Hastings Social Roundup Records Village Celebrations
Hastings residents shared news of Ronald Schurr turning six with a party at George Schurr home attended by fourteen boys and friends. The column lists numerous visits, moves, trips, and gatherings across Hastings, Red Oak, Creston, Omaha, and nearby towns, noting hospital observation for Mrs. Kelso and various family travels and social visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Schurr
Ronald
Harry
Richard
Freddie Whitesides
Walto Crawford
Robert Hanscom
Hazel Fellows
Jimmy Parker
Fred
Lyle Courtier
Clifford Gustin
Gene Courtier
Doyle Waterworth
Sterling Schurr
East Liberty Supt and Family Visit Relatives Across Town
East Liberty Superintendent and Mr. C Kerney visited Katherine and Frances from Newcastle Wye last Wednesday to see his mother and sister Mrs Laura Kerney aunt Josie and other relatives and friends. They also visited Mr and Mrs W Stotts near Ruthton Minn. Sam and Mrs C Kerney and daughters Katherine and Frances Mrs Laura Kerney and Miss Josie Kerney spent Tuesday in Bedford with Mrs Daisy Rimel and Dr G W Rimel and family. Wayne Shaw of Red Oak stayed with his uncle Sam Shaw Sunday. Supt and Mrs Kerney with daughters visited Waulousie State Park Sunday evening for a Sunset service and picnic. Mr and Mrs Sam Shaw attended funeral services of his sister in law Mrs Henry Shaw in Red Oak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde [Ittner
Creston
Ralph Hanscom
Ted Clark
Lawrence White
Strahan
Kasius Woods
Glenwood
K. of PL
A. T. Crawford
Red Oak
Clyde Bittner
George Shure
Dolbert Ord Feft
Morcis
Minn
John Niday
Harriett Crawford
William Crawford
Roy Crawford
Fellows
Omaha
Ray Douglas
Emerson
Will Mings
Gawond
Dent Hites
Plattsmouth
Nebr
Margaret Shepard
HP. Rea
Essex
Pete Collings
Ontario
Calif
N. W. Collings
Bruce Wallahan
California
Fred Martin
Lawrence
Ozark Mountains
John Osborne
Council Bluffs
Hastings
Harold Mitchell
Fred Priest
Ralph Hall
Joe Hathaway
Morris Wondfill
Elam Ord
Lincoln
Frank Walker
Melvin Ord
Lorraine Clark
Millard
Curtis
M. B. Fellows
Connie Corn
F. A. Norton
Malvern
Har Vie Niday
Merritt Fisher
Bert Shaul
Epworth League
Wauhousie Park
Hamburg
C. Kerney
Katherine
Frances
Newcastle
Wye
Laura Kerney
Josie
Mr. Kerney
W. €. Stotts
Ruthton
Frank DuVal
Alan
M. F. Latchaw
Hendkerson
Sam
Josie Kerney
Bedford
Daisy Rimel
G. W. Rimel
Wayne Shaw
Sam Shaw
Kerney
Waulousie State Park
Tabor
Henry Shaw
Red _ Oak
Oaks Sunday School Attendance and Local Visits
Attendance at Oaks Sunday School reached sixty with one visitor present. Various local families hosted dinners and visits across Council Bluffs Macedonia and surrounding areas, while relatives from South Dakota toured Henry Schilling. A Marion Malan ice crew social gathered many residents, and ads noted leader pay rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Cole
Lloyd Dicks
Kathleen Williams
Omaha
Forrest Achenaugh
Darlene
Darrell
Macedonia
Marion Malan
I. W. Castor
L. If Brammeier
Twila Joan
Agnes Klose
Ralph Coty
Otis Wall
Horace
Kenneth
Ben Aukland
Forrest Achentaugh
Henry Schilling
Ruth [Fley
Malvern ISD to discuss budget estimate August meeting
The Malvern Independent School District Board of Directors in Mills County Iowa will meet August 3 1956 at 8 p.m. in the School House to hear for and against the proposed expenditure estimate. Secretary R W Salyers District 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malvern
Mills County
Iowa
FEO
Dickinson says average family pays 300 yearly in hidden taxes
Des Moines reports U S Senate candidate L J Dickinson blasting New Deal spending as wasteful. He cites 24 billion in three years and a public debt surge to 34 billion by summer, claiming checks bear the signatures of children and predicting real taxes in 1937. He urges state supervised farm policy, tariff protection, balanced budgets, and government returned to the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
L. J. Dickinson
United States
Washington
Dickinson
WPA Mural Placed in Elgin State Asylum
WPA artists completed a 44 foot long mural at the Illinois state asylum for the insane in Elgin. The piece cost about forty eight dollars and a few cents and employed roughly thirty painters at four dollars per month. The mural now sits to interest art lovers in the asylum and surrounding area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Asylum For
