New Providence and Vicinity Garden Club Meets
New Providence and Vicinity Garden Club met Wednesday afternoon in the township hall for the regular July meeting. Susie spoke on storing and canning vegetables and Mrs. Walter Johnson read a Better Homes and Gardens article. Also shared was a gardener’s diary for July noting vegetation needs and care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Lybarger
Missionary Society
Honey Creek Missionary Society
Mary Olinger
Maxwell
Paul E. Pizer
Algo
Phyllis Christy
Ames
Robert Scott
Paynette
Wis
Kenneth Lyons
Union
Wayne Sherman
Frank Dykatra
Marjorie ‘Nelson
James’ Kirk
Waterloo
Christy
New Providence
Pine Lake
Park
Gilbert
Lin
J«Morria
Pleasant Chapel
True Blue Maidens
Providence Township
Okoboji
Leple
Bethany
Rhodes
Coio
Verda
Lutz
Zearing
Des Oines
Frank Rhodes
Catbird Arrival Described By Iowa Extension Note
The Gatbird, a common neighbor in shrubs and thickets, arrives in early May, alarm calls on interruptions, and a thrash-like song at times. Nests are bulky structures in shrubbery with brown and gray plumage named as the business bird of its world. Egg color greenish blue with three eggs, young hatch in ten days, and autumn departure occurs by October 1. The diet is 56 percent fruit and 44 percent insects, including leaf beetles and crickets. Bill and plumage details are noted, with coloration specifics for male and female birds. Prepared by Bilis A. Hicks, wildlife extension specialist at Iowa State College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bilis A. Hicks
Iowa State College
Local family visits and travels over the Fourth of July
Mrs Delaney Faris remains bedfast as Viola Slifer, a nurse from near Ivester, tends her. Emily Faris visits from Des Moines for the weekend. Frank Manning and son Junior, former residents of Winnebago, Minn., visit relatives in the Shoemaker home with J W Weeks. Roy Wilson hosts his mother Olive Wilson of Gifford at dinner. Ethel Faris returns home from California, with her son Jerome and wife of Denaii, Galif., spending the week. Amy Clampitt leaves for Crescent Beach to work in a dining room for the summer. Roy J Clampitt and Beth visit Ernest Myers near Albion. Myers formerly Anna Carter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Providence
Cole
Franklin Hutchens
Abbie Hutchens
Syene
Reece
Lepley State Park
L. W. Johnson
Union
Roas G. Reece
Art Boeke
Hubbard
NEW Providence News
Georgia Cronk
Fred
Mary Joy
Eldora
Dorothy Cast
Ada Wood
Harold Rash
John Hehnensick
L. E. Kasischke
Lawn Hill
Dean Katischke
Des Moines
Lawrence Cutler
Waterloo
Roger
McDonald
Clarence Hinshaw
Hinshaw
Claire
Ellis
F. A. Ellis
Grimes and
Leff
Grimes
Lakes
Town
Lucile Sayer
W. G. Leslie
Hiters
Ary Allen
Siloam Springs
Ark
Robert Johansen
Ryder,n. D
Johansen
John Brown University
Cumberland
Wis
Robert Sayer
Johannes Meints
Ackley
Robert
Donna Mae Faris
Robert Beach
Margaret
Ruth Reece
Clinton
Ella Morris
Ruth Frazier
Marshalltown
Millersburg
Edwin Evans
Albert Lea
Minn
A. BE. Garrett
BE. V. Moon
Oscar Wood
Eldora Memorial Hospital
Jeannette Martin
Wood
Rath Moon
Cedar ‘Rapids
Elv. Moon
Leland Chamness
Murray
Princeton
Anna Spilde
Lillian Spilde
Wilfred ‘Rogers
Sharon Ann
Andiall
Ford
Lillian Spiltle
California
Lawrence ‘Beach
Beverly
Walter Rogers
Marion Shores
Lawrence Mathews
Dean
Edwin and Parry
Pilot Mountain
North Carolina
Nelle Mitchell
Colfax
Jesse Broer
Broer
M. D. Mills
Ruth
Panora
Wil
HE. F. Morris
Frank
Kermit Whitehead
Glen? Harbit
Billy
Clarion
Guy W. Harvey
Honey Creek
Glattys Harvey
Harvey
Lily Reece
Donna Mae Hauser - Whitten
Gilbert
Winter
Dickie
Henry Meier
Lyle Davis
Grand River
Wilbur Davis
Oscar Mabee
Mitchell
Ma‘hee
Delaney Faris
Viola Slifer
Ivester
Clarence Shoemaker
J. W. Weeks
Roy Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Olive Wilson
Gifford
Ethel Faris
Lowell
Perisha
Jerome
Denaii
Galif
Comedy Films Dominate Weekend At New Grand Theatre
