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CTOKY POSTVILLE HERALD POSTVILLE, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1945. Defeat Maynard Under Arcs 20-0; Waukon Next Foe Marching Band Going To Waverly Saturday; Other News at Schools The Postville Pirates chalked up another victory by defeating Maynard 20 to 0 on the Blue Devils' home field under the lights lost Friday night. The game started with Maynard receiving. On the first few plays Maynard managed two first downs before they were stopped by the Pirates, who were slow in getting their bearings. The Postville team not started on their way for a touchdown when Hob Douglass intercepted a pass on Maynavd's 40-yard line.

A series of line plunges finally led to a touchdown with I. en Christoffor- 'Diamond Horseshoe' Heads Features at Iris This Week Twentieth Century Fox has given the screen some brilliant musical lllms some of the very driest yet produced for the screen. Some of them were the Alice Faye technicolor lllm, 'Hello Frisco." the Rita Hayworth film. "My Cal Sal," "State Fair," another truly grand color musical, and now they have another tremendously beautiful tilm with superb music. Mills and all that Hoes into a musical show, in their new film, "Diamond Horse Shoe." Hetty Grable, John Payne, Sid Silvers, and June Haver head the cast.

This grand film comes to the Iris Thursday. Friday, Saturday. October 11. 12. 13.

so be sure that you plan right now to see it. Wherever it has played the attendance has been a close second to "State Fair." Also another line film ruining to the his Sunday and Monday. October 14 and 15, is the new side-splitting comedy, featuring Spencer Tracy and Kathryn Hepburn, entitled, "Without Love." This is really one of the year's best rib-ticklers. What begins as a marriage without love, turns out just the pposile and the incidents that lead up son carrying the ball over. The Pirates managed the extra point when to and through that turning point are Cloy Schultz carried the ball over on I really funny.

The picture has been a play to the left. doing great in every theater it has This- score prevailed throughout the played. Spencer Tracy has never been second quarter. Ill the third quarter Pustville scored their second touchdown when Jim Malone carried the ball over on a reverse to the left, but they failed in the attempt for the extra point. This made the score 13 to 0 at the end of the third quarter.

The Pirates scored again in the fourth quarter when Schultz carried the ball through the center of the line. Leo Christotrerson gained the extra point for the Pirates on a line plunge which made the final score 20 to 0. l'lay at Waukon Friday. The next scheduled game in the Upper Iowa Conference will be played Fridav afternoon at Waukon. The better and Hepburn is really a human being in this, not her usual "Broad self.

Married couples and engaged couples, too, will get a real kick out of this one. Be sure to see the new Roy Rogers film. "The Man From Oklahoma." This is the very tops in a musical western. Also Jack Haley in a mystery comedy drama. "Scared Stiff." It's jam packed with thrills and chills.

These two films are on the bill for Tuesday and Wed- nesdav, October 16 and 17. Turning Over The Controls Mrs. William Wilke, 55, Passes On at Iowa City Cxuntjral services for Mrs. William Wilke, 55, who died at University hospital, Iowa City, Wednesday, following a long illness, were held at the Luana Methodist church Saturday afternoon, with tjie Rev, Roscoe C. Jerrell Mrs.

Wilke was born in Allamakee county on April 21, 1890, and was the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Neverman. She was married to William Wilke on Nov. 5, 1908, and thoy settled on a farm near Ridley, where they lived for a number of years, and later at Dubuque, la.

Other than this, the family made its home in the Luana vicinity. Surviving are her husband; two sons, Harlan, of Luana, and Pfc. Wilson, serving in France; two daughters. Mrs. Theodore Timmerman and Mrs.

