School year ends with early dismissal in Le Mars district
Le Mars Community school district will end classes May 28 for all grades except kindergarten and special education on May 29 students in grades one through eleven report from 1 to 2 30 pm for culmin ating activities and report cards seniors concluded their day earlier bus routes revised to depart four hours 15 minutes later than usual to ship students before 1 pm and return them home after 2 30 pm meanwhile Joe J and Sophie Levey sue Paul Gollhofer of Kensley in district court for 2125 back rent plus liquidated damages for a bakery premises in town
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Joe J
Sophie Levey
Paul Gollhofer
Kingsley
Corn Set Back Two Weeks By Hard Freeze
Plymouth county weather and crop report by Arlie A Pierson notes an unseasonably hard freeze damage. All emerged soybeans were killed and the corn crop is set back about two weeks. Weedy fields may be replanted to curb weed competition while the first alfalfa crop is cut to minimize forage losses. The county seeks rain and warm sunshine.
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Plymouth county
Arlie A Pierson
Reverend Dehne to Deliver Farewell Sermons in Le Mars
Reverend CW Dehne longtime Calvary EUB church pastor will preach farewell sermons at 8:20 and 10:45 a m Sunday May 26 with a series title For the Glory of God He is named successor at Calvary EUB in Le Mars to coffee duties at national level and will move to Muscatine Iowa in June alongside wife and three daughters Ann 21 Fonda 17 Carol 11.
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CW. Dehne
Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church
Tenic
Iowa
EUB
Sos. Oy
De Key
Dehne
national Program council
FUB denomination
national church
Dayton
Ohio
Muscatine
Le Mars
Ann
Touro Infirmary school of nursing
New Orleans
Fonda
Le Mars Community high school
Carol
Franklin school
Des Moines
Calvary church
Westmar college
Le Mars Rotary club
Le Mars Ministerial association
Le Mars femiles
Webster City
Evangelical Theological seminary
Naperville
Calvary EUB church
Harold A Varce
St Andrew EUB
Varce
Kathy
Barby
Koerner charged with drunk driving in fatal crash
Herb Koerner, 62, of 24iy Ply. St. NW, was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after a single car crash that killed Mrs. Ben Gerdes, 57, instantly near Le Mars. He waived preliminary hearing, posted no bond, and was jailed pending district court. Mrs. Gerdes died when Koerner’s car left Highway 33, went into a ditch, and she sustained a broken neck.
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Herb Lewis Koerner
St. NW
ER Scholer
Koerner
Highway Patrol
Richard Helmers
Bun Gerdes
Le Mars
Gerdes
highway 75
Sherman Lindell
Anthony
West Side
Area Deaths Mrs Mattie Faber 83 Sioux City
Mrs. Mattie M. Faber 83 of Sioux City died Wednesday at home after a long illness. Born January 30, 1880 at Le Mars she was married to Mike Faber of Decatur Nebraska. They farmed near Walthill Nebraska before moving to Sioux City in 1922. Survivors include three sons Leonard Kenneth Earl all in Sioux City. three daughters Hazel Wright Rose Kamm Helen Beaubien. sister Dora Nixon of South Sioux City and two grandchildren. Funeral at W Harry Christy funeral home Morningside.
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Ben Gerdes
Le Mars
Mauer’s
Conrad Guetzlaff
St. John Lutheran church
Preston township
Le Mars Memorial ceemetery
Syliva A. McCeland
Bellaire
Ohio
Clyde McCelland
Sioux City
Ben
8th St
William E. Tice
Akron
Ray Lee White Jr
Mary Emily Green
Emma Olver
Harry McCelland
Stanley
California
Mattie M. Faber
Faber
Mattie Magee
Mike Faber
Decatur
Neb
Walthill
Leonard
Kenneth
Earl
Hazel Wright
Miss Le Mars pageant draws three entrants for queen bid
Three contestants enter the Miss Le Mars contest per uptown chair Chuck Wiley. Ramona Meyler from Cherokee, Sandy Sitzman of Le Mars and Judy Becker from Ireton vie to represent Le Mars at the Miss Town event in Arnolds Park in June.
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Chuck Wiley
uptown
Ramona Mevler
Sandra Sitzman
Judy Becker
Le Mars
Arnolds Park
Warm Friday Tempers Rise Under Sunny Skies
Temperatures rise on Friday under sunny skies and a strong southerly breeze with a morning low of 38 as the day topped 71 on Thursday. Increasing clouds bring a chance of scattered light showers tonight. more rain is forecast for Saturday along with possible thunder showers. Some lawns show brown from an unseasonable frost, and farmers face crop replanting versus letting corn come back amid uncertain rain. The almanac foresees central storms then clearing by Monday, with windy conditions and storms over the Memorial Day weekend.
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weather bureau
Daily Sentinel almanac
the
almanac
Mrs Elaine Pew Receives Real Estate Broker License
Mrs Elaine Pew wife of Le Mars realtor William Bill Pew has earned her real estate broker license by passing the state board examinations in Des Moines months ago She will assist her husband as needed in running the real estate business.
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Elaine Pew
Le Mars
William
Bill) Pew
Des Moines
Pew
Des Moines man fined for improper passing in court
Paul R. Harwell of Des Moines was fined $14 on Tuesday in may or's court after a charge of improper passing filed by the highway patrol.
