Signs mark Berlin on picket fence bridge
The editor reflects on life’s ironies and a lighthearted sign joke as Berliners joke about division. A reproduced column lists editor W. L. Schmitt’s “10 facts of life” learned from four decades in Carlinville, noting deadlines, criticism, and the editor’s imperfect wealth.
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West Berlin
East Berlin
Ione Hildebrand
W. L. Schmitt
Carlinville, Illinois
Enquirer
Lehmiit
Rites Friday for Frank Berbohm 86
Frank Berbohm 86 died at his home Tuesday night after a two year illness. He leaves wife, one daughter Mrs Arthur Wygle of Greene, and four grandchildren. Service at 1:30 p m Friday at St Peter's Lutheran Church with Finchford burial.
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Frank Berbohm
Arthur Wygle
Greene
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Finchford
Investors Mutual Declares Dividend for 1962
The board of Investors Mutual Inc. has declared a quarterly dividend of 9 cents per share payable January 2, 1962 to shareholders of record December 29, 1961. The 85th consecutive dividend, funded from dividend and interest income, will total $14.4 million for 328,650 shareholders. Outstanding shares are about 160.1 million, up from 151.2 million a year ago.
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Investors Mutual, Inc
Investors Diversified Services, Inc
Corporal Daryl Shock On Furlough At Home
Corporal Daryl Shock spends furlough at his mother Mrs Lyle Shook and grandmother Mrs May Thorpe home. He has served in the Marines for twenty years and recently returned from thirteen months on Okinawa. He will report to Camp Pendleton in San Diego California on January 17.
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Daryl Shock
Lyle Shook
May Thorpe
Okinawa
Pendleton
San Diego
California
Rites Set for A. E. Stauffer in Greene
Albert Edgar Stauffer born October 26, 1887 in McCracken Kansas. He lived in Greene from childhood, married to Elsie I. DeLong, farmed until 1946, died January 2 after a long illness. Survived by wife, son Neil, daughters Dorothy Sherman and Berniece, six grandchildren, two brothers, five sisters. Funeral Thursday January 4 at 2:00 p.m. Methodist Church Greene. Burial Rose Hill Cemetery. Reid-Hamilton Funeral Chapel in charge.
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Albert Edgar Stauffer
McCracken
Kansas
George
Lucinda Stauffer
Cedar Rapids
Elsie I. DeLong
Greene
Neil
Clarksville
Francis
Dorothy) Sherman
Nora Springs
Berniece
John
Victor
May Kuhn
Edith DeLong
Edna
Fern Stauffer
Irvin McRoberts
Rockford
Methodist
Clayton Becker
Rose Hill Cemetery
Reid-Hamilton Funeral Chapel
Arc Welding School Begins Next Monday
An evening arc welding course for adult and young farmers opens at Greene Community School. Adults start Monday January 8 1962 and young farmers meet Tuesday January 9. A one dollar material fee covers the five week session. Students bring helmets and leather gloves. Richard Wagoner teaches.
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Greene Community School
Richard Wagoner
Urge Taxpayers to File Correct Returns
Internal Revenue Commission er Mortimer M. Caplin urges timely and accurate current returns as automatic processing begins January 1. He says the ADP system will aid compliance, detect failures, and notes civil penalties apply only for delinquency or negligence, with 6 percent interest due.
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Internal Revenue
Mortimer M. Caplin
Internal Revenue Service
Treasury
Dillion
ADP
Injuries Fatal To Edith Robinson
Miss Edith Robinson age 70 of Nashua died from injuries received in a December 26 accident near Wheatland. She had been a patient at St Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids. The crash also killed Mrs Maude Thomason. driver Mrs Clara Thomas of Nashua was reported improving.
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Wayne Thomason
Edith Robinson
Nashua
St. Luke's Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Miss Robinson
Wheatland
Maude Thomason
Clara Thomas
Feed Grain Signup Dates Named For 1962 Programs
Signup for 1962 feed grain and wheat programs runs February 5 through March 30. Butler County ASC Chairman Herman Stubbe announced the plan covering corn, grain sorghum, spring wheat, and spring barley acreages with full seeding wheat already signed up. The program includes voluntary participation, 20 percent base acreage diversion, in kind payments, advance payments, and price supports, plus mandatory 10 percent cut for spring wheat tied to a 55 million acre national allotment.
