Family activity ideas from Iowa State College expert
Dr. Glenn Hawkes of Iowa State College suggests summer family activities that mix fun with learning. Include farm visits, nature walks, bird identification, and short trips to town to show children how offices, banks, and libraries operate. Encourage spontaneous play and planned excursions to local points of interest.
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Glenn Hawkes
Department of Child Development
Iowa State College
Hawkes
Planned Tours Offer Learning For Families
Dr. Hawkes urges pre trip planning and post visit discussion to maximize family learning during excursions to sites like sewage disposal plants packing plants rail yards and railroad stations. A quick phone call can arrange visits making it a joint chance for parents and children to think plan and enjoy time together.
Looking at Life as It Used to Be Forty Five Years Ago
A compact newspaper card recaps local life with notes from August 5 1909 and August 7 1929. It records church activities Reverend Chapman filling pulpit in Mitchell and residents traveling to Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois plus next events. The piece mentions property sales, notable travel, wartime news and a double ring wedding at St Peter’s in Tripoli with local families named.
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Congregational Church
Chapman of Mitchell
C. A. Schuknecht
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Jacob Berg
Fargo
N. D
Walter
Roy Grover
Des Moines
C. F. Kuhrt
Carpenter Fink
St. Peter’s Church
Marilyn Vggt
Romaine Lampe
St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church
Tripoli
Elvin Neuendorf
From My Kitchen Window August Notes and Quotes
August is described with heat and cool nights, insects, and poppy symbolism. The piece blends aphorisms from Maclaren, Sanford, Stevenson, and others, plus a social security statistic about surnames and a stray classroom joke.
Livestock auction to open at new sales barn
A new livestock auction sales barn opens to the public next Thursday in the northeast part of town, owned and operated by Paul Kue ther and J M Snyder. Other items include festival sponsorship by Brandenburg Krueger VFW post and local notices of marriages and obituaries.
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Raymond Guhlow
War Department
Raymond A. Guhlow
France
Pfe
Gale J. Tiernan
Kramer Produce
Armed Forces
M. Tiernan
Waverly
Howard Johnson
Readlyn
Duane Holm
Fred Holm
Tripoli
Howard Nuss
Sophia Biermann
John Bahlmann
J. L. Schnurstein
Spring Fountain
Lena Tegtmeier
Conrad Sell
Brandenburg-Krueger Vfw Post
Paul Kuether
J. M. Snyder
Lester Becker
Sumner
Case Implement
Gerhardt Lehmkuhl
Wm. E. Dilley
Buck Grove
J. W. Sassmann
Presbyterian Hospital
Waterloo
Carl Biermann
Scholtz Memorial Hospital
Lois Niemann
Pvt
Merlin E. Borcherding
Boyd Kelsey
Emma Kelsey
New Hampton
Bert Buhr
Tripoli Town Hall
Wapsie Sportsmen's Club
Ball Park
Probate notice for Herman J. Bunger will
The Bremer County Iowa Clerk of the District Court files a claim of a will for Herman J. Bunger deceased. The probate date is August 16, 1954 at 10 a.m. in Waverly Iowa. Citizens may appear at the courthouse to contest and show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate.
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District Court
Bremer County
Iowa
Herman J. Bunger
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