Local clubs begin new year with luncheons and talks
Ald club opened with a Tuesday luncheon at Mrs. E J Plummers home. Guests included Miss Naomi Gunderson and Claude Bennett of Los Angeles. A program followed with piano selections and a talk on Mills College. Other groups held teas, meetings, and picnics through the week with speakers, reviews, and invitations to future gatherings.
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Ald
A.L.D
E. J. Plummer
H. D. Brinkman
Blaude Ives
C. P. Lathrop
Bables
Claude Bennett
Los Angeles
Alif
Naomi Gunderson
Alba Stan
Yinstesses
Fae Schon
Maymie Fuller
Ema Molvyeux
Federation
Stanley
McDonald
HH. M
M.M
Fay Wax
Fort Dodge District Conference Report and Club Meeting
Son and Mrs Alta Hewlett gave an interesting report on the Fort Dodge district conference. Mrs George Iveys read a timely article from the Christian Advocate. Lunch was served to a fine crowd including visitors. The Needle and Thread Club met Friday afternoon with Mrs Earl Young. There was good attendance and after a social afternoon lunch was served by Mrs Young and assistants Mrs Lawman and Mrs Carpenter.
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Alta Hewlett
Fort Dodge
George. Ivey
Christian Advocate
Needle and Thread .Club
Earl Young
Young
John Lawman
Chet Carpenter
Harvest Home Dinner Schedules at Storm Lake Conference
The Harvest Home chicken supper is set for Wednesday evening September 16 from 5 30 pm to service. A food and vegetable table will feature garden and farm products for sale. The Northwest Iowa Conference meets in Storm Lake starting September 22 with several planning to attend.
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Methodist Youth Fellowship
Northwest Iowa
Storm Lake
Presbyterian Church invites members and guests to events
Choir practice Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Missionary society meets Wednesday September 16 at the church with a one o'clock luncheon. Guest day invites members to bring a guest as worship weekly services are urged.
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Bissinary Society
Presbyterian Missionary Society
Fondern
Church
The
Missionary Society
Card of Thanks and Army Service Notes
Acknowledgments from Mr. and Mrs. Lester Spangler and the Spiker family express gratitude for kindness and tributes from Trinity Lutheran Aid society and neighbors. Three sons of Mrs. C. E. Spiker serve in the U S armed forces, Dale at Fort Screven Ga since Aug 1941, Earl and Keith enlisted in the Navy and stationed at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Earl is a fireman third class electrician’s mate in reserve class V-6, Keith an apprentice seaman in reserve class V-2 for aviation mechanics.
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Trinity
Lutheran Aid Society
Lester Spangler
Nels Ryen
Army
C. E. Spiker
Armed Forces
United States
Dale
Field Artillery
Fort Screvens
Earl
Keith
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Scrap Rubber Processed Into Everyday Goods
A feature in the American Weekly explains how scrap rubber mixes with small amounts of crude new rubber to create a range of products from hospital sheets to army overshoes. The article is distributed with next week's Chicago Herald American Sunday edition.
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American Weekly
Chicago Herald-American
Boy Hauls Swarm Home To Start Bee Hive
Donald Stanton Missourian, 14, found a swarm along a country road near Hamburg. He calmly gathered the bees into his hat then wrapped them in his shirt and carried the swarm home to establish a hive.
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Missouri
Donald Stanton
Watson
Hamburg
Wartime nursing drive and Junior Red Cross effort expand
A broad war service program outlines a huge volunteer push for surgical dressings knitting sewing and transport. The drive expects 105 to 1057 chapters to staff 100 women weekly, plus a Junior Red Cross program with 15 million members and a motor mechanics class for women led by L R Davidson and Geo Wieble. The document also details corporate stock structure and a 1942 to 1962 charter renewal with a three member board and annual officer elections.
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Junior Red Cross
American Junior Red Cross
L. R. Davidson
Geo. Wieble
Humboldt
Fort Dodge
Alligator Visitor Spurs Mystery Near McGregor Farm
Arthur Bovee, a farmer by McGregor, spotted a two foot alligator in his slough hayfield. He learned the reptile belonged to a nearby boys camp that had gone AWOL. The zigzag of its movement puzzled him.
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Arthur Bovee
McGregor
A.W.O.L
Plover Lumber Company Renewal Amends Articles of Incorporation
At a special meeting in Plover Iowa on September 9 1942 the Plover Lumber Company renewed amended and substituted its Articles of Incorporation The document sets the name and principal place of business in Plover Iowa defines the objects including purchase and sale of coal hardware lumber paints and building material and authority to own real and personal property and to execute conveyances and mortgage releases by officers.
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Ital
Executive Council of
Iowa
Plover Lumber Company
Plover
Cap
Red Cross notes sewing room busy with September shipment
Red Cross volunteers in a sewing room pile completed garments for September shipment to St. Louis. Items include boys and mens shirts, girls and womens blouses and skirts, with knitting mainly sweaters mufflers and socks. Surgical dressings plans are to be completed next week.
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Red Cross
St. Louis
Store Coal Now for Winter Relief Warns Local Paper
The article urges storing coal this summer citing slow shipments and military demands. It notes miners drafted, engines moved to haul oil and munitions, coal cars diverted to government use, and warns of a hard winter like 1936. It promotes Warm Morning stoves and concrete feeding floors as energy-saving options.
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Uncle Sam
Guy Graham
Pioneer
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Randall Melson
Mee Frieden
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American Legion Auxiliary
W. &. McIntire
Elmer Simonson
W. F. Schneck
J. O. Hosierome
Moen
C. J. Moen
Vesta Knieriem
Sioux City
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August Langtfeldt
Rock Rapids
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Rachel Wiegman
August Lanerfeldt
Laura McGuire
Fairmont
Minn
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Elwood
Fred Thomason
Chicagro
J. J. Enieriem
W. J. Knieriem
Rolfe
Wlre
Northwestern Bell ‘Telephone Company
Lanetfeldt
Armed ‘Service
American Home Study Club
J. O. Hosier
L. A. Hansen
Lena Vaughn
W.S.C.S
George Marine
George Harvie
Addie Roberts
Katie Brown
Marine
Devo- Sens
Ted Hewlett
Les
the Methodist Church
Middle West
Red
Emmetsburg
West Point
Maureen O’hara
George Montgomery
Flatbush
Lloyd Nolan
Carol Landis
Frank Craven
Mary Howard
Trinidad
Pat O’brien
Brian Donlevy
Fay Emerson
Tuke
Bishop Hillbilly
Blitzkrieg
Edgar Kennedy
Bud Duncan
Promio
Pocahontas
Po Cahontas
Virgil Struthers
H. C. Kauffman
A. V. Graeber
Fay
Mary Schultz
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Howard Bruce
Avenarius Carbolineum
Beckord’s Hatchery
Eddie J. Aden
Kozy
Willem
Jersey Town
Havelock
Reed Baby Buggy High
Frank Krischell
Phontas
Wallace Knapp
Rolle Howard Bruce
Mila Tdrm
Winter Coal
Fullerton Lumber
Hee Haw News
Ed Weiland
Japtrap
Bradstrett
Lisa
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