Union News Items Precede Missionary Society Meeting
The Community church Missionary Society met on Wednesday afternoon in the social room. Seven boxes of clothing were sent to the Dessie Scott Childrens Home in Kentucky. Two hymns were sung with Mrs. C. N. Brace at the piano. Mrs. Henry Bradley chose Faith as the devotional subject, reading from Matthew 26 and an article on the topic. Mrs. Boyd Reece gave a history of the Amana and Hutterite colonies, read Hints on Gardening, and a poem God Made a Garden. President Mrs. Fred Cummins presided, reading letters from Piney Woods School in Mississippi and Esther Pushee of Dessie Scott Home in Kentucky, thanking the society for its gifts. A letter from Mr. and Mrs. John Norton, recently arrived from India, noted Mrs. Norton’s improving health. their daughter Ruth remained on the field, and they reside at Shockland, Ohio. Secretary Mrs. Paul Glenney read a note from Anna Shanz in Chiquimula, Guatemala CA. Conversation ended with plant exchanges and refreshments served by several ladies. Three service members arrived from Lackland AFB to spend leave. their families met them at the Des Moines airport. Mr. and Mrs. Lepley, returning from Williamsport, Pa., discuss moving to Buffalo, New York. Shirley Vernon visited from Des Moines, and Floyd and Pat Ellis planned a Albuquerque trip to visit William Bowser’s family.
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Community Church Missionary Society
Church
Dessie Scott
Kentucky
C. N. Brace
Henry Bradley
Boyd Reece
Amana
Hatterslea
Fred Cummins
Piney Woods
Mississippi
Esther Pushee
Dessie Scott Childrens Home
Society
John
W. H. Lepley
Williamsport
Ronald Lepley
Lepley
Sylvania Electric Company
Buffalo
New York
Shirley Vernon
Des Moines
Harold Vaux
Floyd Ellis
Albuquerque
New Mexico
William Bowser
Bowser
Pat Elis
Wayne Ellis
Early Steamboat settlers and railroad arrival tale
This memoir excerpt recounts 1848 settlement along the river at Steamboat Rock with George Folgeter and Henry Potgeter, noting log cabins, a Steamboat grist mill, and wheat farming. It covers 1868 railroad expansion by Eldora coal line, a pioneer private bank by Dan Turner, a bulk elevator, and local family links to Steamboat's later commerce.
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iGeorge Folgeter
Henry Potgeter
Herbert Quick
Dodge
Vandemarks Folley
Eldora Coal and Railroad Company
Eldora
Steamboat Rock
Ackley
Ilinois Central
Lathrop and Timson
Hall & Conger
Dan Turner
New York State
Oldest Grain Elevator Family in Town Traces Century of Labor
The narrative recalls early 1900s grain operations in Eldora including a Lennox one cylinder gas engine powering an elevator, later electrified in 1912, and the Turner elevator acquired around 1910. It covers banking tough times, grain trades with McKeen Duren and Henry Luiken, and the family’s continued leadership of the business since 1918, now in its third generation with Ed entering the business.
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Dad
Lennox Company
Marshalltown
Turner
Eldora
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