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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1955
Page
4
Two Ackley youths Ben T. Van Hove and Louie A. Felkes entered the armed forces via the selective service office last week. They reported to Des Moines for induction and then proceeded to Camp Chaffee Arkansas for training.
Announcement from Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Trickey report a granddaughter named Ann born Wednesday at Mercy Hospital in Ft. Dodge. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Trickey. The news notes regional visits and social gatherings including 4-H club planning for the Hardin county fair and a church group meeting at Owasa Methodist.
Government surplus foods will be distributed to needy county residents from August 23 to August 27. Eligible individuals must present the latest identification card. Robert Longe and Mr and Mrs Albert Voit of St Ansgar visited friends. Voit a former Herald Index printer and current staffer at The St Ansgar Enterprise.
Diane Carter leads the Red Goose bicycle contest at Star Clothing with 1 620 points. Points are earned by shoe purchases and adults may give points to youths. Extra points occur Mondays for worn shoe returns and Tuesdays for adult registrants at the Eldora store. Johnny McDowell is second with 1 820 points and Jerry Pierce third with 915.
Eldora livestock buyers are invited to consign stock with a 2 percent commission offered to all sellers. The sale venue features a cement floored and thoroughly washed barn, disinfected for buyer and seller assurance.
Willard Eugene Wehrman 21 of Eldora died in a two car crash south of Iowa Falls last Wednesday. Services were held at St Pauls Lutheran Church Eldora with Rev John Zimmermann officiating. Wehrman son of Harold and Mrs Wehrman, a Navy veteran and Eldora High School graduate, survived by parents siblings and fiancé Miss Marjorie Uhlken. Interment followed at Eldora Cemetery with Vinton Construction Co. workers attending.
The Eldora Iowa City Council proposes to vacate city real estate described by lots and blocks in Moira Addition, with a public meeting set for September 12 1955 at 1:00 PM in the City Hall Council Chamber. The notice notes costs of vacation and sale and directs payment of expenses before action.
The Walter Sayer post of the American Legion will meet here tomorrow night at 8 p m. 1956 memberships are now due, adjutant C A Van Patter said yesterday.
R. R. Bateson announced on Saturday that Eldora attorney Elvin J. Ryan is confined in Mercy hospital Des Moines after sustaining a fractured pelvis and jaw injury.
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