Wedding bells and weekday happenings at Rolscreenings
Norma Ver Dught and Vera Boden Mee wed last week, while staff enjoy visitors from Linquist Brothers and Burlington. Front office upgrades, game trips, illnesses, vacations, and births fill the week as employees share news and notices across the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norma Ver Dught
Harry Weyers
Vera Boden Mee
John W. Smith
John Linquist
Linquist Brothers
Keokuk
Mervin
Geraldine Bonifield
Des Moines
Henrietta Vanden Oever
Otley
Fort Hammer
A. B. ‘Iap
Cathey
Burlington
Mable Littleton
Mella Howsare
Chariton
Louise Vande Meide
Chuck Wakins
Relscreen
Federated Club Women Urge Voting in Coming Election
A pamphlet titled Americans Must Vote urges 17 000 women’s clubs from Maine to California to vote in the upcoming election. Prepared by Mrs. Ozbrin of Oklahoma City and Mrs. Davis of Weston West Virginia, it notes 52 percent turnout in 1948 versus higher European rates. The piece highlights suffrage history and aims to mobilize clubwomen ahead of November elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federated Club
Maine
California
Lee Ozbrin
Oklahoma City
General Federation of Women's Clubs
John R. Davis
Weston
West Virgin
Citizenship
United States
Italy
Sweden
France
General Federation
Public Affairs Department
Iowa U Hospital children run their own school store
Ten year old Sonny Hoyland at the Iowa Hospital School for Severely Handicapped Children bought his first self paid gum at a hospital store opened by the boys scout patrol. The store, run by older students with staff oversight, teaches money handling and budgeting in a dime economy and offers greeting cards and small items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town City
Iowa
Sonny Hoyland
Sonny
Forest City
Iowa Hospital
Boy Scout
Home for the Aged News Visitors Share Visits and Slides
Numerous families from Oskaloosa Sully Lynden and Peoria visited residents at the Home for the Aged. Rev Edward H Tanis of Pella gave a slide show of his California West trip to glad attendees Thursday evening October 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dirk van Sant
Jake de Bruin
Rena’ Meppelink
Oskaloosa
Bertha Geenen
Sully
Vienus van Sant
Killduff
Peter van Arkel
Willem van Sant
Dirk Geenen
Blands
Lynden
Washington
Albert van Heukelem
John Vos
Peoria
M. van Gorp
Donald de Jong
L. Langstraat
Sam den Hartog
C. den Hartog
Clarence Renaud
Catherine Kooistra
Mary Brand
Edward H. Tanis
Pella
California
West
David B. Henderson Speaker from Town in Congress
David B. Henderson of Dubuque was elected to the national House in 1882 and served twenty years. He was chosen Speaker of the House in the Fifty sixth and Fifty seventh Congresses, 1899 to 1903. Henderson is the only man from Town who ever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David B. Henderson
Dubuque
House of Representatives
Henderson
First Man West Of In That Capacity Ad Addition
Fragmentary line shows a description of a person serving in a role and being the first man west of a certain place or standard. No further readable context or identifiers present.
Mississippi to Elect Speaker of the House
A report notes the state will choose a new Speaker of the House. Details on candidates and voting dates are not provided in the fragment.
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Paul Farrer
Bob Triplett
Towa City
Stu Kuyper
Ames
Earl Eberline
Shirley Hoksbergen
Kathleen Rumbaugh
Bill Kilpatrick
Arkansas Way
Dick van Zante
North Pella
Lester Moon
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Gertrude de Penning
LaVelma
Ray Vande Keift
Murray
J. B. Grandin
Keosauqua
Ottumwa
Clarence Vander Veer
Winterset
Cora
Neal van Veen
Draft
Call Rob Hunt
Rosscreen Company
Joe Moore
H. E. Scribner
Jones Dabney Company
Louisville
Kentucky
Moore
Scribner
Puela Catholic High School
Pueblo
Colorado
Orton- Ottimwa
Towa
Park’ Apartments
Newns
Louisiana
Ndia Base Hospital
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Ore
U. Hospital
Wat Wheeler
Newton
Beve Olson
Routefield
Kathleen O'Brien
Oakland Ave
Hospital School
L. A. Beerends
Lou Beerends
Cornie van Roekel
John Cordever
Long Beach
Pete Vos
H. Vander Wilt
Jake Langstraat
Pete Langstraat
Jan Langstraat
Pete Pol
Willma
Pete de Jon
Oskaloosa Sales
Missouri
Oskaloosa Sales CO
Harold H. Lisk
Anne Beyers
Massey Harris
Massey-Harris
S. P. Combine
Pella, Iowa
S. P. Picker
Massey-Harris Mower
Wetmore Hammermill
Gary T. Vogelaar
Mississippi
House
Colfax Sale
Sam McFadden & Son
Pr City
Colfax Sale Company
Home Freezer
Veenstra
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