Double Weddings Set in Iowa Town Ceremonies
The town reports two large weddings. Catherine Fern Reisinger wed Carl F. Lettow in a candlelight ceremony at the bride's mother’s home with Rev. C Hesse officiating and guests from local families. Ann Thorson married Dr Frank Linn at Radcliffe Methodist Church in a New Year’s Eve ceremony with a program by Marguerite Anders and two Thorson sisters as attendants. Both couples plan to live nearby after short honeymoons and start new homes.
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Catherine Fern Reisinger
Raleigh Reisinger
Katherine Ibach
Erwin Lettow
Eldora High School
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Owasa
Lettow
Margaret Lettow
Buckeye
Buckeye High School
Radcliffe Methodist Church
Ann Thorson
Arthur Thorson
Frank Linn
C. L. Liming
Marguerite Anders
Chicago
W. G. Sevold
Otis Newgaard
Hubbard
Leota Thorson
Thelma Thorson
June
Betty Thorson
Jean Ann Newgaard
Sam Linn
Ames
Radcliffe High School
Radcliffe Signal
Dr. Linn
F. B. Linn
Shelby
Shelby High School
Veterinary Department
Iowa State College
St Louis
Radcliffe
Lawler Farm Near Eldora Runs 1000 Acres With Hog Beef Trade
Frank Lawler and his sons Lewis Raymond and Verne operate a five mile south west of Eldora farm on 1000 acres, 800 cultivated with the rest timber pasture. In 1989 they grew 250 acres of corn yielding over 14,000 bushels and filled a 100 ton silo. They raise beef and pork on a large scale with 100 to 125 Spotted Poland China sows producing 600 to 750 pigs yearly and finish cattle from a base of 40 purebred Black Angus cows plus bought stockers. They emphasize hog and cattle finishing with home grown grains for profitability and soil fertility. The family may be among Hardin county’s top meat producers.
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Eldora
Frank Lawler
Lewis
Raymond
Verne
Lawler
Poland
Lawlers
United States
Aex Lewis
Lawler Farms
Frank
Young People's Banquet at Ivester Church
A large group of young people attended the Ivester church banquet on Friday night. Supper was at 6:30, with elaborate decorations and blue Christmas lights. Program featured Raymond Slifer as toastmaster, Wayne Albright directing the mixed octette, readings by Helen Albright, and Dr. F F Travis of Marshalltown delivering the main address.
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Ivester
Raymond. Slifer
Wayne Albright
Helen Albright
Junior Albright
Mamie Wolfe
F. F. Travis
Marshalltown
D. L. Butler
Grace Miller
Frances Price
D. I. Meyers
Mary Ann Meyers
Oneida
Stanley Eyers
Frank Dedrick
Eldora
Williams
Jeane Sheller
John Sheller
Geraldine
Janet Gohner
Des Moines
Alline
Alice
E. J. Gohner
Iveser
Ruth Cooper
Orville Miller
Ohio
A. G. Messer
Orville
Kenneth Cakerice
Sena Hoffman wedding in Des Moines Saturday ceremony
Sena Hoffman of Steamboat Rock married Maurice Baber of Hampton at the First Baptist Church parsonage in Des Moines with Rev. C W Taylor officiating. Attendants were Marlin and Mrs Des Moines. After a wedding trip, the couple will reside in Hampton where Baber works for Standard Oil.
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Childrn
Luray Joseph
Robert
Milton
Meeker
Des Moines
James
W. Meeker
Stratford
Grover
Chugwater
Wyo
Herbert
Fopethar
Christ
Karisas
First ‘Baptist
Eldora
Point Pleasant’ Community Church
Dewey Lamrecht
Point Leasant Cemetery
Sena. Hoffman
John Hoffmarr
Steamboat Rock
Maurice “Baber
C. C. Baber
Hampton
First Baptist Church
C.W. Taylor
Marlin Hendren
Mrs. Baber
Mr. Baber
Standard Oil Company
Goebel 25th Wedding Anniversary Observed
Relatives gathered at the Otto Goebel home on Sunday to celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Goebel. Attending were Mr and Mrs Henry Schnormeier and family, Mr and Mrs Rudolph Brandt, Mr and Mrs Gus Zierke, Mr and Mrs Roy Eggleston and sons, Mr and Mrs Leo Rolfsen and family, Mr and Mrs Arnold Daleske and family, Mrs Augusta Kruger and Mrs William Kruger of Waterloo. A dinner was served and the afternoon was spent socially. Mr and Mrs Goebel received many gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Goebel
Goebel
Club Meetings This Week
A schedule of local society gatherings with times and hosts including American Legion Auxiliary Lutheran Ladies Aid St Marys Society and others across clubs, lodges, and churches. Hostesses include Mrs G I Carson Mrs W E Rathbone Mrs G W Kurtz Mrs Dean Peisen Dora Barr and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
C. O.F. Hall & O
Lutheran Ladies Aid
St. Mary's Society
G. I. Carson
Winchester Hotel
Hawthorne Club
G. W. Kurtz
Dean Peisen
Twentieth Century Club
Dora Barr
World Wide Guild
Edith Huff
Park Open for Winter Sports at Pine Lake State Park
Winter sports are in season at Pine Lake state park. Custodian L F Reed says skating is confined to a cleared lake section with about ten inches of ice and no airholes. A toboggan slide is being prepared for use and should be ready by week’s end if weather holds. CCC workers began removing diseased trees as part of a state park modernization project under FHA plan.
