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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1933
Page
3
A reader reflects on plans to start late this month and hopes for passenger help to cover costs. The piece notes Florida beer legalization, Gulf and Atlantic bathing, and Lake Caloosa swims. He criticizes Iowa farmers defying laws, praises President Roosevelt, and laments business losses while stressing loyalty to the United States.
Chicago May 16 President Roosevelt will attend the opening ceremony of A Century of Progress Chicago 1933 World's Fair five days earlier than planned to fit Annapolis duties. Expo officials report all exhibits will be ready by May 27 and claim no public funds aided financing.
The Estherville high junior class entertained seniors and faculty at the Gardston hotel with a circus themed banquet. A prom blended junior college and high school followed the meal, with decorations, acts, and toastings led by student leaders and Miss Harriet Osher as general chair.
The Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers will broadcast a good government program from Des Moines studios on May 18 at 4 00 p m CST. Lorraine Watters directs music for the four senior high schools with seventy boys and girls singing songs from many nations ending with America the Beautiful.
President Roosevelt will be escorted to Boldier Field Stadium on May 27 by the Black Horse Troop. Marching in the procession will be military and naval units, American Legion members, and other uniformed groups. Before his arrival the Exposition will show an international Salute of Nations with flags raised by groups in native costume. Four addresses are planned by Rufus Dawen, Mayor Edward J Kelly, Governor Henry Horner, and President Roosevelt.
A display at Esther ville Junior college presents a nine stage chick embryo study. Erling Hansen and Miss Jeannette Watson arrange eggs in incubators and salt solution to observe growth from 21 to 17 days, with visible heart, brain and limb development.
Leif A. Dah reviews farm distress in the New Republic on May 17, noting sheriff sales halted and Farmers Holiday associations expanding. He cites rising militant farmer groups, organized opposition, and direct action alarming mortgage holders while warning bankers’ control risks moral and physical degradation for American farmers.
Percy Shaw who served as roadmaster is transferred to Ft Dodge to become trackmaster there. C B Wetherill, previously in Ft Dodge, returns here to take the roadmaster post this week.
The article recounts the Jack Horner legend tied to real Tudor events, alleging Horner seized title deeds hidden in a pie crust during Henry VIII’s dissolution. It notes he became Sir John Horner and that the knighting may indicate fiction, with Mell’s Part in Somerset linked to Glastonbury.
The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a lower Emmet County District Court ruling in the Dally case. Esther Immer sought to bar the Harold Dally family from residing in the county. Judge James DeLand had ruled they could remain as residents.
Merrill Meadows elected 1933 34 president of Phi Kappa Sigma at Iowa City and named to the inter fraternity council. He is son of Mr and Mrs C E Meadows of this city. Weather outlook May 15 to 20 shows fair start with possible Tuesday or Wednesday showers and again near week end, temperatures near normal across the upper Mississippi lower Missouri valleys and northern central plains.
M A Balkema a Spir it Lake farmer is hired as Emmet County agent to succeed Max McMillin He will start Monday May 15 and lead a program including boys and girls club work marketing swine feeding tests disease control soil management and home projects as outlined by the Farm Bureau leaders and programs committee including A V Bormann and the group at Estherville.
McGregor street at Algona reports six young squirrels with white bushy tails born to a red squirrel line once famous for twins. Neighbors observe the brood from the Bonnstetter home as passersby look twice, watching the elm nest where the litter has attracted local attention.
Theodore Hardman a 29 year old aviator from Spirit Lake was flown to Rochester after eleven days at Coleman hospital for bowel adhesion surgeries. Fuller of Milford piloted the aircraft with Dr J P Clarke Estherville accompanying him. His mother and sister Ruth traveled by auto to join relatives while en route to Rochester.
Mrs. Sarah Bannister died at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Joe Madden in Halfa after a cancer operation. Her condition had been serious. A full obituary will appear in Thursday’s issue. Marriage license applications list Linus Wayne Wallis and Adeline Mary Sturm of Armstrong and Nolan Boggess and Lena Schaper of Estherville. Irvin French underwent leg surgery Saturday and was sent home the same game day. Mrs. Mary Kelm of Emmetsburg visits Estherville with her daughter Mrs Francis Kennedy.
Six individuals faced Mayor M. K. Whelan after a rambunctious Estherville weekend. Dick Rugby Jr and others were arraigned. Freeburg fined 20 dollars plus costs. Van Valkenburg and Roach jailed 30 days each. Thomas given five days jail with suspension if he left town. Moore arrested but charged dropped.
Grover school Supt P N Butson appeared to apply for county superintendent of public instruction. He explains he only wanted to propose a salary reduction like that given to teachers and superintendents. The election body ruled his application out of order. State law allows reductions up to 11.11 percent. counties face larger cuts in some districts.
Judge F C Davidon in Algona district court last week refused to sign an eviction order in a case where Mrs. Jennie Carroll sought to oust her son Ralph Carroll and family from a Seneca township farm. The petition claimed rent unpaid since March 1930. Ralph, an invalid with a large abdominal hernia, is bedbound. His wife and mother of four cared for the family and did most farm work, including plowing and planting, with eviction deemed an injustice and humane outrage.
Five people escaped serious injury after a weekend car collision in Armstrong. Mr and Mrs George Fothergil and their daughter Harriett, along with Roscoe Olmstead and Esther Johnson, all sustained only minor cuts and bruises. The crash occurred around 8:30 p m at Main Street near the Crank Standard Oil station as the Fothergils turned from the west and the Olmstead car approached from the east on No 9. Both cars were badly damaged and Olmstead and Johnson were en route to Estherville to visit his parents.
Clyde Sanborn and wife elated as Swea City store awarded one of 15 prizes in a Rite-Way independent grocers contest for appearances. Photos of display window and interior were submitted. With 900 Rite-Way stores, the honor is notable. The couple is repeatedly praised for their store keeping.
Mayor M K Whelan announced new hours for officers Chris Danielson and L L Jones Danielson moves from night to day shift and Jones assumes the night duty, reflecting schedule adjustments in the city police department.
N M Volding 47 round house foreman for the M and St L at Spencer died early Saturday from injuries after being caught between two draw bars while uncoupling a coal car engine. He had recently moved from Estherville with his wife and daughter Ethlyn, funeral set for two thirty at the Presbyterian Church Estherville with burial in Oak Hill cemetery after services in Spencer.
A. L. Cunningham, former secretary of the Algona Building and Loan Association, was sentenced to five years in Ft Madison but granted a bench parole. He may visit Algona only one day per month and must spend the rest of his time outside the county. The parole followed an application by building and loan officers and others whose rent money had been embezzled.
Kenneth Personius of Fairmont pled guilty in federal court at St Paul to transportation of a stolen automobile. The case links to a ring involving Emmet Olson who died by his own action, with three others held. Charles Paul to be tried in June in Mankato. Dave Lynch in jail awaiting trial for persuading others to burn cars for insurance. Y McLean and Ea Galbraith sentenced for burning autos. Harry Smith in jail near Fairmont preparing to plead guilty.
Alva L. Ragsdale formerly of this city now pastor of the Christian church at Eldora was chosen by the senior class as baccalaureate speaker for exercises on May 21. Normal Training exams will be written Wednesday Thursday and Friday by fourteen junior and senior high school girls.
LeRoy Austins Riverside California citrus ranch was redesigned to blend old plantings with modern outdoor living. The grounds feature a sunken courtyard, rose pergolas, naturalistic pools, a grotto with a stream from an old well, and extensive hedges. The property won first prize in the Riverside Yard Garden contest.
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