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Page Two THE MOUNT VERNON, IOWA, HA~YE-B~EOORD AND THE LISBON HERAI~ Thursday,
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Editor Mary Mcgregor smart because we know we are I Fries is in "o--'L of "~"s~ Rose lthat tile unde "signed has been on [ 1~,~1;~, l~,a ~
James W. McCnteheon, E~liter Assistant Editor Mark Hutchinson SPEECH Baker will be glad to hear of thethin 29th day of November, 1940. ~ .)~1 .) ! ~+ ~ 1~ ~'~ 1
PubfiS~dnna~ouMO~yntI:ernOvneryn~hLt~l~o Manager Jean Heasty Yes, they say "Silence is golden in- T]EN yEARS AG?,recognition which her talents have dmy. apDo]n!ed jH]d quahi~ed as ~ u O~o ool:~, ~u~I
" " Reporters--Jean Houstman, Don deed," :Novemoer a, l~u :received in her appointment as in A(lnllnis[r~l[rlx oI tile osiaio of ~
The State Highway commission struetor of oratory in the University Floyd I). Buller, late of IAnn (:om~- i
THE MOUNT VERNON HAWKEYE
Founded in I~89 by S. H. Bauman
THE MOUNT VERNON" REMARKER
Founded in 1893 by Minurd Loziet
THE LISBON HERALD
Founded in 1894 by W. F. Stahl
Subseriptlon Rats
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the post office of Mount Vernon, Iowa, and
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NATIOblAL 6DITORIAL-.
[0All AS S. )CIATION
FI
Commerce Commission
Deprives Communities Of
Better Freight Service
B. M. Richardson, member of the
IOWa Colllnlerce Commission of Ce-
dar Rapids, who wrote the majority
opinion which on Monday refused
railroads the right to operate truck
lines along their own lines, said in
his opinion: "We have consistent-
ly refused to grant certificates of
public convenience and necessity
where it appears that the territory
proposed to ,be served was at the
time adequately served by existing
facilities."
The issue at question was the per-
mission of the C. & N. W. Railroad
to operate a truck line between Ce-
dar Rapids and Clinton which
would deliver less than car load
freight, which had been taken from
Chicago to Cedar Rapids during the
night, the following day. Other
railroad requests for franchises
were also involved ,but it is the
local franchise in which the busi-
nessmen of the Mount Vernon and
Lisbon communities are interested.
As it is understood here, the rail-
road planned to have the freight
from their truck left at the de,pot
and delivered by the local dray-
~nan, John Hoodmaker, who de-
livers the railroad freight now.
Under such a plan the informa-
tion about freight shipments or
arrangements could be made with
the local station agent. If a per-
son had a shipment he could noti-
fy the agent and have it picked up.
The plan would have enabled the
railroads to combine long distance
movement of freight by rail with
truck operation to give much
speedier service, and reduce
through truck travel on the high-
ways.
Now ,Mr. Richardson implies that
the service as now furnished 'by a
freight truck company, whose name
.has been changed so many times
that we do not know its present one,
is satisfactory.
If Mr. Richardson would come to
.Mount Vernon and spend a half
hour trying to make arrangements
to have a freight shipment from
Mount Vernon to Cedar Rapids
~)lcked up by this truck line he
would learn by experience that his
statement that the "territory was
adequately served by existing fa-
cilities," is positively ridiculous.
If you want to stand on the street
between a little after eleven until
after one o'clock you can possibly
flag down a truck driver and ask
him to pick up the package. His
truck is headed east. Maybe he is
full and won't want to take it. He
may say that he .will have the west
bound truck pick if up if he sees
the driver. If you call Cedar Rap-
ids the package may be picked up
and it may not be.
It ought to be plain that ~uch
service when there is no local rep-
resentative can never compare to
that where you can call the local
railroad agent for definite informa-
tion and made definite arrange-
ments.
