The Independent from Hawarden, Iowa • Page 2

HA WARDEN fHtfflSDAY, JUNE 20, 1940 Schoeneman Bros. Co 'MEMBER WAY BACK Hawarden Was Still in Its Infancy and Battling for Existence FORTY YEARS AGO A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cassill of Hudson.

Mrs. J. H. McManaman departed for Eureka, Utah, to join her husband. Miss Sylvia Smith returned from Cedar Rapids where she had attended the state normal college.

Mrs. C. S. Burket and son Guy departed for Ord, for a three weeks' visit with relatives, Geo. A.

Gearhart of Washington county, Ohio, arrived for a visit with his brother, D. T. Gearhart. T. A.

Greiner purchased a general store at Pioneer, Iowa, and was preparing to move his family there. Ed. Whittington departed for Hot Springs, S. to try the curative powers of the water 1 at that place, i Jamie, the eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

H. Harrison, died June I5th after a several months' illness. Geo. Sedgwick departed for Washington, D. to commence his new duties in the census bureau on July 1st.

Jacob Schlup of Hudson arrived back in the United States after an extended tour of the European countries. Lee Cawthorne went to Seney where he was learning the blacksmith trade in the shop which his father had purchased. Mrs. T. N.

Torkelson and Mrs. Pauleon of Hudson departed for Chicago where they were joined by Miss Jennie Paulson, who accompanied them on a trip to Sweden. One of the big attractions listed for the Hawarden 4th-of-July celebration was a wonderful moving picture machine to take the place of the fireworks in the evening. During a Roman candle bombardment from opposite sides of the sti-eet, the awning on the L. L.

Harlan store caught on fire and was destroyed. In pulling it down to prevent further spread of the flames, Oliver Boggess had his hands quite badly burned. A couple of big real estate deals took place in Hawarden on June 19th when W. L. Leland traded his store building to Chas.

Witt for a farm, five miles northwest of town, and then later in the day made a cash sale of in marriage at tMt place on 16th. The fifteenth anniversary celebration of the Big Springs Baptist church was in progress with a week of etiter- tAinment. Miss Emma Keivel of Hawarden and Mr. Dick H. Jager of Eagle township were united in marriage at Orange City on June 9th.

William G. Crane of Hawarden was honored at the State University of Iowa by having the degree of Master of Arts conferred upon him. Joe Barron resigned his position with Schoeneman Bros. Co. and departed for his home at Alvord where ie had secured another position.

Stpjnfatlfc passed away Farmers and For prompt service for sanitary removal of dead stock and hogs, call HAWARDEN George Heldt Son Phone 72 Hawarden Produce Co. Phone 79 HotJSE DOINGS June llth at her home in Eagle town ship. She was survived by her husband, four sons and two daughters. Miss Margaret Betzenderfer returned home from Washington, D. for the summer vacation.

She was serving as secretary to Senator Kenyon. The Twentieth Century Club gave a farewell dinner at the home of Miss Anna Smith on June 9th in honor of Vfrs. W. N. Cooley, who was moving to Yankton, S.

D. About sixty-five of the old Eagle township neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey McAninch gathered at their home in this city on June The occasion was in honor of Mrs. McAninch's birthday.

The farm homes of Mrs. E. French and Walter Struble of Ireton were ransacked on June 13th and a heavy ron safe was carried off in an effort secure something of value. Mrs. Alice Lawton of Manchester, 'owa, purchased the United Presby- erian parsonage at Ireton and was jreparing to make her home there, ler daughter, Miss Olive, had secured a teaching' position in the Ireton chools.

Unknown Items of Interest Gleaned by Oar Orange City Correspondent The following persons have filed petitions to become citizens of the United States. Their petitions will be heard at the September term of the Sioux county district court: Ida Hoekstra, Maurice; Tryntje Regnerus, Hull; William Klarenbeek, Ireton; Ray Klarenbeek, Ireton; Jennie Scliotanus, Hawarden; Ralph Sehotanus, Hawarden; John Schotanus, Hawarden; Arie Burggraaff, Boyden; Richard Burggraaff, Boyden; Elma Elnor Waasenaar, Orange City; John William De Kruyf Rock Val- MC NALLY Schuetz Elevator Phone 43-F 14 ALCESTER Paul Ericson's Produce Phone 58 Hawarden Rendering Truck License No. 49 CHATSWORTH CHATS property to Herman his residence Witt Sr. The North Western Railway company were making arrangements to enlarge the capacity of their large transfer house at this point by raising their building about ten feet and adding another floor and then building a new addition of the same size as the old one. The Akron papers announced that Ringling's cii-cus would show in Hawarden on July 9th.

