Does Jones County Need A Coordinated Relief Body
The editorial suggests forming a single county wide relief committee to coordinate war fundraising. It proposes a yearly drive for 1942 with a chairman secretary and treasurer, unifying USO Red Cross Navy Army China relief efforts and trimming duplicate solicitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Pearl Harbor
General Committee
Marion County
USO
Red Cross
Navy
Army Relief
China Relief
Collect Your Scrap War Campaign Opens in Jones County
The scrap drive urges residents to donate metal items like a lawnmower wheel and a split shovel to aid war production for the USO and Red Cross. Campaign begins September 7 with pickup by volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
County War Board
Thanks For Your Photo Contest Entries Of The Past Summer
The Express photo contest has ended and thanks readers who submitted pictures. Entries this year exceeded last year's, though picture quality fell short of expectations. Winners are congratulated and a 1943 spring contest is announced, with advice to study lighting focus and composition, even suggesting Popular Photography as a guide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Express
Markham’s First Atlantic Feat and A Lion Encounter
Reading about Beryl Markham, East Africa born aviator and Africa’s first professional woman pilot, famed for her England to America solo flight. The piece recounts daring rescues, a dangerous lion incident, and a review of her memoir West With The Wind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beryl Markham
England
North America
Miss Markham
America
East Africa
Africa
Poisoned dogs spark denouncement across Iowa editors
Multiple Iowa newspapers denounce an unknown person who poisoned a dog in Algona and others criticize price control threats from Washington. The pieces condemn cruelty to animals and warn against government intrusions, with recalling past farm politics and union tensions cited by the Hampton Chronicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algona
Pearl Harbor
Wyoming Farmers Suffer Week of Farm Accidents
A series of farm accidents in and around Wyoming Iowa left Henry Wolfe with a broken collarbone after leaping from a hog truck near Kouba farm and John Westphal badly bruised when kicked by a cow while spraying stock. Both men were taken for X rays to Mercy hospital Anamosa. Glen Westphal underwent emergency appendectomy at Mercy hospital Anamosa.
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Wyoming
Henry Wolfe
Kouba
John Westphal
Westphal
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
William Broderson
George Fishwild
Thomas Broderson
Henry Siler
E. N. Stoffel
C. E. Wherry
J. S. Parr
Robert Alden
Louis Sampson
Everett Vrooman
Laura Smith
Meinhardt Thomson
Lyda
Industrial Society of the Presbyterian Church
Memorial Hall
Secretary Fuller
Wisconsin Horse and Mule Association
Madison
Glen Westphal
Darlene Bahnsen
Ben Bahnsen
W.S.C.S
Millsap
E. L. Millsap
Orla Dawes
C. J. Ingwersen
Will Wilker
Wis
William Wilker
Billy
Williamsburg
Duane Breunig
St. Louis
Lester Breunig
Don Scott
Chicago
Mildred Scott
Montezuma
Walter Schoff
Sioux Falls
Ss. D
Jennie O’rourke
Cascade
Allen Becker
Becker
Des Moines
Dubuque County
Don Wherry
William Quirk
Ed Sarma
Fred Petersen
Oxford Township
Paul Godfrey
Madison Township
Neilson
The
Soil Conservation Service
James Kearns
Ray Naylor
Scotch Grove
Joe Allen
Springville
W. G. Wherry
Ernest Reitz
Reitz
Miller
E. L. Koch
Capt
Leesville
L. M. Koch
R. C. Scott
Grinnell
Dorothy Dirks
Hurst
Ann Sears
University of Dubuque
W. W. Bronson
Onslow Area 4-H and Community News Highlights
Onslow 4-H Girls Meet with Margie Paulsen hosting the Scotch Grove group to plan county fair displays. Presbyterian Guild gathers with 25 members at church parlors. Several local residents visit relatives and plan trips, with multiple family and service-age members noted. School registration set for Aug 23 morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chris Gill
U.S. Navy
Wanda Petersen
Mary Clare Jansen
Onslow
Lorraine Peters
Clinton
Leona Clough
Wyoming
Community Notices From Anamosa Area Social Roundup
Various local entries list visits and gatherings across Iowa towns including Camp Delhi Onslow Monticello Marion Davenport and Boone. Highlights mention weddings receptions travel family reunions and picnics with residents such as Bernard Walruff Mary Ellen McKinstry Carol Orr Vera Paul and families in junto with extended visits and farm changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Delhi
Gene Walruff
Bernard
Australis
Mary Ellen McKinstry
Carol Orr
Martin Banting
Anamosa
S. G. Hutton
Vera Paul
Frank Walker
George Sears
Marvin Hanwardson
Jim Falls
Gertrude Sears
Ed Tjaden
Tom Corbitt
Onslow
Dillon Stickley
R. J. Bone
Monticello
N. C. Holst
Alice Overholt
Harold Overholt
Clinton
Sam McCarty
Tom Henderson
Russell Orr
Nancy
Toronto
Herman Gutzeit
Thomas
John Petersen
Emil Paulsen
Neal
Mary Weston
Arlington
E. Horton
Edwin Read
William Goardie
Alvena Paulsen
Paul Paulsen
Victor Moravek
Cedar Rapids
George French
Frank Conley
Billy Callahan
Boone
Elsie Callahan
Lillian Buck
Babcock
Birthday Social at Scotch Grove Draws Local Crowd
More than a hundred residents gathered at the Scotch Grove Presbyterian church for a birthday social evening. The event featured songs by women in period dress, performances by local youth, a slide show of August birthdays, and remarks by Pauline Wilcox of Monmouth on her South America trip.
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Scotch Grove
Scotch Grove Presbyterian Church
Pauline Wilcox
Monmouth
South America
Alice Clark
Ruth Ann Zirkelbach
Arend Balster
Marvin Lacock
Esther Sinclair
Beverly
W. B. Clark
Ruth
Eloise Sutherland
Hawick
Minn
Arthur Norris
Arthur Paul Norris
Army
J. A. Norris
Des Moines
Augusta Norris
Center Junction
H. J. Dirks
Harrison Loomis
Eileen
Norman Hoffman
Colorado Springs
Monticello
Dubuque
Fred Minney
Decatur
Minney
Ilinois
Hollyce Chase
Will Clark
Herbert French
Oldsmar
Fla
Callahan Farm Sells For 80 Per Acre
Hanken of Anamosa purchased the 40 acre Callahan farm in Scotch Grove township for 3200 dollars. The property is improved with a 140 foot fully equipped poultry house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Name Hanken
Anamosa
Kitty Callahan
Scotch Grove Township
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