Local Social Notes From Waterloo And Nearby Area
Local residents visit relatives and attend church and community events across Waterloo Lake Okoboji and Goldfield. Highlights include visits by Mr and Mrs Collins, Mr and Mrs McCurry, Miss Nelson, and the Tjelie Pleming families, a baptism at Evangelical church, a Governor Hickenlooper speech at Emmetsburg, and updates on health and military service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myron Collins
Waterloo
EE Edwards
Stanley McCurry
Jean Nelson
Sherrill Oppedahs
Roxie Jan
Ivan Maurer
Evangelical Church
Ole Tjelie
Jerry
LW. Pleming
Tjelle
Clear Lake
Fred ‘Rastissen
Emmmetsburg
Sth
Hickenlooper
Voice lessons set for Thursday afternoons
Reading notes show Miriam Pieper offering voice lessons on Thursday afternoons with contact at phone 3132. The town items mention Roy McCurry and children visiting Fort Dodge relatives, local visits, illnesses, and multiple family gatherings across Eagle Grove Pocahontas Rolfe and Livermore with various residents and out of town guests. Highlights include military update on George McCurry remaining in reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miriam Pieper
Roy McCurry
Fort Dodge
H. B. Cole
Eagle Grove
War Bond Drive Urges Extra Contributions From Families
The message asks readers to increase their war bond purchases beyond essentials, to support U S troops fighting Nazis and Japan. It stresses personal choice on how much more to invest, linking home funding to victory and pride in loved ones' sacrifices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomons
Africa
Europe
U.S. Tresmay
Weekend Visits Across Town Highlight Local Social Life
Judath Goettsch from Hardy visited Janice Helmke early in the week. Cecil Severence and family from Sutherland called on Robert Severence. Bill Z Krause and kids stayed with Theo Weisbrod in Fenton. Al Smith of Des Moines spent the weekend with Conrad Elmer. Sam Flogstad and children visited relatives in Emmemborg. Evangelical Ladies Aid Society gathered at Rose Hefty’s home yesterday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judath Goettsch
Hardy
Janice Helmke
Cecil Severence
Sutherland
Robert Severence
Bill Z. Krause
Theo. Weisbrod
Fenton
al Smith
Des Moines
Conrad Elmer
Sam Flogstad
Emmemborg
Evangelical Ladies ’Aid Suciety
Rose Hefty
Mirror Flash Saves Fliers in New Guinea Jungle
Ten months in the New Guinea jungle ended when a large mirror flashed from a village to guide a Consolidated Liberator bomber back to three American fliers and an Australian rifleman. Second Lieuts Eugenia D. Wallace Marvin C. Hughes and Pic Dalee Bordner along with navigator Hamilton Chisholm and Captain Everett Wood survived despite crashes and hardship. They were aided by native help and a wary return flight, later decorated with the Order of the Purple Heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Eugenia D. Wallace
Los Angeles
Marvin C. Hughes
Baird
Texas
Pic
Dalee Bordner
Chillcothe
Ohio
Wildrness
Rabaul
Toads
John Leslie Stokie
Stokie
Hamilton Chisholm
Minneapolis
Everett Wood
Trinidad
Cole
Bordner
Whitehead
Hughes
Herdner
Wallace
Famil
Share-the-Ride Plan Flops in West Oakland
West Oakland officials review a share the ride scheme in the East Bay after two weeks, noting average occupants per car fell from 1.78 to 1.76. Chief Coordinator John Marr of the Civil Defense Council expresses disappointment with the results and ongoing efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
San Francisco Bay Area
Volves
Civi Deffense Council
John Marr
The
Defense Council
Marr
Dog Seizes Girl’s Dress And Saves Her From Car
In St. Louis a neighbor’s Irish setter named Mike saved three year old Dorene Forslund from a street car. The dog barked as the car bell rang and seized the child’s dress to drag her off the track, according to Mrs. Compton whose soldier son owns the dog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Mike
Dorene Forslund
Double liquor-store raid ends with $75 haul