This was news to Hawarden residents, and it wai thought that this news was a graft in an effort to keep the crowd at home July 4th instead of going to LeMars to see the circus there. TWENTY YEARS AGO Mike Johnson of Ireton was ill with a case of smallpox. A son was born June 14th to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Van Dieren.

A baby boy was born June llth to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Blomberg. Ervin Tilgner returned from Iowa City where he had attended the State University.

Miss Viva Dawson arrived home from Rapid City where she had been teaching school. Robert Paramore arrived home from Iowa City where he had attended the State University. John Vlotho Jr. sold his automobile business and leased his garage build- Ing at Ireton to Wm. Lean.

Russell Patrick, who had attended Minnesota State University, arrived home for the summer vacation. H. Rossman of Ireton received a letter from his wife in Russia. It was the first word from her in over three years. Mr.

Aljie Larson of Hawarden and Miss Lillian Edith Settervall of Chicago were married at that place on June 5th. Miss Jessie Eileen Pierce and Mr. Roscoe Cecil Morrison of Ireton were parties ransacked the ome of Mr. and Mrs. I.

L. Brown on he Harve McAninch farm on June 3th. They succeeded in finding a $50 Liberty bond, in Thrift Stamps nd about $5 in change which they carried away with them. The Sioux county spelling contest was held June 15th at Orange City in onjunction with the graduation of 00 eighth grade rural pupils at the 'arm Bureau picnic held there. The dnner was Miss Helma Heidbrink, of ural school district No.

2, Reading ownship. Her teacher was Miss Kathyn Fritz of Ireton. The Hawarden community was hocked the morning of June 12th it was learned that John Abbey ad passed away at the Hawarden ospital after an illness of only a few ours. He had been a resident of this vicinity since 1902. He was 49 years of age and was survived by his wife and one son, Dale, and also his aged father and three brothers.

A. W. DeMoulin and Peter Gunderson of Hudson had a miraculous escape from serious injury on June 13th when they collided with a car driven by Sioux City parties on the hill, two miles south of Hawarden. DeMoulin who was driving, was attempting to ovci-take another car and was driving in the neighborhood of fifty miles per hour when he ran into the car coming over the hill. His car was thrown seventy-five feet and completely wrecked, and both occupants were severely bruised and shaken up.

SEEK CHILDREN'S HOME FUNDS in Contributions Will be Solicited Hawarden Saturday, June 22 The annual publicity and tag day sale in the interest of the Iowa Children's Home Society will be held in Hawarden on Saturday, June 22, with headquarters at the city hall. The Society is endorsed by the State Board of Social Welfare and among local citizens endorsing its work are Mayor A. C. Wyant, Rev. R.

F. Chapler, Mrs. R. A. Shriner, Mrs.

M. C. Callan, Mrs. Hazel Snell, Mrs. W.

E. Madson, Mrs. S. R. Cooper and Father Richard Graf.

Non-denominational, the society cares for and finds homes for neglected and dependent children from infancy to 15 years of age, regardless of race or creed. The society operates through district courts, county boards of supervisors, welfare agencies, and individuals in Iowa's 99 counties, i Its work is of interest to this community since 159 of Sioux county's dependent children have been in its care through the years its operation. It now has nearly 300 children in its care, 148 having been received from 71 counties in 1939. Headquarters and receiving home are in Des Moines. State officers of the society are Dr.

F. I. Herriott of Drake University, president; Horace Foskett, vice president; Harry Ginsberg, treasurer; Mrs. Gardner Cowles secretary; and Dr. Mae Habernicht, executive director.

There is also a board of 25 managers from various parts of the state. Tags will be sold on Saturday for whatever one wishes to give to this woi-tjhy work of finding homes for Iowa's own needy children. The committee hopes each one will have his coins ready and that purchasers display the tags to avoid second appeals. Aged Man Found Dead in Bed Thomas McKettrick, who had lived in LeMars for more than a half century, was found dead in his bed Sunday morning. He had been in poor health for a long time but was up and about until very recently.

