Local and Personal Notes From Centerville Area
Local notes list residents visiting relatives and traveling, with events including rummage sales, hospital updates, and visits to family homes in Centerville, Bloomfield, Davis City, Ottumwa, and nearby towns. Also mentions War Food Administration vitamin allocations and WAC personnel adjustments impacting overseas duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi Coulson
Centerville
Chester Broshar
Bloomfield
H. K. Smith
Harry DuVall
Bill Wilson
Blakesburg
Porter Leonard
Princeton
Taylor Leonard
W. Ehler
Newton
Pearl Lavely
Harold Prow
Henry Prow
Henry Simmons
Tracy
Edgar Simmons
Ted Broshar
Carol Ann
Larry Eugene Main
Charles Broshar
James Rhee
War Time Food and Production Updates and Allocations
The Office of Price Administration lists point adjustments for vegetables and processed foods through June 80 1944 with butter and margarine value changes effective June 18 1944. Lumber industry needs over 60 000 workers and barnyard equipment quotas for 1944. Hog prices to be reduced and poultry prices to rise seasonally. Farmers urged to sell corn to the government to sustain war material production. Civilians receive cheddar allocation, new autos and bicycles available in May, and maternity care figures released. No net change in living costs between February and March amid price shifts in food and clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
War Food Administration
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Legume Pass
War Man
WPB
Corn Belt
War Department
War Production Board
Department of Agriculture
WEA
Department of Labor
Labor Department
War Office funds to aid child care for wartime workers
The Office of War Information announces about 20 million dollars for extensive child care in fiscal 1945. Funds support nursery schools and child care centers, information centers for parents, a visiting teacher service, and some transport of children to centers. Communities with women needing war work and children under two may apply to FWA for group care funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of War Information
FWA
County Supervisors Approve Conveyance Of Coal Land
The board moved and approved the deed of conveyance by Harry Stickler to L. and Alma Conger for coal underlying the west half of the southwest quarter, section 5, township 68, range 17, for $1.00 as part of tax sale certificate endorsements. Grace L. Bedinger certifies the document.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker
Wells
Harry Stickler
County Board of Supervisors
Appanoose County
Iowa
Alma Conger
Ross Wells
J.B. Walker
Board of Supervisors
Grace L. Bedinger
Cincinnati
Appacee County
Charles L. Johnston
Debts Collected and Property Lien Updates in Iowa Notices
Debts collection offers and a series of local government notices from Appanoose and surrounding Iowa towns detail statements about collecting notes mortgages and accounts with no charge, along with resolutions authorizing release of a county lien on Nellie Ware’s estate and actions to pursue tax deed proceeds. Also listed are agricultural product ads and property sales notices, plus a Moravia financial report for the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.C. Valentine CO
Marshalltown
Iowa
Nellie Ware
Mt. Pleasant
State of
Stanton
Numa
Wilson
Centerville
Highland Park
Towa
Appanoose County
Apanoose County
Board of Supervisors
Appanoose
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Fred Coltrain
Ottumwa
Centerville Hospital
William Laws
Edd Main
Harry Main
Des Moines
Excelsior Springs
Charles Smith
Legion Hall
Flora Jones
D. E. Carson
Newtown
John Veach
Mary Kathryn
Frank Veach
Edward Ellis
Deloris
Montgomery
Troy Adams
Joyce
Secretary of War
Federal Works Agency
Chet Broshar
The
Rockers
Turner & Son
Moravia Union
Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors
Grace L. ‘Bedinger
County
Apdibor
Pillsbury
Spencer
Cargill
Gardner and Son
J. E. Walker
Gill
Moravia
Albia
Rendering Co
Gardner
Lewis McCoy
Claude Long
Lic
J. R. Callen
Ottumwa Courier
Max Hammond
Garnet McDonough
Harrow
Poland
John L. Dodd
Marvin Gardner
Chester
Ray Tomlin
Per Tings
Tok
J. Sprat
A. & H. Soda
Nadine
Eorge
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