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trvDAV. stPTrwaE I. rnn, WATERLOO SUNDAY COURIM, WATERLOO, IOWA. Mom St. Building At IndependencB Sold to Greenley (COURIER NEWS SERVICE! 25fh Anniversary TWeef Of Grundy REA Sept.

6th Zoning for Bremer Will Be Discussed Seven Candidates For Two La Porte School Board Jobs NTWS SBRV1C1C) LA PORTE CITY The La Hawkeys Boy Slated for Iowa Farm Youth Tour (COURIER NEWS SBRVICE) HAWKEYE Daryl A. Pleg- INDEPENDENCE Sale ot icoukiismnxws skrvictsi' GRUNDY CENTER The Benkuhle of Hawkeye is one of the main strept huilrtiriff nwnfri! (fOtlRlKR NEWS SEnVlCEl Porte City school election to 38 voune-farm vouths selectedihv Am. WAVERLY Temporary, as manager of the county pro-i ject. PLAGER AND 0. Cramer be held Sept.

11 has seven i tdl'a narr in rn. urn annual -m: -a i z.ijiiiuie iruujaiiuna lui uiciiiti vuver jvi. urecnicy. was an- tA 10 Grundy County Rural Elestrlc Co-operative will hold Its silver anniversary annual meeting Wednesday evening, Sept. 6, at MM- uiiuucj wilt lane nnu-irBrl r.i-ennl.i tl, COUmy Will OB UiaLUSSfU Bl louuiuao Zcssfon of the building St SeP' meelin of the Bremer nomination papers to fill the possession of the bu.lding Oct.

Coun SupervisorSi vacancies of Larry Mether and conducted tests to determine the cost of grinding feed, elevat lour, sponsored ing corn, pumping water and 7:45 at the Grundy Center (Senior high school building. lopment heating water with electricity ii t- iTS "ft I- Assmus plans to close the lhe foun Bnd Assmu! meat market the Zonin Commission -whose rm of three years ex-. pire this year. Horace Brown, Grundy Coun 'K i i Commission i Member bers power at the going rate and of ty REA president, will preside icr pan oi oepiemoer. will 4.

fiii or. Mr. T.r. compared it with conventional means. the tour, slated mark the cnd of me uiscussiuns one of the Aiin at the business session.

Three directors will be elected, each to a three-year term. The terms luesaay Saturday, are out oldest business establishments De P' es laor isn.ng Childmeie7 Robert in Independence, which has the Denver CI ford Schi dme.er Robei i Night meetings were organized to show farm families the advantages of bringing elec standing leaders ns in iuiw, iiie tuuiuy mn.ji -j of directors who expire this been in the same location ana wjiier sDecific reculations A. C. Hindman, no year are Henry Akkerman and since 1892. I in FFA, Farm Bureau Lubert Meyer, both of Wells- burg, and Calvin Kruse, Grundy covering construction of road Fehl, with Arden Melcher fil-access in rural areas.

for the office of treasurer. Also to come under consid-' Voting will be from 12 noon eration will be land abutting to 7 p. m. Sept. 11 at the city on the Janesville to Denver hall in La Porte City.

Darj'I and rural Boy Center. They are candidates tricity to their farms. The first farmers to receive electricity supplied by the new co-operative was Charles Weak-land of German township on March 25, 1938. Scouts. They were selected on for re-election.

Other candidates are: Ray Greenley announced that work will begin sometime this winter on dismantling this building and two other adjoining buildings. The old structures will be replaced with a new building. Assmus' plans for the fu the basis of their achievements and leadership within their various organizations. mond Beeghly and Judson road which was graded and rocked this year and will be Today there are 877 miles of Freed, Conrad; Leonard Flynn, WIND IN DELAWARE. MANCHESTER (CNS)-Large St-- paved in the near future to Toledo; Russell Glass, Glad- Purpose of the tour is to acquaint young rural leaders with S.

63 trees on the Harold Hutchinson make easy access to He primary lines serviced by the co-operative. When the first month's bills were sent out in April, 1938, ture are indefinite. the importance of Iowa's manu- brook; Toby Larson Gar win; and Harold Pieper, Gar win. r'yi 1 facturing plants and to show remain in Independence. 7 'jf t.

1 Real Estate Transfer Grundy county REA had only 80 customers. The total receipts farm near the Quaker Mill northwest of Manchester were uprooted and flattened during Friday night's wind storm barely missing the house. Windows were broken and utilities them the inter-relationship between factory and farm in the state's economy. The tour group will cover more than 460 miles in this five- day visit to various types pf manufacturing plants in the southeast and central portions of the state. were" $249.

In April of this year REA served 2.288 patrons for a till. Elmr SchwMf nd Florenc to Wm. H. Acuff und Shurnn K. tot 12, block 2, Crt.

Rev. fl 55. John O. Miller to Wm. J.

Becltw nrt Darlene D. lit 8, Hollingiworth Und Add. Rtv. 2 JO. R.

F. CRAMER, manager of the REA since its organizron in 1937, will give a talk on the progress of REA through the total of J48.732 in receipts. 25 years. Professional entertainment will be presented by "the Cas ties" MC and comedian Charles home. Miller's home was a total wreck when a tornado Friday night ripped it loose from the foundation.

