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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1939
Page
5
A crowded lifestyle note lists visits and greetings across Shawano including Marcella Guulke in Gillett, Darrow family in Green Bay, Circu iy, and Shawano. relatives and friends travel to releases in Antivo, Appleton, Milwaukee, and Manitowoc with parties, birthdays, and weekend gatherings.
Mrs. Dave Farris, Mrs. Gould Howe and Mrs. Wallace Melchair visit Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Gehrke tour Milwaukee for a sheet metal meeting. Miss Louise Hesse travels with them. Mrs. Chalmers McGreaham of Iron River stays with the Wege family and heads home. Mrs. Post visits in Wausau then Los Angeles. Dr. Litzen resumes practice after recovery from a car accident. Emanuel Tate and others go to Madison. son Clarence returns to college, James Barker to Whitewater. Hol Aschenbrener and wife welcome a baby boy born April 27 at Shawano Municipal Hospital. mother formerly Marie Schneers.
Wisconsin Federation of Women’s Clubs outlines a spring safety drive with district posters for grades four through six, education on stop signs and markings, and focus on home safety. Mrs. Conroy emphasizes preventing falls and burns, urging careful housecleaning and safer stairways, rails, lighting, and ladder use to reduce injuries and accidental deaths.
Tonight and tomorrow May 4 5 shows run 7 to 8 30 featuring Madeleine Carroll Henry Fonda and Charlie Ruggles in Sudden Money Saturday May 6 7 to 8 30 Jack Randall in Drifting Westward Shorts and News of the Day a 10 30 preview Then Sunday Monday Tuesday matinee 2 30 Claudette Colbert Don Ameche in Midnight with John Barrymore Francis Lederer Astor Elaine Barrie special Popeye in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Two Reel Movietone News Wednesday Thursday Friday includes Bargain Matinee 2 00 Society Lawyer with Walter Fidgeon Virginia Bruce and Leo Carrillo Jesse James in Technicolor Also star power cast with Henry Fonda Nancy Kelly Randolph Scott.
Arbor Day will be observed by Wisconsin students clubs and individuals on May 5 with plantings across the state and in northern Minnesota and Upper Michigan delayed by heavy snow. Plans include converting 29 000 acres of burn and cut over national forest lands into plantations as crews complete spring planting. The movement began in Nebraska with J Sterling Morton and now spans the nation and beyond.
Births include a boy to Mrs Ralph Caldwell of Clintonville and a girl to Mrs Rueben Wilbur of Shawano. Also a girl born to Mrs Ervin Allan of Gresham. Patients entering during the past week: Mrs Fd Lendt of Clintonville, Mrs Reinhold Opper of Shawano, Miss Martha Brodhagen of Benduel, Mrs Frank Lunz of Tiperton, and Mrs Louis Rusch of Gillett.
The conservation department sets the county conservation meetings on the first Tuesday evening of June and the Wisconsin Conservation Congress meets on the second Monday and Tuesday of July. The aim is to let citizens express opinions on fish and game regulations to the conservation commission in an organized way. The change addresses prior unawareness by widely advertising and fixing the June date.
The Legion troop met Monday to discuss the annual camporee planned for the weekend of May 20 at Clintonville, date not definite. Scouts prepared at the lake last Sunday by cutting logs and will resume work this Sunday. Special notice: the annual spring rummage sale will be held on Saturday at the M. E. church with great bargains.
Readable lines list names and scores for Freshmen Sophomores Juniors and Seniors in a 4 group honor roll roster. The document includes student names with grade point values and percentages such as 97.001 for Freshmen and 98.00 for Priscilla Druckrey, outlining totals and distribution by class and gender.
Community birthday notices run through May dates naming Gladys Wisnewski Gale Stanton Alice Bohti Dewayn Hodgedon Mae Richard Clifton Grosskreutz Dale Miller June Mickelson James Bibelhanusen Billy Peterson with towns Shawano Shawano Burbank Clintonville Waupaca and Wausau area addresses included in local observance.
Advertised program notes that churches of Christ, Scientist will read Adam and Fallen Man as the lesson sermon topic on Sunday May 7. The Golden Text is I Corinthians 15 22 stating all die in Adam but all shall be made alive in Christ. The lesson includes Romans 13 12 and Ephesians 3 3 alongside Science and Health passages by Mary Baker Eddy emphasizing spiritual existence over material belief and revealing truth of being.
Local churches list service times and events for May 7 to 13 including Divine service at 9:00 am, Sunday school at 10:00 am, and various choir and class meetings across Methodist, Evangelical, Catholic, and Lutheran congregations. Also farm buyers contact and Saturday livestock reporting details.
Mrs. Romance Koopman of Madison proposes a kitchen shower to help new homemakers. Plans include practical gifts like towels and timers and a kitchen decor focus with bright curtains and utensils. A game of Mixed Recipes can entertain guests as each offers ingredients for a prospective dish.
Rev V L Peterson presided at Shawano Gospel Tabernacle as a child dedication took place during morning worship. A missionary rally is announced for Wednesday with Bertha Peterson speaking on Launching Out Jana Sailing On. Special music by the local orchestra and choir accompanies Sunday services.
Two smallpox vaccination clinics will be held in Shawano county next week. The Bowler school site will operate from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. and the Eland State Graded School from 11:00 to 12:00. Local physicians, aided by county nurse Laura Gollnick, will administer vaccines to children nine months and up.
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