The New Grand Theatre presents top entertainments this Sunday to Tuesday headlined by It’s A Wonderful World featuring Claudette Colbert James Stewart and others under W. S. Van Dyke II. Good Girls Go to Paris screens midweek with Melvyn Douglas Joan Blondell and Walter Connolly. Nights include Bridal Suite It Could Happen To You and Mountain Rhythm with Gene Autry and more. a midnight show, Undercover Doctor, closes the lineup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Grand Theatre
Claudette Colbert
James Stewart
Guy Kibbee
Nat Pendleton
Frances Drake
Edgar Kennedy
Ernest Truex
Andy Clyde
W. S. van Dyke II
Paris
Melvyn Douglas
Joan Blondell
Walter Connolly
Robert Young
Annabella
Tyrone Power
Reginald Owen
Gene Lockart
Arthur Treacher
Billie Burke
PUPILS EARN PALMER PRIZES
Information from M Z Albers shows 17 Hardin county rural pupils earned final Palmer method certificates while six earned junior certificates. Thirty five earned progress pins twenty two Palmer method buttons twelve primary gold star buttons two primary silver star buttons and seven merit buttons. Complete list names many students with school numbers and districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Z. Albers
A. N. Palmer Co
Hardin County
Blaine Bunte
Arlene Bunte
Donald Jones
Marlyn Macine
Ruth Hoyt
Dorothy Dreifke
Tipton
George Graham
Kate Risius
Irene Kruse
Etna
Pauline Snapp
Jackson
Dena _Gro‘enberg
Hardin
Ida
Marie " Eldora
Patty
Engelipton Noavelyn
Heney Fivelyn
Kosanke
Pleasant
Arlo Ziebell
Grant
Dorothy Gerdes
Ellis
Patty Crecellus
Eldora
Verne Johns
Ellen Friedrich
Clarence Brandon
Trene Kruse
Primary Star and Merit Button Group Names
A list of names associated with Primary Gold Star and Primary Silver Star Button events. Items include Harold Mersman Bobby Nelson Janice Lehmeier Vern Muller Lorraine Oelmann and others linked to Tipton and Etna precincts with unit numbers 6 7 8 9 and some unclear spellings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Mersman
Bobby Nelson
Janice Lehmeier
Grant
Lavern Muller
Lorraine Oelmann
Etna
Morman Dickenson
Gutford
Betty Engelking
Tipton
Ti Ciary Maxwell
Sonn Miller
Marilyn Ricks
Sie Intjer
Anna Vintjer
Donald Coon
Gifford
Joan Klemme
Merit Button
Paul Freese
Eldora
Joan Ketchum
Iois Polzin
Alden
Richard Randolph
Pleasant
Dean Jones
Ruby Bunte
Mildred Abbas
Hardin Aided 1938 Seal Sale Boost
Hardin county increased its 1988 Christmas Seal Sale by 8 percent over 1937, helping last year’s sale exceed $100,000 in Iowa since 1930. Proceeds in Hardin were $951.29, averaging 4.1 seats per person, with Iowa’s 1938 state total at $102,000, up 4 percent from $98,068.72 the prior year. The state per capita stood at 4 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardin County
Iowa
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
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New Providence and Vicinity
Floyd Gaede
FAGG
Fage
Fagg’s
Eldora’ Community
Hatehexy
Vinton Prodviss
STAR
Fox Men
Peoples
Dora
Tony
Falls
Federal Savings and’ Loan . Association
Iowa Falls
John
Iowa Farm
Jay Newcomer
Vinton
Reed and Lamprecht
Fair Grounds
Herald-Ledger
John Fuller
Vinton Produce, Co
Adrian Boeke
Vinton Reduce Company
Association
Lafayette Bldg
William
Koll
Palmer
Progress
Mary Della Winterfield
Dorothy Neubauer
Mildred Neubauer
Sherman
Dean Branyard
Robert Meier
Leo Hanson
Wallace Bunte
Junior Dreifke
Betty McBride
Ruth Rudolph
Kathryn Rose
Grace Huison
Bernard Oelmann
Meta Oelmann
Paul Richtsmier
Florence Oelmann
Tna
Merle Aldinger
Evelyn Hamilton
Walter Hamilton
Naomi Richards
Doris Richards
Hazel Ko- Banke
Ring
Shirley Ziebell
Cornette Sampson
Concord
Dean Crosser
Betty Barr
Fairfax
Carol Heetland
George Grahame
Ebien Friedrich
Ce Eee
Love Brothers Derby
Carl G. Bishop, M. D
Rice’s Drug
H. W. Stonebrook
Doctors
M. H. Smith
Fidelity Abstract and Title CO
Pres
Theo. Swasand
C. D. Ruben Bateson
Groun
Sec’y.d
H. W. Emeny
D. D. Osteopathic
Wisner Block
Washington Street
Pythien Bldg
Hardin County Abstract CO
Citizens Savings Bank
J. KF. Hardin
J. L. Cameron
J. D. Leonard
Binder
Massey-Harris
Imp
Marist
Owasa
Gilman H. Wisner Office
Red
The
Lure
Tion
Eldora Herald-Ledger
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