Local health troubles and hospital visits noted
Several locals were out ill with influenza and other ailments last week. Residents visited hospitals in Des Moines and Rochester for treatment, surgery, or convalescence, including Wesstink, De Winter, Breen, Vander Ploeg, and Van Rockel, with many remaining in care or recovering at home.
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Gerald Rysdam
Edward Wesstink
Des Moines
Wesselink
Tanner Kem
Sund
Matt Kempke
First Reformed Church
Connie van Rockel
Sur
Methodist
Maines 'T Day
J. J. Ends
Mahaska Hospital
Ernest Bieshaar
Fremont
Iowa
Will N. Bogard
Still
Godfrey Bevan
Edith Bevan
Veterans
Mr. Bevan
Stond Health
Mands
van Gorp
Tives
Thursand
Washington
Rock and Railway
South English
Retaf
Charles Fe Dykstra
Herman
Voosa Thared
Alice
Freda Rosveld
Sally Mercy
Mery
Elmer Rte Eganville
Martin Klein
Route
Mahaska
Abraham Goesmaat
Merry
Oskaloosa
Preme Vander
Public Auction Raises 500 for Polio Fund
In Emmetsburg courthouse square a public auction raised 500 for the polio fund. Eighty business firms donated articles for the sale.
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Emmetsburg
Polio Fund
Dangerous Drive Through Dim Sunset In Rural Ray Eastmant
Henry navigates a darkening rural road near Ray Eastmant in a pickup with three young passengers. A loose gravel shoulder and a sharp curve test his skills while a roadside rut and dust raise concerns. The driving scene suggests inexperience amid fading light as he contemplates legality and safety.
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Henry
Gahl Nw
Rural Life Conference Set for March in Kirksville
Rural leaders from eight Midwest states including Tawa will meet in Kirksville Missouri for the ninth Midwest Conference on Rural Life and Education, March 9 to 24. Local and regional educators, cooperative groups, press and religious groups are invited as the conference addresses major rural life and education problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tawa
Kirksville
Cooperative A
The
Midwest
M. L. Cushman
Iowa State College
Clyde Core Named A Master Farmer From Pleasantville
Clyde M. Core of Pleasantville was named a Master Farmer this year along with five others from Tama. The group received the award at a luncheon at Hotel Savery in Des Moines and were honored guests during a breakfast and noon presentation as part of the Master Farmer program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde M. Core
Pleasantville
Wally Inman
Wallace
le News
Mr. Core
Tawa
Hotel Savery
Des Moines
Core
Mroa Core
Nar
Bincheon
State University Hospitals flooded with gifts from Iowans
Gifts poured into the State University Hospitals from 317 sources across nearly 200 communities and out-of-state donors in Illinois Wyoming and Washington. Packages included toys records clothing cosmetics and toiletries with large toys assigned to wards for therapy and recreation. Nurses wrapped items and each patient received gifts throughout the year including birthday offerings for all ages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Pa- State University of
Gerhard Hartman
Ames
Cedar Rapids
Towa City
Marhalltown
Mason City
Wash?ton
Waterloo
Webster City
Ilinois
Wyoming
Shinuton
Musings Of the Town Crier by GP Sadler
Grandpap De Haan due to speak less, Del’s busier than a steer in a cornfield. The Kiwanis Travelogue highlighted Japan with a crowd at a Tulip Time preview. Elections spark debate on three ballots, twelve election boards, and paid workers, while a dinner invitation at Third Reformed Church was accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First
Christian Reformed Church
Henry Kole
Kidha Mahaska Hospital
John Ver Meer
Mer Hospital
Oskaloosa
Grandpap de Haan
Del
Kiwanis Club
Japan
Tudor Kempkes
Lou Bousquet
Meyer Langvrak
Ary
Ralph DeCook
Third Reformed Church
Invi
Poem From War Missing in Action Airman’s Plea
A wartime letter from the Near East carries a moving poem by Sergeant Hugh Brodie of the Royal Australian Air Force, a Melbourne University alumnus missing in action. The verse pleads for divine presence at death, rejecting vanities of battle while seeking reconciliation with God.
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Near East
Hugh Brodie
Royal Australian Air Force
Melbourne University
Brodie
His Way Was Right by Oxenham in Poetic Musing
The excerpt contemplates limited human sight facing grand writing and vast mystery. It contrasts broken strokes with the promise that larger vision will reveal that His Way Was Right, reflecting on death life and war and hope through Oxenham's phrasing.
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Oxenham
Guthrie County sailor injured by accidental shotgun blast
Harold Brock, a Guthrie County sailor on leave from the armed forces, sustained a foot wound when a shotgun discharged accidentally. The blast injured his toes during the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie County
Harold Brock
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Kansas
Weing
Maryland
John de Winter
Veterans' Hospital
Warren Verploegh
Ver Stery
Town State College
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George Ver Steeg
Peter Breen
Rochester
Minnesota
Towns
Gerald Paardekooper
Knoxville
Florida
Connie Smorenberg
Vander Ploeg
Mrs. Charls
Home End
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Bout
Gelmer Dylhoff
URC
Ray Eastmant
Rural Life
Clyde Core
State University
Sica
Coronado
Duralux
GP. Sadler
Jim
Margaret Huyser
Clifton’s
Los Angeles
California
Ralph
West Coast
Christ
Flatlux
Sargent
Vander Linden
Carpenter's Drug Store
Permalux
Coafort
Wormhoudt
All-Steck Construction
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