Oakville WSCS Studies Japan at Tuesday Meeting
Oakville WSCS met to study Japan with Mrs. Max Fisher sharing experiences from hosting a Japanese student. Mrs. Oscar Kemper introduced the course and demonstrated Japanese paper folding. Fifteen members answered roll call with a Bible verse on change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakville
Japan
W.S.C.S
Oakville Methodist Church
Max Fisher
Wapello
Oscar Kemper
School of Missions
Japanese Youth Study of Change Featured by Letts WSCS
Letts WSCS met in church parlors with 18 members present. Betty Kis and Bess Jones presented the program Japanese Youth-Study of Change and Betty Kis led, with several members assisting. Future fundraising plans were discussed and a work day set for the next meeting. Circle 2 ran a Japanese tea. co chairs Anita Lange and Mary Crumly assisted by Louise Padgett at the team table. Table settings and dishes reflected Japan. waitresses wore kimonos. Japanese articles were on display. The Past Worthy Matrons Club will meet Thursday at the home of Sicille Johnston with Estella Beik assisting. Roll call cited a New Year’s resolution and suggestion. Councilman David Seitz was appointed to the town council, replacing Harry Kent who resigned. Postmaster Orval McCormac vacationing in Texas visiting Dallas and McAllen relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Padgett
Japan
Sicille Johnston
Estella Beik
David Seitz
Harry Kent
Telephone Companies To Spend 2.76 Million in Improvements
Iowa Telephone Company and Hawkeye State Telephone Company announce a 1968 capital program totaling 2,761,200 dollars to upgrade 32 exchanges. In Columbus Junction district 425,500 dollars will fund projects from new central office buildings to cable additions and equipment upgrades across Conesville Letts Oakville Riverside Wapello Solon and other exchanges. Construction begins in spring with completion expected by year end. the firms serve about 60,000 customers and are part of Continental Telephone Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Iowa Telephone Company
Hawkeye State Telephone Company
Conesville
Conesville Exchange
Columbus Junction Exchange
Laseke
Grandview
Letts Exchange
Lone Tree
Oakville
Riverside
Wapello
Solon Exchange
Iowa City
Iowa
Contiental Telephone Corporation
United States
Conesville City Marshall Resigns Effective Feb 1
Conesville town officials met January 4 with Mayor John Coffin presiding. Marshall Lyman Wagoner announced his resignation to take a position with Rath Packing Company effective later this month. discussions covered street repair and culvert purchase. Mayor’s minutes and financial reports were reviewed. bills paid include Roush Sinclair and Wagoner. Next meeting set for February 1 at 7 p.m. at the town hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conesville
John Coffin
Donald Singleton
Russell Maxwell
Jason Wolford
Clifford Crafton
Jane
Raymond Swailes
Lyman Wagoner
Marshall
Rath Packling Company
I Street
West Liberty TTT Names Nominating Auditing Committee
West Liberty TTT discusses Christmas giving and names nominating and auditing committees at the Wednesday meeting hosted by Mrs Elmer Merridith. Members report charity, clothing purchases for a needy family, and plan February officer elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Liberty Ttt
West Liberty
T T.T
T.T.T
Elmer Merridith
Sisterhood
Cloyce Downer
Merle Morehead
Ralph Akers
George Drakos
Harlan Sterner
Oakville Officials Sworn In For 1963 Session
Oakville Mayor James Knouse and new councilmen Cody Grooms Donald Gerst James Gerst Melvin Beckhemmer and Donald Kramer were sworn in at the first town council meeting of the year A 1963 appropriations plan was approved allocating funds for general streets public safety sanitation utilities road use tax and liquor profits totaling 14245 A mayor pro tem James Gerst was named and several commissions reappointed A new truck with snow blade was approved for purchase and prices on new town hall furniture were to be checked Also a transfer of 2000 from Drainage District No 24 to a time deposit was authorized and a list of approved claims was read.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakville
James Knouse
Cody Grooms
Donald Gerst
James Gerst
Melvin Beckhemmer
Donald Kramer
Streets Commission
Melvin Rechemmer
Finance Commission
Richard R. Lehnert
Farmers and Merchants Bank and Trust
Muscatine Journal
Shelimyer Motors
Columbus Junction
Knouse
Town Hall
Towa Telephone Co
Towa Southern Utilities
Ted Nelson
Road .Rock
FICA
Volunteer Fire Department
Gerst Brothers
Clarence Earnest
Internal Revenue Service
Oakville Club Opens Year With Family Study Program
The Oakville Twentieth Century Club started 1968 with a three part study on Families Today led by Mrs Richard Strawhacker. Fifteen members attended as officers were nominated for 1968 69 and a bond issue for the Wapello Oakville School was urged for January 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakville
Twentieth Century Club
Richard Strawhacker
Leland Swafford
Wesley Gerst
Ray Kuntz
Wapello-Oakville
John McCulley
Regional Amateur Art Show Set for Cedar Rapids
Benton Linn Jones Iowa Johnson Cedar Cedar Rapids City Hall Armory hosts the Cedar Rapids Amateur Art Show for Adults Feb 22 24. Amateur defined as at least 21 with less than half income from fine art or teaching art. Entries may include painting prints drawing fabric sculpture and crafts with up to four pieces each. All work must be original and not copied or kit assembled.
