Dream to dollars: rise of a cash and carry chain
The 45th annual report recounts a founder who started with door to door grocery orders, then built a cash and carry system with low markups. From one store to 2,462 across 22 states and four provinces, the business now nears three quarters of a billion dollars in annual sales, highlighting local, opportunity driven growth and urging readers to pursue service ideas.
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Zanual
Enain Foe
United States
Canada
Local garden yields 61 potatoes from one hill
Clarinda resident C. C. Miller reports the food program spirit reaches his plot as one hill of potatoes yields 61 spuds, illustrating abundant garden harvests.
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C. C. Miller
Clarinda
Nine wells planned as Hunt drills near Redfield
Fletcher Hunt of Adair pursues a ninth oil well near Redfield after seven years of belief in oil beneath local farms. Indications are reportedly favorable. Albert Mein of Beaman killed a mother raccoon and ended up fostering four orphaned kits briefly before freeing them to resume farming. Transient Robert Riggan slept on a Corning railroad bridge, fell onto rocks from the structure, endured a rainy night, and was found by Beth Marr of Corning, then treated at Creston hospital for a fractured hip, bruises, and shock.
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Fletcher Hunt
Adair
Redfield
Albert Mein
Beaman
Robert Riggan
Corning
Beth Marr
Creston Hospital
First Skull for Smithsonian Arrives via Lewis and Clark
The Smithsonian Institute receives its inaugural skull carried back by the Lewis and Clark expedition from 1803 to 1806, marking a landmark acquisition for the museum's natural history collection.
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Smithsonian
The
Smithsonian Institute
Wensel Keeps Two Ferocious Wolf Cubs Near Allerton
Dean Wensel of near Allerton captured two wolf cubs two months ago and has kept them since. The cubs, now half grown, are ferocious and cannot be tamed, unlike a cub fox also kept by the Wensels which plays with the children like a kitten.
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Dean Wensel
Allerton
Wensels
Church Notices From Local Parishes
Immaculate Conception Church lists confessions on the first and third Saturdays and Masses on Sundays at 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. St Pauls Lutheran Church announces missionary Helen Danielson speaking Friday June 14 at 8:15 p.m. in Town Church with films. June 16 services at 9:30 a.m. South Walnut and 11:00 a.m. Town Church. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Town Church. Luther League meets Sunday at South Walnut Show home. South Walnut Ladies Aid Wednesday 2:30. choir Fridays 8:00 p.m. at Town Church. Visitors welcomed. First Lutheran Church notes Women’s Missionary Society meeting Friday June 14 at 2:30 p.m. at Hans Sandvik home. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. June 16. no Sunday services due to pastor at convention in Minneapolis. Tuesday choir practice 8:00 p.m. at Ole Thoreson home.
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St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Fred Jacobsen
Helen Danielson
Columbia
South Amerca
South Walnut Church
South Walnut
Luther League
First Lutheran Church
J. &. Masted
Women's Missionary Society
Hans Sandvik
Minneapolis
Ole Thoreson
L. D. R. Meeting and Lath Services Notice
Thursday June 20 the regular meeting of the L. D. R. will be held in the church at 8 00 p m entertained by Agnes and Clara Dalen This meeting will be a reception for the newly confirmed girls Our Savior s Lath Lost Island There will be no services or Sun day school this Sunday as the Pastor will be at the convention in Minne apolis Tuesday June 18 Prayer meeting at the Albert Norris home at 8 00 p.m
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Agnes
Clara Dalen
Our Savior’s
Lost Island
Minneapolis
Albert Norris
Divine Services and Church Activities Schedule
Next Sunday services at 9 45 with Pastor Hinderaker in charge. Sunday School and Bible classes at 11. Evening gathering honoring fathers at 8 with Pastor Hinderaker speaker. Confirmation class cancelled. Bible Study Thursday June 20 at 7 30. Choir rehearsal 8 15. Ladies Aid June 20 hosted by listed members. Lutheran Welfare Picnic June 23 at Ft Defiance State Park after church and Sunday school with Rev Howard Blegen 2 30 program. Immanuel Lutheran nearby events at Tuttle Lake.
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Pastor Hinderaker
Fathers
Ladies Aid
Mmes
Hilmer Larson
Lars Waldee
Normar Larson
Otis Jorstad
M. N. Jacobson
Lutheran Welfare
Ft. Defiance State Park
Howard Blegen
Immanuel Lutheran Church
C. B. Gunderson
Tuttle Lake
Hinderaker
Lake Mills
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Erickson
Graettinger
Texas
California
Valencia
Penick Syrup
Wheaties
Cook’s
Ivestock
Times
Confucius
Immaculate Conception Church
D. K. Hurley
G. W.C
Carton
C. A. Jense
Wallingford Lutheran
Come Bette
Rock Island
A. A. Halleck
Rock Island Passenger Station
Estherville
Iowa
Progres
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