Death was due to cerebral thrombosis. Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Luken funeral home in LeMars with Rev. L. L. Belk of St.

John's Lutheran church in charge. Burial was at Le- Mars. Thomas MeKettrick was born at Dundee, Scotland, April 3, 1864, and was 76 years, 2 months and 13 days old. He came to the United States in 1886 and for many years he operated a saloon in LeMars. He was married in Orange City August 18, 1898, and his divorced wife, Mrs.

Anna McKay, now lives at Long Beach, Calif. He is survived by the following children: James of Chatsworth; Thomas of Fort Madison; Mrs. Hannah Schupp and William McKettrick of Sioux City; Charoleen Cooley and Charles of Long Beach, and Celestia of Denver. Colo. ley; Leonard i)e Kock Vali Clara De Kruyf, Rock Valley; Edith Vink, Orange City; Barend Koops, Sioux Center; Henrietta Herweyer, Orange City; Jim Herweyer, Orange City; Juliana De Groot, Sioux Center; Evert Johannes De Groot, Sioux Center; Frand De Jong, Orange City; Dick De Ruyter, Rock Valley; Agnieta Coulander, Rock Valley; Hiltje Faber, Orange City; Sadie Groen, Hawarden; Cornelius Vender Syde, Ireton; Elfriede Margareta Anna Meyn, Boyden; Henry Stegemann, Matlock; Bildebrand Den Ouden, Ireton; Jennie Vanden Brink, Sioux Center; Pieter De Vries, Boyden; Bertha Jonker, Orange City; Stella Bomgaars, Alton; Anna Hoogeterp, Orange City; Gertie Nels, Sheldon; Lena Vander Linden, Rock Valley; Gertie Brands, Rock Valley; Albert Kooiman, Alton; Catharina Meyer, Sheldon; John Bergsma, Sheldon; Dora Steenhoven, Alton; Arie Steenhoven, Alton; Henry Bosch, Sioux Center; Simon Zwier, Hospers; Aalt Van Dyke, Hull; Dirk Smit, Rock Valley; Wilhelmina Vogel, Orrange City; Tjeerd De Boer, Sioux Center.

WILL MORE ROYALTY FOLLOW SUIT? picture, telephoned to the United States, shows Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, holding the hand of her oldest child, Princess Beatrix, 2i years. Following her a nurse is carrying Princess Irene, 9 months. They plan to stay in Ottawa, Canada, for the duration of the war. With France's capitulation to the Nazis, the Princess might be setting an example for other royalty of Europe. CAPITAL NEWS LETTER By Congressman Vincent F.

Harrington Alice I. Johnson has filed suit against Lowell Goodrich and others asking for judgment in the sum of $226.84 due on a note, and also for the sum of $119.56 advanced for payment of taxes, with interest and costs. The note was secured by a mortgage on a property in Hawarden. The last will and testament of John F. Shriver of Hawarden has been filed for probate and hearing on same has been set for July 8th.

G. W. Bushby was appointed administrator of the estate of Annie Bushby with bond fixed at $1,000. Married Saturday in Orange City Miss Iva Crow and Mr. Herbert E.

Liston of Hawarden were quietly married Saturday at Orange City. They were attended by Bernard Hendricks and Laura Webb. The bride, daughter of Mrs. Myrtle Crow, has spent her entire life in this vicinity. She attended the Chatsworth schools and then entered the Hawarden high school, graduating this year with the class of 1940, The bridegroom's parents were the late Mr.

and Mrs. John Liston, former long time residents of Hawarden, and he has spent a large part of his life in that vicinity. For the past six years he has been employed on the Mrs. Wm. Edmunds farm and has proven a dependable employee.

He will continue his work there for the present at least, while his bride will continue to live with her mother. The Independent joins the many friends of this young couple in extending congratulations. John Nielsen and R. Hiedeman were callers Sunday at Alcester and Hudson. Franklin Koch and children, who had visited here in the home of his sister, Mrs.

