Cramers Celebrate Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary in Hopkinton
Mr and Mrs Avg K Cramer marked their 59th wedding anniversary with a noon gathering at their Hopkinton home. About sixty guests attended. gifts included a lounging chair and a money purse. Out of town visitors joined the celebration from Cedar Rapids Buck Creek Marion Snyder and Donna Orr and other areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Caroline Bently
W. B. Guthrie
Robert
William
Kenneth
Rhodes
Ralph Buck
Caroline
State Center
J. K. Cramer
G. L. Cramer
Janice
Gail
Clarence Moulton
Clell Moulton
Ed Orr
Clyde Thompson
Dan Flannagan
Judy
JoAnn
Jay Flannagan
Buck Creek
Elliott Clark
Thomas
Monticello
Carl Kremer
Paul
Freddie
Cascade
Nick Miller
Earlville
Raymond Wallace
Woodstock
W. C. DeShaw
Hopkinton
Raymond
Navy
University of Arizona
J.g
Hawaii
Honolulu
Chicago
Wacs
England
France
Fort Des Moines
Margaret Lubbock
California
Truman Cummings
Ruth Littlefield
St. Paul
Minn
B. M. Ferguson
Littlefield
San Francisco
Calif
James Littlefield
Shannon To Speak At Scotch Grove Club
Shannon district superintendent will headline the Scotch Grove Farm Bureau February meeting on Feb 13 at the Meier home. Topic is Re organizing School Districts with music by Janann Meier and games, open to interested residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotch Grove
Boyd Shannon
Monticello
Scotch Grove Farm Bureau
Ed Meier
Frank Kiburz
R. H. Oltmanns
Shannon
Janann Meier
John McDonald Hospital
Milo Wacker
Charles Neal
Lou Schlemme
George Kuehl
Katherine Wacker
Ed Wacker
J. C. Balster
Mary Balster
Arend Balster
Leslie Balster
William Henrichs
Nora Streets
Lloyd Robertson
Anamosa
Ruth Clark
Colesburg
W. B. Clark
Presbyterian Sunday School
F. D. Sutherland
R. A. Naylor
Madison
Wis
Leslie Himebaugh
Elkader
Paul Paulsen
May Himebaugh
Frank Himebaugh
Lucy Dodge
Olin
Naylor
IF. A. Royden
A. Q. Bohlken
Dubuque
Charles Why
Canada
Women’s Club of
Center Junction
Jean Balster
Iowa in 1845 A Territorial Boom Before Statehood
Iowa's 1845 scene shows a fast growing territory with about 90 000 people mainly in eastern counties. Towns like Dubuque Davenport and Keokuk flourish while Iowa City emerges as key inland hub and a new governor James Clarke takes office. Two Legislative sessions convene in Iowa City as eleven newspapers report the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
William J. Petersen
Towa
Black Hawk Purchase
Dubuque
Burlington
Davenport
Bloomington
Fort Madison
Keokuk
Iowa City
Keosauqua
Des Moines
Fairfield
John Chambers
James Clarke
Legislative Assembly
Harvest optimism as gatherings and churches rise
Amid widespread gathering organization signals, many churches are being formed as harvest returns show abundance and community optimism remains high.
First pulpwood car load ships from Farmington Iowa to Ohio mill
Arthur Secor, a farmer, leads a new venture shipping Iowa cottonwoods and other soft woods as pulpwood to an Ohio pulp mill. He notes growing demand for Iowa soft trees and broader wood fiber products open new markets for the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmington
Iowa
Ohio
Arthur Secor
Farm Bureau Library Reading Drive Encourages Township Teams
Farm Bureau promotes a winter reading project across townships. Participants must read six books four from Farm Bureau Hist and two personal choices, then submit remarks on a comment sheet. January 26 book exchange day brings chairmen together at the Farm Bureau office to swap titles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Jones County
Iowa Reading Circle
Australian marriage ties prompt army approval for Lt Driscoll
Lt Theron Driscoll of Belle Plaine wed Miss Jeanne West in Bris bane Australia. He later learned that to secure transport and visas he must obtain official army permission to marry the Australian girl. He requested and received permission to marry his wife, and after the second ceremony army red tape unwound granting the visas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theron Driscoll
Belle Plaine
Jeanne West
Brisbane
Australia
Army
Driscoll
Elk Horn soldiers meet in Yokohama barbershop tale
Max Sander and Warren Jacobsen both from Elk Horn Iowa, an army barber trimmed Sander in Yokohama. They later learned their barracks were beside each other, sharing adjacent billets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Sander
Elk Horn
Iowa
Yokohama
Warren Jacobsen
Flying Fox Hunts in Small Plane
Adel hunters Dale Campbell and Fd Parrish pursue foxes in a light aircraft with Campbell piloting and Parrish firing a shotgun from the waist. A ground crew of other hunters tracks the fox area and collects pelts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flying Fox
Dale Campbell
Fd Parrish
Adel
Campbell
Parrish
Mechanicville man injured by cow in barn incident
Melvin Pauls went to the barn to try a new milking machine when a cow kicked him, breaking his leg. He was injured in Mechanicsville and received treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Pauls
Mechanicsville
Mr. Pauls
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. K. Cramers
Oscar F. Lewis
Hopkinton Co-operative Creamery Association
Lenox Gymnasium
Don Hawkins
Lenox College
H. B. Harmison
Eastern Towa Creameries, Inc
Iowa Theater
H. M. Reeve
J. R. Guthrie
Joe Swanson
J. J. Britt
Lenox
Charles Venetis
Weirton
West Virginia
Will
Lux Hatchery
Mabel Williamson
Los Angeles
Will Harford
W. P. Flanagan
Delhi
Mary Marolf
Ralph Millis
Dora Millis
Ralph
Guam
San Diego
Elizabeth Campbell
Randall Morgan
David Martin
Dora McCormick
Green Cove Springs
Fla
Harold McCormick
Florida
James Kehoe
Kehoe
Scotch Grove Club
Scouts OF the World
Boy Scouts of America
C “World Friendship Fund
Farm Bureau Library
Elsie Reco
the Borden Co
Borden’s
Borden-Hutchinson
Bordens CE Cream
Kidwell & Plumbing Heating
Bivan
Farmers’ Mutual Co-Op. Creamery Co
Foxbilt
John Ross
Leslie Reade
Montihi
Monti Hi
Harold and Dean Tedrow
Monti
Harold
Dean Tedrow
Senwaewk
John Boss
Mr. and
Mrs
U. S
Iowa Poultry Improvement Association
Russell E. Lux
Hopkinton, Iowa
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