Storage Cave Begun at Emmet County Farm Project
Ten men started a work relief project at the Emmet county farm to excavate a storage cave. When finished about 80 workers will have participated. The concrete cave will measure 48 by 21 feet inside with nine inch walls and cork lining. Ventilators and a truck size door will allow loading of vegetables into six foot square bins, for an estimated capacity of 5000 bushels. Previous caves showed temperatures around 87 degrees throughout winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmet
Rebekahs Honor 818T Anniversary Lodge Founding
The eighty first anniversary of the Rebekah lodge was celebrated at the Odd Fellow hall with members and spouses, including Odd Fellows. Rev. Herbert Marsh of Spirit Lake and A. O. Peterson spoke of early lodge days. Doris Hollenbeck and Bonnie Hayden sang two duets, followed by a committee prepared lunch.
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Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellow Hall
Rebekah Jodge
Odd Fellows
Herbert Marsh
Spirit Lake
A. 0. Peterson
Doris Hollenbeck
Bonnie Hayden
Chris Jensen
Hary Littell
Nettle Ketchum
Bertha
Roof projects reshape Estherville stores and halls
Multiple Estherville business buildings owned by M J Groves are being reroofed and repaired. The Rhodes block corner coping is removed and roofing redone while the Christensen store Grand Theatre and Rousseau's cafe receive new roofs. Constructor Corey handles work totaling about 1500 dollars. Harry Hubbell travels from Gowrie to help move household goods as superintendent of the new municipal light and power plant under construction there.
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Estherville
M. J. Groves
Rhodes
Fifth and
Lincoln
Christensen
Rousseau
Corey
Harry Hubbell
Gowrie
Hubbell
Municipal Light
Iowa
Minnesota
Beauman Family Returns From Hartford Visit
East Picturesque Mr and Mrs V J Beauman with Mr and Mrs Delbert Beauman and Miss Helen Beauman return home Saturday from Hartford Conn. They visited with their daughter and sister Miss Madge Beauman. They were impressed with the east liking the quaint stone houses gardens and the old atmosphere.
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East
V. J. Beauman
Delbert Beauman
Helen Beauman
Hartford
Conn
Madge Beauman
Month Old Babe Passes Away From Pneumonia
Shirley Smith month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Victor Smith died Thursday morning at 3 o clock at the parental home from pneumonia Funeral services set for Friday at 2 pm Sternberg Funeral parlors Rev Lang officiating Burial in East Side cemetery Mrs Margaret Tindal of Indianola arrives for extended visit with son Kedric Tindal and family
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Shirley Smith
Victor Smith
Sternberg
Rev. Lang
East Side
Margaret Tindal
Indianola
Kedric Tindal
H. E Clark
L. A. Linsley
Minburn
Local Market Prices and Dairy Notes from August
The market list shows corn, oats, and various poultry items with prices and descriptions. It lists eggs by grade, heavy hens and springs with weights, Leghorn varieties, and notes on creamery production, including a first half August creamery term and a mention of sweet and sour in dairy goods.
Prairie Winds and a Prairie Family Memoir
A reminiscence from early Iowa days describes brutal prairie winds in 1871 that toppled the frail home of Mr and Mrs Farnum. Mrs Farnum shelters in a hay mow with livestock, then rebuilds with timber, while teaching penmanship in Milford and Spencer. The author recalls Quaker Chappel neighbors, Ella Chappel as a schoolteacher, and a peaceful home life amid hardship during Hoover era memories.
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Lowa Prairies
Mrs. Farnum
Mie Parma
Farnum
Fornum
Milford and
Spencer
Dickinson County
Richland Township
Public School Fund
Chappel
Ella Chappel
Esthervile School
Chapple
Miss Ella
Herbert Hoover
Huge Canning Project Under Way Co Farm
County taxes for 1934 are set by the county board with a total levy of 142,208 dollars, slightly reduced from 1933. The tax rate for county taxes drops 0.25 mill from 0.50 to 0.25. Allocations include reductions in general fund, insane fund, soldiers relief, and emergency fund levies, with details to be published elsewhere.
