Editor Speake and Local SportsTribune Notes
Money is scarce. a Greene cribbage player skipped the local joust to give others a chance. Advertising boosts business. The big bowling match tonight pits Ross Miller against Kemming's. World mourns Frank Bucky OConner Iowa coach killed in Waterloo crash. he molded unknown players into a championship unit.
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Greene
Marshalltown
Ross & Miller
Kemming
Walt
Frank “Bucky” O'Conner
University of Iowa
Waterloo
Iowa
Bucky
Brethren Meeting Attended by Waterloo Church Members
Reverend and Mrs James Parks and Mesdames John McRoberts Fred Hardy Dayton Mather and Orval Kingery attended the sectional Women s and Men s meeting of the Church of the Brethren in Waterloo on Wednesday. Ralph E Smeltzer director of Social Education in Elgin Illinois spoke on Effective Local Participation in Brethren Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Parks
John McRoberts
Fred Hardy
Dayton Mather
Orval Kingery
Church of the Brethren
Waterloo
Ralph E. Smeltzer
Elgin
Illinois
Brethren
Marble Rock Winners In Music Event At Henlontown
Seven Marble Rock entries received ratings in the State Solo and Ensemble Contest at Henlontown on April 18 and 19. Division I winners include Margarett Shultz with a clarinet solo, a clarinet trio, a girls trio, a boys octave, a girls sextet, Sam Logsdon on tenor solo, and Valera Eaton on baritone saxophone solo. Division II winners include Marjorie Staudt on piano solo, Ruth Adams on trombone and soprano solos, and Donald Kelly on baritone solo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marble Rock
Hensontown
Margarett Shultz
Gils
Sam Logsdon
Valera Eaton
Marjorie Staudt
Ruth Adams
Donald Kelly
Veteran's Club Sponsoring Greene's Entry in County League
The Veteran's Club sponsors Greene's entry in the Butler County baseball league joining Allise Clarksville Dumont Parkersburg and Shell Rock. The season opens Sunday May 25 at 2 15 p m with the Independents hosting Allison. First practice is set for Sunday April 27 at 2 00 p m. Players within a 10 mile radius of Greene are eligible and newcomers moving in by June 25 qualify. Schedule includes five home Sunday games three Sunday away games and two Thursday night away games with Allison and Parkersburg hosting those Thursday games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ine Jocal Veteran's Club
Greene
Butler County Baseball League
Allise Clarksville
Dumont
Parkersburg
Shell Rock
Independents
Allison
Darrell Barth
Greene Senior Class Takes Skip Day Trip to Minneapolis
The Greene Community School senior class traveled to Minneapolis on April 18 and 19 aboard the Rock Island train. They toured the airport and Air Force Reserve Station, visited the Ice Follies, then spent Saturday shopping and sightseeing before returning home at 9:00 PM. Sponsors were Mrs. Helene Boller, Miss Glenda Landsgaard, and Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Tatum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Greene Community School
Minnesota
Greene
Rock Island
Air Force Reserve Station
Helene Boller
Glenda Landsgaard
V. J. Tatum
Hagartys Return From Visit To Tindall SD
Anne and Elizabeth Hagarty returned home Monday after visiting their brother Frank Hagarty and family in Tindall South Dakota.
