Local Happenings Highlight Family Visits and Births
Shenandoah visitors Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Shaw and son David spent the weekend with the I d Reith family. Mrs Shaw and Mrs Reith are sisters. A baby girl named Joyce LaValle was born to Mr. and Mrs Henry Plasier on November 29. Band Mothers plan December meeting at the Al Young home Monday December 10 with Mrs L Willemssen as visiting hostess. Reed Hardware advertises a complete Xmas gift selection and subscriptions for Magazines are to be left at the drug store.
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Boyd Shaw
David
Shenandoah
I. d. Reith
Shaw
Reith
Henry Plasier
Joyce LaValle
al Young
L. Willemssen
Reed Hardware
Local notes mix bake sale jokes and family news
A busy community page highlights USO bake sale plans and gift items at the drug store, with a parade of births, visits, travel, and social gatherings. Families like Spear, Buns, and Callies share newborns, grandparents attend games, and Lions, Krominga, and auxiliary groups host events while residents travel to Burt, Sheldon, and Santa Rosa.
Doan area church notes and social visits
Barbara Sherry Zwiefel infant baptized as Earl Bowman joins church. Alf Lee family visited Eugene Hopkins in Ottosen. Roy Buehler and Rae Hutchinson of Waterloo visited Robert Hutchinson and Mrs. Ray Cunningham. Mary Chase recovering in Long Beach. Herman Funk and Dean Young guests. Dick Worsley and sons dined with Tom Young. Wednesday division meeting at Mrs. Alf Lee’s. Marie Sweeney of Shakopee visited Louis Hansen. guests at Sunday dinner include Schultz, Reimers, Bruce and Norma Lee, J. W. Gross, and Merlenwiefel family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Sherry Zwiefel
Merle Zwiefel
Earl Bowman
Our Church
Alf Lee
Eugene Hopkins
Ottosen
Roy Buehler
Rae Hutchinson
Waterloo
Robert Hutchinson
Mary Chase
Long Beach
Calif
Myr
Herman Funk
Algona
Louis Hansen
Dick Worsley
Ventura
Tom Young
Dean Womans Club
Bob Bolenous
Mexico
Glennwiefel
Q. J. Schultz
Ralph Reimers
Bruce
Norma Lee
J. W. Gross
Burt
Merlenwiefel
Marie Sweeney
Shakopee
Minn
Acorn Club Meeting Highlights Women Ambassadors
Acorn Club met Thursday with Miss Emma Gut knecht and Mrs. Jennie Gut knecht assisting. Twenty members attended as Olga Wortman spoke on Eugenia Anderson the first woman ambassador and Perle Mesta to Luxembourg. Vera Williams discussed Why Not Draft Women and Alice Murray presented Washingtons 10 Most Powerful Women. The club voted Christmas gifts to Des Moines children home society and Florence Crittendon Home Sioux City. Next meeting December 13 at Gertrude Schissels home with Janette Mussman assisting.
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Lasko
Kneé Acorn Club
Emma Gutknecht
Jennie Gutknecht
Olga Wortman
Eugenia Anderson
Denmark
Perle Mesta
Luxembourg
Iowa
Clarinda
Vera Williams
Washington
Alice Murray
Childrens Home Society
Des Moines
Florence Crittendom
Sioux City
Gertrude Schissel
Janette Mussman
Dick Smith Hurt When Car Hits Ice
Lakota report states Dick Smith of Northwestern Bell Telephone Co in Algona was injured when his car slid on ice near Lakota and struck a telephone pole. He suffered facial bruising cuts and bruised limbs but was not seriously hurt and is recovering at home. His friend Navy furlough, Jim Mullarkey, was with him. Mullarkey’s whereabouts are noted as home in Swea City. Dick previously survived a motorcycle crash about a year ago and hopes to return to work soon.
