Scout Hikes and Patrol Meetings in Local Reports
Scout troop activities include a six mile hike southeast of town ending in timber near a spring with overnight camping, early morning return, and no mishaps. Star and Wolf patrols met in the city park focusing on pace, signaling, tracking, and a benediction. A public duty column quotes the Boy Scout creed and notes community visits, family gatherings, and local social updates from Des Moines to Centerville, Ames, Ottumwa, and Farragut Idaho, with multiple family visits and weekend events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woods
Jemma
Charles Burton
Star Patrol
Eugene McCrory
Roy Richard Closter
America
New Hope Community Notes From Alicia And Mt Ayr
Mrs W E Donovan hosts Tuesday evening gathering with Mr and Mrs Charles Dooley and family. Weekend visitors include Kay Harsh and family with Mrs Raymond Zinn and Mr Ora Harsh in Mt Ayr. Betty stays with grandparents. The Callens host Ira at Clarence Dowds. Otha DuVall and Archie Martin visit Elsie Martin. Archie returns to Norman Oklahoma. J F Chambers and Frank Hiatt spend Sunday in Moulton with relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Donovan
Charles Dooley
David
John Wood
Dickie
Lynda Kay
Alicia
Kay
Ivan Harsh
Raymond Zinn
Manona
Ora Harsh
Mt. Ayr
Betty
R. C. Wilson
Mardeena
Jay
Ira Callen
Clarence Dowds
Otha Lee DuVall
Archie W. Martin
Elsie Martin
Archie
Norman
Okla
Mra
J. _F. Chambers
Richard Ballew
Moulton
Frank Hiatt
War bond drive urged to fund postwar justice effort
A U S Treasury message urges households to increase payroll savings into war bonds to finance trials and punishments for Tojo and wartime criminals. It asks families to calculate monthly living costs and total family income, directing an initial 10 percent allotment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Tojo
U.S. Treasury Department
Salem Community Notes Highlight Local Visits and Sympathy
Hazel Hellver reports gatherings at the Cass Hamilton and A E Derby homes as families and friends share Sunday evenings and tag along visits. Attendees include McAniieh Brown Whitehead Calien Callen Perry Hellyer and others from Iconium Maywood and Albia. The community mourns Lew Funkhouser and Susan Callen with sympathy extended to their families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Hellver
Jimmy McAniieh
Connie
Lloyd Brown
Dorothy and
Jerry
Cass Hamilton
B. C. Whitehead l
Ruby
Addie Free
Iconium
Otto Calien
Maywood
Ill
Pvt
W. O. Callen
Campy Custer, Mich
Dell Hellyer
Raymond Perry
George Hellyer
Great, Lakes Naval Training Station
Hazel Hellyer
Chicago
Edward McCord
Albia Callera
Sunday Socials and Visits Across Mora and Ottumwa
Sunday with Johnnie and Ella Hiatt and Eleanor Miller joined the Coffin family for church in Mora Sunday evening. Frances Burton traveled to Cedar Rapids to see her trainee nephew Berton Dean Neff, soon bound for California. Bessie Neff and Mary Warner of Ottumwa also visited the Coffin circle before returning home Sunday. Tommy Pattibone recovers from pneumonia. Mrs. Ivan Harah visited her parents, aiding her mother with a paper hanging. Dess White helped at the Orville Burton home as hands were cutting and shocking cattle. Everett Mosier, John Allem, and Bessie Donovan spent Sunday afternoon at the Donovan home. evening guests included Junior and Judy Donovan and Frank and Hiatt family members from Bloomfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnnie
Ella Hiatt
Eleanor Miller
Carl Coffin
Coffin
Moravia
Frances Burton
Cedar Rapids
Berton Dean Neff
California
Bessie Neff
Mary Warner
Ottumwa
Tommy Pattibone
Ivan Harah
Matt Watts
Dess White
Orville Burton
Cata
Everett Mosier
John Allem
Bessie Donovan
W. E. Donovan
Junior Donovan
Judy
Bloomfield
Frank Hiatt
Sharpshooter kills foxes near Maquoketa
Mrs. Sadie Yarolem of Maquoketa used an army rifle to hunt foxes threatening her chickens. On the first trip she killed two young foxes and wounded another. On a subsequent excursion she found Mrs. Fox and ended the vixen’s brood, leaving the pens safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Yarolem
Maquoketa
Social Visits and Local Calling Arrangements in Scattersburg
