Weather Favors Crews At Start Of Big Projects
Weather aids Bryant company paving crews on No 20 west of Manchester Iowa as work progresses on a 24 mile stretch from Winthrope to Dyersville. Crews run 12 hour days, reach the Twinois Central viaduct, and improve curves near Dyersville and Rocky Ridge. One crew will shift eastward after Manchester, targeting Masonville to be open by July 4, with planned full operation ahead of schedule.
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Martin Renicker Ill With Heart Trouble in La Porte
Martin Renicker of La Porte has been ill with heart trouble for the past week. His condition showed slight improvement yesterday. Mrs. Renicker’s daughter Mrs. Laura Bartlett of Fort Dodge arrived to help care for him.
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Seniors Win All Events in Oelwein Interclass Meet
Oelwein high school seniors swept the interclass track meet on April 28, with Foner capturing the 220 yard dash 440 yard dash and broad jump, along with a half mile relay victory. Other winners included Brown high jump Pirng 160 yard dash Ng discus Krause mile and half mile Roberts pole vault and 220 yard low hurdles Rundle shot put.
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Fairbank Tourist Club Officers Elected
Officers elected at the annual business meeting include Mrs. O. H. Kine as president and Mrs. George Eickelberg as vice president. Secretary is Mrs. Irving Richards and treasurer Mrs. Leon Davis. Program committee members are Mrs. Floyd Maynard Mrs. Luca Leonard and Mrs. Ralph Richards. Theodora Davis, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Davis, is recovering from pneumonia.
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Passion Play Film At Frederika Church Screened
Motion pictures of the passion play will be shown at the M. E. church Sunday evening in Frederika. Mrs A E Norman hosted a surprise party Wednesday afternoon for members of the Social Hour at the church parish.
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Women Leap from Car to Escape Sparks
Two women jumped from a speeding auto near Manchester Connecticut after sparks from a rear truck frightened them. Mrs. Ralph Phelps drove the car with Mrs. Clifford Kephart, Mrs. Ed Bolsinger, and Miss Arnett Work as passengers. Bolsinger and Work were injured, Work briefly unconscious. car not on fire.
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Charles City Polit A Election Report And Local Notes
Officers of the Washington PTA elected at the last meeting are President E Haller Vice President Mrs C J Reckner Secretary Mrs O Glienke Treasurer Mrs George Wentland Rev GC Prottengeler spoke on honesty Mrs Millard Smith reported on the PTA convention in Waterloo Supt P Lapham explained bird study in schools The last meeting of the school year will be held next month Anniversary events noted at Allend Church Rev and Mrs L W Inman attended Marble Rock Baptist churchs 50th anniversary A program at First M E church May 1 by Women’s Foreign Missionary Society includes a demonstration With or Without by five women and reports from the Rudd convention A May basket party for Little Light Bearers Advo cates Fish Nursery speaker H L Lockwood urged a local fish stock project The M C A boys class from Washington McKinley Lincoln schools to bean feed Monday evening at the Y followed by a program and games Masonic meeting addressed by Rev J G Creede of Waterloo Dr Creede resumes monthly services at Grace Episcopal Roof fire damage at Mrs C Keefes home slight fire extinguished by chemicals Shrine meeting trip Set for Milwaukee delegate from local chapter
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Sister Mary Teresa Salmon Dies After Pneumonia
Sister Mary Teresa Salmon of the Sisters of Mercy died at St. Xavier's school in Manchester after a week with pneumonia. She served 46 years in the order and taught at St. Xavier's for five years. The body was moved to Cedar Rapids and the funeral will be held at Mount Mercy.
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Former Nashua Man Dies in Chicago Dr Daley
Dr W H Daley formerly of Nashua died in Chicago at age 24 after a career in pharmacy and medicine. He worked at Red Cross Drug Store in Nashua, trained as a physician in Chicago, suffered a brain hemorrhage five years earlier, and had a recent fall that left him unable to work. His widow and two sons survive.
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Chicago
Frede ricksburg Club Officers Named
Fredericksburg April 28 Officers for Home Study club to direct programs for the next 12 months were chosen at the annual meeting held at Mrs. Ralph Countryman’s home. The slate includes Mrs. H. S. Kerssen as president and Miss Belle Kidder as vice president with C. L. Grover secretary and Adelaide Broadie corresponding secretary. Ralph Countryman remains treasurer with J. Belusiso also listed in the year’s personnel.
