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Newspaper
Hardin County Index
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1955
Page
5
A long list of weekend and weekday visits across Steamboat Rock and nearby towns. Montros of Mt Vernon Marshalltown Des Moines Wichita Kan Elmendorf Wellston families, church events, plane trips, dinners, and many host homes are named, with numerous Johnsons, Harberts, Ruppelt, Frerichs, Havens, Beasley, Nassen, and others noted amid travel and hospitality updates.
Community spreads social visits across Milon Waitten Eldora Grundy Marshall townships with calls to the Eskridge, Rogers, Beasley and Wooten homes. A death in Austin Minn prompts Theodore Crosser to travel, while Leonard Blair recovers from a heart attack after hospital admission. Also listed is a budget hearing for the Milon Waitten Union Eldora district on August 3 1955 at Union Schoolhouse with expenditures and receipts to be reviewed.
Mrs. Dale Gibbs a recent bride was honored at a Friday afternoon shower at the Chester church. Mrs. Mervyn Wooten and Mrs. Wilbur Wooten led the event with readings and gift duties shared by Miss Marcia Green and others. Forty guests attended. Local residents on vacation and visiting relatives are noted, including Supt and Mrs. W. D. Murray at Gull Lake and John Beach visiting Farnhamville. The New Providence high school class of 1948 held a reunion at James Speas home with many attendees and office selections for next year.
Readable fragments show numerous reunions and visits including the Wilsons, Laughlins, Speas, Rains, and Hinshaw families in Des Moines Tama and Marshalltown. Attendees include relatives from Iowa City Le Grand Ferguson Richland Center Nevada and Bethel Grove with travels to Russia and India noted by Eleanor Zelliot.
Church notices list services and Bible classes for Point Pleasant churches including the Training School Chapel with Sunday worship at 10 00 am and 1 00 pm, Wednesday and Sunday classes, and various Catholic and Protestant activities plus community notices and local visits.
The Presbyterian Church Steamboat Rock Iowa lists Sunday School at 10 am Morning Worship at 11 am Communion The Passover Youth Fellowship at 6 45 pm Evening service 7 30 pm Hymn Sing at Quaker Heights plus St Paul Lutheran Zimmermann pastor notes Sunday July 25 Sunday School and Bible classes 9 am Divine Worship 10 am Monday Choir rehearsal 8 pm
Sherry Mitterer spent Wednesday and Thursday in the Ralph Balvanz home near Alden. Mrs. Gus Mitterer visited Tuesday afternoon in the Floyd Beasley home at Lawn Hill. Otto Bahr was a Saturday dinner guest in the W F Kulow home in Hubbard. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Walters called Sunday afternoon on Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Meeker. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Eggleston visited Tuesday evening with the Meekers.
Pauline Couly leads Chester Friends Church morning worship at 10:00. Sunday School at 11:00. Evening worship at Honey Creek at 8:00. Tuesday prayer meeting and monthly meeting. First Congregational church with Pastor R B Ines holds divine worship at 8:00 and 10:00 with Sunday School at 9:00 and adult class. sermon topic On Having a Real Religion.
The piece argues that if auto workers are paid while idle, broader economic depression could follow. A price support program might emerge, edging toward socialization, while independent car dealers, the crucial link between production and sales, receive no guarantees and often bear the losses.
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