Like a Journey to Bethlehem at courthouse square
Laymen from several community churches present a Christmas panorama titled Like a Journey to Bethlehem on the courthouse square for four nights with an afternoon Eldora high school performance. The Nativity Scene features live characters and animals under starry lights with carol accompaniment, offering a meaningful holiday focus for Eldora and nearby towns.
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Courthouse Square
Eldora High School
Santa Claus
Eldora
Eldora News Roundup from 1887 Nightly Fire to Toboggan Plan
Yesterday marks events across Hardin County with talk of a toboggan slide north of town and a torchlight runway. School board elected Julia Scurry to first primary while Glen Rathbone heads to Oberlin for newspaper work. Fire at old Fervis farm near Steamboat Rock destroyed a building occupied by the Sanders family. Musings on local pottery clay, moves of I H Merrick, and Alaska gold trip plans for February. Municipal hospital bonds pass by landslide. water supply cautious. senior high moves to new building. fire department hosts council dinner. Christmas baskets and post card volumes noted. Sen Bateson attends Des Moines session on income tax cut. Excavation for Congregational church rooms underway and a new municipal light plant bid results.
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T. N. Hauser
Union
Hardin County Agricultural Society
Julia Scurry
Spencer
Glen Rathbone
Oberlin
Kan
H. E. Martin
J. D. Cowan
Will Loyd
Iowa Falls
Cal Whinery
Alaska
Will Shaner
North Eldora
Board of Education
S. W.bowman
A. W. Crossan
F. W. Horton
Congregational Church
12Th Avenue
12Th Street
Henry E. Wheeler
Eldora
Artificial herd breeding urged by dairyman
A dairyman argues artificial insemination is cheaper than keeping a bull, estimating $185 yearly for feeding and housing one. He notes risks in maintaining a bull and reports many dairymen have switched to artificial breeding, using the saved funds and space to add another cow.
Santa and small town Christmas in Eldora
Mrs Katharine Piper writes about Bill Leslie's workshop making fishing lures and silver bracelets, the cautious Santa promises, and a Field and Stream stump with 80 pounds of tackle. She notes block neighbors, bustling holiday shopping, friendly clerks, and town memories from Eldora.
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Bill Leslie
Bill
Mississippi River
LaCrosse
Wis
Eldora
Mary
Union Auxiliary Seeks Donations for Mitchelville Project
At the Legion Auxiliary meeting members urged bringing crochet hooks knitting needles yarn transfer patterns rug material and fabric for skirts aprons and blouses for the Girls Training school at Mitchelville their January project. They also chose to remember Star mothers of Gifford Whitten and Union with Christmas cards and all shut ins. Also reported was 630 Butternut strips collected and twenty three boxes sent to boys in uniform from Union.
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Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Mitchelville
All Star Mothers
Gifford, Whitten and
Union
Nell Ellis
Nina Carol Weatherly
Dorothy Miller
Martin Chrissman
Whitten
Kum Bac
Christian Sunday School
Chrissman
Cecil Williams
Elmer Risting
Max Shhearer
John Hanson
Treas
Ray Wirth
Local families visit during the week
Mrs. Donald Jones and son of Buckeye visited the Herb Struck home while Mrs. Marvin Jeske and children and Mrs. Edd Nassen spent Monday evening at the Elzie Eskridge home. Dale Mitterer and Harold Nanke called on Iowa Falls and Marshalltown residents Friday.
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Donald Jones
Buckeye
Dale Mitterer
Thomas Hagen
Noah Reece
Marvin Jeske
Ren
Edd Nassen
Elzie Eskridge
Harold Nanke
Iowa Falls
Marshalltown
Lawn Hill Community Notes Headline
Mrs Floyd Beasley and Mr and Mrs Guy Clatterbuck of Zearing visit Leonard Blair and Leonard White homes. Cot quartet sings at Sunday School. Christmas Eve program planned at Lawn Hill church. Mr and Mrs R J Moore dine with Marvin Cot. Mrs Alice Cross visits Rhodes Iowa with sons. Palmer family Bradford dines with Herb Struck. Chilton visit Elzie Eskridge. Cecil Rogers family spend Sunday afternoon.
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Guy Clatterbuck
Zearing
Leonard Blair
Floyd Beasley
Leonard White
Dale
Butch
Mable
JoAnn Cot
Lawn Hill
R. J. Moore
Whitten
Marvin Cot
Alice Cross
Notice of Expiration of Redemption Right
Frances Wilkie is named as the taxable owner for parcel 1-2-5 in township 1. A December 1949 tax sale transferred redemption rights to Wilkie, and within 90 days from service of this notice a deed may be issued if no redemption occurs. Dated November 28, 195? George Fleming.
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Notuick
Frances Wilkie
Wilkie
George Fleming
Aldentis
Christmas Herald Index Subscription Offer at Floyd Beasley Home
Callers visited the Floyd Beasley home on Wednesday to promote a Herald-Index subscription as a Christmas gift deal. The effort focused on boosting holiday readership and securing year-end subscriptions.
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Hardin
Iowa
Herald-Ledger
Hardin County Index
Iowa Press
Floyd Beasley
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Eldora Herald-Swedger
Bethlehem
Fred. Berninghausen
Tt Ic
Eldora Fire Department
City
Busy Bee
Soper
Leland Vinton
Hardin County Boys 4-H Club
Fred Dobpbrunz
Otis D. Rash
Hardin County
W. O. Guenther
Guenther
R. R. Bateson
Des Moines
Katharine Piper
Toylands
Santa
Doyle Felton
Jughead
Esquire
Arrow Shirt
Bob Carsons
Herrald House
Glen Carson
Joe Kramers
Calfees
van Tigers
Hausers
Jack Pipers
Carl Pipers
Bob and
Glen Carsons
Dickinsons
Dorothy Broer
Mohr
Mrs. Piper
Henry Janssens
The
Griffels
Mrs. Grellet Dillon
Wade Williams
Fred Pierce
Imogene Chamness
Arlyn Miller
Ed Dighten
Howard Bowen
Community Ladies Aid Society
Margaret Babcock
F. S. Schuler
Peter Marshall
Nelle Halden
Treasury
K. S. Wooten
Ethymer Cox
Jessie Biersborn
Mary Cooper
Carbec
Sound Banking Service
Willis K. Bramwell
HOWARD CALF#E
Eastman W. Nuckolls
Frank Jackson
Robert R. Frown
Keith Strother
Clark D. Bramwell
G. C Bramwell
W. K. Bramwell
P. F. Bramwell
Herald-Index
Snese Ree Tate Nealet
Lincvans
Correll & Stielow, Eldora
To .Service
Eldora Herald-Ledger
Bane
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