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Chicago Convocation Speaker Dr. Bennett to Speak at Cedar Falls
Dr. William Rainey Bennett, noted Congregational lecturer, will deliver the spring convocation address titled The Man Who Can Monday at 1 PM in Cedar Falls College gym. The event follows his role with the University of Chicago extension lecturers program and caps a busy Cedar Falls week of church and school activities.
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Farewell Dinner for Welsh Guests and Community Notices
Mr and Mrs Andrew S Hansen hosted a 10 person dinner at 6 30 Friday to bid farewell to Mr and Mrs Walter F Welsh who will move Monday to Springfield Missouri. Mrs J H Byers travels to Shenandoah to be with her mother recovering from a fractured arm. Mr and Mrs Robert H Willard arrived by car to see Falle Erickson in his Franklin street home.
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Walter F. Welsh
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Shenandoah
Junior Students of Parkersburg High to Honor Seniors
Parkersburg Ta April 28 The junior class will honor the senior class of Parkersburg High at a May 11 reception in the Methodist Episcopal church parlors. Ladies Aid Society will serve dinner. The senior play Clarence Decided appears May 1 in the high school gym under Miss Lydia Walker.
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Eileen Jones
Howard Ellinger
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Peter Schmidt
Keith Olson
Etta Diesselhuis
Grace Schluter
Board of Education
Jane Needham
Cedar Falls fair board locks in 14 entertainment acts
The Cedar Falls fair board engages fourteen high class acts for the season with performances on August ld and the sixteenth and seventeenth. The lineup includes Doris troupe, Bork Clinton, Cane tlatrea, Chinese acrobats, Three Parisians, Tete and Tete, French clowns, Lashe and Sterling, Rosco Armstrong, Brody and Devlan, and other acts.
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Oil Stove Explodes in Cafe Causing Slight Damage
Greene April 28. Slight damage to the Jay Jones cafe kitchen from an oil stove explosion Friday the 25th. Meric Hickman put out the flames before the fire department arrived. Scorched wallpaper was the only notable damage. Regular session of Catholic Daughters of America held last evening in Woodman hall with a social following the meeting.
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R. M. Barbour Dies Sudden near Cresco
Robert M Barbour 65 died Thursday evening on a Cresco street on his way home from work. Born Oct 4 1862 near Woodstock Canada he lived in Cresco and Waucoma Iowa before farming in Ward county. Survived by widow son Homer G Barbour Waterloo mother 85 brothers and a sister and two grandchildren funeral in Waucoma after brief Cresco service.
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Hudson Votes on Town Hall Bonds Soon
Hudson Virginia prepares for a special election in May or early June to decide funding for a municipal town hall. Council plans to draw plans and obtain cost estimates to set bond amounts. Local Booster Club and business leaders have approved the project in principle after a representative town meeting.
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Shakespeare Pageant Delights Independence Audience
Shakespeare Story Telling club staged a pageant at the Independence high school auditorium under Miss Vera Hood. Forty two junior and lower grade pupils presented six stories three tragedies and three comedies with dances songs and solos. Prof H P Jones and Misses Mary Rundies Lois Lorenzen and Wilda Scoggin assisted. a free will offering funded books for elementary children.
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Towa Hospital at Independence Reaches 35th Anniversary
Independence Indiana April 28 The fifty fifth anniversary of the opening of the Towa State hospital at this place will be May The institution opened for patient reception on May 1 1873 with a capacity of 600 Since then many additions and separate buildings have been erected The institution now has a population of 1423 patients exclusive of officers and other employees
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Governor to speak at dedication of Oelwein Coliseum
Governor Joan Hammul will deliver the dedication address at the opening of Oelwein Coliseum on May 1 at 7 30 p m Promoters from Oelwein Community say the program will also feature music and focus on Iowa and her growth and development
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Dinner Party Hosts and Local Notes From Clarksville Ta
Mrs Christie Walmith hosted five guests in Clarksville with out of town relatives from Plainefield and Kelso Washington plus Mrs Frank Aiden. Reader notes a hospital patient in Waverly for appendicitis and a truck driver stuck in a mudhole near Spring Lake schoolhouse. Local officials and residents traveled to Des Moines with Drake relays participants listed among the group.
