Roland Record (Newspaper) - August 12, 1948, Roland, Iowa THE ROLAND RECORD A Progressive Newspaper Published in a Progressive Agricultural Community VOLUME 54 STORY AUGUST 1948 f NUMBER 2S LOCAL FACTORY STARTS CANNING PROSPECTS GOOD FOR LARGE YIELDS AND EXTRA GOOD QUALITY local plant the Marshall Canning started operations yesterday afternoon in processing the 1948 crop of sweet According to reports the corn is of vesy fine quality and the yield is one of the best in the history of the Two mechanical corn pickers are be ing and 20 Mexicans have ar rived assist in The factory will be running full blast by next week and a crew of about 250 boys and girls will foe employed at the peak of the pa Over 130 reported for work the first day and the number will be increased as fast as the delivery of corn is in the acres of sweet corn being raised in this community the sweet corn raised near Cambridge will also be processed here as the acreage near Cambridge was not suf ficient to warrant the company oper ating their factory DISCHARGED FROM ARMY David Weltha was dischargee from the army on Friday last week af ter serving a three year He was stationed at Fort ROLAND LOST TO HUXLEY Huxley won over Roland 10 to 7 on IN FORMER DAYS FIFTY YEARS AGO From the Record of July Editor Ole about 53 died at his home in township the formers diamond last Friday from the effect of injuries ifor walked struck by being kicked in the 5 and hit one allowed 9 hits by a horse the Wednesday for 7 runs in 8 It is reported that John Rygh has walked hit 1 struck out 1 rented his farm to Nels Wicks for but good support held Roland coming year and will buy property For Michelson walked land move to Mike Erikson has sold the old ma chinery in the tile factory to John proprietor of one the coal mines over York has a layer of excellent tile clay be tween two veins of coal that has to be taken out and he proposes to utilize SCHOOLS OPEN AUGUST 30 Final preparations are being made on the Roland school building for the school for the 194849 on August A complete staff of teachers ihas been signed and they will meet for on the Saturday proceeding the Further de ails regarding the Roland school wil je published in the next two issues of the GOODS SALES Mary who will enter the Sunset Home at Story City next week will have a household goods sale at her home in Roland on Saturday af August Watch for bills and advertisement next Jeanette Henderson of Story City is advertising a household goods sale at her Lafayette in Story for next Saturday af August See ad on er page of this ATTENDED MILITARY SERVICE and Obed Ritland were at Havelock Tuesday where they attend ed the military funeral Alvin a cousin of and son of and John Hacker of Hacker was killed in action in Italy in February struck out hit 1 and alj lowed 11 hits for 7 runs in 5 Swenson walked hit 2 and allowed 4 hits for 3 runs in 3 innings Roland ab r h cf 412 3b 5 1 Ifp 512 Ib 3 1 C 2b 411 plf 3 0 1 If 211 rf 412 c 3 0 C c IOC ss 3 0 ss 2 0 Huxley ab r 3b 6 1 2b 2 1 Ib B 1 ss 5 0 If 2 1 3 1 cf 1 1 cf 0 0 rf 3 1 2 0 p 3 1 c 3 0 Score by innings Roland Huxley 10000102 10 players batted for Roland in the 8th inning and 12 players batted for Huxley in the Roland 14Garden City 2 it by making it into brick and Corn and pasture are sadly in need of rain which even now would be some little benefit to the The crop will not be near what was A light rain on Wednesday which was too late to do much was first rain in this locality for a month Some of the pastures have literally dried up but others are fairly good The oats are of a fair quality but a light crop is generally Word from Lars Enge of 49 Infantry now stationed at says that he has a position i oas cook draws double or a j bout per Ole Haaland lost fifteen fine hogs last from the effect of th He was busy threshing anc j was probably not giving them the us Jual 2i OUR CHURCHES BAND AT COUNTY 4H FAIR The Roland Concert Band will play a concert at the Story County 4H Fair next Tuesday August at 8 The bus will leave the school house at The only re for this concert will be on Monday night of next It is very important that all members are pre sent at this LOCAL BAND TO STATE FAIR The Roland band will play two con certs at State Fair on Thursday September The first appearance will be from to and the second concert will be from tc Both concerts will be giver from the bandstand on the to the south of the Administration Build As school will be in session at this it will not be possible to use the school busses for The band members will therefore have tc rely entirely on friends and relatives using private cars for transportation Each driver will be issued a free ticket to the grounds and tickets lor the af and evening performance in the BEGIN WORK ON TO ELIMINATE NOISE ON RURAL TELEPHONE LINES HERE The Iowa Continental Telephone Company has started construction in a large project on the rural lines con with the Roland At present the crew is working east of town placing poles and and they are also cable south to the city District Manager estimates that it will take a year to complete this job which involves the placing of 550 225 BERGEN LUTHERAN CHURCH Allen Pastor There will be no services Sunday as the pastor is on vacation Bethany Ladies Aid meets at Severt home Thursday after August Circle 6 meets with Mag gie Hegland August She will be assisted by Lewis SALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH Olaf Pastor Morning worship Sunday at Gospel for the twelfth Sunday after 