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Local Legion Auxiliary Forms 1921 When World War I was over, returned veterans were struggling to obtain proper care and just compensation for their disabled comrades, to gain jobs and a start in civilian life for themselves, and to prevent the security and freedom of America, for which they had fought, from being lost. The women of their families wanted to help. To supplement the strength of the newly-organized American Legion, the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of the Legionnaires, those of the war oead, and the women veterans, formed the Auxiliary. American Legion building to be completed. Numerous projects were carried on by the auxiliary, with emphasis on courage and hope to veterans whose health had been impaired by the wars.

Auxiliary members, through contributes to poppies are sold in Iowa, providing worK for the disabled veterans. The Auxiliary has sold the red poppies most every year and public response has been greatly appreciated. the years and continuing into the future, send clothing and supplies to various Iowa hospitals, cookies to the Woodward State Hospital and School, the Veterans Hospital at Knoxville for its annual carnival, Christmas gifts to the Des Moines Veterans Hospital annual Gift Shop, and many other projects of this kind. In the field of Child Welfare Through the efforts of the late i service child of a Veteran Captain W. H.

James, Com- who needs care or a jd given assistance. The unit sends cloth- mander of the Boone Post, nineteen women met at Conn's Hall on August 2, 1921, and the local auxiliary unit was organized. The late Mrs. Charles Van Gorder was elected as first president. The unit received a temporary charter in September, 1921 and the permanent charter in 1924.

For one year meetings were held in Conn's Hall, then in the I.O.O.F. Hall for two years, and then meetings were held in homes of various members, but the unit continued having covered dish dinners with the Legion in the I.O.O.F. Hall. The unit also met for a short time at the Y.W.C.A. The auxiliary members kept busy holding rummage sales, food sales, all kinds of projects to raise money, as the unit has to furnish its own dishes, silverware and a large copper boiler in which to make the coffee when needed.

The Boone Post and the unit waited auxiously for a permanent home. Miss Frances B. Mason offered to donate one lot if the Post would buy so the Post purchased one lot and the auxiliary bought the third lot (at a cost of for the lot). While the Legionnaires spent their holidays cutting and trimming trees, getting logs up to the building site, and other necessary work for building their new cabin, the auxiliary members called themselves the "Log Widows." Merchants of Boone cooperated generously in helping furnish and complete the Log Cabin. The auxiliary held its first meeting in their new home October 12, 1928, although it still had a mud basement and many other unfinished parts of the ing and shoes to an "assigned child" twice each year.

Poppy Sales was inaugurated in May, 1922. Only veteran-made Camped In Haymarkei Thursday, June 8, 1911, four wagon loads of gypsies were camped in the Haymarket with their horses and were making themselves obnoxious by running around the streets telling fortunes and trading horses. About six o'clock Chief Moyer local drives for funds and assists with many of the fund drives. The local unit also participates in the annual Girls State, which started in 1947. Mrs.

W. M. Rierson, the former Miss Patricia Berglund, was the first girl sent from the local unit to attend Girls State, which provides citizenship training for high school junior girls. Memorial Day activities of the auxiliary are many and varied. Mel Dowd, Successful Stage Star M'el Dowd, (Mrs.

Henri Eudes) daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Thompson, 210 Marion in fw'Ify "37" numerous phases of the and off Broadway, drama, comedy, mystery, moving pictures, television, summer stock and road show companies traveling throughout the Unit ed States. Born Mary Ellen Dowd in Chicago, she came Boone with her family in 1943, and entered junior high school It was during her school years that classmates shortened Mary Ellen to some years later her theatrical agent she is known in the theatre. Dur ng her high years she was active in rama tic went down and ordered them ly i uncheon meetings from Sep- The cooperate with suggested the jyr el) which Legionnaires in decorating graves of veterans and auxiliary members.

The auxiliary also! sends many cards of cheer to members who are ill, and sympathy cards to bereaved families of auxiliary members. Americanism, Education of Orphans of Veterans, Junior Activities, Legislation and Civil Defense are more projects stressed in the work of the auxiliary members. The Past Presidents of the local unit organized the Past Presidents as-'; it is known, in April, 1932 and since then the group has held month- ONE OF THE NEWEST Church of God of Prophecy groups and following graduation from Boone High School studied at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. From there, she went to New had planned to come to Boone for the Centennial Week observance, but time between the York City for continued study career was launched and studio out of town which they did and went just outside the corporation line and camped along the Interurban tracks near the Earner farm east of town. The police are keeping a watchful eye on them and they will be gotten rid of as soon as possible.

