Ackley World Journal (Newspaper) - May 11, 1944, Ackley, Iowa Since a Constructive Community newspaper MAY WHOLE 5318 LOWE I ITU IL ARMY IN ITALY A YEAR Anzio April and read interesting accounts of home especially in the so Id write and tell you some experiences on the European front where I Have often read of boys who WASHINGTON destroyer sunk by Nazi torpedo based heavy bombers raid sink ships evac Nazi Crimean ASIA men close trap on Japs in CHUNGKING Jap forces drive beyond rail GUINEA Americans held by Hollandia NAPLES retreat for second day near Roosevelt picks New York banker for secretary of to succeed GRADUATING CLASS EVENTS OF WEEK Junior Senior Class Banquet Thursday Held The Class Numbers Other Events in Connection with k encountered any action Forrestal had been assistant I am sure that He too is a Government cases against Mont months craving to do I after they have seen one they would as I do and I all others over they were back there How gladly would we do I those inspections daily to be Our outfit has had two rest periods I of each less than ten days since the I invasion of Our longest period of actual combat duty is about ninety and since the Salerno landing the have grown from rough to Am proud to say jour tank destroyer battalion is the I best known over proud and I proud because its grand to be a part of the best recognized T I sorry because we always catch the most dangerous it Our enemy these past few weeks seems to be or else strong He is putting against us more big more Even now as I sit here letter I can hear his artillery shells sizzling To page two HARDIN COUNTY RECORD The Weeks Transfers of real estate numbered 18 the largest single transfer was an Eldora residence for the next largest that of John and wife to Emma residence property for one at Whitten for Real Estate Real estate mortgages number The largest single land transferred by the Northwest ern Mutual Life another by the same company for total of the mortgage Chattel mortgages filed totaled Among the listings one on live stock and crops for an other on live and poultry for several biles for varying NOW IN SEATTLE Willard Van Heiden who has been in naval training during the past two months at writes from Washington that he has been transferred to that A postal card received from him this morning reads as follows Landed here Thursday and will attend fire school for 16 Am right in the heart of A swell place and good Wendell Ulfers gomery Ward have been Judge Holly drops case without deci Divorce of Doris at held null and No good in New Jersey Virginia youth pitches horseshoe and turns up largest diamond ever found in New public debt limit placed at 240 billions by Bitter floor fight in which Republicans accused Democrats of needless spending and Mexico will send flyers against Weather man sums it up thunder and lightning combined with A court jury at Charles awarded damages in the amount of to Boniface Catholic church at from Donald and Helen for alleged tion of church fixtures on the night of May The church had asked The original civil petition filed by Father pastor of the Ionia set a value of on the destroyed church fix and asked treble damages of that goes with graduation and the completion of school been duly ob New Evangelical Pastor Comes From At the district Evangelical confer ence that was held at the past Henning was assigned to the pastorate of First Evangelical church in He will succeed Henning is pastor of the Evangelical church at and has served in that capacity dur ing the past several It is understood that he will deliver his first sermon in the Ackley church May served and will con on until the final close of the term on the There are 37 mem bers in the graduating the girls p r e The junior senior first of the waa held on the evening of April Class and Sunday the baccalaureate in the auditorium the school Baccalaureate Processional Miss Marybe Con Seybold Girls Glee Scripture William Vocal Miss Baccalaureate sermon is to be de livered by Arthur pastor of the Presbyterian Benediction by of Maryi Postlude and FRANK GRIGGS Funeral services for Frank were held last Tuesday burial in Union cemetery born at daughter of Jeremiah and May April 1883 leaves a Hen a son Des Moines two Ernest and two broth John and Henry both of Griggs was known to many Court Four for the including two actions for divoce Betty Lockwood Joe and Jack Lauden Johnson Quits West Friesland to After serving almost twentythree years as pastor of West Friesland Presbyterian four miles southeast of Henry Johnson recently resigned to accept a pastorate near in the Wau kon Presbytery as is West Friesland Johnson came to West Fries land church in after grad from the Theological Seminary of the University of Du He was valedictorian of his both in college and in the During his stay here great im have been made in West Friesland A new modern manse was erected in and the church building remodeled in 1941 and a commodious basement was add The property is in good condi tion and the membership has grown recalling that within a radius of five miles from the church there are nine other As a member of Presbytery A PHILOSOPHER TALKS only Ackley man As Mary Frances Goettel in Marine Corps Mary daughter of and Karl having passed