Local notes of families and events in Algona area
Daughters of Thompson spent Sunday at the Martin Mith hlma. News of visitors, showers, births, and medical updates weave through community updates. Myriad items include baptisms, funerals, furloughs, travel to Des Moines and Kirksville, and library statistics with local tax estimates and new traveling library books.
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Thompson
Martin @mith hlma
J. G. Halim
Blanche Oyken
Britt
Robert Brown
Istonk
Stork
Donald Brown
Newell Brown
Austin
Minn
W. L. Tindall
W. N. Shreve
Des Moines
Joan
A. 8
Kirksville
Missouri
Herman Buns
Martin Smith
J. C. Helm
Claus Smith
Mason City
Myr
Herman Helm
New Sharon
Iowa
Myron Brown
Ivey Brown
John Rudisill
Valley Victory Club Meeting at Mrs H Plasier Home
The Valley Victory club met at Mrs H Plasier’s home on April 17 with five members present. Roll call cited “my chief hobby,” Troyce Bruns led talks on bedspread reconditioning and laundering sacks for curtains beds and dresser scarfs, and Mrs Henry Plasier demonstrated room closet crafts before a delicious lunch. The next meeting is set for Arlene Helmers’ home on Saturday April 28.
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Valley Victory Club
H. Plasier
Troyce Bruns
Troyce Brung
Henry Plasier
Luther League Confirmation Banquet At Good Hope
The Luther League of Good Hope Lutheran church hosted the third annual Confirmation reception banquet for the 1945 class last Sunday evening. The event featured a pastel decorated parlor, lit tapers, and centerpieces themed Read It Pays. The program used booklike segment titles and readings, with Rev H Senft delivering Youth's Challenge Today. About 100 people attended and the Ladies Aid served the meal.
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Luther League of Good Hope Lutheran Church
Luther League
iRev
A. Mardoff
Clarence
Brandt
Stanley
Stecker
Marietta Norland
Marjorie Tjaden
H. Senft
St. John’s Lutheran Church of
Belmond
Good Hope Ladies Aid
American Legion Auxiliary Meeting and Church Activities
The American Legion Auxiliary holds a Friday April 27 work meeting at the Legion rooms for the national clothing drive with all members asked to sort and box items. The Good Hope Lutheran church announces diving worship at 10 30 with Sunday school at 3 30 and a World Action film shown Sunday evening at 8 about war emergencies. Monthly Sunday school teachers staff meeting is rescheduled for Monday evening. Ladies Aid meets May 2 at 2 with hostesses listed and Brotherhood gathers next Wednesday evening with an outstanding speaker.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Rooms
Legion Hall
Land
Camilla Cooper
Thora
Cosgrove
Good Hope Lutheran American Lutheran Church
Alfred
Mardorf
Ladies Aid
Henry Harms
John Harms
Wolkert Stecker
Henry Stecker
Brotherhood
Portland social notes and military leave greetings
Mrs Hedwick Larsen visited at the Martin Larsen home with Ruth Phelps on the sick list. Marcella Bartlett was a Sunday dinner guest of Drusilla Hansen. Sir Lawrence Krueger arrived on a 9 day leave from Great Lakes naval station. Neighbors shared suppers and dinners at various homes including Ringsdorfs, Graham, and Immorsals. A sanitary chick program note urges thorough cleaning of houses and land to prevent parasites and disease, with thrift slogans and a War Bonds appeal.
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Hedwick Larsen
Martin Larsen
Ruth Phelps
Marcella ‘Bartlett
Drusilla Hansen
Lawrence Krueger
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Leo Immorsal
Donald Ringsdorf
Roy Peterson
Richard
Jesse Lashbrook
Jake Godden
George Graham
Roy Clark
Graham Brothers
Soap Jelly Shampoo for Rugs At Housecleaning
Guidelines from Miss Nora Workman of Iowa State College advise avoiding rug beating and shaking. For home cleaning, use a mild soap jelly made by dissolving soap flakes in hot soft water, beat to a stiff lather, apply with brush, rinse section by section.
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Nora Workman
Iowa State College
New Fuel Oil Coupons Adopted In Serial Strip Form
Starting later this month the Office of Price Administration will issue fuel oil rations in serially numbered strip coupons instead of sheets. Eligible consumers include domestic cooking and lighting users with annual rations up to 300 gallons, heat or hot water users, and miscellaneous farm and industrial users under 20,000 gallons annually without a ration book account. These groups now use Class 8 coupon sheets.
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Office of Price Administration
OPA
Wartime ration reform to introduce Class 3A strip coupons
Local War Price and Rationing boards will continue issuing Class 8 coupon sheets until serially numbered strip coupons arrive this month. The change does not affect Class 8 validity or overall consumer rations. Potatoes in Iowa and timing of plant dates are noted.
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Clasa
OPA
Iowa
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Osuth
Titonka
Kossuth County
Canada
Issociation
Woden News
Fr c
Robert Buns
Philadelphia
Ciem Flath
Albert ‘Weighaar
Algona
Mrea
Herman Bung
Terrill
Charles Buns
Sutherland
Michael Mathern
Wayne Naser
Britt and
William Wood
Library News
State Library Board
Baby
Dr. Salsbury’s and
Hilltop Poultry Remedies
Hamilton Hatchery
Tyke Theatre
Laurel and Hardy
Hollywood Canteen
Warner Star Revue
Blondie
Dyewood
W. F. Hamstreet
Mionka
Pierre Sartor
M. D
Utenka
Owa
E. J
M. F. Calhoun
Robert E. Wagner
Towa
L. A
Winkel
Hutchison
Algona, Ia
EK. J. van Ness Law Offices
E. J. van Ness
Della Welter
New Horse
LAW Office
Quarton and Miller County Savings Bank Bldg
Algona, Town
W. LE
Tindall
Osteopathic
Phoee
Woden
Portland News
Ibaa
America
Avery Poy Gay
Hoff
Srd
D-X Station
Electric Shop
T. H. S. and Alumni
Leo Swanson
Orchestra
H. 8
Standard Oil
Alan Carr
Wool Growers Attention
North Jowa Fur’ & Wool CO
A. P. Nelson
Mgr
Britt, Iowa
Siery
CR Tegres
American
Nelson Eddy
Robert Armbruster
CBS
Suberstate Power Company
Nou
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