This Monday forenoon, Nov. 4, 1912, about 11 o'clock a team hitched to the Mann Brothers delivery wagon ran away on Division street, painfully injuring Osmar Mann and bruising the driver of the wagon, Warren Potts. The two men were delivering a stove and were driving on Division srteet when one side of the tongue dropped from the front axle. The horses became frightened and in cramping the wagon threw both men out. Mr.

Mann was unconscious for a time and was taken to the office of Dr. F. E. Welsh where it was discovered that his left arm was broken above the wrist, while Mr. Potts was only jarred and bruised and was able to walk about.

tember through April, at which time the annual Birthday Party is held. The Parley cooperates and assists the auxiliary in any needed. Through the years local members have won numerous honors in the auxiliary service. Mrs. Maurice L.

Standley served, as Eighth District President in 1932-33 and Department President in 1934-35; Mrs. John H. Brumhall was Department membership in 193233; Mrs. Ralph Jacobson was Eighth District President in 194344, Department chaplain, 194546, Department treasurer, 194647, Department Vice President, 1947-48, President, 1948-50 and National Committeewoman, 1950-51. The local unit also pays tribute to its Gold Star members at some special program or social event during the year.

Meetings are held on the third Monday night of each month and the annual fall banquet is held every November, with a summer stock and fall rehearsals made it impossible. M'el One of the newest churches in Boone is the Church, of God. of Prophecy, located at 1022 16th street. This little church was organized on January 3, 1943, and had to be content to send her despite being in existence only greetings to all her friends and 122 years two men from its conj her hopes for a successful Cen-' tennial year. prominent auxiliary member, usually the Department president, as guest speaker.

The Television Industry Is a Newcomer to the World of Electronics in the installation of Sound Equipment For Business and Home Radio Repair now Television COE'S Television and Radio Service 325 West Fifth Boone Phone 432-1406 Congratulations to the City of Boone and the News-Republican on Their 100th Birthday. 1965 Mel Dowd representative discovered her and: ghe signed a contract for roles in films. From that time on she has kept busy in the various media of entertainment, most of her roles being in New York or with touring companies. One of M'el's roles was as Morgan Le Fey in the musical, "Camelot," which had a long run. While standby for Geraldine Page in "Sweet Bird of Youth," she won critical cheers when she played Princess Kos- monopolis for'-two weeks during Miss Page's vacation.

She received salutes; for her performance off Broadway in "The Royal Gambit" as Katherine of Aragon. New York Critic Brooks Atkinson said of her: "She is both imposing and intimate. She is an able classical actress." Before that she won praise for her portrayal of Lady Macbeth with the Shakespearwrights ompany, as well as her Titan- in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream," as Lady Capulet in "Romeo and Juliet," and as Portia in "Julius Ceasar." Alfred Hitchcock cast M'el in "The Wrong Man," with Henry Fonda; Dore Schary signed her for MGM, where she played in "Man on Fire" with. Bing Cros by, and "This Could Be the Night" with Paul Douglas and Anthony Franciosa. On tour, Miss Dowd acted with Tyrone Power in "Back to Methusela," which marked her Broadway bow.

She also toured with Basil Rathbone in 'Midnight at Eight," a program of readings. Television audiences have seen her many times on the "Defenders," "The Nurses," "Flipper," "Naked City," and others. During the past summer season, M'el filmed several sequences for an NBC educational film, "The Master Shakes-. peare," to be shown on TV this i fall. During July and August! she toured in summer stock with "The Grass Is Greener," co-starring Maurice Evans and Celeste Holm.

The tour started at Falmouth on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and toured Pennsylvania, Michigan and Massachusetts. The tour closed September 4th at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Pennsylvania. M'el has returned to New York, where she is now in rehearsals for "The Right Honorable Gentleman," a London stage success. which will be produced on Broadway in October. It isn't all the theatre for M'el.

On July 2nd, 1962, she was married to Henri Eudes of Paris, France; had established a popular French restaurant in New York. They honeymooned in Paris, visiting his parents and family, and have since returned -for European tours. They have a son, Richard, aged 2. While M'el was in summer stock, Mr. Eudes and Richard spent the summer in Paris visiting the Eudes family.

They, Use. Classifieds! They Pay! gregation have become These are Vern Doran and James Reeves. The church, which only hasl'vin Burt. 37 led by the Rev. Dudley H.

Hiies, present pastor. Former pastdrs include, Floyd Chatham, helped organize it, William Gaijr, Don Thomas; Howard Orvie Baaland, Charles Milford Johnson, Joe Cecil Cunningham, Chester F. F. Fuller, Clifton Hyatt, J. L.

Endicptt, and Mar- Boone Mews-Republican Monday, September 13, 1163 White's Picture In Magazine A picture of Harold White, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. White, 921 Fifth street, appeared in the March, 1928 issue of Community Magazine, along with Governor John H.

