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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1944
Page
4
Local news items cover visits to Elmore and Clarion, trips to Garner for Farm Bureau meetings, and family gatherings from Cedar Rapids to Fort Dodge. Furloughs arrive for servicemen, graduation trips from Wentworth and Drake University teachers, and community notices including a special United Service Women meeting.
We have good runs of cattle hogs and sheep and a strong market for all classes. Do not fear bringing in fat cattle as buyers are ready for any cattle you have. If you need two trucks call Sale Barn No. 100 and we will send one to your place.
Pastor A Pieper leads Emsanuel Evangelical Church services with Sunday School at noon and Divine Worship at 8 pm. Evening service follows at 9 pm, Thursday choir practice. Children’s Day praised. appeal for offerings to support the church, urging full attendance and devotion this Lord’s Day.
Confirmation set for Sunday June 18 with communion at 11 a.m. Donaldene Kraft Clarence Jacobson Grace Krause Marcene Pogge Dorlagene Kraft Henry Pogge and Don Anderson listed for confirmation. Betty Lou Black visited Gene Black’s home. local visits noted. Young Peoples Missionary Society to meet at John Rasmussen’s home Thursday evening.
First Baptist Church pastor C Blamhagen urges attendance at the Northern Iowa Baptist Association gathering in Gilmore City on June 17 and 18. The program features Victor O Wik on Christian education, Rev B H Ward and Rev John Selander as evening speakers, an annual sermon by Rev Stanley Andersen, basket dinner, women's and men's sessions, and combined group talks.
Regular town council meeting held in June 1944 presided by Mayor Harris Gimer with all councilmen present except Charles A Walker. May minutes and May 29 special meeting read approved. Bills listed include banks interest on bonds electric supplies insurance and salaries. Motion to pay bills approved. Cigarette licenses and Class B beer permits read and issued. Fritz Britt town clerk.
An Air Force base in southeast China reports U S fighters returning from a raid on a railroad bridge. Pilots recount long sorties, radio chatter, and a tense briefing as they brief their next mission while reeling from exhausted afterburn of battle. The colonel reviews the mission, aiming to improve accuracy for the afternoon air push.
New York reports that commercial air lines expanded their combined rail air express traffic in 1943 surpassing 1942. The express division of the Railway Express Agency says 410,758 shipments were handled in 1943, up from 319,983 in 1942, with express charges exceeding 4 million dollars, a rise of 63.2 percent.
Steve Logan of Miami Florida told the Onondaga county ration board he hitch-towed his car from Miami to Syracuse but still lost gasoline privileges. The board barred driving until December 31 or wartime end, whichever occurs first.
Norfolk reports a Gloucester trawler Uncle Guy hauled 150 barrels of fish in 1 hour 40 minutes a few miles off the Virginia Capes. John Mayo, cook, exclaimed he never saw so many fish in one dragnet. Each barrel weighs about 200 pounds on average.
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