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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1949
Page
6
Adults and prospective enrollees will attend registration sessions tonight at 7 30 p m at the high school to decide the number of students, cost, and courses for a 10 week Eidora adult evening school opening the first week in December. The school office notes no classes will run without sufficient interest and a minimum of 10 enrollments.
The post office will notify the telephone office on train mail arrival each morning and no calls will be connected until central operators confirm mail is distributed. This measure aims to speed up mail distribution starting December 1.
Eldora consolidated schools will dismiss at 3 00 tomorrow afternoon for a two day vacation Thanksgiving Day and Friday are observed with classes resuming Monday morning.
Mrs Ethel Satchell of Eldora reports fast results from a car for sale in the Friday Index. A Hubbard buyer called within hours and purchased that night. The ad underscores how classified listings can pay off when there is a market and readers see it in the regular or too late to classify section.
The Methodist Sunday School seeks 270 in attendance for the fourth Sunday program. Speaker Miss Catharine Cummings of Brooklyn Iowa, a Grinnell College graduate, Moody Institute alumna, has taught at Denmark and State Center and lives on a farm near Brooklyn. The service includes a memorial for late R Satchell former superintendent. Public invited.
A course to train men in dairy herd supervisory work will be held Dec. 5 to 24 at Iowa State college. Up to 20 men with high school education and dairy background can enroll. Twelve to 15 of the participants can be placed by Jan. 1. Supervisors work for dairy herd improvement associations, visiting farms to weigh milk, sample butterfat, weigh feed, set costs, and suggest improvements. Interested men may apply by writing Joe Hineman or the county extension director.
PMA formerly AA and holding community elections from November 28 to December 3 to select a three member community committee and a county delegate. Voting places include Concord Grant towns, Clay townships, Pleasant Eldora Jackson, Alden Buckeye Union Eldora Ellis Hardin and Iowa Falls sites with a December 3 county convention.
Eldora high School students will participate in a three hour all state music festival in Des Moines. The mixed chorus includes sopranos Mary Lu Heslop Ruth Guenther altos Mary Farmer Verlene Huehn tenors Kenny Sapp Gordon Lamb baritone Ives Allbee and bass Jerry Jondahl. Earning state band and orchestra posts at Ames came Pat Follett Dave Wilson Bob Halsey and Shirley Follette. Conductor William D Revelli leads the all state band. Joseph Wagner conducts the all state orchestra. Accompanied by Charles Britsch and Wayne Aurand the group will rehearse Friday and Saturday in Des Moines.
Ernes ine Wiechman of Hubbard and her daughter Karla sue George Dubberke over a November 22 1947 collision on the north south road near the Charles McCoy place. They allege negligence caused injuries including a knee disability and facial disfigurement with medical costs demanded and damages totaling 33 009.49 for the mother and 10 000 for Karla, with a jury trial requested.
The Radcliffe Baseball Association elected officers and set terms for the 1950 season. Will Topp remains president, Ray Thorson vice president, Amos Rorem secretary, and Bill Hoffman becomes treasurer. Board terms include three years for Topp Thorson and Rorem, two years for Priest Hendrickson and Kuhfus, and one year for Elke Olson and Hoffman. Ten umpires remain as official scorekeepers. The 1950 manager will be elected next spring after 60 stockholders approved the new board.
The B and F Hitang Construction company, longtime streetlight installer, has temporarily moved its headquarters to Victor. They expect to return to Bidora in about three months.
Representatives from county-wide organizations attend the Hardin county health council monthly meeting in the courtroom tonight at 8 p m. Dr Leonard Murray will speak as director of education for the state health department and the group will adopt its constitution.
Hardin County Agricultural Society to elect officers and directors at its annual meeting at 2 o clock Tuesday November 29 in the supervisors room of the courthouse. C W Haase secretary announces other business items on the agenda and invites public participation.
The American Legion sponsors the first weekly cribbage series to be held here tomorrow night at Walter Sayer post. Four handed play features two man teams with week to week scoring and a 1000 point evening total. Each game winner earns 100 points, with ten matches per session and substitutes allowed if a partner is present. The cribbage committee comprises Walter Wehrman, chairman, Ed Orgel and Max Van Derveer.
Mrs Eastman Nuckolls and Mrs J L Cameroon spent last Tuesday in Waterloo. Mrs Nuckolls visited Mrs W W Gibson to discuss the D A R while Mrs Cameron called on her daughter Mrs A A Anderson.
Walter Sayer post 140 Legionnaires held its November meeting with junior high and high school football squads, coaches, and officials as guests. Frank O Connor Iowa University golf coach narrated a film of the Iowa Oregon game and urged academics. The group pledged 500 for Eldora hospital expansion and Auxillary members served lunch.
