Radcliffe Legion Dedicates New Memorial Building
A Radcliffe Legion banquet of over 200 marked the dedication of the town's new 40000 memorial building. The two story facility includes meeting rooms a theatre a kitchen and a beauty shop with a bronze honor plaque listing 268 local service members. Gold Stars honor seven veterans with a 1941 1945 memorial hall inscription.
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Radcliffe
Radcliffe Post American Legion
the Methodist Church
Everette M. Lettow
Harold D. Matz
Boyd B. Nelson
O. Truman Olson
Robert D. Risetter
Ernest O. Rutland
Orvie D. Wierson
Memorial Hall
The
Legion Auxiliary
Ball Park
New
Radcliffe Community Memorial
American Legion
P. Hope Overturf
Toledo
N. M. Johnson
R. J. Laird
Des Moines
Robert Oehlsen
Radcliffe Legion
Truman Thompson
Marshall F. Camp
Creston
Herald-Index
Ten Quakerdale Boys See Chicago Lights
Ten Quakerdale boys over 12 and leaders Lyile Tatum and Kenneth McDowell returned from a ten day trip to Chicago. They camped at night and visited the planetarium zoos museum a ball game the Chicago fair and the Welcome Travelers program. A similar Wisconsin trip was made last year.
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Lawn Hill
Lyile Tatum
Kenneth McDowell
Quakerdale
Chicago
Wisconsin
Divorce Granted to Laveyl Lynk in H E Fry Decree
Judge H E Fry signed a decree last week granting divorce to Laveyl Lynk from Paul R Lynk. The plaintiff may resume her former name, Laverl Homan.
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H. E. Fry
Laveyl Lynk
Paul R. Lynk
Laver! Homan
Legion to Elect Install Officers Thursday Night
The Walter Sayer post Amer ican Legion will elect and install officers for 1950 51 during July meeting Thursday night replacing the regular business session Nominations were made at the June meeting Contests are set only for finance and sergeants at arms All other posts have one candidate Paul Schaa World War II veteran nominated for commander He will appoint his adjutant Others nominated were first vice commander R R Brown second vice commander George Peisen finance officer Keith Strother historian J F Hardin chaplain Co A Van Patter sergeants at arms Don Berry Bob Ziesman Joe Kramer Tom Megan Elect two
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Walter-Sayer Post
American Legion
Finance Office
Sergeants At Arms
Paul Schaa
R. R. Brown
George Peisen
Keith Strother
J. F. Hardin
Ralph Speers
Co. A. van Patter
Don Berry
Bob Ziesman
Joe Kramer
Tom Megan
State highway bids to open in Ames for gravel surfacing
The state highway commission will open bids in Ames during the first week in August for gravel surfacing seven stretches of farm to market road in Hardin county.
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The
State Highway Commission
Ames
Hardin County
Vets Discuss Cootie Formation At Local Meeting
Discussion during a Roll-Harless post Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting covered forming a pup tent of Cooties. Guests included Henry E. Hunt supreme district hospital commissioner and Grand Squirrell of the Iowa Military Order of the Cootie, plus Guy Rutter, hospital commission chair from Waterloo.
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Roll-Harless Post Veterans of Foreign Wars
Henry E. Hunt
Supreme District Hospital
Grand Seam Squirrell
Iowa Military Order of the Cootie
Guy Rutter
Black Hawk
Waterloo
Advertisers Offer Bargains Across Eldora and Union
Union Trading Post lists a cafe for sale and jobs like babysitting. Eldora seeks a two or three bedroom home plus a business building for sale. July watermelon at 20 cents a pound. car wheel balancing 1.50. Oxydol 23 cents. dress sale two for one dollar. four John Deere tractors. straw hat clearance saves one dollar.
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Union
Union Trading Post
Eldora
John Deere Tractors
Talk Fair Plans for Hardin County 4-H and State Fair
Members of the Hardin County 4-H committee and club leaders met at the extension office Friday to discuss plans for the Hardin County Fair and the State Fair. Judging of record books and awards were discussed with emphasis on winning 4-H honors.
Officers Debate Route of Farm to Market Highway
Steamboat Rock town council and county board of supervisors discussed possible routes for the new farm to market highway from Steamboat Rock east to the Grundy county line. A dangerous railroad crossing near the cemetery prompted consideration of changes, with plans to follow the current Steamboat Rock Eldora road south across tracks then east. No decision was made as supervisors seek Steamboat Rock citizens’ wishes.
