Open pheasant season delays in Butler County hunters
Allison Iowa October 15 Open season for pheasants in Butler County delayed as two state game men visit Ernest Speedy home for hunting plans. Dingmans Cedar Rapids traveled to Garner later. Hotel rooms filled as hunters gather. Also a Walnut Grove school program raises $40 for equipment upgrades. Grandchildren of early pupils attend new modern building with basement furnace lockers. Bible class met at Mrs. Whitlatch home with attendees including Whitaker and Shirer.
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Allison
N. F. Dingman
Stuart’ Dingman
Cedar Rapids
Ernest Speedy
Butler
Garner
Walnut
Grove
Miller
Coun‘ty
PK. Miller
L.A. Bates
Ben “Westendorf
Reid Rohif
L. A. Bates
Vinton Meeting Discusses Keeping Youth Safe
The county annual meeting at Vinton featured Rev Bigelow Adel on keeping boys and girls on the right path. Mrs WD Miller Grundy Center and officers AS BS Kline Harrison township president Gen E Grunewald Blairstown vice president Louis Greaser Jackson township secretary RM Baldridge Vinton treasurer Mrs E Q Fisher project leader. Supper proceeds over 100 dollars from a Methodist Aid chicken dinner and social room service.
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Sheebeee
Alta
Ernest
Vinton
Bigelow
Adel
WD. Miller
Grundy
King
BS Kline
Harrison - Township
E. Grunewald
Blairstown
Louis ‘Greaser
Jackson ‘Township
Rm." Baldridge
E. Q. Fisher
Former Missionary Speaks at Aplington Meetings
Miss Bertha M Lang of Buffalo Center Iowa returned recently from nearly five years as a missionary in China and addressed the Ladies Benevolent Society in the afternoon and the B Y P U in the evening at Aplington. Jock Dwain Heerts, son of Mr and Mrs J E Heerts, had a minor operation at Elsworth Hospital Iowa Falls today.
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Aplington
Bertha M. Lang
Buffalo Center
Ira
China
Ladies. Benevolent Society
Jock Dwain Heerts
J. E. Heerts
Elsworth Hospital
Iowa Falls
Chickasaw County Teachers Meet Largest on Record
About 300 teachers students and others gathered for Chickasaw county teachers institute. County Superintendent Alf O Veals said it was the largest ever and most successful with strong praise from Newton Wesley Gaines University of Nebraska. Attendees included roughly 100 rural teachers normal training students from Nashua and New Hampton and teachers principals superintendents and parochial school sisters from the city.
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Newton
Wesley, Gaines
University of Nebraska
Pitty Normal Training
Nashua
New Hampton
Founder of Grundy College Led by Minister for 25 Years
Rev. W. Bode D D founder and president of Grundy College celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of his ordination this month. Born in Muskegon Michigan fifty one years ago he holds degrees from Penn College Haverford Temple and the University of Chicago. He previously served the Reformed church at Woden and Grand Rapids before joining Grundy County and Lincoln Center church.
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Grundy Center
Grundy College
Bode
Reformed Church
Woden
Grand Rapids
Burton Heights Reformed Church
Grundy
County
Lincoln
Center Church
Midwest
Muskegon
Mich
Penn College
Haverford
Temple, University and University
Marble Rocks Civil War Vets Headed to State Home
Marble Rock veterans William Comstock and David Farrington, last Civil War residents, gone to Marshalltown for winter at the soldiers home. Wives died. William Holland of Orchard repairs a roof on Marble Rock building used by the telephone exchange. Mrs Gertrude White returns from Cook Minnesota. Creed Welch returns to Spickard Missouri after visit. Charles Moore joins briefly. Jennie Wilder club marks first anniversary with 25 former teachers in Scott township. Mrs Truman Wills to Allen Memorial Hospital Waterloo for hernia treatment.
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Marble Rock
William Comstock
David’ ‘Farrington
Marshalltown
Hothe
William
Holland
Marble ‘Rock
Gertrude White
Cook
Minn
Charles Moore
Jennie Wilder
Scott
Man Dives Car Down Culvert To Escape Approaching Train
In Mitchell Iowa a Firestone salesman narrowly escaped death when his car slid onto an Illinois Central track Friday at noon. A whistle warned him as he turned sharply to avoid the train, sending the car into a culvert. A dozen men pushed the car back and it was undamaged while he remained unhurt.
