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Newspaper
Hardin County Index
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1950
Page
9
N E Viles urges Eldora to build a combined junior-senior high center at current site with a parallel elementary setup. Report outlines options, cost notes, site use, and gymnasium changes while awaiting broader public input before decisions.
Joyce Snider of Hubbard was fifth in a field of 30 candidates at the Waterloo band festival Saturday for Miss Melody of 1950. A Hubbard High sophomore, she belongs to the band glee club and girls quartet, and received a pearl necklace and earrings from the Waterloo Junior Chamber of Commerce as her prize.
State Lake Beach at Pine Lake state park opens this Sunday for Memorial Day weekend with hours 10 am to 10 pm daily. Admission 16 cents for ages 12 and under on Sundays and holidays, 26 cents for older bathers. weekdays 16 cents all ages. Season tickets $2.44. kiddies 5 and under free. Lifeguard head will be Smith with Vaughn assisting. Betty Willig in bathhouse. hogsback stand run by Bob Travis on Sundays and holidays. Swimming instruction planned again this year under Red Cross or private setup. Weekend visitors include Mr and Mrs R J Burke of Des Moines.
Eldora veterans and posts of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsor a two part Memorial Day program in the courthouse square at 1 PM Tuesday. Rev Ralph B Imes will give the main address. John L Butler will speak at the Unknown Soldier grave. The parade to the cemetery follows with a full honor sequence and grave decorations at multiple local cemeteries. The event will be broadcast by WOI 640 k c and features Iowa journalists among the program participants.
Eldora senior barber Ted Rubow marks fifty years in his trade dating to May 1 1900 when he started in the Wisner opera house basement. Now 73 he works Saturdays in his shop run by his son George and Wendell Willcox. He began in 1900, kept prices of 25 10 and 5 cents, and has served four generations of the Marske family while winning a 1946 city cribbage title. The Rubows celebrate their golden anniversary on August 2.
The fourth annual Midwest Pony Sale opens today under K E Reisinger and Sons sponsorship. Over 300 ponies will be sold over two days at Eldora Livestock Sales pavilion with 5 000 visitors expected. Larger breeds lead today including Hackney Welch and harness show ponies, followed by over 200 Shetlands and ponies 46 inches and under tomorrow.
Eldora's Moser Lumber Co founded in 1885 by Charles Moser and Parker S. Davis marks 65 years in business. Harry Moser, city leader and former Legion commander, has led since 1917 with three generations of Dornbachs among longtime staff. The firm operates yards in Eldora, Le high, and Dayton, reflecting a long, steady family enterprise.
Five Eldora youths Edwin Anderson Orlan Mitchell Gordon Dickinson William Kebsehull Marvin Broer were named to attend Boys State at Camp Dodge June 4 11 with one more to be named Local organizations sponsoring the event include the American Legion Legion Auxiliary Rotary Chamber of Commerce V F W and Kiwanis Boys State is a citizenship encampment by the American Legion enrolling over 700 youths from across the state The enrollees form a model government with boys elected or appointed to public posts
Two new divorce petitions were filed in district court here. Edna Baker Wilson of New Providence seeks a divorce from Robert M. Wilson, charging cruel and inhuman treatment. Married in 1946 at Union, they have no children. Georgia L. Hickman of Eldora sues Lyle A. Hickman of Tama County for desertion, seeks custody of three children and child support. married in 1937.
Wilson Hadley of New Providence announced plans to ask voters in November for a bond issue to finance a county home addition. Supervisors studied county home needs and prefer a broader turnout. Counties pursue additions to relieve hospital congestion and save costs, with state paying $3 weekly per returned mental hospital case. An architect is drafting a smaller, cheaper preliminary plan. final cost awaits his report.
Several Eldora churches plan vacation Bible schools starting Monday with half day sessions. Methodist Congregational Lutheran and Baptist groups join in offering 8 to 11:30 a.m. programs on Living as Christians. Schools run for different durations with staff outlined at each church.
Doyle Felton, secretary of the Eldora Chamber of Commerce, has been received into membership in the Eldora Rotary Club.
The Rev Aarph B Imes of Eldora Congregational church says a Sunday worship will run 8 to 845 a m in June and most of July for vacationers and others unable to attend the 11 o clock service. The eight o'clock service is in addition to the usual Sunday program with the Sunday shoot at ten and the morning worship at eleven.
Hoover-Biserman post sponsors Memorial Day rites at the S. A. cemetery starting 10 a.m. Attorney Frank McGreevy will deliver the principal address with Rev. Howard Johnson as chaplain. Gordon Daleske reads Gettysburg Address. procession departs at 9:45 a.m. from the school. band, firing squad, and children decorate graves and perform.
The Wildlife Club will hold its regular May meeting at the clubhouse this Friday evening, postponed from the previous day. Plans for the new Hudson Memorial park are likely to be discussed during the session.
A kickoff event for Blue Ribbon days drew spectators to a street contest east of the courthouse. Jim McLeran presided, George O'Bryan kept records, and four Eldora attorneys judged. Kenny Norman won the regular golf title with Clarence Emmett second.
Eldora recorded 1.09 inches of rain over Wednesday day and night, per Thursday morning readings by government observer H. L. Cleveland.
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