Orlando Florida. Gerald Van Scoy, a liquor store operator, recounts that two bandits struck his shop again twelve days after a prior burglary. The return visit yielded $75 in cash as the bandits greeted him with familiarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlando
Fla
Gerald van Scoy
Bandits
Scoy
Don’t Issue License For She Has My Ring
In McMinnville Oregon a caller pleads with the county clerk not to issue a marriage license to a Rainier couple, saying through a bluff joke that she is the rightful partner because he believes she still has his ring and asks on what authority the license could be granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mcminnville
Ore
Rainier
Mars
Cattle Rustlers Again Are Active in Wyoming
Cattle rustlers in Wyoming operate in fast trucks raiding isolated plains herds and selling meat on the black market. Reports show more cattle disappearing than in a decade with one rancher missing 40 head. The OPA notes increased uninspected meat sales while stock growers warn of armed resistance to protect livestock as state cattle value climbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
State Office of Price Administration
Russell Thorp
Wyoming Stock Growers Association
Thorp
Association
OPA
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Wyoming i
Fine Farmer Fined in Georgia Over Plowing Weather
A Bibb County resident appeared in Recorder Nottingham's court on drunkenness charges and was fined 35 dollars plus 25 for wasting perfect plowing weather. Nottingham announced a campaign against absenteeism and a double fine policy for workers skipping duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bibb County
Ottinghaim
Notingham
Macon
Nottingham
Egg Throwers Find Fun Is Also on Ration List
In Chicago Judge N J Bonelli admonished four youths accused of egging spectators at a theater. He ordered the two injured parties to compute clothing damage and adjourned, telling the defendants' mothers that their sons must ration their fun as food is not to be wasted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
N. J. Bonelli
Visitor to Army Post Is Hurt by Stray Shot
J A Frakes, 63, of Fort Thomas, was shot in the abdomen by stray pellets when a military police guard fired at two soldier prisoners trying to escape Fort Thomas post. The prisoners, William Evans and Jack Tucker, both 23, suffered arm wounds and Evans was also hit in the chest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Post
Fort Thomas
J. A Frakes
Fort Thomas Military Post
Frakes
William Evans
Jack Tucker
Evans
Police blotter item lists poultry theft during rationing
In Denver Colorado a police blotter entry notes stolen items including twenty five chickens valued at twenty five dollars and nineteen pigeons worth nineteen dollars. Detective Captain James E. Childers says thefts have repeated nightly since meat rationing began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
James E. Childers
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H. D. Black
Betty
Lake Okoboji
Fred Zwonitzer
Gary
Holton, Kans
Melvin Heggen
Young Peoples Missionary Society of the Lake Lutheran Church
Knutson
Goldfield
Hans Madson
Mercy, Hospital
Ernest
Boblen
Dorothy ‘Dawson
Bruce
Dawson
Pxt
Robert ‘Ishnson
Trainng
Jafarson
Barracks
Defen Dory
Post Orchestra
Susie Martin
Howard Persons
Lucile Barnhardt
Pocahontas
Thomas Girner
Rolfe
Wilbur Nissen
Bob Turner
Kenneth Burk
Duane Harris
Shirley
Ronald Granner
Henry Norder
Darwin, Maurer
Wauken
S.C. C. Maurier
Walter Bloom
Yehildren
Barbara
Anne
Spencer
Henry Bloom
Donald Lambe
Lincoln, Neb
Robert
Win Nissen
Benny Gregerson
Livermore
Gregerson
R. E. McGowan
Allis Stevenson
Aeanes
Lutheran
Joe Janes
Decatur
Janes
Elmo .Arne
Minneapolis Earhe
H. Elassie
Herdy
Pauline Kassie
Joe Abernathy
Dorris “Baker
Chandler
Danielsville
M. A. Keiman
Hame
Georgia
John Geedhert
Pella
Keiman
Floyd Anderson
Tommy
Eagle’ Grove
Helen Je Ensen
Anderson Hots
Floyd
Anderson
Mercy Hospital
George McCurry
George
W. E. Long
Renwick, Iowa
LR. Turner
Renwick Savings Bank
Renwick
Iowa
A. H. Seafford, D. V. M
F. M. Crawford
Osteopathic and General Practice
Renwick, Lowa
U.S. Treasury
U. S. War Bonds
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