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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1956
Page
5
Iowa Falls, Grundy Center, and Eldora host driver license scheduling with times listed. Iowa Falls 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, Grundy Center 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Eldora 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday. No tests after half an hour before closing. Closed on holidays.
New Providence hosts a Thursday October 26 1 30 pm lesson on Flower Arrangement of Winter Bouquets at Mrs Abner White s home replacing the cancelled First Aid session The New Providence United Society of Friends Women meet October 4 at 2 pm at the church Several local births sales and agricultural events are noted including Janet Sue Humphreys birth Merle Cox s Hampshire Show win and FFA judging teams at the National Dairy Cattle Congress Kansas City area activities at Honey Creek Quaker Heights and Ames Art Festival plans
Mr and Mrs Floyd Beasley and guests from Chariton to State Center share dinners and visits. People from Boone Ames Radcliffe Hubbard and Hubbard attend gatherings at various homes. Pleasant Township 4-H hosts a hayride Saturday evening with club members invited.
A Roughwoods hall gathering for girls and 4-H participants drew about fifty attendees with chaperons listed. Numerous visits and social calls followed at Eldora and surrounding towns including Waterloo, Des Moines, Norwalk, and Union, with church and family visits noted and activities such as a piano duet and a Grand Old Opera outing at KRNT theater.
No school here on Monday October 8 as teachers attend the Hardin and Franklin county meeting at Iowa Falls. The gathering is sponsored by the state department of public instruction with the assistance of the county superintendents.
Mrs Helen Curtis and Harvey Herrold's family visited relatives in Grand River. Herrold injured by hammer steel in eye, taken to Des Moines hospital for removal. Floyd Trickey suffered a compound right arm fracture in a fall at home. G C Perkins of Ackley visited. Crusaders meeting at Miss Karen Green's home. Owasa Community school district held a potluck at the school with teachers as guests. Owasa W S C S met with 10 members. Paved road strip from Owasa to Highway 65 opened Sept 27. Owasa High School junior class began practice for the play Meet Me In St Louis to be staged in October.
Eldora school teachers received Sheaffer cartridge pens from Marks Drug of Eldora. The pens are filled with an ink cartridge inserted in the barrel, avoiding a separate ink bottle.
The Union Whitten Community Club will meet this afternoon in the junior high school gymnasium at Whit ten. The program features a panel discussion on child training through parent education.
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