The truck lines have successfully
prevented the railroad from giving
what it is believed would have been
much 'better service. Now it ought
to ,be up to the truck line to estab-
lish a loading and unloading dock
here. The railroads own their real
estate and 'pay taxes on it. They
could leave their freight on the
dock and have a local drayman de-
liver it with a small truck instead
of stopping the huge trucks on
Main street and daily blocking traf-
q]c and creating a great hazard. The
Council ought to forbid by law the
stopping of the large trucks in the
center of the main traffic lane on
Main street while freight is loaded
or unlo~ded.
How anyone who is at all familiar
with the two types of service can
fairly say that, "existing facilities
are adequate" is beyond compre-
hension.
One Of Iowa's Outstanding
Weekly Editors Retires
Torn Purcell, for many years edi-
tor and (>wner of the Hampton
Chronicle, has sold the paper to his
son ])wight Purcell, 'who has been
associated with him for several
years. W~e hope [hat Tom will con-
rinse to write editorials for the
Chronicle as they will be missed
if he doesn't Tom Purcell, as much
as any one man, deserves credit for
putting newspapering in Iowa on a
sound business basis in the days
when they were outgrowing the
early ideas ~vbout a newspaper. Tom
has stiffened the back bone of many
an editor.
Today Iowa has some of the best
weekly newspapers in the world.
There have ,been many factors in
this development but not the least
was the work of Tom Purcell and
other editors of the old school who
saw newspapering go thru the tran-
sition from a printing press and
a shirt tail of type to the well edit-
ed and well printed weekly news-
papers of today.
Horton, Don Mlnnick, Betty
Kohl, Ludwig Hedge, Peggy Ma
gee, Carolyn Neal, Hallie Winsor
Margaret Harris, Lois Bigger.
Douglas Hudelson, Jean Thomas-
sen, Darwin Cook.
EDITORIAL
A week ago Tuesday we had our
first good snow" of the season. It
snowed nearly all day and 'was sev-
eral inches deep. One special fea-
ture of it was the fact that it was
a wet snow, just perfect for snow-
balling. It's only natural for some
of us to want to throw snowballs
but why share your enthusiasm, byI
pelting your schoolmates, many of:
whom have no desire to throw back:
and less desire to be hit. Almost l
every year this question arises with
the first snow. Again, we repeat
that there is no objection to throw-
ing snowballs but as in many other
things, there is a de iniate time and
place for it. It is hardly fair for
those who stay for lunch or those
who come back early to stand out
in front and throw at the people
who come back just .before the bell.
Another thing, the fact that the
girls can't throw as far as the boys
should ap~peal to the boys' sport-
ing instinct, but many times it
works just the oppo,~lte. Besides,
let's look at it from this angle,
there are many fine sports such a.u
sledding, skiing, and skating which
are far more appropriate for snow
and cold weather. We're sure the
majority of us all enjoy a slide
down the "Pre.'~s. Hill" far more
than a hit on the '.back of the neck
with a cold slushy snowball .
ORCHIDS TO---
Long hard weeks of pxactiee; Nit.
Hawker worrying; Peggy Mcgee
missing cues; crew members slav-
ing to get the set up in time; cos-
tumes to find at the last minute
but it was worth it because the jun-
ior class play "Lavender and Old
Lace" was a big success.
Margaret Harris was splendid in
her portrayal of an old lady. She
held the attention of the audience
from beginning to end.
Lud Hedge and Betty June Hedg-
es made a very appealing couple i
to carry the love interest.
I~eggy Mcgee was really funny.
She couldn't have done a better
:job. Si~e surely can keep her ,bal-
ance. She proved this when Henry
picked her up. Henry Carlton, as
the bashful beau, played his part
'well. Together Peggy and Henry
really stopped the show.
Betty Jean Kohl and Esther
Dvorak wore very classy (?)
clothes and they both did a fine
piece of work.
Bob Pospisil made a grand doctor.
He had a good part and he did a
lot with it.
As a henpecked husband you did
very well, Jim Peterson.
Bernice Sipple looked very nice
and ,made an attractive Bernice
Carlton.
All in all, everyone did a fine
piece of acting. Being juniors, they
will have several more chances to
display their talent and judging
from this 'performance, they will
do a good job in the future.
