Lucky Leaders Class Vows Work Then Declines Ham Supper
Letts community notes show Lucky Leaders Class meeting at Arthur Bailey's home with 17 attendees. They discussed future church work and voted to skip this year’s ham supper. Garden Club gathered at Ida Wilson's with 17 attendees and several seed catalogs and dream plans for 1968. Den Mothers and Webelos met weekly. Mutual Aid Fire Association held meeting in Muscatine. hospital patient Allen Eliason listed. Maude Furnas and William returned from California trip. Triangular Lodge AF and AM installed officers including Gipple as Worshipful Master and Thompson as Senior Warden.
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Robert Barnes
Webelos
Faydean Collins
James Thompson
Letts
Mutual Aid Fire Association
Joan Gipple
John Coder
Ray Bieri
Raymond Bailey
Marvin Thomas
Everett Howell
Lloyd Crumly
Tyler
John Johnson
Stocks mixed as Dow slips while Johnson address looms
New York stock market traded with more gains than losses as blue chip weakness persisted and the Dow Jones averaged down about three points. Curtiss-Wright and Benguet rose modestly while a block of 95,500 Continental Airlines shares boosted volume. IBM gained about three points and Polaroid, Xerox, Owens-Illinois advanced modestly. United States Gypsum and Pfizer posted small gains as market breadth favored winners.
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New York
Congress
Johnson
Curtiss-Wright
Benguet
Continental Air Lines
IBM
Livestock market trends in Chicago USDA report
Official US market summary lists Tuesday receipts at 1 500 cattle 5 000 hogs 500 sheep with hogs higher by 5.4 to 75 cents. Cattle slaughter up 25 to 50, steers up to 28.50 for yield grades 3 and 4, heifers 26.25 to 26.35, cows 14.5 to 16. Sheep and lamb prices steady with slaughter lambs 23.50 to 24.00. Potatoes and carrots show moderate demand. Idaho russets and Red River Valley round reds noted with prices 2.40 to 4.15. Total U S shipments Friday through Sunday listed.
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Omaha Livestock Omaha
USDA
Chicago
U.S
Idaho
Minnesota
North Dakota
Red River
Bloomington Grange Potluck Supper and Meeting Held
Bloomington Grange No 2057 met for a potluck supper and regular meeting at the Grange Hall. The women and youth committees announced service projects and events including a bed pads drive, pay your dues supper January 25, clean-up day January 30, and a roller skating party next month. Gene Denkman won the drawing as the group planned painting and repair work. Public invited to card party January 25 at 8 p.m.
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Bloomington
Grange Hall
Gene Denkman
Lyle Esmail
Clarence Dunbar
Adye Elected President of L Bar'M Saddle Club
The 4 Bar M Saddle Club in Columbus Junction elected 1968 officers after a ham supper at Peoples National Bank. Merle Adye of Wapello was named president, Fred Carlson vice president, Joyce Holmqist secretary, and Lurs Bliven treasurer. A nine-member board of advisors includes Fred Everett Conesville and others. The group plans activities for 1968 and meets February 10 to discuss. Women prepare UPW program playlet We Dare and meet with local church groups.
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Columus Junction
Peoples National Bank
Merle Adye
Wapello
Fred Carlson
Joyce Holmquist
Lurs Bliven
Columbus Junction
Fred Everett
Conesville
Dean Johnston
Winfield
Ken Noble
Delbert Partington
Dillon Schantz
Saddle Club
L Bar-M
The
UPW
Edith Orr
Evelyn Houseal
Nancy Barrick
Lyre Norris
Beverly Currie
Velma Sunderman
United Presbyterian
Mae McBride
Lottie Jones
Verlee Schneider
Vicki Cecil
Rachel Hamilton
Carol Howell
Most Futures Show Advance on Chicago Board Trade
Soybeans and most grain futures gained modestly on the Chicago Board of Trade as trade was moderate. Soybeans rose up to a cent per bushel amid belief farmers are placing more of the crop under government loan. Corn activity increased with commission houses and traders on the buy side, though hedge selling tempered gains. Wheat opened irregularly and then weakened on profit-taking.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Fires Take Many Lives Across Nation All Suffer Losses
A, Associated Press report tallies deaths from fires in Tennessee North Carolina and New York totaling 18 victims. Among the dead are two baby girls named Barbara and a 92 year old great grandmother Carrie Parks. The Tennessee blaze at Rhea County Jail near Dayton left three dead and several injured, with smoke injuries to 25 others including responders. In Zebulon North Carolina a three room home fire killed Mrs Carrie Parks and four grandchildren. On Long Island two fires killed eight people in separate blazes.
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Tennessee
Barbara
Rhea
Dayton
Tenn
Carrie Parks
Zebulon
N.C
Long Island
N.Y
Break-in Reported at Cline's Implement Co in Columbus Junction
Louisa County Sheriff's Office reports a burglary at Cline's Implement Co in Columbus Junction on Saturday night. Stolen items include 400 dollars in tools, a red snap-on toolbox worth 100 dollars, a carton of flashlight batteries, a cigar box with 15 dollars in pennies, and a small desk box containing 10 dollars.
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Implement Co
Columbus Jct
Wapello
Louisa , County
Cline’s Implement Co
Columbus Junction
Rep Schwengel Fund-Raising Dinner Set for Feb 2
Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee will speak February 2 at a 6:30 p.m. fund-raising dinner for Congressman Fred Schwengel at the Black Hawk Hotel in Davenport. Schwengel, seeking reelection, represents Iowa's First District. Baker, 41, was the first popularly elected Republican senator from Tennessee in 1966 and is married to Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen’s daughter. Livestock Futures report follows from Chicago.
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Howard Baker
Tennessee
Fred Schwengel
Blackhawk
Davenport
Baker
Senate
Everett Dirksen
I-linois
Schwengel
Iowa
Prayers urged to follow advertising style in churches
Reverend Stanley J. Menking of Haddonfield New Jersey argues in the Christian Advocate that public prayers should be prepared in advance and written with the care and precision of advertising. He says prayers should be clear brief and meaningful to worshipers.
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Chicago
Stanley J. Menking
Haddonfield
N. J
Christian Advocate
Contributions to Methodist fund rise in first quarter
In Evanston Illinois the Methodist Church central benevolence fund saw a about one percent increase in the first quarter of the 1967 68 fiscal year according to the church.
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Evanston, Ill
Methodist Church
Church
Notice of Public Hearing on Muscatine sewer project plans
Notice announces a public hearing to review proposed plans and contract forms for Muscatine Iowa sewerage system improvements. Bid deadlines set for February 1 1968 at City Hall, with two separate contracts for Isett Avenue Pump Station Grit Chamber and Interceptor Sewer plus a laterals contract. Plans on file with City Clerk. bids to be opened by the City Council after hearing.
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William H. Secrist
Gloria Mee-Evoy
Muscatine
Iowa
City of
Towa
City
Isett Avenue
Woodlawn Avenue
Grandview Avenue
Musser Street
Bidwell Road
Eleventh Street
Mulberry Avenue
Muscatine High School
Cedar Street
Tenth Street
Yorth Street
Sycamore Street
Tsett Avenue
Stanley Consultants, Inc
Consulting Engineers
Yowa
Iowa State Department of Health
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
Edward 8. Burns
Florence Mason City
H. J. Heinz Company
Town
Edward S. Burns
Florence Mason
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