Rally Day Practice for Iowa 4-H Girls Meet
Iowa 4-H club girls in Kossuth and Algona host Rally Day program featuring Tha Festival of the New Comer, with two county training schools earlier in May for leaders and club girls. Attendees include 76 leaders at Bancroft and 80 at Algona Legion Hall, plus many named leaders and members from Swea City, Burt, Lakota, and surrounding areas.
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Iowa
Fannie R. Buchanan
Kossuth
Vine
Algona
Lulu ‘Tregoning
Ciu
Clu
Moe
Pippa
Forrester Hall
Bancroft
T. F. Johnson
Dorothy Christensen
Helen Poole
Helen Walstrand
Dorothy Tish
Alfa Simmons
Lucille Paterson
Ilo Edwards
Bernice Smith
Grace McDowell
Carlens Kesler
Ardella Hovey
Vernette Ditsworth
Dorothy Erickson
Lorene Dreye
Mila. Dreyer
Alvina Dreyer
Alice Dreyer
Leona Borchardt
Marie Miller
Virginia Frank
Ardila Voight
Donna Jean Bailey
Will Weishrod
Menton
Velma Bowman
Ethel Bowman
Betty Masterson
Bertha Bowman
Elsie Hunt
Virgie Hardcopt
Thelma Hof
R. Masterson
LaVerne
Picnicked at Mason City with friends and relatives
Olly and Mrs Peterson and guests drove to Mason City for Sunday dinner with Mrs 4H Bobbenhousa and family of Des Moines. Miss Bernice Bobbenhouge joined, then returned to Des Moines with her parents. They enjoyed a splendid trip and long visit. W P Kearns keeps pheasants, a ring neck rooster escaped confinement to court bantam hen, returning daily.
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Mason
Olly
A. M. Peterson
Chas. Rolbsamon
Mason City
B. Bobbenhousa
Des Moines
Bernice Bobbenhouge
Rudd
Thers
W. P. ‘Kearns
Methodist Church Notes Sourices on Sunday Schedule
Sunday school at ten, morning worship at eleven, Sunday evening serepptye swenome for the young. New lesson series to start. Fathers and mothers urged to buy children Rehtah vacation item. June fifth church behoot conducted. Reader asks how much was accepted at the school last year.
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Aleven
Pee
Lepsons
Rehtah
Sorum Reelected County Superintendent at Mithetville meeting
Miss Sorum was unanimously reelected County Superintendent for the sixth consecutive term at a County Board of Education meeting in Mithetville on Tuesday. The opposing candidate was Supt Botsun of the Gruver school.
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Miss Sorum
County Board of Education
Mithetville
Botsun
Gruver
Brief History of L Oesterreicher Obituary
Lou Oesterreicher of Oxford township Johnson County Iowa born August 10 1862 died May 17 after long service to community. He helped found Titonka Cooperative Creamery Association Farmers Elevator Co and Titonka Telephone Co served as county supervisor and school director. Funeral held at Methodist church with Rev Faul and Rev Mitenel. interment Buffalo Township Cemetery.
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Lewis Oesterreicher
Oxford Township
Johnson County
Iowa
Oxford
Mirabeth Wagner
Lewis
Freddie
Ray
Alfred
Ross
Titonka
Buffalo Consolidated District
Oesterreicher
Methodist Church
Fremont Faul
B. Mitenel
Armstrong
Roy Ball
Mia
Homer Downa
Frank Reynolds
Will Schram
Jesus
Qeaterrelcher
John ‘Briggs
Algona
Bert Hdwards
Buffalo Center
Fred Campbell
Card of Thanks for Father’s Death and Sympathy
We express heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for kindnesses during our father’s death and for expressions of sympathy, including flowers. We also thank those who provided music, Ray, Ross and Alfred Osterreicher.
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Ray, Ross
Alfred Ossterreicher
Graduating Class of 1933 Names Listed
The list names the graduating class of 1933 with Donald Banta as President, Lester Raden as Vice-President, and Mervyn Hansen as Secretary-Treasurer. Also listed are Dorothy Budlong, Margaret Callies, Binte Kuchenreuther, Arlo Larson, and Fannie Pannkok.
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Donald Banta
Lester Raden
Mervyn Hansen
Sec'y-Treas
Ddithmas
Senior Class Night Honors and Commencement Plans
The senior class night honored valedictorian Donald Banta and salutatorian Merwyn Hansen with high averages. The program outlines Baccalaureate at the Methodist Church and a May Day Pageant with a community picnic, band concert, and sports events, weather permitting, culminating in a final game and school exhibit displays.
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Donald Banta
Merwyn Hansen
Donald
Merwyn
Lester Eden
Methodist Church
Faul
T. H. Hoon
Methodist
Garner
Methodist Brotherhood
Atttendance Alwards
Hoon
Spienia
The History of Germany Valley by Anna Wellhousen
In 1890 Adam Fister began hauling lumber from Bancroft and built a complex that locals dubbed Hell's Half Acre. The settlement, largely German, grew around Fister’s store later renamed German Valley. Herman Tjarks Sr. bought the store, then Patterson, who added a post office. Joe Russell opened a thriving blacksmith shop, hiring Hase Austin who also ran a second shop and taught school. Cream separators emerged, Frank Bacon built a cream station, and a creamery formed as farmers produced milk locally. Churches were limited. Rev Williamson conducted Sunday services in a schoolhouse and laid the groundwork for a Methodist church at Titonka. The butter industry shifted as creamery profits rose and ownership changed among local families.
