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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1973
Page
4
Oolah Smith keeps busy with needlework and grows her own beads. For two years she has grown Job's tears and uses the pearly grey seeds with bright colored beads to craft many necklaces.
Walter Wheatcraft of Knoxville harvested a 25 pound cabbage from a hybrid plant bought at a local greenhouse. He grows six of the same hybrids and notes the other five heads weighed 17 to 18 pounds each.
Readable parish notices list Sunday worship times and Sunday School for churches in Sumner and nearby towns including Pauls Lutheran Fredericksburg Hope Lutheran St John Lutheran Sumner United Methodist and St Peters Richfield along with activities at St John American Lutheran St Paul United Church of Christ and other congregations with dates Oct 17 18 19 21 23 24 25 28 and events by Rev. Morris Fye Cass Cudnoski and others in Sumner Westgate and surrounding locales.
Frederika Church marks 115 years since 1858 with Homecoming Sunday on October 21, 1973. Worship at 10:45 AM, lunch at noon, program at 1:30 featuring a history picture and dramatization, followed by fellowship and a parish directory distribution. Rev. James Pittman of Plainfield is pastor.
Pershing residents Mr and Mrs Nick Lusch report unusually large cucumbers this year with specimens weighing 4 and 3 pounds. a few reach 4% pounds, reflecting an impressive home garden yield for Sumner area readers.
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