Chicago
Works Progress Administration
Elgin
Foreign Meats on U S Tables
Foreign meats flood U S markets as imports from Argentina Israel Canada Denmark and other nations reach millions of pounds weekly. The data show beef pork and lamb imports displacing American cattle farmers while some sectors like pork face sharp reductions under New Deal agricultural policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
TMI
New York
National Provisioner
Meat Packing and Allied Industries, Shoty
Argentine
Isradl
Canada
Denmark
Hungary
Italy
Lithuania
Zorubed
Coua
Piusabeau
Uruguay
United States
WPA trains poor girls for service in wealthy capitals
The Works Progress Administration announces a program to train young women on relief to become servants in well to do cities. Instruction covers dusting furniture and serving soup in New York, Washington DC, and 21 states with uniforms and $1 weekly for care. The plan follows a Chicago WEA project placing housekeepers with city households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Washington
Works Progress Administration
New York City
District of Columbia
WEA
Chicago
Fragmented OCR Chronology From Various War and Transport Events
Disjointed lines reference events across years from 189 to 1954, noting battles, a Montreal massacre, electric streetcar beginnings in 1659, Cleveland 1954 events, and an Austrian bombardment of Belgrade. Names, places, and dates are inconsistent, yielding a garbled, era-spanning snapshot lacking coherent narrative.
WPA aids Chicago schools with window crime contrast
Chicago report shows March 493m without WPA watchmen saw 1,700 panes broken vs March 1836 with WPA supervision recording 3,000 broken. Director Don Cr Rogers labels vandals as hoodilums and notes WPA progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Chicago
Worka Prageesa
Don Cr. Rogers
Rogers
WPA Director Fires Gannon Over Campaign Fund Refusal
State Senator George H. Gannon head of Washington Works Progress administrator was dismissed by National Administrator Harry Hopkins after he announced his resignation effective June 1. Gannon said he was fired for refusing to let funds be collected from his staff to hire a sound wagon for United States Senator Schwellenbach’s tour. He disclosed that a prior fundraiser yielded 3 from his office and returned 3,620 to employees, telling Hopkins workers needed their earnings for food for their families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Snubs
Seattle
Ward
George H. Gannon
Works Progress
Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Gannon
Fred
Aature
United States
Lewis J. Schwelleonbach
Second Lesson Teaches How to Dodge Eggs
Washington reports wives of Democratic senators and congressmen attend a campaign class by the Women’s National Democratic Club. An AP dispatch says the voice training guidance includes relaxing the voice through the nose, improving diction with vowel emphasis, banishing shyness, and jaw exercises to avoid fatigue while speaking in public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Democratic Club
Democratic Club
Associated Press
Unspatch
City urged to curb driving dangers after crash
A community message calls for action to prevent car accidents, stressing that thoughtlessness on the road endangers families and children. It urges city leaders to implement safety steps and for every resident to push for streets made safer for all.
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Viola Woodfill Af Strahan
Transtrazelen
Kelso
Tawa City Hospital
Will Trimmer
Clarence Nelson
East Liberty
OAKS
South Dakota
Forrest Ackenbaugh
L. E. Brammeier
Trent Jones
Imother
Vernon Viner
Jim Hicks
Lloyd Hicks
Lela Mahan
Carson
Jewell Mahan
R. W. Salyers
Tary
Art Jenkins
U. S
Qld
Anoe RE
SDA
Pepieh
Filsalyar
Spain
Agneta
Montreal
Cleveland
Pinly Vallee
Belgrade
Green Bay LumberCo
W. D. Slethower
Mar
Mansfield
Aunomasie
Dheer Poe
Navy
Ping Novia Awit
Ranger
Tye Thaytere
Ulacer
Pin
H. Slater
Harry Hammons
Hammons
Ous
Mach
Russell Iain
Malveri
Jermite the
Remington
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