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Steamboat Rock Town
County Board of Supervisors
Grundy County
Steamboat Rock
Illness and Death of Janeen Peterson in Congo Letter
A letter from Miss Elizabeth Doud recounts the illness and death of Janeen Peterson, 9, at Kandale in the Belgian Congo after an acute stomach and intestinal infection. Aerial flight for medicine ended in a crash near Kandale. Janeen died as the plane went down. The service, July 3, was attended by 25 white people, officials, Portuguese friends, and missionaries, with hymns in English French and native tongues.
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Elizabeth Doud
Arnold Peterson
Africa
Janeen Peterson
Kandale
Belgian Congo
Peterson
Gunga
Mukedi
Kirkwit
Randale
Janeen
Congo
Eldora Church Chimes Broadcast On ISU Station WOI
The Eldora Methodist chimes to be broadcast Wednesday on Station WOI Ames via a Cedar Falls studio link. Hake and Rev. W. R. Ehlert discuss origin, gift, and setup for a half hour program The State of Things. Hospital patients’ reactions are noted and Ehlert offers to share installation details with other communities.
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Eldora Methodist Church
H. V. Hake
Iowa State Teachers College
Hake
Ehlert
Eldora
Cedar ‘Alls
Mr. Ehlert
Fred Edgars
Cedar Falls
Four-H Teams Demonstrate At County Fair
Hardin county 4-H girls division preparation for the fair continues at the extension office with committee members Mrs. Had ley Union Mrs. Sanders Eldora Mrs. Hake Hubbard Mrs. Lauterbach Alden Mrs. Eller Hubbard and Miss Ruth Lauterbach county home economist. Eleven seniors and nine junior girls 4-H demonstration teams entered to be judged Saturday July 19. Demonstrations emphasize food and nutrition with first place seniors to go to the Iowa state fair in August and second place to the dairy cattle congress in Waterloo.
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Hardin County
Bruce Hadley
Union
Claude Sanders
Eldora
Ben Hake
Hubbard
M. A. Lauterbach
Alden
Ralph Eller
Ruth Lauterbach
Waterloo
To Feature Trio on 5th Concert Program
A trumpet trio of Shirley Follett Darrell Scott and Bob Bateson will solo at the fifth band concert of the summer season, led by Wayne Aurand. The 13 piece program includes Jack and the Beanstalk with David Wilson as narrator and marches and classic pieces such as The Army Air Corps March On the Mall March and I Got Rhythm.
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Shirley Follett
Darrell Scott
Bob Bateson
Wayne Aurand
David Wilson
Army Air Corps
Crawford
Buchtel
Wolf-Yoder
Bucht
Road boards inspect Grundy Hardin farm to market route
The boards of supervisors of Grundy and Hardin counties Friday inspected the farm to market highway from Whitten north to the pavement. The south part of this stretch has not been completed.
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Boards of Supervisors
Grundy
Hardin
Whitten
Vacancy on Hardin county draft board announced
Ben Jaspers of Steamboat Rock resigns from the Hardin county selective service board effective immediately citing inability to balance duties with regular work. Board remains with three members R A Scott Eldora RR Van Patter Hubbard and Frank Anders Ackley. no successor named yet.
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Ben Jaspers
Steamboat Rock
Charles H. Grahl
Selective Service
Hardin County Selective Service Board
Jaspers
R. A. Scott
Eldora
R. R. van Patter
Hubbard
Frank Anders
Ackley
Providence Church Names New Pastor
NEW PROVIDENCE The pastoral committee of the New Providence Friends church announced Thursday that Dr. Worthy A. Spring of Oskaloosa has accepted a call to the pastorate here, succeeding Rev. J. Paul Hadley who resigned weeks ago. Dr. Spring was president of Cleveland Bible School for twelve years, later pastoring in Ohio, and for three years has been with Kleitzing College in Oskaloosa as business manager and acting president. He is about 56, married with a married daughter. his wife is a minister and his father lives with them. He will begin duties around September.
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New Providence
Spring
Cleveland (Ohio
Dr. Spring
Rummage Sale Nets $750 at Steamboat Rock
Steamboat Rock Hoover Kiser American Legion post held a Saturday night rummage sale that raised 750 dollars for the building fund. A large crowd attended as 325 items crossed the block with veteran auctioneer Art Knowles donating his services. Post members canvassed Steamboat Rock and nearby areas for donations.
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Steamboat Rock
Hoover-Kiserman Post
The
American Legion
Art Knowles
Post
Nine Explorers to Camp Mitigwa Trip
Nine members of the Eldora Explorer Scout post have reservations for a period at Camp Mitigwa near Boone from June 23 to 30. The program includes scouting practices instruction and recreation. Camp Mitigwa is operated by the Tall Corn area council. Travelers include Craig Froning Jerry Foster Jim Foster Tom Irwin Robert Bateson Kempton Huehn James Hubbard Darrell Scott and Ronald Oldenburg.
