17 Feb 1949
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Newspaper
Progress Review
Location
La Porte City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1949
Page
1
The article highlights National Heart Week run by the American Heart Association with a Valentine theme. It emphasizes heart disease as America's leading killer, the progress from research, and calls for public support through a local drive sponsored by the Business and Professional Women's Club during the Valentine week.
Ministers from multiple churches met at the Methodist parsonage to plan upcoming religious observances. A union Ash Wednesday service is set for 7 o’clock March 2 at the Presbyterian church with Rev Griffin of the Wesleyan Methodist preaching. Good Friday services will be at the Evangelical United Brethren church and the Easter sunrise service at the First Methodist church, with full plans for Lenten activities to follow.
Betty Holmes of Lebanon Ohio and Blaine Goodwin of Dayton married at 12:30 PM in the Church of the Holy Angels Dayton. The couple, former La Porte City residents, will honeymoon in La Porte City with Clufford Burr family guests. reception for 150 followed in Lebanon.
Mr. and Mrs. George Lehman of Brandon celebrate fifty years of marriage on Monday February 21 They wed in Carthage Missouri and lived there five years before moving to Buchanan County The couple has eight children four survive Orville and Russell of Brandon Anna Cockerham of Zearing Iowa and Mrs Guy Rusler of Rowley They have fifteen grandchildren With Mr Lehman in poor health they will skip an open house He is 82 and she is 68.
La Porte City High School students performing speech work attended Reinbeck for a pre sectional contest. Miss Carol Froning placed second in original oratory with Our Heritage A Key to Attaining Peace. Robert Smalley ranked third in extemporaneous speaking and the one act play High Windows also placed third. Cast included Marlys Buble Mac Hitt Lloyd Hager Roger Donnelly Marilyn Olson.
Mrs. Wallace Franklin, Cincinnati, and groom son of Hal F. Goodin, Dayton, wed after weeklong town honeymoon. He, a Sears store manager in Dayton, served four years in the infantry during the war. Mrs. Goodwin, Lebanon native and Navy nurse, was a surgical nurse at Valley Hospital, Dayton. They will reside at 26242 Park Drive, Dayton.
La Porte City high school mixed chorus will present H M S Pinafore on March 23 under the direction of Mrs. Beverlee Winane. Solo parts are assigned to Duane Anton Ronne Fultz George Rothmeire Martis Bible Ann Fleming Wayne Mathern Lois Fehl Marvin Yarrow and Tom Gul with details to follow.
Harry Knight longtime La Porte City resident and former mail carrier died Monday night at the Veterans Administration hospital in Chicago at age 73 from uremic poisoning and heart disease. He had spent winter in Texas and returned to La Porte City for burial at West View Cemetery with services at Johannsen funeral home and the Presbyterian church. He served in the Spanish American War and World War I, was a 45 year member of several lodges, and leaves a wife, three daughters, five grandchildren, and one brother.
Mrs Helena Johannsen has been staying at her daughter Mrs H A Peters home after she slipped and fell in her bedroom last Tuesday. She carried her left arm in a sling due to a sprain and bruising, and doctors advised rest.
Alma Yarrow daughter of Mrs Nettie Yarrow wed Merlin Benson son of Mr and Mrs Judd Benson of Harmony Maine in a 2:30 PM Saturday ceremony at Waterloo First Congregational Church. The couple exchanged vows before 175 guests with Roy Yarnow and Lida Weller as attendants. The gown featured white satin with illusion net and pearl accents. bridesmaids wore turquoise and rose faille. A three tier cake and reception followed. a dance for relatives and friends capped the celebration.
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J G McQuilkin of Waterloo and formerly of here returned Sunday after attending an All America Trade Congress in Biloxi Mississippi. Delegates totaled fourteen states with Missouri 28 Illinois 16 and the host town supplying 33. Allan B Kline American Farm Bureau President flew from Washington DC to address on insurance importance and farm economy. On the way home McQuilkin visited Tampa New Orleans and Memphis. The event was at Denver. The couple will reside at 402 Third Street Waterloo, where both work at Whithead Nash Auto Club. Mrs Benson is a local graduate. Mr Benson served in Germany two years with the army of occupation.
James T Bedard buried in Eagle Center cemetery after Monday funeral at Mount Carmel church. Born October 10 1917 in Eagle Township he married Frances Deviney in 1943 and farmed near Eagle Center. He died Friday in Rochester Minnesota after a long illness. He leaves a widow parents three brothers a sister and four children Joan Roger Margaret Louise and others surviving. Burial followed casketbearers and honorary pallbearers from Waterloo and surrounding communities.
Monday services were held at the Lange home for infant Stephen Clifford Lange who was stillborn at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo. Rev FH Hahn of the American Lutheran church conducted the rites. Survived by parents Wayne and Lost Nath Lange, his maternal and paternal relatives include Nath of Tocterville and Arthur Lange of La Porte along with uncles and aunts.
Mrs Edwin Zeller of Cedar Rapids met with nine local Girl Scout leaders for a one and a half hour session. Leaders must complete 12 to 14 hours of instruction to qualify. Last night’s meeting focused on questions and year’s problems. A training session is planned for May. Zeller is the regional trainer of Girl Scout leaders.
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