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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
2
Exira Iowa June 27 Special Rev E Wright of Orient has been extended a call to the Federated church here He conducted services at the local church Sunday and with his wife spent the weekend in Exira Iowa.
Detroit residents Mr and Mrs Mroo Thawson visit with brothers George Tolliver and sister Mrs Woe Peppers. Des Moines couple Mr and Mrs Jack Kester visit for business. Mable Wallace and Joan Andreasen return from a three week motor trip through the southwest and Mexico including California.
At the convention the Ohioan is expected to win nomination on the third ballot as leaders plan two shakedown ballots after a late morning start. Nominees nominated include Hanford MacNider Vandenberg Bridges McNary James with varied speeches and little demonstrations.
Thanking neighbors relatives and friends and the doctors and nurses of Atlantic hospital for kindness during the illness and death of our father and grandfather William E White Mr and Mrs James W Huyck Ip and Ronald
A public safety notice urges drivers to slow down and yield to pedestrians. Officials stress pedestrians have the right of way and caution motorists to anticipate actions before proceeding.
P W Sorensen former northwest of Exira was bound over to the grand jury after an afternoon arraignment for uttering a forged instrument in a $14090 check drawn on Manning Trust and Savings Bank in Albert Stoelke’s name payable to Lethman Motor Co of Atlantic. He was arrested last night and held on $2000 bond.
John Kloppenburg, at the CCC camp in Belle Plaine, spends a week with his father Gerhardt Kloppenburg. Roy Weichman, once local, now at Pearl Harbor, heads to Guam aboard USS Salt Lake City to join the electrical division. Rev John Gauwle and Miss Patricia Beady of Louilia Indiana return home after a weekend visit.
Mrs Jeasie Nendick of Sac City visits her siblings Mr and Mrs J L Taylor before traveling to Nodaway to visit another brother Glen Taylor and wife. Luke Osborne and son Timmy of Big Rock HL visit Mr and Mrs Harry Barnholdt. Mr and Mrs E H Storer and daughter Grace of Manson depart after a stay with Chris and Hubert Brown.
A compact note recalls a figure nicknamed Lucky whose brief period of notoriety ended as events shifted. Local observers discuss the impact of his fortunes and the turning tide that followed.
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