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County Board of Supervisors
Cdert
Rural Women of Ellsworth Township Elect Officers
The rural women of Ellsworth township met at Mrs. D. C. Partello’s home on Wednesday the 19th, 1934, to organize the township. Seven school district co operators were elected with Mrs B. M. Sharar continuing as township chairman. The next meeting will be held Wednesday September 26 for an all day session with Alma H. Jones, a child specialist from Iowa State College, teaching heredity and environment. Each district co-operator will bring a guest to Mrs. Purl Partello’s home. substitutes permitted if unable to attend. Lunch plans were noted with each attendee bringing something for noon.
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Ellsworth
D. C. Partello
B. M. Sharar
Alma H. Jones
Iowa State College
Purl Partello
Local PTA Officers Attend Estherville District Meeting
Officers of Estherville area PTA groups and several members gather at Arnolds Park for a district meeting. Attendees include Mrs Art Williamson general president and presidents of Jackson Roosevelt McKinley and Lincoln schools along with Supt J S Hilliard and others. A fragment recalls travel to Chicago for Ves Richardson and a reminiscence about mother Chappel and daily chores.
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Estherville
Arnolds Park
Art Williamson
Waldo Brink
Jackson School
Guy Nicholson
Roosevelt School
W. E. Deming
McKinley
Claude Randolph
Lincoln School
J. 8. Hilliard
Leon Pratt
Elmer Moore
Clarence Mathieson
Ora Gipson
Floyd Goldsberry
Art Fossum
Canning at County Farm Built for Relief Work
Five thousand four hundred twenty three quarts and pints of fruit and vegetables have been canned during August and up to September at the county farm. A purpose built relief work canning house 18 by 40 feet houses two long work tables and a north end stove. A 900 pint to 600 quart pressure cooker sits outside, steam piped from a threshing engine with a gauge. Cans move via a pulley basket into the cooker and are cooled in ice water after processing. Supervising is Mrs Lillian Bixby with eight women working. Canned totals include green beans corn succotash shell beans tomatoes apple butter sauce peaches pears wonderberries rhubarb and more, with state health department approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Bixby
State Department of Health
Wolves Meet Sioux Falls in Opener on KSOO Broadcast
The first junior college football game of the season will be aired Friday at 8:00 PM on KSOO as the Wolves face Sioux Falls College at an unsettled site. The Wolves are about twenty pounds lighter per man, relying on team work and fast play to gain victory. Coach Rogers notes lineup choices from Eads Belborne Wendm Tackite Thompson Steele Guarda Anderson Doud and McKay and backfield options from McAndrew Lee Haines Edwards and ElE.
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KSOO
Wolves
Sioux Falls College
Sioux Falls
Rogers
Eads
Belbore
Women study child care in Emmet county program
Emmet county home makers will study child care and training topics under Alma H. Jones and Margarette Pfeil this year. Lessons cover heredity environment play equipment nutrition and health, with local leaders delivering later sessions and noon lunches guiding diet and disease prevention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmet County
Alma H. Jones
Town State College
Farm Bureau
Emmet County Farm
Margarette Pfeil
Junior band elects officers at Wednesday meeting
The junior band of Estherville High School elected officers Wednesday afternoon. Carola Mathre was named president, Glenn Groth vice president, and Vivian Espeset secretary-treasurer.
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Estherville High School
Carola Mathre
Glenn Groth
Vivian Espeset
V-R
New Junior College Student Enrolls at Estherville News
This week Fred Elwood joined Estherville Junior College bringing total enrollment to fifty eight. Students come from Graettinger Spirit Lake Dickens North Superior Halfa Maple Hill Armstrong Grover Ringsted Swea City Spencer and Water town.
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New Junior College
Fred Elwood
Estherville
Bull Heads Put in River at Humboldt
Sixty thousand bull heads were released into the west fork of the Des Moines river at Humboldt last week. The large fish measure over 12 inches and were moved from waters facing freezing or suffocation this winter.
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Des Moines
Humboldt
264 Signers Get 25 000 A A A Money
An installment of corn hog checks arrives for Emmet county farmers. A total of 264 checks amounting to 26 000 will be distributed this weekend by corn hog treasurer M L Soeth in Estherville and Armstrong. Farm Bureau notices have been sent to recipients. others need not call.
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Emmet County
M. L Soeth
Soeth
City Hall
Estherville
Armstrong
Corner Hardware
Farm Bureau Office
Farm Near Algona Sells for 120 Per Acre
A 189 acre Kossuth county farm five miles west of Algona on Highway 18 sold for 120 per acre. Broker D L McDonald arranged the sale. Purchaser is Chris Jensen. The property, formerly owned by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co of Milwaukee, features recently updated buildings and new fences.