Marvin Jarms, Monona; and three grandchildren. One daughter, Mardella, preceded Mrs. Wilke. The pallbearers were Otto Oldag, John Krambeer, Arthur Schultz, William Sebastian, Carl Schultz and Louis Schultz. 150 Attend Picnic Sunday Of Aberdeen-Angus Men Wit'KM AM INFANT PASSES.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Schutte Funeral Home bv Curtis Webster of the United school band and a large following of, Bl cUu on dull ch nm ona Mae fans are planning on accompanying the team to the county scat. Wiekham. six weeks old daughter Mrs. Leo Wiekham. Burial was Marching Band to Waverly the Miner! Cemetery.

The marching band is using every available minute to practice for the contest which is to be held at Waverly on October IS. They are practicing from to every morning, and the seventh and eighth periods every afternoon, besides their regular band periods. The drum-major is Barbara Abernethy. There will be four solo events entered from here. Those having solos arc: baton.

Barbara Abernethy und Vivian Appel: and bell lyre, Jean Douglass and Dorothy Kerr. They i will nil be in the class for national I honor contestants as they have all won a 1 rating at previous contests. The band is also planning to march at the game at Waukon Friday. Mr. Kenneth Hennessy is still anxious to procure instruments for the band's use, as there are a number of students who wish to play clarinets and cornets who do not have instruments.

Vocal Music. The girls' glee club has begun work on some of the choruses from the operetta which will be presented later in the year. The operetta is entitled, "The Forest Prunce," and is based on the music of Tschaikowsky. Miss Constance Smeby does not plan on holding try-outs for parts until it will not conflict too much with Junior play practice. The second grade, in their music class have started singing from their books, instead of by rote as they have been doing.

The fifth and sixth grades are beginning to learn two-part harmony. They have been learning some of our national songs. Ilomcinukliig News. The sophomore homemaking class lias been making grape jelly the past week. Some of the jars were opened in order to judge what had been done wrong or right.

A few of the girls seemed to feel that they had discovered a new method of making synthetic rubber, However, they said it all tasted good when eaten with crackers. The freshman homemaking class has been trying its luck at making muffins. The first day was spent experimenting with them to see which number of strokes each girl needed to stir her batter to get the best muffins. They started taking enough batter out for one muffin after they had stirred ten strokes. Every time they stirred five strokes they took another one out.

The girls decided that stirring them so the ingredients were just dampened, not smoothly mixed, gave the best results. If they stirred just one or two more strokes, tunnels developed. The second day very fow muffins were turned in with tunnels. And did they taste good! Pep Meeting. Strains of "Military Escort" filled the high school assembly Friday after Floyd Bly to Start Rendering Industry Northwest of Town Postville is to have a new industry ifHIie near future.

Floyd Bly of Spring Valley, has purchased a tract of land on the Cecil Liviugood place northwest of town and expects to build a rendering plant there as soon as materials are hauled to the place. The location is at the site of the old lime pit on the former Ben Lange place Monday drilling of a well was started. Materials arc being hauled daily and it is expected work can be started at once. The structure to house the dry process rendering plant will be 38 by 50 feet in size, two stories in height. Other buildings will be erected from time to time as the demands for space arise.

Mr. Bly is an experienced rendering plant operator. His father has operated a plant at Spring Valley for many years and his brother is owner and operator of a similar establishment at Crcscu. Before the war Mr. Bly operated the plant of his father at Spring Valley.

went into the army 4'j years ago, serving in the engineers' I corps, years overseas, Attaining' the rank of first lieutenant, he was recently discharged and returned home with his bride, an Australian lady, Joyce Stuart, whom he married in Melbourne while serving in the Pacific war theater. At present the couple are making their home on the R. J. Waters farm north of Postville. While in the southwest Pacific he was engaged in building airfield landing strips and met Lieutenant Robert Kneeland of Postville, who lost his life in a plane crash last December, while working on Biak Island.

The two men became friends because of their familiarity with this community. When the new plant begins operation Mr. Bly will inaugurate an animal pickup throughout the four northeastern Iowa counties. A number of trucks will operate on specific routes to bring the carcasses here for processing. Tankage and other byproducts of the plant will be sold back to the farmers of this community, while hides and'fats will be 'disposed of through regular national channels.

