Polio Patient John Roupe Services Today at Eldora Church
Services for John Robert Roupe 37 of Eldora will be at 2:30 p m today at the First Congregational Church. Roupe, a polio patient hospitalized for nearly seven years, died Tuesday night at the Veterans Hospital in Des Moines. Interment will be in Eldora cemetery with military rites. He was a WWII Army Air Force veteran and a bookkeeper, member of the Congregational church, Masons, Eastern Star, and American Legion.
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First Congregational Church
John Robert Roupe
Eldora
Roupe
Veterans Hospital
Dee Moines
Ralph B. Imes
Longenecker Funeral Home
Eldora Cemetery
Russell C. Roupe
Tie
Farmer's Co-operative Creamery
Congregational Church
Masonic Lodge
The
Order of Eastern Star
American Legion
Exourh
Lmltéd
Long Battle Against Polio Inspires Eldora Community
John Roupe fought polio for seven years with courage and faith, inspiring local support as Hardin County's National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis chapter spent over $8,000 aiding his care and visiting him at home. The town and state contributed to fund drives to help Roupe endure the disease and cling to hope.
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John Roupe
Eldora
Wilson Hadley
Hardin County
National Foundation For
Newspaper schedule shifts for Labor Day week
The Eldora Herald Ledger and Hardin County Index publish date changes due to Labor Day. Subscribers in Hardin County will receive Eldora on Wednesday instead of Tuesday and the Hardin County Index on Friday next week.
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Eldora Herald-Ledger
Hardin County Index
Rites Held For Eldora Woman’s Mother Mrs Margaret Bradley
Services were held Wednesday morning at Fort Dodze for Mrs Margaret Bradley mother of Mrs Margaret Otto of Eldora. Mrs Bradley died last Sunday evening. Interment was in St Patrick cemetery on the Lizard at Fort Dodge. She is survived by seven children Deloria Jean Nancy Louise Dean Raymond and Joseph Otto of Eldora. Their mother attended the services and returned to Eldora with them.
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Fort Dodze
Margaret Bradley
Margaret Otto
Eldora
Local births and hospital notes across towns
A list of names and places shows births and hospital entries. Entries include Eldora Christina hospital notices for various residents such as Augusta Daleske and Effie Ellsworth, with dates around September 1. Other communities named include Garden City Steamboat Rock Ackley Hubbard Blairsburg and New Providence.
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Eldora
Dora Hetrard
Augusta Daleske
Ivan Huen
Effie Ellsworth
Fannie Duren-Boyd
Marvin Krause
Pleas Hobson
Blanche Hinshaw
Ackley
Ben Reece
Garden City
Ole H. Segiem
Steamboat Rock
Albert W. Rosa
Town Falls
Oliver Wright
Radcliffe
Wayne Warhumy
New Providence
Sarah Reece
Herold B. Flanagan
Blairsburg
R. N. Culbertson
Hubbard
Charlotte Walters
Lena Brandt
Geo, Hornung
Conrad
Guy Aiken
V. S. Wennersten
August heat records set at El Dora local weather
El Dora weather man Charley Frank notes fifteen days with 90 plus degrees in August. The average temp was 78.60, high 101 on August 1, low 54 on August 31, seven rain events totaling six inches, heaviest 3.4 inches on August ath. Last year’s August averaged 72.82 with 92 high and 56 low, twelve rain events totaling 15.2 inches.
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Charley Frank
Eldora
Miller Trust Placed on Grace Miller Property in Ackley
Grace Pot ter Miller's Ackley holdings placed in a June 27 trust filed July 26 naming Ralph Miller of Chicago and George L. Nissly as trustees. The trust includes 320 and 120 acre Franklin county farms, a 400 acre Grundy county farm, lots 5-12 in block 16 Ackley, various stocks, a note from 1953, and utility bonds. Trustees to pay Mrs. Miller income monthly, with discretionary use for disability, and Ralph Miller as tie-breaking decisionmaker in disputes. Full distribution to the grandson after Mrs. Miller's death, or to Karin Miller and their children if Miller dies first, then to Mrs. Miller and her descendants upon eventual termination.
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Grace Potter Miller
Ackley
County Recorder‘s
Ralph Miller
Chicago
Franklin County
Grundy County
Miller
Karin Miller
Dewey
London
Paris
Caria
Jerusalem
Berlin
Geneva
Copenhagen
Africa
Los Angeles
Calif
North Pole
Albert Tiebricht
Mrs. Miller
Maw Mau
Marriage Licenses Reported From Eldora and Des Moines
Fred A Hansen of Eldora and Lorena Polley of Eldora. Jerry L Lyman 18 of Towa Falls and Shirley Alt 18 of Towa Falls. Louie EB Johnson of Des Moines and Elizabeth Mack of Des Moines. Jack R DeLong 22 of Grinnell and Shirley Jean Follett 19 of Eldora.
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Fred A. Hansen
Legal
Eldora
Lorena Polley
Jerry L. Lyman
Towa Falls
Shirley Alt
Louie EB. Johnson
Des Moines
Elizabeth Mack
Jack R. DeLong
Grinnell
Shirley Jean Follett
Elora
Remembering a Loving Father and Friend in Statewide Circles
The obituary notes Mr. Roupe, a devoted father to Dennis John aged eight and Mary Lee aged ten, and a son to his parents. Survived by his parents and siblings, with two brothers and a sister having preceded him in death. Friends and relatives across the state recall his appreciation and thoughtfulness.
