Community Notes From Algona and Nearby
Local social items list guests and visitors including Mrs. Hart and Mrs. C. O. Hart at a cousin's home. Des Moines visitor Mrs. Ralph Showers arrives to spend vacation with Showers and Smith families. The drive to Rolfe and visits to Des Moines are noted along with hospital care for Ruth Fisher and a trip by Miss Vera to Arnold's Park. A. Beam of Moline visits W. R. Smith family and leaves with Harriss for Des Moines.
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Rage
Kid
Will
J. C. Smith
Vera
Amold’s Park
Mrs. Smith
Rolfe
Oserich
Sioux City
Ced Fisher
Altho
Ruth Fisher
Hu. A. Beam
Moline
W. R
C. Spowen
Harriss
Thomas
Des
J. D. Kent
Presbyterian Church Notes Congregational Meeting Planned
The note outlines morning worship Sunday school and Christian Endeavor activities. Rev. Palmer of Cedar Rapids will preside over the regional meeting. The pulpit committee seeks to call a congregational meeting during the morning service to consider calling a pastor and address other business. A large attendance is hoped for.
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Mlar
Ip Palmer
Cedar Rapids
Pulpit
Transac
Methodist Episcopal Church Weekly Services Note
Pastor Rev. W A Wilkinson notes Sunday School Bible Class Morning and Evening Worship Epworth League activities and rally day on September 20 urging larger attendance Harvest Festival planned for September 18 Fort Dodge Conference to be held September 1 at Fort Dodge First Methodist Church
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Epworth League
Fort Dodge
First Methodist
Trinity Lutheran Church Service Schedule and Sermon
Rev J O Wangberg leads morning worship at Trinity Lutheran Church with sermons on Love One Another from John 13 34 35. Luther League convention at Thor cancels evening services. prayer meeting Thursday at 8 00 p m. Pastor to preach next Sunday morning. cordial invitation to all without a church home.
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Thor
Nain Lutheran Church Services Schedule
Rev L H Kjoller leads Nain Lutheran Church with Danish morning service first Sunday each month and English services otherwise. Evening service held 1st and 3rd Sundays at 8 p m. Thursday prayer meeting also at 8 p m. All are invited. services continue as scheduled unless announced.
German farm girls learn modern skills at Wusterhausen school
In Brandenburg near Berlin, the Brandenburg agricultural commission runs a 1908 founded training school at Wusterhausen an der Dosse. Students gain practical farm and home duties from cooking and canning to hog slaughter and cheese making, with winter lessons in health, nursing, budgeting, and home arts.
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Germany
Wusterhausen An der Dosse
Brandenburg
Berlin
Agricultural Commission
Wusterhausen
Special Water Brought by Ship for London Zoo Aquarium
The Philomel shipped sea water in sealed tanks from a Biscay stretch between Bordeaux and Ushant for London's zoo aquarium. The water is pumped into tanks en route and tested upon arrival at St Katherine's dock for the fish exhibit.
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Alamburg
St. Katherines’ Dock
London
Philomel
Bay of Biscay
Zop
Bordeaux
Ushant
Zoo
Saxon Alps Offer Gentle Climbs for Granite Fans
A Dresden traveler notes Rathen on the Elbe as the gateway to Saxon Switzerland where rock climbs test skill. The sandstone cliffs rise about 400 feet, with few ledges, making technique hard but solvable with soft shoes and firm grip, drawing many German climbers each year.
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Dresden
Rathen
Elbe
Switzerland
Mont Blanc
Saxony
Beethoven Receives English Piano with Noted Names
In 1818 Beethoven was gifted a splendid English piano with signatures scratched on the keyboard by leading British virtuosi. He expressed delight and wrote a thanks letter praising the instrument as an altar for Apollo, while joking about its out of tune claims.
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Beethoven
Robert Haven Schauffler
Apollo
London Metropolitan Police Truncheon Use Rules
The Metropolitan police retain wooden truncheons of cocus wood sixteen inches long with wrist straps. Revolvers stay at stations for special cases. Mounted officers carry longer weapons. Truncheons are to be used only in extreme cases and must be reported to the station officer after use.
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London Police
Metropolitan Police
London
Window opens the gap in strength joke
A short comic item about a frail man asking a physical culture expert for arm strength. The expert prescribes a chart of exercises to be done in front of an open window, prompting the man to joke that he needs strength first to open the window.
Pocahontas County Board Proceedings August 18 1981 Iowa
Pocahontas Iowa board of supervisors met in regular session in the courthouse with five members present. The Ned Ved gravel pit lease and contract bonds for Hansen Buckwalter and Peterson were approved. Monthly poor fund allowances were set and a drainage ditch exemption refund ordered. Numerous county fund claims and payments were audited and approved including groceries, repairs, graveling, rentals, labor, and supplies. A concluding note quotes on forestry and mackerel market mentions.
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Court House
Pocahontas
Iowa
Board of Supervisors
Pocahontas County
A. H. Buscher
Randall Melson
Jas. J. O'Keefe
G. W. Ferguson
E. A. Rude
Nedved
M. C. Buckwalter
Ernest W. Peterson
Thomas O’brien
John Thompson
Chas
R.ood
Anna Conwell
Notice of Administrator Appointment in Bruce Estate
In Pocahontas County Iowa probate court Robert Bruce has been appointed administrator of Raymond McDonald Bruce deceased. He requests all owed debts be paid and all claims presented per law for allowance and payment. Dated August 17 1931.
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District Court of
State of
Iowa
Pocahontas County
Raymond McDonald Bruce
Robert Bruce
Admn
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Trinity Lutheran Church
J. O. Wangberg
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Luther Ague
Nain Lutheran Church
L. H. Kjoller
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N.B.C
Blue
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Maytag
Maytag Company
Newson
Northwestern Factory
Maytag Bldg
Washington Avenue
North
Pete
Minnesota
Hunter R
Rolfe, Iowa
Stoddard Tractor Co
Barton Warner Co
Kaiser Auto Co
Geo. Newton
Beneke & Wahlgren
O- C. T. Olsen
F. J. Kenning Estate
Sup Kiefer Lumber Co
Paul & Donnelly
Orris Gadd
Jim Tolan
Willard Rude
Chris DeYoung
J. EF. Worth
United States Forestry Service
New York
Sandy Hook
County Fund
Randall
Melson
Jas. L. O’keefe
St . W
H. Brokaw
Tom Tolan
A. M. DeVaul
Commission
Fonda Times
Rolfe Arrow
Gilmore Enterprise
Inc. Pocahontas
LeRoy Stankee
Shimon Drug Co
Kiefer Lumber Co
Roy Ee Eeee Johnson
Webox
Frank B. Charlton
J. Ll. Hunter
P. N. Tolan
Joe RB. Tye
C. W. Gilchrist
J. A. Crummer
Chas. Stebbins
F. R. Eggspuehler
Squire Heathman
E. A. Thompson
Earl Henderson
Leonard M. Reilly
I. H. Brokaw
H. E. Dickey
Labor
Ed Quinsland
Labor Eee
FE. Kirchner
J. W. Alexander
T. J. Donohoe
Wm. Cavanaugh
H. Cavanaugh
Gerd Zimmerman
Joe Reisel
J. R. Cain
Leonard Herrold
Robert Sell
Fred Eickhoff
J. Prendergast
Hugh Huston
Matt Fitzgerald
Geo. Gilleland
E. J. Kelly
M. C
Humboldt County Fair
Humboldt, Iowa
Humboldt County
Gilmore City
Palmer
Corwith
Farm Bureau
Farmer Brown
Federal Farm Board
Humboldt Municipal
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