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Herman Stubbe
Butler County
ASC
Tatum Probes Greene School System Junior High Plans
The article outlines state and Dr James B Conant studies on junior high programs. It lists weekly class recommendations for arts languages sciences math and social studies and notes emphasis on core subjects. Conant urges gradual progression with reading goals and social development before early acceleration.
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Greene
State Department of Public Instructions
James B.conant
Conant
Con‘ant
Rites Held for Mrs. M. Thomason
Funeral services for Maude Thomason 71 were held at Martin Hammel Funeral Home Clarksville with interment at Oak Hill Washita. She died in a two car accident near Wheatland on December 26 en route to Florida. She taught school in Oklahoma and farmed in Iowa with husband Bert Thomason. Surviving are two sons Glylen and Wayne, her mother Elizabeth Bartlett, multiple siblings, eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Maude Thomason
Martin-Hammel Funeral Home
Clarksville
Oak Hill Cemetery
Washita
Dorothy
Harland Robinson
Gaylen
Cedar Falls
Wayne
Greene
Elizabeth Bartlett
Nashua
Wayne Bartlett
Decorah
Louis Bartlett
Charles City
Lloyd Robinson
Hermosa
South Dakota
Earl Robinson
Los Angeles
California
Barth son to depart for Navy base in Pensacola
James Barth leaves next Saturday to report to the Navy base at Pensacola Florida after a two week visit with his parents Mr and Mrs Gale Barth.
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James Barth
Navy
Pensacola
Florida
Gale Barth
James Loomer Returns Home After Tonsillectomy
James Loomer returned home from Cedar Valley Hospital in Charles City on Friday following a tonsillectomy performed on Thursday.
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James Loomer
Cedar Valley Hospital
Charles City
New Daughter for Mr and Mrs Joe MacAvoy of Alta Vista
Mr and Mrs Joe MacAvoy of Alta Vista are the new parents of a daughter born December 27. Mrs MacAvoy is the former Mary Gabel who formerly taught in Greene Community School.
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Joe MacAvoy
Alta Vista
MacAvoy
Mary Gabel
Greene Community School
Rites Held for Loren Ramker 69
Loren L. Ramker 69 died Saturday morning at the Veterans Hospital in Knoxville after forty years as a patient. Born November 1, 1892 in Greene to Theodore and Anna Ramker, he served in World War II and worked briefly at the local power plant. Survived by three brothers Leo in California Vern in Waterloo and Theodore in Greene. Funeral 9:30 Tuesday at St Marys Catholic Church with Rev P J Boyle. graveside service by American Legion Post 268 in St Marys Cemetery. Williams Mortuary handled arrangements.
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Loren L. Ramker
Veteran’s Hospital
Knoxville
Ife
Greene
Theodore
Anna Ramker
Leo
California
Vern
Waterloo
St. Mary's Catholic Church
P. J. Boyle
American Legion Post 268 of
St. Mary's Cemetery
Williams Mortuary
Burning of the Greens Ceremonies in Greene
Residents are asked to place discarded Christmas trees at the curb on Saturday morning January 6. Boy Scouts will collect them and haul to Klassi acres on the town north edge. That evening at 5 00 p m the Girl Scouts hold the Twelfth Night Burning of the Greens with a queen and brownie princess chosen and group singing.
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Greene
Boy Scouts
Klassi Acres
Girl Scouts
Brownies
Mrs Melva Majewski Returns Home After Surgery
Mrs Melva Majewski has returned home from Cedar Valley Hospital in Charles City after undergoing surgery.
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Melva Majewski
Cedar Valley Hospital
Charles City
Evangelist Ralph M. Davidson to Speak at Marble Rock
Coffeyville Kansas evangelist Ralph M. Davidson will conduct nightly services at Faith Baptist Church Marble Rock beginning January 9 through January 14 at 7 45 pm He previously ran Chicago stores taught evangelism with Moody Bible Institute and wrote tracts Salvation and Assurance The public is invited to attend Sunday services as well.