12 Robert Boyd of Paul will deliver the serl 100 the stringing of 200 miles Vocal duet by Nadine Teig and Viola Mae Midweek devotional meeting Tues day evening at Ladies Aid meeting Wednesday af at Hostesses are the George Knut Lester Mehus and William The pastor vill continue reading from Kil The music is in charge Paul lAmon Enges new house out in the Anyone who is able to provide trans j east part of towr is rapidly going portation for band members to Des and will soon be ready for on September is asked tc In appearance it resembles the new Thompson within the house recently erected by him in the few is desig us Thrill Day at State south part of The majority of our fanners are stacking their grain this year instead of threshing it out of the seem ing to think it is the better plan to have the grain go through the COUNTY FAIR NEXT WEEK The 4H clubs of Story County wil Monday nights softball game in than in the at tween Roland and Garden City somewhat of a onesided den City losing by the score of 2 to SOFTBALL ASTRIDE DONKEYS This writer witnessed one of the most amusing and we dare say stren sports of the year Tuesday eve ning at the Lions ball park in Story City when the Ames InCross Softball team and a club from Story City met in a fast game of donkey The teams met with unmatchable oppo but not from the opposing Both came to a unanimous are During the five innings of no strikeouts or bases on balls were re corded and no one popped Af ter hitting a line bunt or long the batter hurriedly mount ed the awaiting donkey and started for first base while the mounted base men fielded the ball and attempted tc tag the If the batter was fortunate enough to mount his donkey and stay topside he often got to base before the which had to be thrown while the fielder was aboard his The Story City club seemed to have been a little more as they held a lead on the scoring at the end of the five Several hundred people were on hand to watch the and all seem ed to have a most enjoyable Garden City ab r 3b 3 1 Ibp 2 0 1 1 2 0 plb 1 0 2 0 rf 2 If 2 2 Roland ab c 4 cf 0 ss 1 Ib 3 2b 2 3 3b 4 3 3 3 rf 1 b If o 0 hi Oj FORTY YEARS AGO From the Record of July Editor Anna Jonsdatter Olson died Fair Grounds next week on Tuesday and August 17 and A large number of club members will attend and participate in the Fail displaying their achievements in club also be given by the 4H The Howard Happy Hustlers wil have a booth at the Their de C j Tuesday July 21 while at n v ou work the past Programs wil 0 tending to her household She 0 was found lying on the by hei 01 who picked her up and laid 0 her on the where she died almost 0 oj The funeral was monstration Mary Ann Sand 0 o last Friday from Bergen and Martha will presen 0 2Smedal after which Chairs took place in the Roland Tuesday The demon I will be judged and the win LEAVING ON BUS TRIP who recently won a free bus trip anywhere in the United States for naming the best commer cial on radio station in Des left today on his He ex to cover the southwestern state and on to Long California to visit Thompson and their daugh From there he will go up the coast to Oregon and re burning through the northwest states This is the second trip Thomp son has won on radio while listening A few years ago he won a bus trip similar to this but at that time he divid ed his trip in going first to the east coast and on down to Florida and through the southern states and back leaving again a few weeks later on the second half of his which included approximately the same route as the present of new wire and the rewiring of each telephone in the rural These telephones will also be regrouped so there will be no more than 10 phones on each This work done to eliminate the inductive interference or hum on telephone lines caused by rural elec When the work is com there will be no noise or hum on the which of course will Im prove the transmission of telephone This project is in line with the over all construction program for tfic towns served by the Iowa Continental Telephone Company in the Nevada ED QUAM DIED MONDAY Ed who has been in ill health for several and frac tured his hip in June when he fell OB the floor at his died Monday morning at 4 Quam was taken to Mary Greeley hospital hi Ames after he fractured his hip and was a patient there for about a month when he was returned to his home here about two weeks Funeral services this afternoon at church at 2 with Olaf Holen in An obituary wiU be published in next weeks issue of the IOWA MARINE RECRUITS HIGH are being held Salem Lutheran tery On July 1883 occurred team will again give their Ie marriage of and Nels on Wednesday o and their friends and relatives Heama Twedt of the local club will 2 had for some time fanned to surprise a during the program Tues n anniversary r i of their About one hundred drove up to the Wicks home stead about dinner time Tuesday and 1 0 0proceeded of cfc 301 p 300 Score by innings Garden 2000 2 4461 WHEN SCHOOL STARTS Sounding a warning against the danger of an increase in communicable diseases when school the Iowa State Department of Health urged parents of all school children to ac cept the responsibility of booster shots if the child has had the benefit of prior vaccination and or complete immunization and vaccin ation before school All children should have been im and vaccinated during the first year of Having your child immunized and vaccinated before starting him to school is as important as buying him new clothes and books and Every child has a right