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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1930
Page
7
A fragmented adlike passage discusses Jersey cattle feed costs and milk value, claiming potential profits from feeding calves and hogs. It mentions a price of two dollars seventy cents per coin, eighty eight pounds of whole milk feed for calves, and a seven point five percent milk cost rate, urging the reader to try Proter to keep pigs’ bowels healthy.
A Men s Club dinner at the 1 0 C I hall drew over eighty men from Remwick and nearby. The Evangelical Church ladies served the meal. A program at Vernon Theatre featured the IL 8 string orchestra, Mca C A Richardson singing two numbers, and Joe Lily spoke about Africa with photographs. Lily also spoke to schoolchildren in the afternoon. A public oyster stew at Dre 1319 and a Parcel Sale by the American Legion and Auxiliary are noted for Saturday Dec 20 1980. Snow last Thursday created icy walks, with milder sunny weather early this week.
That American Boy Youths Companion is praised as a key influence on boys ages ten to twenty. It offers stories, adventure, sports, aviation, and career guidance, with editorials and biographical sketches. Subscriptions are priced at $2 for one year and $3 for three years, mail orders to Detroit Michigan.
Last Sunday at First Baptist Church under Pastor J A Hurley the congregation was urged to attend their church. Aimed at families and youth, the message encouraged living by example and inviting others to church next Sunday. The program lists Sunday School at 11, Morning Worship at 12 with the trials of Jesus and the judge, Young Peoples Meeting at 3, Evening Worship at 7 30, and Saturday choir rehearsal at the parsonage.
Weekly church activities listed include Sunday School at 10a and worship at the main hall. Anna Schneider leads a 7:00 session. Junior and Ladies' Aid Society meetings occur monthly. Woman's Missionary Society meets on the second Wednesday. choir practice runs Thursday evenings at 7240.
St Pauls Lutheran Church led by Pastor Geo e Dives offers morning services at 10 00 A M and Sunday School. An instructional session and Christmas service rehearsal are planned for Saturday with technical instruction and a benefice rehearsal at 2 80 P M.
A church notice invites all members to join the morning worship at 6 a.m. emphasizing devotion and cordial welcome for those not regularly attending elsewhere to participate.
The Henderson Visvers troupe of ten players brings one act plays comedies and dramas to Renwick at the Vernon Theatre starting Monday December 16. Reports say the company, of better class, includes dancing circus acts and novelty surprises with noted scenery costumes and lighting. Admission Monday night is ten cents for all, offering high class entertainment at a low price.
Wendel Turner blurred by a late Friday incident near Marshall Barr’s place as a horsefeeding along the roadside dashed into the road. The car struck the animal causing its broken leg and necessitating its death. The horse belonged to Jacob Frank and was valued highly. The driver sustained no injuries and the car suffered heavy damage.
E. A. Nelson was elected president of the Boone Township Farm Bureau at a meeting held at the center school December 6. A. L. Overbaugh will serve as secretary and treasurer for the coming year and Mrs. A. L. Vi Erwin was elected Warnings chairman. The district geared up for central work at this gathering.
A Saturday benefit supper at the [0.0.0 ] in Hell will be hosted by the basketball girls to aid Theo, 13. Menu includes chicken pie or chicken with potatoes, creamed peas and carrots, pickles, whole wheat rotta, baked apples and whipped cream, coffee. Prien 852.
Mrs Elwood French aged 35 died early Tuesday from head trouble related to illness with influenza and complications. She lived three miles north of Luy Vertie and is survived by her husband and five young children.
Readers are reminded of the American Legion and Auxiliary Parcel Sale on Saturday, Dec 30 1980. Various local names appear in social notes including Mrs J J Christensey and Ruth, Mrs Francis Jause, Roen Gugner, and Kirk Sperry. A Christmas Cantata titled Lath Messiah by Ly Wilson is set for Sunday evening December 2 at eight o’clock at the Evangelical church. Acknowledgments express thanks from the Evangelist Ladies Aid Society for support. The Times Office advertises Christmas greeting cards printed with names, and promotions note a large selection and order timing.
