Starr Is Installed as Estherville School Staffing Grows
Estherville schools expand enrollment with two additional teachers. A. E. McArthy of Carbon Tale joins as relief high school teacher focusing on mathematics and science. Elmer E. Starr, former Emmetsburg athletic coach, elected to fill vacancy left by Marcy Baker for lacking required master’s degree. Baker’s replacement adds to a 55‑teacher staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estherville
A. E. McArthy
McArthy
Elmer E. Starr
Emmetsburg High School
Marcy Baker
Baker
Starr
Heavy Rains, Winds Hit Estherville Area
Heavy rainfall and severe wind and hail lashed Estherville and nearby communities over the past week. Crops suffered damage as corn was blown down between Estherville, Spirit Lake, Wallingford, and Graettinger. Week’s temperatures peaked at 80 with lows near 50s to 60s.
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Estherville
Spirit Lake
Wallingford
Graettinger
Weather outlook and Farm Bureau office move
Weather outlook indicates a week with showers in the north and fair, near normal temperatures in the south across the Northern and Central Great Plains. The Farm Bureau office was moved yesterday from upstairs rooms to basement rooms in Emmet County State Bank corner on Sixth and Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hicks
Wade
Gréat Plaine
Farm Bureau
Estherville Norgeature
Emmet
State Bank
Sixth
Maine
Spande to Open News Stand Saturday in Estherville
Newsstand debut announced for Saturday at East Lincoln Street site formerly housing a secondhand furniture store. Interior repainted and repapered, and the leonine repairs completed. Gray, recently seriously ill, improves and can be up briefly. Bormann sustains two broken ribs from a hay rack fall last Wednesday when mules pulled unexpectedly. Dr. Keel of Marysville, California, visits Estherville en route to Florida. Rainey family hosts dinner at Templar Park with guests Mary Jeannette Keel and Lilian Rhodes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spande
M, J. Avore
Lincoln Street
Atore
A. V. Bormann
Estherville
Mr. Bormann
W. Keel
Marysville
Calif
Jas. Rainey
Girl Arrested for Forging Check
A girl was arrested for forging a check. Supervisors in Dickinson County discussed equipment needs. The county owns two six year old trucks and plans to replace them with three new ones, one per supervisory district.
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Dickinson
Ang Lgoking
iBuy
Fairmont girl jailed for forging signature on check
Elva Cotten, 17, of Fairmont Minnesota, was arrested after cashing a 17.50 check forged in the name of attorney N. J. Lee at a beauty shop. The check was deposited at Town Trust and Savings Bank where a bank employee noted the signature was false. Cotten, on parole for a prior similar offense, admitted using the name after spotting it on a sign. Officers hunted for a dress and shoes as reasons, found her at Raife Shoe Store purchasing footwear, and she remains in custody. Additional local items note visits by Alma and Bessie Kirk, a St. James resident visiting Estherville, and Canfield family guests from Inverness California and Freeport Illinois. A University of Chicago student, Dennis Bagan, broke her nose in a cafeteria fall last week and will require X-rays.
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Elva Cotten
Fairmont
Minn
Aston
Sharon Potter
Cliff Frederickson
Merle Moller
N. J. Lee
Miss Cotten
Hiden- Mauck
Alyce Jensen
Misa Jensen
Town Trust and Savings Bank
Miss Jensen
Raife
Mr. Lee
Missa
Dennis Bagan
University of Chicago
Editorial Comment on Iowa, California and New Teachers News
Editorial from G A Nichols discusses Iowa migrants to California versus Missouri and New York, plus Rotarian schoolteacher notes on welcoming new teachers. It describes Terrace Park Saturday political gathering with Governor Herring, Lieutenant Governor Kraschel, and Congressman Gillette speaking, amid barbecue and beverage offerings.
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Terrace Park
Dickinson
Democrata
Herring
Kraschel
Gillette
T. E. Davis Dies Friday
T. E. Davis aged 76 died Friday morning at the Coleman hospital from heart disease after four years in Estherville with his daughter Mrs. R G Coleman. Born Sept 18 in Missouri he previously lived in Carthage Illinois where he owned a farm. Surviving daughters include Mrs Coleman Hannibal Missouri Mrs Gertie Patterson Hannibal Missouri Mrs William Englund Galesburg Illinois and Misa Bessie Davis Galesburg. Funeral services were held in Carthage and burial at Burna...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. E. Davis
Estherville
R. GC. Coleman
Coleman Hospital
Davis
Carthage
Ill
Missouri
Coleman
Gertie Patterson
Hannibal
William Englund
Galesburg
Misa Bessie Davis
Burnajde
Caravan to Ringsted Friday Evening
The Young Republican organization sponsors a caravan from Estherville to Ringsted on Friday to hear Senator L. J. Dickinson, candidate for re election to the United States Senate. Meet at 6 30 at the courthouse square. Armstrong caravan will join en route. The Ringsted celebration, Thursday and Friday, includes concessions, band concerts, dances and baseball games, with a reception for Senator Dickinson at the Underwood home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Republican Organization
Ringsted
L. J. Dickinson
United States
Courthouse Square
Armstrong
Senator Dickinson
Golf Club of
Estherville
Underwood
Emmet County Adds Seventeenth 100 Percent Summer School Record
Superintendent Burras Beard of the Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls reports Emmet county rural and city teachers achieved 100 percent enrollment at summer school. It marks the seventeenth of nineteen years with full attendance and places the county among sixteen with perfect records this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burras E. Beard
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Emmet County
Emmet
V-R
First Communion Class at St Patrick’s Church
Nineteen boys and sixteen girls completed religious instruction by Father David McGooy at St Patrick's Catholic Church and received their first communion. The class of thirty five included Richard Albus James Burns Wayne Butell Donald Clare Leo Callahan and others.
