Polish War Bride To Arrive At Scotch Grove Home Soon
Scotch Grove gazes forward as Maria Schapulski of Poland, wife of Army T/5 Louis Brockhohn, is expected to arrive soon. The Brockhohns wed May 16, 1946, in Germany and he served in Normandy and the Rhineland. The community plans a reception despite language barriers while Brockhohn’s relatives prepare a home welcome.
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Scotch Grove
Scotch Grove Township
Louis Brockhohn
Maria Schapulski
Poland
Bad Wildungen
Germany
Brockhohn
Herman Brockhohn
Army
Normandy
France
Ardennes
Rhineland
Europe
Maria
John Otten
L. J. Schlemme
James Hughes
Womens
Otten
Arnold Jacobs
Desert
Arizona
Adolph Bohlken
John Zirkelbach
L. R. Himebaugh
George Bohlken
Jennie Forward
Hopkinton
Edna Ladehoff
Joyce Oeschger
Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls Club
Kathleen Paulsen
Margie Paulsen
Audrey Schrader
Paul Oeschger
Marlene
Bible School
Scotch Grove Vacation Bible School
Lucille Cass
Floyd Cass
Central America
Palestine
Ruth Clark
Alice Clark
Marvin Lacock
Paul E. Paulsen
Glenn Cass
Harold Husman
Ruth Paulsen
Vaneta Hughes
Jones County 4-H Enrolls 96 Dairy Heifers for Show
Ninety six dairy heifers are enrolled by 63 4-H members in Jones county for the 4-H Achievement Show and Junior Dairy Show. Holsteins lead with 24 calves plus yearlings and two-year-olds. Jersey, Brown Swiss, Guernsey and milking shorthorn entries share the rest. This marks the largest enrollment ever recorded in the county.
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Jones County
Jones County Creameries
Grover C. Miehe
Jersey
Guernsey
Miche
Farm Bureau Holds Sports Festival Here
The Jones County Farm Bureau hosts a sports festival at the fairgrounds tomorrow July 4. Accredited members and dependents plus county 4-H Club members may attend. Events start at 10 a.m. with a boys softball game and run into the afternoon featuring softball, horseshoe pitching, track for men and boys, and softball, chair quuits, dart throwing, and wall driving for women and girls. A group will be selected to travel to Ames for a state festival on September 6 and 7.
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Jones County
The
Farm Bureau
Fairgrounds
County Farm Bureau
Ames
Fortune Finders 4-H Meeting At Castle Grove
Fortune Finders 4 H club met at Pima Oltmann home with Norma Hints presiding in the president’s absence. Virginia Miller spoke on sorting and carrying, Irma Oltmann demonstrated bread storage, and the girls practiced a Farm Bureau skit before refreshments.
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E Grove Fortune Finders
Pima Oltmann
Norma
Virginia Miller
Irma Oltmann
Farm Bureau
Truck Fire Endangers Passengers as Gasoline Explodes
Charles Devitts Jr of Lohrville acted quickly when flames crawled along the truck cab. He pushed out an 11 year old passenger and fled as 800 gallons of gasoline ignited, engulfing the vehicle in a blaze.
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Charles Devitts, Jr
Lohrville
Large Skunk River dam area yields notable catfish catches
Conservation officer R. E. Sloan reports a 47 pound catfish and an 88 pound catfish caught near Oak land Mills by Mt. Pleasant at the Skunk river dam area. The site is described as a real fishing ground.
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Big Flathead
Oakland Mills
Mt. Pleasant
R. E. Sloan
Lenox College to remain closed after trustees plan abandonment
Lenox College Hopkinton will not reopen as previously planned by the board. The 1855 founding institution, once Bowen's Collegiate Institute, faced financial hurdles and years of expansion including Clarke Hall 1890 and Finkbohner Hall 1916 before culminating as a junior college in 1922.
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Lenox College
Bowen’s Collegiate Institute
Henry A. Carter
LeRoy Jackson
Clarke Hall
Doolittle
Finkbohner
Nellie Finkbohner
Perry
Dean Laughlin
the Express
Thomas F. Evers
Delaware County
Bay
Michael
Mary Moran Evers
Cascade
Anna Skahill
Castle Grove
Bay Church
George Perry
Cedar Falls
Mary Angeletta
BVM
Chicago
Joseph Hosch
Dubuque
H. Koob
Clarence
Danforth Foundation
American Youth Foundation
Shelby
Mich
Homer Sheirborn
Braddyville
Elmer Jensen
Toronto
A. C. Martin
Lorena
Forrest
4 H Swine Club Boasts High Average In Jones County
Four H swine club members in Jones county report 36 market litters five pens of three and 30 purebred litters as their projects for the year. They saved 290 pigs from 36 sows at eight pigs per litter. Including five pens of three the total market pigs on feed reach 305 by 39 members. The group lists 14 Duroc Jersey litters eight Chester White six Poland China five Hampshire four Berkshire three Spotted Poland and one Hereford litter.
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Jones County
Chester
Will Lesch Dies in Boulder at 60 After Wyoming Roots
Will Lesch 60 a former Wyoming resident died Friday morning in Boulder Colorado. Born in Chicago he moved to Wyoming as a child and married Golden Mallicoat in 1909. He worked as a jeweler in Chicago Grundy Center Iowa and Boulder. Survivors include his wife four children four grandchildren and two sisters.
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Will Lesch
Boulder
Colo
Chicago
Golden Mallicoat
Grundy Center
Iowa
Alice
Charles
Hazel
Locke
Will Luckstead
James Green
Kansas City
Louis Schladetsky
Lutheran Aid Society
Herman Hintz
Meinhardt Paulsen
Elmer Buckingham
Merlin Dreibelbis
Richard Rohwedder
Dorothy Rohwedder
A. D. Schoff
Charles Rogers
W.S.C.S
Methodist Church
Paul Levien
County Flying Farmers Sign Members at Iowa State College
The Flying Farmers of Iowa state office reports six Jones county members as charter signups at Iowa State College on June 11. Vernon H Barrack E J Gartner Francis Miller Ervin Poppe Monticello and Roland Dasenbrock George A Wes sels Anamosa join. Herbert Arnold of Walker sits on the district board of directors. Members can still join by sending a 2 dollar fee to Lyle Abbott at Iowa State College Ames.
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The
Flying Farmers of Iowa
Jones County
Iowa State College
Vernon H. Barrack
E. J. Gartner
Francis Miller
Ervin Poppe
Monticello
Roland Dasenbrock
George A. Wessels
Anamosa
Herbert Arnold
Walker
Flying Farmers
Lyle Abbott
Information Service
Ames
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Lois Ann Cass
Bonnie Darrow
Bobby
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Dena Mae Hughes
Galen
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W. B. Clark
Rosehann
C. P. Abbott
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Louis
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John Sutherland
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Detroit
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Cedar Rapids
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West Union
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H. A. Miles
Union Township
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D. V. Butler
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Miss Thompson
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Bremerton
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Ann Sears
University Hospital School of Nursing
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Dora Thomson
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Washta
J. L. McDonald
St. Petersburg
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Lester Barron
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Davenport
Fred Latare
Ada Stewart
Patsy Steele
Camp Hiaga
Troy Mills
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Roy Millers
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J. J. Luedemann
Wellsburg
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Fort Madison
Elwood
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E. F. Rohwedder
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Lowell Coburn
Elmer Coburn
Edmund Jeffry
Clinton
W. N. Morse
Lahey Trucking Service
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Dyersville
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