16 Jan 1947
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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1947
Page
1
A critical editorial argues cheerful taxpayers fuel bad governance. It claims heavy taxation drives citizens to question returns, warns against tax chiseling, and urges reducing public spending to resist further increases while uniting honest citizens to curb bureaucratic waste.
Editorial attacks the Labour government’s honeymoon end amid strikes in London. It condemns socialism and criticizes recent £4 billion in benefits as aiding English labor unions seen as racketeers, labeling the strike as against the people.
A dispatch laments British government overreach and tax burdens while noting widespread discontent in London amid a major strike. The piece segues into local Iowa society items, listing visits, weddings, births, funerals, and church group meetings among residents of Sioux Center and Holland Minnesota, with several community events and family updates.
Miss Delaine Buss of Rock Rapids visits Struble. Halweg couples travel to Algona for a relative’s funeral, return, plan LeMars move. Neighbors host farewell for travelers heading west. Harry Johnson and others visit Sioux City. A group buys feeder cattle in Yankton. Cooper family attends Elgin funeral. Edwin Hanstein heads to Denver for work. Cliff Noble and George Schmidt called for Plymouth County grand jury in LeMars. Caroline Groenhagen and Harry Irwin wed. Groenhagen family moving to Merrill. Al Alber s farm sale yields good prices. family relocating to Klamath Falls, Oregon. Wallace Albers to join them.
Relatives report birth of Robert LeRoy Ausink to Albert and Ethel Ausink of Mount Vernon Washington on December 23. Other births include Stephen Jay Timmons in Ocheyedan and Earla Beth Vander Broek baptism in Maurice area church. Numerous illnesses and hospital visits noted, plus several local travel and social updates involving Mauricites and surrounding towns.
Anvey Swanson remains a surgical patient in a Sioux City hospital while Verna Vehe Groepper of Remsen is guest of honor at a postnuptial shower hosted by her parents Mr and Mrs Henry Vehe. The event occurred Sunday at the Vehe residence.
The column lists numerous social items including gifts at a wedding hosted by Mrs Vehe Trometer and Mrs DeRocher, travels of Mrs Kovarna to Cherokee, moves of Mr and Mrs Peterson to Phoenix, visits by Mrs Dehl of Crofton, and a Perry Friendship Club meeting with an auction profit. It notes a fox hunt, a former resident hospitalized in Sioux City after a steer loading accident, and mentions Charles Kovarna employed in Sioux City.
Hinton reports Leonard Papenhausen returned home from the Veterans Hospital in Des Moines Iowa. Sunday guests at Walter Stinger’s honored Alfred Albers and family of Maurice Iowa as they plan to relocate to Sacramento California. Attending were Adolph Joansen Emerson Nebraska Orville Rutledge Porter Onawa Chas Kratz Moorehead Wallace Albers Klamath Falls Don Jensen Sioux City and others. The New Club planned for January 22 with Ronald Schinde. The Hinton basketball teams defeated Liberty and Central seconds recently.
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