Ben Dalgliesh, departed last Thursday for their home at Rapid City, S. D. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson, Henry Vander Hamm, Martin Vander Hamm and Lawrence and Mrs.

Hazel Stinton and Lowell Stinton spent Sunday at a lake in Minnesota. Several women from town went to the Orin Harris home Tuesday afternoon and surprised Kenneth Bennett, who with his sister, Mrs. George Van Allen, is spending a few weeks here. The guests brought their lunch and an enjoyable time was spent by all. Guests in the Joel Burnight home Sunday in honor of Mrs.

Burnight's father, Peter Jepsen, were Mr. and Mrs. Jepsen, Mr. and Mrs, John McGinnis and family, Mr. and Mrs.

Louis Jepsen and Betty and Richard, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stephenson and Harold and Mrs. Effel Westover. Mr.

and Mrs. George Meyers and son Louis of Ray, N. came Tuesday and are visiting in the H. J. Schumacher, Dan Ronan and Mrs.

N. P. Westergard homes and also at the Puhl home near Akron. Mrs. Meyers is a sister or Mrs.

Schumacher and Mrs. Westergard. They will go to Le- Mars and Remsen from here and visit with relatives. The last will and testament of Abel De Groot, late of Maurice, has been filed for probate and hearing on same has been set for July 9th. The last will and testament of Ethel Vander Linden, late of Alton, has been filed for probate and hearing on same has been set for July 10th.

Wm. P. Heitritter, guardian of Walter Herman Heitritter, has filed a petition requesting authority to mortgage the real estate. The court set July 17th as the day for a hearing. Congress is winding up the emergency program.

At this moment it appears that all of the emergency legislation should be finished in time to permit the adjournment of Congress by the end of next week (June 22). However, there is doubt at this moment whether Congress will adjourn. There is quite a lot of sentiment for adjourning on both sides of the House, despite the Republican protestations that they want to stay in session, and about an equal amount of sentiment on both sides to stay in session. The only reason for remaining in session is to permit the disposal at this session of domestic legislation which has been sidetracked for the emergency program. Such bills as the Logan-Walter bill and the Smith bill amending the National Labor Relations Act, have both been passed by the House and are awaiting Senate action.

Should there be an adjournment next week it is doubtful if these two matters will be considered by the Senate. As to adjournment, it must be remembered that for the Congress to adjourn, it is necessary that both the Senate and the House of Representatives vote to adjourn. Should there be no adjournment at this time, is is likely that a recess of several days will be taken for national conventions. TWO PLANES A MINUTE One thousand planes a day! That first thought to be a large amount- Actually it is small in relation to the- magnitude of the purpose for which it is to be spent. Few Americans have seen with their own eyes the picture of suffering which Europe now presents.

In less than a year Poland, Norway, the Belgium and France- have been blasted by total war. Photographs from Warsaw and Louvain printed in newspapers are but samples the horror which has been visited hundreds of thousands of innocent and peaceable men, women and Prevailing censorship meanwhile prevents a comprehensive demonstration of the needs of surviving victims of cataclysm. But the average citizen of the United States is competent to imagine the pitiful plight of the refugees from the conquered territories. of them have fled to England, still arger numbers are in France. It is the privilege as well as the duty of Americans to help in the emergency.

The economic sacrifice will be inconsequential, the benefit in terms of mercy applied to human agony incalcu- able. President Roosevelt would have- justified in requesting twice or as much as he has solicited. Those who share this point of view and wish to directly are invited William F. Faber was appointed executor of the estate of B'rans Faber, deceased, without bond. The court appointed John R.

De Vries and F. T. McGill as executors of the estate of Meine De Boer, late of Rock Valley, with bond fixed at $5,000. In the estate of William Meerdink, the court appointed Benjamin Meerdink as executor without bond. Operated On Wednesday Morning Mrs.

Carl Schwiesow Jr. submitted to an operation for appendicitis at the Hawarden hospital Wednesday. Marriage licenses were issued last week to the following couples: Herbert E. Liston, 29, Hawarden, and Iva Crow, 18, Chatsworth. W.

Richard Hammans, Carson, Iowa, and Jeannette E. McCrory, Ireton. Clarence M. Peterson, 22, Orange City, and Bertha Sinkey, 21, Ireton. Owen E.