Eldora business places and offices will be closed Thursday in observance of Thanksgiving. Pine Lake Wildlife club will meet tomorrow night at the organization's building near upper Pine Lake. Marriage licenses issued for Stephen Mullany and Rosemary Trickey, both of Iowa City and Owasa, and Herbert Smuck and Katherine Bennett, both of Alden.
John N. Lea of Eldora was among six initiated into the Farm Writers Guild, an honorary group of agricultural writers at the University of Missouri, during a ceremony last Thursday.
Marie Sielaff files for divorce from Herman Sielaff in district court here. The couple married in 1930 and seek custody of their minor son.
Ethel Satchel announces a public auction offering a five room home and five acres or more plus household goods. The sale is Saturday December 3 at 1 p.m. at the property located at 1802 11th Ave Eldora.
Sheriff Hodgson reported Marvin Thompson of Racine vicinity between Alden and Buckeye called Sunday night about a hog from which a two foot slice of meat was cut off. Thompson said an intruder with a knife did the slicing. Investigation planned Monday by the sheriff.
Services will be held Tuesday at 2 PM at Andrle-Creps funeral home for Stephen Sayer 85 who died Saturday night after a brief illness. The Rev W R Ehlert will officiate with Mrs F R Price singing. Burial in Eldora cemetery. Sayer born March 27 1864 in Bolby England came to the US at 18. Surviving: son Miles Sayer and daughter Ethel Leslie two brothers Tom Sayer and Robert Sayer two sisters Jennie Sivers and Georgia Cronk.
The Eldora Selective Service office will be open Tuesday and Wednesday this week instead of Tuesday and Thursday due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Roll-Harless post of Veterans of Foreign Wars holds its regular November meeting tomorrow night at the post home in town.
Blankenship Motor, Oldsmobile dealer in Eldora, has relocated to a new Wesrt Edgington avenue building two blocks from the square. Wayne A. Blankenship, owner, designed and constructed the structure, with interior work and a formal opening planned for mid January 1950 to coincide with the shop’s 20th anniversary. The facility includes a 114 by 66 foot main area, a 40 by 96 foot basement, a 40 by 24 foot rear washroom, nine glassed front windows, a built in front end service liner, a carbon monoxide extractor, radiant heating, and planned electroflex flooring in the northwest showroom. Interior work to finish in about six weeks.
The New Grand theatre will operate on its holiday schedule this Thursday with a matinee and two evening shows. The program features a all technicolor feature titled My Everything along with additional entertainment.
A union Thanksgiving service is planned by Methodist Congregational Baptist and Assembly of God churches at Gospel Tabernacle at 7 45 pm Wednesday November 23 The Rev Ralph B Imes Congregational pastor will deliver the sermon Music will be provided The public is invited Walter Jeske son of Mr and Mrs Otto Jeske Eldora was named chairman of the Agricultural Education Club banquet at Iowa State College in January He also serves as Iowa State YMCA city chairman publicity chairman and treasurer Gamma Delta and was state publicity chairman for Religion in Life Week at Iowa State.
Eleven Eldora firemen attend a county firemen meeting in Alden on Thursday evening where Robert C. Byron of Iowa State College spoke on farm fire fighting and rural financing of fire trucks. The Alden firemen served lunch. Attendees from Eldora included O. R. Lamb Guy Reid Sherrill Smith Frank Stewart Isa Chinburg 24 Hodge Al Cordes Rey Willcox Frank Migel Clifton Crogser and Floyd.
The state Veterans of Foreign Wars cribbage tournament planned to be entered by Roll-Harless post of ¢ dora was canceled due to the attorney general’s anti gambling campaign. An entry fee would have been charged and prizes awarded.
A brief Sunday snow fell in light intervals and melted quickly. In the evening the temperature dropped and remaining snow left an unmeasurable cover. Government moisture report was not completed by Monday morning.
At a Friday meeting of the soil conservation district, Richard D. Pulse of county extension was elected secretary for the district. Syd Roland of Alden, a commissioner, was named to represent the group at a short course in Ames in January.
A block of sidewalk was completed on south 12th avenue between the George Dickinson and Jesse Smith residences enabling postal carrier service for this block.
Hardin county residents face a January tax payment delay due to a statewide tax commission backlog. Valuations from county assessors were submitted months ago and await final adjustment, delaying the mill levy determination and tax receipts. Tax offices will begin posting adjusted figures and generating bills once the state acts, with about 13,000 to 14,000 receipts anticipated.
Ferman Christoffers of Shenandoah sells the Ackley World-Journal to J L Moore a 31 year old Shenandoah man. Moore takes ownership with possession to be transferred and becomes new publisher with past experience in Nebraska Ohio and at EMA station. Christoffers previously bought the World Journal from the Althouse estate after moving from Fort Dodge.
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