Rural donations push Hardin county fund toward goal
Rural donors boosted the youth building finance drive in Hardin county to 24025.17 by Saturday noon, aided by Pleasant township Farm Bureau and Eldora and Alden township 4-H clubs. The drive aims for 40000 with many individual gifts from local families and farm groups, moving past the halfway mark.
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Hardin County
Pleasant Township
Farm Bureau
Ellis Sunshine Sallies
Eldora Township
Alden Township
Pleasant Farm
Ellis
Paul Beach
Providence
Farmer
A. B. White
Clyde Smitherman
Preston Cockerham
James Sparks
Lawren
George Brindlees
Mins
Harold J. ‘Marsh
Tio Radolph
George Edwards
Dr. L. L. Roberts
James Lamer
Gerald Modlin
Barney Freed
Fred Trapp
Dick Jackson
Joe Beach
Fern van Tiger
Boboo Gropp
J. D. Amundsen
Ira Neubauer
Sherman Stolee
John Riebers
Austin Buerkley
John Ostrem
Dave Kolbe
Ei Inderaker
Rober
Milfor Dame Engelson
Roy Ritland
Dale Fincham
Soret Stores Closing For Tournament Today
Eldora businesses plan early closures to let residents attend the first round girls state basketball tournament in Des Moines. The Tigerettes face Clarence at 2 p m with potential Thursday or Saturday closings depending on results. Tickets and viewing details were outlined by Chamber of Commerce officials. Radio KEFB Marshalltown will broadcast the game.
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Eldora’s
Eldorans
Des Moines
Chamber of Commerce
Eldora
Bill Morse
Tigerettes
KEFJB
Marshalltown
Tanfenwray
Trav
Amsberry Trophy Goes to Janice Fuller of Owasa
Janice Fuller 17 of Onaga wins the seventh Amsberry Memorial trophy for the Pine Lake conference’s outstanding feminine cager. The Eldora school board notes four low bids as the district accepts bids for upcoming needs. Fuller, a 5-4 senior and natural leader, sustained a leg injury in the Pine Lake tournament but finished the season averaging 20.8 points per game in 17 contests. She plans a teaching career after graduation and has been active in several school activities.
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Amsberry
Steamboat Rock
Pine Lake
Eldora
Fuller
Owansa
Mee
Fred Fuller
See
Réide
Owasa
Amsbener
Pla
Wale
Charlene Able
Owasa Gleen
Fish Fry Proceeds In March Slated For Youth Building
Pine Lake Wildlife club members voted to hold a family fish fry on Friday March 25 with all proceeds to go to the youth building finance campaign in progress throughout the county. The fish frys normally net from 250 to 300 dollars.
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Pine Lake Wildife Club
Peggy McNertney Heads to Three Month Psychiatric Training
Peggy McNertney daughter of Mr and Mrs Lawrence McNertney of Eldora traveled to Aurora Illinois yesterday to begin a three month psychiatric training at Mercyville Sanatorium. She is a junior year nursing student at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City and visited her lover in Eldora over the weekend.
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Peggy McNertney
Lawrence McNertney
Eldora
Aurora
Mercyville Sanatorium
MecNertney
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Lover
The Eternal Feminine Whatll We Wear Eldora Tigers Tourney
Eldora's Tigerettes face the girls state tournament in Des Moines with focus on outfits and grooming. Fears of fashion chaos ripple through players and families as each student assembles wardrobe plans while chaperones coordinate rooms and travel details for the trip.
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Eldora
Kiwanis Donate 50 to Eldora Girls Basketball Team
Eldora Kiwanis distributed a $50 check to girls basketball coach Ed Engstrom on Thursday night. The funds will entertain the squad at the upcoming state tournament in Des Moines, likely for movies and souvenirs.
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Eldora Kiwanis
Eldora
Ed Engstrom
Des Moines
Engstrom
Jack Shelley to Address Hardin County Soil Conservation Banquet
Jack Shelley news commentator will speak at the Hardin County Soil Conservation District banquet and annual meeting in Owasa school Monday evening March 7. Awards will be given to county winners in the Register and Tribune Sails Awards contest. A biennial election for a six year Soil Conservation District Commissioner will be held with candidates Dean Kelsey and Harry Hudspeth. Public invited and cooperators urged to attend.
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Hardin County Soil Conservation’ District
Owasa
Register and
Tribune Sails
Soil Conservation District
Dean Kelsey
Iowa, Falls
Harry Hudspeth
Alden
Wellsburg Man Killed In Car Crash Thursday
A Wellsburg man, 64, died Thursday when his car left a dead end road two miles north and west of Wellsburg. John Gelkan, lifelong Grundy County resident, was rushed by neighbors to a Wellsburg physician after his chest was crushed by the steering wheel. He was born near Holland in Grundy County and is survived by three daughters and one son, two brothers, a sister, and 17 grandchildren. Services were held at the Murra home and Wellsburg Reformed church with burial in the church cemetery.
