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Newspaper
Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1959
Page
2
Local notes recount Easter visits across Merrill and nearby towns with numerous families traveling to see relatives in Minnesota Iowa and Nebraska. Community members including students and professionals attend funerals hospitalizations and church events while local clubs and societies hold meetings and thank volunteers for Easter activities.
Methodist church announcements cover multiple events with April dates. Activities include memberships classes and visits to Goodwill Industries and Harriet Harlow Nursery in Sioux City, plus choir rehearsals and a Wesleyan guild. Also notes Luther League events, Easter program, and a dog bite incident involving Jean Francksen near Merrill.
Scouts of the Prairie Gold Arn plan their Good Turn Day benefit dance on Friday April 10. Cubmaster Kent Lanning and the Cubs will distribute Goodwill bags, then on Saturday April 18 Scoutmaster Lowell Phillips and the Boy Scouts will collect bags as Goodwill trucks pick up the items the following week. The drive seeks clothing, fabric, curtains, linens, bedding, shoes, small toys, appliances, and other household articles with newspapers and magazines excluded.
The city council discussed a storm sewer for areas south of Crandview and east of Hts addition. Larry Meis and Gull Gisnere propose a Meis addition south from 6th Ave to Greenwood Raid area with 80 ft street width and 90 by 135 foot lots. A storm sewer system of two 36 inch tubes or larger could cost 12000 to 48000, to be funded by the city without assessments to benefitted properties. Meis would grade east of the lots, install utilities, curbs, gutters, and possibly paving. The sewer would be laid under ground along the east edge of the lots. Gilmore plans to build this summer if the city acts. This project would boost taxable property value.
The Le Mart Glee-Post reports Ve Mars council considering an addition that could bring new waxes for fe Mars. Representative Tom Weeks from Buell and Winters Engineering discussed an engineering contract. The council paid routine bills and renewed a beer license for CUMS Tavern while approving a cigarette permit for Ron Kelly. A meal event at the International Intercollegiate School of Alcohol Studies was scheduled for August 22-27 at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario Canada.
College entries in the Roberts Fal Chorin Awards contest themed Seeking Release From Alcohol and Drugs. Prizes include wind scholarships for individuals and groups who write the winning editorial. Classes entered include Soci Disorganization with Professor Weigel and English 103 taught by Alice Kruse.
Plymouth County livestock producers signed the Area Brucellosis petition in sufficient numbers to be included in the Area Plan. County Extension Director Afie A. Pierson reported that 1450 livestock owners have signed and that free calfhood vaccination will begin by April 1 with blood testing for all breeding cattle starting in October 1989. 240 workers aided petition circulation. A thank you card notes sympathy for a loss and appreciation for pantry donations.
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