Seventh Grade--Helen Dvorak
Shirley Kudart, Lucllle Melehert
Catherine Osgood, Diana Pringle,
Dorothy Ann Rogers, Jean Ann
Trego.
Eighth Grade--James Gillette
Mariam Heasty, Opal Paul.
Ninth Grade--Jean Hunt, James
Laing, Keith Lusted, G~;en Smyth.
Tenth Grade--Lois Bigger, Nao-
mi Crumbaugh, David Ford, Doug-
las Hudleson, Claire Littell, Bruce
Rich, Don Sanderson, Marianna
Vodicka, Roberta Wilson,
Eleventh Grade--Henry Carleton,
Esther Dvorak, Betty June Hedges,
Lud Hedge, Betty Kohl, Carolyn
Neal, Leland Peet, Bob Pospisil.
Twelfth Grade--Don Current,
Florence Downey, Louise E. Dvor-
ak, Marian Fisher, Jean Houstman,
Mary MacGregor, Don Minnick, M.
Jane Rogers, Irene Sipple.
COULD BE
We have always thought of our~
faculty as the best of teachers, but,
on second thought we can think of:
other professions which would suit
them too. Here are suggestions;
maybe you have better ones but--
Couldn't you Just imagine Mr.
Lindsley as a marathon runner?
Mr. Fuller a~ a street cleaner?
Mr. Fisher as a dravnatics teach-
er?
Miss Hughes as a chorus girl?
Miss West as a trapeze perform-
er?
Miss Reynolds as a metropolitan
star ?
Mr. Carl a~ a jitterbug?
Mr. Hawker as a prize fighter?
Miss Johnston as a soda jerker?
And then Mr Paul as a sym-
phony conductor.
HE/~D NF:~VS ABOIYr
HEADGEAR
It seems as though the style in
headgear is widely varied this year.
Now take for instance all the ker-
chiefs. They certainly aren't alike
We will admit that kerchiefs have
been worn before but never in the
many colors, sizes and shapes that
the girls are sporting this winter.
Peggy Mcgee .'braves the wintery
blasts with earmuffs and scarf
(pretty color of blue, isn't it?) A
step in the other direction shows us
Jean Hunt's bright red hood with a
Puritan ,bow tied under her chin.
Speaking of hoods, many of the
coats have hoods already attached
to them such as Jean Smith's.
Marianne Vodicka's, Dorothy Ann
Rogers', and numerous others
Some brave souls wear hats out into
the gales but they are very brave
and afford good opportunities for
hat chasing. I shan't say much on
hats because if I did, this article
would run into volumes instead of
paragraphs. The boys evidently
prefer earmuffs to hats and hats
to bare heads because you scarce-
ly ever see a boy without one or the
other and sometimes both. The
hats of the ,boys vary a great deal
in style going from Don Ferzeson's
to ,Skip Herring's. While I have
given you a short resume of the
M.V.H.S. headgear, I feel that I
ought to add one final tribute to
the fellow who, like me, just turns
up his collar and hopes for the best.
I hope now, my fellow students that
you know the height to which the
M.V.H.S. headgear goes.--Lois Big-
;er.
Also they claim that ~ill water
runs deep;
But those thinking that or a similar
creed,
I fear me do hold conversation too
cheap.
Here I sit wondering just why
I 'was ,born ;
Yet I want to live, not die;
Over in the chair near by
Sleeps my dog; fie
On you puppy! You know not
enough or
Should I say too much, to have to
look disappointment in the eye.
--Mark Hutchinson
Wllm 'rlll'b
Some people in M.V.H.S. have a
faint idea of what they are going
to do after school. (not really
though) Here are just a few:
Janice West -- usher at the
Strand.
Ruth Biderman--a nurse.
Vernon Paul--ex~periment with
atoms.
Shirley Minnick---get married.
Harriett Moffitt--old Maid.
Eula Burnett--co-ed.
Peggy Herring---ambulance driv-
er.
Irene Sipple--toe dancer.
Doug Hudelson--starve in Green-
wich village.
OUR POETS 1N TIlE BUD
There once was a crazy driver,
No sense had he you'll agree,
He put on brakes
A little too late,
And he wrapped the car around a
tree.