WILL MILLER, who farms near Areiale, was hospitalized from injuries suffered when he took about a 20-foot ride hanging onto the back door of his Rankin Castle, Maureen Castle, vv vv ventriloquist Dave Castle and vocalist Nancy Kay Castle. Cramer said that rural elec trification was not new March li 17, 1936, when the Grundy Rural Electric Cooperative was or Sit I ganir.ed. Hundreds Help Clean Up Siorm Damage in Butler It began one night in 1912 when Lew Plager, Grundy county farm agent, called to gether 12 of his farm neighbors in an effort to devise some way of bringing electricity to their 1 JB. farm homes. et uiivn wu UN UV VUU The group met in the coal shed of the Grundy Center power plant because the light plant's office was too small to accommodate the group.

And there, in a coal shed, the first By GEORGE VOHS Courier Staff Writer GREENE-Hundreds of neigh bors converged on farms in northern Butler county yesterday to help with cleanup in the aftermath of a tornado that injured at least seven persons and did thousands of dollars of damage to farm buildings, livestock and crops in the area. Mrs. Grin Noel and three of her children suffered minor cuts and bruises when Friday evening winds killed 17 head of cattle and de- attempt to do what was thought to be the impossible was planned, with the help of John B. Calderwood, who owned the city power plant. THAT YEAR 11 miles of the nation first farm line was built south of Grundy Center.

Construction crew were famr I I if 1 molished their 1 farm buildings jnear Greene. ers led by Plager. The line was built with 25-foot poles, with wire suppled by Calderwood at MR. AND Mrs. Henry Paul, cost.

In 1931 another group built a second line which extended just south west of Grundy Center, serving farmers along) an eight-mile of Greene, were Stretch. njured slightly Jinjun iff 24 winds During the next 10 years more farm lints slowly threaded their way out of Grundy Cen smashed their Fay Miller home. They ter. But rural electrification as were in their kitchen when the end recreation i greater safely from provhrs Ii 1 1 ,0 I TO Oh" 017 II PniUATE (Courier Photot NEIGHBORS converged en the Fay Miller farm, four miles north of Dumont, yesterday after a tornado Friday night destroyed etery bnilding on the farm. Neighbors are shown helping salvage articles from what was MiiJer's two-story home.

we know it today was still to its Infancy. Progress was retarded by World War I and the depression of the early 1930's. With the signing of the Rural electrification bill by President Roosevelt in 1935 the rural elec storm struck. All other buildings on their place were wrecked. Other injury was received by Will Miller, who farms near Aredale.

According to his brother, Ed, Miller was just entering his home through a back door from Effy McWilliams, now liv-iHauser, Will Kelm, John Asher trification began to come to ing in California, said most of and John Weland life. the loss will be covered by in Weland's house was twisted when winds moved the house about 20 feet off Its foundation. Miller, who was hanging onto Plager. seeing a chance to surance, make a dream come true, plunged Into the job getting Grundy county ready. off its foundation, the top of the barn was taken off, two corn cribs were blown down, and other sheds were lost.

Several farm buildings were knocked down on the Lawrence Paplon farm south of Greene. fered severe leg cuts and NEARBY NEIGHBORS did bruises. He taken to a'not know he hospital for treatment. few minutes later. They helped 'protect the property through- The house was listed as ait K- THE GRUNDY County Rural Electric Co-Operative, officially chartered in March, 1935, was headed by a group ot energetic luiai ivss.

darn, came sneu, Buildings were extensively A Briggs Refrigerator truck farmers. Clifford Green, Con from Mason City was tipped over by the wind at the west damaged at the Raymond Butz laff farm east of Greene. Other farms in the area re rad, was elected first president, Lubert Meyer, Wellsburg, vice city limits of Waverly. The driver, who was not iden tified, was not injured. Dresidcnt.

Robert Furland, Con ceiving damage were Leslie and Duane Smith, Fred and Eldon rpn ft i a rad, secretary and Richard Kie wiet. Holland, treasurer. flute Other members of the first riuorasGciK board of directors were Alfred Dirks. Reinbeck: L. L.

Hoff Hampton Adult Classes Will Start on-Septr-20 garage, nog House, cribs and a tractor also were lost in the storm. AMONG THE hardest hit was the farm tenated by Fay Miller, four miles north of Dumont. Every building on the place was wrecked and personal belongings of the family were scattered hundreds of feet into nearby fields. Miller, 43, said he wbs just going out to one of his chicken houses about 6:10 p. m.

Friday when he saw the funnel cloud approaching. He called his wife and son, Fred, out of the house for a look. man. Aplington; Joe Boyenga "KckTey. Herman Relnlcke, Pa.rk-J OUTDOOR LIGHT by maintenance, co-ordinated W.

H. Yeutter. (( JRl EH NEWS SERVICE) HAMPTON The Hampton Adult Education program will begin Sept. 20, at 8 p. in the ersburg and Albert Kitzman, Conrad.