Mrs Ben Blumer hosts and visits appear throughout the week with Mr and Mrs Marve Lockman and Elbert Lockman seen in Centerville and Moravia. May Benson and May Ben are noted visitors as Ben Blumer hosts dinners with Mrs Ethel VanCleef and Mrs Gertie Hoffman. Clair Callen and Harold Housley return home. Mrs VanCleef departs Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Blumer
Marve Lockman
Elbert Lockman
Centerville
Mal
Mettie Blumer
May Benson
Elmer Lockman
Ethel VanCleet
Gertle Hoffman
Burdette Ward
Linda
Moravia
Raymond Lockman
Dorothy Jean
Billie
Atbla
Dad Adams
Ethel VanCleef
Geortie Hoffman
May Ben
Clair Callen
Harold Housley
Main Station Sunday Attendance and Local Visits
Attendance at Sunday School and church was 86. Residents and visitors including the Gladfelder, Harrison, Hiatt, Callen, Tomlin, Moffitt, Goughnour, Kaster, Hiatt, Luse, and Lacoar families spent Sunday at various local homes. A caller asked for return of a stolen gasoline barrel. WPB reported fertilizer and flooring material production rising, with implications for housing and sanitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darlene Gladfelder
T. L. Gladfelder
Clyde Gladfelder
Ray Harrison
Yvonne
John Broshar
Betty Lou Hiatt
Ottumwa
Fred Callen
Moravia
Paul Boyer
Birdie
Esther Vanden Biesen
Montana
Carl Tomlin
W. M. Tomlin
Gertie Boyer
Kermit Gladfelder
Frankie Moffitt
Kester Gladfelder
Paul Richard Goughnour
Guy McKern
Dorothy Perry
Doris Long
Hannah Gladfelder
Prank Gladfelder
Kester
Versil
Lacoar
George Hiatt
Willie McDanél
Lyn Hilton
Robert Luse
Ronald Woodward
Paren Jean
Cody Luse
A Letter Iowa Victory Gardens Planting Tips
Instructions for late July planting of Chinese cabbage endive and other vegetables in Iowa. Northern Iowa should plant earlier than southern. Advice covers depth of sowing mulch use, shading with dry grass boards and blocks, and fertilizer amounts. Notes on sweet corn suckers onions sweet potatoes and tomatoes with cautions on pruning cultivation. Mentions bandage cloth supplies and loom orders for cotton bandages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
War Ration Calendar and notices
War ration calendar lists inspection deadlines for Class A B and C rations with dates and coupon validity. It mentions gasoline blue stamps dates, sugar coupons, meat cheese and canned fish red stamps, and other period validity notes. Local residents Mr Hicks and Mr Whitlow visited and stayed with L H Robinson.
Local notices from Iconium rural correspondence
The column lists neighbors visiting and health updates including Mr and Mrs Haver Free and daughter Emily, Mr and Mrs Kenneth Free and son, Mrs Vena McAninen with her parents, illness of Mrs Kelsey, sick list for Mr and Mrs Jay Argo, Carl Wetterland visiting from Ankeny, Rosa Beaty returning from Marshalltown, various calls at homes, and harvest helpers with Leo Beaty and Billie assisting John McAninch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosa Beaty
Haver Free
Emily
Kenneth Free
Ida Aree
Vena McAniien
W. E. Kelsey
Kelsey
Jay Argo
Carl Wetterland
Ankeny
Iconium
Marshalltown
Sona
Lloyd
Johnnie
Ida Argo
Scott and Funkhouser
Algin Derby
Carl Derby
Leo Beaty
Billie
John McAninch
Bennie Whitehead
Ruby
Ndy Brown
Lester’ Breese
Albia
Edgar Breéga
Clarence Teater
Also Mentioned on This Page
Boy Scouts of America
J.T. VanDorm
Faber’s
Hilbert Roberts
Rita
Misa Marjorie Roberts
Des Moines
Guy Robert
Brompton
Dale
Donna Weasles
Marvin Gardner
Walter
Marvin
Ames
Walter Gideon
Harry Felton
Jimmie
Howard Whislers
Pletz J
Luthar
Harold Hawk
Followwill
Clair Sincox
Farragut
Idaho
George VanDorin
U.S.C.G
Clell Blumer
Glen Burns
Fred Blumer
Maurice Walter
Gene Autry
Teresa Wright
White Savage
Maria Montez
Jon Hall
Ginger Rogers
Cary Grant
Ider
Hirohito
Cleering Service
Southern Utilities
Hanes
Salem
Walter Lemaster
James Nash
Ronald Tisue
Robert Jennings
Ted Teater
Theola
Ray Hooper
Gladbrook
Ray
WPA
U. S
WPB
Victory Garden
SBM
Gardner Hatchery
Highway 60
Moravia Corner
Gladfelder & Bennett
James L. Gray
16Th Street
Centerville, Lows
Mrs. Hicks of
Albin
L. H. Robinson
Mrs
Paul Whitlow
Knoxville
Tconium
Turner
Ambulance Service
Blumenstock
Chet Broshar
Moravia, Iowa
Central Defense Command
Raiders
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Iowa Industrial and Defense Commission
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