End of School Reflections and Schoolday Gossip
A senior message notes last five weeks of school urging earnest study and activity. Reports on fifth to sixth grade music antics with a mouse scare, game day dances, solo performances, and upcoming April 16 contest. Teague basketball standings, top scorers listed, and the room magazine The Schoolday Gossip announced. Junior High stories cover Venezuela film, jeep drive progress, five weeks remain, John Robinson’s return, new library books, and a planned kite contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Laws
Don Orelup
Ruby Johnson
Max Wren
Junior Cary
Y ¥vonne_Harrison
Mr. Peterson
Venezuela
John Robinson
Jack Broshar
Sophomore Class News At Banquet Waiters And Waitresses
At the junior senior banquet this Friday six boys and six girls from the sophomore class will act as waiters and waitresses. The girls named are Louise Sawyer Wynons Perry Maxine Smith Selah McDanel Helen Felton and Yvonne Harrison. The boys listed include David Pullman Richard Hudgens Clair Huff Carl Tisue Robert Charles Gladfelder and Floyd Broshar. The post includes sports noting honorary post season basketball captains Lela Luse and Imogenie Tadlock as co captains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Sawyer
Wynons Perry
Maxine Smith
Selah McDanel
Helen Felton
Yvonné Harrison
David Pullman
School Year Highlights From Moravia and Surrounding Areas
Portraits of students Ellen Judge Othello Cary Franklin and Agnes Pasut describe schooling from elementary through high school in Moravia Ottumwa Albia and Monroe county. The narrative notes subjects clubs sports and future plans including business college and farm work. Elementary and primary classes report daily routines and spring bird sightings while upper grades reflect geography history and a post tests return to routine with monitor elections and class activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Judge Ellen
Jack Oak
Melrose
Business College
Ottumwa
Othello Cary Franklin
Monroe County
Othello
Blakesburg
Moravia High
Heckman
Harold
Moravia
Camera
Agnes Pasut
Victory Garden tips and old Fayette county mill remains
Wise to test saved seed for germination as storage conditions affect viability. Details cover bush beans carrots beets and timing from spring to summer sowings, plus root crop care and pest guidance. Also notes Fayette county’s Old Mill built 1851 by James B Earls and sons, its three stories of native rock and timber, with only foundations remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson
Kentucky
Victory Garden
Fayette County
James B. Earls
Auburn
Minnesota State Line
Elkader
Red Cross Enrollment Letter From North Africa
A special delivery letter to Jackson County Red Cross funds enrollment for Charles M. Kirkendall. Manager Kirkendall is now serving with the army overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Africa
Jackson County Red Cross
Charles M. Kirklendall
Red Cross
Mgr. Kirkendall
A Week Of The War In North Africa And Pacific Fronts
North Africa sees heavy fighting near Mareth Line as British Eighth Army presses toward Rommel with 2000 Axis prisoners taken. American columns advance toward Gabes and Sfax, while large air operations pound Axis targets. In Europe and Pacific, daylight raids expand against Germany, Wilhelmshaven and Vegesack, with plans for round the clock air offensives as MacArthur highlights air power in the Pacific campaigns.
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Tunisia
Eighth Army
Mareth Line
Rommel
Gafsa
Maknassy
el Guettar
Gabes
Sfax
Stimson
U.S
Europe
Germany
North
Africa
Vegesack
Wilhelmahaven
Iran C. Eaker
USAAF
Haker
Wilhelmshaven
Britain
Backer
Newton Longfellow
Eighth
RAF
Pacific
MacArthur
Bismarck Sea
Lae
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Gebhardt buys Tama drag business from Dan Hoffman
Fred Gebhardt purchases the Tama drag business from Dan Hoffman who at 82 retires after 51 years in the trade. Hoffman was injured months ago in a wagon fall and has been advised to quit steady work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Gebhardt
Dan Hoffman
Tama
Hoffman
Centerville Social Roundup Highlights Local Visits
Salem by Hazel Hellyer lists Centerville callers and gatherings from Saturday to Sunday. Families including the Gladfelders Tarr Jennings Hellyer Teater and others visit various homes, with mentions of spelling contest attendance and multiple Sunday visits among neighbors and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Hellyer
Jess Gladfelder
Robert Tarr
Roberta
Robert Jennings
Charles
Dell Hellyer
Ted Teater
Theola Ware
Centerville
