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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1939
Page
4
A compilation of brief items from Algona area residents. Gail and Arthur Young travel to Chicago on business for about three days. Several locals visit Des Moines and Ames for camps, judging events, and family visits. Local meetings and license deadlines noted.
Evening program at the Hotel Whitney features a state blind commission speaker and nominations for new officers. Local society notes include homecomings, travel plans, weather updates, and multiple community visits and events in Atlantic.
Family visits and travel plans surface as Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence host relatives in Dubuque for two weeks while Mr. Mullen of the J. A. Folger company takes a vacation. George Anstey and his nephew attend a cattlemen’s convention in Alliance Nebraska marking the 50th anniversary of the association. Mrs. Driscoll and baby join Mr. Driscoll for a weekend in Council Bluffs before Chicago return. Mrs. O Donoghue returns to Storm Lake, with family escort. Park upkeep cost in 1938 listed as 2155 dollars with per person 30 cents. Miss Salmon and Carol Ziegler depart for Indianola to Epworth League session.
Miss Salmon, granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Newton of Anita, spends summer at the Newton home with her parents, Mr and Mrs Chas P Salmon. An accident at highways 6 and 48 near Lewis involved cars driven by E P Chase and J G Miller with no injuries. Mrs Chase and Mrs Margaret Brockaway rode with Mr Chase while Mr Miller drove alone. Mrs Stahly and family depart for Iowa City to join Mr Whitmore as he pursues summer study. Mrs Stahly also attends Rainbow Girls event in Cedar Rapids. Earle E Brehmer returns to Atlantic after Sterling Kan. junior year. he starred in plays and was elected to speak at farewell chapel. Reverend Lawrence W Bush leaves for Texas soon.
Rev Bash will speak at the Texas Christian Endeavor convention in Harlingen Texas before a short trip to Monterey Mexico and a four week session at the University of Chicago summer school Mrs Bush visits Davenport and will join him in Chicago They will attend the international convention of Christian Endeavor in Cleveland in July with Rev Bash on the program Regular morning services will continue with Rev J A Dillinger of Des Moines as speaker next Sunday during his absence
Several local patients received treatment at the Jones hospital. Misa Sidonia Gubbles of Highland addition was admitted for a tonsil operation. Mrs. Jessie Kimball of Villisca was discharged after surgery. Charles Frank of Atlantic entered as a medical patient. Mrs. Art DeHappart of Lyman underwent a major operation. Mrs. Louis Spiker of Grant had a major operation. Edna Wallace, infant daughter of Ray Wallace, was discharged after medical care. Joan Voss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Voss, remains seriously ill but improved following an appendix operation.
In Bluffs Hospital Mrs. Lyman Worthington of 705 Plum Street is at Mercy Hospital Council Bluffs after a major operation on Friday. Her condition is reported satisfactory.
In Lewis Iowa on Friday Drs George and Velma Marston hosted a tonsil clinic with a Des Moines specialist and assistants. Seventeen patients from Massena Atlantic Griswold and Lewis underwent operations.
Mrs Adolph Hagen underwent a law operation at University hospital Iowa City where she has been a patient since Tuesday. Mrs Maude Suplee hosted a 12 30 dinner Saturday for Mrs Mae Conley of Long Beach California. Mr and Mrs A S Ames spend the weekend in Kansas City at Evan Reynolds home before returning to Osceola to pick up their son Robert who has been visiting his grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Ames for three weeks
The Rev Theo Hoemann travels to Ute Iowa next Sunday to preach at the mission festival for Rev Hugo Nieting the former Audubon pastor. In the evening he will officiate at the confirmation of the first adult class of the new Lutheran mission at Anita.
The verses Big Night were written by Joseph Mohr, assistant priest at Laufen near Salzburg, Austria, with music by Franz Gruber, Gruber a schoolmaster at Arnsdorf near Laufen. They composed the carol for a Christmas mass at the small church of Laufen in 1818 and it then spread through Germany and beyond in many languages.
Orton Plantation at Winnabow near Wilmington North Carolina invites visitors to explore its extensive grounds. The 12,000 acre estate, founded in 1725 by King Roger Moore, centers on a mansion considered among America’s finest colonial homes and features camellias mimosa azaleas crepe myrtle Japanese plum trees tea olives holly smilax and youpon.
An official probe in Shanghai reports a daring plot to poison wine at a banquet at Japan's Consulate General intended to kill many high Japanese and Chinese officials of the Nanking government. More than 20 became violently ill but no deaths are confirmed. perpetrators not yet caught.
Samuel J. Beckett notes that the eider duck yields about half a pound of down per season only when tricked. Artificial nests in rocky haunts lure ducks to lay, then eggs are removed while the bird sits and sheds down for the nest. Lolita serves as a hub for this down trade.
Annie Sherwood Hawkes wrote the lyrics for I Need Thee Every Hour while doing housework in Brooklyn. She later gave the verses to Rev. Robert Lowry, who set them to music.
The hardening of cement comes from lime compound decomposition when water is added forming calcium hydrate. Crystallization binds the solids. Initial setting stems from aluminates decomposition while final hardening relies on silicates.
A 14 member delegation from the local post and auxiliary attends the state encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Council Bluffs. Memorial services were held at the Council Bluffs Baptist church and Guy Groff Jr. received a gold medal and $300 scholarship for saving a fellow scout from drowning in the Towa river. A military parade is scheduled for tomorrow evening with officer elections and installation on Wednesday.
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