Hammill, and.the story that accompanied the picture is quoted in part as follows: "A young high school student of Boone, Harold White, is a page in the Iowa House of Representatives. A picture of the young man, taken with the chief executive, Governor Hammill, is shown, as it isn't every day that an Iowa boy has an opportunity to be photographed alone with his state's chief executive. "Harold is a sophomore in the Boone High School. He received his appointment as a page in January, 1927, together with six other Iowa boys, arid reported in Des Moines on the day of the 'legislature. Boys must be good, all-around boys to receive such, an appointment.

They must be dependable, honest, quiet, well- mannered and capable before they are accepted as pages in the. legislature." JULE W. KUECK REGISTERED JEWILER American Gem Society SERVING THE PUBLIC LONGER THAN ANY OTHER BUSINESS MAN the Entire Boone Area Congratulates Our City on Its 100th Birthday! Song writers who use the sometimes overly expressed sentiment of "time stood still" never discussed the situation with Boone's oldest active businessman, Jule W. Kueck. For if they had they would have no doubt been told emphatically that not only-does "time" move forward inexorably when one is in the Jewelry business for nearly 50 years, but so also does improvements in time keeping instruments and the various scientific ef- ficies which make for the best there are in clocks and watches- Jule W.

Kueck Born and raised in Boone where he gained all of his schooling, Mr. Kueck received his earliest Jewelry experience back in 1913 when he worked before and after school for 1. A. (Ike) Griffee, Jeweler. It was working at 7 in the morning and until 6 p.m.

at night, Jule declared. And he laughed as he told about the popular slogan his first employer had which went: "Everybody knows Ike, the Jeweler who treats you right." After a two-year part-time span, he left his chosen field for the only time in his life time from 1915 to 1917. In that period he worked at the Quinn Wire Iron Works in the Hog Waterer Department and Shipping office- Nineteen years of consecutive employment next awaited Jule from July of 1917 to Sept. 1st of 1936. In those years he worked at the E.

E. Chandler Jewel- ery Store in a period that saw him learn the fine art of hand engraving jewelery from Steve C. Wilcox, Mfg. Jeweler in Des Moines, la. Sept.

1st, 1936 was the launching year for Mr. Kueck's business ownership career. On that date he bought out Charles Currell, the former East and Son Jewelers at 913 8th street, located in the Oddfellows building. On March 21st, 1944, Jule purchased-the Hook Jewelery and combined the two stores into one business which Mr. Kueck maintained for 21 years in the same location.

In 1957 Jule moved to his present location "in the heart of Boone" at 717 Story street. The exact date was August 1st and Jule has been there ever since, with a host of civic and community duties keeping him on his toes as one of Boones's more active business men. A member of the Boone Lions club since 1934, Mr. Kueck has served as president in is a past-President of the Boone Chamber of Commerce, the latter position being filled in 1958. Also a past- President of the Lion's club, Jule has filled the officeof chairman of the Pension board for City policeman and firemen since 1940.

Mr. Kueck has been director of the Hawkeye Savings and Loan Association for the past 13 years and is a member of TRINITY Lutheran church; where he served in different capacities, including chairman of the congregation. Jule is also Director of the L1NWOOD PARK CEMETERY ASSOCIATION- Mr. Kueck is membership number 494 in the American Gem Society, having passed the examination and qualifications and admitted to this esteemed group on Dec. 4, 1941 when only 20 registered jewelers in the state of Iowa belonged.

Jule takes an annual examination to maintain his American'. Gem Society elgi- bility. Married in May of 1921 to the former Myrtle Schultz, Mr. Kueck has one Daughter, Marjoriie (now Mrs. Paul Brogden) and 4 grandchildren.

In regard to the steady improvements made in keeping "devices" cited at the beginning of this story, Jule recalls how clocks were once made fronv weight and key wound and are now streamlined and ultra-modern in the electric and battery models. i A natural optimist, Mr. Kueck sees nothing but a bright future for Boone as we start our 2n.d hundred years of progress. Mighty super highways and alluring big city shopping centers irregardless, Jule feels that Boone will match strides in progress with the rest of Iowa's cities of size. Andias Boone's oldest active businessman he hopes he will be here and "in harness" for the better days to come.

Employees of Jule W. Kueck Jewelery Store are Art Haleen, who has Been with the business since 1936 and Mrs. Marvin Blaess. We Are Offerng IN HONOR OF OUR CENTENNIAL SEPT. 13-18 On ANY Item in Our Entire Stock.

(Fair Trade Items Exccptcd) Discount.