Arthur E. Mallory of Hampton and i L. A. Woodhouse of Bagley, tied for first place in the men's judging contest at the Northeastern Iowa Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' association field day at the Leon E. Chamberlain farm three and a half miles north of Luana Sunday.

Their score was 340. Tied for second place were C. J. Allinson of Hampton and R. M.

Miller of Mabel, Minn. In the women's judging division Mrs. J. Pierce of Kansas City, won first place with a score of 325. Four contestants tied for second place with scores of 310.

They were Mrs. C. J. Allinson and Mrs. H.

C. Miller, both of Hampton; Mrs. J. C. Perrin of Bloomington, and Mrs.

G. L. Thompson of Lamont. Contestant winners in the junior division were Jay Thompson, Lamont, first place, score 310; Ken Timmerman of Castalia, second place, score 295; and James Byrnes, Waukon, third place, score 280. Official placings in the contest were made by Dan Cash of Mt.

Pleasant and G. L. Thompson of Lamont. DeWitt Mallory, president of Iowa State Breeders' association, conducted a type demonstration and ive a talk on breed promotion. Phaenc Hibbs.

county extension director of Franklin county, and Willard Grove, Smith-Hughes instructor of Postville high school, were in charge of the judging program. Approximately 150 persons attended the picnic and field day activities, the first held by the new northeastern Iowa association. -A Plan Open House Sunday To Greet Don Humphrey Rudy Hartwig Returning To His Filling Station Hartwig, Postville filling station operator before the war, has been given his honorable discharge from the army and is expected to come here this week end to resume operation of his business. Charles Luebka has been operating the station during Mr. Hartwig's absence.

Mr. Hartwfg was in Postville last Thursday calling on friends and then went to St. Ansger where he is spending a few days with his parents. Rudy was in town Tuesday and says he'll be on the job next Monday. house will be held at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. J. T. Humphrey Sunday afternoon from two to five o'clock when friends of the family will be given an opportunity to greet their son, Lt. Col.

Donald .1. Humphrey, recently returned to civilization after spending eight months in the jungles of Don arrived at the Schick hospital in Clinton over the week end for a routine checkup. Apparently he is in good health after his harrowing experiences and subsistancc on meager rations. His parents and sister, Mary Hope, accompanied by his aunt, Miss Emily Humphrey of Monona, went to Clinton Tuesday and learned he could accompany them home last evening. He will return to Clinton after a few days visit here, where he will be kept for further observation and care before being granted a longer leave.

It will be remembered that Lt. Col. Humphrey's superfortress was shot down in a raid over Singapore last January and he was reported missing in action until last month when he and two of his crew members, returned to Singapore after having walked 800 miles through the Burmese jungles where they had hid out. A pioneer among B-29 superfortress pilots, Don piloted his "Postville Express," on the first raid by these planes against the Japanese homeland and dropped his heavy load of bombs on Yawata in June, 1944. Discharged Vets Must Renew Drivers Licenses Veterans are being reminded that their old drivers' licenses were renewed by an act of the 1945 legislature and are valid for six months after the war.

However, before a veteran can resume driving, he has to appear before a licensed examiner. Each county in the state has at least two examining dates per month. Discharged servicemen who have lost either an arm or a leg, have found the state of Iowa has a system for renewing licenses adapted to their needs. All hospitals which care for boys who have lost a limb have special courses in teaching them to drive, and some hospitals give driving tests. In most cases where a man has lost an arm or leg special driving devices have been fitted to the car.

