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Newspaper
Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1953
Page
4
Marcus and a Tuesday dinner guest couple joined Mr and Mrs Dick La Bahn at their home. Mrs La Bahn and children later visited the Malle home in Le Mur best Friday where Abbot Damin Jentges of Saint Bene details appeared in local society notes.
Merrill community page lists guests and visits from area towns and states including Sioux City Le Mars Le Mars Midland and Minneapolis. Notes dinners birthdays and anniversaries as families gather and reflect on past weeks. The long column ends with a personal diary fragment and a continuation note.
Frank Waggoner, a band director and friend, recalls a hospital stay with comic detail. He describes the receiving room, bed size mismatch, repeated needle sticks, a transfusion, water restrictions, and a five course dinner amid awkward care. The nurse’s intrusive massages end with a vanished smile as he drifts to rest.
The Tuesday Club plans a gathering at Mrs Henry Pechs country home on Tuesday evening November 3 with Mrs Ira John as attending hostess Mrs Ruby Berner of Leeds will present the program topic and Ber tha Tschampel will supervise the social hour. The Couples Club held a pot luck dinner and Halloween party at the Methodist church basement on Monday October 26 with 21 couples in attendance in costume.
The notice lists various fertilizer blends with percentages and prices including 28% balancer, 16-20-0, 13-39-0, and 0-45-0, plus Hog Pellets at 5.10 per cwt and 4.90 in bulk. It notes No. 1 Red River Pontiacs and Cobblers at 2.25 and reports declines in clover and alfalfa markets with seed oats at 2.35 for January delivery.
A contributed offering described as supporting missionary work is prepared for a church or mission organization. The item notes donations directed to missionary outreach and related activities.
The Brownie Scouts led by Mrs W Bo Hauff and Mrs Ray Weinheimer hiked along the river after school on Wednesday collecting milkweed pods and thistles for painting wine for bouquets. They will canvass on November 6 and 7 to sell Scott cookies to Merritt housewives and ask residents to be prepared for the Brownies' visit.
During Sunday matinée at the Methodist Church the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Wayee Hamilton and the infant son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Anderson and the son of Mr and Mrs Gene Dickman received the due, of prism, from pastor Rev F D Wimp. A memorial display, Sallyman’s Head of Christ, was placed in the choir rostrum in memory of Mrs Elizabeth Fucker mother of Mrs Clem Singer.
Members of the Legion AuNiary hosted their Armistice day dinner on November 11 at the Merrill Legion Hall. Serving began at 6 p.m. Tickets cost 1.00 for adults and 50c for children under 12.
A note from the era highlights sycamore as an unusual material for butcher chopping blocks. It claims sycamore resists meat leavers sticking and mentions a lesser known application in meat processing.
A sixty year old walnut crop forecast suggests high returns for mills as supply rebounds after a 1952 regional crop failure reduced plantings to under 200000 trees. With abundant walnuts and butternuts across the state, a million dollar goal is seen as achievable this year. Call for news items at 3171.
Mrs Milton Atkinson aided by Mrs Dennler entertained the Liberty Two ladies Farm Bureau group with a Tuesday gathering full of socializing and light refreshments.
The State Conservation Commission plans to plant one million walnuts during fall 1933 and spring 1954. One thousand bushels of hulled walnuts equate to a million, highlighting walnuts as food for humans and wildlife, as ornament and shade trees, and for high lumber value.
Mrs Delia Spies of Merrill married Joy D Whitmer of Wilmer Minnesota in a ceremony last Saturday The newlyweds will reside in Merrill for the time being and begin their life together in upstate Minnesota local coverage notes the union and future plans.
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