Larger purses offered in harness racing at West Liberty Fair
Harness races at West Liberty fair will feature $100 increases in major purses and for the first time a starting gate will be used to speed races. Walter Giese of West Salem will operate the gate as the program runs Tuesday August 18 and Wednesday August 20 with multiple 2 heat events and purses ranging from 350 to 5900 dollars.
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West Liberty
West Liberty Fair
Robert Barclay
Walter Giese
West Salem
Ill
Iowa Futurity
Iowa
Naumann
Civil Defense Education to Start in Iowa Schools
Iowa schools will integrate fundamentals of civil defense into fall curricula across 835 public schools. Arthur C Anderson will lead a 21-member planning group. program features include first aid training, air raid drills, shelter stations, and classroom warning systems with parent updates.
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Muscatine County
Associated Press
Des Moines
Jessie M. Parker
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Iowa
Committee to Arrange Lodge Picnic Chosen
West Liberty Mr and Mrs Walter Lawton and Mr and Mrs Ivan Wolf were appointed to serve on the county committee for the annual county picnic in September when the Re bekah lodge met recently Plans also were made for a rummage sale on Oct 4 and for the next lodge meeting on Sept 2 with Erdine Kruse Mary Adams and Anna Brown chosen on the pot luck refreshment committee Mary Wagner of Mitchelville Ia spent the weekend with her sister Mrs Olive Hazlett Residence Changes Mr and Mrs Richard Kennard have moved into the property formerly occupied by Mr and Mrs Russell Pederson Mr and Mrs Pederson have moved into the Walter Lawton apartments
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West Liberty
Walter Lawton
Ivan Wolf
Rebekah Lodge
Erdine Kruse
Mary Adams
Anna Brown
Mary Wagner
Mitchelville
Olive Hazle
Jack Matthews
Barbara Cone
Mesa
F. A. Johnston
Rodger
Alfred Asch
David
Peter
Col. Asch
Okinawa
Gull Lake
Richland
Mich
Johnston
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
O. W. Tripp
John
Salina Kan
Robert Little
Albert Scott
Tripp
Scott
Little
Marvin Verbeck
Davenport
Harry Pike
Robert Dewar
Hammond
Ind
Herman Rhode
Dewar
Ruth Hise
Leon
Alma Hise
Hise
James Dickson
Judith
Fred
Marion
Ohio
Edith Hyde
Youngstown
West Liberty Fair Fruit Classes Announced
The Fruits department lists prizes for Whitney Crabs Lincoln Bartlett Kieffer Siekel pears white and purple grapes peaches and plums. First prize is 1.25 for many classes, with four to six specimens per plate and top awards of 2.50 2.00 and 1.00 for the largest collection of fresh fruits.
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West Liberty
Lincoln
Bartlett
Kieffer
Siekel
Fortnightly Literary Club of West Liberty Sets 1952 53 Program
The year book committee announces the Fortnightly Literary Club schedule for West Liberty. A sequence of hostesses, programs, teas, and committees runs from September through May, featuring talks on hormone era topics, agriculture, drama, fashion, and a narcotics study, with election of officers in March and annual reports in May.
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Literary Club of
West Liberty
Fortnightly Literary Club of
Leota Heath
Janette Hufstader
Jessie Brooke
International News
Roxie Nichols
Carrie Snider
Lillian James
Dorothy Walters
Louise Keele
Edna Kimball
Helen Jayne
Gabriella Robertson
Inez Lewis
Margaret Ivey
Elsie Holmes
Mary Dell Hintz
Lucie Nichols
Ruth Webb
Grandmother's Kitchen
Patrol Ready to Handle Big Gain In Auto Traffic
Sgt. Leon ard Sims in charge of the Iowa highway patrol district here says expect a large rise in traffic on highways into West Liberty during the upcoming West Liberty fair. Four patrolmen will cover the area with two more from Davenport available. Patrols also aided Davenport Mississippi Valley fair traffic and will handle Jones county fair crowds in Monticello next week.
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West Liberty
Leonard Sims
Iowa Highway Patrol District
Sgt. Sims
Davenport
Monticello
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East Third Street
Kent
West Liberty Grain & Feed Corp
Frait
Centennial OF Engineering
American Society of Civil Engineers
Chicago
Louise Kline
Myrtle Smith
Jennine Feastermaker
Pauline Royal
Lucile Nichols
Leola Agnew
Margaret New
Grace Gibson
The
Orient
Maude Koster
Circuit Rider
Cathedral
Jenniie Fenstermaker
Bertha Propst
Esther Nauman
Agency
General Insurance
West Liberty State Bank Bldg
Ken L. Hintz
Columbus
Ford Tractors
Dearborn Farm Equipment
West Liberty Implement Store
Frank TO Buren
C. J. Clark
Ford Farming Show
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