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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1939
Page
3
A collection of excerpts notes the U S political climate, stressing the need to balance government revenue and expenditures amid defense needs. It warns against punitive taxes harming business and highlights state tax practices as a contributor to economic stagnation and unemployment. The piece also includes a short, reflective verse section.
During National Education Week several education programs unfold in the Roosevelt building. R O Rogers of Northwestern Bell will present a film program on News and Views of Communication from seven to nine Tuesday evening. Open house for junior high is scheduled November 9 from seven to eight thirty with class activities and an assembly led by the Service Club. The girls glee club will perform and the 8th grade dramatizes Peter McCann Gets Naturalization Papers. A pageant The March of Education, staged by the high school’s home rooms, features studentwritten and directed scenes reflecting past present and future of education.
Irv Hunt alias Wayne Dixon of Sioux County pleaded guilty to forgery and received a 10 year term at the Anamosa reformatory before changing plea to not guilty as records were not yet entered. Judge G. W. Stillman set bond at 1000 dollars and Hunt to await January term in county jail. Ray Hughes wanted in Emmet County for embezzlement, brought from Orange City, pled guilty to a five year penitentiary sentence and was returned to Orange City for additional charges. attorney Ole Naglestad present.
Emmet county 4-H Market Litter Project winners Edwin Tindall Arthur Tindall Robert Scott Melvin Scott Donald Lundy Harold Rustad Delmer DeVoss and Bruce Monson will attend the Ames short course with expenses paid. Eight grand prizes funded by the Iowa Trust & Savings Bank and Emmet County Farm Bureau recognize outstanding hog raising records and project effort.
Emmet county farm women will attend an electrification school in Estherville and Armstrong on Thursday November 9. Miss Dorothy Simmons of Iowa State College will teach home electricity use, wattage needs, appliance choices, and simple repair tips to help homemakers save on monthly electric costs.
Young people of the Church of Christ will present a drama Sanctuary at the morning worship service Sunday. The play, based on current war activity in China, is directed by Mrs Thomas Mann. Mrs Mann also directs a dialogue and reading group in Checks. The choir will sing Be Joyful Unto the Lord under Mrs Oran Manthe. Evening Union church services will be at the Presbyterian church led by a group of Christian businessmen from Minneapolis.
List of buyers from Ringsted Estherville Graettinger and Armstrong purchasing makes including Dodge Plymouth Chevrolet Buick and Hudson. Little Gene Peterson traveled alone by train to Sioux Falls to visit aunt Mrs Hamlin, an event noted as significant.
Market brief listsHeavy Hens over 6 lbs at 11 cents Heavy Hens 4 to 6 lbs at 9 cents Light and Leghorn at 10? cents Heavy Springs over 6 lbs and over 4 to 5 lbs at 9 cents Light Leghorn Springs at 9 cents Heavy Cox and Light Cox under 5 lbs at 6 cents Hennery Eggs No 1 at 26 cents Standard Eggs No 1 at 470? cents No 2 eggs recorded Peakeyes 12 cents Net Bags listed.
Santa Claus and his Iceland ponies will visit Estherville on December 1 for an afternoon Christmas party sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. A 1:30 parade through the business district will begin the event led by Santa, followed by free entertainment between the library and courthouse featuring trained dogs ponies monkeys and clowns. Children may join the parade floats and participate.
Five divorces were granted yesterday by Judge G. W. Stillman and others on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Cases include Idella Stamp and Henry Stamp with custody of a one year old daughter. Bernice N. Hicks and A. V. Hicks. Robert Nelson and an Estherville couple. Maxine Ruth Hausner and Merle A. Hausner. and Zon Dundas and Maynard Dundas, with custody details noted in each filing.
The Rev J Albert Riggs of this city is appointed supply pastor for the Wesley Sexton Methodist churches. He attended Burton Kansas high school and Baker and Ottawa universities, with seminary study in Rochester New York in Christian education. His Iowa pastorates include Chariton Burlington and Estherville. Riggs has been active in missionary giving and youth work, led boys work as head of the Rotary club committees, and served with the YMCA and Camp Foster. He and his wife plan to move into the Wesley parsonage after remodeling. they have two children Elmer studying medicine in Rochester and Frances a sophomore at Estherville junior college.
The annual congregational supper of the Presbyterian church was held Tuesday at 6:30 PM in the church dining room. Guests were the Rev and Mrs Gilbert Woodries, with Woodries a former local minister now a synodical missionary, stationed at Marian. About 100 people attended.
