Happenings of Nearby Towns Chronicle Local News
Reports from Peterson Marcus and Storm Lake cover price increases at the Peterson Patriot Red Cross first aid class enrollment in Peterson and a rural youth conference in northwest Iowa with nine counties represented. A theft at a Peterson station involved a gunman and a stolen car later found abandoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peterson Patriot
The
Patriot
Marcus News
Marcus Club
Marcus
O. J. Strampe
Legion Hall
Storm Lake Register
William Sorenson
Storm Lake
James LeLand
Emmetsburg
American Red Cross
Peterson
Clarence Webster
Cherokee News Highlights Local Band Changes and Fire Loss
Ralph Barr resigns from Pete Kuhl's orchestra to join Don Strickland's in St. Paul. Dale Caris named director of Cherokee municipal band for 1988 with a budget of 800 dollars. Fire at Cherokee state hospital livestock barn destroys building, kills two saddle horses and a bull, 30 tons of straw lost. Clarence Turner to resign as head of Federal Farm Security office to join USDA soil conservation in Knoxville Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Barr
Co. G. Barr
Pete Kuhl
Manning
Iowa
Don Strickland
St. Paul
Dale Caris
Caris
Carl Sagness
Marcus
Cherokee State Hospital
Clarence Turner
Federal Farm Security Office
Cheroke County
Soil Conservation Department
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Knoxville
County 4-H Girls Club Committee Appoints New Member
Mrs Myron Bushlow is named to replace Mrs James H Fee on the county 4 H girls club committee. Mrs Fee retires due to active home project work. Remaining members continuing are Mrs Emmet Ammons chairwoman Mrs R R Jones Mrs Harry Miller and Mrs Roy Ohlson. The group advises and helps organize new clubs and recruit leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myron Bushlow
James H. Fee
Fee
Emmet Ammons
R. R. Jones
Harry Miller
Roy Ohlson
St Pauls Lutheran Church Sunday Services Invitation
St Pauls Lutheran Church invites worshipers to Sunday school at 10 and English service at 10 45 with a sermon on Jesus the Giver of Living Water from John 4 5 14 Dr Walter Maier airs Sundays at 3 30 pm on KFAB Lincoln Nebraska Religious instruction sessions follow on Monday and Thursday at 7 Visitors welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Walter Maier
KFAB
Lincoln
Nebraska
County Social Welfare Board Reports Cherokee County Costs
The County Social Welfare Board reports the Cherokee County Old Age Assistance program costs since 1934. It notes office expenses under 350, telephone costs 169.15, and investigator and stenographer salaries 2531.63, with total county expenditures 4616.44 and county receipts 83512.00, plus 1199.64 in burial claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social Welfare Board of
Cherokee County
Arthur E. Hickey
Aurelia
F. M. Bauer
Cherokee
Walter Miller
Marcus
L. W. Andrews
Spencer
Andrews
Group Attends Bureau Parley in Des Moines
Cherokee county delegates to the Iowa Farm Bureau federation convention depart Des Moines from the Shrine temple with a first group Tuesday and others to follow Wednesday. Speakers include Miss Mabel Phipps, president of the Iowa Home Demonstration agent's association, daughter of Nathan and Mrs. Phipps, Cherokee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherokee Times
Cherokee County
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Shrine Temple
Des Moines
C. H. Thompson
Emmet Ammons
F. J. Kohn
Lola Antisdel
W. K. Warren
Lizza Mongan
Emory Dull
Hal Dewar
Walter Peterson
Bureau
First Training School Held Last Thursday
One hundred percent representation from five organized 4-H girls clubs attended the first training school on Thursday January 18 led by Miss Gladys Adams Ames extension clothing specialist. The all day meeting covered organization accounts and record books plus tailored garments uniform care and buttonhole and arrowhead sewing with attendees including Mrs Emmet Ammons county 4-H club chairman Mrs Ralph Peterson county home project chairman Mrs Glenn Loucks Mrs John Blake Eleanor Blake from Afton township Mrs Fred Felton Spring Mrs Glenwood Waddell and Miss Lillian Johnson Pitcher Mrs Robert Nolan Rose Melter Rock and Miss Dorothy Mortenson Silver township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Adams
Ames
Emmet Ammons
County
4-H Club
Ralph Peterson
County Home Project
Glenn Loucks
John Blake
Eleanor Blake
Afton Township
Fred Felton
Spring
Glenwood Waddell
Lillian Johnson
Pitcher
Robert Nolan
Rose Melter
Rock
Dorothy Mortenson
Silver Township
Aurelia Public Library Annual Report 1937 Highlights
