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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1931
Page
10
The Presbyterian church will celebrate its annual mission festival on Thursday August 27. The German service starts at 2 20 p m and the English service at 8 p m with all speakers from out of town. A free supper is served at 4 80 p m in the high school gymnasium. Everyone is invited.
On Wednesday evening August 26 a street concert features several orchestra numbers directed by Joe Meeker. A Maggie and Jigga contest opens to all married women over twenty five. Rolling pin will be furnished. Public invited. Nearby visits noted include Mr. and Mrs. W I Sayer and children from Rockford and Miss Chrissie Sharpshair from Eldora. Mary and Martha Circle met with Mrs. Carl Krause at Eldora.
Dozens of households from Dubuque to Wellsburg and surrounding towns hosted relatives and friends during the week. Notable stops include Mrs. M. F. Baker in Zearing, the Geerdes and Harms families in Wellsburg, and gatherings in Kesley, Fern, and Sheffield. Rev. J. E. Drake preached in Cedar Falls, and many locals traveled to Lincoln, Nebr., and La Crosse Wis. for visits or to attend events.
Margaret Hanson and Anna Lettow spent time with Buckeye families while others visited Des Moines and Grace City. A Concordia Seminary concert in St. Louis drew well, and a Rankin reunion near Dows gathered about seventy five relatives. The Walther League heard a Rev Jahnke lecture on western travels. Buckeye lost a Sunday baseball clash to Sherman 8 to 4.
Mr and Mrs E E Reece and Buford Reece travel to Hampton. Erwin Levell and family visit Ben Dooley. Nick Hutchens calls on Marshalltown resident. Honey Creek orchestra concert at New Providence attended by locals. Albert Last visits Floyd Beasley home. Reece family visit Hutchens home. Anna Balvanz visits Bernice Hudspith. Mrs Warren Mossman and family honor birthdays at Lloyd Dooley home. Dale Kasischke and Eugene Whitaker birthday party. Ed Ankrum visits Rochester hospital former nephew Walter Foster. Zollie Churchwell of Charlotte NC visits Robert Hudspith home.
Local notes recount a 27 to 7 defeat for Marine Air Ace against Lawn Hill on Tuesday evening. The column lists numerous visits, family gatherings, and social calls across Eldora, West Bend, Collins, Gifford, and Steamboat Rock, with community members including Mrs Clemons, Mrs Dooley, Frank Perry, the Gebhart family, Jack Dooley, Walter Foster, and others. Activities feature visits to galleries, picnics north of town, circus attendance in Iowa Falls, and a ball game at Union where Noa Reece hit a game winning home run for Union.
Federal chemists will seek commercially practical methods to convert waste hemlock bark and tanning residues into usable substitutes for the vanishing chestnut tree. The effort aims at practical, scalable processes for industry.
Hubbard Days will be celebrated Wednesday and Thursday with fast ball games, dances, concessions, and entertainment. Rumors of cancellation were in error, and events proceed as originally planned.
Milwau kee native Harry Liebenstein leaves after a week with his parents. Radcliffe families including Mrs Charlotte Michealson and three children move into the Anna Spohlmann property in east town, marking a welcome return of the Liebensteins and new occupants in multiple nearby residences.
Whitten residents enjoyed a weekend of social activities. The Woman's Missionary society met at the church with a quilt session and a program led by Mrs. Chas Callaway. Men and neighbors hosted gatherings at Swain and Hauser homes. Birthday dinners and visits from relatives marked the busy period, with several residents traveling to nearby towns for church events and camp. Continuous quilting, music, and hospitality defined the town’s social calendar.
Dr Peter Malcolm state veterinarian says quarantining infected herds disposing carcasses and vaccinating cattle checked the outbreak in Harrison county. He warns anthrax is severe and fatal and stresses quarantine, cleanup, burning carcasses, quick liming and avoiding layman postmortem exams.
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