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Kossuth County
D. L. McDonald
Algona
Highway No. 18
Chris Jensen
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co
Milwaukee
Nurse Inspects Pocahontas School Children
Mrs Hazel Rendleman arrived in Pocahontas to begin inspecting rural school children. About 40 children per day will be examined. Clinics will be held in various towns with children reporting on assigned days. The work is sponsored by the Iowa Tuberculosis Association.
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Pocahontas
Hazel Rendleman
Towa Tuberculosis Association
Arrest and Release of Gypsy Women After Theft
Sheriff Cliff Frederickson released three gypsy women and a young man after they returned the stolen money and paid apprehension costs. The group, with several children, was arrested in Huntington for robbing an oil station in Ceylon, Minnesota of about twenty dollars. They were jailed in Estherville and released upon repayment, with the young man returning the money within two and a half hours. The gypsies claimed they were in Jackson for the fair.
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Cliff Frederickson
Huntington
Ceylon
Minn
Jackson
Drunk Driving Fined and License Revoked in Armstrong Case
Chas. Wilson of Armstrong pled guilty before Judge Jas. DeLand in district court yesterday for driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The court imposed a $50 fine plus costs and revoked Wilson's driver's license. If he fails to pay, Wilson must serve time in the county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Wilson
Armstrong
Jas. DeLand
Wilson
County Checkers Report Minor Errors in County Books
State checkers, led by Carl Nimrod and Geo Day, found mostly fine county records but noted several issues. Highlights include missing annual reports by mayors except M. K. Whelan, need for an official county sheriff money repository, low transfer recovery for state institution costs, unpaid school fund loan interest, $204.95 overpayments to county prisoners in 1952, sheriff meal rate excess, and overdrafts to be eliminated. Two small sums were the only other repayable items. overall officer records were in good shape.
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Dorothy Klopp
Board of Supervisors
Carl Nimrod
Geo. Day
M. K. Whelan
Estherville
Brookhart—Lovrien
Gordon
New Iowa Corn Loan Rules Announced for Sealed Crop
Iowa secretary of agriculture Ray Murray announced a new corn loan option for farmers with sealed corn dated October 15 1934. Unseal and repay federal loan or accept a 55 cent per bushel loan through August 1 1935. Meetings will train county warehouse boards on the program.
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Ray Murray
Iowa
Paul Nelson
Osceola
Iowa Corn Loan Section
Washington, D. C
Emmet
Death of Estherville Pioneer Fred Albertson
Fred Albertson 52 longtime Estherville grain man and noted singer died at University hospital Iowa City after a three month illness described as a general nervous breakdown. He leaves wife and three children Keith Swea City Frederick and Fae Estherville. Burial plans await family arrival.
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Fred Albertson
Estherville
University Hospital
Iowa City
Mr. Albertson
Inwood
Iowa
Masonic, Eastern Star and Elks Lodges
Keith
Swea City
Frederick
Fae
Ralph Strong Arrested in Homer Illinois by Federal Authorities
Ralph Strong was arrested in Homer Illinois on September 11 by federal officers on a charge of violating U S postal laws. The case stems from threatening letters sent to Miss Josie Watson which were turned over to authorities. Strong previously fled after an attempted break in at William Watson’s house and is held on a $2000 bond awaiting federal grand jury action this fall.
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Ralph Strong
Homer
Ill
Wm. Bale
United States
Josie Watson
Strong
St. Paul
William Watson
Misa Watson
Federal Grand Jury
Iowa Sets Migratory Waterfowl Season Dates for 1934 35
The Iowa Fish and Game commission announced the 1934 35 migratory wildfowl season with an October 10 to November 18 window. Weekly hunting restricted to five days with Monday and Tuesday off, and bag limits cap ducks at twelve total with up to five per species, including eider duck canvasback redhead greater scaup lesser scaup ringneck bluewing and groaning teal among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Fish and Game Commission
Iowa
First Snow of the Season Reported in Sioux Falls and Pipestone
Rock Island officials report the first snow of the season fell today in Sioux Falls and Pipestone Minnesota, covering the ground just enough to notice. Snow appeared on the Dakota division as Thursday brought the early flurries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Sioux Falls
Pipestone
Minn
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