First Grade News and School Week Notes
Public school week highlights from First Second and Third grades. First graders built rabbit houses and debated if a rabbit could live in them while some enjoyed a vacation. Second graders staged a play The Straw Ok and studied good manners. Verna Dell and Morse are noted absences with a new teacher. Third graders report eleven 2010s in spelling and began painting chairs green while health clowns feature dotted suits from health rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse
Beler
Verna Dell
Wilbur Schram
Fourth Grade News and Moves to Texas
The fourth grade builds an outdoor igloo and says goodbye to Lupe Herrera who moves to Texas. Before leaving she shared Texas insights and some Spanish words. Five students scored 100 in spelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lupe Herrera
Texas
Fifth Grade Class Studies Science and Reading
Students in the fifth grade have been reading Robinson Crusoe and learning science basics. Names listed include Esther, Robert John, Batt, Robert Downs, Delores, Janette, Doyle, and Bearl as those with perfect spelling papers. They cover thermometers freezing and boiling points solids squids and gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther
Rewriting Letters and Project Work Noted
Last week's English task involved rewriting letters without punctuation then adding it back. Geography covered a pretend trip to Los Angeles and New York while Southern Countries of North America unit f finished. History sees unit four end and unit five reports begin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
New York
North America
Pearl
Classroom Snapshot of Extended Week Activities
The report describes a two day vacation last week and ongoing lessons. Students practice math casting out 19s in operations. They study colds via teacher notes and completed The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Reading tests occurred Monday. Oral climate and mineral reports on Spain occur in geography. Science begins a unit titled What Is the Ocean of Air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sleepy Hollow
Spain
Eighth Grade Vacation Auto Biographies and Tests
Bright Grade News notes the eighth grade enjoyed a two day vacation Thursday and Friday. Students are writing autobiographies in English and taking imaginary trips in science. In arithmetic they are reviewing percentage. Miss Leymaster sent for cough drop samples on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amazoniver
Leymaster Dent
Ga Company
Farm Bureau Boosters Hold Burt Meeting Kickoff Drive
Burt hosts Farm Bureau captains in a Monday night gathering led by district fieldman T. C. Peterson of Garner and J. C. Skow of Wesley. A 6:30 banquet preceded the meeting, a preliminary step to the forthcoming annual membership drive with another banquet planned in December, captains from each township attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau Boosters
Burt
T. C. Peterson
Garner
J. C. Skow
Wesley
Farm Bureau
Burt Hotel
Lions Club Speaker Dr L P Scott to address meeting
Dr L P Scott of Waterloo representing Fort Dodge Laboratories will speak at the Lions Club Luncheon at the American Legion hall Thursday evening November 14. He will show pictures from a western trip and promises the biggest treat since the last fish dinner for attendees. Topics include cold prevention studies to be discussed with junior high students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. P. Scott
Waterloo
Fort Dodge Laboratories
Lions Club
American Legion Hall
West
Freshman English and science class water lessons
Freshmen studied correctness in words and phrases and learned about water and its uses. They enjoyed a riddle session on water and visited the water tower last Thursday to hear interesting facts about it.
Children study letter writing in agriculture class
Students discuss methods of composing social letters and review teacher questions. They recall past agricultural projects and common problems faced. The class practices answering prompts and drafting replies to keep correspondence clear and polite.
They Will Write Autobiographies in Class Wednesday
In an American literature class, students plan to write personal life stories to learn about each other. While discussing topics in economics, they explore money and its absence. The more they talk, the more they wish for funds they lack.
