Local Social News Amid Family Gatherings and Visits
Sunday family gathering hosted by Mrs. George Gist featured kin from Pocahontas, Plover, Gilmore City and Laurens, with a sumptuous dinner and a program. Other notes include residents traveling to Royal Mon to celebrate Wm. Gist’s birth anniversary, visits by Cedar Rapids and Pocahontas guests, and local business and electric work updates.
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Anni- Wm. Gist
Giles Gist
Pocahon
Harry Gist
Wlfe
Walter
Plover
John Dahl
Gilmore City
Ewis Hawk
Kemmeth
Margaret
Notice Before the Board of Railroad Commissioners
Notice to Pocahontas County residents that Kaul Engineering & Construction Company of Fort Dodge Iowa filed a petition with the Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners seeking a franchise to erect and maintain electric transmission infrastructure across public lands highways streams and private lands beginning at the northwest corner of section 17
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Board of Railroad Commissioners
Pocahontas County
Kaul Engineering & Construction Company
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Board Of,railroad’ Commissioners
State of
Social News From Laurens and Surroundings
Mr and Mrs Will Smith and Miss Ivalee of Laurens were callers in our city Saturday. Evelyn Bachman hosted a 6:30 dinner for eighteen friends after which the basketball girls and coach Miss Hibbs were toasted with a gold lifetime Sheaffer pencil. Rose Schalten Minnie Glenn and Marjorie Barth spoke. The Woman's Foreign Missionary society met at Mrs A M Howery’s home. The Grover visit from Rolfe and a Miller hall dance with Heathman’s Footwarmers drew crowds. Also Sargent feeds and Peat Moss Litter advertised by A M Simonson near Plover. Jack Haynes and family visited Broun Waters from Lohrville.
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Will Smith
Heathman
Sargent
A. M. Simonson
Plover
Jack Haynes
Lohrville
Broun Waters
Havelock Methodist Church Schedule With Rev Day
Havelock Methodist Church notes Rev C L Day as pastor. Sunday programs include Church School at 10 00 morning worship at 11 00 intermediate league at 7 00 epworth league at 7 00 evening worship at 8 00. Weekday services follow the above schedule. All are invited and welcome.
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Havelock Methodist Church
C. L. Day
Epworth
Vaccination School Planned in Havelock April 24 25
Dr. W J Miller will hold a free vaccination school at the Havelock school building on Thursday and Friday April 24 25. The program focuses on prevention of swine diseases through hog care vaccination and recognition of hog cholera with emphasis on safety and permits.
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W. J. Miller
Havelock
4-H Girls to Demonstrate Baking at Iowa State Fair
Pocahontas county 4-H girls will demonstrate baking at the Iowa State Fair, likely showing whole wheat bread. They will enter the health contest and music memory event, with a baking training session led by Miss Lulu Tregoning at Pocahontas courthouse on Tuesday April 22.
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Pocahontas County
Lulu Tregoning
Court House
Pocahontas
Notice of Probate of Will in Pocahontas County
In Pocahontas District Court March Term 1 a written will purporting to be the last will and testament of A B Symes deceased was filed opened and read on May 18 1980. A hearing to prove the will is set at 2 30 p m in the Pocahontas Iowa courthouse before the district court or clerk. All interested persons must appear and show cause why the instrument should not be probated. Dated at Pocahontas Iowa April 10 1930. C G James Clerk of District Court.
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Pocahontas County
District Court
A. B. Symes
Pocahontas
Iowa
Said County
C. G. James
Township Land Descriptions and Franchise Hearing Notice
Detailed legal plot descriptions outline township ninety three north range thirty two west and adjacent sections, followed by a Board of Railroad Commissioners notice setting May 18 1930 at Des Moines for a franchise hearing. Written objections must be filed five days prior. attendance advised with authoritative representation.
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Said
Said Township
Range
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Des Moines
Iowa
Geologists Push Oil Shale as Future Oil Source
American geologists focus on oil shales as a potential future oil supply. An old farming proverb about choosing when to move with the crowd is noted as a cautionary motto.
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Martha Prentiss
Ethel
Jennie Mammon
Emsent
George
Picot
Thomas, Rolfe
Miller
Lawrence
Royal Monad
Rollie
Jack Weefare
Bessie
Ledyard
W. A. Bloomer
Sebo Classen
Mehter
Grace
Amersburg
Ashby
Laurens
Floyd Grove
Maines
Toney
Bell & Markin
Rolfe
Lowell Miller
Cedar Rapids
C. W. Miller
Frank Williams
Otto Dreeke
D. F. Reents
E. L. Kunkle
Bradgate
Dr. Beatty
Mallard
Haverloe
Rs. Gerald Henderson
Milt Hilton
Robert Johnson
Oakdale Sanitarium
Dayton
Bradgate High
Allen Wittenberner
Eleanor Reents
Mason City
Earl Sandy
Central States Electric Co
E. P. Hunter
E. R. Waters
Eugene Waters
Baby
Barney Waters
Yankton
S. C
Gurney Radio Broadcasting
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Township Ninety-Three
Geo. L. McCaughan
J. T. Grant Rolfe
Fitch
C. M. Webb
Rolfe and Plover
Agent D
Ossogne
D’ossogne
Towa
W. E. Hoot
American Association of Importers and Breeders
G. Fred Smith
James Cornwell
M. G. Thornburg
Secy
Jas. Cornwell
Jasper Tyler
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