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Wellsburg
John Gelkan
Grundy County
Geiken
Gelken
Holland
Frank
Abe Murra
Raymond Harms
John Gluchtenburg
Parkersburg
Martin
Deddo
Ackley
Tena Geiken
Murra
Wellsburg Reformed Church
Dragline Operator Killed In County Road Crew Accident
Harald Pooch Mathews 41 of Eldora died when a county dragline tipped and crushed him near W C Ines farm, as he tried to jump clear. A road crew worker on a nd clearing job, Mathews had worked for the county since 1938 and is survived by his wife and son. Body taken to Angrie and Creps Funeral Home.
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Harald “Pooch” Mathews
Eldora
W. C. Ines
Mathews
Wray Furlong
Boy Slugged Officer In Escape From Transport
Deputies Lowell McCormick and Bob Barr, based in the sheriff’s office, reported a former training school youth being transported by a parole officer slugged the officer and escaped with his car. The officer received medical care Monday noon in a Nevada hospital. The incident occurred along highway 65 near Colo, with the youth slipping out of handcuffs, slugging the officer, and dumping him from the vehicle before heading to the southern part of Iowa. initial reports indicated the youth was driving north.
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Lowell McCormick
Bob Barr
Nevada
Highway 65
Colo
Iowa
Nomination Papers Filed For Mrs Griffel In Eldora Race
Mrs R R Griffel of Eldora announces candidacy for one of two Eldora board of education seats. Harold Wehrman seeks re election, Dr E W Burke will not run. Nomination papers due by noon ten days before March 14 election. Griffel is active in PTA Girl Scouts andChest community work.
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R. R. Griffel
Eldora
Eldora Board of Education
Griffel
Harold Wehrman
E. W. Burke
Kay
Jane
Rae
Ann
Eldora High School
Iowa University
Parent-Teachers Association
Prio
Kiwanians Honor Rooks For Service
Eldora Kiwanis Club honored Ce Rooks for his service as Lieutenant Governor of Kiwanis district 2. R A Scott presented Rooks with a cup. Bill Morse chamber of commerce secretary was principal speaker at the regular meeting discussing industrial development.
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Eldora Kiwanis Club
Ce~of
Rooks of
Eldora
Kiwans
R. A. Scott
Rooks
Bill Morse
Chamber of Commerce
Des Moines Sets Record as Girls State Basketball Tickets Sellout
About 1,000 tickets for the first session of the girls state basketball tournament opened in Des Moines this afternoon had already been sold by yesterday morning. Sales continued through yesterday and into this morning until 9 30 a m.
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Des Moines
GOP Women Will Meet Next Friday
Hardin county Republican women will convene Friday afternoon at Mrs. L. M. Blair’s Town Falls home. Lloyd Roland of Alden, chair of the county board of supervisors, will deliver a talk and county president Mrs. E. L. Pettenger of Iowa Falls will preside.
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Hardin County Republican
L. M. Blair
Town Falls
Lloyd Roland
Alden
County Board of Supervisors
E. L. Pettenger
Iowa Falls
Marriage Licenses Filed in Iowa Falls
Louis D. Toomsen and Emma Rastetter obtained marriage licenses in Iowa Falls. Bradford and Emma Rastetter also appear in filings, reflecting local legal processing of nuptial documents.
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Louis D. Toomsen
Legal
Bradford
Emma Rastetter
Iowa Falls
Eldora approves bids for new 18 classroom school
Four low bids totaling about 380 thousand dollars for construction of Eldora's proposed 18 classroom elementary school were accepted by the school board. The lowest general bid was 263,780 dollars to Wells Company Inc. of New Altoon. electrical bids led by Hob Electric Co. of Waterloo at 28,675 dollars. plumbing by Stell Mayer Plumbing and Heating Co. of Marshalltown at 22,000 dollars. Architects Brooks and Borg expect equipment to move in within a week after contracts are signed.
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Eldora
Board of Education
General Ponsirastio
Wells Company, Inc
New
Atocaan Jensen Quality Plumbing
Marshalltown
Pluebins, Stellmayer Plumbing and Hesting Co
Er and Hob Electric Co
Waterloo
Dohrmann and Crandall
el~ Sota Et Electric
Carroll Hobson
Ousand
Brooks and Borg
Des Moines
Tigerettes Ready For State Tournament Opener
Eldora's Tigerettes prepare to meet Clarence of Cedar County in the opening game of the Iowa girls basketball state tourney at 2 p.m. today in Des Moines Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Coach Ed Engstrom notes the team is physically fit and mentally prepared for their first state bid.
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Eldora
Tigerettes
Iowa
Clarence
Cedar County
Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium
Des Moines
Ed Engstrom
TIGERETTES Continued On Page Five
The Tigerettes feature continues as the school dance team plans routines and rehearsals aiming for the next showcase. Details on members and upcoming performances are teased for readers.
E Reece Dies at Eldora Memorial Hospital
Sanford Edgar Reece aged 69 died Sunday afternoon at Eldora Memorial hospital after months of poor health. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in New Providence. He is survived by his
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New Providence
Sanford Edgar Reece
Eldora Memorial Hospital
Reece
El Dora Tigers Headed to State Tournament in Des Moines
The El Dora Tigerettes, first from the school to reach a state tournament, departed by bus yesterday morning for Des Moines. A listed practice session appeared in the schedule as part of their duties before the tourney.
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Des Moines
Eldora
Tigerettes
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