Delores Peterson and Vernon Ricklefs wed at Good Hope Lutheran
Delores Peterson youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Peterson married Vernon Ricklefs son of Mr and Mrs Harry Ricklefs Sunday July 22 at 8 30 pm at Good Hope Lutheran church. Candle light by Verla Brandt and Marjorie Tjaden. Gladys Ann Smith sang Because with Grace Seitsema. Bride entered in white satin gown with long sleeves and net skirt.
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Good Hope Lutheran
Delores Peterson
Ernest Peterson
Vernon Ricklefs
Harry Ricklefa
Verla Brandt
Marjorie Tjaden
Gladys Ann Smith
Grace Seitsema
Louengrin
Wedding of Miss Gladys Ann Smith and Wayne Koppen
A church ceremony with Rev. A Marder unites Gladys Ann Smith and Wayne Koppen in marriage. Guests include relatives from Algona and nearby towns. Bride wears pink net gown. groom and attendants wear pink carnation boutonnieres. Reception follows with 250 guests and a pink and white cake. They plan to live on a farm north of town after a brief honeymoon.
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Wayne Koppen
Gladys Ann Smith
Marder
Gene Peterson
Melvin Ricklefs
Ernest Peterson
Harry Ricklefs
Lowell Bentley
Verla Brandt
Marjorie Tjaden
Mildred Strodel
Ida Alke
Drusilla Hansen
L. A. Winkel
Algona
R. H. Godfredson
Goldfield
Leo McRinros
Helen
Julia
Dorothy
Vera
Betty Ann McMnroe
Lloyd Bentley
Woden
Otto Koppen
Kathryn
Lakota
Ferm
Wallace Anderson Arrives at Scott Field Radio School
Sgt. Wallace B. Anderson, son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Anderson of Titonka Iowa, returned from the China Burma India theater in April and arrived at Scott Field training command radio school. He went overseas June 1944 and flew 85 missions in a B 24 Liberator bomber. Returning combat airmen at Scott Field are offered to study new communications equipment and procedures developed since their original training and to share overseas experiences with current radiomen.
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Wallace. Anderson
Scott Field Army Air School
Scott Field
Ill
Wallace B. Anderson
Clarence Anderson
Titanka
Iowa
Scott Field Training Command Radio School
Wilbur Schram Writes From Germany in 1945
Wilbur Schram reports from Murane Germany on June 18 1945 describing life as a jeep driver near Russian lines. He notes APO number 76 and requests a copy of the Topic, praising the mail’s value for keeping home-tied news. He describes billeting in an old Hitler housing project and compares living spaces from barn to castle, still favoring Iowa.
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Frank
de ‘Markationne
Murane
Hitler
States
Iowa
Ag Ever
Wilbur
Orville Beenken Serves as Hospital Attendant in Farragut
Wesley and Hana Benken celebrate news from their son Orville Beenken in the Navy at Farragut Idaho. He recently graduated with high honors in the hospital attendant rating 1-C and completed boot training there. He remains on duty with two corpsmen a WAVE in charge of a forty bed ward under a doctor and commissioned nurse. He entered service November 20 1944.
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Wesley
Hana Benken
Orville Behken
Navy
Farragut
Idaho
Orville
Seed testing fee raised to one dollar per sample
An Iowa seed law amendment raises the testing fee from fifty cents to $1 per sample at the Iowa State College seed laboratory and the state Agriculture Department. Costs exceed the new fee, with the difference covered by state appropriations. Citizens may submit seed samples with $1 per sample for a complete test on purity, noxious weed seeds, and germination. Also notes that the best control for Breen caterpillars on tomato vines is to pick and kill them.
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Iowa State College Seed Laboratory
State Department of Agriculture
H. Forter
College Laboratory
College Seed Laboratory
Iowa
Iowa State College Laboratory
Titonka Boy 20 Lays In Field 30 Hours Last Week
Johnnie Harms about 20 son of Mr and Mrs Henry P Harms living southeast of Collar corner suffered a wound from a 22 long rifle bullet last Wednesday and lay in a grove a mile or more from home for about thirty hours before being found. He left home Monday with his rifle and was later found after neighbor Wilma Van Hove heard him call for help near the road and he was taken to Buffalo Center Hospital then Mason City for blood transfusions. His condition improved after the transfusions though doctors seek to determine how the accident occurred.
