Local Social and Community Notes Highlight Weekend Visitors
Mr and Mrs Fred Mier attended a prenuptial shower for their niece Mrs Mayme Daugherty in Manson. Families of the Stover and Charles households visited Fort Dodge. Miss Mildred Olberding hosted a meeting of the Up and Coming 4 H club. A birth was announced at the Eugene Waters home in Hewitt Minnesota. Local residents assisted Dan Felsing with onion harvest near Laurens. The Gruver family visited Slifer and L. Gruver brothers in Gowrie. Mrs Elmer Sanding and Jimmie returned to Rolfe after visiting the H D Grover home. Mrs Andy Truelson hosted Lutheran Ladies Aid at Mallard. Members from here attended with Bud Swecker Roers and Clara Keerls.
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Fred Mier
Manson
Mayme Daugherty
J. Stover
Hazel
Charles
Phil
Ted Stover
Fort Dodge
Mildred Olberding
Ward
Hugene Waters
Hewitt
Minn
Walter Ohrtman
Barney
Andy Truelson
Lutheran Ladies’ Aid
Mallard
Bud Swecker
Bud Roers
Clara Keerls
Wiley
Earl Sandy
John Sandy
Clara Keeves
Earl Reeves
Joe Edge
Des Moines
G. A. Grover
Irvin Gurney
Slifer
Ira Babrell
Gowrie
Walter IE. Mick
Norma Jean
W. B. McTaggart
Williams and
Allan
Seattle
Wash
T. Mason
Orlen
Howard Mason
West Union
Amanda Mason
Pocahontas
Pete Smith
Otto Gneuple
Will White
West Bend
Giles Gist
Roger
Rodman
Glenn Smoot
Peggy
Laurens
John Trebbens
Anne
Mattie
Twisher
Maynard
Carl Eckberg
Henry
Charles Nelson
Mason City
Nelson
Anna Neilson
Arthur
James Spartan
Gertrude Neilson
Clarence
Ed Eckberg
Nick Eckberg
Chicago
Melvin Knoblauch
Stork Shower Honors Mrs. Earl Reeves at Home Near Mallard
Local social notes describe a stork shower for Mrs. Earl Reeves at her Mallard area home. Attendees included Mrs. Earl Sandy Mrs. John Sandy and Mrs. Clara Keeves along with other area residents and families.
Electricity reach on Oregon farms grows steadily
Nearly 40 percent of Oregon's 67,753 farms receive electric current, far above the national average of 16.8 percent. Chicago allocates $30 million yearly to public recreation while individuals spend about $250 million on entertainment. Movies, radio, and automobiles rank as the top leisure forms.
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Oregon
United States
Chicago
One Hundred Years of Women’s Fashions at Iowa Fair Show
Des Moines plans for a 19th century style show at the Iowa Territorial Centenary State Fair from August 26 to September 2. The display covers gowns from 1838 to today, including outfits worn by governors' wives at inaugurations and pioneer and prominent women across Iowa history.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Larrabee
Fire damages house as Bradgate and Ottosen departments respond
Fire crews from Bradgate and Ottosen were called Thursday to the George Jennings home north of town. The blaze was confined to a clothes closet where it started, with considerable smoke damage to the house.
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Bradgate
Ottoson
George Jennings
Fred Sheeley
Waterloo
Margaret Laning
Allie Huston
Clifford Huston
Chelsea
Sidney Holland
Charles Laxalere
Vatsy
Minneapolis
Kan
Carroll Kinseth
Danville
Clarence Kinseth
Kentucky
Mary Buck
Harold Hackley
Hackley
Humboldt
Walter Turley
Walter Heald
Artene Ham
Grinnell
Malcom
Harold Lees
Tesday
M. EB
Aid
Dayton
Dickens
Noble Higby
Midnite Club
Joe Sterge
Hugh Westfall
Harry Peterson
Billy Watkins
Chicago
al Sequist
Watkins
Council Bluffs
West Bend Visitors Attend Family Gathering and Fair Fans
Virginia McCrary Isabelle Olson and Darlene Knutson visited West Bend Sunday afternoon. Henry Olsen and Marcia attended a Lewis Olson family gathering. Attendees hailed from Milwaukee Mankato and Ethel Minnesota. Raymond Olson Miden Ham Gene Wallace Dana Daniels the Christensen family Junior Locke Laddie Locke Junior Howe Doyle Dailey Thelma Cran Margaret Lanning Leonard Lindsey and Junior of Rolfe joined Frank Tellier in Sioux Rapids for Sunday dinner. Allen Sinclair returned home with them. Frank Tellier finished work near Laverne Friday and went back to Sioux Rapids. Mrs Virgil Burns and son Mrs Gladys Sinclair Delia Mae and Bruce were West Bend callers Sunday afternoon. Born to Clarry Peterson and wife on Tuesday Aug 23 a girl.
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Virginia McCrary
Isabelle Olson
Darlene Knutson
West Bend
Henry Olsen
Marcia
Lewis Olson
Milwaukee
Wis
Mankato
Ethel
Minn
Raymond Olson
Miden Ham
Gene Wallace
Dana Daniels
Dick Christensen
Junior Locke
Laddie Locke
Junior Howe
Doyle Dailey
Thelma Cran
Law on trot lines and throw lines clarified
Conservation authorities explain that trot or throw lines are banned in inland waters except in rivers south of Highway 80 and the Skunk River. One line per person with up to 15 hooks. lines with 25 hooks allowed on major rivers. Lines must be shore set and visible. no across streams or within 500 feet of dams or spillways.
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U. S. Highway No. 80
Skunk River
Mississippi
Missouri
Bie Sioux
World shoe production and taxes cited in 1987 figures
Estimates show global shoe production at about one billion pairs annually while world population exceeds two billion. Gasoline taxes in 1987 totaled about 89 million dollars, with ceded car and truck registrations at year end. Life insurers paid 60 percent of benefits to living policyholders and 400 percent to beneficiaries of dead policies. Drug and toilet product advertising costs are about 2200 dollars per retail drug store in the U.S.
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U. S
U.S
Sell It With An Arrow Adilet
A brief column notes how a man remains shaken after a woman’s sly actions and the lasting impact of a failed romance in a terse social reflection.
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Edward DeYoung
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