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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1929
Page
5
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Mission Press article by Thomas Megan describes famine in China and a refugee caravan of families fleeing hunger. He notes widespread crop failures, bandit depredations, and official relief efforts while drawing contrasts with American agriculture and citing historical famines in China.
A missionary account describes aridity crippling harvests across regions of China. Drought, floods, and poppy cultivation as a new income threaten wheat, with graves occupying richer soils. Describes soldiers, bandits, and uprisings compounding hunger, and urges aid through charity while noting deeper remedies.
Gifford James Fuller and family from Marshalltown visited Saturday night at R A Fuller's. Alph Campbell and family from Eldora spent Sunday at Oval and Chaz Adame homes. Mrs H N Edmondson returned from Perry Saturday evening. Harry Stull and family were Sunday visitors at H Williams. James Reed and family spent Saturday evening in Marshalltown. Vanes Adams and family were guests Sunday at the Hy Agnew home in Whitten. Mr and Mrs Harry Snider of Hamilton Missouri spent the week at C W Snider's. Peter Uhlenberg and family are moving to a farm near Garwin. Mr and Mrs James Goudy spent Sunday afternoon in Marshalltown with Mrs Goudy's ill mother there. Mr and Mrs Chas Adams and the Oral Adams family visited H H Wright's home Sunday evening. Mrs James Lawless and son of Owasco spent Sunday and Monday with her mother Myre McDonald. Jeasie and Chas Casa of Eldora visited friends in town Sunday. Mr and Mrs Ross Hirch were visitors in Marshalltown Sunday. Miss Mildred Moore of Waterloo spent the weekend with her parents. The monthly meeting of the Union Township Farm Bureau was held in the church here Tuesday evening. Mrs W P Wilson was a guest in the John Wilson home Sunday. Mrs Guy Campbell and Miss Ruby Sexton visited relatives in Eldora Saturday. Dr W C Cleworth of Cedar Rapids will preach in the church at 10 a.m. and again at 7 30 p m Sunday March 1 9. Press broke down newspaper press and machinery are set for repair at Ledger office after illness of editor.
Free soil tests offered at local banks in Hardin county with samples from fields. Schedule lists Hubbard Garden City Radcliffe Whitten Union Buckeye Alden Cleves Ackley Steamboat Rock New Providence events from March 11 to March 15. Includes notes on alfalfa planting, Farm Bureau meeting, and local social updates.
Fairview related notices show Co. D. Martin and wife as El dora business callers Saturday. Many samples mention visits to Shenandoah and Marshalltown. Wilhelm Lepley and Lola Davis wed at Marshalltown. others list shopping trips to Marshalltown and Eldora sales. Multiple family names appear with social calls and small town events.
Community brief records Clarence Dooley knee infection under doctor care. Visits by Frank Perry family and Eileen. Sudden death of Tom Clemons near Owasa. Warren Kasiachke visiting cousins Dean and Gene Foster. Mrs CG Nickelson of Eldora visiting old friends. W R Foster family hosts dinner and surprise for W M Shores group with pie and coffee. Various social activities and town news continue.
Peter Uhlenberg and family plan to move to Garwin this week. Rex Dickinson had his tonsils removed at Marshalltown hospital last week. About 25 gathered at the C. L. Brindle home to mark their eighteenth wedding anniversary. A noon dinner preceded a parlor presentation gifting a Pyrex casserole set to Mr. and Mrs. Brindle. Several residents visited relatives in Eldora, Ethel, Erma, Dora and Jean Candiff visited Mrs. Leslie Hees, and Chas. Brindle and son George visited the Mark Brindle home. John Pope and wife and Ira Lockard from Union, with Mrs. GC. Johns ton and children, spent Feb. 20 at T. H. Pope’s helping celebrate Ted’s birthday. A crowd of about 20 held a surprise gathering, bringing snacks. A handkerchief shower accompanied Mr. Pope’s birthday. Geo. Butch and wife were called to the Thos. Clemmons home west of Eldora by Mr. Clemmons’s death. he was Mrs. Batch’s uncle, funeral at Honeycreek Tuesday. A pleasant surprise for Ted Pope’s 50th birthday included games and a clothesline cake. A truck from Nu-way laundry overturned near the Needham home. Lloyd Mitchell and Clare Herme were unharmed as the truck righted itself and continued.
Mr Bailey, who has been visiting state institutions for Oregon’s Board of Control, praises the balance and work of the Towa State Training School at Elders. He commends Supt von Krog and officers after weeks of studying schools and their work.
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Mrs Mary Gohner of Conrad dies at Deaconess hospital after an operation for intestinal obstruction due to cancer. Born Mary Ann Grund in Austria in 1860, she came to the U.S. at 26, settled near Beaman, married Joseph Gohner, and later moved to Conrad. Survived by daughters, sons, stepchildren, and siblings. funeral at Conrad E Church. Laurel H Ford, 22, dies in Glendale, California. he was born near Conrad and worked as a barber. Thomas J Clemons, 68, farmer near Eldora, dies of heart disease. survived by widow, children. funeral at Honey Creek church. Ruth Matilda Steinfeldt, 10 months, dies of pneumonia near Eldora. burial in Eldora cemetery. 4H Club notes, local school updates, and community notices follow.
New Providence items note visits by Mr. and Mrs. Ted Broer and Jim Reese to Clarence Reece's. Mrs. Harl Clemons hospitalized Wednesday, returned home Sunday. Cecil Cook back from a short wedding trip to the southern Morrie. Cook shine stock in Chicago Saturday. William Wildman lodging with the Aines for a week. L. V. Carter sale postponed to March 2 due to billiards. Whittier Sunday School class hosted a Goose Washington party at Roy Woods' Friday. crowd attended and games were played. Cherry pie with ice cream and coffee served. May Melbourne and family Sunday visit. Melbourne working in a coal mine? Additional stray phrases appear fragmented and unclear.
Sympathy extends to the Herman Steinfeldt and Charles Hoover families in bereavement. Miss Blanch Hudson visited Jake Kirkdorffer’s home and spent Friday with Twester youths. Henry Schwarck and family moved to town. Pickering family relocated to the farm. Miss Vadna Ziezman stayed with Delbert Kirkdorffer. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith expect to return from California by early March. Closed Wednesday nights and Saturdays. Plus: Barrett Produce and Whitten herd honors at a Kansas City Hereford sale. Snow delays on Minneapolis & St. Louis line. trains and freight disrupted. derailment near Roland affects Story City branch.
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