Veterans Armistice Day Stag In Sioux City
Local veterans are invited to the fourth annual Armistice Day Stag at the Legionaire Club Sioux City on Thursday night November 11 1948 designated Veterans Night Out A classy stage show will be presented at 11 00 P M and at midnight free vitals will be served The Legionaire Club provides dinner at noon gratis to all veterans and veterans take over the club from 8 00 P M onward
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Legionaire Club
Fourth Street
Sioux City
J.J. McGuill
Winifred Martin To Give Music Training
Miss Winifred Martin extension specialist at Sioux Center Town Hall will conduct music training for home project and 4-H groups on Wednesday, November 10 at 7 30 PM. Sioux County extension service organizes the meeting with representation from each girls club and township home project group. men and boys are welcome. The program titled Around The World With Music features songs from allied nations, old favorites and new selections.
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Winifred Martin
Sioux Center Town Hall
Sioux County
Mrs Heitritter and friends visit Sheldon on Wednesday
Mrs Martha Heitritter and Mrs Louis Heitritter and Mrs Thos Van Diepen with children were callers at Sheldon on Wednesday.
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Martha Heitritter
Louis Heitritter
Thos. van Diepen
Sheldon
Goodwill Truck Delayed to Arrive in Boyden Monday
The Goodwill truck, delayed, will arrive Monday, November 15 in Boyden. Donations of usable articles are gratefully accepted at the U. P. Parsonage. Elidora Heitritter and Walter visited the Joe Stientjes home Wednesday afternoon.
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Boyden
U. P
Goodwill Industries
Sioux City
Iowa
Elidora Heitritter
Walter
Joe Stientjes
Birthday Party Honoring Mr Cuperus With Local Guests
Mr and Mrs Martin Cuperus hosted Friday evening in honor of Mr Cuperus birthday. Attending were the Brinks and families from Hull Gerrit Brinks Henry Bosman Jake Van De Hieden Sam Heemskirk plus Mathilda and Cornelia Van Der Maaten of Sioux City visiting Herman Van Der Maaten. Sunday supper guests were Sam Ver Hoef and family of Rock Valley at John Van Der Hout home. Additional visits included Jake Westra at Bert Batavia home near Hull. L Rens Sr and family recently moved to Orange City seeking insurance from German Mutual Insurance via P M Kruse Hull. 1-44pd
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Martin Cuperus
Mr. Cuperus
Martin Brinks
Hull
George’ Brinks
Gerrit Brinks
Henry Bosman
Jake van de Hieden
Sam Heemskirk
Mathilda
Cornelia van der Maaten
Sioux City
Herman van der Maaten
Sam Ver Hoef
Rock Valley
John van der Hout Ome
Jake Westra
Bert Batavia
Mrs. W. Boelsma
Jake de Jong
Shelon
Henry Heusinkveldt
Francis DeGraat
Classified ad notices from Hull area sale and loan offers
Classified listings show sale items including Easy feeding type Spotted Poland China Bears and Early Ohio Potatoes with contact Fred Jantzen location 8 miles north and 1.5 miles east of Hull. Also bank loan ads from Farmers Savings Bank Boyden Iowa offering rates as low as 4 percent and prompt service.
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Poland
Ohio
Fred Jantzen
Hull
Rts
Farmers Savings Bank
Boyden
Owa
For Sale Purebred Poland China Boars Near Boyden
Two dozen Hampshire cross and Poland China boars offered by John Haspella and Wm. A. Winter. Auction or sale details given as 3 miles north and 1 1/2 miles west of Boyden. Old typed ad fragment lists animal weights and contact points.
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Hampshire
Paleta
John Haspella
Boyden
Laban
Poland
China
Wm. A
Ration Information Issued For War Ration Books
The bulletin lists good through dates for blue brown and green stamps across Books One Three and Four. It covers food, fuel, shoes, airplane stamps and gasoline with deadlines for inspections and late applications for War Ration Book Four.
Milk price controls under wartime rules
In March 1942 the price of a glass of milk rose from five to eight cents in many places. Prices are governed by General Maximum Price Regulations and cannot exceed the March 1942 high. A glass sold at five cents in March 1942 cannot be sold for more now.
