Electrical storm damages utility lines as Cedar River rises
In Columbus Junction a June 19 electrical storm damaged electric and telephone service with burned transformers and broken tree limbs. The Iowa and Cedar rivers were rising after heavy rains. Local real estate changes included H A Pritchard selling near Columbus City to Haley McGrew and Arthur Barnard buying near Fredonia. Suburban education notes list Maxine Blankenhorn and others at Town Wesleyan College Mt Pleasant. Millard K Chambers named acting chief of Veterans Administration at Davenport. Bliven family reunion held at Chautauqua Park with 28 attendees and officers elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Butler
Columbus Junction
Weber and
Town Wesleyan College
Mt. Pleasant
Miss Blankenhorn
Fredonia
Cotter
Millard K. Chambers
Letts
Veterans Administration
Davenport
St. Ambrose College
Bliven
Chautauqua Park
Folowing
F. G. McCullough
Muscatine
Emma Gelett
Helen Aringdale
Wolfs Flower Shop Cheerful Prescription of Flowers
The ad for Wolfs Flower Shop promotes flowers as a healing bedside cheer for the ill. It frames floral gifts as a bright, hopeful remedy and highlights the shop as the supplier of comforting arrangements.
End of Iowa River Bridge Transferred to Estherville
S. G. Paulson of Estherville will relocate the bridge span from the end of the Iowa river bridge on Highway 92 to Estherville. Milo M. Orris is discharged at Great Lakes Ill on June 8 with his twin Cleo also recently discharged. George T. Call Columbus City's daughter Leah Alice born Wednesday. Calvin L. Peters son of Jarrett Peters discharged from Ft. Sheridan Ill after 16 months overseas. Walter Stevens formerly of Calif moves to town from Calico Rock Ark. he works for Dc A Stephens mortician. Hooks and Crooks met at Chautauqua park for a nine o'clock breakfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa River
S. G. Paulson
Estherville
Milo M. Orris
Great Lakes
Ill
Cleo
George T. Call
Columbus City
Leah Alice
Calvin L. Peters
Jarrett Peters
Ft. Sheridan
Walter Stevens
Calif
Calico Rock
Ark
Dc. A. Stephens
Hooks and Crooks
Chautauqua Park
Keota area notes on visits and family gatherings
Mrs. Jennie Harris of Keola stays with sister Mrs. Frank Pringle as Ev erette Vincent funeral relatives attend. Numerous local visits include Ivan Brown at his mother's, and trips to Lake Odessa, Cedar Rapids, and Washington. Family events feature showers, birthday dinners, and Fathers Day gatherings among Humstons, Pringles, Phillips, Luckenbills, and Massons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Humston
Young America
Jennie Harris
Keola
Frank Pringle
Harris
Everette Vincent
Pringle
W. J. Marie, Jr
Lake Odessa
Ivan Brown
Carl Phillips
George Miller
Arthur Witthoft
Keota
Federated Church
West Chester
Charles Masson
Grant Humston
Rural Woman's Club
Lloyd Miller
Walter Lance
Karen
Raymond Humston
Emma Humston
J. W. Nebergall
Doyle Jarrard
Ralph Peiffer
Davenport
Ted Simons
Kansas City
Homer Herron
Lloyd Alliman
Luckenbill
Charles
Cherry Luckenbill
U. P
Local News Roundup From Oskaloosa and Nearby Areas
Families attend funeral in Oskaloosa for William Head. Travelers head to Vermont and Colorado for visits and weddings. Notes on residents visiting Boston Washington and Chicago for work, study, and family events. Special K of P meeting announced with refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Moore
Donald Whitlatch
Oskaloosa
K. of P
Fairfield
Washington
Louis Conn Fight Purses Revealed After Heavyweight Bout
Joe Louis earned 625 916 from a 1 925 565 gross for his eight round KO of Billy Conn. Conn received 312 950 under the New York State figures. The net gate was 1 514 791 with radio and TV rights 50 000. Rep Donald L. O Toole urged the boxing commission to pause purses pending an investigation into the bout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
