01 Feb 1955
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Newspaper
Hardin County Index
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1955
Page
1
Special club offer announces rate options for the Hera County Index in the trade area. Rates listed include Iowa and other states, with town and member towns. Prices shown: $3.60 for single, $4.00, $4.50, and $5.50 for other plans.
The 45th birthday of the Boy Scouts is marked by recognizing units for conservation efforts. President Eisenhower, honorary president, will honor twelve Scouts and Explorers at the White House during Boy Scout Week for notable conservation achievements.
The weekend weather delighted residents as sleighing drew a crowd. Jackson township school faces discipline over a spelling school dispute. Allison plans a brick veneer building north of Al Meader’s wagon factory, car供应er shop on first floor. Eldora hosts tea, whist, and a flinch party. daily weather service begins. depot remodeling ahead. Eldora mayor aids sidewalk snow removal. marriages, deaths, and club notes round out the week. Local honors, sales, and new businesses appear throughout.
A compilation of 1954 1955 land transfer deeds shows Gwendolyn Lawler to Everett Lawler on 1 10 55 for land in 2 86 20. Everett to Gwen Lee Lawler on 1 26 55. Mable Lawler to Everett Lawler on 12 29 54. transfers involving R Hansen and C H Ringgardt. J A Brown to M V Havens on 10 20 54 for part held in Aud ard block Estes Place Iowa Falls.
Rumblings from Eldora report a miscommunication at Rotary Tuesday leaving no lunch program for the Eldora Youth Building fund. The sergeant at arms fines the Rotary Club $50 for the noon meal and redirects it to the youth project as momentum grows. The column notes local concerns on military calls, new housing, girls basketball, and a rise in postal card sales amid media competition.
San Diego letters praise local papers for public discourse and outline plans for a downtown city auditorium opposed by council. The piece highlights a modern high-low bed at a new city hospital, the famed zoo with 3500 animals, a fledgling red tailed black cockatoo offered at 750, and ongoing civic developments while noting community events and obituaries in Eldora area gardening and social notices.
Hubbard column lists visitors and dinners at local homes. Notable events include Mrs. J B Anseth of Mankato attending Theodore Towely’s funeral in Iowa, Rev Alvin Blome’s trip to Cincinnati for a church conference, and multiple family gatherings across Hubbard with neighbors and relatives from Ames Ames and Marshalltown. A local fire destroyed a plumbing shop and several birthday honors were observed.
Funeral services for a family following the death of a relative included burial in the Berlin cemetery near Owasa. Relatives traveling from out of town joined many siblings and in laws, with numerous attendees from Unionville Des Moines Marshalltown Unionville Alden Eldon Green City and Newton.
District 6 R P meeting at the Farm Bureau Building in Boone at 8:00 p.m. February 9. D H I A board meeting at 1:00 p.m. February 10 at the Extension Office. Girls 4 H demonstration training school at 10:00 a.m. February 12 at the Congregational Church in Eldora. Youth Building Fund drive kickoff at Owasa at 8:00 p.m. February 14.
Birthday dinner Sunday February 4 with Rev Dewey Lamprecht preaching in the afternoon. Chapel cemetery spell planned at Lowe McCormick home February 10. Miss Vicky Freese of Steamboat Rock visited grandparents A M Walker as Harold Freese Wyola Conner spent day in Marshalltown. Mrs Otis Waldo returned to Eldora hospital Wednesday. Dean Eggleston and Arthur Knowles at Arthur Knowles Thursday. Bertha and Belle Lytle learned of cousin Mrs Chancery Crosser funeral at Nevada Missouri Thursday. Crosser born and raised here attended Pleasant Center school and Chapel church. Lytle sisters ill and could not attend. Diane Hubbard visited uncle and aunt Adolph Balvant Tuesday evening. Daggs and Stephen Daggs left for Orange Park Florida to visit aunt and uncle C O Hunt and friends. Everett Rogers Maude Knowles and Lillian El Erding attended Eddie Thompson funeral at New Sharon Tuesday.
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