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David McGooy
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Richard Albus
James Burns
Wayne Butell
Donald Clare Leo Callahan
Wm. Davis
Jackie Drey
Edwin Keller
John Kiefer
Michael Maloney
Earl Nepps
Buddy Opelt
Robert Origer
Wm. Origer
Edward Smith
Jerry Sullivan
Robert Woods
Robert West
Mission Society to Hold Three Day Meetings at Palestine Church
The Northern Iowa Inner Mission society will hold a three day meeting at the Palestine Lutheran church near Dolliver starting Friday at 2 PM. Rev M Mandsager of Gruettinge will introduce the selected text subject on Friday afternoon. Pastor is Rev Peder Nordsletten.
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Iowa
Inner Mission Society
Palestine Lutheran
Missouri to elect Republican governor and Landon plurality
Reports from Missouri indicate a normally Democratic state will elect a Republican governor and give Landon a plurality for president. Democratic leaders claim Wisconsin for Roosevelt to offset losses. Fall rains will boost pastures and late corn, saving hay.
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Missouri
Landon
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Sixty Emmet County teachers meet for local electons
Sixty Emmet County rural teachers gathered Saturday in the courthouse for a county meeting. Pigs Mme Lordi jette Carlson of Denmark township was elected president with local officers chosen in each township. Miss Laula Grippen, Palmer School representative in Chicago, demonstrated manuscript writing and will visit schools in Dolliver Graver Half Ringsted Armstrong and Estesville this week. Afternoon sessions provided supplies and instructions from Miss Sorum and township officers were elected across Center Denmark Ellsworth West Emmet High Lake Town Lake Jack Creek Swan Lake Twelve Mile Lake townships with new presidents vice presidents secretaries and treasurers named.
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Emmet County
Pigs
Mme. Lordi
Jette Carlson
Denmark Township
Millie Bercira
Center Township
Ference O'Brien
Swan Lake Township
Alice Sunde
Ellsworth Township
Laula Grippen
Palmer School
Chicago
Millie Percival
Pauline Miller
Pearl Christiansen
Edna Jensen
Charlotte Carlson
Lorene Trenary
Leoa Waldee
Alice Schultz
Margaret Keifer
West Emmet
Lucy Pern Smith
High Lake Township
Helen Helgeson
Vivian Norgard
Alva Anderson
Town Lake Township
Burneila Watts
LaRue Yackle
Helen Beck
Jack Creek Townssip
Mildred Bosold
Mabel Tinnall
Evelyn Hanson
Dorothy Spear
Leona Dominy
Florence O'Brien
Marian Hartman
Twelve Mile Lake Township
Dorothy Fink
Elsie Dewall
Edna Hutchinson
Highway No 9 survey planned Estherville to Spirit Lake
State highway commission will begin in September a survey of Highway No 9 between Estherville and Spirit Lake. Grades will be set for the road to enable paving the short section this season, aiding tourist traffic to the lakes and local residents. No 17 paving from Estherville to the Minnesota line is delayed by funds, with plans for a temporary hard surface after the line, while Minnesota intends only a temporary surface.
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Guy Simpson
St. James
Estherville
Babe
A. W. Baird
Mrs. Simpson
West Side
Mr. Simpson
State Highway Commission
Spirit Lake
I. J. Maniece
QO. J. Ditto
Mayor Fred Ehlers Named Director At Church Meeting
Mayor Fred Ehlers was named a board member of the Town District Mast at a Waterloo meeting of the Missouri Synod of the German Lutheran church. Rev Otis Lang and Herman Ahrens attended, returning home Friday as the church splits into Iowa District East and West and Rev H A Wagner of Ter nis was chosen circuit visitor.