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Pine Lake State Park
L. F. Reed
Tax Sale Sells 130 Properties for Unpaid Taxes
County Treasurer H J Schmitz completed 117 transactions from the regular list at the annual tax sale totaling 3507.22 dollars. Thirteen properties from the scavenger list sold to individuals for 811.93 dollars. Sale of remaining properties on the list adjourned to February 26.
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H. J. Schmitz
Fluorescent Lighting Expands Home Use
Lamps over dressing tables and mirrors create heat, making long exposure uncomfortable. Fluorescent lighting remains cooler, allowing higher illumination without significant temperature rise. Home installation fixtures can be funded through qualified tending.
Iowa School System Now a Century Old
An Iowa history note recalls the 1839 act establishing common schools open to white citizens aged four to twenty one. It outlines district formation, trustee duties, schoolhouse hiring, land leasing, and tax provisions capped at five mills or ten dollars per person. The piece highlights early assurances of free public education in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Robert Lucas
First Legislative Assembly
Juncas
Marriage of Elvera Berve to Russell Krause at Radcliffe home
The wedding took place Thursday December 28 at 4:80 pm at the bride’s parents home with Dr. O A Rholl presiding in a single ring ceremony. Attendants were Laurine Berve and William Krause. After March 1 the couple will live on a farm south of Radcliffe.
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Elvera Berve
Farm Bureau Women Of Township Meet Eldora leaders discuss milk lesson
Eldora township Farm Bureau women meet at Mrs. Beecher Crosley home for an all day session starting at 10 15. The lesson focuses on Milk and Milk Products with Miss Burns as host. Ruth Burns hosted a New Year’s Eve party for five couples featuring games and refreshments.
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Eldora Township Farm Bureau
Beecher Crosley
Miss Burns
Ruth Burns
Girls 4-H Club Met Thursday at Eladora home
An all day meeting of the El dora Happy Hustlers was held Thursday at Lucille Walters home. A luncheon at 1 accompanied by music lessons led by Mardelle and Betty Garrett. Berdena Freerksen spoke Your Time On the March and A Daily Roundup. Canning principles discussed by MrsStanley Collins with Ruth Barr demonstration. Bonnie Burgess shared about a trip to Chicago. Ruth Rierson from Radcliffe, injured in November auto crash near Alden, returned home from a Des Moines hospital before Christmas and is unable to receive visitors.
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Eldora Happy Hustlers
Lucille Walters
Mardelle
Betty Garrett
Berdena Freerksen
Stanley Collins
Ruth Barr
Bonnie Burgess
Chicago
Bill Brown
Ruth Rierson
Radcliffe
Alden
Des Moines
Early Iowa Public School Beginnings and Districts
The text notes Dubuque formed a school district in 1839 with no other town records of early public schools. Two Lee county rural areas became districts in February 1840. By 1988 Iowa had 4,873 districts, 21,156 board members, and 26,215 teachers. Dr. J A Swisher discusses this history in The Palimpsest September issue.
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Dubuque
Lee County
Iowa
Boards of Education
J. A. Swisher
the Palimpsest
Stairs Are Danger Spot in Homes
A 1939 National Safety Council report notes stairs and steps cause 23 percent of home accidents, with other areas like yard kitchen and living room also contributing. It urges removing worn features and adopting safety equipment, citing FHA modernization credit as a funding path, based on 4,600 Chicago home accidents.