Johnson has served on many commit For 12 years he was chairman of the committee on National Mis sions for Waukon In this capacity he met for many years as a member with the Staff of National Missions of the Presbyterian He is now serving as Stated Clerk if Waukon The family intends to move to Wau on May Illinois Central Bridge Worker Killed Hammer 58 yeara of was instantly killed while at work on the railroad bridge that spans the Iowa river at Iowa Satur day Another workman 70 feet dropped an that struck Johnson on the He was In stantly DIED AT KANKAKEE DAN OLOUGHLIN Reared in This Relatives in Ackley have received information of the death of Dan iel OLoughlin at the first of the His death appears to have been due to a heart OLoughlin was born in Osceola son of pioneer His first studies for a medical pro was in the office of in He has been a practicing physician at Kankakee for more than twenty years he was a frequent visitor here and at the old with He is survived by his wife and three two daughters and a son by one Susie Iowa Falls and one Tom OLoughlin who makes his home with the Frank McGivney family at Iowa Funeral services will be held May at He was Corn Has Been Greatly Delayed by Excessive Rains Corn planting on farms has been greatly delayed by reason of the al most constant and excessive rains that have Fields have not been cleared and planting of corn has been impossible because of muddy Farmers have been put back because of the excessive Everyone hopes for sunshine and but present prospects are not bright nor for any kind of field Gardening has also been put back because of the almost daily rains that have fallen during the past three Sunshine and warmth are John Bode on Troop Ship That Was Sunk in the Mediterranean On Saturday morning John wife of John re ported missing a week had re information from the war de that he was among those lost in the sinking of a troopship on the Mediterranean Bode is at the home of her and at John is a son of and Richard of Austin Hardin Republican Women Will Meet in Convention Saturday Republican women of Hardin coun ty will meet in convention at next Saturday afternoon at Further organization bach Kennedy Ruth Laudenbach the Farms Unknown The George Grain and Lumber company of Wellsburg owned and operated by George Pot in a philosophic adver tises what he has to There is never a sug gestion of weve got the best and but the ads that have appeared regularly and are appearing in the 0 rf t to real quiet title in certain A message was received by Virgil Steffen of the sudden death of his Private Robert Lee Arm son of and nee Josephine deceased formerly of He was killed April 17th during maneuvers at Camp His and a broth er preceded him in He is sur vived by his father of Cedar Rapids and a sister in nurses training at Burial occurred April at Arnold Blattspieler of is in a hospital at receiving medical attention for vari cose Hardin County Board Issues Rules for Ackerman of Iowa was in Ackley Saturday He is a candidate for the Republican nom of county and came here in that note the lay of the Ackerman is a brother of the former Miss Lulu Acker now P r o h a s living at Acker man is well known in this part of Hardin having been born and reared on a farm east of Ack He considers his prospects for are read with keen mental and physical examinations for the Marine Corps has been inducted and is now awaiting call to active She will report at Camp New for boot Mary Frances is the first Ackley girl to enlist in this branch of the To Open Memorial The public swimming pool at Grun dy will be reopened for the Public on Memorial May Walter Palmer and Miss Helen Hei daughter of Matt who engaged in the drug business at city wundy will be interest by the big family of readers by reason of which people living in the trade territory watch anxiously for the paper each This weeks is on George is Youll read the whether or not youre inter ested in buying or selling corn and hogs and In the every NEWS IN BRIEF Marlyn a few years ago director of the school band in and last year director at State hasbeen engaged as director of both the Marshalltown was a drug clerk in later municipal and the school band Applications for tires are reaching ur office in such numbers that our quota will fall considerably short of taking care of all eligible Indications are that the news re lease stating that all B and C book holders are now eligible for new tires has left our people with the impression that tire quotas have been increased materially to take care of the change in We have received only 40 more tires for the month of May than we were alloted for the months of March and April This increase as we see would only take care of the normal increased driving needs for this season of the Our quota of new passenger car tanks to provide a reserve for next the nomination very Long a Resident of Benson of the Geneva neighbor transacted business in Monday others a business Benson has lived on the old home Starting May 30 points will be given each four weeks instead stamps of every two and Red become RECOVER STOLEN AUTO the property of Steve Voss of has been at Iowa near to an apartment where it had stood everal Nothing was taken from the gas coupons were are no superintendent