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Newspaper
Greene Recorder
Location
Greene, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1968
Page
5
Thursday afternoon the Marble Rock Library hosted a book exchange. Tom Swanson arrived with about 750 books to stock shelves and collect boxed returns from the last three months. The selection spans fiction and non fiction for all ages from preschool to adult.
Lowell Lines has been moved from Floyd County Memorial Hospital to the Eleventh Street Chautauqua Nursing Home in Charles City, indicating a change in care location for the patient.
The Marble Rock Lions Club met in the Fellowship Hall of the Methodist Church Thursday. Delta Circle served dinner. Guests included Arthur Lines Danny Hearn Jim Ackley and Theresa Fraschi students at Rudd Rock Marble Rock High School. Students presented contest numbers that earned high ratings at the Speech Meet in Dubuque on March 23.
Marble Rock Elementary fifth graders led by Mrs. Ethel Moser toured Jim Rex’s farm to study farming practices and Ricky Rex’s 4 H pig project. They observed pig housing, feeding, and care, then visited chickens and sheep to learn egg production, lighting, wool value, and lamb care amid field notes by Donna Carney.
Marble Rock residents Mr. and Mrs. Walter Marsh joined Mr. and Mrs. Don Fluhrer of Charles City as Floyd County Supervisors at the annual Iowa County Supervisors gathering in Des Moines held at Hotel Savory from Wednesday through Friday. Also visiting were Mr. and Mrs. Verne Smith for a Sunday birthday dinner hosted by Mrs. Alberta Ostrander in Mason City. Norbert Diesberg of Denver and his wife visited their parents Mr. and Mrs. Galen Rex along with other relatives and friends from Waterloo Nora Springs and Den ver over the weekend.
Marble Rock garden club members gathered at Mrs. Ed Enabnit’s home for a Tuesday afternoon meeting with a 1:30 dessert luncheon. President Jim Coverby led the business session while Mrs. Maynard Reed led the fruit tree lesson.
Mrs Harold Taylor was discharged and returned home from Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City on Friday.
Report notes numerous bees around the area due to molasses in animal feed. Children received treats before the class resumed after a school break.
Mrs Robert Carney secretary of Missionary Personnel North Iowa Methodist Conference aided district WSC S meetings at LeMars Eagle Grove and Clear Lake with others from the local church attending in Clear Lake Mrs Carney installed as district secretary of spiritual growth term ends late April. Several local families and visitors attend baptisms funerals and family gatherings across Mason City Greene Des Moines Appleton Fayette and Cedar Rapids with multiple relatives named including Ott Reinhart Marsh and Menken.
Weekend visitors included Sam Scholes of Oak Ridge Tennessee and Leona Dorn of Osage at the Hall home. Dora Knoop hosted Mrs. Ron Hollingsworth and Johnnie of Rockford, while Lola Pringle hosted Lyle Pringle and Lynn of Sioux City. Ralph Beane attended an Iowa Association of School Administrators meeting in Ames with Mrs Beane visiting Edward Dodds's sister.
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