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Germany Valley
Anna Wellhousen
Adam Fister
Bancroft
Hell's Half Acre
Mr. Fisher
Herman Tjarks Sr
Bantroft
Patterson
Tarke
B. 8
Pann~ Kuk
Joe Russell
Joe Russel
Hase Austin
Austin
Frank Bacon
German Valley
Williamson
Methodist
Titonka
Buktermakers
rank/Bacon
Abe Bacon
Abe
Commencement Program Highlights Notes and Speeches
The program lists invocations and musical numbers like a violin solo and mixed chorus. Speakers include Rev T Ernest Hoon and Supt C A Hoon presenting scholarships citizenship awards senior class diplomas and a commencement address on Trail Blazers of the Twentieth Century. Benediction by Rev Fremont Faul.
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T. Ernest Hoon
C. A
W. H. Stott
Cree Ene Netaely
Fremont Faul
German Valley Commerce and Rail Rumors Then Decline
The passage traces ownership changes of local businesses from Hansens to Hellers to Franks, with Pranks the last operators in German Valley. It notes the creamery’s machines moved to Thanka, a new amusement hall, informal youth activities, and races. Rail plans shifted, Titonka growth hurting German Valley trade, store closures, and Krause family succession after a period of decline.
Easy Money 3 Found in Elkhorn Review
Harry Fritz, a West Union Iowa grocer, found a brown envelope in a yard pile containing two postal savings certificates each for 500 dollars. He was raking leaves when the discovery occurred and noted the items were addressed to another local resident.
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Elkhorn Review
Harry Fritz
West Union
Iowa
Fritz
Sparrows Hoard Five Dollar Bill Found in Nest
Mrs. Piames Hoffman of Zumbrota Minnesota found a five dollar bill tucked in a sparrow nest after a sparrow nest was removed from a wren house. A laborer helped carry away the nest before the discovery.
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Piames Hoffman
Zumbrota
Minn
Hoffman
Ramsay Young People Club Meeting Postponed
The Ramsay Young People's Club postponed its meeting from Wednesday to Friday due to Tonka High School graduation exercises. The Friday topic is What cap and should a church do with Mrs Calvin Schnucker guiding the discussion. Next Sunday services will be conducted in English, with an outside minister. The Ladies Aid Society plans the annual Mission Benefit on June 7 after serving dinner and supper to over 450 people last year.
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Ramsay Young People’s Club
Titonka High School
Mra
Calvin Schnucker
Ladies Aid Society
Order of the Day Veteran Ceremonies at Multiple Cemeteries
Color Guard and Boy Scouts assemble at Legion Hall at 8:00. Services scheduled from 9:00 to 10:45 across Wesley German Reform German Township German Lutheran Buffalo Township cemeteries with flowers thrown into a creek and TAPS. An outage causes the minister to joke about praying during a blackout after a Job reading.
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Legion Hall
Wesley Cemetery
Megara
German Reform Cemetery
German Township
German Lutheran Cemetery
Stor
Creek
Buffalo Township
World War I Pension Regulations and Benefits Summary
Regulations effective June 30 detail claims steps and power of attorney for veterans. Entitlement covers service connected disabilities with presumptions based on length of service and onset, plus monthly wartime rates for disabilities from loss of limbs to blindness. Pensions to widows and dependents set by family status, with total limits and schedules for amounts.
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National Guard
Legion Auxiliary Poppy Drive Honors World War Dead
On May 27 the American Legion Auxiliary in Tronka will distribute poppies through volunteer service to honor fallen World War I veterans. Antone Sorensen, a disabled veteran, made the poppies and will receive no compensation. proceeds fund veteran relief and welfare. Poppy sale events occur May 26 2 0 P M radio party at Cleo Nelsons, May 28 Poppy Sale Day, and May 30 Memorial Day observances.
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America
Mil- Yong
Tronka
American Legion Auxiliary
Antone Sorensen
Leteran
Titanka
Cleo Nelson
Partnership Dissolved in Britt Plumbing Firm
The business partnership between D. B. Williams and Ralph Dahl of Britt is dissolved. Williams will continue plumbing operations from his home, while Dahl is unsure what business path to pursue next.
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D. B. Williams
Ralph Dahl
Britt
Williams Wi
Hom
Ralph
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L. Oesterreicher
Viola Rike
George Sachau
Edward Sathoff
Margaret Steper
Edward Stecker
Josephine Stecker Vernelle Zwietel
Anna Welhousen
T. H
Woden H. S
Thaly
Wome
Ustadina
Schoenlein
de Vries
Mrs
Stephen
Lakota
Riley
Levi Good
Mr. Tjarka
Lou Srause
Lou Krause
Titouka
Leyl Good
Chay, Barbour
Joe Russels
Harvey Coldman
Reformed Church News
Bretheren
Electric Light Company
Boston Transcript
Legion Auxiliary Notes
Fem
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