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Cedar Fall
Benton
Linn
Jones
Iowa
Johnson, Cedar
Muscatine
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids City Hall Armory
Jack Olds
University of Northern Iowa
Olds
Meat on Friday Ban Hurts New England Fishermen
The Catholic Church ban on eating meat on Fridays reduced fish prices by 12.5 percent, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston reports. From December 1966 through August 1967 New England fishermen likely lost over $3 million in sales, excluding February and March Lenten months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New England
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Bank
Ogiers Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary
Relatives at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Bozman quietly celebrated the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ogier of Mount Pleasant during the holidays. Guests included Mrs. Grace Toms and families from Mount Pleasant, Springville, and St. Joseph. A large gathering at the library featured about forty friends and relatives. The article notes holiday visits, extended family travels, and Arthur Hamilton serving aboard a navy destroyer on leave with his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V.F.W
Bar-M
Manley Sarnowsky
Fort Hill
Ontario
Canada
Gerald M. Allen
Vicki McKean
Charlene Buser
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls
Lee Allen
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Jerry Lutz
University of California At Berkeley
Calif
Paul Lutz
Doyle Bozman
Mth
Charles Ogier
Mount Pleasant
Grace Toms
Richard Bozman
Springville
Joe Nichols
Robert Bozman
Bill Berry
St. Joseph
Ralph Brown
Eugene and
Eunice Reed
Mediapolis
WE. Berry
Marilyn Berry
Harry Hutchesojen
Earl Berry
Arthur Hamilton
Long Beach
U.S. ‘Navy
William Hamilton
Past Noble Grand Club To Meet at West Liberty
The Past Noble Grand Club of the Adah Rebekah Lodge will meet at the I.O.O.F. Hall in West Liberty from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday January 9 with Mary Rockfellow and Jessie Cornell. New officers were installed by Lucile Davison with Freda Steen as noble grand and a large group attended the lodge session. A luncheon and birthday cookie plan were approved for January 16 with Pauline Wolf Emma Rabe Alpha Rabe and Edith Grim helping serve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noble Grand Club
West Liberty
Rebekah’ Lodge
Mary Rockfellow
Jessie Cornell
Adah.Rebekah Lodge No. 123
Lucile Dayison
Freda Steen
Noble Grand
Violet Passamhore
Irene Perkins
Teft
Mae Phillips
Jessie Cornicll
Rowena Barkalow
Nettie Nichols
Margaret Hollenbeck
Orpha Zajicek
Crystal Crow
Sylvia Lawton
Ethel Satterthwaite
Grand
Pauline Wolf
Emma and
Alpha Rabe
Edith Grim
Youth program at High Prairie WSCS meeting
High Prairie WSCS met Thursday afternoon at Mrs Wen dell Hoopes home with eight members and two children present. Mrs Richard Eichelberger reported 41 pounds of clothing collected for the Church World Service truck. District meeting set for April 1 in Washington, spring meeting at Newton with guest speaker Mrs Glen Lasky. program committee includes Mrs Don Scott and Mrs Jack Reichert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Prairie
Levi Eichelberger
Lysle Eichelberger
WSCS
Wendell Hoopes
Richard Eichelberger
Church World Service
Washington
Iowa
Newton
Glen Lasky
Marlin Richelberger
Don Scott
Jack Reichert
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oakville Wscs
Clara, Wykert
Edna Gentry
Society
Glenwood State School
Gene Matthews
William Matthews
Wapello Methodist Church
David Sheridan
Ws.c.s
Virginia Swafford
Clara Wykert
Nightingale Circle
Faith Circle
Myrtle Huston
Mercy Hospital
Burlington
Daisy Waterhouse
Burlington Hospital
Russell Hayes
Harold Hayes
Harve Swafford
Hopesdale
Ohio
Mae Carpenter
Muscatine General Hospital
Letts
Wscs Studies
Texas
Orval “McCormac
Dallas
McAllen
Tex
Conesville City Marshall
VEW
John Carey
Chapter AH
Frances Hinkhouse
Curtis James
Child Savings Institute
Omaha
Neb
Harold Keele
Lola Ditmars
Dale Dobson
Royal Arch Masons
Masonic Hall
Ivan Inghram
Maynard Smith
Elmer Baker
Harold Shipley
Alfred Smith
Fred Steen
Ivan Ingh‘ram
Richard Ross
Royal Arch
Ted Bowman
Carl Schiele
Verne Ross
Ad Glen James
West Liberty Royal Arch Masons
GFWC
America
Robert Brown
Stanley Shutt
Dewey Peck
Wayne Sutcliffe
Martha Balmer
Zella Peck
Janet Kramer
Barbara Reeding
Lola Votter
Barbara Gerst
Janice Boyer
Dorothy Sutcliffe
Pew
Ogiers
James Parkhurst
Buffalo
David’ Winters
Gene Parkhurst
James McKee
Abbie Coon
Robert Coon
Don Adams
Gerald Kammerer
George Griffith
Lindholms
Arizona
California
Trudy
Marcel
Pesbir
Crick’s Lounge
Grandview Avenue
Martha ‘Mackey
Marie Kirchner
Freda Stevens
Walter ‘Lawton
Roy Braun
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