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Eldora Explorer Scout Post
Camp
Mitigwa
Boone
Tallcorn
Ackley Observes Sauerkraut Days August 1 2
Ackley will host sauerkraut days on August 1 and 2. Governor Beardsley and A J Loveland Democratic candidate for United States Senate will be guests and speakers at the celebration.
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Ackley
Beardsley
A. J. Loveland
United State Senate
Youthful Queens Enter Pine Lake Aqua Antics Contest
Eight young contestants from Hardin county towns vie in Miss Pine Lake as part of Aqua Antics at the beach July 24. The 8 p.m. show closes the season’s Red Cross swimming program with entries Eldora Warren Janice Tegtmeier Ludith Ustermarkt Patsy Reisetter Carolyn Faust Francis Gunderson Joan Dickinson Connie Long. Rain date is July 25.
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Hardin County
Pine Lake
Childdren
Red Cross
Eldora Tamma Jo Warren
Steamboat Rock
Janice Tegtmeier
Hubbard Ludith Ustermarkt
Methodist School Adopts Program
The Eldora Methodist Sunday school board of education set a 15 point program for the coming year led by superintendent John L. Butler. Attendance aims at 200 average with steady gains in participation. Plans include welcoming committees, absentee checks, an attendance contest, delegates to a Marshalltown laboratory school, promotion and rally days, cradle roll emphasis, adult home department, a speakers club, a fall ping pong tourney, teacher training, art classes, Halloween party, Christmas and a fuller Easter program.
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Eldora Methodist Sunday School Board of Education
John L. Butler
Marshalltown
Dr Peitsch Speaks At Baptist Church
Dr W E Peitsch of Waterloo filled the pulpit at the Baptist church Sunday morning and evening in the absence of Pastor H C Short who, with his family, are spending a vacation in Wisconsin. George Cordes, studying at Wheaton College, will conduct the mid week service Thursday. The Rev Mr Short plans to be in the pulpit next Sunday.
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W. E. Peitsch
Waterloo
The
Baptist Church
H. C. Short
Wisconsin
George Cordes
Wheaton College
Mr. Short
Chairmen Named For 9 Projects And For Towns
A large group meets in Hubbard gym to form the Hardin County Safety Congress. Dr W J Mack named county congress chairman, Dempsey of Eldora vice chairman. Nine county safety divisions and town chairmen chosen. F K Schmidt presents $176 from the old Safety Council to fund current finances. Eldora’s George Janssen named city chairman to lead saturation safety advertising and local drives in August.
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Hubbard Gymnasium
Albert W Kahl
Iowa
Hubbard
F. K. Schmidt
Congress
County Congress
Hardin County Safety Council
George Janssen
Eldora
J L Brown Leaves For Scotland Visit From Des Moines
James L. Brown departed Des Moines by plane Monday for a month in Scotland to revisit childhood haunts. He planned stops in Kirkwall and Saint Andrews, visits to relatives, and to reconnect with two brothers and three sisters. The Eldora shoe store he left is run by Kermith Huehn with Wyatt Johnson assisting.
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James L. Brown
Des Moines
Scotland
New York
Kirkwall
Orkney Islands
Saint Andrews
Canada
Eldora
Kermith Huehn
Wyatt Johnson
No Instructions Reach Draft Board In Eldora
R A Scott of Eldora a member of the Hardin county selective service board said Monday morning that no instructions had been received from the state director of selective service since the message reported in last week's Herald Ledger arrived.
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R. A. Scott
Eldora
Hardin County Selective Service Board
State Director of Selective Service
Herald-Ledger
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W. J. Mack
County Safety Congress
Garnet Larson
Radcliffe Legion Auxiliary
Darwin
Ralph Jacobsen
Auxiliary Department
Joe Dunlap
Tama
Robert W. Oehlsen
Radcliffe Post
Dick Gatrelle
Barbara Stensland
Diana Thorsheim
Phyllis Lynn
al Faber
Iowa Legionnaire
Truman S. Thompson
Iowa American Legion
Legion To Elect
Eldora Church
Methodist Tower
Providence Church
Methodist School
Dr. Peitsch
Towa
J. L. Brown
Allan Kurtz
Kurtz
Karla Jean
Karroll James
Owasa
Glen Baker
Mr. Baker
E. W. Wolfe
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