Remodeling and daily life in Cordova area notes
Cordova News reports Mrs Roy Karr Ted and Alberta Buttrey remodeling their home adding a new bath and narrow woodwork. Hattie Johnson is a patient in Knoxville Hospital. many gardening notes, farm signups, fair visits, weddings, travel, and local family updates across Polk township and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted
Alberta Buttrey
Hattie Johnson
Knoxville
Mink Onstank
Pella
Tventy
Blaine
Cordova
Missouri
Illinois
Lone Tree
Bud William
Donald Balmer
Percy
Immy Karr
Polk Township
Clark
Dave Verros
Tony Langstraat
Roy Karr
Tony
Red Rock
Wendell Holmes
Monroe
Duane Buckman
National Guards
Minnesota
Ronnie Karr
Norman
Cleo
Marie
Violet
Bess Churchill
Newton
Norma Gifford
Grinnell
Norma
Daisy Buttrey
Gerty Price
Janet Price
Carroll Price
Leroy de Heer
Blaine Core
Chicago
Stanley Heatherlin
Pleasantville
Sarah Harvey
Marion County
Ight
Veterans’ Hospital
Harvey
Hugh ‘Templeton
Marzette Reese
Mark
Joe
Vivian Karr
Darlene Karr
Karla Kay
Joyce
Jean
Bill Karr
Uncle Corda
Worth Karr
Roy
Dwight Harvey
Local Church Baptisms and New School Year Begin in Oskaloosa
The First Christian Reformed Church infant baptisms were held Sunday for the Crost and De Groot families. The local Christian school opened its 1956-57 session with about 185 students from Mahaska County, the twelfth since 1944. teachers and classes are listed, kindergarten starting January. Readings note recent home visits, moves, and community activities in Oskaloosa and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Crost
John de Groot
First
Christian Reformed Church
Mahaska County
Alvin Vanden Bosch
Lois Reimes
Clara Gosselink
Nellie Blom
Louise Kamstra
Thelma Ver Hoef
Faith Brinks
George Rozenboom
Wright
Henry Wesse
Klein
Sheboygan
Wis
G. J. Rozenboom
Grand Rapids
Mich
Marie Brouwer
Albia
John Moore
Cedar
Local families visit and attend events around Boyd and related households
Lower Grove News notes visits and activities among the Boyd family and neighbors. Earl Boyd hosts and travels with guests. Vina Boyd ill in bed. Peolas of Oskaloosa and Pella residents attend dinners and showers. Several family members are mentioned with in law and friend connections and church attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Boyd
Barthel Boyd
New Sharon
Vina Boyd
Oskaloosa
Ling
Boyd
Bert Slings
Pella
John Boender
John Boendser
Goldie Carter
Della Tyrrel
Walter Jackson
Sully
Karl Schmidt
Lenora Schmidt
Workmen Test for Carbon Monoxide Fire Hazard
Report notes workers testing for carbon monoxide exposure amid a blaze involving three engines in Seatac. Floyd Konradi and K. Pease were tested by firefighters as authorities urged readers to report any updates via the city desk.
The Big Sticks and Rural Electrification in America
A historical overview of Americans’ drive to extend electricity to farmers through Theodore Roosevelt’s vision, Congressional champions, corporate research, and the Rural Electrification Administration created by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935, detailing early opposition and ultimate progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy
San Juan Hill
Congress
Senator Norris
Nebraska
Borah
Idaho
McNary
Oregon
Robert M. LaFollette, Sr
Wisconsin
General Electric
Westinghouse
Worthington
Franklin Roosevelt
Rural Electrification Administration
R.E.A
Rural Electric Cooperatives and Their National Role
The text outlines how Rural Electric Cooperatives are locally controlled non taxable entities funded by federal loans, obligated to serve every unserved farm, and they often buy power from private utilities while sometimes building their own generation. It notes profits to the government, democratic governance, and the booster effect on farm purchasing and local economies, framing coops as a symbol of American progress and frontier advancement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.E.A
Ind
Main Street
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Mrs. Roy Karr
Georgia
Leah Karr
Bessie Hoeksma
Mary Louise den Burger
Corda
Tressa Wilbur
Adventist Church
Paulina
Irene Stettnsworth
Tressa
Grandma Bybee
Ray Clark
Alice Clark-Robinson
Emma Durth
Frandt’s
van Haaften
Clarence Meyers
Here
Highway 14
Roseta Hangson
Cecil Price
Charles
Min Martin
A. C
Ann Baux
Long Beach
Min
Ivan
Sioux City
Bell Telephone Co
Bill Burger
Celsons College
Fairfield
Celia
Ae Anes
Hemert
Des Moines
Sunda
Sibyl Donahue
Cleveland
Ohio
Micki Hoeksma
Gary de Heer
Deborah Nich
Susan Jean’ Karr
Norman Karr
Kathy Alley
Nevada
Merle Price
Verna Dudney
Ethel Price
Daugh
Templeton
Gerrit Klyn
Edward Klyn
Dorothy
Mary ‘Admand
Nelson Pleima
Lorena van Hemert
Fair Oak School
Otley
Becky Sue Karr
Helen Karr
Bill Grahams
Sarah
Aur
Hugh
Wanda Jones
Herman
Opal de Heer
California
Seattle
Washington
Lloyd
Joy Shilling
Lemuelck
Jane Willemsen
Maytag Park
Bertha Verwers
Telia Bebout
Berth
John Roff
May van Hemert
Ben
Bessie
Worth
Hoeksma
Telia
D Bebout
J Jebouts
Neal Stanton
Les van Haaften
Junella
Les
Still
Mary Doris van Haaften
Vernon
Celia Harvey
Knoxville Country Club
Murray van Hemert
Nelson Vos
M. Tharp
Lutheran Hospital
Frank Fisher
East
Euclid Ave
Oskaloosa News
Lizabeth Newenhouse
Bro
Neal Newenhouse
J. G. ‘Newenhouse
Ronnie
Heer
Leighton
Massie
Bert Brubaker
Ottumwa
Ora Bureh
Groenendyk Gop
K. Irs. C. Groenendyk
Ve.cine School
Fort Sill, Okland
Fort Benning
Eo TN
Frank A. O'Conner
Colfax Sale
Colfax
Colfax Sale Company
Clippinger
Shields and Briles
Earl and
Bill Shields
Lower Grove News
Bart Boyd
Pete Boender
Harold Boyd
Virgil Boyd
Trasey Boyd
Harry Meyers
Bert Verought
George
Virgil Boyd and
Elmer Dieleman
Diele
Man
Joosa
Dirk Groenweg
Lynnwood
Boyds
Y ‘College
Arnold Punt
Emil Allen
Bar‘lly
Bobby
Clarence _Catshall
Montesum
Leo Nikkels
Iavi Allen
Allen
Robert Tog Bord
Aslows
Rural Electric Cooperaives
Pella Rural
Electric Co-Op Assn
J. W. Boot
H. L. Newendorp
H. J. Vander Werff
Theodore Emmert _ Roy E. Vander Linden
Dick J. Ver Ploeg
Bert E. Blom
H. M. van Zee
H. J. Veenstra
Ellis N. Christianson
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