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Anne
Elizabeth Hagarty
Frank Hagarty
Tindall
South Dakota
First Annual Greene Community School Revue Draws Crowd
A 600 strong audience packed the Greene High School for the First Annual Revue of the Greene Community School music departments. Performances included Miss Floozy 1958 by Mrs. Arvid Lindell and the Black Face Ushers, with organ music by a group of students. Wendell Debner hosted. Ticket prizes went to Charlene Young Pamela Drake and Anne Rottler. Appreciation gifts honored Ray Holtz and Glenda Landsgaard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greene Community School
Floozy
Arvid Lindell
Messers
Martin Senne
James Drakle
Paul Cheney
Clyde Stuntz
Diane Murphy
Carol Tatum
Cheryl Ott
Jeannettes Wirth
Annette Green
Lorene Butler
Hamilton Furniture Store
Wendell Debner
Charlene Young
Pamela Drake
Anne Rottler
Ray Holtz
Glenda Landsgaard
Music Mothers
Fire department responds twice to Greene area blazes
The Greene Fire Department was called to Edwin Marten farm east of Greene last Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. to an overheated oil stove. a neighbor extinguished it before arrival. Thursday morning at 8:30 they responded to Archie Raymond residence on Greene's west edge for a wall plug short that started a wall fire, quickly put out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greene Fire Department
Edwin Marten
Greene
Archie Raymond
Greene High to Administer Merit Scholarship Test
More than 19 Greene High School students will take the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test at 9 00 am on Tuesday April 29. Principal Bachman announced the test and noted that about 5 million dollars in Merit Scholarships and other awards are at stake in the national competition now entering its fourth year. In the first three years the program has awarded about 12 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greene High School
Bachman
To Hold Corn Planter Clinic at Charles City
Floyd County farmers prepare to plant over 100000 acres this season with a corn planter adjustment clinic at Charles City High School Bus Barn on Tuesday evening April 29 starting at 8 p.m. County Extension Director Dale M Studt announces. Iowa State College engineer Dale Hull joins local implement dealers Gabe and Hamilton Implement of Greene in presenting the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd County
Floyd County Extension Service
Charles City Vocational Agriculture Department
Charles City High School
Dale M. Studt
Dale Hull
Iowa State College
Gabe & Hamilton Implement of
Greene
Ridderings to Speak at Church Family Night
Albert Riddering and wife arrive in Charles City on furlough to share experiences as Presbyterian missionaries in Yucatan Mexico They will attend Sunday evening church family night with a pot luck supper and slides about running an 800 pupil Merida school They remain in town until end of May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Ridderings
Aljbert Riddering
Yucatan
Mexico
Local Youth Earned Iowa Farmer Degree
David Botterbrodt son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Botterbrodt will be awarded the Iowa Farmer Degree Friday April 25 in Sioux City Iowa. 206 outstanding F F A members from 129 vocational agriculture departments in the state will be awarded at the 30th annual Iowa F P A Convention. This is the highest degree conferred on members by the state organization. There were 282 applications from 153 vocational agriculture departments for this honor. It may be awarded to no more than two per cent of the 10 303 active F F A members in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Botterbrodt
Ernest Botterbrodt
Sioux City
Iowa
F.F.A
Property Sales in Dayton Mather and Beguelin Lots
Announcement records two property transfers: the Mrs. Ursula Lucas house on North Bluff Street sold to Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Truitt and three lots owned by Mrs. Emma Beguelin sold to Mr. and Mrs. Dean Lord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton Mather
Ursula Lucas
North Bluff Street
J. T. Truitt
Emma Beguelin
Dean Lord
Junior High Falls 4 3 at Parkersburg in lull rally
The Junior High Murmurers lost a close 4 to 3 game at Parkersburg on Thursday afternoon. Greene collected three runs and three hits with two errors, while Parkersburg had four unearned runs on one hit. Kenneth Barth of Greene led with a single and a double as Greene rallied from 4 0 down in the last inning, but Marsh was tagged out at the plate ending the rally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
Douglas Marsh
Buttier
Myers
Pruismer
Knock
Strassberg
Greene
Kenneth Barth
Ramblers
Marsh
SSCC To Conduct Field Clinic In Charles City May 2
State Services for Crippled Children will hold a one day field clinic at St John Lutheran Church Charles City May 2 for Mitchell Howard Cerro Gordo Floyd Chickasaw Butler and Franklin counties. Specialists will examine children under 21 years with chronic or crippling conditions referred by local doctors. No charge for services.