---Bill Milholin.
] once knew a girl called Tu,bby,
Who was, well, exceedingly chubby
But she had a hunch,
Used her "Joe Louis" punch,
And hooked a man for her hubby.
--Gwen Smyth.
There was a great mouse called
"Cap",
Who were terribly afraid of a trap,
But he found a piece of cheese
In a trap if you please,
But the trap made it~ place on his
map.
--Keith Lusted.
There was an old man named Lu
All the ladies he loved to woo,
Ane night in his wooing
And .billing and cooing
In came his wife named Sue.
--Harold Shakespeare.
I WARD SCHOOL NEWS
The kindergarden visited a groc-
ery store in connection with Social
Science. They are now building a
grocery store and are kept busy
supplying the Thanksgiving din-
ners. They say the telephone keeps
ringing all day long. They have
made play money and price tags for
each article Last week they went
to Armstrong Hall to see an exhibit
of paintings.
Six of the third grade are giving
a play, The First Thanksgiving.
They are inviting the fourth grade.
Opal Gabbert has started to school.
The fourth, fifth and sixth grades
were entertained Tuesday by the
third grade. The fifth grade are
entertaining the sixth grade and
some people from the college, with
a play about Thanksgiving.
The sixth grade,are making win-
dow transoarene~n in art. They
are very thankful that the six weeks
tests are over.
Reporters: Dean Lusted, Ramona
Barrett.
GOSSIP
Did you know that:
Mr. Hawker had a .birthday party
:back stage ?
Don Leighr has forgotten about
the fine for parking on the over-
head bridge?
Henry Carlton has at last found
something interesting ouLside the
library --- prompter for the class
play?
"Htlda Lucretia," "Abbie Anne,"
"Bessie Mabel,"--no, not charact-
ers from "Little Women"--just the
names of the "Old Maids" club--
for particulars see Mr. Hawker
president.
Shirley Minnick has Phelps "Im-
agination" Manning on "the hook" ?
Llz has a new ,motto: "If at first
you don't succeed, try the older
brother ?
Franklin Minnecke has a new
theme song--"I Fell Like a Feather
In the Breeze"?
Hazel Martin's theme song is
"Drink to Me Only With Thine
Eyes"?
INDIAN SUMMER
Corn shocks stand in solemn array
Across the shadowed fields;
In a halo of glory the sun slips
down,
As to the night it yields.
What ts the haze that's stealing the
land,
Into its ghostly cloak?
The spirits of Indians long ago
dead--
Those happy and carefree folk.
They're dancing in spirit across the
hills,
To a tom-tom's muffled beat;
No mortal ear may hear their song,
Or stealthy moccasined feet.
The gray smoke rises against the
sky
From campfires burning low,
Enveloping all like ethereal mists,
Against the pale moon's glow.
These restless spirits will soon de-
part
To a vast realm of unknown,
Leaving the earth to its wintery
fate
Of snow and cold wind's moan.
--Betty Jean Kohl
Then there is tile baldheaded
man who sprinkles salt on his
shoulders to give the impression
that he has dandruff.--Ex.
II
What's put off to a more conven-
ient time, invarably turns up to be
done when it is twice as hard to
do it.--Ex.
assumed maintenance of the Mili-
tary road from Fairview to Iowa
City, a distance of 35 miles on De-
cember 1. The road will be known
as Primary 261.
Gas service is being used in
Mount Vernon and Lisbon. On
Tuesday afternoon the large range
in Pfeiffer hall and the stove in the
Federated church in IAsbon were
connected with the gas mains.
A Lane and Bowler centrifugal
pump, of 75 gallons a minute ca-
pacity is to be installed in the well
at IAsbon inside of two weeks.
of North Dakota, at Grand Forks.
Mrs. Margaret B. Willix, mother
of E. B. Willix, died at the home
of her son on Saturday very sudden-
ly.
The Knights of Pythias elected
the following officers last evening:
C.C G. W. Border; V.C G. M. Wil-
son; M. of W Fred Travis; Prelate.
William Ague; It. of R. & Seals, W.
