Local Visitors and Community News Highlight Little Town
Residents share visits from relatives in Luverne Eagle Grove and Sioux City while noting illness school absences and local church events A Christmas gathering at the Methodist church sparks talk of plans and weather turns colder with temperatures dropping below zero Families discuss health, schooling, and plans as Thomas Pool and family deal with asthma and potential relocations plus one son awaits draft and medical clearance in the near future
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob, Corbin
Luverne
IE. Janes
Gordon ‘Johnson
Richard
Eagle Grove
Mra Law
Heetland
Thomas Gimerene Falks
Anner
Pool
Larry
Lola
Town City
Ranwick
Henry Kraft
Renwick Library Holiday Hours And Local Notices
The Renwick Public Library will close on Saturday December 25 and Saturday January 1 and will be open in the afternoon and evening on Wednesday December 22 and December 29. After holidays the library resumes usual Saturday afternoon and evening hours. Also listed are local notices and sale ads for P B Duroc and Brown Water Spaniels, requests to buy a small residence, and various social news items and village notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Renwick Public
Town Council Minutes Report December 10 1943
The Town Council regular session on December 10 1943 was presided by Mayor Harl Gimer with all councilmen present. Minutes from the October meeting were read and approved. Bills for services and supplies including kerosene, freight, printing, telephone, power plant bonds, and salaries were approved by the finance committee, with adjournment following.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harl Gimer
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp
Renwick Savings Bank
Boe Emiber
Brady Transfer & Storage Cou
Messenger Printing Co
Bell Telephone Co
Globe Machine & Sap Co
M. D. Hickey Agt
Freight and Express
Stete
Ballard-Hassett Co. Ee
Towa - Des‘ Moines
National’ Bank & Trust Co
Stork National Bank
Towa
State
E. J. Wanken
Marx Schuster
Lisa Electric Supply.Co
Fairbanks-Morse &Co
Globe Machine.& Supply Co
Continental Motors Corp
S. H. Klassie
Schneiner Electric Works
L. W. Miller
Western Printing Co
Walter Hansen
Hobbell
Jess WI
Fritz Britt
Family visitors from Pocahontas and Humboldt arrive for weekend
Mrs. Thomas Gimner and children visited yesterday at the home of her mother Mrs. J. A. Parker in Jo. Humboldt. Mrs. John Barnhardt and son Harold and Mrs. Ralph Hunter and daughter Beverly, all from Pocahontas, visited over Sunday with their daughter and sister Miss Lucile Barnhardt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilma McCurry
Des Moines
George Mills
Myrna
Fort, Dodge
Ea Erickson
Clarion
Alfred Peterson
Lloyd’ Pool
W. V
Algona
Sale
P. B
John. Backes
Guyerne
Iowa
Albert Eitley
Eagle Grove
Wilbur Phipps
Selvia ‘Bloom
Cresco
Henry Bloom
Sanford “Anderson i
Date’ Wite
Wayne Lucia
Stora Dake
Sorwish
Tal
Alta Morgan
Thomas Gimner
J. A. Parker
Jo. Humboldt
John Barnhardt
Harold
Ralph Hunter
Beverly
Pocahontas
Lucile Barnhardt
War Workers Plan Recreation Across the Nation
War workers seek leisure options from dawn patrol recreation centers to midnight tennis and showers. The Federal Security Agency notes recreation prevents fatigue and accidents, with programs using parks, churches, schools, and white elephant mansions. Community efforts include language lessons, music, baby care, and volunteer pools to widen access and support production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Security Agency
FSA
Boss Bets Life on Each Plane His Men Repair
Commander John L. Ewing leads a new $7.5 million aircraft repair program in Kodiak Alaska. He personally tests each repaired aircraft and sails with a skeletal crew when needed, asserting his confidence in his craftsmen and the shop’s output while celebrating his role as the lone pilot when possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kodiak
Jamaica Mass
Travel Academy
Camp Grants Busiest Barber Has Hazel Eyes
Busiest barber at the 30th battalion shop at Camp Grant, Hazel eyes, brown hair, southern accent, and a diploma in tensorial trades. Mayme Kleber of Alexandria, Louisiana, wife of Sergeant Alviron Kleber of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, joined him when he was transferred here and quickly found work in the barbershop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Grant
Ili
30Th Battalion
Bis
Mayme Kleber
Alexandria
Sergt
Alviron 3
Kleber
Wilkes-Barre
Hitler Effigy Awarded to Sloppy War Workers
In New Cumberland Pennsylvania an army depot displayed a life size plastic effigy of the Nazi leader at Hitler Headquarters. The army said it would move the figure weekly to the department with the most civilian accidents. Workers blamed for accidents would receive “congratulations” from the enemy headquarters for hindering supply movement to the armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Cumberland
Hitler
Army
Fuehrer
British Squadron Sinks Axis Vessels In Night Channel Raids
The Air Ministry says a single Albacore squadron damaged or sunk more than seven Axis vessels in 12 months through nighttime Channel raids. Success credited to experiments conducted last year in rural Scotland, despite heavy anti aircraft fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Air Ministry
Fieet Pir
English Channel
Gorce
Scotland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs
D. J
Christenssn
Sheri
Ea Lunde
Sioux City
J Ez Stauffacher
A. A
Packard
Doris Keister
Win
Bigings
Mary
Alice
Laverne
Sion Ranids
Anade
Port Spelling
Neta
de Brevitons
Great Marr School
P. B-Duroc
Bert Siemens
Eel Edwards
Renwick
Times Office
Chas. A.” Walker
Paul ‘Neal
Minneapolis
Neal
Sleepy. Eye
Minn
Hans Bennick
Katherine Markmand
Fred Gugger
Roland Erdman
Marion Higeland
Ray Feltis
Mr and Airs
Roy McClore
Belmond
Feltis
Eagle Grove. Livestock Commission Co
Schwenck’s
Leroy Umstead
Mike Wehrheim
Rk, Uhr
Joe Richardson
H. E.luchsinger
Sam Stor
Farmers Co-op. Co
Renwick, Iowa
Senn
U. S. War Bonds
Mig- Continent Petroleum Corporation
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