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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1956
Page
2
Vernon Township 4 H club reports June 9 tour at Hansel farms with member projects reviewed and a noon park picnic. July 26 meeting at Har lee Moore's. Brace McGowan presiding with two visitors present. Discussion on safety flags corn handling and saving market losses with plans to cut corn August 6 and publish a news note.
Mr and Mrs Melvin Haugland and Mrs Elmer Schnetzer hosted guests in Eagle Grove. Families including Bonwell, Weyer, Dryer, Bygness, Blesie, Eichman, Marty, Foley, Elmer, Foley, Christofferson, and others visited homes or attended reunions and dinners across Renwick area towns such as Eagle Grove, Fort Dodge, Stay, Milford, Mason City, Livermore, Pittsburgh, Garner, and Sherman.
Coming events list August 9 Meet by Mrs Bert Martin. August 14 Royal Neighbors annual Guest Day Picnic at town park.
In Hardy Iowa church notes list St Pauls Lutheran St Pauls Lutheran Braunschweig pastor with Sunday School at 9 30 Worship at 10 30 Baptist Church led by Rev Edward Hedfield Wilbur Nissen S S Supt Sunday School at 10 am Church Service at 11 am Methodist Church under Roy Beisemeyer notes no Sunday School or preaching services this Sunday pausing activities across all three churches reflects a shared interruption in worship and instruction.
The Renwick church and Cedar Falls Evangelical United Methodist Men Church announce no Sunday School or preaching this Sunday due to the Summer Assembly at Riverview Park in Cedar Falls. Pastor E. Kerney notes the local church will not hold services while the assembly runs.
Lake Evangelical Lutheran Church announces worship service on August 12 at 10:00 AM and Luther League Sunday at 7:00 PM. Place to be announced. Mother's Guild meeting on August 15 with hostess Mrs Stanley Sampson and fellowship leader Mrs Lewis Sampson.
Wright County farmers should spray this year's adult grasshoppers before egg laying to protect next year's crop. Extension Director Aaron R. Bowman cites mature yellow or Differentials in fields and suggests checking infestation levels after prior sprays. Entomologist Harold Gunderson adds treatment consideration if 5 to 10 grasshoppers per square yard, noting chemical choice depends on crop and forage use.
A local newspaper recounts a man advertising for the thief of his wife and groceries and then seeking reimbursement for $22 in goods. In North Carolina, a pigeon flew into First Presbyterian Church stirring a sermon titled Open the Window to the East.
Extension official warns on grasshopper poisons with differing withholding times for forage and livestock. Heptachlor allows feeding seven days after treatment while other poisons require longer, urging careful label reading. County Extension offers a leaflet and directs readers to Clarion office for details.
A patrol unit arrived at a mangled car wreck under the overpass where two teenage boys died in the front seat and a third youth lay unresponsive as responders worked to free survivors. The scene closed in with a tense search for any chance of life.
A patrolman lights the face of a dead boy and, with a sobered older man, reflects that many youngsters look alike in death. The voices convey grief and a quiet sense of loss as they stand by the scene.
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