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Fred Ehlers
Mast
Waterloo
Missouri Synod
German Lutheran Church
Otis Lang
Herman Ahrens
Iowa
H. A. Wagner
Ternis
Estherville High Preseason Football Drills Under Way
Fifty candidates reported to Coach Lynn for the season’s first drills. A 1-2-3 shift aims to make Estherville’s 1986 team snap into position with college-like precision. A lengthy passing drill showed a varied attack possible on ground or air. Hillestad Burrell Burt pass to Hornby Lowman Sewell and Hackett as receivers. Punting drill selects kicking candidates Burt Burrell or Hornby. Team berths depend on pregame drill performance.
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Max Lynn
Estherville
Lynn
Joe Thillestad
Kenny Burrell
Eddie Burt
Hornby
Lowman
Sewell
Hackett
Burt
Burrell
Enrollment Surges at Estherville High and Junior College
One thousand three hundred ninety two pupils are registered at noon, a rise over last year and just 66 shy of the 1935-36 total. High school and junior college enrollments lead with 439 in grades nine to twelve, junior college adds 102, and the new commercial department under C V Casady reports 29. More increases are expected as enrollment rises to a record for the district.
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Estherville
C. V. Casady
Lake Project Considered by State Board of Conservation
The State Board of Conservation met Friday to discuss diverting Little Sioux River floodwaters into Little Spirit Lake and Big Spirit Lake. Col L W Ainsworth and G K Allen presented the plan to create a settling basin at Little Spirit via sloughs and ditches, potentially drawing water to Okoboji and improving stagnant areas. The board signaled willingness to convene a conference with Minnesota officials and southern Minnesota residents to advance the proposal.
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Little Sioux
Litte Spirit Lake
Big Spirit Lake
Col. L. W. Ainsworth
Orleans
G. K. Allen
Col. Ainsworth
Spirit Lake
Minnesota Conservation Commission
Minnesota
Yowa
Little Spirit Lake
Okoboji Lakes
Triplets Born to Sexton Farm Couple
Two girls and a boy were born to Mr and Mrs Leander Seefeld at Algona hospital last Tuesday. The infants weighed four pounds four ounces five pounds nine ounces and three pounds thirteen ounces at birth. Mother and babies are reported progressing nicely.
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Leander Seefeld
Algona Hospital
P T A book sale calls for unclaimed items
Those in charge of the P T A book sale urge anyone with books or money from the gate to call for their property at once. Any books or money not claimed by Sept 4 will be turned over to the P T A.
Installing New Scales at Rock Island Elevator
New twenty ton scales are being installed at the Stockdale and Brackett elevator on the Rock Island tracks. Work is underway. Mrs. William Walker of Portland Oregon has been visiting relatives in this vicinity for several weeks and will stay a few days longer before returning to Oregon. She was Grace Woods before her marriage and lived in this city from childhood.
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Pechervilles
Rob
Old City
Miss Hemple
Mr. Dunham
Mrs. Dunham
Stockdale and Brackett
Rock Island
William Walker
Portland
Ore
Herbert Woods
Marion Silcox
Walter Bragg
Oregon
Grace Woods
Former resident mourns death of father W H Walsh
Mrs M B Richter of Humboldt nee Florence Walsh, former head nurse at the Coleman hospital, mourns the death of her father W H Walsh of Emmetsburg. He was killed falling from a roof while shingling on a Ruthven area farm last Tuesday. Funeral services were held Friday at Assumption church Emmetsburg with Very Rev Father Dunnoffc officiating. He leaves widow and five children: Sister M Mamenta Lead SD, Mrs M B Richie Humboldt, Joe Emmetsburg area, and Loretta and Gene at home.
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M. B. Richter
Humboldt
Florence Walsh
Coleman Hospials
W. H. Walsh
Emmetsburg
Ruthven
Assumption Church
Dunnoffic
M. Mamenta
Lead
M. B. Richie
Joe
Loretta
Gene
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Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Wm. H. Mossman
Gov. Landon
Emma Lininger
Emmeteburg
Marcy Prier
Gray
Dickinson County
Alma Kirk
Jackson
Bessie Kirk
Sioux City
George Nick
Ava Nick
Evelyn Martinson
Nick Home
A. L. Canfield
N. A. Canfield
Inverness
Harold Clock
Freeport
G. A. Nichols
Bere
Ian
California
Union
Los Angeles Times
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Golden State
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New York
R. C. Coleman
John Berger
Chevrolet
Albert Hardecoff
Dolliver
Herman Moltzen
C, Snyder
Packard
Sherman
Ellsworth
Leland Larsen
Wallingford Dodge
Claire Jeglum
Horace Johnson
Child
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Ed Strube
Three Sone
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Strube
L. F. Evans
Fred. Scharfenberg
Kenneth Tuttle
Whitten
Tuttle
Church of Christ
Mra
F . D, Sawyer
Underwood Home
St. Patrick’s Church
Susan F. Eisele
Blue Earth
Iowa Great Lake Region
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State Board of Conservation
Ite
Sexton Farm
Harry Brown
Iowa State Motor Vehicle Department
Des Moines
Highway Patrol
F. D. Roosevelt
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