Excavations at Posnpelt reveal frescoes and carved furniture linked to ancient life in Pompeii. Artifacts include a triple-legged table supports and a sword-carved head motif, with interior colors preserved and imagery of Pyrames and Thisbe.
The passage notes how imaginary characters become well known, citing Rovemont and Radomont as legendary figures. It links the term radomtontade to vain boasting from Webster and traces voice of bragging through Spenser and other medieval poets.
The Westinghouse Memorial in Sehenley Park Pittsburgh features a bronze statue by Daniel Chester Jenks. It rises 94 feet on a Norwegian granite base with figures of a skilled workman engineer and a youth studying achievements. Henry Harlstiel of Pittsburgh designed the setting.
Centuries ago aavy bishop was erected in Speyer Germany and relics were displayed during the cathedral's nine hundredth anniversary. The event included transferring a domnapf from its place and the exhibition of Holy Roman Empire insignia such as Kaiser Conrad I's crown and scepter. The artifacts belong to the Hofburg in Vienna.
The piece notes a Brooklyn marriage broker Mr Stuble and a program by Mr Rebla. Rebla opens with marriage talk, yields to an orchestra playing Deeg In the Arms of Love, then Rubin interrupts with a pushy hook You, too. declare you are deep in the arms of love and contact Ruble in Brooklyn.
Fragmentary text describes a barber incident with a boy named Bobby returning from a visit. The narrator’s mother asks how he took it and Bobby responds with confusion about an attempted act and perfume. The excerpt is garbled and lacks clear event details or outcomes.
Fragmentary lines describe a child-like figure near a doctor performing a checkup. The text includes scattered phrases about a daughter, survey work, heart and lungs, and a sudden spoken line about new stations, with many garbled terms.
A list details gifts to the Peace Palace in The Hague from many nations. USA presents a marble statue, Argentina a bronze statue, Australia a silver inkstand writing desk, Belgium a bronze door, Brazil cedarwood stems, Chile bronze statues group, China four cloisonne vases, Denmark Copenhagen porcelain fountain, Germany iron railing with stone carving, England stained glass windows, France paintings and gobelin sketch, Greece marble wreath, Hungary large vases, Italy marble column tube, Japan handwoven wall coverings, Netherlands Peace Palace site seven enameled glass windows and four Bol paintings, Netherlands East Indies teakwood, Norway drive mechanism gravity feature, Austria bronze candelabra, Russia small registers, Latvia large vase, Salvador wood stems for woolwash, Spain twelve silver inkstands, Turkey large register, Sweden carved granite facade, Switzerland niche chock faces.
In southern Itaty peasants claim centuries old giants were forced underground near Mount Eton. They say the giants cause earthquakes as revenge, while variations blame deep plastic layers and lunar gravitational forces for crustal strain and surface tremors.
Kansas City Star recounts Tiamiin Garland’s retelling of a James Whitcomb Riley visit in which the poet jokes about a country lass and a turkey proverb. A young listener challenges his poetry as the poet insists the turkey hen squawks, not his lines.
A Pathfituler Magazine excerpt notes that Abecedarians were an extreme Anabaptist sect in Germany during the 1500s. They rejected learning, believed the Holy Spirit would grant necessary knowledge to the elect, and viewed alphabet study as sinful.
The text contrasts human time sense as often deficient with animals showing extraordinary timing. It cites geologic garden enlistments, farm charges and poultry as accurately predicting feeding times. Ducks in particular are described as riotous when their meal does not arrive on schedule.
A Brooklyn mother sought to save stockings from wear during marble play and, with her husband, devised and patented a portable marble projecting device operable by a child. The invention aimed to provide inexpensive entertainment while protecting stockings from damage.
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