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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1955
Page
2
Chocolate lovers can enjoy buttermilk dessert waffles with shaved chocolate folded into pancake mix. Bake crisp waffles and top with vanilla ice cream for a rich treat. Use any chocolate type and bake until the iron stops steaming for five servings.
The Homemakers Corner outlines selecting ripe firm strawberries for freezing and canning. It covers quick washing, minimal water uptake, handling to avoid bruising, sugar and syrup preparations for slices and whole berries, open kettle and water bath canning methods, plus strawberry rhubarb jam and strawberry jam steps with yields and sterilization notes.
The afternoon post mail to Mazon City now departs at 4 15 p m instead of 3 30 p m improving dispatch times. Rural box inspection shows 30 percent better condition than last year with 20 percent each in fair and good and 10 percent very poor. Box maintenance urged by county supervisors to fix road beds and set level boxes to ease carrier access. Memorial Day visit noted for Des Moines residents Mr and Mrs Lewis Ballard Bob and Charles Ballard of Des Moines.
Builders like Olson Construction and individual craftsmen such as Kelly Rippentrop Benny Limberg and Harm Huisman endure spring rains that pause roofing siding and concrete work across multiple local projects. The Dick Weaver Dick Feldick and Arnold Kuecker sites advance with framing foundations and additions while residents support interior finishing and porch replacements in a flurry of activity.
Members of Bethlehem Lutheran church plan a Sunday noon picnic at the Ostrander Brothers farm two miles south of town on the Waden road, marking the close of spring Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. Arrangements are by Cc L Peterson, Gene Bohl, Alvin Winter and Swen Larson. Detailing local construction, Lloyd Robinson’s crew removed old cement floors at Charlie’s Standard Service station and began foundation work, now paused, while the former station was moved to Lloyd’s lot and set on a new concrete foundation. New concrete sidewalks were poured at Bob Stonebraker’s shop, and a transformer slab laid for Interstate Power Co. Others, Bud’s men under Roy Miller, added steel on a barn roof for Joe Limberg’s farm nearby.
Mr and Mrs Marl Speed and Gene express thanks for the many cards gifts and congratulations received from First Graders teachers Gene's class and Mrs Tames, noting their gratitude and friendship.
Ronald Thompson will leave Sunday for Des Moines to attend the American Legion Boys State for one week. He was selected from Buffalo Center Juniors to represent the local American Legion Post No. 21. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Richard Thompson.
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