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Lakota
Dick Smith
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Algona
Jim Mullarkey
Navy
Swea City
Sheriff Probes Second Break In At Lakota Coffee Shop
Sheriff investigates a second break in at a Lakota coffee shop. Cigarettes and beer were stolen. clues led to partial suspect and recovered goods. A grain elevator at Fostoria burned. Milford and Spencer fire crews fought the blaze but could not stop it.
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Lakota
Fostoria
Milford
Spencer
Education Solve Problems at Home
STATE COLLEGE Pa Dr Milton Eisenhower brother of Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and president of Pennsylvania State college has announced a nation wide educational project de aigned to show how people solve community problems at the lo cal level with a minimum of out side help. The project to be known as the people act will com prise weekly broadcasts over a national system this fall Eisenhower said In every part of the United States people are bringing shout amazing im provements in their conditions through teamwork at the local level We hope to encourage this sort of practical democracy
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State College
Milton 8. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pennsylvania State College
Eisenhower
United States
Community Planning Bureau Aids Illinois Towns With Problems
Urbana Champaign reports a University of Illinois bureau provides free planning assistance to towns large and small. Since 1938 it has contacted 73 percent of cities with 2,800+ population and over half of smaller towns. Prof Don H Morgan says overall planning prevents uncoordinated growth and benefits communities seeking industrial locations.
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Urbana-Champaign
Ilinois
University of Minois
Bureau of Community Planning
College of Fine and Applied Arts
Don H. Morgan
Bureau
Morgan
Paris
Wreets
Fire Fighting Attracts Big Field Day Audience
About 3,500 people attended Addison county field day in Middlebury Vermont, the largest turnout in the event’s history. Demonstrations on rural fire prevention showed how fast fires spread, the value of a garden hose and a farm pond, and how a small volunteer department can protect rural homes.
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Middlebury
Addison County
People Are Honest Says Columbus Lunch Roomkeeper
Edith Brown, owner near G Ed win Smith Shoe Co in Columbus, has run a lunch room with a chalkboard tally of first names. When a plant closed, forty workers appeared to settle accounts, confirming her belief that people are honest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Edith Brown
G. Edwin Smith Shoe Co
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Tyke Theatre
Titonka
Stephen McNally
Coleen Gray
Francis
Donald O'Connor
Fifer Laurie
Talking Mule
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Patricia Neal
Uncle Sam
Prince Albert Tobacco
Pontiac
Aerowax
Mia
Playtex
Wm. Plant
Laporte
City
Titanica
Christian Meyer
Satuday
Petaluma
Titania
Spear
Florence van Hove
Wilfrid L. Schmidt
Lamred L. Schmidt
Co. C
Carol Callies
USC
USO
Harold Buns
Ringsted
Patricia
Louise
Buns
Louise Baade
Hank Harris
K. & H. 500 Club
Amos Krominga
Amos
Andy Krominga
Russell ‘Krominga
Andy Low
American, Legion Auxiliary
A. L. Anderson
Cedar Falls
Bradford Buffington
Dickie and
Ione
Chuck Peterson
Fairmont
Melvin Olson
Wm. Day
Tom Sampson
Ted Hoover Sr
Vern Teeters
Fred Dransfeldt
Lone Rock
Anna Christensen
Clarence Christensen
Carl Hansen
Ivan Dillon
Wanda
Gordon Hansen
Henry Baader
George Johnson
J. A. Raney
Leo Clark
Bridt
Sheldon
Mary Clark
Claremont
F. W. Caireys
Irvington
Mved
Kossuth County
Doan News
Acorn Club
Community Planning Bureau
Mlinois
WELCH
Bonacker
U-Save Food Market
Pierre Sartor
M. D
E. J. Gallup
Titonka, Ta
H. I. Torgersen
John M. Woods
Osteopathic
W. L. Tindall
James E. Aill
Tyke Electric
Titonea
L. A
Winkel
Hutchison
Algona, In
Hlow. Miller Atttorney
Dr. Sawyer
L. L. Snyder
Tigges
Jas. J. Norris
Forest City
Louie H. Helm
Woden
Von's
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Towa Farm Mutual Insurance Cos
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Intermill
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