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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1934
Page
2
A collage of small ads and social notes from Le Mars items list services from Aetna Accident tickets and lawnmower sharpening by Jacob G Koenig Co to Norge refrigerators at Lukens. Local people Miss Myrna Utech and Viola Stivers visit, dances planned at Ovens and Struble halls, jewelers buy old gold, and church conference trip reports.
Alfred Smaltz of Aiken S C arrived today to spend the summer months in the home of his father W G Smaltz. He notes Council Oak Wednesday in the message.
St James and local churches note events with dances and jubilees at Oyens and Kingsley. Attendees include Zicke Wright, Father Marx celebrants, and visits by Mrs Alice Gergen in Sioux City. Various residents travel for church, Rotary, and family events across LeMars, Sioux City, and surrounding towns.
Arnelda and Berdine Kilker of Ida Grove have left their grandmother Mrs. Emma Lemke after a two week visit. Mrs. Lemke accompanied them home and will stay a few days in their house.
Advertised bargains include Bing cherries for canning at 1.59 per crate and summer sausage at 19 cents a pound, plus fireworks on sale. A long list of social visits follows, detailing relatives and friends visiting Centerville, Sioux Falls, Cherokee, and other towns, with travel to Chicago, Dubuque, and the Black Hills noted among residents and visitors.
Akron Country club hosts an afternoon of golf, tea, and lunch for Le Mars Country club ladies on Friday June 29. Mrs. Wm. Lynch and Mrs. M. B. Starr supervise transport arrangements. Reservations close by Wednesday noon.
Local notices list special price on wash machines with tubs and benches from Henn Electric. Ice cream social set for Thursday at St. John's Evangelical church corner First Street and Fourth Avenue S. W. Sioux City wedding license issued to Raymond Cowan and Wanda Zwertel. Various social visits, meetings, and a bicycle accident near Le Mars. one 21 year old, Allan Kieffer, killed in a Yankton area plane crash.
Weekly ad items showcase steak at 12 1 2 cents a pound and fresh produce at Council Oak including California apricots raspberries and watermelon. George’s promotes Westinghouse refrigerators saving current. A string of visitors from Galva Sioux City Marcus and Omaha visit Thos Bleasdell Hoyting and Kel ley households. Regina Hentges heads to Minneapolis for a week.
The Good Samaritan sewing school class of the Methodist church at Sency will hold a picnic at Pine Grove in Sency on July 4. Includes sports like a ball game.
Mr and Mrs Ed Anderson of Sioux City were dinner guests at Emil Beckers. Jochen Kruse arrived from Long Beach California and is visiting J D Ahlis. University of Kentucky enrollments include E M Miller 400 2nd Ave SW LeMars. Mrs Herman Lang and children and Mrs Clarence Lang visited Mrs Nick Molzen Friday afternoon.
Miss Hazel Pfaltzgraff will visit for a while with her aunt Mrs James Littus of Dumont Iowa.
Meeting Thursday there will be a Farmers Holiday meeting at Merrill Hall on Thursday evening June 28. This is the last meeting before the picnic so everyone is urged to attend. C J Schultz president. Hard times press the Matern home at 901 First Street 8 BE Mrs Fred Matern taken to Sacred Heart hospital for a serious sickness last week. This is the third time in hospital for Mrs Matern and Fred cannot work hard due to ill health but keeps a brave spirit. We wish both good luck Contributed.
Mrs S E Strong of Hawarden visited Le Mars on Wednesday, calling on Mrs B C Woolley and friends. Formerly Lizzie Burke, she once worked in the county recorder’s office here. Her parents were pioneers in Le Mars.
Mr and Mrs W T Summer Hayes of Waterloo IA and Mrs W B Cron of Cedar Rapids IA visited Marie John’s home Friday night Cron described as the second gold star mother of the U S to visit the battle fields of France Crons trip marks a wartime tribute scene in Iowa society notes.
We express gratitude to all who offered help and sent flowers for the death of our husband and father. Mias O H Hig and daughters acknowledge every act of kindness in this time of bereavement.
The Misses Paula and Edith Hoffmann returned Saturday after a two weeks visit in Madison Wisconsin and Chicago. They were accompanied by Miss Mary Ellen Joynt who had been visiting relatives in Milwaukee, and Miss Adele Starzl who has spent the past two weeks visiting friends in Chicago and Wisconsin.
Rev and Mrs Pfaltzgraff and a family unit returned Friday night after a brief stay at Mingo Iowa Gearke's advertised canning season urging readers to buy fresh apricots priced at 99 cents for a 15 pound lug at Gearke's store highlighting local commerce and a family visit note
In The Globe Post June 21 a welfare worker mileage entry was printed as 225.85 dollars. The May 14 board of supervisors meeting minutes show the correct amount as 25.85 dollars.
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