Local notices from Plover community events and visits
Local items describe Ladies' Aid gathering at the church and upcoming service flag program on February 10. Epworth League to lead, union meeting at Presbyterian church, and notes on sermons, reunions, and visits by residents to Fort Dodge Des Moines and Ames. Also mentions hog shipments, hog losses, and George Bush traveling to Ames for the winners meeting in Powhatan township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid
Mesdames W. D. Heathman
Stowell
A. W. Hess
Epworth League
Union
Presbyterian Church
Altho
Hardy
Hefsey
Blair
Plover
Zella Wallace
Des Moines
Lester Keller
Ackworth
I. M. McKim
Ben Lehnus
John Gembler
Fort Dodge
Howard Roberts
M. Y. B. Club
Nellie Wallace
C. A. Garlock
Rolfe
C. A. Smith
Des Staines
Bert
Harry Smith
E. H. Roberts
Vincent, Is
Roberts
W. Roberts
J. W. Mangan
Martin Keerles
T. E. Meredith
Pocahontas
Squire Heathman
Panora
W. D. Heathman
J. Shaw
Emmetsburg
Tnsurance Company
J. M. McKim
Farmer Grain Dealers
Millard Myers
Chicago
Myers
Mr. Myers
John Fisher
A. O. Campney
W. R. Hier
Fay Pirie
George Bush
Powhatan
Ames
George
People’s Savings Bank
Powhatan Smileage Campaign Seeks Soldier Entertainment Support
Milton Hess leads a local committee to promote Smileage Books for soldiers. One hundred books ordered, families urged to buy $1 or $5 books granting coupons for admission to Liberty theatres and camp entertainments, part of a national drive to raise funds for soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Hess
Military Entertainment Council
A. M. Hofert
Liberty
National Guard
National Army
War Department
Rolfe High debates lose to Pomeroy team in state bid
Local notes report visitors from Anacortes and Estherville with families, and draft final physicals for Andrew Simonson Jr. at Fort Dodge. Marcella Wiewel visited Rolfe from Estherville. Plover page advertises silo work. Rolfe’s debating team loses to Pomeroy, ending Pocahontas county's state hopes as Laurens falls to Sac City.
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Ben Driftmier
Anacortes
Wash
F. J. Nacke
Marcella Wiewel
Catherine
Rolfe
A. W. Hess
Silo
Rolfe High
Pomeroy
Laurens
Sac City
Pocahontas County
Plover Short Course Program Details and Events
The Plover Short Course runs February 14 to 16 with sessions on draft horses corn growing beef cattle soil fertility oats and hogs. Evening programs include a Millard Myers lecture at the Methodist church and school plays plus a large corn show with prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millard Myers
The
Farmers’ Co- Operative Journal of Chicago
Methodist Church
Plover High School
Plover Church Hosts Rossiter on Church Efficiency
Mr. Rossiter, touring Fort Dodge Presbytery churches, speaks at Plover Presbyterian Friday Feb 1 on Church Efficiency. The layman’s perspective promises timely, practical insights. Sunday services follow with Bible school at ten and worship at eleven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plover Presbyterian Church
C. M. Whetsel
Rossiter
Fort Dodge Presbytery
Church of
Plover
Iowa News Roundup War and Home Front Notes
Cedar Rapids labor leaders form a local AFL branch to back war labor goals while Cedar Rapids counties discuss draft and engineering corps induction. Iowa schools shift to French Spanish study, Webster leaves retail coal business, and county road improvements loom as state curbs in merchant deliveries. Rural and city news cover seed corn census, thrift day push, and local governance actions amid wartime shortages.
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F. J. Holsteen
Burlington
Iowa
Hawkeye State
Deming
N. Mex
W. H. Bailey
Sheldon
Holsteen
Adjutant General’s Department
Engineer Corps
General Crowder
Vancouver Barracks
Vancouver
Wash
Cedar Rapides
American Federation of Labor and Democracy
America
Waterloo
Charles Webster
Merle Potter
Administration Board
Webster
Hawkeye Highway
Center Grove
Dubuque County Court House
Clarkesville
Southwest
Older Boys’ Conference
Clarinda
Iowa State Teachers’ College
State Council of Defense
State Council
Methodist Church
Webster County
State Highway Commission
Pammel
Ames
Wiley
Muscatine
Lee W. Lange
Keokuk
Also Mentioned on This Page
the People’s Savings Bank
A. M. Climpson
Grove & Lathrop
Powhatan Smileage Campaign
Silos
A. W. Hess & Son
Plover, IA
Aity
Pennings
Sam
Hanes
United States
McCall
Jacob Andrew Jacobson
Norway
Vinton
Lynn Hart
Densip Aamer
Leon Sprig
Tex
Welleburg
Weld Palmer
Amasian
Des Moines Daily Register
Des Moines Register Fe
Mamiter
Lonnina
Rae Des Moines
Lewa
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