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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1949
Page
8
Poisineil mentions Donna Mae Smith visiting from Des Moines with her parents, plus weekend guests in multiple households. Gene Farmer wed Alice Akers in Marshalltown. other visits include Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Union, Gladbrook, and Whitten, with relatives and friends gathering for dinners and weddings.
A long list of weekend visits and home gatherings spans Estherville Ackley Union Union area and beyond. Mr and Mrs Robert Perkins host in Estherville while others visit relatives in Ackley Union Grundy Center Marshalltown and Eldora with trips to Des Moines Rockford and Jewell.
Classified notice styled ad requests purchase of an item with brief details and contact options, inviting offers. Includes generic appeal for quick sale and return contact. No personal data beyond placeholder contact method.
The Eldora library announces new fiction and non fiction titles including The Big Fisherman Road To Survival and Footnotes On Nature. Three books were donated in memory of local leaders Geo rge FE Lynk James K Hall and C T Em mert. The library also received fifty new children's and young adult books chosen from the Iowa Pupil's Reading Circle list.
Oren Dreier of Hubbard is highlighted among 1948 Iowa Master Swine Producers in Capper's Farmer March issue. The article notes his top herd status with 95 sows and a market of 7.52 pigs per sow, raising 700 to 800 hogs and managing nine lots of 10 to 12 sows with litters, plus a method to separate smaller pigs at vaccination to prevent runts.
Allen Hector Mann, WWI veteran and husband of Irene Reed of Eldora, died February 19 at Veterans Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was buried with full military honors in Omaha's Mount Hope Cemetery. Mann worked as a dental technician in Nevada before moving to Omaha, served in the Meuse Argonne offensive, graduated from the University of Nebraska, aided crippled children, and received an EH award for atomic bomb project work at Iowa State College. His wife Irene survives.
Miss Ruth C Carlson was appointed director of the Lutheran Welfare Society Fort Dodge branch effective March 1. She hails from Rockford Illinois where she trained in social service and earned a master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1948. The Fort Dodge office serves thirteen Iowa counties and cared for 70 local children last year.
Approved by the state department of public instruction a state wide March and April contest will be conducted by the Iowa development commission for junior and senior high students in grades seven through twelve. Thirteen cash prizes total 650 dollars include a 300 dollar state prize and fourteen district prizes of 36 and 15 dollars.
The program lists Beethoven Heaven’s Reson d, Three Bears by Newall Long and Men in Gray by Brahmstede. Senior band includes flutes, oboe, clarinets, saxes, brass and percussion with many players named. junior band features trombone, baritone, bass, percussion, woodwinds, and brass sections, reflecting a large school musical event.
Miss Evelyn Olson, public health nurse, will renew the tuberculosis case search in Hardin county around March 7. She will target people exposed to the disease, collect case histories, invite skin tests, and conduct chest x rays if skin tests react. Family physicians will perform the skin tests under the 1949 annual contact case finding program led by Dr. F W Houlihan and Dr. L H Flancher with state and local health groups.
Carl Steinfeldt of Electra buys Karlsan Poch Pearl from Carl E. Santman of Dysart Indiana. The Holstein-Friesian Association of America in Brattleboro Vermont officially records the ownership transfer.
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