Barr, 30, Watertown, S. and Sylvia Smith, 30, Sioux Falls, S. D. Loren Reed, 21, Peterson, Iowa, and Dorothy Zwick, 18, Sutherland, Iowa. Alfred Wissink, Rock Rapids, and Elsie De Groot, Maurice.

Softball Teams Organized Coach Smith, who is in charge of playground work, has organized several softball teams. There are junior and senior 'boys' teams and also several girls' teams. The senior boys' teams are composed of youths of high school age while the junior teams are composed of boys 13 years and under. The members of the girls' teams are 16 years and under. The boys teams are divided into E.

and S. W. and N. E. and N.

W. sections while the girls are south and north sections. Following is the weekly schedule of games: Monday at E. vs. S.

Senior Boys. Tuesday at vs. N. Senior Boys. Wednesday at 1:30 South vs.

Thursday at E. vs. Junior Boys, Friday at E. vs. N.

'Junior Boys. means, in an eight-hour day, 125 planes an hour or more than two planes per minute. That is a lot of planes to come off the assembly line of a single plant from one day to the the thought does not seem to feaze those amazing Fords of Dearborn, and son. Both agree that mass production of the Army's fast new P-40 pursuit ship at such an unprecedented rate would be a comparatively "simple" matter, after the Ford factory got into the swing of it And they declare it would not take more than six months to attain the promised production peak. War Department officials are much interested in the offer of the Fords, although some aviation experts find it hard to believe that planes of satisfactory workmanship and performance could be produced like automobiles.

It is apparent that Henry and Edsel 'Ford and their engineers have in mind many short-cuts and simplifications in the design and manufacture of military planes. Instead of the hundreds rivets which now go into a P-40, for example, they plan to use a welding process. They mentioned, also, the potentialities plastics in plane building. Whether these modifications would meet the requirements of the War Department remains to be The manufacture of aircraft engines of modern type involves painstaking craftsmanship and meticulous testing. It may be that the Fords will develop a motor of their own design that will fit in with their mass production scheme and yet conform to the rigid specifications of the Air Corps.

It must be remembered that 'Henry Ford is not a novice at plane manufacture, his famous tri-motors of a few years ago having set a new standard for design and production of that early day. 'Certainly the mass production specialists from Michigan deserve a chance to show what they can do in building up America's plane production capacity in these critical times. NECESSARY CHARITY President Roosevelt has asked Congress to appropriate fifty million dollars f9r civilian relief work in Europe. The sum stipulated would seem at to send their contributions to the nearest chapter of the American Red Dross. Much has been written and concerning 1 the amazing lack of war materials possessed by the British and French.

Why, the world and with good reason, was there no better preparation made? The facts are that both France and England were both fairly well equipped but the smashing success of the German drive in 'Belgium and northern France (the Flanders battle) were unlocked for catastrophees. Britain lost most of her Expeditionary Forces equipment, built up over eight months. lost heavily of mechanized units, of production facilities and of agricultural resources. She also lost heavily in trained man power. Truly, the Allies are in a very bad position.

It is so precarious that no doubt by the time this is published Paris will be in the hands of German troops. But the real reason that the- Allies have no replacements now is because Allied buying policies for eight months shunted orders around the United States. These policies were directed at conserving exchange rather than at tapping the vast American resources, Months now will be required before industry here is prepared to turn out war materials on the scale demanded. There seems to be no doubt but what the President intends to rush everything he possibly can to aid the Allies, but in the final analysis, if disaster should overtake- England and France, it will probably be because her respective policyTmak- ers refused to spend heavily in the United States and thus let eight precious months go by which might have been the, difference between holding- the line and defeat. Notice in Probate No.

4674 To All Whom It May Concern: You and of you are hereby notified to appear at the Court House in Orange City, Sioux County, on the 8th day of July, A. 1940, at 10:00 o'clock A. to attend the pro- late of an instrument purporting to the last Will and Testament of John F. Schriver, late of Sioux County, Iowa, deceased. At which time and you, will appear and, show cause, if any, why said Will should not be admitted to probate.

In testimony whereof I have here, unto set my hand affixed the seal of the District Court this 10th day of June, A. 1940. (Seal) D.Wterama, of District Court. C. B.

Thompson, Attorney..