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Mitchell
Firestone Tire ‘Company
Tlinois Central
Fredericksburg Girl Honored At Party In Williamstown Church
Miss Dorothy Marr assistant cashier at First State Bank was honored at a prenuptial shower in Williamstown church annex. Hostesses were Mrs Velva Hass man and Misses Lucille and Alice Edgar. Guests from Fredericksburg included Mrs Reno Bravener Mrs Maggie Dayton Misses Minnie Kammeyer Millie Husman and Hilda Schutte. Fifty relatives and friends attended the celebration of the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs John Kottke observed Oct 9. The couple, residents of Chickasaw county since 1878, have nine children and 18 grandchildren.
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Fredericksburg
Dorothy Marr
First State Bank
Williamstown
Velva Hassman
Lucille
Alice Edgar
Reno Bravener
Maggie Dayton
Minnie Kammeyer
Millie Husman
Hilda Schutte
John Kottke
Chickasaw County
L. W. Kammeyer
A. F. Budweg
Carl Kottke
New Hampton
Walter Thorne
Peter Arne
Fred
Emma Kottke
Chickasaw P. T. A. Elects Officers in New Hampton
The North Jerico school district Parent-Teacher Association met for its first meeting of the year in New Hampton Iowa on October 15. Officers elected were President Mrs. Oscar Wigdal, Vice President Mrs. Halvor Nelson, Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. Jeff A Knutson.
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Chickasaw P.T. A
New Hampton
Parent-Teachers Association of
North Jerico School District
Oscar Wigdal
Halvor Nelson
Jeff A. Knutson
Nazarene Church Revival Ends Sunday in Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls Oct 15 Sunday wraps up four days of Danish Nazareth church revival on Bluff street with four services. Rev A R Petersen of Minneapolis will address the Sunday school at 9 30 am, Rev Ni C Carlsen will conduct Danish service at 10 30 am, and Petersen will speak in English in the afternoon. Visiting clergy will preach at Calvary Baptist Presbyterian Zion and First Baptist churches, with evening addresses by Petersen and others. The revival extends two weeks with multiple pulpits and speakers across the city.
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Cedar Falls
Danish Nazareth
Bluff Street
A. R. Petersen
Minneapolis
Ni C. Carlsen
Synodical
Chicago
Presbyterian Church
J. A. Haehlen
Zion Evangelical’ Church
J. Richmond Morgan
First Congregational Church of
Waterloo
First Baptist Church
First Presbyterian
Gerrit /Verkuyl
Board of Christian Education
Mornning
First Baptist
Thomas Anderson
Will
College - Hill
Community
Howland Hansen
W. G. Rowley
Wilbur Maxson
Epworth
Wesley
Foundation
League
Clear Lake
Esther Knoer
American Legion Post
Michael Healy
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Otto “Petersen
West Branch
Peter Jorgensen
Modesto
Cal
Peter Petersen
State Street
Petersen
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Charles A. Wise
H. N. Silliman
T. C
Lois Gillam
State Teachers College
Des Moines
John Joseph Hoesly
Teachers College
Goodyear Rubber Company
Akron
Gillam
Evangeline Simpson
Dubuque
Golda Kane
Riverside
Miss Simpson
Arthur Wright
Fairfield Township
Grundy County
Wright
Omaha
Two Visually Impaired Students Enrolled at State Teachers College
Sightless youths from the College for the Blind at Vinton enroll at the State Teachers College Cedar Falls for the current year. William Morrisey Coggan and William Hakle Armstrong, almost totally blind, are graduates of the Vinton institution and come under state legislative enactments to continue their education. Supt F E Palmer directs their work including piano study. Also, William C. Nuhn reports from Bay City Michigan on Evangelical missionary board meeting with 50 members attending and routine business conducted. Hans Madsen and wife plan to move into Cedar Falls by Nov 1, leasing the Stanberry property and opening an insurance and real estate office at 412 Main Street.
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T.C
William Morrisey
Coggan
William Hakle
Armstrong
Morrisey
Hakle
College For the Blind
Vinton
Cedar Falls
F.E. Palmer
Plano
Conlab
William C. Nuhn
Bay
City
Mich
Hans Madsen
Kimballton
Stanberry
Pfeiffer Addition
Madsen
Main Street
Minister Assumes Pastorate of Rural Church in Grundy
Rev. J.T. Masemore has taken duties as minister of Alice Lutheran church near Grundy Center Iowa. The parish bought a house from Mrs Emma Alexander for a parsonage. Various local updates follow including injuries, recitals, travel notes and health concerns among residents.
