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#, HA~KEYE, VOLIDIE ]bXXI NUMBER 22 THURSDAY, 27, 1941 [OUNT VERNON RD, VOLUME XIAV, NUMBER $1 BEING Todayis 58thA " Wedding P V H.S. HAS TEN !John Merritt's 91st nmversary Of Mr. ,H i Birthday Is Today FOR And Mrs. John Wolrab i Nlliilk5 IN l'Kl LllYi ' John. Merritt----: father of Mrs JOB,Today, Thursday, ,Mareh 27, is ~USIC CONTEST the 58th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wolrab. On wi ; account of their ill health nospe- B-e held At So ll cial observance of the day is be- Amos gg son of Amos grand old man of the candi- serious con- the two coach- it be- Stagy, who yesterday, Cornell ad- Played quar- Years Under his of Chicago, team. He from reliable nt John Benj. Mr. Stagy in ~.A. degree at and assisted of the ago, when at Spring- Mass el for and Which have athletic Dr. Magee the campus Tuesday af- will the new ath- COnsulted in of the be sup- .physical ig. All men have some ell as in non- and te Program. committee emphasis on golf, tennis com- erence swim- zrestltng be giate ing made A cherished and appre- tciative gift received in honor of i their anniversary today was a (lovely decorated cake baked and Wolrab, who was Miss Anna Ku- chera before her marriage, is a na- tive of Solon, while iMr. Wolrab who was born in Bohemia, came to the United States with his parents when he was six weeks old. They have been residents of the Mount Vernon vicinity since 1902 when they moved from Johnson county, where they farmed the first 20 years of their married life. The com- munity extends congratulations to this worthy couple. Several Local Dogs Have Rare Disease An epidemic of meningocepha- litis, a very rare and almost always fatal disease, has been contracted by several pet dogs in Mount Ver- non. One fatality has been report- ed. Jim Daly, a Cornell student lost his pet setter dog a couple of weeks ago. Prof. Mark Hutchin- son's Dashund, Laurance West's bull dog are both very sick from the same trouble The cause of the disease is un- known and is therefore difficult for a veterinarian to treat. The first stage of the trouble is the loss of appetite, dullness and nervousness which gradually becomes worse and finally continues into convulsions which are often fatal, according to Dr. J. B. Bryant, local veterinarian. The animals do not run a tempera- ture. The disease is very prevalent at the present time in Cedar Rap- ids and vicinity. There has been one case reported from the country near Mount Vernon. Dr. Bryant expects to attend a small animal clinic on April 3 where he hopes to obtain more information on the disease. more than 100 aUtomatica,ly Harry E. Hudels0n basis of their Promoted; Will Go To ~aekgrounds. Probably be Jacksonville, Florida ext two weeks. ----- Harry E. Hudelson left Wednes- ,rein day morning for Atlanta, Georgia, otor Co. },'here today he met the field super- i visor of the Mill Owners Insurance MUscatine is at the Coop- :rause has had all makes Otor Co in and Mrs. Bill Brown look Mr. rein injuries from a light expect to On when they Buys Minneapolis, and taken Shoe Re- nSon will live e rear of the Years of" ex- repair work SChool in ad- process shoe Co preparatory to taking over the i position of field supervisor in Georgia and Florida for this com- pany. This position is similar to that which he now holds with the com- pany covering the territory in northeastern Iowa and Illinois. His work here will be divided between R. F. Nelson and J. T. Sharp, jr. The new position is a promotion for Mr. Hudelson and will place a larjge territory under his supervi- sion. He expects to spend three weeks looking over the territory and I return to Mount Vernon. The fu- ture home Of the Hudelsons will I probably be established in Jackson- i ville, Florida. The family will re- main here until the school year is completed The trip to Atlanta was made via streamliner. Mr. Hudelson hoard- ed the Chicago streamliner at Cc- dar Rapids early Wednesday morn- ing, changed to the Florida si,ream- liner at Chicago, and reached' At- lanta about midnight the same day. DR. AND MRS. RICH BUY HUDEIJ,~K)N HOISSE and son planMr. and Mrs. C. L. Rich have pur- Redfield, S.chased the Hudelson residence, on in will enter North Fifth Avenue, and will take aesS.Redfield Mrs.andir possession of it June 1st. ' ek home, Mr Prowl Jn Car Several cars in Mount Vernon were prowled sometime Saturday s $738 I night and an overcoat and gloves lwere taken from the D. U. Van Metre car, which was parked in front of the Van Metre resi- dence. A pair of galoshes were taken from the front porch Mr Van Metre had thrown the coat in the back seat on Saturday afternoon when it was