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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1946
Page
5
Local notes from Oelwein area list visits and weekend arrivals and departures. Vern Brouillett, Joelynne Plamador, and Mary Kimpston are among those mentioned in city, Waterloo, and Maynard trips. Several residents travel to Chicago, Chicago livestock show, Dubuque funeral, and Des Moines hospital talks noted.
Citizens argue against publishing an autobiography of William Heirens the confessed triple slayer. They urge newspapers to avoid sensational memoirs and to refrain from giving Heirens further platform or attention.
The Bethel No. 3 school finished 12 weeks with 5 pupils earning 100 percent in spelling: Burdette Rowland Roland Krueger Delores Bindert August Bindert and Ruth Pleggenkuhle. Ten pupils enrolled, with several never absent or tardy. The report notes minimal absences, new basketball, a double electric hot plate for hot lunches funded by Halloween program, Ivory Inspection Patrol participation, upper grades reading 10 books, beginners finishing preprimers, Christmas program to be held before vacation, and birthdays celebrated for August Bindert and Roland Krueger.
Clair E. Fink son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Fink of Fairbank spent a 26 day furlough with his parents before returning to Gen Jonathan M Wainwrights Fourth Army headquarters Fort Sam Houston Texas where he serves as chief clerk in the Information section He has a brother Pfc Donald E Fink with the U S Marines at Guam A graduate of Oran high school Fink managed the Fairbank Independent baseball team for a year before entering the service.
Veterans may get help on national life insurance from EB Carlson at the city hall office every Wednesday. When Carlson is away from Oelwein, veterans can apply at the VEW service office with James Dittmer.
At Mercy Hospital admitted Ralph Everett Fayette surgical Melvin Werzmann Arlington tonsil LaVern Herzmann Arlington tonsil Births Mr and Mrs Wally Siolfus Oelwein boy Mr and Mrs Sidney Torson Oelwein boy Mr and Mrs Leslie Getz Oelwein girl Mr and Mrs Milton Petratz Maynard girl Discharged Kathryn Schroeder West Union Frank Whitney Maynard Sharon Gleason Oelwein Mrs Harold Teague and baby Oelwein Zoe Anna Martin Fayette Mrs Bessie Crall Mason City Try the want Ad Column if you want results
State of Iowa cases include Clem Born treger and Walter Keegan charged with grand larceny and related costs. The State of Iowa vs. Kee gan lists $300 and costs. City Assessor James Edwards will attend a Des Moines meeting of state assessors association directors, where he serves as president.
Pattern 8735 for 15 inch bears with sister in a checked pinafore. Requires fabric yardage and scraps for collar. Send 25 cents, name, address, size, and pattern number to Sue Burnett in Chicago. Fall and winter issue promises easy styles and a free printed pattern in a book. Advertising note.
Sales of farm stock at Gelwein Sales barn this week set records with 225 calves sold. Top price reached $21.50 per hundredweight, cows and heifers mostly $8.50 to $16.50, horses $45, breeding boars $71, market boars $16.50, lambs $21.50, as a mild winter continued.
Funeral rites were held at St. Sebald Lutheran church for John Adam Hock 80 who died Thursday evening at his daughter’s home where he had lived nine years He was born in Cairo Illinois on March 11 1865 He married Christina Schuchmann in 1887 They farmed in the community Surviving are seven daughters two sons ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren Casket bearers were Irvin Barrack Vernon Barrack Fred Hock Jr Howard Schwartz Adolph Schuchmann and Theodore Schuchmann.
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