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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1947
Page
4
Oelwein weather notes show yesterday's high and low temperatures and a reading at 2 PM. The fragment cites yesterday's maximum and minimum, with a later 2 o'clock observation.
The City in Brief lists numerous Thanksgiving weekend visits and social calls across Oelwein and nearby towns. Names include Beverly Bayness, Phyllis Moritz, Joe Bayness, Cecil Larson, Merle Lindsay, Jo Ann Mebus, Charles Morgan, gladys Morgan, Erwin Fraizke, Harry Stewart, F. G. Williams, J. H. Diehl, J. P. Shannon, E. L. Brewer, Charles Givens, Harriet Adalphs, Robert Vante, Harold Kreth, Oscar Steele, Beatrice Gardner, Mary Lou Kringle, Marilyn Mariner, Tennie Manford, Rusty Revigna, Leona Mattern, and many others, with visits to Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Des Moines, and Winthrop, plus local shopping trips and weekend stays in Oelwein and surrounding communities.
Mercy Hospital records list admissions at Willis LeTimmerman Aurora surgical Mrs James Dittmer Oelwein medical Bernard Nelson Oelwein medical Mrs Clarence Alshouse Arlington medical Edwin Ahrens Greeley surgical John Kerns Dimkerton medical Doyle Cornish Oelwein medical births to Charles Lint Fayette Lloyd Dillon Strawberry Point discharged list includes Mrs Russell Helthouse Strawberry Point Mrs Truman Howard Oelwein Mrs Milton Kinsel Greeley James Cooney Oelwein Frank Maas Oelwein Mrs Jack Knapp Oelwein Lloyd Gearling Sumner several mothers and babies noted for Sumner Oelwein and Ocelwein care.
Herr man Griebenow aged 80 died at his Hawkeye home after years of ill health. Born in Germany December 30, 1856 he came to Elgin in 1881. He married Emilie Tuhrman in 1887 and lived near Clermont, Waverly, then Hawkeye. Survived by daughters Mrs Lester Moody and Mrs John Timm, son William in Santa Monica, four grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and siblings Ferdinand of Milwaukee and a sister in Clermont. Funeral at Trinity Lutheran with burial in Hawkeye. time pending arrival of son Hotseet.
Special recognition awards were given to 16 county Farm Bureau Women’s Committees for outstanding records. Winners met 100 percent county membership, 75 percent township participation, and 90 percent township representation plus at least five county meetings and four projects under county guidance. Winning counties included Clayton, Humboldt, Franklin, Emmet, Ida, Calhoun, Greene, Dallas, Boone, Hardin, Muscatine, Lucas, Montgomery, Taylor and Linn.
Advertises a sewing pattern No 8251 for sizes 36 through 50 with a slenderizing skirt and refined details. Provides 25 cent price, mail address Sue Burnett Chicago Illinois, and references a Fall and Winter Fashion book with 52 pages of practical clothes and fashion news.
The Randalia schools list students with perfect arithmetic, those never absent or tardy in various grades, and note new enrollments. In 1947, Norma and Donald Huebner joined elementary grades, while Robert and Harold Huebner enrolled in later classes.
A Cub Scout meeting prompts Nathaniel F. Forsyth and Alice Burnside to discuss lessons learned vs taught. A boy vows not to smoke while others smoke. mothers and fathers in attendance smoke, prompting reflection on whether religious lessons at church schools reach children.
A woman registered to vote was asked for her exact age. state law required it, she objected that it barred many women from registering. The judge upheld the law as a reasonable voting regulation. In a separate trolley case a passenger was injured when a car jolted forward. the court ruled the motorman acted within normal operation and the company wasn't liable.
In Geneva a group of ministers debated how parents shape children’s views on race and worth. Raymond Huse warned of “roast minister” dinners as a metaphor for bias. A family’s modest giving to church taught values that shaped a son into a minister, illustrating how everyday life teaches ideals.
Arla Buck Warren J Warren Arla Buck son of Cecil and Virginia Buck was born November 8 1947 at Mercy Hospital Oelwein and died November 26 at age eighteen days Funeral services were held at Hintz Funeral Home November 28 in charge of Dr L W Hayter with burial at Oakdale He is survived by his parents one brother David Elliot four and grandparents Arla Buck Marshalltown and Warren J Ladd Brookfield Also noted a separate local sighting of an albino fox near Randolph reported by two residents
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