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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1952
Page
2
Le Mars Iowa fire at Celest inus Wolf's farm burned Mr Wolf on his right side after gas in a hose ignited near a hot manifold. He rolled in a cob pile to smother flames, then sought help as his wife and neighbors alerted the fire department.
Four Sheldon youths abducted and assaulted a junior college co ed near Alton Democrat Orange City last Wednesday night. A parolee from Eldora’s State Training School was among them. Sheriff Dykstra arrested the four. three received 80 day sentences with 25 suspended, one returned to Eldora.
The Capel Homemakers meet at Mrs. A. Van Boe s home on May 7. They sing, pray, and discuss a Clothes Drier as a must in the home. A lunch with salad is served as they sample nine cookie assortments and exchange recipes. Meetings pause for summer, to resume in September.
Toadstools appear on a woodpile when the wood already harbors fungi. Cut ends and partial drying stimulate fruiting bodies. Growth will likely continue until the wood dries enough to halt or kill further development. Handling the wood poses probably no danger.
A note clarifies that the standard unit for weighing gold is the troy ounce, distinguishing it from the avoirdupois ounce used for other goods.
Six railroads serving the upper Midwest announced plans to obtain the largest practicable supply of boxcars to move the 1952 grain crop to markets. Spokesmen told grain industry leaders in St Paul that executives will travel to Washington to press the Association of American Railroads, the Office of Defense Transportation and the Interstate Commerce Commission to end car shortages from recent harvests.
The term Texas comes from the Indian word Tejas meaning friends. The name reflects a cultural link to the region's indigenous heritage and a sense of alliance among native groups.
Mrs. Fred Langstraat of near Middleburg and her two children escaped injury last week Tuesday when the car they rode in overturned on a gravel road as they traveled toward Sioux Center. About 8 a.m. the driver lost control on a soft spot, causing the vehicle to overturn.
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