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Ralph M. Davidson
Coffeyville
Kansas
Faith Baptist
Moody Bible Institute
Davidson
Home From Hospital Rev Tr Devies Returns
Rev Tr Devies came home Sunday from Allen Memorial Hospital Waterloo after treatment started Thursday. John Groothuis went home to Charles City Monday following surgery Thursday morning.
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Tr. J. Devies
Allen Memorial Hospital
Waterloo
John Groothuis
Cedar Valley Hospital
Charles City
Founders Day Observed by Local Girl Scout Troops
Founders Day events featured Girl Scout groups from Greene with a twilit series of leagues, matches, and high scores across bowling and community leagues, culminating in a December 29 Founders Day tea at Greene Elementary. The program highlighted Brownies and Girl Scouts from 2nd through 8th grade, plus the original 1938 troop leaders and members in attendance and received tributes for long service.
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Greene Girl Scouts
Greene
America
Sara Jane Green
Max Weyand
Dean Ott
Loren McRoberts
Laverne Kehoe
Juliette Low
Herman Stubbe
Vern Rottler
James Drakle
Scouts
Girl Scouts
United States
Alma Heckman
Dorothea Debner
Dorothea Scratch
Waterloo
Vae Drelle
Dean Uhlenhopp
Hansell
Vae Uhlenhopp
Clear Lake
J. P. Hoben
Ralph Litterer
Claire Curtis
Clarence Starkweather, Jr
Emory Neumeyer
Marguerite Bloem
Hermine Bloem
Warren Turner
Mason City
Vicki Burroughs
Cliff Burroughs
Keith Drakle
Harry Green
Galen Martzahn
Young Farmer Class Plans Field Trip
The young farmer class will meet at 12:15 Saturday January 6 at the high school for a field trip to Clarence Seidel farm near Mason City. They will view a hog building sixty by three hundred sixty feet completed for year round hog production.
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Clarence Seidel
Mason City
Rites Held for Reinhard Wolff 73 of Nashua
Reinhard Wolff 73 of Nashua died December 28 at Veterans Hospital Iowa City after illness from kidney and bladder infection. He was born December 31 1887 in Ionia a World War I veteran. Survived by wife Martha a brother Max Henderson Nebraska two sisters Mrs David Tuttle of Tonia and Mrs Earl Garland of Waverly. Services Saturday 2 PM at First Methodist Nashua with Rev Raymond Ehlers officiating burial Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Reinhard Wolff
Nashua
Veteran’s Hospital
Iowa City
Ionia
Albert Wolff
Charles City
Greene
Martha
Max
Henderson
Nebraska
David Tuttle
Tonia
Earl Garland
Waverly
First Methodist Church
Raymond Ehlers
St. John Lutheran Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
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Arc Welding
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Marble Rock
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Albrecht Hatchery
Chevy Rollers
Greene Farm Equip
Desa’s
Chevy Rellers
Dean’s
Greene Farm Equipment
Kenneth Stewart
Elmer Stock
John Hamilton
Charles Starkweather
Jack Shultz
Jim McLennan
John Stock
Ross
Nettleton’s Ins
Kemming’s Sinclair
Miller Real Estate
Donovan Ruffridge
Bill Wihlm
Sperry Insurance
John Deere
Sherman’s Sport Shop
Jewell Feed
Davis Texaco
O'Brien
Jewell
O’brien
Jess Tornowske
Betty Steere
Barbara Stock
Lorraine Gabe
Myrt Sherman
Charmayne Sneed
Carol Shultz
Sputniks
Dorothy‘s
Brandt Elevator
Curtis Insurance
Allison Implement
Leona McCready
Irene Rover
Betty Markle
Dorothy Fischer
Helen Lester
Phyllis Jewell
Lois Jacobs
Evelyn Sowning
Greene Cafe
Murphy
Sportsman
Ian Allison
Harrison's
Stanton Livestock
Murphy Transportation
Sportsman’s Inn
Harrison’s
Allison
Annette Smith
Caroline Ellis
Kay Nordmeyer
Margeret Shultz
Gertie Marsh
Evelyn Behnke
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