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Town City
State Services For Crippled Children
SSCC
Charles City
Mitchell
Howard
Cerro Gordo
Floyd
Chickasaw
Butler
Franklin
St. John Lutheran Church
Iowa City
Cribbage Tourney Winners At Round Grove Club
At the annual invitational cribbage tournament last Sunday afternoon at Round Grove Golf and Country Club J Kirschman Charles City won with 1208 Ruth Grant Charles City was second with 1198 John Harms Bristow third 1192 W Richerd Forest City and Bob Ecker fourth and fifth 1188 C Jacquis sixth 1186 George Lane Waverly and Al Tackenberg Cedar Falls seventh and eighth 1185 Eddie Enright Charles City ninth 1182 Ted Thorpe Greene tenth 1179 B Bolton Waverly eleventh 1176 E Kunkle Charles City BD Stewart Charles City and Dr P C Peck Greene twelfth place tie 1164
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Round Grove
Rites Held for Mrs J Beesley in Greene
Mrs James W Beesley died at her home in Greene at 1 10 am Sunday after a long illness. Born September 17 1876 in Liscomb Iowa she married James Beesley February 9 1899. Survived by husband sixteen daughters eleven grandchildren twenty four great grandchildren and one great great granddaughter. Funeral Tuesday 2 20 pm Williams Mortuary Rev G F Butler First Presbyterian officiating burial Rose Hill Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Beesley
Greene
Liscomb
Iowa
Albert
Nancy Large
Mr. Beesley
Ethel Kivell
Shell Rock
Alyce Johnson
James Stanton Attends 41st Finkbine Dinner at Iowa Union
James Stanton son of Mr and Mrs Ambrose Stanton attends the 41st annual Finkbine dinner held Wednesday at the Iowa Memorial Union on the University of Iowa campus. The event honors male campus leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Stanton
Ambrose Stanton
Iowa Memorial Union
University of Iowa
Rites Held for Ralph M Reed
Ralph M Reed died Wednesday morning April 16 in North Glendale Hospital Glendale California after a life in Tama Brooklyn and Glendale Survivors include brother H R Reed Glendale and sister Mrs Paul Ott Greene Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 00 pm at Kiefer and Ergerich Mortuary burial at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Mr and Mrs Ott left Greene March 20 by plane to be with him
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph M. Reed
North Glendale
Glendale
California
Tama
Brooklyn
H. R. Reed
Paul Ott
Greene
Kiefer and Ergerich
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
New Books at The Public Library
Greene Public Library adds several notable titles including The Movies The sixty year story of Hollywood in 1000 pictures and text The American Indians a pictorial history by Oliver LaFarge Lifeline in the Sky about US Military Air Transport Service Master of Deceit by J Edgar Hoover and What to Cook for Company by Lenore Sullivan A different kind of cook book The quote about reading closes the note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greene Public Library
Hollywood
America
Oliver LaFarge
The
Association On American Indian Affairs
Lifeline
Clayton Wright
J. Edgar Hoover
Lenore Sullivan
Organ Dedication at Brethren Church Planned
A 2:30 PM Sunday service on April 27 at the Brethren Church will dedicate the Gulbransen organ and new hymnals. Several people will plan and play the organ with vocal numbers and congregational singing. Youth members sponsored the fund drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chin of the Brethren
Last Weeks Bowling Results From Wednesday Night Leagues
Last week details for Wednesday Night Rollers and Bristow Elevator league results. John Deere Implement led at 519 series with Ackley Grinders and Luther An Brotherhood near top. High games included J Hamilton 237 and BR Herre 213 as Bristow Elevator led with 493 series for V Rindels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Wedness
John Deere
Ackley Grinder
Lutheran Brother
Greene Motor
McRoberts
Gabe & Ham
J.in Deere
J. Race
Ackley Grinders
R. Hemline
McRobert
D. Smith
Geer & Hamilton
Jamilton
Allen
J. Hamilton
BR. Herre
Wednesda Night Rollers
Bristow Elevator
Willey's Clothini
Miller Real
Nettleton Insurance
Kemming’s Limur
Ross & Mille, Plumbing
V. Rindels
Willey’s
Robert Cowleys to Speak At Baptist Mid-Week Service
Rev and Mrs Robert J Cowley longtime mission workers in French West Africa will speak at Calvary Baptist Church Greene during the Mid-Week Service on Thursday April 24 at 8 00 pm Pictures from the Aviation Training Course will be shown and Cowley will describe future airplane use on the mission field They plan to begin language study in France this fall before Africa assignment
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert J. Cowley
French West Africa
Calvary Baptist Church
Greene
Iowa State College
Ames
Rev. Cowley
Navy
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Cowley
France
Africa
Calvary Baptist
Iowa delegate from Butler County returns from Washington tour
Mrs Harry Brinkmann chair of the Butler County Farm Woman's club traveled from Iowa with 66 delegates to Washington D C. The group visited Mt Vernon Virginia Arlington National Cemetery and watched the changing of the guard at the grave of the unknown soldier before returning home Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Brinkmann
Butler County
Washington, D.C
Iowa
Mt. Vernon
Virginia
Arlington National Cemetery
First Methodist Church Welcomes New Members
New members taken into the First Methodist Church on Sunday include Mrs Hazel McNally Keith Shapely Clarence Shultz Sr Mr and Mrs Walter Kyle and Mr and Mrs Arthur Stark weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Hazel McNally
Keith Shapely
Clarence Shultz
Walter Kyle
Arthur Starkweather
Ramblers Claim Fourth Corn Bowl Track Crown in Confab
Greene High School Ramblers swept to the Corn Bowl Track Championship with 704 points at Charles City, led by Harris and Slocum in sprint events and Landers in hurdles. Nashua, Riceville, Manly, St Ansgar, Rockford, and Nora Springs trailed as Greene set school and conference records. The team also posted a baseball note with losses to Shell Rock and Clarksville and an upcoming Parkersburg game and Spring sectional at Rockford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rambler
Charles City
Norman
Bud” Walters
Walter
Nashua
Riceville
Manly
St. Ansgar
Rockford
Nora Springs
Harris
Slocum
Landers
Pierce
Burroughs
Kepple
D. Menken
Greene
Ramblers
Miller
Grendler
J. Menken
Brinkman
Barth
Teachers College
Stag Supper At Round Grove Golf Club
A stag supper is planned at Round Grove Golf and Country Club on Tuesday evening April 29. A film of an 18 hole golf match between Sam Snead and Terry (T) Middlecoff will be shown. Committee members include Clyde Juntz Paul Lewiston James Sextor Gerald Eimers Robert Tornowske Vern Rottler Robert Mead Martin Senne Dell Curtis and Clarence Barnett.