Estherville hosts a regional P T A meeting on November 16 from 9 30 a m to 4 p m in Roosevelt school auditorium with delegates and visitors from about one third of the Northwest district. Hamp ton and Callendar also hold similar sessions. A noon luncheon features A J Draper field worker for the P T A speaking on Making Your PTA a Success.
The Estherville sub-district Methodist ministers group met at Rev and Mrs Fred W Ortmeyer's home for the first meeting of the new conference year. A noon dinner followed by planning for the year occupied the afternoon. Attendees included Rev and Mrs EF Broberg Swen City Rev and Mrs M D Bush Armstrong Rev and Mrs C L Day Dolliver Rev and Mrs J G Waterman Fenton Rev and Mrs B Grote Lakota and W Go Bahinta Ginettingar.
Western railroads will reduce round trip coach fares by about 5 percent effective December 15. The fare drops from 1.9 cents to 1.8 per mile across the system, with Rock Island and M. & St. L. confirming the change in their lines. Chicago chairman Hugh Siddall hinted the cut could become permanent if holiday traffic increases.
Judge G W Stillman of Algona schedules four district court trials starting next Tuesday. The docket includes State of Town versus Ben Guenther charged with driving while intoxicated, State of Iowa versus Pete Davis on a statutory charge, George Kinetob seeks back wages from John and Lillian Klinetob with a counterclaim for 1880, and Albert Uchytil administrator for Albert Uchytil deceased versus P G Gray Produce Company seeking 10000 damages for a fatal motorcycle collision involving a truck driven by Frank Smith.
At a Monday evening meeting at the Fred Trevett home the Estherville Community Welfare League named committees for the coming year. Conference committee includes Mrs. Gertrude Nipher Rev I D Sawyer Mrs Norman Maine Mrs Fred Trevett Mrs B T Osher Mrs Geo Robb Mrs W H Schloeman and Anton Steery as president. An advisory associate committee includes Miss Henrietta Miller Mrs Elizabeth Galt Miss Margaret a niece. Clothing room committee is Mrs M H Schloeman and Mrs Clive Miller. Finance committee includes Mrs Elmer Jackson Mrs Walter Schlidknecht and Chas Bixby. Plans for Christmas will be discussed at the Nov 20 league meeting.
Mrs. O. E. Morton of Estherville won a coffeemaker as the office opened east of the Elks building. Harold Graff received a ten dollar credit on a Norge refrigerator and Lars Waldee a fifteen dollar credit on an electric ironer. The D.E.K. extends sixty four miles of line across Dickinson Emmet and Kossuth counties to serve over bills cut off on the last project, with completion hoped by year end. Roy Merriott bought the Chas Carpenter house on North Sixth Street and will remodel before moving from Dunnell where he ran a mercantile business.
Residents enjoy two more days of ideal autumn conditions with a low of 20 above last night and a noon high of 40 above. Readings over the past three days show Oct 31 high 53 low 28, Nov 1 high 45 low 26, Nov 2 high 40 noon and 20 at the latest.
Estherville schools closed Thursday and Friday as teachers joined the state teachers convention in Des Moines. Miss Genin Gray attended the Minnesota meeting in Minneapolis. County superintendent Marie Sorum was part of the local delegation, with the convention slated to run through Saturday.
ALGONA Oct. 31 Dr C W Lundquist Swea City waived a preliminary hearing before Justice of Peace P A Daw son on charges of illegal possession of intoxicating liquors He was bound over to the Kossuth district grand jury under a $600 bond f urn ished by his wife Hazel Lundquist and he was released Search warrants were issued for both his home and office and a quantity of bottles and cans containing whiskey alcohol wine and other intoxicating liquors were confiscated Kossuth officers who made the raid said Dr Lundquist has been halted in the courts on the same charge before Under the AAA Farm Program farmers used green man ure crops on over 26 000 000 acres in 1938 Mr and Mrs HR Gross of Des Moines will be the honored guest at a conservation luncheon to be held in Hatherville Nov 3 at 645 p m The luncheon will be served in the dining room of the Orleans Hotel Tickets for the luncheon will go on sale Monday and in Estherville may be purchased at the Chamber of Commerce office or from Har ry Bauman Jr C R Hedrick or Frank Ellwanger In Graettinger tickets will be sold at the Jensen Drug store Ringsted Christianson and Son Hardware Armstrong H B Sturdevant Dolliver J P Stillman Wallingford Chett Tor ressen and Spirit Lake W B Bedell Mr and Mrs Gross will spend the weekend visiting with an old friend of Mr Gross s Dr O Jacobson of Graettinger and enjoying the hunting here
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