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Newspaper
Hardin County Index
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1949
Page
6
Donn J. Riekena of Wellsburg is named one of two appointees to the U S Naval Academy in Annapolis Md by Rep H R Gross Iowa’s third district. Nominees will enter next summer if they pass stringent physical and scholastic tests.
Deeds recorded transferring Lot 10, Block 1 in Osgood Oak Addition Iowa Falls from N H Petty and wife to Mary Ina Sherman dated 11 8 1949 and from E E Benedict and others as executors to H E Warner and wife dated 5 28 1949 for Sts Lot 6 Block 2 Greenman and Blawes Add Iowa Falls.
Steamboat Rock and nearby families hosted numerous holiday visits across the weekend. Guests included Marcella Potthoff, Frank and Smith families, and multiple households from Clear Lake, Iowa Falls, Osceola, Leighton, Lynnville, and Des Moines. The opening of Wally's Wagon drew 440 attendees with free refreshments donated by Leo Knight.
Judge A D Weber of Kansas State College named Grand Champion fat steer Judge Roy Bean a 1240 pound Hereford from Texas and Reserve Grand Champion Chino 8062 an 850 pound junior calf from Maryland at the 50th Anniversary International Livestock Show in Chicago. The Grand Champion sold for 11.50 per pound, earning the Pecos County 4-H Club a total of 15,155 dollars including prizes from the show and the American Hereford Association.
Blanche Cox Gifford reports local families visiting relatives for Christmas. Several residents plan holidays with kin in Reinbeck Cedar Rapids Ames Britt and Des Moines area. The church Christmas program is set for Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday service moves to 9 AM with Rev B H Harris delivering the sermon.
Pleasant township Farm Bureau hosts events on Dec 27 with a county wide program planning meeting on Dec 28. On Jan 3 Farm Bureau membership kickoff includes a dinner meeting in Eldora.
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