Elgin High School 1953 54 Highlights Baseball and Senior Sketch
Elgin High School reports a strong start for the baseball squad with 30 players, returning lettermen from last year and a March 15 first outside practice run by Coach Zurbriggen. The season schedule lists multiple away and home games through May including sectionals. girls basketball honors announce two Panthers as honorable mention and captains Donna Robinson and Janice Schori. Also included are senior sketches, kindergarten notes, and classroom activity rundowns detailing student life and projects from EMS.
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Elgin
Zurbriggen
Dennis Butikoler
Stan Boyer
Don Reierson
Glen Snyder
Bob Medberry
Norman Mitts
Allen Weston
Jim Schaer
Kent
Keith Crider
Hawkeye
Elkader
Clermont
Waukon
West Union
Alpha
Waucoma
EHS
Elgin Pantherettes
Iowa Daily Press Assn
Jeanine Cook
Fritzi Brackin
John Schoenfelder
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Donna Robinson
Janice Schori
Shirley Ann West
Marion District No. 4
Shirley
Sixth Grade Studies Plan Spring Art Show and Units
Sixth grade students are completing a reading unit The Great Outdoors and a science focus on the planets. Geography covered Japan and other Far East countries. Art work includes figurines with a spring show planned for late April or early May. Students write business letters and compile bibliographies.
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Japan
Korea
Far East
Alma Osterhus recovering after hernia operation in West Union
Alma Osterhus of Ossian 35 stays with son Albert Osterhus family in West Union while recovering from hernia surgery at Palmer hospital. A pre contest concert at the high school gym is planned for March 29 with soloists and groups entering preliminaries in West Union April 7 and 8.
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Alma Osterhus
Ossian
Ablert Osterhus
Palmer Hospital
West Union
Wm. B. Miller
Carman Swenson
Marykay
Ahlert Oster
Lincoln
Nebr
Conoco Oil Co
Waucoma
J. A. Erickson
Dean DeSart
Town
City social notes and local appointments in Iowa
Residents hosted visitors and dined with friends across Tipton and Cedar Rapids. Arthur Nelson Jr. completed dairy plant management studies at Iowa State College Ames and will manage the Borden ice cream factory in Cedar Rapids. Numerous local households hosted guests as community ties are documented alongside expense items and county board minutes noting general affairs.
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Willet Miller
Leslie
Laverne Sturame
Anita Olson
LaVerne Larson
Arthur Wilken
Strawberry Point
Lloyd Meigr
Reuben Erickson
Diane
Roger
Lansing
Esther Oelberg
Beverly and
Alyce
Selmer Erickson
Barbara Krueger
Edwin Krueger
Ahlert Osterhus
Tom L. Hauge
Sonja Lofstuen
Ossian
Harris Smorstad
Gary Lee
Decorah
Proceedings of County Board of Supervisors Continued
County board records list vendors and expenses including Reisner Sand Gravel Black dirt service ReHable Agency insurance Standard Oil Stoessel Oil Geo D. Smith acting coroner Spahn Rose Lumber Drain tile lath Thed Echmitt Apiary expense Sealion's Grocery Alfred Schlupp Salary Co Home Srhui Cash Grocery and others with amounts such as 49.00 4.09 26.22 184.28 TB.65 10.00 32.58 4.00 37.00 15.00 33.40.
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Renda Lace
Bill Co
Hiepp
Provn
Irvine Scehmidt
Sanitary Scale Co
Socany-Vacuum Ol Co
Everett G. Scott
TEE
Eeeereescrae
Ernie Thelin
Balling Rock
Traeger's Grocery
Fred Tschantz
Vree Printing Co
University Hospital
A. J. van Sise
Expense
Carl Weidemann
Express Webster Pub. Co
Gid
Robert Seilen
Evi
Woodland Canvalespent
Wilke “and We Ke
Sup
Ceesereere
Philip HL "Wolfe
Wilbur Motors
Wheeler Motor Co
West Union Motor Co
West Union Coop
Waterigo Bree
Citizen Wilson
Western Union Tei Co
West Union Creamery Co. Butter, Co
Young's
Geo. A. Younmang
Zeidler Conc
Mach. Co
Robert Wilson
Reisner Sand & Gravel Co
Eeesel
Credit Ass'n
Standard Oil Company
Stoessel Oil Co
Geo
D. Smith
Spahn & Rose
Thed Echmitt
Etubiee Des Free Geo
P. Schatz
Seailon’a Grocery
PYOVB
Alfred Schlupp
Salary, Co. Home
Srhui Cash Grocery
Iowa crop acreage plans for 1954 show shifts by crop
As of March 1 Iowa farmers plan a small overall increase in crop acreage from 1953 levels. Corn and flaxseed acreage are expected to fall, while oats spring wheat barley sorghum soybeans and hay acreage rise. High efficiency dairy rations rely on ample roughage and 4-H members stress healthy livestock and disease-free herds.
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Iowa
Early entomologists chart insect diversity in 19th century
In 1854 the first federal entomologists began collecting farm insect data. After a century they admit uncertainty about total insect species in the world or the U S. Each year they describe and name around 10,000 new insects.
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Edith Gehring Amistant
Marcia Walt Brush
Marilyn Schaer
Beverly Muehlethaler
Nona Mark
Mary Schaer
Kenny Crider
Stan Capper
John Falblass
Marilana Ogle
Florence Hofer
Linda Kiple
EMS
Burnell Blockhus
Nellie
Sunnydale Country School
BHS
Pleasant Valley
Uncle Sam
Egin High
Indergarten
Kaye Loftsgard
Margaret Jacob
Mr. Robinson
Karla Kohler
David Grether
Mary Jacob
Linda DeSart
David Lantz
Jeanne Sanders
Mdms
Reuben Butikofer
Will Christen
Joe Kjosa
Conner Dummermuth
Robert Faith
Woodrow Reed
Dale DeSart
Leon Shepard
Harold Dennler
Harry Feiler
Roger Reeder
Ervin
Sandy
Connie Dummermuth
David Kohler
Genevieve Kunath
Roberta Wilson
Billy Stephenson
John
Ben
Hazel Gehring County Auditor
County Board of Supervisors
E. R. Withell
D. C
State Bank Bldg
Elkader, Ta
L. R. Tappan
Optometrist
George Metzger
Bath Packing Co
Waterloo
House
R. T. Martin
Postville State Bank
Postville
Louis Schutte & Son
Clermont and
M. F. Schlein
Oak Drive
Huebner Corner
Muehlethaler
Lowell Thomas
Kaiser
CBS Radio Network
Clermont K-F Motors
Mill St
Clermont Slowa
Atime Moga Atom Motel
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