Marlys Hollander Visits John Hollander Home Friday
Marlys Hollander spent Friday afternoon at the John Hollander home, sharing time with family and reflecting on recent events.
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Marlys Hollander
John Hollander
Need your oil changed See the Boyden Service Station
The brief notes an oil change service at Boyden Service Station inviting customers to visit for maintenance. It highlights available vehicle care at the local shop and points to a convenient service location. The message emphasizes regular car upkeep through a neighborhood business.
Women’s Home Project Groups Meet on Food Problems
The first Home Project Meeting of the 1943 44 year in Sioux County will address Meeting the Family Food Problem. Miss Lucile Holaday will lead county township sessions in November and December on wartime shortages, canned vegetables, cereals, and meal planning. The county series opens at Mrs Henry Korvers home on Tuesday November 9 from 10 to 4 with a noon demonstration meal.
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Sioux County
Lucile Holaday
Henry Korver
Visit Outing to Britton and Return
Mr and Mrs Paul Schroeder visited Britton South Dakota to see Mr and Mrs Bill Schuett last Saturday and returned Tuesday Mrs Berger came back with ghien and will spend the ed John Hollander and family
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Paul’ Schroeder
Britton
S. D
Bill Schuett
All Borrowed Tools From Boyden Hardware Urgently Due
Notice says all persons who borrowed articles from Boyden Hardware including 2 small pipe wrenches expansion bit copper tubing cutter and bottom half of extension ladder must return them immediately.
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Boyden
Boyden High School Halloween Events and Season Plans
Students enjoyed Halloween parties with jack o lanterns and art. The boys basketball team opens Friday Nov 12 at Hull, relying on freshmen after losses of lettermen. A girls vocal group, new library additions, a sophomore home economics tea, and rehearsals for the play Rummage Rumpus directed by Mrs Roggen are announced with cast members listed.
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Hull
Smith
Home Economics
Mrs. Roggen
Betty van Diepen
June Salie
Dorothy Westra
Lavonne Rouwenhorst
Luella VerMeer
Lois Fihr
Town Council Proceedings November 1 1943
Regular session held with Mayor John Rensink Sr presiding. Bills presented and approved across Water Works General Town Hall Light Sewer funds. Sidewalk repair referred to street and alley committee. Water works committee to investigate chlorinators at George and Alton. Meeting adjourned.
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John Rensink Sr
Oldenkamp
Iowa
Iowa Public Service Co
John de Jong
Wm, Oldenkamp
Northwestern Bell Tele
M. Cuperus
Water Works Committee
George and Alton
S. G. Vanden Brink
Overnight guest at John Hollander home
Mrs. Maggie Hollander was an overnight guest on Tuesday at the John Hollander home.
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Maggie Hollander
John Hollander
Sale of rationed foods by farmers explained
Farmers may sell butter lard and cheese they produce and portions of meat from farm slaughtering with a valid farm slaughtering permit. They must collect points, file OPA Form R-1609 monthly, and surrender points to the local War Price and Rationing Board. Farmers may have meat slaughtered by a custom slaughterer if permitted.
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F D. A
Office of Price Administration
County War Board
M. BE. Rawlings
OPA
Halloween Party Notes At Grade School In Late October
The class reports a Halloween party with 16 jack o lanterns and games such as bobbing for apples and a corn relay. Visitors Donald Van Diepen Leroy Bomegars Shirley Faber and Marilyn Ruyter attended. New pupil Raymond Roetman joined in second grade. Some students earned top spelling scores of 100 all week.
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Anthony Vanden Berg
Donald van Diepen
Leroy Bomegars
Shirley Faber
Marilyn Ruyter
Raymond Roetman
Harlin Doorenbos
Lee Moret
Marlene Vagts
Dolores
Darlene Goodyear
Cileen van Diepen Marlys
Jean Broescher
Norma
David Lagoo
Darlene
Harold DeBoer
Edwin Diekevers
Marjean Vande Hoef
Robert Lee Rosenboom
Jerry Starkweather
Junior Ruevers
Miss Belling
Kenneth van Diepen
Sioux City
Dolores Goodyear
Norma Lagoo
Harold de Boer
Shirley Kuyper
Letters From 4th Graders Wake Island 1948
Imaginary letters by fourth graders published with space, including a Wake Island note dated November 1948. A child writes from a frontline setting describing guard duty and enemy movements with a child’s hopeful closing to “Mother” about his safety and family.
