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Newspaper
Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1957
Page
3
Formal executor notices published for Iowa Plymouth County estates Margaret Kemp and James F. Goudie with instructions to creditors. Also an ordinance amends restricted residence district limits in Le Mars, detailing lot and block references in Seventh Addition subdivision.
City of Le Mars Iowa passes ordinance 349 amending section 392 chapter 64 title XI of the 1941 municipal code adding the west sixty feet of Lot 12 in Block 93 and the west half of Block 87 in the Seventh Addition to Le Mars. The ordinance was adopted July 16 1957 and published July 22 1957 in the Le Mars Globe-Post.
The Good Will Industries of Sioux City will send a pickup truck to Le Mars on Tuesday July 23 to collect items donated to the charity at doorstep. Residents may call provided numbers to arrange pickup for the worthy cause.
Readers report a Merril Record SOLS meeting at a country home with Bertha Ty as hostess and L E Stribley leading devotions, plus a Plymouth Postmasters Association gathering in the Legion Hall discussing post office rule changes. Society items note hospital thanks, recreation programs for 75 children, bicycle race winners, and many local visits, hospital stays, and family travels across South Dakota and Iowa. a local university Deans List includes ISU students Buss, Franzen, Darr, Kislingbury. a fatal crash near Hinton spurs a lawsuit.
Chester J. Heisler fifty five? No forty five died Tuesday morning when his pickup collided with a two seat trailer on State highway 65 about 14 miles south of McIntosh. He was vice president of Ghistofson and Reynolds Construction Company and partner in the firm graveling the highway. Survived by widow Helen Jacobson Heisler a daughter Mary his mother Mrs J E Heisler of Merrill and a brother Lee of Minneapolis. Funeral services were held in Bereford Saturday.
Lewis Bishop a retired Merrill butcher died Monday morning in a Stony City hospital after months of illness. His wife Alice Howes Bishop died years ago. Survivors include brother Hugh of Ventura California and sister Mrs Minnie Hicks of Conte Ville. Funeral services were held at Winter funeral home in Sion Cy with Rev C L F Cannaday officiating followed by burial in Memorial Park cemetery.
Mrs Ethel Cord of Danbury visited with her sister while Florence Thompson and Miss Mayne Trost spent time with relatives. Several residents changed jobs or planned events including Adrienne Schindel's wedding to Keith Branum and a Goodwill drive. A new electrical repair shop opened by Marianan Bilchenen in the former Bilchenen Grocery, while Mrs Frank Rath and others attended local gatherings and family reunions at Fort Randall Dam. Barbara Kruse, daughter of Elmer Kruse, noted among the youths at the Gardner family reunion.
DON CUNNINGHAM recalls memories spanning 1907 to 1919 in Idaho and Yellowstone. He mentions Ames Iowa Slats College, the pivot from old collars to modern dress, the 1919 wheat boom, and dry years with dust storms. Personal anecdotes mix travel from Jackson Hole to West Yellowstone and a sense of change over time.
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