Winnebago REA Patrons Receive $22,489 Refunds
Winnebago Rural Electric Cooperative Association mails checks totaling $22,409.27 to members reflecting a 10 percent six month rate reduction. Officials Thompson Gustafson and Aukes report a decade of financial planning, past patronage refunds of $59,924.22, and a 19 percent summer rate cut for April through October.
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Winnebago Rural Electric Coative Association
Winnebago
Thompson
R. EB. Aukes
Buf
Center
Treas- Gustaf Gustafson
Forest
Winnebago Rural Electric Operative Association
Jis
Winnebago Rea
Winnebago Chapter Names Reisetter National Dimes Chair
Donald W. Reisetter of Forest was elected chair of the Winnebago county chapter of the National Foundation of Dimes. The outgoing chair Dar Roe announced the new leadership, with Arnold Moe as vice chair and Mrs. Hangen as treasurer. A county-wide fund drive supports polio arthritis and birth defects through the national foundation.
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Onald W. Reisetter
Forest
Winnebago
National Foundation of Dimes
Dar Roa
Eisetter
Arnold Moe
Mills
Hangen
Forest City
Wy. A. R. Totten
The
Nation Foundation
Chester’ Huge
Leland
Hugelen
Lincoln
August Nerdig
Bricelyn
Buffalo
Billes
Thompson
Grant
Fred Krull
Buffalo Ter
Eden
Einar Oppe
Kiester
Minn
King
Ed Arnn
Harvey Pederson Thompson
Newton
Ver- Schutter
Ty Carlson
Lee
Norway
John Kesler Bearville
Center
Kenneth Levad
Lake 3
Mt. Valley
Rolfeen
Linden
Logan
Leonardland
Searville
Buffalo Center
Ethelwold
Duane Neon
Antonson
Mills and Rake
Wunly
Reisetter
Jonal Foundation
Ann Marlemoh
Jolee
Karen Moen
Y Hansan
David Helmelake Mills
John Juhl Ard Diey Larson
Buffalo den
Eaird Hibbs
Roger Vantt
Donna Lynn
Eric Tleson
Forest City. Com
Waldorf College
Tor
Etter
Larry Han
Donna
TAF
Hove
Robert
Forest Y
Winnebago County
Iowa
di Tonal Foundation
Towa
Nebogo
Blacks purchase home and move plans stated
Report notes Keith Sheimo and wife selling a two story home northwest of the school to Mr and Mrs Eugene for possession details, along with additional living quarters and congratulations. It also mentions Louise Ohnstad staying at Mills rest home for the winter months.
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Keith Sheimo
Eugene
TKE Mills
Louise Ohnstad Ig
Leegard
A Mills
Beef Nutrition Shortcourse Set For County
Winnebago Extension Service announces a three day Beef nutrition Shortcourse for the county. Sessions are January 30 February 6 and February 13 conducted by extension specialists from Iowa State University. The first two days cover basic nutrition and up to date feeding practices. the February 13 session focuses on planning buildings and equipment for cattle feeding and feed handling. Attendance is limited to about fifty, 9 30 a m to 3 30 p m with meals and handbook included. Contact the extension office in Thompson to reserve.
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Winnebago Extension Service
Iowa State University
Larry van Fossen
Vern Meyer
Stores to Observe New Hours
Stores will open at 4 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. starting today Thursday December 7 until further notice. Saturdays extend hours to 10 p.m. This note from Wilson's Super Valu and Kuch's Food Center appears in the Tribune Want Ads.
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Wilson's
Kuch
To Receive Bachelor of Science Degree
Tom A. Costigan of Buffalo Center will be graduated from Mankato State College in commencement exercises today December 7 at 1 30 p m in the college main auditorium. He will receive a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in library science and a minor in biology. He completed practice teaching in Mapleton this fall and will become librarian of Mapleton elementary and high school libraries beginning January 8, and will reside there after December 26 with his wife Joan. Costigan is a Buffalo Center Community High School class of 1958 alumnus.
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Tom A. Costigan
Buffalo Center
Mankato State College
Costigan
Mapleton
Joan
Buffalo Center Community
Receives 30 Year Recognition for 80 Years in Sales
The John and Jerry Hardware received a copper and walnut wall plaque from the National Propane Corporation marking 80 years of salesmanship in propane gas. John recalls buying his first gas tank from Brown and Camp of Des Moines in 1931 for about $850 plus freight. the trophy measures about 12 by 15 inches.
