Land donation shapes new Onslow baseball diamond roadside park
Mrs Frances Warner donated a 200 by 300 foot plot on the east side of the highway south of town for a baseball diamond and roadside park. The Onslow school faculty contracts include Supt Walter E Wagner Ruth Heisey Emma Heide man Mabel Gearhart Mildred Streeper and Mate Harrs. Vacation Bible School runs May 28 to June 8 from 9 to 1130 a.m. with kindergarten primary junior and junior high departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onslow
Frances Warner
Onslow School
Walter E. Wagner
Ruth Heisey
Emma Heideman
Mabel Gearhart
Mildred Streeper
Mate Harrs
New Hymnals for Church Music Committee Advances
The music committee meets to plan new hymnals for the church service series. They discuss selection, choir needs, and budget, aiming to refresh congregational singing with contemporary religious songs.
Hymnals Adopted by Three Denominations and Reformed Church
A church session has ordered new hymnals. The hymn book is a joint publication by three Presbyterian denominations and the Reformed Church of North America. Youth group visits Wyoming to hear Gene Siekmann speak at the University of Dubuque and view slides, followed by refreshments at the manse. Several local residents are noted for visits, illnesses, and travel over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sion
Reformed Church of North America
Wyoming
Gene Siekmann
University of Dubuque
Wayne 4-H Club Demonstrations Highlight May Events
Wayne Willing Workers 4-H meet at Wayne Center schoolhouse with 26 members, two leaders, five mothers, and two guests. Members performed demonstrations on diet, bread making, milk desserts, and garden planning while planning for rally day, summer chorus, and multiple camp dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Willing Workers
Wayne Center School House
Shirley Hoult
Georgia Folkerts
Sharon Zimmerman
Barbara Tobiason
Phyllis Hagen
Ames Deelgate
Susan Ballou
Janet Postel
Ruth Postel
Andrea Hoffman
Carla Folkers
Lois Numm
Gwen Gavin
Joyce Radloff
Mary Irene Pfeffer
Beth Strang
Eleanor Lyons
Jane Felton
Alice Strang
Joan Carro
Betty
Jane Ann
Marilyn Wagner
Carol Schlemme
Jeannie Burds
Prairie Hill Be Natural Club
Peggy Thomson
Evonne Reth
Betty Pillard
Prairie Pals Club
Helen Tucker
Castle Grove Fortune Finders
Cass Club
Prairie Pals
Massachusetts Exchangees
Massachusetts
Monticello Fair Grounds
Boy Scout
Prairie Hill
Be Natural Club
Monticello Park
4 H Club Reports On Meetings And Dances
Betty Pillard Grace Kromminga and Alice Goedken served as county recreation training school reps. They reported on games and dances for 4-H meetings and closed with the pledge. Laura Goedken spoke on Vegetables in the Diet and vitamin retention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Pillard
Grace Kromminga
Alice Goedken
Betty
Grace
Laura Goedken
Jean
Joan Pillard
Marvin Thomsen
Wayne Master Farmers 4 H Club Meets in May at Wayne Center
The Wayne Master Farmers 4 H club met May 9 at Wayne Center school with 32 members present. Plans for a dance and talent contest were discussed and a tour schedule set starting at Steve Wolken's at 7 30 a m with a noon pot luck and a 1 30 p m continue. Delegates for Ames short course were Glen Heeren with Jerry Bronemann as alternate. Host families were Carol Danneman Larry Heeren Gary Rickels and Bill Bohlken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Master Farmers
Bob Eilers
Jim Helgens
Leonard Monck
Jack Kiburz
Carol Danneman
Larry Heeren
Gary Rickels
Bill Bohlken
Marine Pfc Carl Morning Home on Leave
Marine Private First Class Carl O Morning son of Mr and Mrs Carl Morning is home on leave. He is stationed in H company 1st Marine Regiment as an assistant gunner on a 3 5 inch rocket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl O. Morning
Carl Morning
Pfc. Morning
1St Marine Regiment
Privates Staner and Powers in Advanced Training at Fort Hood
Pvt. Staner son of Mr and Mrs Cyril Staner Hopkinton and Pvt. Powers son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Powers Monticello are undergoing advanced infantry training in the 4th armored division at Fort Hood Texas. The division, reactivated in 1954, is in a broad training program and has fame from Normandy and Bastogne. Powers wife Patricia resides in Dubuque and he is assigned to company D of the division 553rd infantry battalion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl F. Staner
Cyril Staner
Hopkinton
Frederick E. Powers
Joseph H. Powers
Monticello
4Th Armored Division
Fort Hood
Tex
Normandy
Bastogne
Powers
Patricia
Dubuque
Army personnel details from Fort Leonard Wood
January and was last stationed at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri Powers is a 1952 graduate of Buck Creek high school Staner is assigned to company B of the division's 1st infantry battalion He entered the army in December 1955 and was last stationed also at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo
Powers
Buck Creek High School
Staner
L1st Infantry
Talion
Army
Fort Leonard Wood
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Ball Park
Bible School Planned
the Music Committee
Direc
Walter Wagner
W. E. Koch
Iowa City Hospital
W. C. Barnes
Wayne Strait
Mason City
Strait
Sioux City
James Kennedy
John Kennedy
Carole Behn
Judi Paulsen
Lawrence Clark
Mechanicsville
Ronald Hanna
Joe Couhourier
Detroit
Minnesota
California
Youth Fellowship Group
Edwin Bickford
Dillon Bickford
Warren Sonneman
Janis Rae
George Paulsen
John Mayberry
L. L. Delaplain
Harden City
Okla
Charles Graham
Elizabeth
Midland City
Mich
O. W. Reid
Ft. Dodge
Marvin Holst
Herluf Madsen
Andover
Eugene Madsen
Clyde Madsen
Charlotte
Lee Haring
Virgil Murphy
Robert Scarr
Hampton
J. W. Allen
William Woodward
Cedar Rapids
Otto Hendrix
Kay
Claude Barker
Emeline
Elva Hall
Russell
John Edwards
Ralph
Jimmy Edwards
Isaac Edwards
Walter Holtz
Marvin Thomson
Boyd Chatterton
Kyle Alden
Jones County Agricultural Extension Council
Anamosa
Davis
Tire Sale
Elton Copley
America
Sedari
F.D.A.F. Freese
Wayne 4-H Club
Oxford Livewires
Oxford Junction
Ken Hodgden
Ames
John Burhop
Jerry Parsons
County Extension
Larry Wernet
Tom O’hara
John
Gary Burhop
Marine Home
Monument CO
Pvts
Texas
Mary Ann
Nazarene
Vacation Bible School
Express
Paull & Owen
Shorty
Sanfor
Coats
Canvas Oxfords
Oxfords
Smitty’s
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