Canning Factory Feasibility for Hatherville Considered
A talk at the Gardston Hotel discusses building a two million can capacity canning plant in Hatherville with an $80,000 outlay, employing 50 to 60 seasonally, using corn grown within six miles, and paying about $9 per ton for corn. farmers could sell in August and boost local employment. Also notes progress of local residents Morrisey and a record spoonbill sturgeon catch at West Okoboji, plus a wrestling match at Wing gym.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Ieinatty
Forest City
Vinton
Hatherville
New Anderson Hospital to be Built on North Miphth Street
A new modern hospital named the New Anderson Hospital will rise near Ron on North Miphth street just south of the A. A. Pingray home. It will be two stories with seventy foot frontage on the cottage plan, housing patients and operating rooms on the first floor and the kitchen above. The plan aims to reduce kitchen odors and uphold up-to-date appointments. Estimated cost is about $8,000 furnished, under Miss J. A. Roberts who previously ran the Anderson hospital on South Ninth street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson Hospital
Nea Ron
Miphth Street
A. A. Pingray
J. A. Roberts
South Ninth Street
State Officials to Receive Population Based Raises
Iowa county officers across nineteen counties will get salary increases effective January 1 1916 due to population growth shown in the 1915 census. Raises apply to auditors treasurers recorders county attorneys clerks and sheriffs with increases ranging from 6 to 200 percent. Seventeen counties listed: Emmet Osceola Worth Lyon Franklin Lucas Pocahontas Hamilton Washington Dallas Scott Verra Gorda Appanoose Webster Black Hawk Dubuque Linn Scott and Woodbury.
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State Register
Iowa
C. A. Robbins
Lan
Doe F. Wall
County Accounting Department
State Department
Emmet
Osceola
Worth
Lyon
Franklin
Lucas
Pocahontas
Hamilton
Washington
Dallas
Stary
Verra Gorda
Appanoose
Webster
Black Hawk
Dubuque
Linn
Scott
Woodbury
Man
Estherville Architect Honored in National Competition
Estherville architect A H Hardy of Witharville earned notice by placing among the best three plans in a nationwide eight story Mason City building competition. His entries also include designs for Hart left block site and new schoolhouses at Dolliver Maple Hill and other Emmet county sites. A February 2 wedding near Humberville united Philip Butler and Zephyr Robinson with a reception, music, and dinner. the couple will farm near Spirit Lake. A Silver Leaf Circle club organized at Mrs Ed Dack home with eighteen members planned for regular meetings. social aims noted. Also ads for cold remedies and a fine eight room house for sale by the Bank of Estherville.
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A. H. Hardy
Witharville
Haa
United States
Hardy
Mason City
Chicago
Estherville
Minneapolis
Dolliver
Maple Hill
State
F. O. Butler
Habherville
Philip
Misa Zephyr Robinson
W. K. Robinson
Near Superior
Mayme Broderick
Lohengrin
Ona Stanhope
Kenneth Robinson
J. 8. Coffin
Christian Church of
Butler
Ute
Emmet
Ed. Dack
Kudwig
Oftivera
Gilbertson
Stevens
Kerr
End
Kurkholder
Chanaworth
Dack
Gilbartson
Mra. Jenperson
Mra
Nelson
Hemmingsen
Hezane
Stevena
Uhia Fa
J. P
Burkholder
Liking for Iowa Residents Cloistered in a Stormy Winter
In a letter dated February 27 1916 Vindicator and Republican editor receives a note from C R Clark formerly of Simuret County now in Hamilton Titineia. He and wife request address change after selling their farm and paying 1 50 for the Emmet county paper. Clark mentions a stormy winter and bad roads and notes a local sale of property near Four Mile Hekeo.
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C. BR. Clark
Simuret County
Hamilton
Titineia
Old Towa
Thin County
Warsaw
Alindia
Republican
Emmet
Towa
C. R. Clark
Engineers Investigating City Light Plant
N H Dodd and a team including an expert accountant have spent a week examining machinery and books at the Charles City Light Plant. Dodd and his father previously owned the plant for eleven years and sold it last May with good profit. He may bid for the Estherville plant as Far County Attorney candidate in the June Republican primary.
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N. H. Dodd
Charles City
Mr. Dodd
A. L. Dodd
Estherville
B. MM. Veon
Rural route patrons rally to restore old mail service
Patrons on rural route No 6 sign a petition denouncing Postmaster General Burleson plan to impose a new automobile service. The signers, with one exception, approve the petition and expect it to be sent to the department. Similar petitions on five other routes are being circulated and will likely be signed. The group accuses local postmaster and editor of misrepresenting conditions. Forty eight patrons have already signed.
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Postmaster General
Carpenter
Burleson
Patrona
Department
Petition seeks restoration of rural route mail delivery in Iowa
Petition signed by numerous Rural Free Delivery Route No 6 patrons from Fatherville and Estherville Iowa asks Postmaster General Albert H. Burleson to restore the original plan. They urge assigning a carrier to Route No 6 who handles mail only on that route to improve service. The signers include local residents and patrons such as Burg Hepp Hepp Otte Appel Butler Ammundaon Bon Larson Laraenu Thorson Levali Aindahi Dewall Hildreth Truesdell Osher Savatwon Clancy Egertson Jacobson Nelson Hilefson Zelingky Partlow Elios Osher Sohugon Lippert Jmoopson Thorson DeWall Hurd Boith Sackson Dewald Edwards Koberuus Kelley Kobernus Abell Aoorp Mathis Hepp Mickelson Braland Hildreth Heneman Bgland Zelinsky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fatherville
Iowa
United States
Estherville
Joe Heneman
Cory Bgland
Mike Zelinsky
Iowa Day in California Annual Picnic for Former Iowans
A long letter from Mrs. B. Taylor from Rivera California describes the Iowa Day picnic at East Lake Park Los Angeles with Emmet county attendees. The piece notes January’s gloom and February sunshine, health reports, and a list of Emmet county residents present plus a continuation on page three.
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Rivera
California
Vindicator
Republican
Taylor
Iowa
East Lake Park
Los Angeles
Marion
Cass
Emmet
B. T. ‘Taylor
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W. W. Bartlett
Mise
Alice Bartlett
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Harbert
J. Bartlett II
Geiog
Eumet County
George Bannister
Aguas
Jand
Lgbihing
Bingstad
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