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Fellows
Mr. Roupe
Dennis John
Mary Lee
Steamboat Rock to vote on $146000 school bond issue
Steamboat Rock voters will go to the polls Tuesday in the town hall from 22 noon to 7 p.m. to decide a $146,000 bond plan to convert the gym into classrooms and add a new unit with a gym, music room, industrial arts and vocational agriculture space. The bond would be repaid over 20 years with an initial annual payment around $10,875, gradually lowering to about $9,062.50 per year.
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Steamboat Rock
Board of Education
Citizen's Committee
Legion Hall
Ralston and Ralston of
Waterloo
Utility Moves Gas Promotion Man To Eldora
D. F. Talbott of Garner named special gas promotion representative for Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. covering Eldora Iowa Falls and Reinbeck. He will relocate his family once housing is found. Talbott has years of service in Cedar Rapids Chariton Garner and previously headed Garner promotions. He served as a first lieutenant in the U. S. Army during the Korean War. The Talbotts have two daughters Marck Joe and Barbera.
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D. F. Talbott
Garner
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Eldora
Virgil Schmidt
Talbott
The
Power Company
Cedar Rapids
Cherlton
Iowa Falls
Reinbeck
U. S
Eldora to Close For Labor Day
Eldora schools and county courthouse offices will be closed all day next Monday for Labor Day. The Eldora Chamber of Commerce also recommends that all local businesses remain closed on that day.
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Eldora
Kiwanis Club Moves Meetings to Blanche and Ethel's Tea Room
Beginning with last night's regular meeting the Eldora Kiwanis club will meet at Blanche and Ethel's Tea Room in Eldora every Thursday evening. The club formerly held Thursday dinner meetings at Sadle's near lower Pine Lake.
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Eldora Kiwanis Club
Blanche and Ethel
Eldora
Sadle’s
Lower Pine Lake
One Winner Gets 200 Thrift Bucks in Eldora Drawing
Mrs. Everett Foster of Eldora won the top prize of 200 Thrift Bucks in a drawing held Wednesday afternoon. She was at Ander son drug store in Eldora when the winner was announced.
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Everett Foster
Eldora
Foster
Anderson Drug Store
Radcliffe School Opens Tuesday With 600 Pupils
Radcliffe district officials announce a late August opening for Radcliffe schools with about 600 pupils. The remodel has been completed and nine bus drivers plus substitutes will operate alongside newly assigned teachers including principal Edwin Dethlefs and superintendent W Hubert Johnson. Garden City campus opens Sept 6 with grade arrangements by age and staggered kindergarten pickups to fit capacity.
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Radcliffe
W. Hubert Johnson
Supt
Johnson
Old Lutheran
Ackley Woman 77 Charges Man Held In Florida
Florida detectives arrested George B. Dewey 57 on charges of fraud against Grace Potter Miller 77 of Ackley. He allegedly obtained forty thousand dollars from her and procured a warranty deed to a 120 acre Franklin county farm valued at forty thousand dollars.
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St. Petersburg
Florida
George B. Dewey
Ackley
Franklin County
Grace Potter Miller
Aciley
Wife of late doctor linked to $100000 swindle case
Sheriff says Mrs. Miller gave more than $100000 to Dewey allegedly for motel investments in Daytona Beach and other properties. Dewey, posing as minister and traveler, was captured by St. Petersburg detectives and waived extradition. Funds included $17,000 in bonds, $40,000 on farms, and $35,000 plus other sums to prop up alleged investments. Suspicion grows as details emerge.
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J. J. Miller
Paul Hodgson
Dewey
Hodgson
Eldora
St. Petersburg
Grundy County
Denver
Colorado
Widow Grace Miller Hopes to Recover Funds From Deceptive Minister
Grace Miller of Ackley, a 77 year old widow, says she lent more than 100000 to George B. Dewey an ordained minister who posed as a lecturer and traveler. Dewey was arrested in St Petersburg Florida as Miller seeks recovery and justice for alleged theft and deceit.
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Grace Potter Miller
Ackley
Eldora
J. J. Miller
Dewey
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Boy
Miller Property
Ralph W. Drake
Martha Drake
Iowa Falls Creamery
Ackley Recreation Club
Ackley State Bank
Central
Lincoln People’s Utility District
Steamboat
Ray Taylor
Dick Harberts
J. G. Cervetti
Alfred Janssen
John W. Jaspers
R. A. Beane
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Marck Joe
Barbera Can
Kiwanis
Radcliffe School
Edwin Dethlefs
Donald Buhr
Theodore Fallesen
Richard Benesh
Dorothy Anders
William Hash
Herbert Mason
Carol Benesh
Dorothy |Ifruse
Ruth Dethlefs
Dale Martinson
Herman Bruns
D. C. Bolles
Lucile Hanson
Jack Johnson
Mae Wegner
Charlotte Brinkmeyer
Shirley Turbett
Ruth Borke
LaVonne Topp
Hozanna Chaney
Carale Topp
Hetty Hays
Herald-Index
Grace Potter
Milter
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Tampa
Hollywood
Grinnell College
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Grace Votter Miller
George &. Dewey
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