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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1940
Page
5
Local notes recount visits and gatherings across Iowa towns. Mr and Mrs R E Cook toured Des Moines. Mr and Mrs P H Sadler and children visited relatives at Eagle Grove. Miss Marion Saxton stayed with Lois in Spencer. numerous family events and social calls are listed including church, lodge, and community meetups.
Local market quotes for corn and oats listed. A stream of social notes follows, detailing visits, family gatherings, New Year’s dinners, university travel, snow reports from Springfield, Missouri, and multiple gatherings in Mason City Humboldt Eagle Grove and Algona, with names including Yeakel Fender Hoovler Packard Tanck Gimner Johnson Norder Burk Carlson and others.
Eagle Grove Market Sale invites consignors to bring surplus and finished livestock. The weekly livestock auction offers cows, fed heifers, and steers at full value, plus light feeding pigs at good prices. The sale promotes personal service and dedicated attention for small consignments.
Rev E D Hart pastors a note urging steady attendance at M E Church through winter with 3 am Sunday church school and ila m worship service. Mrs Walter McPeak is general superintendent and the choir under Miss Freerksen plans special music for the Faith In God sermon theme.
Community notices recount a mayoral warning urging parents to keep children from hitching sleds to automobiles to prevent accidents. The item also lists various local visits, holiday gatherings, and family news across Burt, Waterloo, Dubuque, Britt, Story City, Galt, Humboldt, and nearby areas with multiple names, places, and events from December and New Year celebrations.
Mr and Mrs Henry Boge Jr visited relatives at Logan last week. Mrs Chas A Walker hosts Baptist Mission Friday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Flord Anderson visited relatives at St Benedict on New Years. Mrs R R Blesie went to Rochester Mayo Clinic for examination. Supt and Mrs M Kirk Sperry and children of Greene visited George Latch and friends. Mr and Mrs Myron Collins and Irene Bowmen were guests at Will Collins home in McCallsbure over Sunday and New Years.
The undersigned has been appointed and qualified as Executrix of the estate of John Callesen deceased, late of Humboldt County. Those indebted should pay promptly and all claims must be presented, authenticated, to the executrix for allowance and filed with the Clerk of the District Court.
A sheriff’s sale notice announces the seizure of the East Half of the Northeast Quarter and East Half of the Southeast Quarter in section 15 township 91 north range 27 west of the Fifth P M in Humboldt County. The sale, ordered by The Federal Land Bank of Omaha, targets Trina Reisetter Eittreim and P S Lund as administrator, with sale set for January 10, 1940 at the courthouse front door in Dakota City. Proceeds cover debt of 13,888.92 plus 246.78 costs. the land is subject to redemption. The notice lists multiple defendants and interested parties including Hazel Burman, Don Burman, and J H Keith, among others.
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