. New hires include Miss Elizabeth Hunker for music and Miss Margaret Umbarger for second and third grade, while a girls physical training post is added.
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Estherville Board of Education
Frieda Andresen
Roosevelt
Fairmont
Dorothy Latchem
Latehem
Mildred C. Schmidt
Britt
Elizabeth Hunker
Sigourney
Dorothy Ehlers
Hunker
W. N. Hunker
Estherville
Margaret Umbarger
Lake Park
Lincoln Building
Harry Baumen, Jr
Leota Hardy
Anne L. Fisher
Rolfe
Kathryn Agnew
Roosevelt School
Frank Pullen Takes Life
The lifeless body of 46 year old Frank Pullen was found in his bachelor home by buyer Chet Ryder who had come to sell a truck. Coroner Fred Sternberg listed death as a self inflicted gunshot wound likely caused by despondency, with funeral services held at Sternberg Funeral Home and burial in Nest Side cemetery. Survived by brothers Glenn and Tom of Estherville, he was a longtime resident born in Estherville on September 6 1888.
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Frank Pullen
Chet Ryder
Fred Sternberg
Sternberg
F. W. Ortmeyer
Nest Side
Henry Long, Sr
Pullen
Mr. Long
Ryder
Mr. Pullen
Estherville
George Pullen
Roseltha
Charles
Glenn
Tom
Local Odd Fellows Lodge to hold meeting in Lake Park
Local members of the I O O F lodge plan to attend the Iowa Great Lakes association meeting in Lake Park Thursday evening. Sibley delegates will confer degrees on candidates. Emmet county Odd Fellows are urged to attend. plans for the Lost Island picnic June 28 are under way with sponsorship by lodges in Emmet Dickinson Clay and Palo Alto counties. Grand Master Oliver Rett of Mason City will speak.
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I. O. O. F. Lodge
Iowa Great Lakes
O. O. F. Association
Lake Park
Sibley
Odd Fellows
Emmet County
Fy and
Ringsted to host Emiet county 8th grade graduation events
The Emiet county eighth grade graduation will be at Ringsted on Friday with a morning program at the opera house led by Rev. Kloth and principal address by J. C. Johnsen. Miss Marie Sorum will introduce the class, diplomas by Hon. E. J. Maurice, followed by a benediction. Activities include readings, music, a wedding pageant, and a 1:45 PM afternoon talk by Louis Calahan, plus a baseball game and a night concert and dance, with buses departing at 8:30. The rural list of graduates covers numerous townships and Estherville groups.
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Emiet
Ringsted
Fucli
Craditation Gram
Opera House
Cr. Kloth
Marien Christensen
Denmark
Mek Township
Jean Bosold
Taek Creek
Paul Harris
Iowa Lake Township
Carmel Jean Morten
Ellsworth
Marjorie Christensen
Enrl Nelson
Denmark Township
Allan Gunderson
Arnot Lind
Twelve Mile Lake Township
Little Brown Church
The
J. C. Johnsen
Marie Sorum
E. J. Maurice
A. Stub
Estherville
Armstrong
Wallingford
Louis Calahan
Des Moines
Estherville Maytes
Fairmont
At & O'Clock
J. J. Maniece
Ringsted Opera House
Rose Madsen
Roy Homann
Donald Bergeson
Marl Lorensen
Artis Partello
Genevieve Thomas
Arvilla Kissinger
Selma Herren
LaVerne Valen
Donald Larson
Eugene C. Larsen
High Lake
Harold A. Huntley
Dale O. Younr
Kenneth Ivan
Violet Rick
Wilma Hiveley
Lorette Peterson
Charl Rasmussen
Melvin Scott Jack Rathmean
Frances Kat
Robert Crim
Paul Dorling
Richard Dawson
Maurice Eveleth
Rosemary Ewen
Roland Fagre
Melvin Free
Margaret Gehest
Glenn Groth
Palmer Walverson
Billy Hamilton
Jeanne Harrison
Doris Hintz
Grece Hubbard
Evelyn Ingvall
Olive Judd
Pat Kelly
Otto Klein
Dale Knutson
Esther Krahmer
Barbara Kresie
Ervin Lande
John Lee
Robert Liddle
Hyle Lowman
Miss Sorum Is Honored For Rural Education Work
Miss Marie Sorum county superintendent has been asked by Roy M Hughes president of Iowa State College Ames to be associate leader to Dr Paul R Mort director school education at Columbia University for the Country Life Institute to be held at Ames June 10 20 21 and 22 The program theme is The Outlook For Country Life in the Corn Belt Several educators will present including Dr John O Black Harvard Dr O K Baker U S Department of Agriculture Dr a He Kolb University of Wisconsin Dr Paul Robort Columbia University Dr Reinmheld Niebuhy Union Theological Seminary and Dr U B Manny USDA Division of Farm Population and Rural Life
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Marie Sorum
Ri O M. Hughes
Iowa State College
Ames
Paul R. Mort
Colmbia University
Country Fate Institute
Anes
Corn Belt
John 0. Black
Harvard
O. IK. Baker
U.S. Department of Agriculture
A. He. Kolb
Held Last Rites For Mrs Gust Anderson
Last rites were held for Mrs Gust Anderson 59 at her home after a months illness. She died Saturday morning and the body, taken to Curlew for burial, leaves a long list of survivors including husband and four sons Vern on a teaching post and Lawrence at home plus Raymond and Lloyd in Taurens. Dozens of relatives and friends visited, with many names listed as attending or connected to the family surname Anderson.