Jimmy McAninch
Connie Kay
Cass. Hamilton
Pilla Coffin
Bert Rinehart
Johnnie Jones
California
Horton Potts
Guy McKern
Elbert Perry
Newton
Long’s
Frank Gladfelder
Hannah Gladfelder
Appanoose
Bremer county Jackson School still serves as landmark
The Regent s 75 year old Jackson school building remains in use for classes on the site of the original school. Eighty six years ago a log school with built in desks faced two walls and funded by local farmers. The original burned twelve years later, and a modern building succeeded it. Many current pupils trace ancestry to families who attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ror
Bremer County
Regent
Jackson
Jackson School
Knudtsons celebrate fiftieth anniversary at Waukon home
Mrs. Martin Hanson attended the anniversary at the Knudtsons' home in Waukon with their five children present. Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Mundy spent the weekend with relatives in Moulton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Hanson
Thomas Knudtson
Mrs. W. V. Mundy
Moulton
Dangers and Oddities Across Iowa News Briefs
A stove mishap injures Alvin Bakken of Bode with three toes broken while moving the appliance. Ida Grove’s Mrs. Wittmaack receives two pairs of African sandals from her husband Sergt Wittmaack in Africa. A black cat wanders into Ida County courthouse, exits unharmed. Odebolt Fire Department earns another year without fire loss, narrowly, with $398 insured nominal losses across ten town calls. Odebolt’s W L Goreham grows a lemon tree with a fruit 2.9 inches around. Decorah sisters Marcella Marion and Helen Thayer face repeated auto incidents. grandfather William Thayer killed by car. The family endures several injuries and a scarlet fever quarantine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Wittmaack
Ida Grove
Sergt. Wittmaack
Africa
IBAD
Decoreh
Marcella
Marion
Helen I Thayer
William Thayer
Robert
Ronald
Clarence Thayer
Main Station Highlights Local Sunday Visits and Attendances
Attendance at Sunday School and church was 57. Families visited relatives across town, including the Boyer, Gladfelder, McDanel, Hiatt, and Tomlin households. Des Moines and Centerville visitors joined local gatherings, with several companions from various homes sharing Sunday hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darlene Gladfelder
Paul Boyer
George Boyer
Mabel Gladfelder
Moulton
Edgar Stansberry
Lester Stockwell
Lloyd McDanel
Ryman McDanel
T. L. Gladfelder
Clyde Gladfelder
Darlene
Grover Eastern
Carl Tomlin
Kenneth McDanes
Cody Luse
Elsie Long
Community Socials Fill Centerville Weekend Notes
Centerville locals recount visits with neighbors and relatives through Friday to Sunday. Many families including the Johnsons Feltons Tadlocks and Arnolds hosted and visited, with planters and friends sharing time at multiple homes around town. A humorous tale closes about Reinder Kromminga's lost billfold and chewed money found by bystanders.
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S. Hewsbasket
Editorial
Teem
Pearl Hiner
Teacha Intremvoral T Basketball League
PB. Wildcats
Greyhounds
I Tigers
Bulldogs
Teague
Carl Hiatt
Wildcats
Freeman
Bulldega
Gene Garrett
Bill Wilson
George Tracy
Patty Halden
Richard Smith
Lela Luse
Imogenie Tadlock
Andrews Sisters
bin Obey
Dorothy
Moravia Union
Mr. Davis
Joyca Funkhouser
Bonnie Main
Mitchell
Hird
Freddie
Phyllis Underwood
Carolyn
Interior Plains
Daniel Boone
Donald Easter
Pillsbury’s
Spencer
Fattar, Iowe
Victory Gardens
Marion Market
Wisconsin
Midway
Salem
R. GC. Lockmon
M. A. Lockmon
Jep Lockmon
Troy Lockmon
Steve Gilliland
Coy Gilliland
Hedrick
May
Hazea Gilliland
Thomas Burdock
Donald Hiatt
Raymond Lockman
Charles McCurdy
Jackie
Gerald
Ray Tomlin
Opha Blumer
Ben Blumer
Rex Tisye
May~Benson
Benson
Elbert Lockman
H. T. Gilliland
Billy
Dorothy Jean
W. T. Irelan
Iowa
Alvin Bakken
Ida County Court House
Odebolt
NoWna
W . L. Goreham
Turner
Ambulance Service
Maple Grove
Bernice Johnson
Walter Scott
Gabe Johnson
Emery Hiatt
Glen Burns
Burns
Wilbert Johnson
Harry Stocker
Betty Wilson
Scott Girls
Harry Felton
Helen
Harry Felton Jr
Virgil Johnson
Oral Boyer
Jamie
Donald
Delmar Dowd
Anna Walters
Phil Underwood
Unionville
Francis Berg
Clarence Dowd
Vernon Miller
A. E. Shull
Grant Tadlock
Imogene
Irene
Jimmy
Jerry
Patty
Beryle
Reinder Kromminga
Titonka
Hanson Farm
Stanley Hangon
Stanley
Mr. Kromminga
Kromminga
Majestic Theatre
Sabu
Maria Montez
Jon Hall
Teresa Wright
Joseph Cotton
Ritz Theatre
Johnny Doughboy
Jane Withers
Patrick Brooke
Gene Autry Trubay
Buck Hanesoe
Rex Bell
Jungle BC
Wit Sabu
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