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Newspaper
Hardin County Index
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1951
Page
2
Whitten residents hosted and visited relatives over the weekend with gatherings in Union, Marshaltown, and Clinton. Ed Mabie’s hospitalization in Norwich Conn. is reported, while Franklin and Hathaway families plan notes and memorial day observances.
Bible study group hosted Ed Hasch and Alice leaving for Wichita after prayer meeting. Wm Penn college graduates Herman Harris and others attended exercises in Oskaloosa. Alumni picnic, officers elected, and date change to Memorial Day 1952 noted. Community updates include new managers Bert Terry and Joe Antwine at Union Telephone, family visits, and advisory board meeting plans.
Des Moines visitors brief us with Donald Hornung sent to Camp Dodge for Bays State. Numerous Sunday and weekend gatherings include the Bekemeiers, Klemmes, Gelhauses, Dubberkes, Richards, Andrews, Muehling, Case, and Gerlach families. Residents travel to Ames and Radcliffe for dinners and to Watertown for work.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lepley learned Monday that Lepley’s sister Mrs. Rose McMillan of Pasadena California died at her home last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Kinney joined Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Callaway of Whitten for a weekend fishing trip in Cleveland Minnesota. Glen Fagan is a patient at Mercy Hospital in Mason City after a serious heart attack.
Families from New Providence Eldora Manly Des Moines and Waterloo visited in the Clyde Hough and Clint Long homes and other local houses. Numerous guests shared dinners and suppers including Bernadine Landon and extended kin from Town Falls Boone Cole Amos and Williams with local families hosting potluck gatherings.
Students who will work during summer vacations must have social security numbers, says Earl T. Johnson, manager of the Waterloo Social Security field office. Applies to all students regardless of age or temporary, part time, or few hours work.
Students must have a social security number even if they are the sole employee. Those who lost their cards should obtain duplicates. All applications must be checked at the central office before issuance, about one week. Wages reported for student SS numbers go to the SS accounts and affect eligibility and benefit amounts. A Waterloo SSA representative will be at Eldora Court House on Thursday June 21 from 10 am to 12 noon.
A historical note states John Bunyan authored Pilgrim's Progress during his imprisonment, while a second fact mentions that around the equator the Earth’s circumference exceeds that of the meridian.
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