Seniors tackle Elizabethan Period and a tough test
English seniors study Shakespeare and the Elizabethan era, then endure a challenging test. In school news, Shirley Bunkofske and Erwin Giesking were elected senior cheer leaders top finishers. Science notes report shiny coffee pots keep coffee warmer longer. An experiment shows iron conducts heat better than wood. Government classes discuss how newspapers influence legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Bunkofske
Erwin Giesking
Cheever
Glee Club Sings Armistice Day Program Selections
The girls glee club sang at PT A on Monday night with selections Play Gypsies and Auf Wiedersehn. The fifth grade choir performed Hels My Uncle as basketball season begins and practice schedules are re arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.T. A
Auf
Woolen dress project moves through sewing stages
The senior class is making woolen dresses with most patterns cut out and some ready to sew. Clickety Click Club met after school with Wilma Heesch and Marjorie Mechler as hostesses. Freshman girls finished 26 seams due last week and began patterns while testing fabric shrinkage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilma Heesch
Marjorie Mechler
Kossuth 4-H clubs organized and officers elected
Fourteen or more Kossuth county 4-H clubs form the base for about 250 boys active in club work next year. Fay J. Meade reports 14 clubs organized with two more posibles. 200 beef calves and 60 dairy calves expected on feed. Several projects include swine, western feeder lambs, corn yield, and a colt project. Each club to have a demonstration team emphasizing recreation, grain and livestock judging, with state fair participation. Officers elected across numerous clubs including Buffalo, Seneca, Lakota, Fairview, Algona, and more, with leaders named for each club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algona
Kossuth
Fay J. Meade
Truman
Minn
North End
Meade
Alfred Fett
Laverne
Seneca Township
Donald Budlong
Buffalo Club
Clarence van ‘Hove
Wayne Mechler
Gerald Bonacker
Harl Zwiefel
Martin ‘Bleich
Fairview Future Farmers Club
Phil Merriam
Wilbur ‘Merriam
Gail ‘Wolf
Kenneth ‘Wagner
W. H. Merriam
Warl Chambers
Loren Hans
Lakota Club
Duane ‘Koestler
LaVonne Koestler
Ruth Edwards
C. C.peterson
Greenwood Boy’s Club
Ross Inman
Kenneth Mulligan
Gerald Soderberg
Wayne Nyman
Jerome Soderberg
C. C. Inman
Robert Mayer
Algona Club
Charles Brown
Wayne Barr
Gerald Schenck
Curtis Gardner
Floyd Bode
Swea-Hagle
Robert Johnson
Lowell Larson
Harold Swanson
Art E. Anderson
Donald Bormann
Irvington Club
Robert Lemkee
Donald Kruse
E. C. Weisbrod
Lone Rock Club
Eugene Radig
Donald Gross
Robert Hanna
Arnold Reilly
Louis Reilly
Harold Winkie
Whittemore Club
Leo Elmore
Vernon Bormann
Edward Elbert
Orville Mueller
Henry Mueller
Burt Club
James Woltz
Kenneth Trenary
Sylvester Brace
Lloyd Schenck Jr
Lloyd Schenck
Donald Hansen
Hebron Club
Sanford’ Eichhorn
Lowell Underbakke
Ray Eichhorn
Library notes highlight new weekly acquisitions and talk
The librarian spoke at the Dean P T A meeting on Our Library and announced this week’s arrivals including The Timeless Land Berlin Diary Shirer New Voyager Prouty Between Two Autumns Meets the South Americans Vitamins What They Are and How to Obtain Them. A new selection of mysteries westerns juveniles and many others was added. Plan to stop Saturday and find yourself a book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.T. A
Berlin
Shirer
Prouty
Ten Nights in a Barroom movie at Titonia High
The temperance drama Ten Nights in a Barroom will play at Titonia High School on Monday November 17 at 7 30 pm with Methodist church cooperation Adapted from the Hollywood film the feature has drawn large crowds at dry rallies The cast includes William Farnum as Joe Morgan William Santschi as the saloon keeper and Thomas Jefferson as the bar fly A brief talk by Rev C C McCanief Des Moines superintendent of the Anti Saloon League will follow Admission is free with an offering for the Iowa temperance campaign
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titonia
William Farnum
Joe Morgan
Miller
William Santschi
Thomas Jefferson
Joseph Jefferson
Iowa Anti- Saloon League
C C. McCanief
Des Moines
Anti-Saloon League
Iowa
Red Cross Drive Plans Set After County Meeting
The final county Red Cross meeting before the roll call drive met Monday in Algona with about 60 present. Rev. F. C. Volzke, roll call chairman, urged volunteers not to apologize for soliciting funds as part of the nation wide drive. Kossuth county quota is 3400. Workers reaching goal will join an honor list and must note on their work sheet why a potential donor declined. Service pins will be awarded to those contributing 150 hours of Red Cross work, including soliciting knitting or sewing. Hight captains were named for Algona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Algona
