Plover Notes On Local Visits and School Events
Plover residents and visitors are recorded in a busy week of calls and travel to nearby towns. The community notes graduations, baccalaureate services, and a track meet at Fort Dodge with Plover students earning honors and trying for Ames finals.
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Plover High School
Brat
Lome
Fort Dodge
Walter Pisher
Leo Banish
Era Foust
Fisher
Hanish
Ames
Port Dodge
Carroll
Ft. Dodge
Plover
Ware
D. M
Dad
Mother
Bud Hancher Improves After 33 000 Volt Shock
Eugene and Mrs. Hancher return from Waterloo to visit son Bud at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo Iowa where he slowly recovers from severe burns after contact with a 33 000 volt high tension line. The calf of his right leg is burned away leaving bone exposed and the left arm burned from hand to shoulder. right arm similarly affected. He remains cheerful and receives expert care and daily dressing. Letters may be addressed to Allen Memorial Hospital Waterloo Iowa.
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C. E. Hancher
Waterloo
Allen Memorial Hospital
Waterlas
Lowa
Ing
A Man Refuses Cooperation Faces Revolving Door
A satirical, witty remark contrasts a noncooperative man with a bachelor who has no one to tell him when his spring suit is too shabby to wear. The quip comments on social judgment and independence.
Kitty Arrived Plover High Students Stage Comedy
Kitty Arrived Plover High School honor students presented an amusing play titled The Arr rival of Kitty in the auditorium last Friday. The farce unfolds in a Catskill hotel with mistaken identities and lively characters including Sam Ting and Kitty. The cast received strong praise for lively performances and the curtain ends with a requested clergyman for six and a happy ending.
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Plover High School
Kitty
Catskill Mountains
Ira Foust
Sam
Lee Struthers
Ting
Clarence Zeck
Ila Fisher
Fern Christensen
A. O. Garlock
Bob
Jane
Lucile Bucher
Benjamin Moore
Leslie Mikkelson
Benjamin
A. Q. Garlock
New York
Mr. Winkler
Anne Fisher
Winkler
Notice to Ex-Service Men Memorial Day Observance
The American Legion Post No. 258 invites all ex-service men to participate in Memorial Day activities. Veterans from the Civil War and Spanish American War are especially urged to attend. Meeting at the lodge hall at 10:00 a.m. Monday. Commander A. M. Simonson urges a large turnout.
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Lodge Hall
A. M. Simonson
American Legion
Fishermen headed for licenses find scarce supply
A group of local fishermen rode to Emmetsburg to procure licenses but Palo Alto county stock was exhausted and Ruthven bank offered no help. They then toured the lake country with wardens present, had fun riding about, and returned home without licenses.
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Lake
Emmetsburg
Palo Alto County
Ruthven
Lake Country
Tilly Sally Opines on Boy’s Ear Washing and Shaving
The note comments on a boy who must wash his ears occasionally and speculates he will face daily shaving as he grows older. It presents a humorous, lilting social observation from a small town voice.
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Tilly Sally
Memorial Day Program Planned by American Legion Unit
Members of the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary arrange a Memorial Day program at the school auditorium at 10 30 a m on Monday May 30 Auxiliary members to meet at 10 a m at the lodge hall for a march to the school. Participants include Grand Army of the Republic Spanish American War veterans American Legion Auxiliary flower girls and Girls High School Glee Club. The program features a prayer High School Orchestra selections and solos with an address by Rev C J Mikkelson and ends with the Star Spangled Banner audience participation. Final exercises occur at Powhatan Cemetery under American Legion direction.
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American Legion
the Legion Auxiliary
Grand Army of the Republic
American Legion and Auxiliary
W. J. Manifold
Reading
Arlene Grove
Edward Lehnus
F. R. Eggspuehler
C. J. Mikkelson
Pollock Shines In Iowa Conference Track Meet
The Des Moines Sunday Register photos feature John Pollock, captain of Cedar Falls, winning the half mile over L Rinder of Penn and anchoring the mile relay after a ten yard handicap. Waterloo Courier credits Pollock with shattering the local record and delivering the mile relay victory as captain of the Purple and Gold.
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John Pollock
Des Moines Sunday Register
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Dubuque
State Teachers’ College
Pollock
L. Rinder
Penn
Waterloo Courier
Jack Pollock
Baccalaureate Services Held at Local Methodist Church
Sunday evening services at the Methodist church marked the baccalaureate for the local high school class. The High School Glee Club and Orchestra performed under Mrs. F. R. Egespuehler with ministers guiding the service. Rev. C J Mikkelson gave the address, Rev. W J Manifold delivered announcements, and scriptures were read with invocation. The church featured seasonable decorations and the class motto to be, rather than to seem.
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Methodist Church
F. ‘R. Egespuehler
C. J. Mikkelson
W. J. Manifold
Fire insurance via church noted by Dr. Lester
Dr. Lester says some men take out fire insurance by joining church. The remarks imply caution about moral hazard in society and autos. A man fell ten stories and broke one rib.
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Dr. Lester
Daily Vacation Bible School Opens June 1
Beginning Wednesday June 1 all school age children may attend the Daily Vacation Bible School with Mrs C E Lehnus as superintendent. It meets at the school building 845 to 1120 a m daily with non denominational instruction and handwork. For details contact local pastors Sunday school superintendents or Mrs Lehnus.
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C. E. Lehnus
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Ralfe
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Russell Nelson
Minneapolis
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J. J. Hoffert
T. M
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M. E. Hess
Luella
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Mary Shriner
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Urquhart
Rodman
Kling
Curlew
J. E. Grove
Willing Workers’ Society
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Town Falls
Jewell
Reinbeck
Elsworth College
Stewart
Geo. 5. Shaw
Walter
Beore
Atlanta
Rolland Ferguson
Lake ‘Center
Fred Kenny
RE. Houck
George Arnold
Harry McFadden
Jas. Anderson
Jeanie McEwen
Raymond Henderson
Havelock
Barry McFadzen
Chas. McFadzen
Andrew McFadzen
Eagle Grove
Ina Jolliffe
W. P. Bryant
F. A. Pringle
L. E. Garlock and Sons
Lawrence
C. A. Garlock
Everett Hancher
Webster City
L. P. Hess
E. W. Kerns
Joseph Jones
Saunday
R. E. DuBoise
A. J. Shaw
Pocahontas
Zola Bucher
Geo. S. Shaw
A. W. Hess
A. W
C. E. Miller
WH. Q. Beneke
Jad” Pirie
J. W. Arnold
Henry Fitzgerald
Frank
Gladys Henderson
John Henderson
Hazel Rogers
Ryan
Glenn Horsman
I. M. McKim
Davenport
Marion
Jean Pollock
J.H. Folicek
Plover High
T. BR. Jones
W. S. Hendricks
Jones
Hendricks
Hancher
the State Savings Bank
Rolfe, Iowa
By John Jose
Mes Are
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Heavenly Father
Epworth League
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Hym' Poe
Artivia
Anoke
Rumley
Aultman-Taylor
Senn
Avery
Case Garden
Case Steam
Fordson and Plows
Ottawa “C
Ottawa
Marseilles
Joilet
Far
J. B. Humdinger Hamme
W. J. Knob Knoke
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