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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1944
Page
4
Local items show Barbara Britt visiting from Des Moines while relatives gather for dinners and church events. Notes include the Smiths and Weisbrods visiting, a senior class play at Renwick High School, and memorials for Victor Fender. Also covered are farm updates, a divorce petition, and WWII service stories from the region.
Floor lamp smoking stand 3 card tables 4 gallon stone jar fruit jars electric heater with fan 3 shelf See pictures bottle copper hall tree pressure cooker waterless jugger 10gt aluminum kettle electric fan wood bench double cot easel feather bed items offered by Mrs L W Fleming
Mrs. Thomas Gimer offers a four year old walnut dining room table with buffet and six chairs plus a rocking chair and coffee table. Also listed is a 41 foot wool stair carpet 27 inches wide.
Thank you to friends for cards letters and flowers received during illness. Ground to rent for potatoes on shares. Mr Chas H Watts. Mr and Mrs George Bell were business visitors in Des Moines last Saturday. The Lake Lutheran Ladies Aid Society will meet at Mrs Ole Skire’s home on Wednesday May. Mr and Mrs Sherrill Oppedatt and son Roger were Sunday dinner guests at Keith McGurry Home. Mr and Mrs B E McCallum of Eagle Grove were visitors last Thursday at Howard Persons home. The Lutheran Ladies Aid society will be entertained at Mrs Vena Rohner’s home on Wednesday May. Arch McPeak went to Grand Meadow Minn visiting brother Ned McPeak. Starting May lat e full. Regular meals and short orders will be served at Peoples Cafe daily except Sundays. Gerhard Mayer and Howard Perso esived second degree in Masonry at local Masonic Judge meeting Thursday night. Renwick Savings Bank ad says money orders cheaper than post office. Roy Frank seriously ill with pneumonia after scarlet fever, improved. Neighbors helping with small grain crop. WE BOUGHT 190 rant pigs at the sele barn. Dipped they Wormed. Carl Hermick Renwick Al vy Walkner Oscar Wratt Berdy dealers. Bowen Gropp Kanawha store closing out stock. Ferrow called to service, store to close.
Advertises profitable future openings for meat cutters and grocery men with or without experience. Women applicants invited. Apply locally or write Personnel Department, 316 S. W. 5th Street, Des Moines, Iowa.
Emmanuel Evangelical Church Florida, Pastor Pieper, announces Sunday services at 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Divine Worship 8:00 p.m. Evening Service 8:00 p.m. Thursday mid week service with choir practice. Easter program features visiting Rev P H Beckman of Laverne. Annual conference session runs March 3 to 7 at Marshalltown. attendance urged.
Renwick church announces Sunday School at 10 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. with a children’s sermon titled The Adventures of Mbia and a sermon Resources for Living These Days based on Psalm 121. 7:30 p.m. Methodial Youth Fellowship led by Macalvyn Clancy. Nearby church youth invited. Hardy church offers 10 a.m. worship and 1 p.m. Sunday School. officers and teachers of the church school meet at 3:30 p.m.
Mr and Mrs O Maurer and Mrs Sam Blassi attended a funeral at Wm Wolf Bt Laverne last Sunday. Marilyn has had an infected ear but returned to school Wednesday. Ruth and Marguerite Oppedahl of Waldorf College Forest City spent the weekend with friends. Tiny Persons has supplied popcorn to locals for five years and thanks customers. Dinner guests at Harold Yanney’s included the Duane McCarry family, John Palmer family, and Frank Locke Engstrom family.
Cambridge reports on wartime and peacetime optical gear. Synthetic exes like vectographs and dialed daylight goggles enable three dimensional viewing and light filtering. The article describes polarizing glasses producing depth and camouflage revealing hidden targets, with pilots and briefing rooms using specialized eyewear.
Washington halts oil shipments to Spain spurring a citywide ban on private cars and motorcycles to conserve fuel. Gasoline supplies for taxis shrink while police halt traffic. Madrid papers and broadcasts report the fuel restrictions as Spain's harshest since the civil war. The fuel commissioner urges the public to endure with patriotism.
An American soldier tumbled into a camouflaged Axis pillbox through a ventilation shaft and single handedly captured the entire German staff. The post, heavily fortified with 11 inch concrete and steel, had withstood three air raids and halted Allied progress in the area before its surprise fall to one Yank.
New York report says Special government priorities were granted for air shipment of $00,000 fish eggs from the United States to Peru. Pan American Grace Airways will transport hundreds of thousands of whitefish eggs from the Great Lakes and thousands of lake trout eggs from Michigan to Lake Titicaca as a gift.
New York reports about 25 000 British women serving as volunteers or staff at American Red Cross clubs in England for US servicemen. Miss Cynthia Waters, ex acting club director, notes around 500 volunteers and urges organized efforts to improve recreation for young British war workers amid scarce facilities.
Ottawa reports details of a new weapon called the PIAT or projectile infantry anti tank device. It can pierce four inches of armor and weighs 33 pounds. Operated by a single soldier it fires a two and three quarter pound explosive bomb and is already used by Canadian and British forces in Italy.
Providence Rhode Island story about Ma Brown known as Ma to 36 service men who are friends of her two sons in the army. She keeps photographs and writes letters to troops in places like Australia Egypt Munda New Caledonia and England and hopes to reach 100 such sons.
The United States office of education released a new series of motion pictures for farmers. The films demonstrate how to recondition a mower a two bottom tractor plow and a grain drill to aid in repairing mechanical equipment.
London reports US Army private Bend. Violette of South Bend Indiana will inherit $2,000,000 from his Canadian aunt the late Mrs. Mary Martin of Ontario. The 26-year-old military policeman will receive the fortune at age 39.
Yin Tso a Tokyo grad sent by Manchuria's puppet government describes strict wartime measures in Japan. He notes rising arrests for dangerous thoughts, labor camps for students, and shortages across essentials from bean curd to whale meat.
An isolated Jewish community in Sind province, northern India, long cut off from Jews abroad, has retained its faith with few changes though it dropped dietary laws. Sergt Hyman J Stone, back from overseas service, described their synagogues and aging Bibles, noting uncertain origins due to scarce records.
Federal Mapbuilding and Dry Dock delivered 80 ships valued at 300 million dollars in 1943 from its New York and Port Newark yards. President Lynn H. Korndorff noted a 30 percent rise from 1942 and said ships delivered last year alone exceeded the company’s 25 year output prior to World War II.
New York dispatch reports Japan has expanded its labor conscription law to include males from age 12 to 60 and unmarried females from 12 to 40. The extension aims to boost production of planes ships and munitions as demanded by leaders of the regime.
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