Britt News-Tribune, The (Newspaper) - October 10, 1951, Britt, Iowa VOLUME 58 BRITT IOWA WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10 1951 NUMBER 11 One Ticket Filed For Town Election Nov lowans Are Asked To Be Junkmen For A Day Iowa farmers businessmen of them who use equipment made of iron and are being asked to pretend they're junkmen for a day or so Uncle Sam would like them to look around their farms offices and factories for any old iron and steel they're not using and sell it to the junkman Without scrap metal open hearth furnaces can't make steel One ton of scrap goes into the making of every two tons of open-hearth steel Every Iowa businessman and farmer knows how badly more steel is needed for both civilian and military equipment Without more scrap the steel mills can't meet their schedules according to the National Production Authority Look around won't you That old Harrow in the south pasture those rusty filing cabinets in the basement those spare parts for the old press Put them to work They're needed Conference At The Evangelical Free Church The semi-annual conference of the District of the Evangelical Free Church of Jane Lewis Bride Of Don Merriam Corwith Oct Miss Jane Lewis daughter of Mr and Mrs Hugh Lewis of Chariton and Don Merriam son of Mr and Mrs Albert Merriam of Cor- with were united in marriage at a ceremony at St brose Cathedral in Des Moines by Rev Father Hans Friday Oct 5 at 10 o'clock They were attended by Mr and Mrs Jack Baumeister sister and brother-in-law of the bridegroom Ushers were Wilbur Merriam Marvin Scheffleman and Sgt C Hansen A reception in the Palm room of the Fort Des Moines hotel was held in the afternoon Mrs Wilbur Merriam and Mrs Marvin Scheffleman served the wedding cake Sgt and Mrs Merriam will be at home at 1126 W street Des Moines Don a graduate of the Corwith high school has been in the army for two years Those from Corwith who ed the reception were Mr and Mrs Albert Merriam Mr and Mrs Wilbur Merriam Mr and t a v October Mrs Jack Baumeister Mr and Itw Free Scheffleman Mr and Mrs Earl Trenary Elmer Trenary Mr and Mrs Joe Grandgenette Churches of Upper Flat and ley are assisting in the ment The Wednesday afternoon sessions will be held at Wesley All other sessions will be held in the Evangelical Free Church in Britt There are forenoon afternoon and evening sessions There is quite an array of ers from various parts of Iowa and South Dakota appearing in these services Pastors and delegates from about forty churches in the Iowa and South Dakota district will be here for the conference The public is invited to attend Charles and Ernie Widen Allen J Michelson Bronze Star Medal Allen J Michelson who served in the Mediterranean area during World War II recently received from the government a bronze star medal for exemplary conduct in ground combat with the 6th armored infantry battalion He was serving as a technician 5th grade at the time He was in the service two years Allen is a son of Mr and Mrs Lester Michelson of Britt He is now engaged in farming with his brother Duane over near Cresco Iowa BRITT FLYERS TOUR SUNDAY Britt flyers took a tour of ern Iowa and north along the into Wisconsin and sota during the perfect flying weather Sunday The group ed Mr and Mrs Clarence Gorman and daughter Dr and Mrs Harold Morgan Judd and and Mr and Mrs Ray L Nelson ily flying in its own ulane Hubbard Man Died At County Home John Otto Hines 81 was found dead in bed at the Hancock County Home Saturday by Steward man Paul Hines was born at dora in May 1870 He came to One complete ticket has been filed for election to town offices five councilmen and a treasurer for the town election which will be held November 6 in accordance with a new law passed by the legislature last spring New Candidates The ticket includes the name of the mayor Henry E Meyer and three incumbent cilman A H Sigler J M son Leo Flaming Two new names appear they are Earl Trulson and A F Driste who aie candidates to succeed M F Bilbrey and old B Jacobson who will not seek re-election Driste is a former mayor of Britt L L Marchant is a candidate for re-election as treasurer Office in April Although the election will take place this fall those elected will not take office until April 1 1953 when the terms of the present holders expire The bent officers were elected in March of 1950 Hereafter elections will be held in November of the odd numbered years and officers will the oath of office on Jan 1 terms to expire on Dec 31 two years later Plan To Furnish Hospital Room Corwith Oct The ican Legion Auxiliary met day evening at the home of Mrs Robert Beer Plans for a rummage sale were made The proceeds will go into a fund to be used m furnishing a room in the Hancock County Memorial Mrs wife of one of the trustees of the hospital was assisting ess Mrs Lafe Oxley was in charge of the meeting Tuesday evening At the next regular meeting the county president is to be a guest and each member is asked to bring a guest Herman F Koch Lived Past His Ninetieth Year Herman Frederick Koch