School Presents Musical Program At Club Meeting
The March meeting of the Havelock parent teacher club featured a musical program directed by Mrs. R. W. Forbes. Performances included the high school band, mixed chorus, glee clubs, solos by Alice Lathrop and Vera Jolliffe, a boys quartet, a girls sextet, and various instrumental pieces. Afterward, refreshments were served in the dining room.
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Havelock
R. W. Forbes
Havelock High School
Anuh
Uncle Ned
Alice Lathrop
Vera Jolliffe
Claude Barth
Kenneth Lady
Gerald Barth
George Worthington
Local social notes and school schedule update in Havelock area
Miss Loretta Bass hosts Helping Hand circle meeting with devotions by Mrs. Isaac Roberts and lesson by Mrs. Mary Hanswirth. Lunch by Loretta and Mrs. Paul Larson. Havelock consolidated school to begin at 9 and dismiss at 4 starting Monday. New garage at Albert Martens residence. Visitors include Lee Glenn of St. Louis with relatives and friends from Clarion Laurens and Gilmore City. Family gatherings at the Gruver and Gist homes. Grandchildren Calista Evelyn and Raymond Halder visit grandmother Mrs. Winifred Mason. Lavera Gruver and Maryvella Ralle spend weekends with families. Mrs. Norman Jacobson and son Donnie visit from Pocahontas. references to Camp Dorn, Missouri.
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Loretta Bass
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
Isaac Roberts
Mary Hanswirth
Loretta
Paul Larson
Havelock
Albert Martens
Lee Glenn
St. Louis
Shelby Glenn
Dale Cupp
Clarion
Parlie Gist
Gilmore City
G. A. Gruver
Geore Gist
Laurens
Calista
Evelyn
Raymond Halder
Varma
Winifred Mason
Lavera Gruver
A. Gruver
Maryvella Ralle
Hamilton Business College
Mason City
Frank Ralle
Norman Jacobson
Donnie
Local Briefs From Burlingame to Fort Dodge Community Notes
Glenn Johnson and brother Lee Glenn left for Burlingame California after visiting the Shelby Glenn family. Esther Bass returned from Des Moines. The Havelock unit of the United Service Women of America met with officers elected led by Mrs George Speer. Mrs John Hacker and family hosted Alvin Hacker from Fort Knox for a visit. his Humboldt wife also stayed.
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Glenn Johnson
Lee Glenn
Burlingame
Calif
Shelby Glenn
Glenn
Lee
Wayne Philp
Sun
Laurens
George Miller
Henry Buck
C. Chilar
Pocahontas
Melvin Buck
J. B. Sheldon
F. C. Sheldon
Austin
Minn
Elwood Miller
Plover
Esther Bass
Des Moines
John Whitman
Havelock
United Service Women of America
George Speer
Prsident
Will Steen
Bert Jacobson
John Brazier
Irene Shimon
John Hacker
Dorothy
Richard Hacker
Fort Dodge
Alvin
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Humboldt
Hacker
Havelock Methodist Church Sermons and Well Wishes
John Drake Wolcott is pastor at Havelock Methodist Church with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. The note expresses hope for Brother Sheldon’s quick recovery and urges self care and timely medicine after fifty years of public service.
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Havelock Methodist Church
John Drake Wolcott
Sheldon
Des Moines Two social notes and gatherings tidy up week
Local residents attend funerals visits and entertainment across Grimes Rolfe Ledyard Pocahontas Rodman Bradgate and Sioux Center. Couples host and guests hold dinners birthday party 500 games and travel prizes highlight community life with several household moves and visits to relatives.
MRS MELL POTRAITS 1876 IOWA BORN DEATH AT HOME
Mrs Mell Lavina Lane Mell born July 16 1876 Mason City Illinois died at home Monday March 22 after illness burial Summit Hill cemetery She and husband Bert Mell had three children Leona Greenlee Lawrence and Howard six grandchildren one sister and six brothers survive Also reports on local injuries discharges and nursing film event with Red Cross and county veterans returning home from military service including Jack Peters Gordon Boyd and others with dates and places.
