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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1938
Page
2
A scattered Le Mars area column notes visitors and errands including Burton Dull in Storm Lake and LeRoy Crowley in Cherokee. Mentions Plymouth Creamery ads, Koenig Drug Store, and various local services, plus social visits by Mrs. Lee Field and others. A June wedding anniversary at the Cronin home is celebrated with games and gifts.
Residents update include visits between Cherokee and LeMars families, business trips to Des Moines, and gatherings at the Frerichs and Smith homes. Local shops advertise crafts, paint, lumber, and farm supplies while church groups plan meetings and a Mother and Daughter banquet at the First M. E. church with special honors for families traveling far.
Clyde Williams of Grand Island Nebraska becomes the new telegraph operator here succeeding B O Lufken who transfers to Arnolds Park. Weekend guests included Miss Gertrude Donovan of Sioux City and Miss Elizabeth Schlesser at the Mike Gergen home near Alton.
Miss Sims will discuss forms of prepared cereals and uncooked varieties on the local market. She will point out cost effective purchases for large families and options for smaller families with health needs. The class is at 2:80 o'clock Wednesday June 8 and all interested are invited.
The entry notes pride in flowers for the room, selling chickens to Mars, and plans for second grade use of money for books next year. It mentions two perfect spelling papers by Shirley Myers and Ruth Walden, art color wheel study, a planned annual school picnic with games and ice cream, gratitude for flowers received for the zoo, and a closing reporter credit to Verlan Rosendahl.
The Palmer Co awards pins to a group led by Jimmie Carey and Joyce Kammerer with others named for first pin. A second group includes Alice Martfeld and Lorraine Nelson for the second pin. Third pin recognizes Olive Albrecht and John Harvey CLARK Grade One. Frances Ann Le Masters and others miss school. Ronald Smith returns after a week away.
The United States Weather Bureau forecasts for June 6 to 11 including upper Mississippi lower Missouri valleys and northern central Great Plains showing occasional showers early and late in the period with temperatures near or above normal. Local government observer records May 29 to June 4.
Work on the Merrill pheasant rearing project began the first of the week under Izaak Walton League sponsorship involving Merrill Akron LeMars and Remsen. W. W. Trusell supervises conservation efforts as 500 birds are hatched at Boone state hatchery and moved to Merrill in two weeks for rearing until release at 12 weeks.
A fourth nutrition day program in LeMars will feature a bread varieties display and their comparative nutritive value in the Red Cross rooms on Wednesday June 8. Pearl Sims will discuss common causes of failure in bread baking and compare the cost of home baking with commercially baked bread. The lesson will include demonstrations of various breads.
LeMars readers learn of the approaching marriage of Miss Margaret Franchere daughter of Mr and Mrs F E Franchere Sioux City to Rev R F Cobb rector of St Pauls Episcopal church Council Bluffs. The wedding will be at 11 oclock on Wednesday morning June 22. Miss Franchere formerly taught in LeMars public schools and the Franchere family is well known locally.
Helena Loucks Green born April 10 1858 in Marmara Ontario Canada married Silas Green November 4 1874. Six children survived or listed W H Green Amos Green Mrs Fred Heartgrove C L Green and Donald F Green Stewart Green. burial at Cherokee Cemetery with Rev John Farnham officiating.
Summary of attendance and punctuality in early grades with names Clara Belle Boyle Joyce Downing Helen Urban Phyllis Patterson Junior Rhodes and others. Classroom songs recitals feature Helen Joan Roseberry Lois Pattison Richard McDougall Dennis Rees and corn donations for bean bags. June birthdays noted for Jeannine Hemphill Joyce Dow ning Jimmy Rippey Melvin Ommen. Grade Three reports show 38 pupils, multiple perfect spelling averages and calendars, plus several perfect punctuality records across grades.
The year lists many students with perfect attendance, including Francis Boyle and Doris Grahtmann for the whole year, and a six week period featuring numerous names such as Richard Adler and Jimmie Boyd. A large musical program and plant exhibit followed, with a notable orange tree from Raymond Charlson in third grade.
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