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Grundy
Courier Special Service
Grundy Center
J.T. Masemore
Alice Lutheran Church
Ohio
Emma Alexander
John Hotopp
Beaman
Marshalltown Hospital
Wellsburg
Charles Walker
W. Landsiedel
Harold Wilson
Dorothy Jane
San Diego
S .Cal
Jack. C. “Smith
Booth
Storm Lake
Chase Pool Hall
Chase
Boone
Ben Heronimus
L. H. Carpenter
Dan Christensen
German Township
Cyrus Meyer
Tobias
John Kruse
Residence Rebuild After Buchanan County Farm Fire
W J Harrington and crew began rebuilding a two story frame residence 26 by 28 feet on the Mrs Kate Leach farm southwest of Independence Iowa to replace the house destroyed by fire. The Donnelly family occupies the farm. Mrs O’Brien improves. Howard O’Brien and family were called from Chicago due to Mrs O’Brien's illness. O’Brien left for Chicago while Mrs O’Brien stays to help care for her. Declamatory tryouts led by Miss Damarise Kitch are planned at the local high school with a November 17 tryout date and a December 8 county contest plus three sub county events. Miss Kitch has much material for the contests.
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Independence
J. Harrington
Kate Leach
Bernard Donnelly
O’brien
Damarise Kitch
Miss Kitch
Women Alcohol Runners' Trial Again Postponed
Cedar Falls Oct 15 hearing of three women accused by county road patrolmen and state agents of illegal liquor possession was postponed due to officer Gillespies absence. No new date set. likely next week. Defendants are Dorothy Moore, Anna Nelson, and Josephine Mueller. Mueller and Nelson have been jailed for about three weeks, Moore is free on bond.
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Courter
Cedar Falls
Court of
W. H.whitford
George Gillespie
Dorothy Moore
J. E. Sirianni
Des Moines
Anna Nelson
Josephine Mueller
Mitchell
S. D
Moore
Pioneer Clayton County Church Reopens for Worship
The Pioneer Rock church at Ceres Iowa has been restored and put back in service as a community place of worship. The first wedding since restoration occurred on October 4. The church sits on highway 55 between Garnaville and Guttenberg and has long been a Clayton county landmark.
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Ceres
Pioneer Rock
Highway 55
Garnaville
Guttenberg
Clayton County
Soliciting fund for sheriff defense in Floyd damages action
Reports from Charles City Iowa Oct 15 indicate a fund drive solicits contributions to defend Sheriff Saddler sued for 25000 by Mrs Levi Klinkel administrator of her son Don Klinkel who died from a gun wound alleged to have been fired by the sheriff during an arrest in Oak Park Also noted are local crime court actions and community notices including a 300 fine and 90 days jail for Erwin Wilford for illegal liquor possession and a death and several local society items with weddings and PTA activities.
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Charles City
Saddler
Levi Klinkel
Don
Klinkel
Oak Park
Erwin Wilford
Osage
Jens Grothe
Lauretta “Duenbostle
Clyde Curry
Delia. Brandau
Martin Jung
Hugh Chestnut
Hestia Barman
Des Moines
Ben Antonoff
Cedar Rapids
Fyler
Hammer
Funeral Rites for Mrs List at Waverly Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs List, who died Friday after a three week illness, will be held at Paul’s Lutheran church in Waverly at 2:30 p m Sunday with burial in the parish cemetery. She was 83, widow of a Lutheran pastor in the area, and leaves four daughters and one son. Emma and Marie reside with her.
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Waverly
W.list
Ae Paul’s “Lutheran
Anniversary in Grundy County Marks Long Marriage
The fifty fifth anniversary of Mr and Mrs Enigan was celebrated beside Kerevan Service Center on Oct 16. They wed in Lowden County Virginia on Oct 15, 1872 and moved to Grundy County the following spring. Their journey began with President Grant’s March 1873 inauguration. Three children died in infancy or young ages during the 1908 infantile paralysis epidemic. Surviving children include Mrs L Coffman and Harry Walter Rich Os Ercel Fenton in Grundy Center and Mrs Will Davidson Floyd Ta and Ralph in Waterloo.