was born in Proviso Cook County 111 April 6 1861 a son to Fred and Dora Koch He home in Britt assed away at his lunday afternoon October 7 having reached the age of 90 years 6 months and 1 day Mr Koch spent his early hood in Cook County 111 At the age of 14 he came with the ily to Grundy County Iowa After a few years at home he went out into the world earn a living for himself He first came to Britt about 70 years ago and for many years worked with Edward mond they being employed by Thomas Duff as well drillers In these 70 years he has seen cock County prairies develop into well improved farms On December 30 1894 he was united in marriage with Hattie Thieben of Ackley la the mony taking place in Grundy County Mr and Mrs Koch lived in the vicinities of Woden son and and spent six years in Grundy County returning in 1911 to live on farms in Erin township Mr and Mrs Koch and daughter Annette came Britt Band To Waverly Contest The Britt high school marching band directed by Ray mew will compete in the state high school marching band con- test at Waverly Saturday They will compete in class B with nine other schools Drum majorette this year is Dorothy Hansen and twirlers are Pat Riehm Sandra Musgrove ole Jones Janet Horstman and Betty Clark Friday night the band will go to Northwood to participate in the Northwood high school ing activities between halves of the grid game BRITT MEN ARE RETURNING HOME Among the soldiers returning home from Korea Monday were Cpl Arnold R Dalland and Pfc Gordon R Sonerholm both of Garner in 1944 daughter Mrs to live with his Hollie Bethke Later he was admitted to the ty home Funeral was held at Hubbard Iowa Monday afternoon Two sisters survived him at water Oklahoma besides the ner daughter WHAT SAYS NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK Last week was National Newspaper Week and all of the slaves of the newspaper game were supposed to stand up on their toes and yell about the great and grand things the newspapers have done in the past and what they expect to do in the future This paper is not interested in gloating and sounding forth to the public If we are doing a good job the people who read paper know in reverse if we are doing a poor job they know it Then why blow off steam But Duane Dewel of the Kossuth County Advance at Algona had something to say about newspaper folk that is about what we would have said if we had the power of expression that Duane has Here it is Read for THIS IS NATIONAL newspaper week when are to pat themselves on the back and tell themselves what great guys they The Old Goat definitely doesn't want to fool himself and be- sides a pat on the back would make him suspicious as heck After all the years of being blamed for everything that goes wrong in a town the average newspaperman could not stand appreciation In the first place he knows darn well he won't get any People are too concerned with the thing right in front of their nose The Old Goat doesn't say all newspapermen are paragons of virtue Many newspapermen are just as big stinkers as the average run of people Their trouble is the business they are in You can't write a guy up for his depredations when yah got a depredation on your conscience That's the trouble with most newspapermen It's not their great and glowing concern for the human race After treading the straight and narrow path for a good many years the newspaperman gets used to it But with a few exceptions they do take their work pretty seriously and it's their duty to save the pubLc from itself And there's no greater critic of a wayward than another newspaperman THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION It seems to me the emancipation proclamation was not broad enough It probably meant the freeing of the black man from slavery day of 1951 we have more millions of slaves than we had before Abe Lincoln issued his proclamation And no doubt honest Abe never thought that within one short century the whites would outnumber the blacks as slaves If you are in business and have thousands upon ands of dollars invested in your or will ret my meaning THIS GETTING OLD We buried a woman the other day who was outstanding in one respect spent 82 years and 2 months in Iowa but nobody ever thought of her as old She never celebrated a birthday and pronounced as did Mark Twam at a birthday party I AM She went about her affairs the same as a woman half her age walked as straight as a high school girl drove her car greeted people the same as she had been A Report From H L of Garner Hancock county of the savings bonds division reported today that series E F and G bond purchases in the county reached 20.64 per of the quota at the end of the week of the defense bond drive Total sales for the county to date as reported by the federal reserve bank are while the quota is Sales for all counties in Iowa amounted to for the same period an increase of since the report of a week ago We can get a fair estimate of our progress by considering that the accounting period for the drive will cover approximately ten