District No. 4 News Highlights May 16
Community notes from District No. 4 by Mrs. Bill Crayne recount family visits and events. Leroy McGraw, a second lieutenant, returns from Texas May 16 and stays until May 19. Numerous Sunday dinners, visits, and birthday celebrations feature local residents including the McGraws, Brooks, McConnell, Replogie, Harter, Crayne, and Wheelan families. Ruth McGraw graduates from nursing school and attends Cedar Rapids exercises with family present.
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Bill Crayne
Joe McGraw
Leroy
Texas
Charles Peiffe
Keith
Marshalltown
Paul Peiffer
Wilfred Peiffer
van Horne
Homer Coulter
Peoria
Addie
Orval Kemp
Lone Tree
Floyd Crayne
West Chester
Ruth McGraw
H. J. Brenneman
Debby
Cedar Rapids
School of Nursing
Ed Vittetoe
I. R. Vittetoe
Harper
George Duke
Helen Carr
Harry McConnell
James Brooks
John Wheelan
Raymond
Phyllis
Wells
Nancy
Ed Mayhew
Ruth Norris
Tina Coonrod
Decer Rapids
Divorce Hearing Reveals Smith Mansion Assault In Los Angeles
Mrs Lucille Rawleigh Smith testified in a Los Angeles divorce case that her husband Quentin R Smith a bond salesman and film actor fired a shot into the Smith mansion while she and her two children were barricaded inside. She said he smashed furniture and art objects and frightened servants fled in confusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Lucille Rawleigh Smith
Illinois
Quentin R. Smith
Smith Mansion
East Sunset Mother's Day Gatherings in Iowa Community
East Sunset column reports a sequence of Mother's Day visits across Kahoka and surrounding towns. Families including Martins, Jones, Blanchards, Krauses, Nicholsons, Orrises and Eisele household guests share meals, chalk talk, and singing events. Local residents travel from Columbus Junction, Wayland, Havre, and Indiana to join relatives and attend church events over Mother's Day weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence lHiering
East Sunset
John Martin
Kahoka
Martin
Harry Jones
Robert
Doris Blanchard
Pleasant Hill
Clayton Nicholson
Dick Stephens
Richard
John Krause
S. K. Orris
Fred Orris
Ainsworth
Paul D. Howell
Columbus Junction
Virgil
Viola Hering
Frances Wolford
Jacky and
Jerry
Leander McKee
Ernest Eisele
Russel Williams
Donald and
Lyle
Max McGuire
Wayland
Bobby
Elfreda Landis
Indiana
P. P. Graber
J. W. Rich
Lloyd Prior
Harold
Larry
Lou Hall
Schlatter
Joe Schlatter
H. T. Carris
J. E. Lemley
Historic St James Fiesta Echoes Spanish Ecstasy
A St James event embraced a Spanish fiesta theme with Alexican hues, Spanish imagery, crepe paper ceilings, floral tables, Mexican candy, and Spanish-hat napkins. Betty Jean Durian led toasts while Anthony Flanders and Frances Mengerhausen spoke on lively topics. Performances included tap dancing by Virginia and Juanita Schafer, brass sextet under Lyall Smith, a girls trio, Walter Reuzer the ventriloquist, and a university-trained entertainer from Iowa State University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Jean Durian
Anthony Flanders
Frances Mengerhausen
Willard Schwartzendruber
H. FE. Ross
Virginia
Juanita Schafer
Brass
Robert Wehrle
Kenneth Durian
Lurmae Slead
Bettye Slead
Robert Huffman
Harold
Unemployed Youth Figures in NYA Data
The National Youth Administration reports about four million young people in the United States are out of school and out of work. The piece notes a historical art reference and identifies Archibald M Willard's painting The Spirit of 76 and its figures including the artist’s father Reverend Samuel Willard, and others associated with the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Youth Administration
United States
Archibald M. Willard
Philadelphia
Samuel Willard
Hugh Mosher
Perry
Lake County
Ohio
Henry Kelsy Devereux
Cleveland
Tree regulation tight in Summerville S
In Summerville South Carolina all trees fall under strict police regulation. No tree may be cut unless necessary to preserve other trees or due to a dangerous condition in the tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summerville, S. As
Spanish Fiesta Is Banquet Theme of Wellman Students
May 16 Wellman Tellman high school held its annual junior senior banquet at Gobble Inn. Senior students and faculty were guests of the junior class. dinner served by Mrs Henry Villhaur with sophomore girls as waitresses in festive attire.
Money in Mexico Peso and centavos explained
The peso is the monetary unit of Mexico, valued at about 20 cents in U S money. It is divided into 100 centavos, each worth about one fifth of a cent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
United States
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Tyrone Linda Dean Power Darnell Jagger
Brian Donlevy
John Carradine
Jane Darwell
Jean Rogers
Porky Cartoon
Alter Kylie
Harry Bishon
Mreatry McConnell
Joan Wheelan
Diane
Vis
Harry McConnell and Son
Charles McConnell
Carl Replogie
Mrs. Redding
Keota
Paul Mayere
Journal Bidg
C. J. Hull
Iowa City
Miss Hull
PRID
Lucille %. Smith
Buck Private
Jimmy
Walt Disney Cartoon
Mary Hahn
Fred Eisele
Havre
Sherman Johnson
Howard Johnson
Mr. Gilkey
Columbus City
E. EK. Ferguson
Washington
James A. Garfield
Lincoln
Garfeld
Congress
Csi
Huntsman
William Early
Willimantic, Maine
Hess
David McLean
Rudolf Hess
Duke of Hamilton
Glasgow
Hamilton
Augsburg
Germany
Nam A Yi
St. James
London
St. James Palace
Friary Court Square
Charles I
Wellman
Ross Motor Service
N. Clark
Famous Circle
Pickens
Firestone
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