By April, 1937. Grundy County REA had a franchise for almost all the miles In the county not occupied by existing power lines. With the aid of a federal Classes must have a min imum enrollment of 10, Five 3 the Hampton Community high donars pius materials if need I scnooi. Classes wm meet wm be charged for all Wednesday night from 8 to lnirnr.p. bowline, which loan of $100,000 Grundy Coun- Instead of going into their o'clock and will run throughiwi1 be There wi1 be ty REA built 67 mies of line basement, they decided to make a run for it in Fred's car.

When NiV- 29, charge for the agriculture1 in 1037, at a cost of $93,000. FurtPJf" courseS wlllJb "ficlass which may start at a later Haleigh Cramer of Reinbeck LIGHTING SERVICE ierea. ine tourses nu lnelr date. was hired Aug. 1, 1337, XO serve instructors are: i 4 they returned to the home about IS minutes later they saw the damage.

"I looked at the basement and Agriculture, David J. Flint; ALL CLASSES will be held j.j 1- bookkeeping, Mrs. K. G. Dilly: at the Hampton Community was glad we ucwucu wt iiiaAc and Mrs.

Gene New Hampton Nurses Aid Hospitalized nimren nbws service a run. rruit jars ana mucn other stuff had been sucked out Straw; golf, Harry Birdsell, interior decorating, Miss i A MONTH high school except bowling which will be conducted at the Trico Lanes in Hampton on Saturday afternoons, and golf, which will conducted on the Country club links as long as the house practically filled it (Ej co-ordinated by John W. Rob up, he said. NEW HAMPTON Jean-nette Tilkes, 20, a nurses aid at New Hampton, was hospi inson; knitting, Mrs. Gerald Creeden.

PAINTING, Glen Swanson; "Slim and Trim," Mrs. Donald talized Friday. weather permits. Members of the advisory council for the program are: She was injured in a car "EVERYTHING we own Including my new car is wrecked. I just don't know what we're going to do," Miller declared.

Several hundred neighbors Mrs. W. 1. Renoe, president; Winters; Spanish, Don Brink; crash Thursday afternoon two miles northeast of New Hamp Marvin Larson, vice presi typing, Miss Rita Rosenberger; child and adolescent develop- (including installation on existing IPS pole, electricity and maintenance even replacement ot bulbs) 'Nominal extre charge for a light Inifalled en aele awey frem exirting IPS pale. ton on a county road.

and sightseers were on hand dent; Mrs, L. V. Briggs, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. R. D.

Highway patrolmen said she fc.in nut thm Mil. ment. co-ordinated by Robert was a passenger in a car driv lers Women were digging N. Illingsworth; communityiMoorhead, Mrs. Glen I.

Staley, KrBn th. in in wurrh nf relations and selling, co-ordi- Mrs. Lester Thomas, L. en by Roy McClure, 20, of New Hampton, which went DAYTIME 1 NIGHT T1MI TKti fartndon It la an atler bwt hOTE WATCHMAN worki equally well In tb-eets, drlvewiys, eio jaariciog lots, (am Tirds-any area where it Is desirable to banish night time da, nen. hnnwhnM ennrls.

and nated by Robert Ahrens; home Briggs, David J. Flint, Dean Artley, Dwight V. Furcell.lout of control on a gravel road anything else salvageable from the mess. Mrs. Leon Pralle, Mrs.

Louis and rolled into ditch. H. Wolfe. Mrs. Dolos W.I McClure was not hurt.

She i Two Candidates For School Board Place at Oelwein CHRiKR NEWS SERVICE) Mott. Wavne Grant and Dale suffered head injuries and R. Jones, I abrasions. Miller and several men were digging into piles of hay in an attempt to uncover any pigs left alive under a huge stack of baled hay which had been I0W IT WORKS A photo-electric cell automatically turns NITE WATCHMAN on at dusk shuts it off at dawn gives you brilliant outdoor light during all hours of darkness. I I IOWA PUBLIC SERVICE WATERLOO, IOWA OELWEIN Two persons have filed petitions for a va-: cancy on the Oelwein Commui1 Please supply details on your NITE WATCHMAN LIGHTING SERVICE for (Citfee'a eree to be Hgtrte4 dropped onto the hog lot.

One pig was rescued from the pile. A sow and several pigs plus more than 500 chickens were killed et the farm. Destroyed besides the six-room, two-story home were two barns, machine shed, corn crib, chicken house, well house and other buildings. Miller, who rents the farm nity School Board. The post is being vacated by George Jamison.

Oelwein realtor Lee Coleman filed two hours before the deadline and Bruce Girton, manager of the Northwest Distributing had filed previously. I I NAME I I ADDRESS iOVJA PUBLIC SEflUICE fe CO. REMODEL REPAIR REROOF GARAGES KITCHEN CAR PORTS ADD A ROOM Wt Can Ancrnq for the Compett Job Quality Mattrial Reliable Workmen Monthly Payment No Down Payment let Us Help You with Your Building rVo'ecfi Shepherd Lumber Co. 1U2 I. Fourth Diol AD 4-5781 I CITY IMMMM Me IOWA OPEN LABOR DAY 9:00 A.M.-12:00 NOON PEOPLES HAnDlVARE I I N.

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