Wesley News Roundup of Local Visits and Events
Wesley residents host and visit relatives across Ledyard Britt and Algona. Parties include circle meetings at homes and a wartime meal planning session, plus birthdays and family gatherings. Fire destroys a brooder house with 500 chicks. several locals travel for graduations, weddings, and military inductions. public notices include dressings rooms schedule and local bridge club events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Reno
Ledyard
Albert Reno
Lucy Brabee
R. N
Fort Dodge
Fidelis Goetz
Tarkio
Missouri
Anton Goetz
Albert Hoffer
Waterloo
Loretta Lloyd
Mason City
Goetz
Coreau
R. B. Hopkins
Maurice Page
Ben Eden
John Wieland
Lyle Hepperly
Gary
Britt
George Hanig
Henry Sherman
Sesson
Sherman
Mary Otis
Rosemary Studer
August Studer
Mariam Nelson
Crystal Lake
Dean Sparks
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Ruth Sparks
Bobby Goetz
Joe Johnson
Karl Wester
Gulfport
Mississippi
Emil Wester
Bridge Club
Jack Grant
Pat of Britt
Albert Neuroth
Ollie Olson
Marsin Olson
Kanawha Wednnesday
August Garman
Louis
Army
Fort Benning
Leon Gardner
Diane
Algona
Fred Seefeld
Geraldine
Adolph Girres
Algona Hospital
Irene Hanig
Bernadette Bauer
Bauer
Bernadette
Leo Young
Garner
Alt Studer
Lester Lease
Loren
Hanlontown
Ralston
Silbaughs
Charles Kraus
Jake Kraus
Parks Hospital
Rufus Welter
Corwith
Ed Loebigs
Familly
L. H. Kleinpeter
David
Albert Kleinpeter
Fort, Dodge
Leon Smith
Capt
Smith
Coast Artillery
Camp Bayonne
New Jersey
Capt. Smith
Wesley
Ed Hildman
Hildman
Woden News social notes and local travels
Local residents and visitors are listed, detailing visits to William Madole, Fritz T Gerdes, and Jelle Tjaden households. Families from Ceylon, Britt, Ten Sleep, Zearing, Buffalo Center, Ackley, and Titonka mingle at home gatherings, bridge clubs, and a Des Moines basketball tournament. Dr W L Tindall returns from Chicago after major surgery and resumes practice. Henry Gerdes departs for Camp Dodge for induction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Madole
Winnebago
Minn
Lester Moore
Ted Bode
Marilyn Kay
Ceylon
Joe McGurk
Sandra
Britt
Fritz T. Gerdes
Supt
K. F. Truesdell
J. C. Helm
H. J. Bode
D. J. Rittenhouse
Anna McCreary
Tensleep
Wyoming
Etna Moore
Zearing
Towa
William Maddle
W. L. Tindall
Chicago
Emeralda Kruse
Buffalo Center
Kruse
Fred Shipley
Algonk
Joe Kramer
Martin Smith
Duther Barnes
Des Moines
Chet Missman
H. Murr
Charlie Murr
Corwith
Alfred Hanna
Dr. Tindall
Ed Wood
Ackley
Henry Gerdes
Camp Dodge
Armed Forces
Lafalot
Herman Buns
Jake Theiben
Elsie Smeins
Kesley
William Wood
Leon Gilner
Forest City
Merle Cushman
Bancroft
John Rudisill
Alvin Hanna
Detroit Soldier Awaiting Call and Community War Efforts
In Detroit Michigan a man who arrived home last Thursday morning expects to be called for army service soon. Work on making surgical dressings will resume Friday afternoon, March 26, at the Tindall building on Main Street. Everyone is urged to help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Michigan
Tindall Building
DeBruyn’s
Main Street
George Tjaden
Waterloo
Jeste Tjaden
Cliff Sawyer
Emmetsburg
Woman's Club votes two hostesses per meeting
The Woman's Club met with Mrs. Sadie Struthers and planned two hostesses and two shorter programs per meeting to finish the year. Lessons included Victory Gardens, Make Your Yard Beautiful, Home Hazards and Their Precautions, and Thrift Week. Pearl Asa won a flower contest. officers elected: Pearl Asa president, Ella Martinek vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Struthers