H. Kelly, jr.; M. of b' F. L. Cham-
berlain; M. of E W. G. Kepler;
M:. of A John L. Burge; I.G John
iWhitlatch; e.G J. A. Petty; Trus-
I tee, C. W. Kepler.
Mrs. M. L. Freer suffered a brok- I H.A. Bassett, who lives in Mex-
en pelvic bone when she was struck lice, states in a letter to Mount Ver-
bY an auto while, crossing the street non friends, that. everything m"
m Cedar Rapids, Wednesday after- quieting down considerably there
noon. ]though troops are much in evidence
Mrs. Emma Morris slipped and land little further trouble is antici-
fell in her kitchen in her home in tpated
Lisbon Monday morning, striking Lost on Sunday, a stiff hat, on
her head on the sink and making Springville road. Finder leave at
an ugly cut on her elbow also.
Mrs. Edna Travis was elected
+Most Excellent Chief of the Mount
Vernon Temple Pythian Sisters at
their regular meeting on Wednes-
day evening.
I A. A. Berry will hold a closing
out sale at his farm near the Upper
Palisades on Wednesday, Decem-
ber 10.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December 1, 1920
The whole community was sad-
dened when news came Friday
'morning, of the death of Theodore
Stinger at Rochester, Minn.
Capt. Rufus Parsons of the re-
serve corps of the National army,
has ,been given a commission as
b'irst Liet/tenant in the regular
army.
The Fred A. Bauman clothing
store is being provided with a hand-
some new double faced sign, which
which will hang over the sidewalk.
Amos C. Strawn, a well known
conductor on the Interurban line,
died Monday evening in Mercy hos-
pital, Cedar Rapids, following a
week's illness of pneumonia.
Miss Mary Parsons left Saturday
for Lansing, Mich where she will
assist in the supervision of the So-
cial Service Center of that city. She
will work under Miss Sara Brown,
a former Cornellian.
Harry Warren, who has been lo-
cated with the Sherman-Williams
company, of Chicago, Ill for sev-
eral months, has been suffering
from an acid burn.
Mrs. J. F. Staskal, who lives south
of town a short distance, raised 32
fine geese this year and had every
one of them sold several days be-
fore Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Jessie R. Blaine died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles
Martin near Lisbon, on Tuesday.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
I)ecember 6, 1910
L. C. Watson is circulating a peti-
this office.
Turn to page 7 for the Classified
Ad Section.
BUSINESS CARDS
F. F. EBERSOLE, M.D.
Dial 5412
First door east of Methodist ehurcb
Mount Vernon. Iowa
W. G. KRUCKENBERG, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office Gearhart Residence
Mount Vernon, Iowa
Office Phone 3021 Res. 3451
Calls Answered Promptly
Day or Night
E. C. PRALL, Dentist
Phones
Office - 5712 Home -- 4841
Mount Vernon. Iowa
JOHN B. BRYANT
Veterinarian
Phones:
Office 2761 Residence 2763
Mount Vernon, Iowa
G. M. WILSON
Attorney-At-Law
Practice in state and federal courts
Counselor-at-Law and Notary Pub-
lic. Office over DeLuxe Coffee
Shop, Mount Vernon, Iowa.
Phones: Office 5612 Home 2871
JOHNSTON BROS.
Funeral Directors
C. B. Johnston, Licensed Embalmer
H. R. Johnston, Licensed Embalmer
Lady Assistant When Wanted
Mount Vernon and Lisbon
On 1st and 2nd Avenues
Cedar Rapids
ty, Iowa, deceased. All p(wsons in- i
debted to said estate are r('(lueste(l ~
to make immediate Imyment there-
of to the undersigned. Those httv-
inK elainls against the same will ~
file them, duly authenticated in tlh,
office of the Clerk of the IAnn
County. Iowa l)istrict Court.
GLAI)YS L. BUTIACR,
Administratrix. !~
l,'razier & I{ees, Attorneys. !~
Dec. 5, 1% i !~ i
Some men look their age, and
some don't---but a v,'oluan ahnost ]
always overlooks hers.--Fix.
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