the chairman said and as of this report we should have attained 40 per cent of our ty's quota The reported figures aren't ways he continued be- cause some banks don't report sales each week and there is an unavoidable lag in the reports due to the time required for compiling figures and getting them to and back from Chicago Theme of this drive is Defense is your job too and the objective is for every farmer and every wage earner in Iowa to purchase at least one bond at either banks or postoffices to Britt to make their home At the age of 14 Mr Koch was confirmed in the Lutheran Church and remained true to those early teachings Surviving Mr Koch are his wife Hattie two daughters Mrs Floyd Edna Friedow Kanawha Annette who lives at home are four Friedow of Britt Verlyn Kanawha Pfc Milton A Friedow serving in the anti aircraft talion at the Presidio of San cisco and Miss Ardith Friedow who is attending the University of Colorado at Boulder Colo There are five great grand- children Britt Their ship landed at Seattle Monday Construction Worker Died At Kanawha Hayfield Oct vices for Abram V Geddes 65 lifelong resident of Hancock ty were held Tuesday at 2 p m at the Methodist church the Rev G J Hjelmaas pastor officiating Burial was in the Madison tery Mr Geddes died at a hospital in Saturday being taken there earlier in the day following a stroke which he suffered while working on a construction job near Kanawha Born on a farm near Garner January 3 1886 Mr Geddes was a son of Garrett V and the late nie A Geddes He grew to hood in this locality and on Sept 27 1911 was married to Miss Kate Blank They established their home on a farm near here Mr Geddes left this community 16 years ago and went to Kanawha where he since was employed as carpenter He was known widely as a skilled and faithful workman Survivors include his aged er son Harold of Miller 4 grand- daughters 3 brothers Guy a twin and Chester and Quentin all of this locality and a sister Mrs Frank Schulz of Klemme Deceased was the eldest of a family of brothers Of these one Hoerman of and three sisters sister Mrs Lena Washington Kansas and one brother Theodore Koch of Dike Iowa survive Funeral services were held afternoon at the Koch residence Burial was made in Evergreen cemetery at The Rev E H Johnson pastor of the First Congregational church was in charge of the last rites doing all her life and nobody ever heard her try to gain pity from friends by explaining that she was OLD Barn Destroyed By Fire Sunday Fire destroyed the jam and contents on the Fred Seefelt farm Sunday afternoon Cause of the blaze was not mined The farm is tenanted by Mr and Mrs Leon Gardner The fire department also called to the Glair Robinson erty where a small shack which had been erected by neighbor dren caught fire Both fire calls came while a trapshoot was in progress and the program was in- in order to fight the fires Shop And Swap Store Started A new venture in business is the Shop and Swap store which is being established by Mrs George Morgan at her home on West 5th street She will handle used and outgrown articles of clothing and all kinds of other small hand work etc which the public will take to her Vernon Perkins Died At Hospital On Tuesday Disturbing Peace Brings A Fine Clarence Peterson employed on a construction job in Duncan and whose address was not learned was fined in Mayor Henry E Meyer's court Sunday on charges of disturbing the peace Peterson was arrested Saturday night by Marshall C L Marshal also arrested Elmer Howe of Winnebago county last week on a reckless driving charge He was taken before tice of Peace R W Fritsch at Garner and fined Rollin Schroeder Cited For Service Rollin L Schroeder a son of Emil Schroeder of Sheffield and who formerly lived in Britt was cited with a letter of commendation at meritorious mast held recently aboard the fast attack transport USS Begor at San Diego Calif Schroeder returned to the United States last week after ten months services in the Far East PRESERVING CONSTITUTION Truman helps Chief Justice Vinson second from left and librarian of Congress Luther Evans left to place page one af the Constitution in a glass frame to preserve tion HAPPY Lovelt has a fancy cake and Senate con- of his nomination to be of Defense to mark his birthday Lands A Salmon At Seattle Mrs E P Hanson of Seattle Wash a daughter of the Homer at Crystal Lake got into the picture section of a Seattle newspaper with the salmon ing champions She landed a 22 pound King salmon and in doing so got a Plymouth in the contest Mrs Hanson was reared at Britt and attended school here She has three children Judy 9 Kenneth 11 and Lorraine 6 Her sister Mrs P Springer a former telephone operator in Britt lives at 1807 Fairview Ave No Seattle 2 Washington It was she who sent the pictures to the Britt BAKER HOME SOLD The Mark F Miller Real Estate office has announced the sale of the former Lowell Baker home on west 5th street to Mrs Charlotte ook of Mason City FOR beige faille dress with tight fitting bodice and skirt a bell of fullness