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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1946
Page
5
Governor Robert D Blue proclaims Saturday December 28 1946 as Iowa Centennial Day marking 100 years of statehood. The proclamation praises Iowa’s heritage industrious people and postwar opportunities while urging reflection on past hardships and future promises.
The Mazon City plant of American Crystal Sugar completes this year’s beet sugar run for Iowa with a total output exceeding 42 million pounds. Superintendent A R Finley says the yield is the largest since 1930 and equals about one sixth of Iowa’s 1947 population. The higher production contrasts with wartime cuts and poor weather that once caused a record low.
Patricia Carmichael celebrated her sixth birthday Saturday afternoon inviting Lois Smalley Laure Lee Smalley Marilyn Safley Majorie Safley Micki Pitman Penny Pitman and Roberta McGuire to her home. She received many gifts after games and fruit salad and coke were served by her mother.
Mr and Mrs Gee returned last week from a trip to Nebraska, ending a period away from home. The couple reported no incidents during their travels and are settling back in.
A contemporary pledge urges residents to embrace public duties and community service. It stresses responsibility to fellow citizens and the state, and envisions Iowa as the best place on earth through collective effort and civic action.
OPA said spare stamp 53 will be good for five pounds of sugar starting January 1 and an additional ration may arrive within four months. The agency expects the 1947 food stamp for 1946 to be validated before space stamp 3 expires. If sugar crop is large, a national five pounds per person in 1947 is possible, with home canning sugar rising to at least 10 pounds per person if supply holds.
Audrey E Joslyn and Gene Bryan both of Marysville California were married Thursday afternoon at the Christian church here. The bride daughter of Mrs Fern Joslyn of Clarinda and a Gravity high school graduate. They left after the ceremony for Clarinda then Friday morning for California to make their home.
Harold Leighton of Grav ity area was thrown from a wood wagon when it overturned Tuesday afternoon. He broke one leg below the knee and was taken to a Clarinda hospital for treatment.
Bob Morley and wife arrived Friday from Cedar Rapids to visit his parents and relatives during the week. Ray Walker returned home from Clarinda hospital Monday evening and is now at his residence.
The post office buzzes with Christmas mail as rural carriers handle a flood of parcels and cards. Despite high prices, deliveries remain robust as the community shops and celebrates, though the paper questions materialism and the true meaning of the season.
Moore Kimpton daughter of D Moore and Mr Homer on 400 of John Kimpton married Thursday near the Herbert farm northwest of Gravere. They host home to many friends offering wishes for a happy life. Dunkin buys in Omaha and will close sale January 8 then move to take over the business. Mrs Carl Garrett of Garrett attends the sister’s event.
A collage of short Iowa notices reports a mouse blocking a starter in Conrad, a pistol discharge injuring Robert Pappinfuss near Eldora, a banded pigeon traced to Holstein, sugar gifts from Denmark, a barnstorming Idaho tale ending with Walter Johnson, a drunken intruder in Harlan, a 50 year Mason milestone in Manson, a Denison heating pad fire, and 87 fox pelts bought for bounty in Washington County.
The Bedford gun club resumes its annual supper shoot at the shooting grounds east of Bedford starting Friday at 2:30 PM with an evening banquet. The event, paused during the war, is a key club tradition drawing members from the area, with several local members planning to attend.
Malvern Alexander, recently released from Des Moines hospital after a severe polio attack, came home for Christmas with his family. Walter drove him back, and Tre is slated for a December 30 checkup. His son Charles, also treated for polio at Des Moines, joined them for the holiday and is recovering well.
Merrell Leighton buys the 80 acre farm five miles north of Gravity from T. B. Turner of Corning and takes possession March 1. Carroll Posten operated the property for the past three years. Ervin and Bowers of Corning handled the deal.
A note states that after ears are marked to prove bounty payment, the hides will be resold. This implies a process where captured pelts are processed for sale following verification of owed bounties. The source emphasizes the sequence as a procedural step in wildlife management or enforcement.
In Newton Larry Hancon 10 and Johnny Thompson 6 were playmates when Johnny was seriously wounded by a rifle shot fired by Larry. Johnny is now in Newton hospital receiving treatment for his injuries.
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