Hyde County 4-H clubs show strong year of growth
Hyde County 4-H clubs report 21 clubs with 94 boys and 109 girls enrolled, largest since 1928, with 81 boys and 92 girls completing projects. Members raised 1010 chickens and 176 lambs hogs and cattle, planted two acres, and meal planning produced thousands of servings. County events included rural life Sunday and achievement day, with state fair ribbons in agriculture meal planning and garden exhibits.
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Highmore
Hyde County
Ing
Rural Life Sund
Otto School YCL Meeting Highlights Choir Songs
Troquois Dec 23 Otto School held its YCL meeting with Betty and Pricilla Scheid teaching songs learned in Hur on. Betty Scheid gave a report detailing the session and pupil participation.
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Otto School
YCL
Troquois
Betty
Pricilla Scheid
Huron
Betty Scheid
Students win prize in puzzle contest event
Students sold several Christmas seals and decorated trees as part of a puzzle contest. Mrs Schumacher teaches, and Betty Scheid reports on the activity detailing prize outcomes.
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Schumacher
Betty Scheid
Highmore Scouts Awarded At Court Of Honor
Highmore Boy Scout Troop 34 awarded Tenderfoot and Second Class pins to Gerry McDonald John Sarvis Jerry Tippens Wayne Peterson Loren Parker Willis Field send and Dean Burnham Jerry Holtzman Merlin Gramm Arnold Schock Merit badges for gardening to Lyle Markley Stanley Markley Keith Parker Kenneth Parker Alvin Schock Bernard Goehbring Kenneth Schneider and Dick Swanson plus swimming badge and perfect attendance. Service stars went to Arnold Scheck Dean Burnham Jack Matteson Stanley Markley Jerry Holtzman Merlin Gramm Willis Fieldsend and Lyle Fischer With thirteen older members earning service stars delayed due to availability.
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Aaghmore
Highmore Boy
Scout Troop
Legion Hail
Gerry McDonald
John Sarvis
Jerry Tippens
Wayne Peterson
Loren Parker
Willis Fieldsend
Dean Burnham
Jerry Holtzman
Merlin Gramm
Arnold Schock
Lyle Markley
Stanley Mark Jey
Keith Parker
Kenneth Parker
Alvin Schock
Bernard
Robert Day
W. W. Swanson
J. G. Ryan
Irene Storey Named DAR Candidate from Highmore High School
Irene Storey, senior at Highmore High School, selected as representative for state DAR good citizenship contest. An A student and editor of the Pirate Journal, she has held multiple student leadership roles and participated in choir, glee club, and 4-H. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Stoney, she attended rural grade schools and taught Sunday school. Spanish America first revolted not against the Spanish crown but
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Highmore
Irene Storey
Hasi
D.ar
Stoley
Benm
Bard
Student’ Association
Pirate Journal
Irene
Lawrence Stoney
Christmas Program at Logan Center School Draws Crowds
A Christmas program at Logan Center School Douglas County featured recitations by Milks and Walters and two skits by Legg Milks and Walters. Students enrolled include Donald Donnie Milks Elva Bonnie Thelma. Officers elected at a December meeting were Donald Milks president Thelma Legg vice president Bonnie Walters secretary.
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Logan’ Center School
Douglas Milks
Billy’ Walters
Legg
Milks
Walters
Cecil Metter
Miss Scheid
Donald L. Milks
Donnie Milks
Elva Walters
Bonnie Walters
Thelma Legg
Donald Milks
Charles Gilchrist
Beating Tobacco Shortage With Home Grown Weed
Memphis man Frank Sharbonno grows his own tobacco substitute in a backyard garden. He starts seeds in a cold frame, transplants in summer, harvests in October, and cures the crop for pipe smoking as an alternative during the tobacco shortage.
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Memphis
Tenn
Frank Sharbonno
Sharbonno
Combined Christmas Program and Basket Social Held
The Lindberg School with Edith Gilland and Whittier School with Eileen Baseman staged a combined Christmas program and basket social on December 17. Gifts were distributed, students presented mothers with stocking hangers, Ted Williams won a box of candy, and lunches were sold. Harvey Heckenlaible, reporter.
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Lindberg School
Edith Gilland
Whittier School
Eileen Baseman
Ted Wiliams
Harvey Heckenlaible
Two Local Soldiers Wounded and Captured in France
In Mottingham Kent two residents Charles Moore and Henry Spooner who shared the same street were wounded and captured in France in June 1940. Both men required arm amputations and were repatriated together.
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Mottingham
Kent
Eng
Charles Moore
Henry Spooner
France
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