warm and did not think of it when he got out of the car. Five gallons of gas were taken from the Chas. Kubiehek car a flashlight was taken from the Lynn car and a pair of dress gloves and a box of matches from the Hugh Roberts car. Five gallons of gas was drained from the C. E Hedges ear. A bottle of cream, which had been delivered late at the Dr. F. G. Brooks residence was taken Cooper to from the porch, the contents drunk beat him. and the bottle thrown away near Mrs. Cooper the house ~-Lisbon gun Marshall Gill suggests that peo- Ed Butler ple take the keys oat of their cars of the first 20 and that they lock them at night. Wake~, a better I SEARCH HUSTON IA)OT e~ae~t the first I FOR IA)CAL ARTICLES ~:?its gun. ,~ Deputy sheriff Larry Condon was a~,~--- "tin Mount Vernon Tuesday evening th~-"'~' sc re-/and made a list of articles taken Joe el(1 t I here last Saturday evening and dur- ~ stOW lOOK- '. tr ,- mga previous prowling, to see if ~m ~v~rs. any could be located in the loot Cannot excell obtained from Bob Huston who was a car load of the Hedges this Week and nesday was o, C.&N.W. the largest Car he has earWas an an automo- Led103,260 Wasshipped ~on. Very hthe con- ads for be- Coach. He In 1, daughter of ~nted a very in the Cor- evening. of selections and English. RUth Pinker- of junior Ill ac- Frederic Pinker- recital, l-Its Jones. arrested by Missouri state police Monday Huston was in Cedar Rapids Saturday evening and might have visited Mount Vernon. Junior Music Dept. Will Present Recital This Eve The Junior music department of Cornell college will present a group of pupils in a music recital this evening in the Cornell chapel at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs S. L. Chandler went to De- Witt on Monday of last week to at- tend the funeral of her aunt. Mrs. William Smith. ~h~ rct':rned homo on Friday evening. Monticello on April 4th and 5th A large group of Mount Vernon music students are preparing for the preliminary Music contest which will be held in Monticello next week on Friday and Saturday, April 4-5. Seven entries have been made in the solo division and in- clnde: Marian Fisher, Contralto solo; Irene Sipple, Mezzo soprano; Peggy Magee, soprano solo; Don !Current baritone; Mark Hntchin- i son, bass solo; Audrey Jean Nelson, I baritone euphonium horn solo; and Kcith Lusted, flute solo. The orchestra, band and the girls glee club, are the musical groups entered in the contest this year and are busily engaged in rehearsals i under the supervision of Richard t~Fuller. The irstrumental divisions will compete on Friday and the vocal divisions on Saturday The state contest for the schools in the Northeast district of Iowa will be held at Waverly this year. The Mount Vernon contestants do not plan to go to the state contest this year, but will instead take part in the Music Festival at Iowa City on May 1-2-3, according to Clyde Lindsley, superintendent of the local school. The preliminary contest is the first round. The same plan will be followed this year as was follow- ed last year. The district contests have been eliminated, and the state is divided into four districts for the state contests, the same as last tv~r, Music Groups And Soloists To Present Pre-Contest Concert The soloists and the musical groups who will participate in the preliminary contest at Monticello April 4-5 will present a precontest concert in the M.V.H.S. auditorium on Wednesday evening, April 2, at 8 o'clock. The concert will be directed by Richard Fuller, supervisor of music in the local school. The money de- rived from this concert will be used to help pay for the transportation of the contestants to the contests Following is the program : Girls' Chorus-- Adoramus Te Christo O My Lord, What Shall I Do The Nightingale But the Lord is Mindful of His Own Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite Orchestra-- Largo ,from The New Worlds Symphany--Dvorak. Minuet from F. Major Concerto-- Handel Norwegian Danee--Grieg. Mezzo Soprano--Irene Sipple. Bass Solo---Mark Hutchinson. Baritone Solo--Audrey Jean Nelson Mixed Chorus--- Jerico Lost in the Night Gloria from the Twelfth Mars Flute Solo--Kieth Lusted Baritone Solo---Don Current Soprano Solo--Peggy Magee Contralto Solo--Marian Fisher. Band-- I Bradf6rd MacGaw, is observing his i ninety-first birthday today at the i home of Mrs. Ida Haun Kettlesen Jwhere he has made his home for several years. Mr. Merritt has been in good health until about ten days ago when he contracted a cold ~which has made him very uncom- I fortable. A birthday dinner had been planned by his daughter but has been postponed on account of his illness. Mr. 