F. C. Volzke
Kossuth
Kossuth Court News Highlights Local Intoxication Cases
Kossuth district and justice court items show Ambrose McBride bound over on intoxication charges after pleading guilty, and George Ludwig bound over on similar charges. Bernard McBride and Russell Sharp fined five dollars each for intoxication, with Sophia? No, Harold Sylvester fined five and placed on 30 day probation. Carl Vinsant fined fifty dollars for overload, with suspension after licensing, plus costs. Durward St John case dismissed for unlawful release of a restrained animal. George Noone given a sixteen day sentence suspended on costs. No new district court cases. three probate estates docketed including Eunice Mae Moore estate and Michael Melsen estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algona
Ambrose McBride
F. Specht
McBride
George Ludwig
St. Benedict
Justice of Peace
Della Welter
Kossuth
Bernard McBride
Ambrose
Specht
Russell Sharp
Carl Vinsant
Fort Dodge
Brady Transfer Co
Sam T. Nix
C. H. Ostwinkle
Algona Jurors Named for 1941 Term Opens November 24
The 1941 Algona court term opens November 24 with Judge G W Stillman presiding. Petit jurors report December 2 at 9:00 a m. include G Howard Baskin A J W Behrends Charles Berringer Earl Gaylor L W Gillespie Jive Henry E Hovey George E Johnson Vivian Peterson W M Schmidt J H Thul Flora I Tiss Charlotte Wernert Axel Bratlund Walter Disworth Mrs Edna McDonald Mrs Gee Nyman Bancroft Floyd Bacon Harriet Kreithe Mrs George Patterson Lillian Schrader Burt Joe Becker Bode Art Goeke Elmore Minn Will Miller John Olson Fenton Sam Winter Buffalo Center Rose Johnson Folkert Stecker John Welhousen Forrest E Willis Titonka D A Hoosier Swea City Leonard Baas West Bend Edna Flom Caroline Kleinpeter George Seaberg Wesley Bertha Elbert Whittemore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Johnson
Titanica
Algona
G. W. Stillman
G. ‘Howard Baskin
A. J W. Behrends
Charles ‘Berringer
Earl Gaylor
L. W. Gillespie
Jive Henry
E. Hovey
George E. Johnson
Vivian Peterson
W. M. Schmidt
J. H. Thul
Flora I. Tiss
Charlotte Wernert
Axel Bratlund
Walter Disworth
Edna McDonald
Gee
Nyman
Bancroft
Floyd Bacon
Harriet i Kreithe
George Patterson
Lillian Schrader
Burt
Joe Becker
Bode
Art Goeke
Elmore
Minn
Will Miller
John Olson
Fenton
Sam Winter
Buffalo Center
Folkert Stecker
John Welhousen
Forrest E. Willis
Titonka
D. A. Hoosier
Swea City
Leonard Baas
West Bend
Edna Flom
Caroline Kleinpeter
George Seaberg
Wesley
Bertha Elbert
Whittemore
Marriage Licenses Issued in Kossuth County Past Week
Licenses issued in the past week in Kossuth county include August 1 marriages. Huschka 35 and Evelyn M Halligan 20 both of St Benedict. Joseph R Mc Nerney 30 of Des Moines and Mary Ellen McDonald 24 of Ledyard. Russell R Shipler 35 and Sophia Schipull 22 both of Burt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kossuth County
Huschka
Evelyn M. ‘Halligan
St. Benedict
Joseph R. Mc~Nerney
Des Moines
Mary Ellen McDonald
Ledyard
Russell R. Shipler
Sophia Schipull
Burt
Wolfes Are Now Near Home Plate in Town Letter
A brief note from Lee O Wolfe reports rain and crop flooding. crops under water and spoiled, corn particularly affected. He travels from Excelsior Springs and mentions meeting Ed Clemans. On Monday November 10, Dr and Mrs H I Torgersen received a card from the Woes mailed at Clovis NM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Excelsior Springs
Ed Clemans
rLee O. Wolfe
H. I. Torgersen
Clovis
New Mexico
St Benedict Youth Suffers Collarbone Fracture
St Benedict. Gerald German nine year old youth sustained a fractured collarbone when the car he rode in overturned three miles southwest of St Benedict. The vehicle owned by Charles Stufflick of Forest City was driven by Arnold Stufflick. The driver lost control on a township road when the car overturned after coming over a hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Benedict
Geerald Germann
Charles Stufflick
Forest City
Arnold Stufflick
Schnucker at Dubuque Meet
The Rev Calvin Schnucker pastor of the Rameey Reformed church north of Titonka is one of the speakers at the 8th annual conference for pastors at the University of Dubuque and its Seminary from November 9 to 12. He will lecture on the Work of the Rural Church and assist seminars on Pastoral Psychology. Other leaders include E Stanley Jones and J H Ward plus Alfred S Nickless. Pastors from Roseuth county attending include Rev Paul Figge and Rev E G Sawer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin Schnucker
Rameey Reformed Church
Jh. W. G. Ward
First Presbyterian Church
Oaks Park
Ill
Amg
Alfred S$. Nickless
Davenport
Town
Roseuth County
Paul Figge
Burt