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Paul R. Harwell
Des Moines
highway patrol
Five College Students Charged Over Dairy Sign Damage
Police report five Wells area college students faced malicious mischief charges for damaging a Wells Blue Bunny dairy sign at the highway 75 site. About 300 dollars in damage occurred when a three dimensional cow head was torn from the sign and left on Westmar College campus on March 23.
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Wells
Joe Sutton
Wells’ new tilk
highway 75
Westmar college
Hospital Admits and Dismissals List Names Several Residents
At the hospital admitted Thursday at Sac red Heart hospital Mrs. David Bainbridge Kingsley Mrs. Amanda Carstensen Merrill Scott Lauters Le Mars Daniel McCarty Le Mars Mrs. Catherine Phillips Remsen Mrs. Kate Barton Le Mars Frank T Ludwig Remsen Mrs. Melvin Tentinger Remsen Dismissed Carol Parkinson Le Mars Mrs Albert Haas Le Mars Mrs Eugene Heying and daughter Granville Mrs Donald Harpenau and daughter Le Mars Mrs Jerry Lape and son Remsen
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Sacred Heart hospital
David Bainbridge
Kingsley
Amanda Carstensen
Merrill
Scott Lauters
Le Mars
Daniel McCarty
Catherine Phillips
Remsen
Kate Barton
Frank T. Ludwig
Melvin Tentinger
Carol Parkinson
Albert Haas
Eugene Heying
Granville
Donald Harpenau
Jerry Lape
Births and Local Theater Weekend Schedule
Births at Sacred Heart hospital include a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Glee Mulder of Le Mars on May 23 and a son born to Mr and Mrs Lynn i Nitzschke of Akron on May. The Royal theatre offers a Saturday matinee at 2 15 pm featuring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Dance with Me Henry with Diamond Head shown Friday and Sunday as usual.
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Mrs
Glee Mulder
Le Mars
Lynn i Nitzschke
Akron
The
Royal theatre
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Dance with Me
Henry
Diamond Head
Terry Danne to teach after opera season in St Louis
Terry Danne and Pat Danne will spend the summer in St Louis where Terry will perform with the Muny in Forest Park and Pat will attend summer school at Washington University. Terry earned a Master of Music from Indiana University in January and will be choral director at Westminster School Huntington Beach California this autumn with Pat as a music supervisor in the elementary schools.
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Dannes
St. Louis
Terry
Muny opera
Forest park
Pat
Washington university
the
University of Indiana
Indianapolis
Huntington Beach
Calif
Westminister school
Collision Near Merrill Injures One Smashes Electric Organ
A 9 am collision on highway 7 south of Merrill injures one and damages two vehicles. A 1963 Ford panel truck driven by Francis Hickey carrying an electric organ collided with a southbound 1958 Ford driven by Roger Wieck. The panel truck rolled into the right ditch, the organ smashed. Wieck was taken to St Joseph Mercy hospital with possible rib injuries. Damage estimated at 100 dollars to the truck and 200 to the car.
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MerrilL
Francis Hickey
Le Mars
Hickey
Roger Wieck
Wieck
Jim Mertes
Luken
St. Joseph Mercy hospital
Sioux City
Stoos Bros
Larry Colglazier
Mertes
May calendar events list from Le Mars area
May calendar lists many events in Le Mars and nearby locales. Western style show at Thoren hall on May 24 at 7 30 p m. LCHS baccalaureate May 26 at Carey gym 8 p m Gehlen commencement May 26 2 30 p m Gehlen auditorium Baccalaureate 8 a m at St Joseph Catholic church May 26 Country club family dinner May 26 Plymouth county home open house 1 to 4 30 p m Day Ratliff faculty recital 4 p m Thoren hall May 27 LCHS senior class breakfast 8 a m Municipal park May 28 Municipal band 8 p m Westmar band room May 29 LCHS underclass awards 1 p m Carey gym May 29 Le Mars Community high school commencement 8 p m Carey gym May 28 Country club wom Jen s golf May 30 Memorial day parade 9 a m Calvary cemetery services 9 16 a m Le Mars Memorial cemetery services 9 45 a m Newswire AP"}
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Thoren
LCHS
Carey
Gehlen
St. Joseph Catholic
Country club
Plymouth county
Ratliff
Municipal park
Municipal band
Westmar
Central
Le Mars
Carey gym
Jen
Calvary cemetery
Le Mars Memorial
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Dovercer chest
LE MARS COMMUNITY
Rev. Dehne
First Evangelical United Brethren church
Charles Davis
Seney
Sheldon
sheriff’s office
Davis
Norfolk
James M. Zylstra
Paul Eich
C. W. Dehne
Herb Koerner
Mrs. Gerdes
Miss Le Mars
Ramona Meyler
Ray Meyler
Washington high school
Cherokee
Pallmer Chiropractic college
Davenport
Drs
Don and
Robert Meyler
Dr. Meyler
Sandy Sitzman
Tony Sitzman
San
Ronald Becker
Ireton
Cent. Ave
Maurice high school
Wayne State
Becker
MRS. ELAINE PEW
CHARGE FIVE COLLEGE
Kankakee
Terry Dannes
Terry Danne
Mr. Danne
Mrs. Eldon Danne
Pat Danne
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