'Merritt was 'born in Salem, New York, and came to Iowa in 1876. After worklng in Cedar Rapids for a short time he came to Mount Vernon where he was a clerk in the Ltddle drygoods store. In 1883, Mr, Merritt went into partnership with W. J Alexander in a grocery store in the location now occupied by J. M, Kaliban. Seven years later he disposed of his intere~ in the store and went to Chicago for a brief time. Later he owned a hardware store in Me- chanicsviIle. Forty-one years ago he returned to Mount Vernon. Dur- ing eighteen of those years he own- ed and operated a well known gro- cery which he sold to J. A. Kemp in 1918. Since then he has enjoyed retirement from active 'business. Name Committee On Food For The Small Democracies Members of a local committee on Food for the Small Democracies, have been announced by Dr. Harold Ennis who is local chairman. The committee is one of many in the United States formed for expression of American feeling that steps should be taken to prevent starva- tion in Finland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and CentraI Poland. Be- fore the next harvest, the Commit- tee says, theirs will be a tragic problem of the los~ of lives of mil- lions of children, of women and of men, and the aftermath of a stunt- ed and diseased generation The stated purpose of the com- mittee, "is to raise a voice on be- half of the people of the small de- mocracies so that agreements may be made by the German and British governments with a neutral organi- zation--by which their domestic food supplies can be protected from the occupying armies; by which the supplemental supplies can be im- ported thru the German and British blockades and protected; to secure the efficient operation of such a neutral organization; to the end that the lives of millions of chil- dren, women and men can be sav- ed from the inevitable famine and i pestilence which confront them and that renewed hope may be giv- en to them in the ideals of man- kind." The work of the local committee will be to distribute literature and iwork for public sentiment in favor of sending food to the democracies. On the local committee are Dr. i J. B. Magee who is also a member of the national committee, Dean J. I B. MacGregor, Dean Alice R. Betts, i Mrs. C. F Lttteil, Dr. W. G. Row- low and Rev. J. V . Gray, jr. l On the Cornell student commit- +tee are Helen McKendry, Ruane McCoIlister, Phil Hanna, Richard i Sampson, Florence O'Kieffe, and Don Johannscn. This group will distribute literature to students be- fore vacation Karl Andrist Recital Excerpts from the press follow. meat speaker at-the Mount Ver- Johan S. Egllsrud writing in the non high school graduation exer- cises, Thursday evening, May 22, "Morning Tribune states: "Tem- peramental fire and virtuosity . . . in the high school building, charging the listeners with vitality Rev. Joseph Gray, pastor of the and enthusiasm. No matter what Mount Vernon Presbyterian church this dynamic musician played, it will deliver the baccalaureate ad- was intensified hy an emotional dress to the Mount Vernon high energy that carried all before it. school senior class, in the Methodist The recital left a deep impression church on Sunday evening, March of a forceful and masterly art of lSth. exceptional power." r~ John 1~. Scherman in the "Star- Wills,r. Has Journal": "Fine authority and 6 99 Picture In Tost maturity in his playing, and offer- ed a substantial program that ex- A half page phot---'--~graph of Wil- plotted a fluent style, serviceable technic and commanding tone . . . lard Hank, Jr in natural colors, brilliant bowing, superb attack and taken with him posing as asleep at the International IAvestock ShowI well negotiated pyrotechnics." at Chicago last December, appears~ Grace Davies in the "TImes-Trt- in the current Saturday Evening bune": "A program of fine pro- Post in an article entitled, "Howlp rti n " " welcome visitor . . . They Keep 'Era Down on the great spirit and manifest sincerity . temperamental display pyro- technics and sentiment." ' feeding when he was ten years old, in 1938 The first year he showed a Holstein heifer at the Linn Coun- ty fair, the Iowa State fair and the Dairy Cattle Congress where he was awarded a first, third and second place respectively. The same heif-I er was shown the two successive 'years where the animal was placed champion both times, at the Linn county fair thus showing she was 'not defeated in the three years en- tered in the county fair. In 1940 Willard won the trip to the International Stock chow with his market pigs which took a blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair after placing first at the IAnn county fair He had won a 'blue ribbon at the Iowa state fair the preceding year witih market pigs. Last year he showed a Hereford ba'by beef calf which was reserve champion at the Linn county fair and placed third at the All Iowa fair. Willard was not really asleep in the picture, he was only playing opossum. T+CIST--I~tPe fitting tools. Find- (,r r, tu,'n to Dale Johnson, Hard- ware store. 