The Aurelia Public Library loaned 2621 books in 1937 averaging 27 weekly. 108 books were donated and 3 new titles purchased: Gone With the Wind, Rich Man Poor Man, A City of Bells. Donated titles include The Magnificent Ambersons and The Sky Pilot in No man s Land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurelia Public Library
Carrie Robinson
Margaret Mitchell
Janet Ayer Fairbank
Bells
Elizabeth Goudge
Booth Tarkington
G. A. Henty
Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol
Lieut
Howard Payson
H. H. Milne
Ted Marsh
Elmer Sherwood
Anna Laurens Dawes
Larry Barlow
Arthur Winfield
Ralph Connor
Cherokee Infantile Paralysis Benefit Ball Planned
Committees in Cherokee organize the annual president's ball and three dances plus a card party to raise funds for the fight against infantile paralysis. The event highlights a floor show with county talent and Aurelia may contribute. Seventy percent of funds stay in the county. iron lung purchase is eyed. Tickets are 50 cents at the post office The Sentinel office or from Fred Kaskey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurelia
Sentinel
Fred Kaskey
Auto Accident Fatal To Linn Grove Youth
Linn Grove, Ian Willard Kohlstedt, 22, was killed instantly when he lost control of his car on a highway five miles southwest of Sioux Rapids at 3 a m Sunday. With Kohlstedt were Fred Woodhouse and Wayne Rogue, also of Linn Grove. The machine went in the ditch and turned end over end. A coroner s jury viewed the body at Alta Sunday afternoon and decided death was accidental. Kohlstedt, employed as a farm hand, was the son of Mr and Mrs C Kohlstedt farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn Grove
Ian Willard Kohlstedt
Sioux Rapids
Kohlstedt
Fred Woodhouse
Wayne Rogue
Woodhouse
Rogue
Alta
Bert Peterson
C. Kohlstedt
Weekly Farm Women Music Broadcasts Announced
Miss Lola Antisdel announces a series of 15 minute weekly broadcasts for farm women and girls in extension music courses. Sponsored by Iowa State college radio station WDI the programs air Thursdays 4 15 to 4 30 p m. through March and focus on Little Studies in American Music and music recognition test training for achievement and rally days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lola Antisdel
Iowa State College
WDI
Antisde
Alta News Items Looking Back From Alta Advertiser
A digest of past local events notes Ed Witt heading to California for the winter and Louis Bly selling a Model A Ford coupe struck by the Hawkeye Limited for ten dollars. Also covered are a Methodist church banquet with a keynote by President Roadman of Morningside College and orchestra rejoinings in Nutchinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ALTA
Alta Advertiser
Mrs
Ed Witt
California
Louis Bly
Cherokee
Hawkeye Limited
Methodist Church
President Roadman
Morningside College
Kenneth Hohenstein
Floyd Peterson
Nutchinson
Kansas
Smith Post No. 498
American Legion and
American Legion Auxiliary
Pensioners urged to report life insurance holdings
Pension recipients and their relatives in Iowa are urged to report any life insurance policies on old age pensioners to L. W. Andrews in Spencer. The state division will not pay burial expenses if policies benefit relatives, and will recover pensions paid to individuals whose death benefits are unreported through life insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of
L. W. Andrews
Spencer
Iowa
Cherokee County
Andrews
Card of Thanks for Kindness After Fire Loss
We thank friends and neighbors for acts of kindness during our recent loss from fire. Mr. and Mrs. Cal Van Hooser, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Anderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cal van Hooser
W. C. Anderson
Homemakers Learn Dress Corrections In Cherokee County
Miss Lola Antisdel explains figure correction through training sessions in Cherokee County. Women learn how up down lines cross lines and diagonal effects create illusions, and how jackets and waistline placement alter perceived height and slenderness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherokee County
Lola Antisdel
Thwill
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Dwight Chatterson
Main Street
Sutherland
Don Jacobson
Cherokee News
ST. Paul’s Lutheran Church
William Walter
Basi
IWESS
First Trust & Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Chas
Nelson
Pitcher Township Farm Bureau
Market de Y Sale
M. L. Robbins
Rembrandt
J. C. Parrott
White Lake
South Dakota
Wlineis Central
J. D. Lewis
Wm. Neville
W. J. Lewis
Julius Jordan
Farmers National Bank
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