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John and Jerry Hardware
National Propane Corporation
John
Brown and Camp
Des Moines
Cancer Crusade plaque presented in Buffalo Center
The American Cancer Society of Winnebago County honored Mrs. A. J. Erickson of Thompson with a Cancer Crusade Plaque for her leadership as Crusade Chairman during the 1961 drive. The presentation occurred at a Town Hall board meeting on Monday evening, November 27, with Miss Francis Anderson of the ACS Iowa Division in attendance.
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American Cancer Society of
Winnebago County
Buffalo Center
Francis Anderson
A.C.S. Iowa Division
A. J. Erickson
Thompson, Iowa
Cancer Crusade
Master Corn Growers Results Announced in Winnebago County
Carl Hanna of Lake Mills led the 1961 Master Corn Growers contest with 121.02 bushels per acre grown on a five acre area in Winnebago County. Harold Howe, Oscar Ellingson, and Dean Nelson followed with 119.96, 119.72, and 119.13 bushels per acre. The event had twenty two entries, fourteen harvested, with medals awarded by the Iowa Crop Improvement Association for yields over 100 bushels.
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Carl Hanna
Lake Mills
Winnebago County
Harold Howe
Bricelyn
Minnesota
Oscar Ellingson
Buffalo Center
Dean Nelson
Minn
R. W. Anderson
Iowa Crop Improvement Association
Ben K. Hovland
Thompson
A. M. Friest, Jr
Ray Aukes
Dennis Appelhans
Julius Eastvold
Carroll Gullerdé
Engel Olson
Forest City
Edward Krull
Vernon Jacobson
Rake
David Kiewier
Business Men's Club to Elect Officers Monday
The Buffalo Center Business Men's Club will meet next Monday evening December 11 at the VFW Post Home for the annual Christmas party and officers election. VFW Auxiliary members will serve dinner at 6 30 p.m.
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Buffalo, Center Business Men’s Club
Veterans of Foreign Wars
V.F.W
Rites Held For Ledyard Farmer Jeremiah Sullivan
Funeral services for Jeremiah J. Sullivan a Ledyard farmer were held at Sacred Heart Church on Monday December 4. He was 69 and died December 2 at Buffalo Center Hospital after about two weeks as a patient. He previously worked as a banker in Armstrong and Ledyard.
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Jeremiah
J. Sullivan
Ledyard
Sacred Heart Church
Mr. Sullivan
Buffalo Center Hospital
Butursiie
Armstrong and Ledyard
1962 Junior Show Dates Are Set
The Winnebago Junior Show dates were set for August 6 to 9 at a November 29 Show Board meeting. The move up follows Iowa State Fair timing. A committee was formed to study enlarging the show ring and permanent bleachers. The Junior Show Annual Meeting is planned for January 8 to elect a new board and officers and form an executive committee.
Office Closed for Tax School in Des Moines
Attorney Eugene G. Sarno will close his Buffalo Center office on Friday December 8 to attend the Iowa State Bar Association Tax Income Tax school in Des Moines December 7 8 and 9. He will reopen Friday December 15 and every Friday thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene G. Sarno
Buffalo Center
Iowa State Bar Association
Des Moines
Car kills cow injures driver near Thompson
Saturday forenoon fog led Clarence Heitland to strike a stray cow owned by Harm Wrieze on Highway No. east of Thompson. The animal died, his car wrecked, and Heitland was taken to Buffalo Center Hospital with severe bruises and back injuries. By Tuesday he remained hospitalized with no broken bones while en route to Mason City with his wife, son Dale, and Mr and Mrs Donald Hanson.
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Clarence Heitland
Thompson
Harm Wrieze
Clarence
Buffalo Center Hospital
Dale
Donald Hanson
Mason City
Frost Man Killed In Car Crash
Glen Thompson a 36 year old Frost Minnesota elevator employee was killed in a fog bound head on collision with a Blue Earth truck about 7 30 Saturday night six miles east of Blue Earth He drove west while the Blue Earth truck headed east his car ran under the truck and was nearly cut in half Thompson suffered a fractured skull and a severed arm and no witness saw the crash
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Glen Thompson
Frost
Minnesota
Blue Earth
Minn
Marvin Knapton
Thompson
American Legion Meeting Tonight at City Hall Club Rooms
Commander C R Murray calls Post No 21 American Legion meeting at City Hall Club Rooms tonight December 7 at 8 p.m. Dick Weaver reports on the Feather Party, John R Winter serves lunch, a dressed turkey door prize and a $7.50 door prize will be awarded. An all color movie Points East shows 30 minutes of Eastern Seaboard scenery and history. Dean Sunde Adjutant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Murray
American Legion
City Hall Club
Dick Weaver
John R. Winter
Points East
Dean Sunde
Postoffice Opens Saturday Afternoons for Christmas Season
Postmaster A C Rank announces the service lobby of the post office will be open Saturday afternoons starting next Saturday December 8 until after Christmas.