22c Mrs. Schroeder was characterized as "a very responsive and musician- ly pianist" by the "Tribune" and as "an excellent accompanist" by the "Times-Tribune " Mount Vernon High School Calendar .------ Following is the Mount Vernon school Calendar for April and May: April 4-5 Preliminary Music con- test, Monticello April 8 School Board meeting April 11 County Music Festival, Mount Vernon April 18 Grade School Operetta. April 25 Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom, May 18 Baccalaureate Services. May 22 Graduation Exercises. Fine Truck Driver Ellis Nealy, of Rock Falls, Ill driver of the semi outfit which up- set "tt the foot of the East First Street hill on last Tuesday evening was fined $100 and costa by Justice T. I. Mitchell on Monday afternoon when Nealy appeared in the local justice's court A charge of less drivina, had been filed by high- way 0atrolmen. $5(I of the fine was remitted. RECOVER CAR WHICH WAS STOLEN SATURDAY Two Escaped Con- victs Took It From Campus The Cornell debating group al- most didn't leave for their south- ern trip on Monday as scheduled. Saturday evening, Dr. C, F. Lit- tell and Eloise attended the con- cert 'by the Evansville college choir and drove down town where Dr. bittell made some purchases at the Bauman store. On the way home they stopped for a short time at Dr. !lAttell's office in Main hall, the car being parked near the west door in the usual parking space. The ignition key was left in the ear. While in his office Dr. IAttell heard a car motor raced and a car drive away :but did not think anything of it as cars are parked there and driven away frequently. When they started home, soon after 9 p.m. the ,car was gone. After checking with Marjorle Littell, who was at the gym, to see that she had not taken the car, Marshall Ed Gill was called. POLI~E BROADCAST He promptly telephoned the sheriff's office and a description of the car was broadcast immediately over the Cedar Rapids .police radio i Sheriff Jim Smith, who was about a mile north of Mount Vernon, com- ing this way, heard the ,broadest and came into town so quickly that Marshall Gill couldn't figure out how he had driven from Cedar Rapids in such a short time The campus and roads in this vicinity were searched in the belief that some student might have taken a ride Marshall Gill took the number of a car parked near the Dr. John Bryant residence on west Main :street. The next noon when he read a Sunday paper he found that the car at Bryant's was the one two i convicts had taken who escaped from the Anamosa Reformatory, thru a ventilator, at 8 p.m. Satur- day. This was reported to the sheriff's office This car had the uniform and number of one of the escaped convicts in it Sheriff Eichorn of Jones county! and the owner came after it Sun- day. ATrEMI~ TO TAKE Dig. BRYANT CAR There is little doubt but that the~ convicts attempted to take the Dr. Bryant car after leaving the one they took in Anamosa. Strangers were seen around the car but the ignition key had been taken from it. The two men must have walked from there thru the campus look- ing for a ear. Phyllis Pearson, Cornell junior, telephoned Mr. Littell Sunday after- noon and said that her father was here from West Branch and had happened to mention that a car had been stolen from her uncle, who lives near V~est Branch, and a car with a Linn county license number abandoned near there. Dr. Llttell telephoned to Spring- dale and found from the license number that the car near Spring- dale was his car. He and Marshall Gill went after it Sunday afternoon and brought it back, reaching here about five o'clock. It apparently was unhurt by the drive. The Littell car was abandoned when the gas supply ran low. The escaping prisoners were thoughtful enough to turn off the ignition. Thus the Cornell debaters, who will drive thru southern states with Dr. Littell, during the spring vaca- tion, were able to start on their trip as scheduled on Monday. A recently purchased overcoat of Dr. Littell's is the only thing which The men worked together as trusties in the prison yard and had never been guilty of infraction of rules. LOrraine was sent up in December 1938, for ,breaking and entering. Wilbore was sentenced in March 1940, on a false pretense charge The car taken at Springdale was abandoned at New Liberty and one taken there