Senior and Junior Class Notes Highlight Local School Activities
The 1952-53 school year features senior and junior class reports on class projects, literature units, and science topics. Students study Social Security, logarithms, plant phyla, British poets, and the March of Freedom unit. Activities include film viewing, India studies, agriculture lessons, and growing interest in drama, music, and handwriting skills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Isles
Thmas Gray
Robert Burns
William Wordworth
Charles Lamb
Samuel Coleridge
Washington
Lincoln
Two Cities
Far East
Georgana Falk
India
Africa
Eighth Grade Studies Heat Control and Triangle Similarities
In science the class explores heat control and other puzzling topics while in arithmetic they learn facts about similar triangles and prove similarity in two ways. They also study congruent triangles and watched Tale of Two Cities in literature class. Civics covers government basics as students memorize the Constitution preamble and part of the Declaration of Independence.
Notice of Incorporation for Elgin Canning Company
Notice is given that Elgin Canning Company in Elgin Fayette County Iowa has been reincorporated under Iowa statutes to engage in manufacturing canned and preserved foods and related activities. Capital stock set at 40000 dollars in 100 dollar shares, non assessable, corporate life twenty years from April 3 1953 unless dissolved by three fourths stock vote. Managed by a board of three to five directors with annual election on the second Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin Canning Company
Elgin
Fayette County
Iowa
State of
Elgin Canning Company Directors and Officers Named
The company will elect Directors and from them select President Vice-President and Treasurer. Until the January 1954 meeting the officers are Ernest Schori President and Director Elgin Iowa Karl Miller Vice-President and Director Elgin Iowa Albert Schori Secretary-Treasurer and Director Elgin Iowa George B Woodard Director West Union Iowa. The private property of stockholders shall not be liable for corporate debts. By Ernest Schori President Albert Schori Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Schori
Elgin
Iowa
Karl Miller
Albert Schori
George B. Woodard
West Union
Fragments on parenting and livestock use from Iowa paper
A miscellaneous Iowa City report touches on parenting advice for daughters, a hospital visit by Lew Gruver after major surgery, another surgery for Mrs Younker in Long Beach, and agricultural notes. It covers water needs for livestock, dairy yield gains from automatic drinking bowls, beef cattle water use, clover varieties, artificial insemination trends in Iowa, and corn rootworm control methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Lew Gruver
Regular Younker
Community Hospital
Long Beach
Calif
In Service Was a Soldier Address
Pvt Ivan E Torkelson of H Q Co 321st Sig Bn APO 107 is home on furlough. Mr and Mrs Ole Reierson and Glen visited Sgt Clarence Reierson in Cedar Rapids, returning from Korea for a 30 day furlough. Mr and Mrs Jake Schneider hosted a card party for Pvt Raymond Loftsgard on furlough with many attendees listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivan E. Torkelson
H. Q. Co
P.M
New York
N. Y
Ole Reierson
Glen
Cedar Rapids
Clarence Reierson
Korea
Jake Schneider
Pvt
Raymon Loftsgard
Messrs
Keith Brainard
Kenneth Anderson
DeVere Halverson
Mervin Reierson
Edwin Loftsgard
Lloyd Loftsgard
Orvin Loftsgard
Loras Heck
Ida Halverson
Marion Loftsgard
Junior Hanson
Ruth Loftsgard
Sharon and
Raymond
Louis Dennler
84 year old man dies in Panora shanty fire
An 84 year old resident of Panora area for 50 years, Chas. Rogers, perished when his two room shanty burned and was destroyed. Agricultural exports are expected to decline further as food supplies rise outside the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patsy Ann Capper
Pat
Deceember
Elgin
Patsy
Pat Akes
MYF
Rainbow
United States
Bobby
Panora
Chas. Rogers
Give Adolescent A Chance to Grow Up
Adolescent boys and girls seek growth but face obstacles. The piece argues for trust and responsibility, suggesting teens should earn money, hold after school jobs, and learn by doing. It condemns overprotection and urges adults to support teens as they approach adulthood, including eye surgery and personal independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo
Tenmacher
Vets
Iowa City
Mogic
In Hospital, Mrs Lew Gruver and Her Household Guests
Mrs Lew Gruver William Gruver Mrs Chas Gehring and Mrs John Barn reside at Clermont where they remain, amid ongoing hospital stay and local household matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lew Gruver
Wm.Gruver
Chas. Gehring
John Barnhouse
Clermont
Girls mature earlier than boys says a local planner excerpt
A group of six girls aged 13 or 14 perform on a foot bridge to attract two crawling anglers, illustrating girls maturing a year or two faster than boys both physically and socially. It notes early interest in the opposite sex, urges supervision, and calls for schools and parents to provide nonromantic activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Runyon Jones
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Janice Pinney
Karen Kiple
Jeanine Cook
Loreen Ittermann
Homer Marve
Frederick Music
Roberta Mosby
Ash Asst
Kenneth Crider
Mary, Brackin An
Norman Mitts
Marilana Ogle
Reva Medberry
Mary Ann Schaer
Marilyn West
Florence Muncie
Darlene Reierson
Glass
Marcia Wolf
Nancy Larson
Edith Gehring
Dixie Helms
Robinson
Zurbriggen
Shank
MD Welpaaa
Emerson
Midland
Kenland
Supe
Louis Schutte & Son
Postville
Funeral Home
O’neill Drug
Mtaa
The
Elgin Echo
Roddy Kitowatt
ABC
Nma
Reddy
Nterstate Power Ua
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