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Edist
Palo Alto
Mell
Methodist Church
Leona Greenlee
Burbanks
Calif
Lawrenc
Curlew
Howard
Pocahontas
Home Front in Iowa Victory Gardens
The nation calls on all to grow wood gardens and aid wartime food supply. Despite record production in 1940 41 and 42 farmers aim for new records in 1948 and 1943 needs are high. Gardening is urged as a key family effort to mobilize food resources for war. Dehydrated vegetables and fruits play a large role in supplying war needs.
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Victory Gardens
U. S
Heathman Birthday Dinner and Local Gatherings Reported
Vaughn attended a Triple A meet ing for women at Pocahontas Thursday. Dinner guests in the Bob Heathman home Sunday included Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Heathman and family, Mrs. Bess Cruickshank and Rachel, Mr. and Mrs. James Cruickshank and children, aunt Deane Stover and Willie Kee. Mrs. Nielsen visited her grandson Lawrence Johnson at Lutheran hospital in Fort Dodge Wednesday. Howard Spencer and family hosted a gathering to celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary with present guests including the Harry Spencer, George Marine, Dale Spencer families and Joe Biederman family.
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Venice
Florida
Maurine Spiker
H. D. Grover
Ben Eby
Rapid City
Harry Ohrtmann
Alfred Wiese
Near Manson
Richard Forbes
University of Chicago
M. E. James
Camp Adair
Oregon
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Howard
Daryl Stahly
Pocahontas
Eugene Dyiig
Johnnie Brazier
Herman Buettner
Sharon Kay
Mallird
Wanda May
Lawrence Buck
Boston
Lawrence
Navy
Arnold Barth
Airs
J.C. Barth
Fort Dodge
Lawrence Johnson
Lutheran Hospital
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Clarence Heathman
Bess Cruickshank
Rachel
James Cruickshank
Deane Stover
Willie Kee
Nielsen
Howard Spencer
Spencer
Harry Spencer
George Marine
Dale Spencer
Joe Biederman
Victory gardening urged to bolster wartime food supply
Wartime demands cut canning for civilians as 1943 needs rise for army and lend leak. Plan to store, preserve and rely on home gardens, with guidance from county agents and state agricultural colleges to improve fresh and home canned vegetable supplies.
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Victory
State Agricultural College
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bradgate News Progress Club and Community Notes
Bradgate News lists local club meetings and visitors from Thursday through Sunday. Residents include Mrs FE S Wixon, Mrs Roy Kilsworth, Beverly Brandburn at Buena Vista College, Esther Hanson of Gilmore City, and others visiting or hosting at Nielson, Gehrt, and Benjamin homes. Induction, furloughs, illnesses, and arrivals are recorded alongside family visits and college students in town.
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FE. S. ‘Wixon
Caroline Madsen
Roy Kilsworth
Beverly Brandburn
Buena Vista College
Storm Lake
N. Bradburn
Esther Hanson
Gilmore City
Less Fargo
Chicago
Ill
H. J. Nielson
Milier Klein
Bonnie
Humboldt
J. Nielson
Mary Gehrt
Beauity Academy
Fort Dodge
Victor
Caroline
Marie Peterson
Bradgate Church announces services and events
Bradgate Methodist Church led by Pastor C. R. Buckwalter holds morning worship at 10 with a sermon titled The More Excellent Way. Youth Fellowship meets at 7 p.m with a rally in Gilmore City on Monday evening April 5. Circle meetings of the Woman's Society of Christian Service are set for Wednesday afternoon April 7.
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Bradgate
Two Eggs Found Inside One On Lacona Farm
An egg laid by a white Leghorn hen at Clarence Vincent's Lacona farm contained a smaller egg inside it. The outer egg was normal size with a soft shell and the interior egg was robin egg sized.
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Clarence Vincent
Lacona
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