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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1936
Page
5
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The Scarlet Raiders crushed Bode high school varsity 53 to 9 at the local gym with 30 points to 4 by halftime. Renwick subs held the same percentage in the second half and beat Bode seconds 23 to 10. The junior high lost 3 to 7 in its first game. Renwick faces Livermore on December 11.
Wilmer Orvick died last Monday evening at his parents home west of Renwick at age 20 after a period of poor health. He was a Vernon Consolidated School graduate, class of 1925, born on a Hardy area farm. Survived by parents four brothers and one sister. Funeral at 1 pm today at the home then Lake Lutheran Church with Rev. T J Severtson officiating. Burial Trinity Cemetery.
The Renwick junior class schedules a party at the schoolhouse Thursday evening December 10 from 6 to 9 30 o clock.
Humboldt County Farm Bureau will hold its annual meeting in Humboldt on Tuesday December 15 with R J Hamilton Fort Dodge as principal speaker. Officers for 1937 will be elected after reports from secretaries and project leaders. Free lunch follows noon and the public is invited to attend the afternoon program concluding with Hamilton’s address.
Real winter arrived in this territory last Saturday afternoon and night with about four inches of snow and a cold wind. The thermometer stayed around six below zero all day Sunday and eight below that night. No thawing has occurred and the snow remains. The Saturday night storm caused many minor accidents as cars slid into ditches, yet the weather also stirs Christmas spirit and boosts business activity.
The Renwick community chorus conducted by Mrs D J Christenson will stage Handel’s oratorio The Messiah at the high school auditorium on Sunday evening December 18 at 8 o’clock. This marks the third annual presentation by the chorus of sixty voices with soloists Verla Franz soprano Irvine Peer tenor Dorothy McGowan contralto Thomas Miller bass and Carroll Richardson as accompanist.
Rev Albert Kilbourn of Eagle Grove will speak at the next Renwick Men’s Community club gathering at the schoolhouse Monday evening December 14. Local WLS club will present additional program numbers and all men and young men in Renwick and area are invited to attend.
Mrs John Zimmerman hosted a surprise farewell for Wilbur Broberg from the Sunday school class of the Evangelical church last Thursday at her home. Broberg has enlisted in the U S Navy and will depart Tuesday night for San Diego California to enter the Naval training station.
The 80S bridge club met last Friday at 1 pm for a luncheon hosted by Mrs. H. Klassie. Four tables played with high score won by Mrs. Black, low score by Mrs. Goettseh, traveling prize to Mrs. Lane, and the draw prize to Mrs. Maurer.
Visitors from Westbrook and Slater in Minnesota spent a week visiting relatives here before continuing to Ashland Missouri to visit G. M. Rettig. The piece notes the line between public debt and political pressures with a reflective aside about tax effects on straw votes.
A LaVerne community letter criticizes The LaVerne News for attempting to annex the local cheese factory. The note recalls 50 years of community fundraising totaling 33 000 and 2 000 more, with factory ownership staying in LaVerne. The writer pledges magnanimity and returns the factory to LaVerne with best wishes.
The Geldfeld Gazette announces publisher EL RB. Willems, formerly of the Lekota Re Cord, enters the newspaper arena amid industry downsizing. The note hopes Editor Williams will prosper and bring relief to staff and readers.
The fragment suggests funds from the du Pont family aligning with the Roosevelt fortune through a marriage involving Franklin Treng Ethels du Pont, contrasting earlier use in presidential campaigns with this new union. Entities referenced include the du Pont and Roosevelt families and Franklin Treng.
Athletic directors of the Little Nine association held their annual Canquer at LaVerne and set the Little Nine basketball tournament dates for Renwick on February 19 and 20. Twenty eight superintendents coaches and captains attended. Elected officers included Supt Cockrill Livermore press Sept Arden Bode vice apt Sperry Renwick secretary. The program concluded with a basketball game between captains and coaches ending in a close margin.
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