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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1925
Page
7
A dense list of personal news items from LeMars includes visits by Eleanor Sexton and Mrs. Mary Colling, travel notes on trips to Sioux City and South Dakota, and multiple sales notices. Local businesses advertise dresses, incubators, hardware, seeds, and farm equipment while residents inquire about land, horses, and cottages. Community events mention church meetings, Easter fashion, and a movie showing at the college.
We extend heartfelt thanks for the assistance and sympathy after the loss of our husband and father and for the beautiful flower offerings at the funeral from Mrs. Carl Miller and children.
The Plymouth County Telephone company will issue a new directory about April 1, 1925. Anyone wishing telephones installed changes or corrections made in name or number please notify the telephone office before March 19, 1925.
A collage of brief items lists rentals and sales including private fireproof garages, houses, and horse stock. notices include births, dances, church suppers, rummage sales, Easter hats, and farm loan information. Local residents and businesses named with contact numbers and horses and poultry for sale appear throughout.
A batch of small ads lists rooms for rent at the Depot hotel and various sales offers. Items include a modern house for sale, rental inquiries, farm stock like hens and roosters, seed oats, hatching eggs, tractors, and farm equipment along with announcements of local club meetings and a school election result. The Hospers election rejected funding for a new auditorium and gym.
Marshall Jeak of Cherokee Iowa seeks married men with cars for Fuller Brush territory in nearby counties. Willingness to relocate required with good earnings for right men. Call or write for details.
The Plymouth County Sale Pavilion company announces a combined sale on Saturday March 21. Advertise your property early by listing it. Deputy Internal Revenue Collector J H Wegersley of Sioux City visited the courthouse Saturday and Monday to assist taxpayers with returns. He noted income tax payers are largely able to prepare reports without help.
The Women’s Relief Corps will meet Friday afternoon March 20 in the home of Mrs. W B Parkinson at 314 Third Avenue 8 E for their regular monthly social. She will be assisted in entertaining by Mrs. Alex Davison, Mrs. J W Elise, Mrs. J A Sickler, Mrs. W A Forbes, Mrs. Ellen Hughes, Mrs. Edward Atter.
The America township farm bureau met at the Steele school house Thursday evening March 12 with President Martin Henrich presiding and Secretary Fred Susemtl recording. Resolutions supported a bank guarantee deposit law and a state income tax used as replacement tax. Liberty township bureau met March 11 at the Consolidated school, Henry Hahn reporting on the Cherokee district conference and a membership drive set for March 17.
County and township farm bureau events are listed with meetings at Seney LeMars and various townships. Activities include expert talks on swine production, home project work training, clothing project plans, officer elections, cooperative marketing discussions, and pruning demonstrations at Union and Washington township orchards.
Petersen farm will be held Monday afternoon at 1 30 oclock March 238. Everyone is invited. Walter Jenkins has moved from his home near the city athletic park to 44 Second avenue Southwest. The Ladies Glee club of Western Union College LeMars will appear at the Evangelical church six miles southeast of Fonda on Friday evening March 20. The 20 member group tours the area to support the college. Mrs B FE Zuehl directs the club. Rev Lutz the local pastor asks for a large attendance and promises a worthwhile program. There is no admission charge but a collection will be taken.
A letter from Father Flanagan's Boys' Home thanks LeMars readers for generous help and publicity for shows by 286 boys. The home invites local visitors and expresses gratitude through Editor Globe-Post.
A March field note from Omaha World-Herald describes the hog lot on a farm as entering its worst period when waste and odors rise with the thaw, highlighting the ongoing struggle with storage and preservation of sanitary conditions.
Snow blankets give way to cruel winter days when the stork and pigdom loom. The farmer in rubber boots with a lantern faces degeneration and slaughter in a struggle to preserve the pig race on earth.
A fragment reflects on the contrast between a hollow hogdom atmosphere and the softer, lilting realm of caressing sleep. The line hints at a distant, dreamlike interior state framed by crude surroundings.
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