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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1927
Page
7
Renwick School notes report on teachers resignations and new hires, student achievements, and upcoming events. Custin Rockwoul travels to Des Moines for a spelling contest, while Dorothy Middleton and Viv Johnson are praised for preparations and performances.
Speed tests will be given to the typewriting pupils this week at Vernon School. The note hints at spirited activity during the period with students preparing for exams and classroom assignments.
The article notes several students from Bed High School achieving 100 percent in their class pride numbers during a recent report card period. An arithmetic test for upper grades, plus a general assembly on Monday, highlighted the push for real hard work, with some grades achieving perfect marks while the lowest scores dropped to zero.
Vernon News reports Thompson and family spent the weekend in Bea Moines. Mary Kernan visited parents at Belmont. Roy C Wigans family spent Sunday at Antone Speich home. Local farmers worked fields as weather allowed amid funeral of Louis Moline of Duncombe attended by Carl Larson and daughter.
Day by day, residents such as Mrs Sever Orvick and children and others shopped at Fort Dadpe. Supt Munson and Mrs Munson attended Humboldt School men's Association meeting in Gilmore City. Miss Thal Adeline and others visited aunt Mrs Carl Johnson at Fort Dodge Hospital. Mr Johnson is recovering well after appendectomy.
Sunday morning worship at 10:00 a.m. Epworth League at 10:00 a.m. No evening services until after Easter. Church doors open for member reception by letter or confession. baptism rites offered. Easter cantata at Evangelical church at 8:00 p.m. Easter morning service features an empty egg case for hospital eggs to Sioux City. fresh eggs appreciated.
Evangelical Church led by Pastor B C Granner invites all to Easter services with Friday 10:00 a.m. church activities and Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. Morning worship at 11:00 a.m. Easter cantata to be performed in the evening with a hearty welcome and social effort urged.
Fred Thompson brings his marvel horse Silver King to a weekend program with a race on Saturday April 16 and a follow up event on Monday April 18 titled Quo Vodis. Spectators expect swift hooves and spirited competition in the civic gathering.
St Pauls Lutheran announces an Easter Program at 7 30 p m in the evening with Holy Supper and a 10 a m English language service. Good Friday services at 10 a m in German with Holy Supper conducted by Pastor EB H Gillmann.
Morning worship at 11:00 with Lester sermon and special guest. B Y P U at 7:15 p.m. Choir practice Saturday at Richardtona. Fellowship class party postponed to Friday, April 22. Weather and road reports note rain. Local items include births, eggs for hatching, oils for sale, cantata, poultry sales, and a wolves sighting by Henry Welty. Frank Green appointed night watchman by Algona city council last week.
National: museum showcases a black opal described as half a brick in size with green and peacock blues. Discovered in Virgin Valley Nevada, opals form in beds of volcanic ash with petrified wood. Dr. W. F. Poshag notes rare color patterns and rare cases where petrified material becomes opal.
Incomplete OCR snippet shows dialogue about keeping the daughter of Mina in clothes. No clear names, places, dates, or actions.
A tale from Jamaica in the 1860s recalls Admiral Sir Algernon de Horsey being refused entry to a dockyard by a native sentry who proclaimed himself the only man to keep the commodore out. Years later the sentinel boasted of his feat.
The census of manufactures reports that in 1935 establishments engaged in soap making produced 2,650,786,00 pounds of hard soap, granulated and powdered soap, soft soaps, and related products. The total value of soap manufactured was $929,048,991, including $6,709,567 in special articles.
In Leningrad a second crematorium is under construction while Moscow nears completion of the first. Cremation marks a new Soviet custom gaining rapid acceptance. Soviet envoy to London Urho Krassin led the effort as a key early government official to be elevated in this transition.
Reports on radio honorariums note Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony orchestra earning about 25000 dollars for a Saturday night series while composer pianist George Gershwin is listed at 1000 dollars for an hour’s work.
A Russian ballet event at low cost will be staged in London this winter. With the Diaghilev program new wagon at the Lyceum, an experiment offers first time affordable entertainment. The venture aims to attract a broad audience by keeping prices modest.
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