Editor to Address Commercial Club Thursday Night 'Stand on Your Own Feet' Is Bannister's Subject; Servicemen to be Guests Dwight M. Bannister, publisher of the Decorah Journal, will be the guest Catholics Being Asked To Help Loras Memorial The plan of Loras College, Dubuque, to erect a new building as a memorial to service men and women has received the hearty endorsement of the state commanders of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and American War Dads. The Loras College Expansion campaign aims to raise at least a half- million dollars to erect a Memorial Hall and other buildings to honor all service men and women of the Archdiocese of Dubuque and all alumni of Loras College who served in World War II. Actual solicitation of funds in the 200 parishes of the archdiocese will begin October 21. The Biography of Johnnie Barnes (By Joe O'Brien.) (Following is the biographical sketch of Johnnie Barnes furnished us by Joe O'Brien, 82 year old former resident of the Ludlow community who now lives in noon as the pep band opened the pep meeting.

(Continued on page Ave) BUY McDANELI) BUILDINGS former jGlcnn Olson bought the Mary McDancld house Saturday at the public auction hold by St. Paul's Lutheran church which acquired the properly recently. Fred J. Heins was highest bidder on the woodshed offered at the same auction. Both buildings will be removed soon to permit landscaping of the lots which will greatly the uppearance of the church Johnnie Barnes, the subject of this sketch, was born in northern Ireland and came to this country with my uncles and aunts and my mother.

In that early day there were quite a few of my people who set sail for the Land of the Free," among them four cousins, two uncles and an aunt, all attracted by the glowing aocounts that had been written back to the old country by those who had come here before them. When the ship was about to sail from Old Erin Johnnie Barnes caught up a cousin of mine and lifted him onto his shoulders and said, "Come, me little boy; we are going to America," Upon landing at the Carter' branch of' our family im mediately went west to Mitchell coun ty, Iowa, as did also Jonathan Jenkins. The reason my mother did not go with them was a lack of funds. It seems she entrusted her brother with $300, all she possessed, which he was to keep safely for her until they arrived in New York. He kept the money nil right and refused to give it to my mother, not even a part of it.

Penniless, she had to find work as best she could and it was at this time that she met my father who with Johnnie Barnes was working at They had found employment with two men named Costello who owned and operated a large tannery. They were good men and under them my father and Barnes became expert woodsmen. My father became the overseer of the men whose job it was to cut down and saw the trees into four foot lengths or longer and then peel the bark off them. The trees were large hemlock, five to six feet in diameter that grew In the swamy land in that section. The bark was used in the tanning process at the tannery which was located near Rome, New York.

That job only lasted about five years, but it was there that Johnnie Barnes learned to be an expert chopper which later provided him with means for livllhood, He came west with my folks and settled near Wau kon where he chopped wood and grubbed and cleared a lot of land for many of his neighbors, He married a girl named Kate Matthews of near here and they raised a family of 12 children, six sons and six daughters, most of whom have now passed away He wanted his children to an education and strove to provide them (Continued On Page Eight) Held Funeral Rites For H. W. Schroeder Saturday Afternoon Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in St. Paul's Lutheran church in Postville for Henry W. Schroeder, 65, who passed away Tuesday night of last weel; in his home in this city after a short illness.

The rites were conducted by the Rev. Frederick R. Ludwig and interment was in Postville cemetery. Mr. Schroeder was bor'n as the son of Ludwig Schroeder and Wilhelmina Klockc Schroeder October 5, 1879, in Levern, Westphalia, Germany, and came to this country with his parents when he was 13 years old.

The family home was established in the Postville community and this had always been his place of residence. Early in his youth he became a member of St. Paul's Lutheran church and retained his membership until ho passed away. Mr. Schroeder was married to Miss Sophia Dahl of this city on March 11, 1915, and to this union three children were born, two of whom, Florence, Mrs.

Willard Meyer, and Willard Schroeder, survive as does the wife. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder established their home on the farm in Bloomfield township which ho purchased in 1909. He remained on this farm until 1939, when the family moved to the old Reif place in Grand Meadow township which Mr.

