Community Chest at the Crossroads at Eldora
Eldora's Community Chest group rethinks its funding plan with a vote on whether benefiting agencies should run drives themselves. Leaders favor limiting the Chest to local groups like Girl Scouts Boy Scouts polio fund and Associated Services, arguing larger national charities should run separate campaigns. Aimed goals include accurate budgeting strong followthrough and active participation from beneficiary groups to boost fund raising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldora
Lester Ose
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
Eldorans
Polio Fund
Associated Services
Cancer Society
Salvation Army
Red Cross
Community Chest
Three Million Per Bomber Costs Cited in Tax Debate
A wartime cost comparison argues that the B-38 bomber at three million dollars, versus three hundred thousand for a B-17, explains rising taxes. The remark links defense spending to public taxation, urging scrutiny of fiscal priorities in wartime production.
Kiwanis Rotary game highlights service club bond
The Kiwanis and Rotary clubs staged a charity ball game drawing $1.50 from umpire Cliff Warnock of Iowa Falls and about 150 in collections. The event fostered good will, inspired plans for a future similar game, and noted local moves including Dr. Paul Tempel’s army call and Steamboat Rock community changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis
Rotary Clubs
Rotary Club
Cliff
Warnock
Iowa Falls
Claude Smith
Oldsmobile Smith Motors
Claude
A. E. Tempel
Eldora
Steamboat
Paul Tempel
Paul
Steamboat Rock
Sirens Urge Drivers to Move Aside for Emergencies
Sheriff Paul Hodgson warns about motorists not pulling over for official cars and fire trucks with sirens. He stresses the life at stake and the moral duty of drivers to heed warnings and clear the way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Hodgson
Farm life riffs on innovations and old truths
A reflective piece from a rural observer recalling a September country drive along Conrad Way. The author admires Green Farms alfalfa processing and laments how modern methods reshape farming, questioning progress with anecdotes about feed pills and a controversial cockerel capsule. The piece contrasts pastoral fertility with speculative tech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Farms
Conrad
Eldora News Snippets Chronicle Decade Echoes
A compact pane of local notices traces Eldora and Hardin County events across eras from 1885 to 1945. It notes Benson's Silver Cornet band at a veterans reunion, music dealers' growing sales, teachers' postings, notable births, deaths, and civic changes, including street improvements and school leadership shifts. The column preserves names like Mrs. Barnes, Dr. Emeny, Burke, and families such as the Polley and Haas clans, reflecting community memory through decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson
Cady’ Swain
C. B. Clark
Eldora and
Hardin
B. F. Moser
Ida
Philadelphia
Ella Stewart
Des Moines
Mitchelville
Edgar the Jewler
Honey Creek
Glenwood
Libbie Lundy
C. 5
Wildman
C. G. Felton
Hulbert
Church Services And Schedules For Several Local Congregations
Sunday school times and worship sessions listed for First Methodist First Congregational Saint Marys Catholic Church. Activities include potlucks, choir practices and classes with upcoming dates and sermon topics such as Helping Meet The Crises of Life and Render Unto Caesar. Weekday confirmations and catechism classes noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist
W. RK. Ehlert
A. E. Kimmel
Ralph B. Imes
Caesar
Jaul Lutheran
J. Zimmermann
New Volumes at Eldora Public Library
Eldora Public Library reports August additions spanning history, biography and fiction. Notable titles include Korea Today by George M. McCune and World Enough and Time by Robert Penn Warren, with works by Norman V. Peale William Kerr and James Burke among others for adults and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korea
George M. McCune
United Nations
Norman V
Pele
Jean Bordeaux
Ruth McKenny
Eileen
Richard Branston
England
Japan
William C. Kerr
Kerr
Moser Lumber Company
Robert Penn Warren
James Burke
Robert Burns
Louise Linetorf
Belgian Congo
Charlotte Paul
Nevil Shute
Wilbur Steele
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mamber Nationsn
Tateriar Association
Hardin County Index
Eldora’s Pictures Newspaper
Toya
Mambar Town
Presa Association
Herald-Index Pub. Co
Orthin County and City
George HN. Struffacher
Countien
Forelsen
Eldera Herald-Ledger
Division of Public Documents
Washington
Henry
George
C.G
Jeanty
Pegers Mere
Joe Doakes
Scotty" McVeety
Scotty
Burke
Barbara
de Griffel
Abbott
Prince Basco
Emeny
Sioux City
Herald
F. m Murphy
Eldora_ Mutual Telephone company
Donald Lewis
Jefferson
Charles Wilcox
Winona
Minn
Ray
Earl
Miriam Wills
Fairfield
A. M. Rumbaugh
Point Pleasant
Clayton Haas
C. M. Haas
Hardin County
D. C. Balles
Weichman
North Central
Frank Hammond
Elizabeth
Mary
Bakersfield
Calif
Miss Mercy Aylesworth
Lydia Robert
Columbia University
Guy Harvey
Honey Creek Friends Church
Fr. Murtagh
St. Mary's
W. J. Moyle
Eldora High School
Geneveive
Ann Janssen
Yellowstone Park
Colorado
C. S. von Krog
State Training School For Boys
Robert Burlin'game
Carroll
Bonnie Price
Farm Bureau
Helen Lomen
Dean W. Peisen
A. W. Crossan
ST. Mary’s Catholic
L. V. McDonough
Francis Krueger
Hubbard
Glen W. Speas
New Providence
E. J. Bond
Ebldoga
Everett Kielameier
Alden
Eldora Public Library
Doris Kans
Des Moines Register
Needham
Iowa
World
Sherman Needham
Hardin County Ledger
Alan Lomax
Jelly Roll
Jelly Roll Morton
Erle Stanley Gardner
Morningstar
Boot Hill
Weston Clay
Ralph Moody
Yody and
Penny
A. B. Gutherle, Jr
Wii Rogers
Shannon Garst
Doctor Doolittle
Secret Lake
Hugh Lolting
Good Doctors
Africa
Mudface
Aft Nash
David Ewen
Irving Berlin
Marcela Brown
St. Thomas Island
Barthlomew and
Dr. Seuss
Fune— Thrills
Ford
Rosola Vale
Wood Auto Co
Eldora, Iowa
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