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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1945
Page
3
On the school ballot Monday the candidates are George Depew and Jim Anderson. Depew has served on the board and is president. Anderson was appointed to fill a vacancy and seeks a two year term. Elmee Brown also seeks reelection as treasurer for two years.
A preliminary tally shows the 1944-45 fur harvest reaching $1,991,411.94 with 655,042 fur bearers trapped by 18,544 licensed trappers and many more on private land. Musk rats lead in numbers and value, mink second, while fox and beaver shows modest gains. beaver reports incomplete.
No nominations were made for Sharpsburg school directors this year. Ballots will be printed on blank forms and voters must write in their chosen candidates.
Cecil Morgan who has been ill with heart trouble is now able to sit up a short time each day.
Extension poultry expert W R Whitfield urges Iowa poultrymen to hatch chicks early for meat and eggs, with a second brood in late spring if possible. Cool springs boost feed use and disease prevention while early market prices favor early summer and fall sales. The all pullet flock aims for higher egg output and better winter supply, shaping cockerel and roaster production.
Mea Frank Downing was taken to Clarinda hospital yesterday morning by ambulance for a checkup on her limb injured in a fall on the ice weeks ago. Mrs Agnes Walker accompanied her and returned on the noon train, but Downing remained for a few days.
Donald White formerly of Bedford now in Huntington Park California fractured his leg and back when a pile of tubing fell on him at a war plant. He is reported recovering satisfactorily.
A Manchester dentist removed a tooth on Saint Valentine’s Day from Mrs. M. D. Butner, who at 94 marked her birthday with the extraction. The piece highlights long-lived Delaware county residents including Mr. Hutson, who migrated from Wisconsin in 1869 and settled in Iowa after a wagon journey.
E R Graham of Hull shares a photo with his four new grandsons, two sets of twins born within a month to Ethel Graham Sudlivan of Pipestone Minnesota and Muriel Sawyer Graham of Hull. Twins aged 4 and 5 months. Old Quaker School Burns Eleven students and teacher narrowly escape a fire at Springwater Schoolhouse near Decorah. 88-year-old building dating to 1863. pupils now attend services at a local church. Quaker settlement linked to Springwater area.
A special meeting of Sunlight Lodge is called for this evening Thursday at 7 30 for conferring the first degrees. All members advised to attend and govern themselves accordingly. A good attendance is desired.
Mr and Mrs A D Scott celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at home in Gravity due to Mr Scott’s health. They wed March 6 1895 at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Robert Spade in Moscow township, with KE H Curtis officiating. They have six children including Mrs Ople Wiseheart of Champaign Illinois and Mrs Dorothy Gilling of Kansas City Missouri.
A letter from S Sgt John J Walker says he expects to return home soon after completing a few more missions on the western front. His mother, recently in Des Moines, will come home to open their house during his leave, and his brother Dick, a high school senior, plans to join the service after graduation. Meredith Walker is serving in Europe, and John notes they have not yet met in England. The entire Walker family is slated to be in the military.
A Bloomington Illinois farm owner found his wallet after a year and one month, its ration books inside. The tenant had plowed them up along with the wallet. By then ration points were worthless, but the owner grieved more over the lost books than the other contents.
Mise Louise Huntsman was taken to Clarinda hospital at four oclock Wednesday morning for an acute appendicitis attack. She underwent an operation successfully at nine oclock.
John G. Aldrich announces tighter 1945 canning sugar rules in the Omaha district. Applications start April 1 and run to October 31 1945 at local War Price and Rationing Boards. Five pound home canning coupons valid through November 30 plus one pound coupons issued for precise quotas.
Gerald Johnson of Winterset is hired jointly by the Taylor County Farm Bureau and Iowa State College as extension director for Taylor County, succeeding Robert Davie who resigns after nine and a half years. Davie will move to Atlantic to work as fieldman for the Iowa Farm Bureau covering seventeen counties including Taylor. Johnson, a 14 year agriculture instructor in Corning, is an ISU graduate. His wife and daughter will join him in Bedford after the current school year.
Regular school election in Gravity to be held at Town Hall on March 12 1945 polls open 12 noon to 7 pm A director for three years to succeed George Depew a director for two years to succeed Dr C E B Semler See pro tem J P Anderson acting treasurer for two years to succeed Elmer Brown H V Dowell Secretary pro tem
Rep. Paul Parrish and family spent spring recess in the county and returned to Des Moines Monday to stay until adjournment. He has heard voters’ advice and criticism, and will carry on with plans to finish his legislative work, hoping to please all.
Friends planned a birthday surprise at the Lock home yesterday evening. Guests included Mr and Mrs Jess Masker Mr and Mrs Cunt Hill Mr and Mrs George Depew Mr and Mrs Oren Price and Mr and Mrs Eid Lock with a basket lunch.
Dean Allen arrived home Saturday night from the Aleutian Islands on furlough and is visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Allen.
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