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Johnnie Harms
Henry P. Harms
Wilma van Hove
Ted van Hove
Harms
Johnnie
Buffalo Center Hospital
Mason City
Hail Storm Damages Farms Near Titonka Iowa
An Abad hail storm Tuesday evening hit northwest Mitonika area between Bancroft and Lakota, then southeast past Collar corner toward Titonka. Fred Stecker reported near Titonka that the damage was near total at several sites. Oats were laid flat south of Titonka with little further corn damage. harvest was expected this weekend.
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Mitonika
Bancroft
Collar
Warner Schmidt
Steckers
Titonka
Fred Stecker
Iowa Farm Tips From Pasture to Field and Farm
A range of agricultural notes addresses declining farm mortgage rates over the last decade, labor shortages pushing workers from towns, improved pollination with hives near clover, timing of red clover and alfalfa cuts to boost seed protein, and crossbred beef cattle yielding higher profit per animal according to USDA experiments. Early morning hay cutting with afternoon windrowing aids curing, while timely alfalfa harvest preserves protein content in the forage.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Independence Day Whistle Blast At Waverly Sugar Plant
In the early hours of July 5 the Waverly Sugar Company sounded a long blast from its factory whistle. Engineers waking from the Fourth of July shutdown left the whistle valve open, causing a loud, disturbance aloud until workers shut it off.
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Waverly Sugar Company
Apply Now for Prisoner of War Labor Help
A. L. Brown, County Extension Director, urges farmers to apply through his office for POW labor to harvest grain or mow hay. Farmers often go directly to the Camp, but Brown’s office issues the certification. Limited POWs at Algona Camp remain available. the Extension Office is in the Algona Post Office basement.
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A. L. Brown
Saly
Brown
Algond
Algona
German Prisoners Give to Red Cross at Algona Camp
German prisoners at the Algona war camp and its branches contributed 7250 to the International Red Cross. Maj. Hutton said three more branch camps will report, with an anticipated total near 8000. Funds go to Washington, no strings attached, for distribution via the International Red Cross in Geneva.
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Algona
Washington
International Red Cross
Geneva
Switzerland
American Legion Auxiliary Meeting at Sartor Home
Notice calls regular July meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary to be held Friday July 27 at 2 30 PM at the Dr Mary Sartor home with Galena Zwiefel and Mary Sartor as co hosts. Members urged to attend and dues paid. Bib donations requested for hospital use.
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Mary Sartor
Galena Zwiefel
Mary “Sartor
Legion Hall
Department
Des Moines
Minnie Ossterreicher
American Legion Auxiliary
Dr. Sartor
Ramsey Reformed Church Service Schedule and Topic
Pastor F Snuttier leads worship with a 20:80 service and a Sunday School at 8:80 on the topic God s Covenant with His People The young peoples society meets at 7:30 and the Evening Worship is at 3 The ladies aid society gathers Wednesday afternoon August 1 at 1:30 The quoted Genesis 17 7 passage frames the event Are YOU Bought Your Boins
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Ramsey Reformed Church
F. Snuttier
Young Peoples Society
Ladies Aid. Society
Genesia
Henry Reefer Home After Four Years in Service
Henry Reefer son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Reefer returned home last week with an honorable discharge from Fort Sheridan Illinois after four years and three months in the Army overseas three years and two months. He entered March 24 1941 went overseas May 11 1942 total 120 points campaigns Algeria French Morocco Tunisia Naples Foggia Rome Arno North Apennines and Po Valley. He earned the Bronze Star Medal November 1944 Bronze Arrowhead Good Conduct Ribbon American Defense Service Ribbon European African Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon and Bronze and Silver Battle Stars. He was a 2 tank driver in the 5th Army in the European area. While in Milan he saw Mussolini's body and brought home a copy of the Yank newspaper showing Mussolini hanging with a bystander reacting in the street.
