90th Birthday For Westerbeck Farmer
L Westerbeck a Columbus Junction area farmer celebrated his 90th birthday on August 5. Nearby guests included Will Turner of Tranway Ohio and Mrs Webb Cashocton of Ohio. Community notes report local events, visits, and preparations at the Weber Huston elevator and softball park upgrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
L. Westerbeck
Will Turner
Tranway
Ohio
Webb Cashocton
Aura Morse
Greene
Weed Park
Muscatine
Joe Smith
Neal Smith
Clodine Smith
State Center
Haskins
Rurlington
Weber and Huston
Enjoy Week Spent In Chicago Visit
Pleasant Ridge residents Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kauffman and Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Kauffman returned home after an enjoyable week in Chicago visiting friends and sightseeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Engelthaler
Chicago
Eugene Lorden
Cicero
Louie Stump
Robert Mathews
Moline
Anton Kauffman
Roy Steele
Bill Swift
Ed Kaufffman
Mr. Kauffman
Edac
Helen
Pleasant Ridge
Ed Kauffman
Wilmer Kauffman
Resident To Return To Alsace Lorrain
Alphonse Lear of Riverside leaves for Rock Island to visit the Yerburys then travels to Philadelphia before moving to Alsace Lorrain. Mrs. Hervert of Grace Ville Minnesota and others visited at the Duwn home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
Alphonse Lear
Rock Island
Walter Yerbury
Philadelphia
Alsace Lorrain
George Hervert
Grace Ville
Minnesota
Ed Downs
Richmond
Walter Lehman
Kalona
Albert Duwn
Hervert
Riverside area visitors and local visits noted
Former Riverside resident and relatives from Cedar Rapids Chicago and Phoenix visited Riverside. Intermittent travel included Mr and Mrs Cletus Schnoebelen from Chicago and Grace Mottet, Mrs Fred Frank, Harold Stauffer, and other relatives. Local hospital news and community visits also mentioned along with a softball tournament attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Schnoebelen
Cedar Rapids
Cletus Schnoebelen
Chicago
Grace Mottet
Fred Frank
Harold Stauffer
Milo Shanla
Riverside
Phoenix
Arizona
Richard Havel
Albie Beranek
John Lasek
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Walter Helm
Ivo Drol?t
Sharon
Witchita
Kansas
Genevieve Droll
August Jean
Paul Heitzman
Margaret Ann
Tommy
R. H. Heitzman
Fannie Meeks
Mary Loss
Martha Ann Vergy
Des Moines
Elmer Meeks
Ivan Meeks
George McLeod
Lightning warning alarm for miners developed in South Africa
The South African Institute of Electrical Engineers reports an electronic alarm that predicts lightning. It protects workers handling explosives, especially miners in South Africa. The device can be set to warn within seven or twenty miles or when a flash is imminent.
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South African Institute of Electrical Engineers
South Africa
Adventures of Casanova at Fox Theatre in Mexico Shoot
The film Adventures of Casanova, a romance of a famed lover adventurer, opens an extended run at the Fox Theatre this Sunday. Shot entirely on location in Mexico, the cast includes Arturo de Cordova Lucille Bremer Turhan Bey and Noreen Nash with John Sutton and George Tobias in supporting roles. Director Roberto Gavaldon produced from a Crane Wilbur Walter Bullock Waren DeWolf screenplay supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casanova
Eagle Lion
Fox Theatre
Mexico
Arturo de Cordova
Lucille Bremer
Turhan Bey
Noreen Nash
John Sutton
George Tobias
Roberto Gavaldon
Leonard Picker
Crane Wilbur
Walter Bullock
Waren DeWolf
Butch Jenkins Sizzles as Hollywood’s Problem Star on Set
Butch Jenkins, the energetic child actor in MGMs Summer Holiday with Rooney De Haven Huston and Morgan, keeps busy between takes. Crew devised games to channel his surplus energy, including a canvas chair bearing his name that finally kept him anchored whenever he was not filming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butch Jenkins
Butch
MGM
Tom Edison
Eryone
Kidstar
Agnes Moorehead
June Weaver recalls first train trip in youth
June Elviry Weaver recalls her first train ride at age ten from Chicago to Springfield Missouri. She and the Weaver Brothers are starring in the Republic re release Tuxedo Junction now showing at the Fox Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
June
Elviry
Weaver
Chicago
Springfield
Missouri
Weaver Brothers
Republic
Fox Theatre
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Uncle Sam
University of Washington
London
Allen J. Morgan
Warren D. H. Westlund
Robert Martin
Robert Ide Will
Gordon S. Giovanelli
Seattle
Wash
Martin
Tacoma
Westerbeck
Martha Butler
E. Kk. Mitchell
Business and Professional Women's Club
Els
Mitchel
Jay Jones
Clyde Parington
Claude Stantz
Worthington
Ind
Albert Allen
Hartsburg
Lloyd Patterson
Janet
Mary Jane Greene
Ray Greene
Swailes
River View Park
Brookfield Zoo
Science of Industrial Building
Armours
Comiskey Park
New York Sand White Sox
Ernest Woodyard
Washington Oil Company Car and
Russia
Seward Potter
S. W. Shattuck Chemical Co
Denver
Colo
International
Alsace
Lorrain
Joe Palooka
Herverts
Here
Limestone
Dillon, Sharpe & CO
Columbus Junction, Iowa
Columbus Junction
Latrobe
International Soundphoto
Hollywood
Mamoulian
Chevrolet
Fisher
Fisher Unisteel
America
W. Washington
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