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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1950
Page
3
The county Legion and Auxiliary meeting will be held Thursday evening at Hubbard. The Radcliffe unit will host. A dance will follow the business meetings.
The WCcTU county workshop met in the library club rooms with Mrs. W. R. Ehlert visual education chairman in charge. Rev. Ehlert presented the film Chat Boy Jee. The Iowa Falls workshop now set for April 20 instead of April 25. The local chapter meeting is April 27 with Mrs. Siby Hoyt.
Members of the St Mary's choir hosted a Thursday card party with over 60 attendees. Prizes were awarded in Canasta to Mrs Elgin Ryan high and Franc es Watters low in Canasta, Bridge high to Mrs Clyde Walton and low to Mrs Nelle Kramer, 500 high to Mrs Bernard Rudolph and low to Bernard Rudolph.
The Adult Bible Class met Wednesday with Mrs Henry Wehrman hosting and Mrs Ide Fouts and Miss Jessie Wilson assisting. A short program was given and refreshments served.
A sequence of meetings spans March 21 to March 27. Eldora Congregational Women host luncheon. American Home Division 1 and four groups convene with named hosts. Cemetery Society, County Legion, and Auxiliary meet in Hubbard. 20th Century Club and Haythorne Club plan a potluck supper.
Eldora couple Mr and Mrs Ernest Kosanke announce their daughter Evelyn will marry Clarence Lange son of Mr and Mrs Charles Lange of Alden on April 15 the upcoming marriage reported by the local society page.
The Pleasant Township Aural Women gathered at Mrs Noa Reece home with assistances Mrs Evan Reece and Mrs Marvin Jeske. Mrs Edgar taught Personal Design. The group planned April 19 meeting with Mrs Charles Svendsen. A $300 nurses training scholarship will be awarded by the Iowa Department of the American Legion Auxiliary in memory of Mary Virginia Macrae. High school seniors may obtain entrance qualifications from Mrs Ellis Harmes.
Mrs Sherrill Smith was unanimously re-elected chairman of the Public Welfare department at Thursday evening’s meeting. Preceding the business session a dessert was served with hostess Mrs Howell Boyd assisted by Mrs Tom Reed. Officers elected include vice chairman Mrs Henry Pauerby and secretary treasurer Mrs Dale Rodgers.
Hospital notes record multiple births and maternity details listing names such as Mrs Henry Rose Mrs Anna Ziesman Mrs Myrtie Drury and others with newborns and dates including March 14 March 16 and March 3 providing a compact roll of recent births and related remarks.
Sunday visits span Carroll and Iowa Falls with many local families hosting guests from Des Moines Webster City and Marshalltown. Attendees include the Fuller, Holsombo, Kuhn, Cordes, Dickinson and Swenson families among others with trips to Des Moines Minneapolis and Cedar Rapids for conventions, games and dances.
Obituary notes the death of Mrs. Mary Ellen Atteberry 90 in Wichita Kansas after a Feb 26 fall and moves from Knoxville to Pleasantville and Kansas. funeral held in Coldwater with Doris Atteberry of Yukon attending. relatives ship to Coldwater. Other notices include funeral in Waterloo for Fred Westcott 80 and medical update on Karen Sorensen after emergency surgery. Florence Herren visits in Jamestown, two weeks with sister. Kum Bak class to publish a church cook book. members and guests participate in entertainment and Bible quizzes. Vaughn Reece and Teddy return from North Carolina with parents in Reece. relatives trip to Florida for orange groves.
Lent inquiry sessions held Tuesdays at 8 p m in St Mary’s parish hall draw attendees from Eldora Union and New Providence. Father L V McDonough leads round table discussions on topics from spiritualism to atheism with no services or devotionals. Non Catholics welcome and sessions may continue after Lent if interest persists.
The Eldora Ministerial Association held a meeting last week to elect officers. Rev. Ralph B. Imes was chosen as chairman and Rev. H C Short as secretary treasurer, succeeding retiring Rev. W L Beasley and Hey R Schuler.
Ames Stover son of Mr and Mrs Ray M Stover Whitten and Betty Allenstein daughter of Mr and Mrs David Dillman Eldora are Hardin county residents who received degrees at the Iowa State College winter quarter graduation exercises. Stover earned a bachelor of science in animal husbandry and will work as Tama County youth assistant at Toledo. Allenstein earned a bachelor of science in home economics education.
The Eldora Masonic lodge holds a special communication Wednesday evening to confer the Master Mason degree. Refreshments will follow the lodge closing. Mrs George Haynes departed Monday for Des Moines to board a plane to Tucson Arizona for a period of time.
The Child Study Club hosts Al Bell of WHO Des Moines for an educational and entertaining lecture and color film Along the Alean in the gymnasium on Friday evening March 24 at 7 30. Bell traveled 18000 miles last summer presenting this program in 300 Iowa schools and service clubs and plans to film a similar program in Norway next summer.
Tangey and Alice Pool hostesses were present with Mrs Hd Mikkleson as a guest, more than 10 people attended. Several community updates cover Mrs John Martin confined at home, and W Bowen 88 in Grundy Center nursing home not well, plus musical comedy Tuasela in the Air by Ellsworth junior college students with Margaret Anderson and Bill Austin involvement. Social events include Providence Township Women visit and pastor course travels, with health concerns causing event cancellations.
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