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Henry
Reefer
Adam Reefer
Fort Sheridan
Illinois
Algeria
French Morocco
Tunisia
Naples
Foggian
Rome
Arno
North Appenines
Po Valley
Huropean
Milan
Mussolini
Yank
Deaths in Iowa Decline in 1945 From 1944
Iowa health department provisional figures show deaths from January through May 1945 at 10 516, down from 11 625 a year earlier, while births rose slightly to 17 932 from 17 690. Infant deaths fell from 741 to 526. March had the highest toll with 2275 fatalities and May recorded 3793 births.
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Iowa
L. E. Chancellor
Vital Statistics
Methodist Church Service Times Include Sunday School
W I Patterson leads Sunday school at 10:00 and morning worship at 11. Roan offers Sunday school at 9:30 and morning worship at 11. Buy it in Fayetteville.
S P Workers Club reports on activities
Members met at the Legion Hall on Tuesday afternoon with good attendance. Roll call featured "My Favorite Movie, and Why," and sixteen bids will be sent to government hospitals for hospitalized men and women. A cake and coffee sale netted 29.05 dollars. A surprise picnic honored leader Mia at W J Denton’s home with lunch, a planned program, games, and a bouquet for Mrs. Denton.
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S. P. Workers Club
Legion Hall
Nanryl Nelgon
Frances Harrison
Mia
W. J. Denton
Mrs. Denton
Meat shortages unlikely to ease soon says Iowa State economist
Iowa State College economist Francis Kutish notes five main causes of current meat shortages including high military demand, wartime income boosting purchases, distribution distortions, black market effects, and seasonal low production. He advocates increasing output by feeding more livestock, though feed shortages hamper efforts. He cites butter vitamin A content at 18 000 international units per pound as a related note.
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Francis Kutish
Iowa State College
Iypiamoe Kutish
Kutish
Kurtish
Soldier Herman Schutter Receives Bronze Star Medal
Staff Sergeant Herman B. Schutter of Infantry United States Army is awarded the Bronze Star Medal for heroic achievement in action near Monticello Italy in September 1944. Despite heavy mortar and machine gun fire he directed mortars and remained at his post until the counterattack was repulsed.
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United States Army
Herman B. Schutter
Infantry
Monticello
Italy
Schutter
United States
Titonka
Twa
Wm. G. Lavesay
UJS
Army
Lorenz and Merchant Die in Week's End Tragedy
Julius F Lorenz and Wesley Merchant died Thursday after a weeks illness. Lorenz, born April 12 1887 in Zanberk Bohemia, lived in Britt and Wesley, operated a Texaco station. Survived by wife Anna Surat and five children including Sister Oy Joel, Navy man Joseph Lorenz, Edward, Paul, Theresa, five brothers and two sisters. Burial at St Joseph's cemetery with pallbearers Oliver Young Henry Schore Clarence Ward Leo Bletch George Hirner Joe Hauptman.
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Misa Anna Surat
Britt
Wesley
Texaco
Jaime Zinalti
Oy Joel
St. Francis Convent
Milwaukee
Joseph Lorenz A.C.M.M
Navy
South America
Trinidad
Edward Lorenz
Pfe
Paul Lorenz
Western Pacific
Theresa
Alao
Anton
Joseph
Brith
Adolph
Frank
Council Bluffs
Philip
Stockton
California
Good Hope Lutheran Church Service and Activities
Divine worship at 10 90. Sunday School and Bible Class at 9 80. Birthday offering to be received in Sunday School. Luther League meets next Tuesday evening July 31. Tapte will be The Creation. Leaders: Wilma Van Hove and Donald Nearland. The Ladies Aid will meet next.
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Good Hope Lutheran American Lutheran Church
Alfred 0. Mardorf
Luther League
Tapte
Wilma van Hove
Donald Near+ land
Laciea Ald
Dean Sterar Oruro Rev William Plans
A church note states no services and Sunday School Bible class next Sunday. Land price trends in town show leveling but warn of a possible land boom. Forecast says farm land prices will face inflationary pressure during the two years after the war in Europe.
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Dean Sterar Oruro
Wm. Plans
No Gervices
Towa
Europe
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Wilbur Schram
Germany
Orvile Beenken Is
Hospital Asistant
Farragut, Idaho
Titonka Boy
N. W
Red Cross
Chas, Reed
Henry Reefer
Fteonea
Herman Schutter
Julius F. Lorenz
Wesley Merchant
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