E. G. Sawer
Lakota
Grandma Schutter Hall 75th Birthday Party
Mrs. Harm Schutter, mother of Benny and Will Schutter, turned 75 on Friday November 7. Neighbors and old friends visited at the Bonny Schutter home with tea and lunch. Miss Margreete Tjaden baked the cake. seventy adults and nine children attended despite mud and snow. The oldest guest was 93 year old Mrs Malters. 78 year old Mrs Henry Boyken, blind, came to greet. In the evening Rev Schulz, her son William and grandchildren joined for hot chocolate and cake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandma
Harm) Schutter
Benny
Will Schutter
Bonny Schutter
Joe Kline
Margreete Tjaden
Malters
Henry Boyken
Woden
Schulz
William
Iowa exhibitors at International Live Stock Exposition and Horse Show
Ben G. Studer of Wesley and Charles R. Quinn of Bancroft, noted Kossuth county stockmen, will be among Iowa exhibitors at the International Live Stock Exposition and Horse Show in Chicago from November 29 to December 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicaigo
Ben G. Studer
Wesley
Charles R. J. Quinn
Bancroft
Iowa
Chicago
4-H Banquet Set for Burt High School Gymnasium
Kosuth county 4-H boys and girls banquet scheduled for December 11 at Burt High School gymnasium. Program is being prepared and outstanding club work will be recognized for the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BURT
Kossuth County
Burt High School
Scouts of Kossuth Receive Thirty Five Awards
The Boy Scout court of honor at Algona Thursday awarded 35 badges to Kossuth youths from Laverne Algona Swea City West Bend and Ledyard. H W Miller presided and W C Day presented moving pictures at the close of the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts of Kossuth
Algona
Kossuth
Laverne
Swea
Heiress Miss Dalele Chinn Inherits $40,000 From Edward A Cuda hy
Heiress Dalele Chinn a former Osage girl now a Chicago nurse receives a $40,000 bequest from Edward A. Cuda hy a packer whom she cared for during two illnesses in his will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalele Chinn
Osage
Chicago
Edward A. Cudahy, Packer
P T A Sponsors School Pupils Sight and Hearing Testing
Members of the P T A voted to sponsor testing of sight and hearing for every pupil. Tests to be conducted by teachers with room mothers under a doctor's guidance. Appointed room mothers include Mrs Blanchard in first grade and Mrs Young in fifth grade, with high school Mrs Dreesman. The Angelus picture will be displayed in each room for two weeks and later donated to local clubs in Art Week honors. Record PTA membership reached 111.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teachers Association
Oscar Blanchard
Henry Orthel
Fred Adamson
Miles Remillard
al Young
Geo. Bonacker
Homer Downs
Amos Bonacker
Herman Dreesman
P.T. A
Angelus
Supt
Cheever
Misner
Dr. Newhere
Fenton Veterinarian Rejected at Des Moines Induction
ALGONA The Kossuth County Selective Service Board received notice Monday that Dr Edward Capesius a Fenton veterinarian was rejected at the Des Moines induction center while five other men sent at the same time passed examinations Gen Charles H Grahl state director sent a message to town selectees local boards medical examiners and appeal officials involved in the Selective Service program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algona
Kossuth County
Selective Service Board
Edward Capesius
Penton
Des Moines
Charles H. Grahl
State Selective Service
Custodians of County Meet at Burt in November
Seven Kossuth county custodians and their wives attended the November meeting at Burt with Mr and Mrs J G Lewick in charge C C Miller West Bend spoke on traps and valves. The evening ended with social time and lunch served by the hostess The next meeting will be December 13 at Algona with Mr and Mrs B H Potter in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burt
Koesuth County
J. G. Lewick
C. C. Miller
West Bend
Algona
B. H. Potter
Aukes Tells of Turkey Business Decline After Storm Losses
Walter Aukes recounts heavy turkey losses from Armistice Day storm last year. He bought 2700 poults this year, lost 1700 in ten days, saved about 1000, and still has 800. Brothers Reg, Reinder, Marvin and brother-in-law Clarence Heitland shared total losses around 4500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Aukes
Turkey
Walter
Reg
Reinder
Marvin
Clarence Heitland
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DR. Scott Lions Club
Junior News
Senior News
Home Economics
Topic
Donald
Dean Sjogren
Gus Sjogren
Douglas Brown
A. L. Brown
Ramsey Reformed Church
Kossuth District and Justice Court News OF the Week
Wolfes
Lavenburg
Kansas
Schnucker
Dubuque
Ben Studer
Chas. Quinn
American Legion Rooms
Aukes
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