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Kerevan
Enigan
Bee ‘Mying
L Coffman
Harry
Walter
Rich Os ‘Ercel
Fenton
Grundy
Center
Jordan Funeral to Be Held Sunday at Cedar Falls Chapel
Services for William Jordan who died Friday afternoon at Independence will be conducted at Brown Chapel at 2 30 PM Sunday Rev G F Barsalou pastor of First Congregational church will officiate Burial will be in Jordan cemetery seven miles northwest of Cedar Falls Surviving are two brothers Milwn of Falls and Joe Roundup
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Cedar
William ‘Jordan
Manchester Legion Elects Officers at Annual Meeting
Manchester post No. 45 of the American Legion re elected Vv. Weems as commander at Legion hall. Other officers re elected include Floyd A. Hickman and J. J. Burbridge. New officers are Thos. H Tracey Harold Jones Jt. Doug May Martin Meaney and C. G. Yoran. Weems retained to carry on programs despite initial reluctance. Committees named: Arrangements Nieman May Hickman Utley Utley Tracey Kehoe. dance McKeag Burbridge Frei Roff.
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Manchester
Vv. Weems
Manchester Post
American: Legion
Legion “Hall
Floyd A. Hickman
J. J. Burbridge
Thos. H. ‘Tracey
Harold’ Jones
Doug May
Martin Mean‘ey
C.G. ‘Yoran
Weems
Hickman
Burbridge
William
Nieman
T. D. May
Miles Utley
hal—Harry
Hal—Harry’.G. “Utley
Thos. HK. Tracey
Paul J. “Kehoe
Dance
John McKeag
J.j.burbridge
Henry Frei
Earl Roff
Hazleton meeting on paving routes stirs community concerns
Protest meeting held near Hazleton to discuss paving routes for primary highway No. 11. Residents along the current route urge paving, while engineers consider alternatives. A safety and mobility issue draws local interest as a committee is formed to take up the matter with authorities. Also noted are obituaries and local notices including the Doran family death in Dubuque and Melvin Marshall’s hospital discharge.
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Oelwein
Hazleton
Mrs Henry Struthoff Very Ill at Dumont Iowa
Mrs Henry Struthoff of Dumont Iowa is critically ill with diabetes and complications a nurse cares for her The community welcomes new Methodist pastor Rev D C Perry and his family with a church program and reception in Dumont Also noted are W F M S unit meeting attendance and a birth in Clarion to Mr and Mrs Ted Harlan formerly Miss Lida Stock
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Dumont
Henry. Struthoff
Methodist Church
D. C
Perry
Icca Wilcox
D.C
Ted Harlan
Clarion
Forea
Harlan
Lida Stock
Fred Stock
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Bunter
Whitaker
Alberta
Shirer
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Madeline
Brooks
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Wisconsin
Mahlon Williams
Wellwood
Pearl Williams
Medford
Wis
Sibyl] Salmon
Ivan Salmon
Teachers’ Meeting
Nazareth
Calvary Baptist
Andrew. Petersen
Danish Baptist’ Church
Zion Evangelical
Zion Evangelical Church
Will. Wedat
Alta Vista
Beatrice Quirk
Hughes Dry Goods Company
Alta “Vista
Donald Tetsloff
Louis. Eliasen
Quirk
Buchanan County
Pioneer
Floyd
Kiinkel
Redd
Robeson
John . Witzl
Rudd
Rockford
Santa
Austin
Merahiall
Shannon
American ‘Legion
Ellis ‘Audinium
Nancy Elkins
Minnie Peterson
Elkins
Oregon
Jordan
Cedar Falls Chapel
Legion
Prinany U
Willam Dorat
Wolf
Melvin
Marshall
Hawkeye
Mercy
Thospital
Henry Struthoff
D.C. Peres
Margaret Norford
John Thompson
Leo “Springer
John “Becker
C.'R. Martin
Bristow
Flw
Watson
Cartie Watson
The
Waterloo Savings Bank
J. E. Johnson
R. W. Waite
Carleton Sias
J.J. Miller
Wayne I. Smith
Ass’t
Francis 8. LaBarre
L. W. Witty
R. Davis
Nathan Northey J, EK. Johnson
W. B. Small
E. Johnson
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