was found in Daven- port. CAPTURE CONVICTS The two convicts were captured by a posse near Clarkeville on Tues- day where they Intended to board a Traffic has taken the hill on East Main street and curve near the cemetery at a slightly slower rate since "No Passing" signs were !erected in that vicinity by the State Highway Commission last week. Following the accident in which a heavy loaded semi outfit over- turned at the foot of the hill on last Tuesday evening, Maintenance engineer Johnson of Cedar Rap- ids and foreman George Lutes, of Marion, visited the scene of the ~ectdent and conferred with local officials who requested a guard rail be built along the south side of the street at this point where there is a very steep embankment Floyd B. Moody To Speak Tonight " Floyd R./Moody will speak on the subject, "Washington and Pen- sions" at the Mount Vernon city hall this evening at 7:80 o'clock. The ,public is invited, Mrs. Oscar Wash:burn of Cedar Rapids spent the week end with her dan~'hter Ja~o Margaret, at the Mrs, Ely West home. Hugh Roberts Photo CHAR~ES A. ALEXANDER Farmed Southeast of Lisbon For 60 Years Identified with a single farm for over 81 years, Charles Alexander has been chosen this week for ad- mission into the Hawkeye-Record's fifty-Year Farmers club Mr. Alexander's land, known as the old Alexander homestead, is situated three miles southeast of Lisbon His father, James Charles Alexander, acquired the original acreage in 1853, the year that Cor- nell college was founded and soon after the Pennsylvania Dutch set- tled at Lisbon. Mr. Charles Alexander was born on the farm and resided on the )lace consecutively for over 60 rears. Today he lives in retirement at 517 North Second Street West in Mount Vernon, but he still owns the Alexander homestead, 185 acres, which has ~been farmed for 20 years by Earl Leigh. USED WALKING PIDW Mr. Alexander recollects plow- ing in the old days with a walking )low. "It took a week or more to plow ~0 acres, he says, and now that much ground can be covered in a few hours with a power plow. "I also remember using a dou- ble-shovel corn cultivator.That was an implement taking more )atience than most farmers have these days. Before that, however, they used single-shovel cultivators which were even less efficient. PITCHED BY HAND "Nowadays hay is gathered and pitched into the mow ,by mechan- ical means, but we used to do it ~y hand, pitching from the field to a hay rack and then to the mow." Mr. Alexander also remembers when threshing was accomplished by horse power and when men were forced to work directly in the dust during the threshing. He recalls about 75 years ago when he was a lad threshing was done with chafer which dropped the straw back of the machine and it was dragged around the field with a horse hitched to a pole, and stacked like hay cocks "At first I wasn't convinced that machinery could do things better and more thoroughly than we could do by hand methods," he de- clares, but I later realized that to be a fact The machines not only have relieved men of some of the hardest work and drudgery but they have cut down a lot of waste and led to better quality products." OUTIK)OK OPTIMISTIC Mr. Alexander is optimistic about the future of farming. Notwith- standing the large overhead neces- sary for operating today he con- tends that relatively good prices for most products will make a pro- University of Wisconsin. He is now working with the Wisconsin Tax- payers Alliance at ,Madison, Wisc. "Lisbon is a fine community in which to live," Mr. Alexander de- clares. He also has enjoyed residing in Mount Vernon during recent years. Many local folks do not appreciate it, he asserts, but the class of peo- ple in these towns is far above that found in most communities. Milton Have Sale On Wednesday Milton Koch will hold a farm sale at his residence north of Grange Hall, on the Springville rock road, on next Wednesday, April 2. The offering is listed and described in an advertisement on page 7. W. E. Challis will be the auctioneer and W M. Bennett the clerk. Real Estate Sale Will Be Held April 3 A Guardian's sale of the Mary Hasktns farm of 50 acres, a .mile and a half southeast of Mount Ver- non and the same distance south- west of Lisbon, will ,be held on next Thursday, April 3rd. The farm is described in an ad on page 7. J.E. Colton is guardian W. E. Challis The annual school of instruction for the members of Lisbon chap- ter O.E.S. was conducted last Fri- day in an afternoon and evening session by Mrs. Betty Frazeur, dis- instructress of Tipton. The past matrons circle honored Mrs. Frazeur at a luncheon in the home of Mrs. E. M. Franks. The luncheon table centered with, a