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Gust Anderson
Curlew
Anderson
Mama AL Anderson
Ford County
Laurens
Vernon
Emmet Consolidated
Osehonl
Lawrence
Raymond
Lloyd
Taurens
Dahon
Estherville Rodeo Committees Plan Four Day Event
Estherville ro deo committees meet to finalize plans for four days of rodeo entertainment starting June 20. Governor Herring will lead the opening parade on a white horse with a host of officials and mounted escorts. Major parade units include civic floats, school groups, bands, and a display of highway transportation from ox cart to autos.
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Estherville
Perdue
Gov. Herring
C. J. Ditto
Northwest Town
State
C. Rool
Marie Serun
J. C. Nichols
Ralph McKay
Kirteen
Fred Wilson
W. Be, Deming
Walt Luces
Oscar Sillge
Roy Miller
M. A. Balkema
Farm Union
Harry Hornby
Wm. Clark
Elmer Duckett
M. 8
Warren
Joe ~Timmons
C. J. Mathieson
Wilbur Thorndyke
Deemer Lee
Jas. White
L. M. Christensen
G. H. Raife
Herman Jensen
Wallace Berg
F. W. Lakin
A. J. Knepper
Tenon
Committee Meets With Highway Commission Ames Meeting
Estherville will be represented at a Ames meeting today by Mayor Fred Ehlers Councilman Ed Stockdale Ike Coleman Deemer Lee and Dick Everds. They will urge the completion of paving the gap in highway No. 9 in the east end of Dickinson county during the coming season.
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Estherville
Ames
Fred Ehlers
Ed Stockdale
Ike Coleman
Deemer Lee
Dick Everds
Won't Raise Colts Robt West on tractors and horses
Robt West of Emmet county argues tractors suppress horse use as demand for horses grows. Hobbs Hansen and Mrs Bo PY Hansen traveled to Sioux City for events while Mr Hansen attended a junior district convention. Mrs Ketchum and two children prepared to move to Bovey Minnesota. Deputy Ruby Henemen was hospitalized Thursday night but is resting more easily.
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Robt
Emmet
Robert
Bo PY. Hansen
Sioux City
Mr. Hansen
J.C. Penney Company
Claude Ketchum
Bovey
Minn
Ketchum
Ruby Henemen
County Recorders Office
Coleman Hospital
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Mark Graves
Elver Yule
Tony Miller
Dan Howard
Lawrence Jones
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William Reed
Canadian
ODD Fellow Lodge
Elmer Adams
Carl Jeglum
Victoria Canon
Glenn Finger
St. Paul, Minn
Ernest Smith
John Lyman
Ann
Arthur G. Bailey
Arthur T. Bailey
Otto Braskamp
Laverne, Minn
Asheville
N. C
Presbyterian Women's Missionary Organization
E. G. Grove
Boone
Dallas
Margaret Spencer
Mia Roosevelt
Washington
Sorum
Columbia University
VER
WB. Jolistom
Motherville
Mere
N.o. Johnson
Wisdom
Denehter
Swarthmore
Pas
Johnson
Gladys Jeghim
Mroo
Helen Robinson
Ired Robinson
Ert Schryver
Beverly Sharpen
Berbara Smith
Pauline Simith
Arlene Sorensen
Dane Stockdele
Merle Sunde
Agnes Tendal
Ruth Phorsen
Maurin Wilson
Alice Woerls
Wayne Wratten
Alice Yates
Billy Yule
Arbett Penson
Darlene Davidson
Wyatt Bassette Bester Burkart
Fred Getes
Ruth Haeckett
Ruth Haeckett,” Ter Hert Tense, Marl Therheandson," Carl Loeschen
Olaf McManness
Betty Palmer
Leonard Tendal
Lewis Tendal
Edith Wingerson
Keith McKean
Merlyn Wee
Arnested
Janice Fink
Bernice Jensen
Martha Larsen
Betty Madsen
Wilma McGuinn
Frank Myers
Nhcaine
Maurice Smith
Warren Underwood
Maxine Wood
Wallas
John Watts
Laverne Loewenberg
Russell Christensen
Jean Warner
Loren Madden
Sibyl Mykebust
Geneve Christensen
Pearl Amonson Elnora
Olson
Graver
Robert McCoy
William Irwin
Martha Martin
Luella Thorsland
Florence Origer
Betty Hanson
Allen Hersleff
Donald Lerson
Olin Nordsletten
Doris Sabin
Donald Young
Governor Herring
Highway Commission
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