Soldier letter from Lt General Jimmy De Jong in China
In November 1943 from Peking Jimmy De Jong writes home about fighting Japanese forces in China. He reports enemy troops falling to U S fire and predicts surrender by 1946 if not sooner. He vows to remain in the army as long as he lives.
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China
Jimmy de Jong
I Am a Wave on the Pacific Ocean
A letter from Shirley signed as your daughter describes a wave near the Hawaiian Islands in November 1943. She writes she is three thousand miles from the United States and aboard a big steamship, wishing to come home and comparing steamers with a motor boat.
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Pacific Ocean
Hawiian Islands
United States
Shirley
Dusty Scenes at Shephard Field Camp in Texas
A traveler recalls arriving by train to Shephard Field in November 1943. The camp sits on sandy terrain with fine dust carried by even a light breeze. The sand varies in color from yellow to brown as described by the narrator.
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Shephard Field
Texas
Sioux County Farm Bureau Plans Evening Meeting
The Sioux County Farm Bureau will hold its annual meeting on November 18 at the Orange City Town Hall. State Organization Director Harry L. Bryson will be the featured speaker, followed by lunch. The meeting tackles controversial agricultural issues via the Resolutions Committee, and all farmers are urged to attend.
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Sioux County Farm Bureau
Orange City
Harry L. Bryson
Sioux County
Mrs Arend Vander Veen Dies in Hudsonville Visit
Mrs Arend Vander Veen 82 mother of Mrs John Sitter died Sunday night while visiting relatives in Hudsonville Michigan Funeral services will be held at home at 1 30 and at the Reformed church at 2 o clock Friday afternoon with interment in Boyden cemetery
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Arend Vander Veen
John Sitter
Hudsonville
Michigan
The
Reformed Church
Boyden
Bank to Close for Armistice Day Holiday
Legal Bank Holiday Farmers Savings Bank will be closed all day on Armistice Day November 11 a legal holiday and observed nationwide.
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Farmers Savings Bank
John Casemier and Bert Nash Visit Sheldon Friends
John Casemier and Bert Nash spent Wednesday evening visiting with friends in Sheldon.
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John Casemier
Bert Nash
Sheldon
Armistice Day Program at Public School Auditorium
An Armistice Day program will be held Thursday Nov 11 at eight oclock P M in the Public School Auditorium. The event is being arranged for community observance.
Publisher John E. Oggel Dies At 71 In Orange City
John E. Oggel publisher of De Volksvriend in Holland died at his Orange City home after months of illness from cancer. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon with burial in Orange City.
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John E. Oggel
Holland
de Volksvriend
Orange City
Roetman Family Moves to Boyden Creamery Post
Mr and Mrs L Roetman and family arrive from Forest City to take management of the Boyden Creamery and plan to live in the creamery home. Wargowsky has resigned and moved his family into the vacated Bertha Henning house. Social notes mention local visits and travel of several residents to Waterloo and George.
Morning Sand on Pillow and Sweltering Heat
The narrator notes a pillow covered with sand except where their head rested, and mentions extreme heat. They also critique the food, saying it’s prepared differently from what they are used to. The message ends with a personal reference to a daughter named Yvonne.
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Yvonne
New pupil joins seventh grade Marjorie Roetman greetings
Sixth to eighth graders report a new pupil in our room Marjorie Roetman a seventh grader. Halloween party enjoyed with many games. We raised 3.20 for defense stamps bringing our room total to 96.10. In geography we played a map ball game naming a city and locating it on the map.
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Marjorie Roetman
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Mrs. L. Rens, Sr
Orangelly
P. M. Kruse
Boyden School News
Miss Blom
Dorothy Vanden Brink
Fanice Moret
Eleanor Meyn
Edna Scholten
Joanne de Jong
Marjorie van Houte
American Library Association
Council Proceedings
Wake Island
Jay Brink
Peking
Farm Bureau Meeting
Mrs. Arend Vander Veen
Larry Salmon
George
Herman Koerselman
Bill Wargowsky
4Ric 'Nanktgeboren
Waterloo
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