20Th Century Sporting Club
Conn
Washington
Donald L. O'Toole
N. Y
New York State Boxing Commission
Louis Conn
Local Golfers Told to Play 9 Holes Early at Open
The Washington Country Club tournament committee Urges entrants from Washington and nearby areas to complete nine hole qualifying rounds as soon as possible and finish the first round early. Ralph Young will provide scorecards at the concession stand. About 100 players expected from Bloomfield Muscatine Oskaloosa Ottumwa Iowa City Wellman West Liberty Fairfield and St Louis with no spectator charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Country Club
Washington
Ralph Young
Bloomfield
Muscatine
Oskaloosa
Ottumwa
Iowa City
Wellman
West Liberty
Fairfield
St. Louis
Socialist Party Platform in Election Program
The Socialist party nominated Norman Thomas of New York for President and Darlington Hoopes of Pennsylvania for Vice President. It called for a planned economy under democratic controls, socialization of natural resources and finance, and public utilities. It urged ending racial discrimination and cooperation among free peoples, opposing unconditional surrender and a peace of vengeance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Socialist Party
Norman Thomas
New York
Darlington Hoopes
Pennsylvania
War Department Studies Weather in Iowa Rainfall Data Collected
William A. Mott, hydraulic engineer with the U S engineering office at Rock Island, visited Washington and then Keosauqua and Bloomfield to study rainfall in Iowa. He gathered facts from the Weather observer about recent showers of unusual intensity in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Mott
Unite States Engineering Office
Rock Island
Washington
War Department
Iowa
Keosauqua
Bloorfield
Hen proteins inspire new fiber research from egg and feather
A laying hen provides two protein classes for study. Egg albumen exemplifies globular folded chain proteins while keratin in feathers represents extended chain proteins, guiding efforts to develop improved fibers.
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Cedar Rivers
Cecil Wolfe
Fritz Scehmarje
Louisa Gold
Rinso
Ud, Jar
Scott County Pork & Beans
Kerr Mason Lids
Vienna
del Monte
Nes
Cafe
Dillae
Wheaties
Bruce's
Texsun
Washington Fruit Market
Joe Melinsky
Wolf’s Flower Shop
Richard Bingham
South Hero
Vermont
Mrs. C. S. Lemmon
Jeannette Pickens
G. Pickens, Jr
Western State College
Gunnison Colo
E. L. Kiplin
Storm Lake
Mrs
W. L. Rukgaber
Joe Falk
Chicago
Klein Klothing Kompany
Jerry Lewin
George Lewin
I. Rothschild
Yankton S. C
Harry Margolin
JoEllen Margolin
Mr. Rothschild
Yellowstone Park
Wyo
Mrs. Margolin
A. W. Clow
Boston
Mass
Beth Clow
Robert C. Taylor
Taylor
Miss Clow
Insurance Adjustment Department of Veterans Administration
Clows
Donna Clow
Panama Canal Zone
Brooklyn
Donald C. Paul
Donald L. Paul
San Francisco
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
Army Air Corps
Paul
Carl Combs
Long Beach
H. M. Dodder
Mr. Combs
Los Angeles
Clara Martin
Carlsbad
N. Mex
R. G. Vincent
Ada Dewey
D. N. Anwyl
Martin
Vincent
Anwyl
Raymond Anderson
Carol
Western
Kansas
Denver
Colo
William Edgar
John S. McCleary
Crawfordsville
R. G. Wessler Repair Shop
East Second St
Sorrell Auto Parts
West Madison
Louis
Ask
Geo. L. McDaniel
Nicola
Jackson
Nuernberg
Germany
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Washington, D. C
U S. Supreme Court
International
Oy Studio For
Sidwell
Hein-Werner
Sorrell
U.S. Army
U. S. Army
Chamberlin’s
Chamberlin Bros. Sport Shop
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