since 37 of the REA in Hardin wt week tendered his He has taken a position in the bank Steamboat His successor is ny prey of who new similar position in that and Nipper of were guests Sunday rerson Fred of is at Hampton for a months visit with her and Frank Myrta of Cedar la also visiting there a few weeks with her Emma serve their Duane Scott has recently been from Avon Florida to San where he is receiving aviation Kauc has recovered from a weeks t The a tires for the month of May is Hardin county has something over rolling wheels on passenger We give you these figures so that you may have some idea of the prob lem that is in the face of the newspaper and radio news accounts pertaining to the tire rationing pro e see it our tire situa tion is just as critical as it has been at any time in the past due to the increased demand for tires after two and onehalf years of tire Fuel Around June the new applica tions for renewal of the heating and hot water rations for 194445 heat ing season will be sent out from the Local In order to facilitate getting the 194445 coupons into the hands of the most of the consumers early in it will be desirable that these renewal applications be completed within seven days after you receive By getting the coupons out early in the it will make it possible 191 consumers to fill all storage space and thus make it pos sible for dealers to refill their valid for the purchase of mar cheese and cheese evaporated beef steaks and only items now requiring red Canning Sugar Applications Canning sugar coupons have not been received from our Regional Of fice but all applications that have been sent are on file and coupons will be mailed out as soon as they We wish to call to the attention oJ all persons who have not filled out their applications for canning sugar to enclose SPARE STAMP 37 and carefully attach stamps to the application when Stamps loose in an envelope may be Institutional This Board has been instructed to issue only 50 of the normal allot CLEVES POSTOFFICE TO CONTINUE ON Order of Discontinuance Recently The postoffice in the village of five miles south of will not be although the order for discontinuance had come from the postoffice department at to be effective April As a consequence the people of Cleves and surrounding are happy to retain a service that has been theirs for upwards of seventy A request had been directed to the department and complied Cleves a good and prosperous trade A farmers coopera tive creamery does a substantial busi as does the grain eleva tor and the general mercantile which now is conducted by Mark Its business at usual at Cleves Completes Another Brass has completed an other assessment of Washington Butler his successive and after that length of he virtually knows the job by although each year sees many in the listings of and tions He was at farm all his and that means nearly 70 His parents on the farm before Brother of the late well remembered as a dealer in farm and a suc of Ben deceased chiropractor at Iowa He is entitled to be classed as an His two sisters live on the farm with All are in very good ment for Meats and and Fats for May Clubs in Butler Rally Day in June clubs in Butler county have planned a countywide rally day for some time in date not Committees have been assigned to arrange among the number Mrs Glen French is eagerly an a visit from her Meyer of and from her Wallace of Den and and Charles of Chad They are expected here May Passenger Train Strikes Auto mobile at Leslie of narrowly escaped serious injury Fri day afternoon at when her car which she was driving was struck by the eastbound Illinois Central pas senger train at the by the Burr failed to see the train thinking it had already gone through as it was past train notes the Lyle who formerly operated the Hampton returned home last weekend from Long where he is em ployed in a war to visit a few days with friends and to attend to some business county seat of Butler Satur day last and delivered his assessment book to the county All Hardin County Banks Will Be Closed Wednesday May 17th president of the Hardin County Bankers states that all Hadin county banks will not be open May as those connected with the banks will be attending the district bank ers meeting at Mason In Hospital at Jacob Miller is a patient in Allen Memorial Hospital at Water Miller is well remembered as a former resident in the southeast of now living at Miller recently underwent a serious surgical opera Shipped Cattle to Roy north of Ackley farm shipped a car load of cattle young steers of his own feeding to Monday He accompanied the shipment to JUDGE CLOCK AT ELDORA Judge Sherwood Clock of Hamp will deliver the Memorial Day address at May Program on court house Country Gentleman Five Years Ensign Donald Seibold who re cently received his commission at enjoyed a furlough here with his and Since his graduation from Ackley High in he took a four years course at received naval training at Ports and more recently re his commission at He left Friday for to report for Loses 516 Baby A total of 516 White Rock baby chicks were smoth ered to death in a fire that destroyed a brooder house on the LeRoy Bruhn 2 Ms miles east of Tues day One chick of the entire flock was The loss I covered by