Mabel Hansen
Victory Gardens
Pearl Asa
Elna Buffington
Maude Brink
Olga Hott
Ella Martinek
Alice
Bradford Buffington
George Kienk
Bridge Club
Roy Ringsdorf
Gerald Bahling
Sampson
Obe Hott
Louis Larson
Wm. Cosgrove
Ross Buffington
Alice Buffington
Donald Buffington
Clarence Christensen
Marie Christensen
Berg Hansen
Terry
Judy
Rudd
Tom Young
van Hansen
Patty
Near Burt
Percy Brink
Leslie Bentley
Sunda
Dale Struthers
Dean Andrews
Burt
Ilo Buffington
Jerry
Kathleen
Local social notes from a busy week in rural Iowa
Kentucky visit by a husband in the army. Raphael stays with grandparents Mr and Mrs Clyde Bristow. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Fred Hagen and family, Mrs Mervin Bristow, and Clair Moore. Sunday dinners with Graham Bros.. Harold Holmes and friends from Keota hunting at Lloyd Bartlett's. Multiple neighbors, outings, and calls across Algona Ringsted Emmons and surrounding farms are recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Raphaela
Clyde Bristow
Fred Hagen
Graham Bros
Mervin Bristow
Clair Moore
Roy Clark
Donald Graham
Harold Holmes
Keota
Lloyd Bartlett
Levant Moore
B. L. Moore
Algona
Richie Bristow
Donald Weber
Donald Ringsdorf
Bill Woltz
Emmons, Minn
Verne Shipler
Dennis
Roy Petergen
Portland Township Red Cross Drive Tops Four Hundred
Portland township community activities are noted with a Red Cross drive raising over 430 dollars. Various visits and gatherings are listed including marriages military service, family dinners, club meetings, and travel to Fort Knox. Names include Donald Michaelson, Mary Michaelson, Faye Huber, Vernon Larsen, Leila, J. P. Stow, F. O. Stow, Chas Phelps, B. L. Phelps, Velma Larsen, Mrs Arend, Lois Graham, Dixie Eliott, and others from Algona and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Township
Red Cross
Donald Michaelson
Mary Michaelson
Faye Huber
Faye
Vernon Larsen
Leila
Martin Larsen
J. P. Stow
F. O. Stow
Dixie Eliott
Tappi
Minn
Dixie
Lois
Jesse Lashbroath
John McGuire
Jake Godden
Warren
Algona
Hree Jennings
Russell
George Fox
Roy Clark
Graham Bros
Graham
Calvin Bristow
Fort Knox
Rochester returnees noted at local gatherings
Tinck who recently returned from Rochester and Mrs. George Larsen who recently returned from Rochester were mentioned. The Portland Progress Club met last Thursday with Mrs. Howard Sparks. Twenty five ladies attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tinck
Rochester
George Larsen
Portland Progress Club
Howard Sparks
Ladica
There'll Be Plenty of Rape Seed This Spring
Iowa farmers will have ample rape seed for hog pastures this year, with supply from the Pacific Northwest and Texas to offset losses from Holland and Japan. Dwarf Essex rape yields about 20 hogs per acre in summer, requires 4 to 5 pounds per acre, and can be sown alone or with a nurse crop for early summer grazing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
H. D. Hughes
Iowa State College Farm Crops Head
Pacific Northwest
Texas
Holland
Japan
Towa
Essex
Hughes
Classifieds and notices from German Township 1943 ad mix
Multiple small ads and notices including sale of two yearling Hereford bulls, a McCormick Deering tractor, farm supplies, feed, potatoes wanted, a card of thanks from Mrs Meindert Smidt, a note on flax acreage in Iowa, alfalfa and seed corn prices, Murphy's feeds, and a 1943 cemetery care bid notice from German Township Trustees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Meindert Smidt
German Township
R. W. Gingrich
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