Schroeder had previously purchased. Here they lived until 1943 when they moved to their present home in Postville. In addition to the wife and daughter and son, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Louis Harnack of Castalia, one brother, Christ Schroeder of Glendale, three" grandchildren, Roger and Donna Meyer and Marvin Schroeder, and many other relatives and fiVends. Preceding him in death were his parents, one.son and twelve brothers and sisters, namely, Mrs.

Wilhelmina Geltmeyer, Mrs. Henrietta Geltmeyer, William Schroeder, Mrs. Charlotte Meyer, Louis Schroeder, Mrs, Louisa Fischer, Fred Schroeder, Mrs. Minnie Brainnrd, Carl H. Schroeder, W.

F. Schroeder, Miss Sophia Schroeder and L. L. Schroeder, speaker at the October meeting of the Postville Commercial Club Thursday evening of this week. Mr.

Bannister has chosen as his subject, "Stand On Your Own Feet." The meeting will be opened at 6:30 o'clock with a dinner, followed by Mr. Bannister's talk. Last week's announcement of a "surprise" for this meeting was made when it was hoped that Lt. Col. Donald Humphrey, who recently returned to civilization after eight months of wanderings in the jungles of Burma, would be available as the speaker.

However, Don arrived only thfs week at the Schick hospital in Clinton and his orders prevent him from being here. Mr. Bannister graciously accepted an invitation to appear here and although it is giving him short notice, he is known to be a fluent and forceful speaker who will no doubt bring an interesting and worthwhile message to club members. Mr. Bannister, who came to Decorah.

about a year ago, has had wide experience on various daily newspapers, with nationally known advertising agencies and as author of articles in national magazines. He was editor of the Ottumwa Courier before coming to Decorah and was active in YMCA- service club work at Ottumwa. Servicemen to be Guests. The Commercial Club invites all servicemen home on furloughs and leaves to be their guests at Thursday night's meeting as has been the custom throughout the war period. A business meeting of the club, with, the new president, Willard Schutte, assuming office, will be held after the program, and a smoker follows the business meeting.

Another Frost Tuesday; Fall Colors Predominate RELATIVES ATTEND FUNERAL OF FORMER POSTVILLE MAN Mr. and Mrs. Fred Segrist, Warner M. Harris, Con Hangartner and Mr. and Mrs.

Obert Harris were at Decorah Saturday forenoon to attend the funeral of Ell Werhan, 60, who had passed away at Waukegan, 111., where he had been taken from his home in Long Lake, 111., when he became ill. Born as the son of Mr. and Mrs. Aug. Werhan at their former home northeast of Postville, the Werhans left here many years ago.

The deceased was a nephew of Mr. Segrist, and is survived by his wife and two sons. Many people were out in the country Sunday to see the fall colorings on trees and shrubs, the temperature on that day being a mild 78 degrees. Tuesday morning's reading here was 26 degrees, according to Albert Bertelson, local weather observer, who given us the following high and low readings for the past week, but reports no precipitation. Low Wednesday, Oct.

3 32 Thursday, Oct. 4 45 Friday, Oct. 5 50 Saturday, Oct. 0 52 Sunday, Oct. 7 40 Monday, Oct.

8 31 Tuesday, Oct. 9 26 Farmers are busy at silo filling and fall plowing is being completed. Much corn has matured in this vicinity since the first frost of a few weeks ago. High 64 71 65 04 78 57 50 Liberal Donations Send War Fund Drive Over Top The response to the appeal for funds in the Allamakee War Chest drive sent the campaign over the top in short order last week in Postville, Willard Schutte, local chairman reports. While final figures ax-e not in, since all solicitors have not made returns to Mr.

Schutte, enough have been turned in to indicate that the quota of $710 asked in this final drive has been oversubscribed. M. C. Deering, Post township chair- man, reports this morning that his township is lagging in getting their quota, only two or three of the solicitors having completed their work However, he hopes to get complete returns by next week. You can save money by reading tho bargains offered in today's Herald..