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National Safety Council
Federal Housing Administration
Chicago
Three Strikes and Won
A Sacramento southpaw Tony Freitas struck out but scored the winning run when Lou Test’s third strike was dropped by Bill Outen. Freitas stole on the error, Bill James doubled, and Freitas scored on a fly, giving Sacramento a 1 to 6 victory. Johnny Cooney has never hit a home run in 15 NL seasons. Derringer expected to start for Cincinnati in the October classic.
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Christian Science Monitor
Tony Freitas
Sacramento Southpaw
Lou ‘Test
Hollywood Hurler
Freitas
Bill Outen
Bill James
Sacramento
Johnny Cooney
Paul Derringer
Cincinnati
Election Notice for Drainage District 45 Trustee
Landowners in Drainage District 45 are notified of an election at Pleasant Hill school house No 7 in Grant Township Hardin County Iowa on January 20 1940 to elect one three year trustee succeeding Arthur Kix Polls open 1 00 pm to 3 30 pm Election held under Sections 7674 to 7714 of the 1935 Code.
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Pleasant HI School House
Grant Township
Hardin County
Iowa
Arthur Kix
Garden City Social Notes Mention Local Guests
Rev and Mrs H N Bakke and family of McCallsburg hosted dinner with F W Bevan, while Waterloo visitors Harry Larson joined Paul Brinkmeyer and Herman Dubberke households. Evelyn Dubberke and George Espe group traveled to Story City, with other Hubbard and Marshalltown trips noted.
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H. N. Bakke
McCallsburg
Isaac Knutson
F.W. Bevan
Harry Larson
Waterloo
Paul Brinkmeyer
Larson
Russell Boeke
Janis
Near -Huband
George Dubberke
Ome
Ernest Dubberke
Betty Jean
Larry
George’Dubberke
Wayne
Helen
Herman Dubberke
Hubbard
M. E. Michaelson
Albert Seglum
Carrol Sampson
Nels Nessa
George Espe
Story City
Marshalltown
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American Legion Auxiliary
C. A. Boeke
Peisen
van Tiger
Wehrman
James K. Hall
A. E. 5S
H. A. Lynn
Grundy County
Grundy Center
Eldora’ Herald-Ledger
Dandy Domino
Roy Zeman
Pocahontas
Audrey Domino
D. R. Whitely
Fayette
Illinois
A. Price
Art Hilton
Howard Moore
Whitten
Orville Fitzmeier
Roy Finster
Oak View
Patricia’ Fobes
Town State Fair
San Francisco
Roy Finister
Patricia Fobes
Rand
Ormsby Fobes
Ma’amn
VPP
Ooe Ivester
Isabelle Sheller
Hannah ‘Meeker
Hannah Jane Meeker
Joseph
Susan Hall
Wabash ‘ County
Ind
West
Mitchell County
Chickasaw County
John
Nicholas
Kansas
Phillips County
Asa. D. Meeker
Hi Lo
Chester Modlin
Hubert Cleveland
Mary Risse
Mildred Vigars
Vigars
Mexico
Otto Goebels
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
W. E. Rathbone
Woman’s Club
Harry Whitney
Rebekah Lodge
I. O. O. F. Hall
N. T. T. Club
C. T. Emmert
Baptist United Circle
George Schafer
Sovciety
Ona Brown
Modernization Credit Plan
The
Kewatts
W. F. Kewatt
W. R. Foster
E. P. Messer
Clarence
Ernest Orgell
St. Paul's
Walther Lesgue
Assembly of God
Tabernacle
Christian Fellowship
Cottage Church
Dewey Lamprecht
Cottage Community
Point Pleasant
First Congregational Church
Eee
Penne
Youngple
Eastman Nuckolls
John Miller
Fred Cram
Iowa State Teacher’s College
Methodist Church
D. D. Lewis
Farm Bureau Women
Bridge Club
Rebekah Bridge Club
I. O
Lulie Reece
Elsie McCall
Nina Lockwood
Minnie Mulford
Library Club
Finland
Ida Clark
Republic
Bertha Lytle
Helsinki
Chrissie Reed
Ruth Cordes
Mary Cruzan
Baltic
4-H Club
Schaa Produce CO
Garden City
MISS MARJORIE ESPE n_mee
Sheldon
Andrle & Creps
E. J. Andrle
Harold Creps
L. J. Rice Drug Store
Anderson & Geesaman Drug Store
Rexall
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