falling from impressed pleats makes an fall garment It is worn with Black Rose suede pumps and velvet flower Injuries received in an auto early Sunday morning proved fatal to Vernon Perkins who died in an Algona hospital Tuesday afternoon The accident occurred at the intersection of highways 60 and 18 a mile east of Wesley as he and his wife were returning to Britt from Corwith Their car apparently went out of control and rolled over several times Mrs Perkins was also in- jured and is still confined to the Algona hospital Vernon Perkins was born at Britt on November 3 1918 a son of Mr and Mrs D J Perkins and his entire life had been spent in Britt At the time of his death he was employed at the Risvold rage at Corwith He was married on September 13 of this year to Florence Eberle at Lincoln Nebr Besides his wife he is survived by three Richard Ro- land and Fred his mother Mrs D J Perkins five brothers vin of Bloomington 111 Raymond of Corwith Harold Rollin and Robert of Britt four sisters Mrs E Wetzel of Mrs ence Butts Mrs Robert Hoover and Mrs Peter Sluik of Britt There are also many other tives Funeral services will be held either Friday or Saturday after- noon at the Boughton Funeral Home and at the Methodist church with the Rev W E Butler in charge Burial will be at Corwith Sponsoring Blue Blue Shield Enrollment Hancock County Court House News Marriage Licenses Norbert Mattingly 22 and ty Frett 18 both of Gary ana Lawrence C Boehnke 41 Ventura and Alitza Matuza 40 Mason City Petition was filed by Steele Hospital against Mr and Mrs Kenneth Thompson claiming for an unpaid account Action was commenced by na Abels executrix of the estate of R J Abels deceased against Henry Walk asking judgment dn the total amount of tiff alleges reimbursement due for seed heans seed oats lizer and combining in the amount of and the sum of due for labor of rebuilding a corn crib and papering the house on the farm described as SEM of Sec on which decedent was tenant The quarterly report of Ruth Katter clerk of the district court was approved at the October 8 meeting of the Hancock county board of supervisors The report shows a total sum of with fines making up of amount came Irom marriage licenses for the quarter from district court fees and from as es of the larger items Reports of county recorder Edith Sonquist in the amount of and that of county auditor Schoneman in the amount of was proved at last week's meeting The office showed for real estate mortgages Sfor releases for chattel mortgages and for ng deeds as the larger sources The auditor's office received of its total collections from trans- fer fees The hearing on the final mate of D D No 153 has been postponed until October 12 to mit completion of all work Women's Contact Meeting October 15 The Hancock County Farm reau Women will hold their annual contact meeting Monday Oct 15 at the Methodist church in Britt starting at 10 a m Mrs D L Lambert the district committee woman for Charles City will be present to discuss the organization of Farm Bureau on state and national levels She will also give information on the responsibilities of the ship and county women's commit- tee members the Farm Bureau women's goals and give tions on how the various phases f the action programs such as library music school and relations might be carried on in the county A handbook of information on various phases of the action will be given out to ty and township chairmen A luncheon will be served at the church basement at noon Celebrate Three Anniversaries Friday evening Mr and Mrs 0 W Friedow and family and Mrs Guy Dimond to the lome of the Otto F Larsons at Minn On Sunday 45 friends and members of the Swanson family joined this group to celebrate the 40th ding anniversary of the Larsons occurring the 6th of December the 20th anniversary of the dows on October 10th and the first anniversary of the Ivan Swansons on October 7th ing a picnic dinner a program was given consisting of an origina by Mrs Dimond songs anc talks by different ones present The honored guests were present ed with gifts to commemorate th occasion Others attending the event were the Frank Johnsons of Oakes N Dak Oscar and Albert Swansons Mrs Harry Bemo and daughters of Alexandria Minn Chas sons of St Paul Harvey Steiff family Howard Dawsons nard Swanson and Miriam Larson Minneapolis Mrs Howard Sparks and sons Burt Henry Swansons Dimonds Wesley Leon Swanson home on furlough from naval training and the Rev Rahn family of Monticello The Health Improvement of Hancock County will sponsor an enrollment campaign Oct 15 to Oct 27 Any resident of the county un- der 65 years of age employed and in good health may join this pre- paid non-profit voluntary plan for service benefits that are sored and guaranteed by the tors and the hospitals Every two seconds someone in the U S is admitted to the pital as a patient Are you pre- pared if you are the one? The effective date of this en- will be Dec 1 The lowing is a tentative schedule of the townships and the township Monday Oct a m to p m Bingham Hinders