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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1931
Page
5
Steamboat Rock and nearby towns share a string of social calls and visits. locals enjoyed house gatherings with the Folkerta and Gellhorn families while relatives traveled between Wellsburg Eldora and Des Moines for visits and events.
A crowded notes page records visitors and family gatherings across Iowa Falls Eldora and nearby towns. Many relatives from Waterloo, Union, Boone and Boone counties travel to share Sundays, dinners and concerts. A birth death obituary notes Artie Jane Platts born 1896 died 1931, with four children and church ties.
Mrs. C. E. Clemons visited her mother Mrs. Ed Shives in New Providence Thursday afternoon. Mrs. E. E. Reees and her son Noah were Marshalltown visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Sn. B. Waldo and sons Lowell and Edward spent Sunday with their daughter and family, the Rub Ballards.
A stream of brief items covers weather forecasts, district and county events, and local happenings. Eldora bands, Marshalltown district contest, Washington’s birthday observances, bank and church schedules, and shop changes are noted alongside drouth relief and Red Cross efforts. The text also includes a fable about a race tipster and general winter hardship reflections.
South Providence and nearby communities share a string of visits and weekly activities. Mrs H A Ruddick and son Lyle visit Mrs Jennie Rush in New Providence. Whitten residents Mr and Mrs Vinton call on Claude Winters’s family. Ruth goes home with them.
Austin Reynolds of Hampton has been elected manager of the Farmers Elevator Company and will start Monday. Ed Fuller resigned, undecided where to locate. Reynolds rented the Sherm Page property and will move his family here. Gus Hoelacher, bitten by a dog, returned to Hampton hospital as blood poisoning worsened. John Boeke underwent appendicitis surgery at Eldora hospital Friday. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Buchan were called to Sioux City by a brother-in-law's death and expect to return Sunday. Mrs. H. EB Hilker aided by her daughter-in-law care for her mother, 89, after a fall. Helen Hankemeier and Gustav Wehmeier wed at Rev. Matzner's home. witnesses Miss Marian Wehmeier and William Hendrick. The couple will live with the bride’s parents until March 1, then on a farm five miles south of Hubbard. The Hubbard Shipping Association annual meeting reported 286 stock cars handled, 89 double decks, 163 single decks, 84 cattle. hogs 19,609. cattle 979. calves 717. sheep 616. Home cattle receipts $67,328.92. hogs $352,346.67. mixed loads $88,086.65. sheep $1,191.72. total $496,952.95, up nearly $100,000 from last year. Seventy new members joined. Total expenditures $4,729.98. manager and home expenses $1,?653.80. Officers elected: Chris Maisel, F. E. Baker, Fred Brunemeier for three years. Board: President Wm. Beaupain, vice president I. E. Baker, secretary M. R. Laughlin.
Liscomb residents Mra Shepard Jno Pope and C W Dillon plus wives visited Ted Popes on Sunday. Mary Jagen spent the day with Olive Wilson in Gifford. Bert Price and family from Marshalltown visited C H Coffelt’s home with Jessie Armstrong. Grant Harless joined a Missouri trip return home. Marshalltown guest Jake Newby visited last week. G Harless family and others joined a Saturday evening gathering at C H Coffelts. A community note mentions attendees at a funeral banquet in Gifford Tuesday evening.
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