bouquet of spring flowers had fa- vors and place cards for a party of eleven. At the Franks home In the evening the special serving com- mates served a six o'clock dinner to Mrs. Frazeur, Mrs. Harry Sig- gins, Worthy Matron of Vernon chapter, Mrs. E. P. Bigger, Worthy Matron of Lisbon chapter, her of- fleers and the four candidates, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Clark, Mrs. E. H. Zimmer and Dr. Bigger. The guests were seated at one long table and quartet tables decorated with spring flowers, blue candles in Crystal holders and blue nut cups. The evening session was a love- ly meeting. The hall was decorat- ed with baskets of flowers, one at the station of the Worthy Matron, the Associate Matron, and at the star points, these emblematic of the color. The officers were dressed alike in floor length white satin dresses and each wore a shoulder corsage of a rose center and mixed flowers. The men wore red carna- tion boutonnieres. The star points and several officers put on a special candlelight ceremony to introduce the district instructor. ~uests were present from the chapters at Tip- ton Dayton, Mount Vernon, Mar- ion, Vv'~shington, and Mechanics- ville. Out Of Town Attendants At Charley Stork Funeral Out of town relatives and friends who attended the funeral services for Charley Stork last Friday af- ternoon were .Mrs Andrew Reiger, Mrs. Ella Ambrose, Betty, Ruth and Robert, Mrs. J. T. Mulnix, Miss Ed- na Johnson, Carl Johnson and daughters, Helen, Lois and Marion, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Courtright, Mrs. A. Klein, :Mrs. Pearl Shults and Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Neilson, all of Dixon, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. John Damken of Rock Falls, Ill Mrs. Arthur Got- tle and Gladys of Sterling, Ill Miss Blanche Wallick of Joliet, Ill Mrs. Dorothy Andreas of Westfield, N.J Mr. ~nd Mrs. Frank Benesh and Mrs. Forrest Walters of Mount Ver- non; Mr. and ,Mrs. Oren "Walltck and Mrs. Ella Wallick of Tipton. ON The Reformed church is being dismantled. Wednesday the steeple was dropped from its location, where for 64 years it pointed its spire to the skies. Singularly the steeple of the Evangelical church was razed the same day, where it stood since 1888. Prior, that con- gregation worshipped in a church building located on south street and ~bullt in 1862. It took but several hours to raze i these towers, when they were erect- ed several weeks were needed to send them skyward, The Evan- gelical church is now a garage, and out of consistency the ,belfry and spire were removed. A ,bungalow is ,being considered for the Reformed church site. The Evangelical church bell was sold to transients this week for $45.00. It was ,bought for the metal and was immediately broken up in convenient pieces for ship- ment. Junior High Pupils Give Mystery Play A mystery play '~Hobgoblin House" was given by Junior High students in the school auditor- ium on Wednesday evening. Char- acters were Roland Hall, Eleanor Briggs, Elaine Reiger, LaVonne Vandeberg, Laurence Gouchee, Lois Jensen, Ralph Bostrom, Ruth Flockhart, Robert Roup, Jean Johnston and Janice MilZigan. The play was directed 'by J. Harvey Smyth, Junior High instructor, Musical numbers were group sing- ing by the class and guitar selec- tions 'by Norman Nesley, Joe Ronek and Glenn Hinrichsen. Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Briggs and daughters Catherine and Eleanor were in Tipton, Monday evening as guests at the Auxiliary entertain- ment for the Legion Post. Mrs. Briggs was speaker on the pro- gram obsering the 22nd anniversary of the post. On Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Briggs were in Bur- lington, and Mrs. Briggs was guest speaker at an Auxiliary dinner for the post. Members of the Auxiliary unit to Cyclops Legion post are urged to attend the Linn county annual con- ference of the American Legion Auxiliary to be held in the Pres- byterian .church in Mount Vernon on Friday March 28. Registration i will be at 9:00 o'clock a~m. Miss Ions Smith, music instructor in the Wyoming school, and her brass sextet and soloists gave the chapel program at Cornell on Wed- nesday morning. Miss Smith and auctioneer and D. W M ueller, clerk, her students have been invited to present a half hour program from The Spring Creek club had their station WSUI March meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Claude Ferguson and family on Saturday evening. Ashort program was given and menu committee served refreshments. Mrs. J. W. McAleer of Monticello is visiting with friends for several days this week. Btg western--Cherokee Strip and IA'I Abner--the famous