Memorial Day Observed Post Office Holiday
Memorial Day on May 30 will be observed as a legal holiday by the Post Office with no window service except general delivery from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m. for transients. no city or rural delivery. A solemn program marks the day with a monument dedication at 9:00 a.m. in the city park, a firing squad at cemeteries, and Taps by a bugler, with music by the high school band and a minister leading prayers.
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United States Post Office
Service _ Star Legion
Claude ‘Fausnaugh
Presbyterian
Department Fire Called to Farm This P M
Fire department responded to a blaze at a farm this afternoon with units dispatched to the scene and details remaining limited as investigators assess the cause and extent of the damage.
Memorial day affects the Vin dicator and Republican schedule
The paper will publish only one issue on Thursday June 1 due to Memorial Day. The office will be open Monday May 29 and closed Tuesday, with normal hours rest of the week. Starting Friday, plant employees will start and end one hour earlier, front office stays open until 6 p.m. except Saturdays at 5 p.m.
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Vindicator and Republican
Reitz Held On Loaded Gun Charge In Emmet County
Harold Reitz of Spirit Lake was ordered to pay a $100 fine and costs after pleading guilty to a game law violation. He was arrested Monday by deputy M R Davis for possessing a loaded gun in a car on a public highway. The case, filed October 4, 1988 by Frank Dobberstein, occurred in Emmet Township Section 18. Davis kept the warrant until Reitz was located Monday.
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Harold. Reitz
Spirit Lake
Emmet
I Gertrude Nipher
Justice of Peace
Reitz
M. R. Davis
Frank Dobberstein
Sec
Davis
Car Stolen From Dr Clark's South Ninth Street Home
A Ford V-8 owned by Dr J P Clark is missing from his residence on South Ninth Street. He last saw the vehicle at midnight and found it gone at 5 a m when he went to use it this morning.
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A. Ford
J.P. Clark
Local Knights of Columbus delegates attend state convention
Frank Campisano and A. V. Bormann attended the Knights of Columbus state convention and banquet in Fort Dodge on Tuesday and Wednesday. State officers were re-elected. Delegates to the National convention include the Past State.
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Frank Campisano
A. V. Bormann
Knight of ‘Columbus
Fort Dodge
D E K Rural Electric contract to build 266 miles
REA approved a contract between sponsor group of D E K Rural Electric Co operative Estherville Iowa and Acme Construction Co St Paul Minn for 266 miles of line serving 499 members. The bid was 208117 with meters and overhead totaling 209026 averaging 785 per mile. Administrator Carmody ordered immediate start and completion by late summer.
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Acme Construction Co
REA
D. E. K. Rural Electric Cooperative
Estherville
Iowa
St. Paul
Minn
Carmody
Drivers licenses set for renewal this July 5
Motorists are told two year licenses expire July 5 this year and renewal must be applied for now. Renewal blanks available in county sheriff offices tomorrow with a 50 cent fee for a two year license. Applications go to Des Moines for a photographic process producing three copies. One stays in Des Moines, one in the sheriff, and the motorist keeps the third. Tests may be required for some offenders, but not for those never arrested. The new form allows attaching a photo to serve as identification.
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Des Moines
Motor Vehicle Department
Sheriff's Office
Karl W. Fischer
Power equipment installed at the Golden Sun Mill
New power equipment was installed at the Golden Sun Milling Co for their oat huller. A special hanger carries the General Electric motor driving the Rosco oat huller via multiple drive belts. The system has been serviced and is in excellent condition to hull oats.
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Golden Sun Milling Co
Life in India Explored by Missionary Talk
Rev. J. M. Girtz a 14 year India missionary with the Santal mission delivered the Chamber of Commerce lunch talk yesterday noon. The Estherville Lutheran ministers hosting an intersynodical conference provided a vivid portrait of India’s dense population and conditions. Cliff Hedrick led the program in the secretary’s absence, with prayers by Rev. Fred Sawyer and introductions by Rev. L. A. Mathie.
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J. M. Girtz
India
Santal
Chamber of Commerce
Girtz
Estherville
Cliff Hedrick
Wm. Sykes
Des Moines
Commerce
Fred Sawyer
The
Christian Church
L. A. Mathie
Big LuVerne land deal poised to close receivership
G S Buchanan Algona receiver of the Bank of LuVerne announces a bid of 259000 for 4467 acres of Hanna lands mainly in Kossuth county. Dr N G Alcock, a noted Iowa surgeon, leading bidders and associates likely in the deal. Court approval would end the bank’s eight year receivership with 40 percent dividends already paid and expected to exceed other closed Kossuth banks.
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State of Laws
G. S. Buchanan
Algona
Bank of LuVerne
N. G. Alcock
State University of Towa
Hanna
Kossuth
Alcock Har
Igsseta
Buchanan
Saturday Poppy Day Observance Marks Local Drive
The annual Poppy Day event returns Saturday with members of the American Legion Auxiliary selling remembrance flowers. Former years saw Auxiliary members and junior department girls from the Legion Auxiliary handling the sale, raising funds for veterans.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Veterans Home
Knoxville
Department of American Legion Auxiliary
Prolonged Drouth Is Broken by Heavy Shower
A long Middle West drouth ended this afternoon as a heavy shower reduced heat from 95 degrees at noon. Sherburn Minnesota reports cloudbursts, while Easterville sees heavy rain. Early corn appears to thrive though pasture and grassland suffer. mosquitos are fewer than last year. Weekly record shows May rainfall totals from 0.40 to 0.92 inches.
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Middle West
Sherburn
Minnesota
Eatherville
SandL Store Burglary Reported After Window Entry Night
SandL Store was entered between closing time and 11 45 p m through the elevator shaft window, with four suits, nine shirts, eight pairs of shoes, seven ties and more taken. Mr B Okaner notified at 11 45 p m and located items suggest intruder selected sizes 36 to 78. Mr and Mrs Simonsen of Graettinger welcomed a daughter May 22 at Coleman hospital. Mr and Mrs Harry Bauman Jr also reported a daughter born May 22 at Coleman hospital.
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S&l
B. Okaner
Eftea
Sud
Robert Simonsen
Graettinger
Harry Bauman, Jr
Coleman Hospital
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Hall of
Mason City
Harold Reitz
J. P. Clark
Ford
Knights ‘Columbus
Golden Sun
Missionary
Luverne
Sandl
Berit
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