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Spring Lake
Charles City
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Jewell Kellar
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Waldorf Choir Bus Damaged En Route to Oelwein
Waldorf choir from Forest Otty was traveling with 457 singers when the motorbus stalled on a road near Oelwein. The bus, damaged in transit, was retrieved by M. M. Brumsvold, the business manager, after local shop repairs. The unit was to perform a concert in Newthampton on Sunday at 3 p.m.
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Teachers Refuse Contracts in Cedar Falls
Four members of the Cedar Falls public school staff returned unsigned contracts to the superintendent. Genevieve Ferguson and Wreda Carpenter of the junior high, Adella Damage and Myrile Newport of the grades were among those delaying signatures.
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Workman Plucked From Drill Press in Iowa Shop
Julius Obenchain narrowly escaped death at the Great Western machine shop in Oelwein when his clothing was caught in a drill press. He sustained a gash above the left eye, badly wrenched right arm, and bruises on the side and back. A fellow worker shut the machine off. Obenchain will be off duty for several days.
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Joshua G. Burteh Buried at Osage at 94
Joshua G. Burteh 94 died Thursday of apoplexy. Funeral held at the Osage Baptist church with Rev. John D. Kern presiding. Survived by widow Fannie Bust Burtch and three daughters plus son Jay Burtch. Born August 9 1833 in Guildford New York, lived in Springhill Burr Oak Osage Minnesota.
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Otterville News Briefs Include Illness and Fatality
Otterville Iowa reports Mrs. A Coons ill with pneumonia and Mrs Caroline Hittle leaving for an indefinite visit to her daughter east of Independence. Mrs George Kroma learns of the death in Pierre South Dakota of her nephew Richard Miler Gifford Ketlar. Chris Andrews nephew of Mrs . is killed near Sun Perier when a train hit an automobile during a recent snow storm.
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Buck Grove Woman’s Funeral Rites Planned in Parkersburg
The funeral for Mrs. T. M. Berg of Buck Grove will be held at the Baptist church in Parkersburg on Tuesday May 1. She died Friday and is survived by her husband and 11 children, the youngest two weeks old.
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Independence Rural Carriers Receive New Mail Desks
Independence April 28 seven new route desks for the rural carriers at Independence Post Office are now in use. The larger cases have 1100 pigeon holes, four tiers high and 25 feet long, built in New Britain Connecticut. Since rural routes began here nearly 26 years ago the service has grown about 300 percent and four of the original carriers remain in duty, traveling about 4000 miles annually.
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Landing Field Under Construction On Reed Farm
Specing Service Winthrop April 28 reports a landing field is being built on the Reed farm by Newitt Collins and Ralph Reed. Collins expects his ship ready next month and Reed anticipates receiving his newly purchased plane about the same time. Winthrop High School orchestra gave a Rowley concert Tuesday evening for the high school’s benefit.
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Aged Grundy Center Woman Injured in Fall
Grundy Center Iowa April 28 Mrs Anna Leigh 87 is in serious condition after falling downstairs at her home An arm was fractured she suffered severe bruising and shock
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Urick credits Waterloo farm implement revival for growth
Iowa labor commissioner A. L. Urick notes Waterloo’s strong farm machinery sector as farmers buy equipment again. He cites factory revival across Iowa, with higher employment in the seventh district from Feb 15 to March 15 and a rising payroll, reflecting better condition for farm-related industries.
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Hudson Juniors and Seniors Have Party in Waterloo
Hudson high school held a junior senior banquet at Black's Tea Room in Waterloo to begin commencement festivities. Sixteen seniors and fourteen juniors attended with faculty guests. Old rose and black decor plus a "Split of 1928" theme featured six airplanes in senior colors.
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Hall & Turner partner under major operation at Waterloo
B C Hall of Hall and Turner underwent a serious double hernia operation at Allen Memorial hospital Waterloo on Friday morning. He rallied and is recovering satisfactorily. The first shipment of ice from this country to the West Indies was sent years ago for use in a yellow fever epidemic.
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