Oelwein Weather Report Summary Card
Oelwein weather data covers a 34 hour period ending 8 PM last evening. It lists yesterday's high and low temperatures and today’s reading at 2 PM.
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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1946
Page
3
Oelwein weather data covers a 34 hour period ending 8 PM last evening. It lists yesterday's high and low temperatures and today’s reading at 2 PM.
Local shoppers and callers frequent Oelwein, Fayette, and surrounding towns. Residents travel to Minneapolis, Des Moines, Rochester, and Florida for visits, business, or relocation. Notable notes include births, weddings, and seasonal trips among families and friends.
The column records numerous visits and travels among local residents and guests. Names include Marsie Stapp, Jacob and Mrs Hoover, Menneth Whalen, Dewey Miehe, Vic Coble, Ted Welp, Col A A Gladden, Paul Buenneke, Allen Schmidt, Wayne Riser, A J Mallie, Hank Ross, K L Fry, George McFarlane, Everett and Loren McFarlane, Jack Powers, Merle McFarlane, L A Schmitt, Joanne, Maureen, Paulie, Marilyn Mariner, Dora Tann, Robert Tann, Jimmy Peters, Hershell Ohls, Hilda Marcucci, Bob Payne, Conrad Wertz, Don Howts, Don Maas, Paul Ford, Herbert Weber, Frank Odekirk, Ina Borland, Mrs Don Sperry, Mrs Roy Graves, Amos Zabriskie, and others. Trips mentioned include fishing at Waskish Minnesota and stays in Washington, Chicago, St Paul, Fayette, Alta Vista, Maynard, Independence, and Stanley with relatives or for church and university activities. Several residents attend district meetings and plan worship services.
Eck Lohrer 72 a longtime Independence resident died suddenly at the Peoples hospital after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p m in the Buchanan county courthouse court room with Rev Jones officiating. Interment Mt Hope Cemetery. Surviving: wife Eva Statson Lohrer daughter Ramona Garner Stockton Calif son Claus Independence five grandchildren. Also noted: OPA assessed Pure Food Grocery $25 000 for over pricing on tomato juice corn and pears in a local rationing crackdown.
Court News District reports a petition for divorce between Harlan Sprague and Joyce Sprague for cruel and inhuman treatment, and Mercy hospital seeks the appointment of Fred S. Rule as guardian for Fannie Steggall, 67, a patient there. Marriage licenses issued at West Union list multiple couples with dates in June and partner names from Fayette, Hawkeye, Oelwein, Sumner, Randalia, and West Union.
Harvey A. Messerer presided as the American Legion post met Thursday evening. Guest Ray Mahoney spoke on his Hawkeye Boys State experiences while Charles Underwood attended returning from overseas service. Quality Printing with the Union Label at the Register.
L E Jones bought the National hotel in Lamont from Mrs Frank Svoboda this week. The hotel had been run by her late husband Frank Svoboda for 45 years, with assistance from Agnes Lanturn. The new owner will keep meals and lodging, plan a full modernization, add a new heating plant, and offer Sunday dinners, renaming it the Jones hotel.
Clermont, Special. Fred Bivler, 77, of Clermont, died Friday morning at 9:30 from a stroke suffered years earlier. Funeral services will be Monday at 9:30 in St. Peter’s church. He is survived by his wife and three children Floyd and Charles of Cedar Falls and Mrs M B Jergens of Minneapolis, two sisters Mrs Herby Robbins of Elgin and Mrs Lena Aeschliman of Wadena, and several brothers and a sister predeceased him. Bivler was a lifelong Clermont resident and a harness maker until his stroke.
John E. McSweeny was thrown from a horse on the McSweeny farm road near Westgate after a slip. He suffered a cracked leg bone and bruises and is resting at his parents home, Mr. and Mrs. John McSweeny.
About 35 auto dealers and mechanics from Northeast Iowa attended an auto motive meeting in Oelwein hosted by Ash Motor Supply and the American Hammered Piston Ring Company. The discussion focused on a new porous comb ring and chrome plating, noting its reliability and a record wear gap of 0.003 inches per 100,000 miles. The ring’s wartime use covered 81 aircraft motor types.
The Flying Farmers of Iowa reports eight Fayette County members were accepted as charter members at Iowa State College on June 11. Names include L. H. Appelman Walter Follett Clarence B. Kittelson Clarence T. Thorson Veryl D. Coffin Arlington DeWitt Hoffman C. K. Johnson and Ray Lauterbach. Herbert Arnold of Walser serves on the district board. Members who missed cards can obtain them by sending a $2 fee to Lyle Abbott, Information Service, Ames.
In a satirical piece by Jack Gaver, New York warns of Kokomo mayor Charles V. Orr inviting New Yorkers to visit and potentially relocate, joking that Kokomo’s basketball culture could infect visitors with endless games and fervor. The column notes Orr’s CBS broadcast tied to a Merit Award plaque for Kokomo and hints at hoped recognition for New York someday.
Five individuals were injured on a dirt road east of Zanesville when a fast passenger train from Columbus to Pittsburgh stopped after spotting an auto accident. The engineer alerted the signal tower and requested assistance.
Sheriff officers hunt for the person who entered the fortune telling business after a crystal ball mounted on a pedestal in a landscaped garden in Anaheim was reported missing.
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