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Round Grove Golf and Country Club
Sam Sneed
Terry Middlecoff
Clyde Juntz
Paul Lewiston
James Sextor
Gerald Eimers
Robert Tornowske
Vern Rottler
Robert Mead
Martin Senne
Dell Curtis
Clarence Barnett
Portable steam engine erected by Hesses for display and charity
Andrew F Hesse and his son rebuilt a stationary boiler into a mobile steam engine mounted on a 1985 Chevrolet. The unit uses a 120 degree steam valve, carries water and coal, and runs at five mph. They plan to display it in Cedar Falls and nearby towns on Saturday evenings to raise funds for crippled children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew F. Hesse
Marble Rock
Hesse
Elmer Crawford
Clarks Je
Mr Hesse
Cedar Falls
Powersville
Guy Kinnetop
Chirksville
Min G. Mather
Chris Hooder
Mr. Hesse
Hood
Newborn Daughter for Wayne and Mary Meek at Cedar Valley
Mr and Mrs Wayne Meek welcome a daughter born Wednesday April 9 at Cedar Valley Hospital Charles City. The girl weighs Ibs. ': ounces and is named Jayne Marie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Meek
Cedar Valley Hospital
Charles City
Jayne Marie
Town-Wide Clean-Up Set For Next Monday
The Greene Improvement committee declares next Monday April 28 as Town-Wide Clean Up Day. Two trucks and crews will collect residents rubbish if boxed and ready. If any trash was missed Monday, call Dale Willey for a truck on Tuesday.
Plan Trail Ride at Aaron Jewell Farm Area
The Hoofbeats host a trail ride on April 1 at 11 00 starting from Aaron Jewell farm or Stanton's Woods. Riders should bring a sack lunch.
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Aaron Jewell Farm
Stanton’s Woods
Red Cross Elected Officers At Meeting In Allison On Friday
The Butler County American Red Cross held its annual meeting in Allison city hall on Friday evening April 18 with acting chairman reports praising ongoing countywide service. Elmer Bramer retired as chapter chairman. Miss Elizabeth Chapman urged mandatory Home Service and Disaster programs and new directors named include LOL Nichols Vernon Hassman Mrs Royal Hart Mrs Glenn Masters Mrs Chris Brinkman Donn Buses and Reimnold Gerdes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler County
American Red Cross
Allison
Elmer Bramer
Elzabeth Chapman
American National Red Cross
Lol Nichols
Dasieon Township
Vernon Hassman
Builer Township
Royal Hart
Shell Rock
Glenn Masters
New Hartford
Chris Brinkman
Alison
Donn Buses
Reimnold Gerdes
Aplington
Lester Schrage
Chap
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Henlontown
Veteran's Club
Fire Department
Iowa Farmer
David Botterbroot
Junior High
J. Beesley
Public
Brethren Church
Robert Cowleys
Baptist
Swamp Foes
Greene High School Ramblers
Clarksville
Wunsch
Wharton
Stubbe
Reiter
Savage
Niehaus
Meagarty
Oliver Tractor Works
Charles Civ
Hesses
Donald
Omaha
Nebraska
Due
Laverne
Air Force
Marvin
Moerble Rock
Phyllis
Alf
Betty Kock
Clarence Sharp
Red Cross
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