Feed Store Woden Tom Hinders Tuesday Oct p m Avery and Twin Lake Goodell Comm Hall Joe Burgess Win Janssen Wednesday Oct a m to 9 p m Crystal Crystal Lake gion Auxiliary room Thursday Oct a m to p m Garner Library Con- cord Lowell Matey Ellington Erwin Wetterling Garfield Mrs Carl Hoeft Town of Garner Scott Pollock Friday Oct to p m Madison school No 5 Madison D E Keat Saturday Oct a m to 9 p m Allison Hotel Britt Britt Alfred Jerry Fox Tuesday Oct to 4130 p m Erin Center school Erin Clarence Faust Wednesday Oct to p m Virgil Cook home at me Ell Wallace Pavey Liberty Loren Gast Thursday Oct a m to p m Kanawha bank Melvin Hill Friday Oct a m to p m Corwith library Magor George Assink Boone Clarence Aitchison Saturday Oct a m to 9 p Garner library Virgil Cook president CALVIN VRIEZE OUT OF HOSPITAL Calvin Vrieze son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Vrieze residing two miles south of Woden has been discharged from the Buffalo cr hospital and is now at home Jis leg is still in a cast He suffered a fall from an le tree early in September hrough which he broke the bones n one leg up close to the hip Sugar Beet Harvest In This Territory Now On Duck Season l Opens Oct 12th The duck season opens noon Oct 12 and closes one-half hour before Nov 25 Shooting hours after the first day are one-half hour before sunrise to one hour before sunset Bag limit is ducks one of which may be duck The possession limit on ducks is eight one of which may be wood duck The bag limit on jeese is five not more than two may be Canada geese or its sub- species or white-fronted geese Bag and possession limit on coot is 10 Guns must be plugged to A 1951 duck stamp must be in possession of all migratory waterfowl hunters over 16 years old Committees Gave Reports Tuesday The general committee of Hobo Day of which John Pritchard is chairman the various and the executive commit- tee of the Britt Commercial club held a dinner and meeting day evening in the Burking room of the New Allison and the re- ports of the various were heard of the several com- were to have written re- ports which will be filed with the secretary and these can be used help committees in forming plans for future Hob days Movies of Hobo day parades from 1939 hrough 1950 were shown by W Harvey Youth Injured In Car Mishap Elmer Livingston Corwith is in Mercy hospital Mason City with received last week when he pickup truck he was driving vent out of control and overturned The accident happened a short distance east of Corwith Opera Blanche Thebom is astounded to receive a mammoth carton of vitamin pills as a gift from Martin Himmel of the Vitamin Corporation of ca I is hoped that the gift will give Miss Thebom sufficient energy with which to comb her 5 7 Of hair BERT PARKS will celebrate November J the first of the daytime Bert Parks Show seen every Monday Wednesday ond Friday with Porks Sugar beet harvest is on in earnest in all territory handled by Mr Harloy Kennedy for the ican Crystal Sugar Co of Mason City Mr Kennedy has 615 acres in the territories of Buffalo ter Lakota Hutchins and Britt This year growers tried out spraying fields with and had fine results and eliminated much field work This chemical kills pigeon grass and other noxious weeds but does not affect the beets Kahl south of Britt has completed harvesting a ten acre field in which the tonnage was large The entire field averaged 12.4 tons per acre Mr Kennedy says the sugar content is also ning high in the beets The season was considered bad with too much rain too little warmth and shine but the harvest is tory There is only one field that will be topped by hand all others ed topped and loaded by the latest machinery A Woden Pastor Examined Ordained Pastor and Mrs W Earl Johnson of the Presbyterian church went to Wis where the new pastor was examined and ordained and the Woden church was accepted in the Bible church a new tion of churches that was in the late thirties To date there are 77 member churches Accompanying their pastor were Mr and Mrs Eddie Scott and FIREMEN CALLED SATURDAY The fire department was called to the Walter Pihl dence Saturday noon to extinguish a roof blaze which was believed to have been started by sparks from the chimney Very little damage was done Mrs Mrs daughter Lynda Mr and Henry Dirksen Mr and Meindert Dirksen Mr and Mrs Albert Cordes and Mr Bernard Heyer Beth Eunice and David Johnson children of the pastor were cared for by friends at Montello Wis Rev Johnson's former field before coming to Woden while they at- tended the Presbytery HELMER MYRE DIED Helmer a Minnesota state senator died at a Rochester pital last week according to received here by Bert Myre formerly of Forest City will be remembered here as a champion wrestler and appeared on Britt wrestling programs many times ESCAPE INJURY Mrs Ed Nedved jr and her three children escaped injury day afternoon when the car en by Mrs Nedved went out of control into the ditch and then onto the pavement to turn over on its top The mishap on highway 18 two miles east of Britt SPA PERI
