Iowa Old Press

Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
March 27, 1929

ADMIT 35 TO CITIZENSHIP; ONE DISMISSED
Certificates to Be Awarded Class at Ceremony on April 8

    Out of a class of 41 aliens applying for citizenship rights, 35 were admitted at the conclusion of a naturalization hearing held today in District Judge W.W. Scott's court. Nine of the 35 were women.
    Certificates of citizenship will be awarded the successful applicants at a patriotic ceremony to be held in the district court on the evening of April 3. Attorney Clark Filseth will deliver the principal address. The program will probably be in charge of the Colonial Dames.
    Four applicants for citizenship were denied papers at this hearing and their hearings continued until September to give them an opportunity to become more familiar with American history. One application was dismissed. One applicant was absent.
    The 35 admitted as citizens were:
    Stoyan Dimitroff, 2712 Ridgewood; Catherine Gregory, 1019 West Third; George Labath, R.R. 2; Marie Augusta Katherine Beuster, 1817 West Sixth; Elizabeth Devine, Eighth and Main; Johannes Fuhlendorf, 320 1/2 West Fifteenth; Frank Fred and Ida Goettsch, 1625 West Ninth; Ernest and Adolf Grilk, 2118 West Third; Nora Kristin, 810 West Sixth; Paul Victor Kummerfeldt, 1419 West Locust.; William Milroy, 1508 East Elm; Lillian Eleanor O'Brien, 1116 East Fourteenth; Conrad Martin Nissen, 318 East Tenth; Frederich Paul Peizerich, 1844 Oak, Bettendorf; Johannes Rieper, Walcott, Iowa; Mrs. Anna Ralfs, 2811 Telegraph Rd; Carl Francis Schultze, 1108 LeClaire street, Davenport; Jacob Claus Henry Witt, R.R. No. 6; Ottina Quinta Antoniotti, 909 East Sixth street; Theresa Adelaide Lage, 241 E Lincoln avenue; Lionel Alfred Kennedy, 309 Harrison street; Julie Mary Duda, 1222 Grant street, Bettendorf; Orlando Lunardi, 707 East Sixth street; Claus Ferdinand Lessburg, R.F.D. No. 1, Eldridge; Theodor Carl Lobsien, 717 Harris street; William Makinson, 113 S. Thornwood ave.; Israel Ekshtein, 218 East Third street; Angelos Panusopulos, 724 LeClaire street; Ernest Richard Stoltenberg, 2?0? McKinley ave; Samuel Roll, 2725 Glenn street, Bettendorf; John Andreas Sorensen, ?16 East Eleventh street; Hugo Oswald Zimmerman, 1602 Brown street, Bettendorf; Salvatore Oeckipinti, 829 Brady street; Sofie ?achs, 1110 Jones street, Bettendorf

Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
March 31, 1929

Kuehl-Labath Wedding Saturday
     An Easter eve wedding which took place at the parsonage of Zion Lutheran
church was that of Miss Suzanne Labath, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Labath
of Telegraph road and Wilfred C. Kuehl, son of Mrs. D.S. Garner of Esplanade
avenue, the ceremony having been at 4 in the afternoon. The Rev. Carl Holtermann
officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Specht, the latter a sister of the bridegroom
attended the couple.
     The bride was in a gown of blue georgette and tan hat and carried roses.
Mrs. Specht wore blue georgette and hat to match. Her flowers were also roses.
     The wedding dinner of the evening was at the residence of the groom and the
couple will reside with Mrs. Garner, the groom's mother, until they go to their
own home. Decorations were in the Easter flowers and colors.
     Out of town guests included Mr. and Mrs. E. Bowens of Atkinson, Ill., Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Zak of Racine, Wis., and Mr. and Mrs. Kolonich of City Point,
Wis. Mr. Kuehl is with the Kuehl Motor company of this city.

Submitted by C.J.L., July 2005