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A. C. Rank
Adult Education Class To Start December 13
The Buffalo Center Lions Club sponsors a December 13 start for adult education classes in the high school. A Polaroid Land Camera will be given away December 28 in a drawing open to the public except Lions members and their families. The county home visit with treats is planned for December 18. Various meat, homemaking, and farmers classes run through February with demonstrations by Wilson & Co and speakers from Sioux Falls Stockyards and TOMCO hybrids, with lunch served after each session.
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Buffalo Center Lions Club
Tribune
Wilson and Company
Albert Lea, Minn
Jseund
Vocational Agriculture
Vocational Homemaking
Vocational Agriculture Room
Wilson & Co
Jim S Smith
Sioux Falls
Charles Wilmartht
Notes From Our Court House
Two couples applied for marriage licenses in the clerk of courts office. George R. Ramer 25 and Gertrude Nottam 26. Kenneth Potter and Florence B. Patterson ages listed as legal. Wills of Mary B. Hawkes and Aultje Barendregt filed for probate. Wallace E. Holland vs City of Lake Mills, a civil engineering firm seeks 12768.18 plus interest and costs on contract. Count 2 seeks 12766.18 with interest from March 7 for services. Dog licenses sold December 1. fee 1 dollar for males 3 dollars for females. Deeds for real estate filed with county recorder. Try Tribune Want Ads.
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Clerk of Courts
George R. Ramer
Gertrude Nottam
Kenneth Potter
Florence B. Patterson
Mary B. Hawkes
Aultje Barendregt
Wallace E. Holland
City of Lake Mills
Iowa
Mason City
Finley & Teas
Emma Trytten
Arlope
Darlene M. Trytten
R. D
Rosemary E. Fisher
Geraldine B. Fisher
Olive Hilton
Et al
Douglas William
Douglas Eugene Eddy
Forest City Home Lumber Co
Grace B.fluhrer
John T
Clara Filkin
Melvin
Hilda Bendickson
Christmas gift drawings set for Buffalo Center kids
A community event offers gifts for children in kindergarten through 12th grade with drawings held Saturdays in December. Registration ends December 6 at Interstate Power, prizes awarded only if the child or parent is present, with multiple grade based drawings and Santa visits listed for December 16 and 23. Comments include local visits and a reflection on fear of mistakes.
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Buffalo Center
Interstate Power Company
Ihild
Santa Claus
Grand Opening At Bob's Produce Draws Big Crowd
Between 100 and 150 stockmen and farmers attended the grand opening of Bob's Produce new building taking free coffee doughnuts and cigars. Welp's Hatchery reps aided Bob Stauffacher with gifts including five dressed turkeys won by five locals and other prizes of feed and minerals. Bouquets from local business groups arrived as attendees praised the new, spacious, clean facilities.
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Bob
Welp’s Hatchery and Feed Co
Bancroft
Bob Stauffacher
Jim Freis
Dick Schoenhair
Harold Boeckholt
Carl Haager
Fred Hippen
Larry Gray
Elmer Boyken
Paul Mastin
Welp
Elmer Gray
Abbe Abben
Harold Kettwick
Buffalo Center Business Men's Club
Farmers Trust & Savings Bank
Interstate Power Company
Mr. Stauffacher
Farmer Jonas Lunde Hospitalized After Heart Attack
Jonas Lunde, a well known farmer northeast of town, was hospitalized Sunday afternoon after a heart attack. He was taken to Buffalo Center Hospital by the Winter ambulance, accompanied by Mrs Sange and their two sons, Dean and Idon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonas Lunde
Buffalo Center Hospital
Sange
Dean
Idon
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Louse
Gene Blacks
Master Corn Growers
Business Men’s Club
Frost Man
Harold Eisenman
Julie
Vinel Bebo
Ardelta
Mr. Vinel Bebo
Holy Family Hospital
Estherville
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