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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1939
Page
3
Local notices describe a busy Bowler schedule with a county meeting and a Memorial Bay service organized by the Lyle Davenport Post. Attendees are urged to attend the program at Shawano Lake and nearby community gatherings, with speakers including Attorney Ed Asch.
Belle Plaine residents note a family gathering in honor of Mrs Obhtinger and her son Milma at a local home. Many relatives and friends joined Wednesday evening for a social visit and reminiscences, with several attending from nearby towns.
Miss Alice Jeske and multiple families from Clintonville visit the Art Gen show home on Sunday. Jean Peterson and Shirley Boardman guests at local homes, with visits spanning Ed Buettner and Adolf Jeske households. Canadian visitor Milton Oblinger aids family ties in Belle Plaine. Sunset View Grass Lake River Bank schools plan Friday picnics.
Oscar Rading Whitcomb accompanied Clarence Hauser of Tigerton to Milwaukee on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Mason Buck visited Oshkosh for the weekend. Four large crowd attended the graduation exercises at the school house Friday evening. Graduates were Harold Soper Wayne Joubert Erman Treptow Fern Quick Frances Stewart and Roseline Van Doran. Erman Treptow was valedictorian and Wayne Joubert salutatorian. Frances Stewart received a pen and pencil set for perfect attendance over eight years. Dr. G W Krubsack and children of Clintonville visited the T W Treptow home. Mr. and Mrs. William Schoening and Mrs. Allan McAuly spent Sunday at Rib Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Dean of Germany visited Melvin Rice Monday evening.
Cecil plans are nearing completion for Poppy Day on Saturday May 27 by the auxiliary to the American Legion post 392 led by Mrs Edna Whittaker poppy chairman. Posters show a white cross and a veteran made poppy in town business places. Volunteers from the unit will sell poppies on streets and in shops May 27 urging public spirited citizens to give.
A plea urges purchasing veteran made poppies to aid disabled soldiers, many shell shocked, who craft them for a penny each. The appeal highlights their sacrifices, lack of funding, and the hope that buying the flowers brings them happiness and purpose amid hardships.
Poetic wartime reminiscence recalls boys turned soldiers, mud and barbed wire, battles and casualties. It notes those who died or were maimed, families left to mourn, and a plea not to forget amid plentiful adverts.
Word from state entomologist H L Chambers warns farmers that failing to spread poison bait against migratory grasshoppers risks losing crop insurance. The federal crop insurance corp warns state and county committees to enforce that crops be planted and cared for properly, with approval by the corporation.
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