to the protection that is to be had through the vaccination and immuni that the family has to SCHEDULE OF GAMES Story County League August 15 Ames at Huxley Slater at Colo Zearing at Story City Roland at McCallsburg at August 22 Ames at Roland Huxley at Slater Zearing at McCallsburg Colo at Story City Maxwell at Cambridge August 29 Story City at Huxley Maxwell at Ames Roland at Slater McCallsburg at Colo Cambridge at Zearing SOFTBALL LEAGUE SCHEDULE North Side vs enter Before the guests pre sented the worthy couple with a soSne sum of Donhowe removed his household goods to Roland from Story City the latter part of last and j will act as cashier for the new ban about to be opened in j Bell hauled a load of new I oats to town the other day that weighs j as well as any that we have heard of i for a long He had a 26 inch wagon box filled and it weighed out nearly 72 Now who can beat that Larson is drilling a well for the town of preparatory to installing water works in that THIRTY YEARS AGO From the Record of July Publisher Miss Agnes Woster died at a hospi tal in Des Moines on July 21 following an operation for adhesions and She was but twenty three years and twentyeight days old when the summons Announcements were received here yesterday that Henry Christopherson of this place and Myrtle May Harris of and Mary Ann Sandvold will re cite the Country Girls Creed on the Wednesday evening Everyone interested is invited to at tend the Fair next Tuesday and Wed and to visit the various booths sponsored by the girls clubs of the Awards will be presented by the judges and winners will parti in the State Fair later this Several letters have been received from members of the June All Iowa Marine now completing their training in San stating that lowans are making Marine Corps it was reported by the Des Marine Corps These letters state that this Platoon ad one df the highest standings of ny Platoon going through recruit raining in San Diego in the last 30 This is an excellent record nd even more laurels are now on duty here in Iowa are ery proud of this record since continue to be they eel sure that their men from Iowa will continue to keep in Copenhagen marri at home of the at rTl c den July Garden City vs Side N Roland Sandven has just com vements on residence Salem Center North Side EXHIBIT HOGS AT STATE FAIR Carroll farmer east oi will make a bid for the cash prizes and blue ribbons in the Nation al Livestock at the 1948 Iowa State opening in Des Moines August according to preliminary entry lists announced this week by exposition Jacobson has filed entries in the Poland China swine classes of the hog where prizes total over The local entries will be in compe tition with some of the most famous livestock herds of 20 Nearly head of blueblood farm ani mals are expected at this years State one of tine largest in Iowa his tory and probably the biggest live stock exhibit at any fair in the country this More than in cash prize are being offered for livestock alone at the 1948 Judging will be open to of 4H live stock will feature the first two days August 27 and and judging of main livestock classes will start on August City Randall Continued on at Page Renew Your Subscription when du DIVISION Arrangements are now being com for the first annual national convention of the 34tfi Infantry Divi sion Association Famous Red Bull Division to be held at Hotel Savery in ties Moines on Saturday and September 11 and President Ed Bird stated that would be the first complete convention held for the as meeting held last year was merely fox organizational It is estf mated that around veterans and their families will be in LETTER FROM GERMANT STAGE OUTDOOR SHOW An outdoor moving picture show will be held Tuesday evening next week on the town lot byx the town The title of the show is Its a starring Senator Clag said to be the funniest man of the year in the happiest hit in played by Kenny in Eagle jon with Una June Jimmy Douglass Daisy the and in Kenneth A color cartoon will also be The ad mission price is lOc for children and Sic for COUNTY COUNCIL MEETS The Story County Council of the American Legion will hold a meeting at the 40 and 8 cabin August Come and hear the plans being made for a new county safety educa tional program in our Family Reunions O August Social Club August Family Reunion August September family September September 19Open Henry Birkeland recently received a letter from Germany his thanks for a gift of The let ter was written in German and was translated by Allen Following is the letter as translated June 1948 The Honorable Birkeland In a pair of trousers presented to I found your worthy I was happy that T thereby was enabled to express to you my personal thanks for your You thereby prepared a great joy for Pity is that I cannot in any better way express iny You yourself are informed by the newspapers indeed the great need in Germany Some days ago an Occupation Reform for Germany was We do not know whether the great distress thus win come to a quicker or whether it will continue for a long time any The most painful thing for tw Germans is indeed the fact that Eastern Zone of Germany has been annexed by the We fear therefore there will be for certain an other whether it comes sooner or We wish that we were so near another I myself a soldier for B and I know tnat the next war will be even worse the recent especially for the fam Assuming that you very likely col lect I am sending you a few old Bavarian stamps 1 gwat you Gratefully Leote Hitter und
