Local News Highlights and Weekend Events
A family trip to the southwest and Colorado ends with visits in Santa Fe Grand Canyon and Boulder. Armory lot hosts Snapp's Greater Shows this week. Norman Sage becomes Iowa Wesleyan College business manager in Mt. Pleasant. Dora Steck visits then returns with grandson Hill Brammer. Catherine Morris flies to Houston for weeks with relatives. Brown's Shoe Fit and Brown's Garage promote summer gear and repairs.
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John Lemmon
Bruce
Jacqueline
Christine
Southwest
Colorado
Ozark Country
Santa Fe
N. Mex
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Utah
Boulder
Colo
Norman Sage
Washington
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mt. Pleasant
Honeymoon Trip Leads Owens To Missouri Ozarks
Mrs. Max Owens and her husband returned from a honeymoon motor trip to the Ozarks in Missouri. Mrs. Lee Drollinger and grandson Russell Hill visited Muscatine at Mrs. Franklin Brennamen’s home. Mr. and Mrs. Eoin Bauer traveled to Cedar Rapids to stay with their son Ben Bauer. Mrs. Fred Reid returned from Des Moines where she visited her aunts Mrs. J. A. Gibbon and Mrs. Frank Bell. the twin sisters are aging and somewhat unable to move about alone.
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Max Owens
Ozarks
Missouri
Lee Drollinger
Russell Hill
Muscatine
Franklin Brennamen
Eoin Bauer
Cedar Rapids
Ben Bauer
Fred Reid
Des Moines
J. A. Gibson
Frank Bell
Softball Action Planned at Green Field This Week
Four more softball games are scheduled at Green Field this week with two tonight and two Friday. YW Mixer hosts Columbus Junction, seeking to extend an unblemished start after a 17 to 1 opener. West Chester meets Wayland at 8 30 in a potential close non league battle. Friday features Washington Marines vs Doudna Sluggers of Wyman, a perfect ten game slate for Wyman, and Stewart Crone All Stars vs Rockett Hardware of Fairfield, two top Southeastern Iowa clubs.
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Elmer McFadden
Washington Softball Association
Greenfield
H Pet
Schmidt
Putman
Livingston DeLong
Dawson
Maxwell
Scranton
Browning
Ross
Sweet
Green
Reed
Troop Oa Ab
Mitchell
Hyde
Clark
Buckwalter
PA Longer
Dunbar
Booy Glandon
Moore
Williams
Oo Anderson
Randall
Benson
Goldsmith
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Custer
Kneen
Chaubal
Dewis
Marines Ab Pet
Don Kiesey
Dunwoody
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Crull
Lee
Heron
Norris
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Gallager
Booth
Boshart
Brown
McClure
W.F.W. Ab H Pet
Fuhr
Davis
Lowe
McFadden
Hampshire
Knight
Bealer
See
Orr
Kerr
Brotherton
Cole
West Chester Ab
Pet
J. Cherry
B. Rief
Butler
J Hough
Fisher
Joe Bauer
Southart
Hotle
Engle
Jr. Bauer
Green Field
YW Mixer
Columbus Junction
West Chester
Wayland
Marines of
Washington
Doudna
Wyman
Stewart & Crones
Rocket Hardware
Fairfield
Iowa
Catfish entries highlight Chamberlin Bros contest
Walter Jarrard of Washington entered a 191 pound flat head catfish measuring 35 inches caught in Snunk river with a weight record in the Chamberlin Bros Split Shop fishing contest. Bob Crone and E. H. Seales added a 1734 pound flat head weighing 34 inches, just smaller than Jarrard’s catch, as entries flow in from Washington county.
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Chamberlin Bros
Walter Jarrard
Washington
Snunk River
Sport Shop
Washington County
Wayne
Dallas Chamberlin
Bob Crone
E. H. Seales
Mr. Jarrard
Training planes crash in Detroit kills two pilots
Navy authorities investigate two training planes that locked wings in formation over Detroit. Both pilots died as one aircraft crashed into the Putnam machine shop, injuring three workers, and the other plowed into a house after missing Norval elementary school. Fire destroyed two additional houses.
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Detroit
Navy
Putnam Machine Shop
Norval
Homestead Tax Exemption and Local Notices
Notice to homeowners the deadline to apply for Homestead Tax Exemption is July 1. Fred Bourgeois, County Auditor. Also a column of local notices mentions residents visiting Azuba Park, travels to Muscatine, and Camp Lincoln summer plans for Jim Freshwater. Includes shoe sale at Brown's Shoe Fit and a recital at Iowa State Teachers College. Gloria Marcum travels from Ainsworth to Denver after visiting family. Veterans notice repeats the July 1 deadline for Soldiers Tax Exemption.
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Fred Bourgeois, Co
Eugene Dunlap
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Mozart
Jean Cady
Mason City
Fred Bourgeois
Plane crash in Burlington school yard settles lawsuits
Parents of Roland Hage meier 17 and Richard Grant 17 received 11500 each after an action against the federal government for damages. Four other teens playing ball in the yard were awarded 7500 total. Awards ranged from 1000 for Jacqueline Brunat 10 to 2300 for Allan Kelly 15.
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Burlington
Roland Hagemeier
Richard Grant
Jacqueline Brunat
Allan Kelly
Parents of crash victims win $11,500
Keokuk Iowa June 24 The parents of two youths killed May 18 1947 when a navy plane crashed in a training mishap at the air station accepted a total settlement of 11500 dollars from the navy.
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Keokuk
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