comic strip. Strand--Friday and Saturday George Oldfeld family in Cedar t Rapids. Mrs. W. C. HoeltJe of St. Paul, Minn is visiting this week with her sister Mrs. Fred Downing and the Bowers families. DAMAGED Post ,Office and Wil- son Graham Grocery Windows Hit The Lisbon Post office, a public place of business has become a loafing place for school children and others, which is contrary to all th6 rules made and provided for the care of the government public buildings Last week end some one of these loafers, who use the lobby for a play room after the regular ho,urs of business, shot a hole in the plate glass front from the in- side with a BB gun, thus damaging a valuable plate glass. Not quite satisfied with their hunttng ambitions and game being scarce they shot the front window of the Wilson-Graham grocery in the Stahl buiIding with an air gun, thus damaging another large plate glass window. These are acts of malicious mis- chief and are punishable by heavy fines as well as recovery for dam- age done. It might be well for these owners of air guns to take heed, for a repetition of this kind may find some one in an embar- rassing position. John Miller To Have Auction Sale Saturday John H. Miller, Lisbon John Deere dealer, wilI hold a public auction of used and reconditioned farm machinery on the lot a block north of the Standard Oil Station in Lisbon on Saturday afternoon, March 29, commencing at 1 o'clock. An advertisement on page eight lists the machinery to be cold. W. lB. Challis will ,be the auctioneer and Lisbon Bank and Trust Co the clerk. New Lisbon Phone Directory Will Be Mailed Out Monday Lisbon telephone patrons will have a new telephone directory to use beginning on the morning of Tuesday, April 1. Manager E. E. Hoover states that new directories will ,be mailed to patrons on Mon- day, March 31st. The directory is being printed by the Hawkeye-Re- cord Office this week. As in past years the directory will contain numbers for both the Lis- bon and Oxford Junction exchanges. Advertisement Of Chas. L. Hoeft Given Wide Circulation Charles L. Hoeft, Lisbon hard- ware dealer, received national rec- ognition this week when an adver- tisement written by him and print- ed in this newspaper to advertise National Hardware Open House in April 1940, was reprinted in the April 1941 issue of Publishers Idea Exchange. This service is supplied to newspapers all over the United States and in foreign countries. Outstanding and successful adver- tisements are clipped from papers from all over the country and re- printed in convenient form by this service for the use of other news- papem and merchants. Bill Sponsored By Dr. Gardner Signed By Governor Wilson The amendment to the law pro- viding for an election on authoriz- ing township trustees to levy up to a one mill tax for fire protection, sponsored by Dr. J. R. Gardner, has passed the house and senate at Des Moines and was signed ~by Governor George V~ilson on Monday. The amendment changed the law to read that the election must carry ,by sixty per cent of the votes cast rather than 60 per cent of the vote cast at the last general election, as it formerly read. ~ARD OF THANKS I want to express my apl~recia- tion to all those who ,by calls, cards, gifts or flowers, extended their friendship and understanding to my husband and to me this past year during his illness, and for their ex- [pressions of sympathy since his death. Mrs. Charley Stork The D.T. clu,b of P.E.O. held its annual BIL party at the House of Fouse Wednesday evening. Sixty- five were in attendance. The pent up energy of winter ,burst into spring and there was much Joy and gladness from greeting through a general sing on to the luncheon. A feature was the presentation of the Kansas play "Sod" by a quartette from the High School dramatic class under the direction of Miss Whinery. The ~qollywoodem were Bernelce Leinbaugh, Betty Mohn, John Stone and Ralph Burgs. The Methodist W.S.C.S. will meet in the church parlors on Thurs- day, April 3. Mrs. D. A. Bennett is hostess, with assistants Mrs. Carl Dahn, Mrs. Will Dugan, Mrs. W. L. Kynett and Miss Verlyn Bess- more. Mrs. J. B. Young will pre- sent the lesson study. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Kohl and daughters of Cedar Rapids were Sunday visitors were Sunday vis- itors in the parental J. S. Kohl home. Mrs. Amelia Este~brook and Donna Lou of Davenport were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Crelly. Mr. and Mrs. James Callen of Cedar Rapids were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. John E. McHugh. The Methodist W:S.C,S. will hold a chlcken and noodle and bake sale in Dr. Gardner's office, Satur- day, ,March 29.