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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
4
Relatives and friends gathered across Caledonia Minn and nearby areas for furloughs and visits. Distant travelers include a New Zealand serviceman on leave. Local residents share events at lakeside Bible camp, in Jackson and Worthington, and at rural homes with meals and hospitality for threshers and workers.
Dolliver notes August 3 meeting with Mrs Paul Anderson as host. Plans set for family picnic at State Park on Sunday August 6. Attendees include M L Owens C W Dickinson Lee Miller and others. several non members also present. Nearby social updates describe visits, work changes, and a three week trip for Stillman family as well as various local acknowledgments.
Gladys Kimbrough of Ball Brothers offers home made canning equipment ideas to counter shortages. The article lists a lard can water bath canner, a No 10 tin funnel, a wooden rack, coal tongs as jar lifter, a wire basket, a wooden paddle, and string loops for jars. It notes government releases of more metal may ease shortages but homesteaders can improvise quickly.
Numerous local residents are noted visiting and traveling. Charlie Christ is ill after a stroke and cared for in the home of his daughter in Spencer. Mrs Christie Richards of Spirit Lake visited town. Mrs Gibson and Deanna travel to Peoria to visit Claude Van Uhick. Bobbie Van Uhick joins. LaVonne and Joanne Paulson visit Dunnell relatives. Ray Griffee family moved to North Superior school as janitor. Woodrow Russell completes navy boat training in Farragut Idaho and returns from furlough with family. a family dinner is held in his honor. Alfred Hanson, formerly in Christie Richards home, has died in Storm.
Minneapolis plans two week vacation with Mrs Olson. Weekend guests include Mr and Mrs Joe Prohaska, Bob Brambly, Edith Manard, Dave Livingston and Sharon from Sioux Falls. Louella Kirsh of Storm Lake visited with Kirsh parents. Carl Paulson’s Dunnell parents visited. L P Miller, M Munson, Judith Beyer of Buffalo Center and Clara Olson of Forest City visited Mrs Olson. A G Reinitz learned of a relative’s death in Birmingham. Billie Meyer visited in Johnson home. Chester Howell of East Moline and sister in Whittemore plan part of their vacation with Kermit Gruhke. Tom Miner family dinner marked Mr Miner’s 82nd birthday with Leslie Larson family, Victor Miner family, Russell Tow. Miner and Larson families visited. L L Weaver’s son Max, wounded in the South Pacific, reported in action. Return to Whittemore after time with L F Russell.
The community marks the death of Mrs Jerome Hanson nee Margaret Bringle in Milwaukee with interment at Taylors Falls. Also reported are visits from Verlyn Brown of Boston to Harry Brown, a Sticktu it club August meeting, Bonnie Jean Larson recovering from tonsil surgery, and various local social visits and hospitality among the Martens, Millers, Graffs, Mantheys, and Olesons.
On the Normandy front the ordnance branch sustains the army by repairing vehicles and supplying ammunition. Thousands of ordnance troops, many former craftsmen, work behind the lines with 275,000 catalog items and a vast depot network. They face casualties mainly in bomb-disposal and retrieval units, yet return home safely as they keep fighting machines in repair. The piece also recounts a shipboard encounter with Commander Greene and brief anecdotes from crew members including John Leppard and Harold Lampton.
Pyle notes Capt Warren Pershing, General Pershing’s son, serving as an engineer aboard the ship. A former private, he is tall and blond, avoids using his father’s name, and speaks little of the general unless asked. The general, aging and ill, remains at Walter Reed with a rooftop penthouse recently built for him.
OPA announced July 8 rearranged territories for the Des Moines district spanning 64 counties. J E Dailey, acting district board operations executive, said officers supervise OPA administration and coordinate rationing and price control through local boards with the district office. Zone 1 lists Harry M Konshok covering Clay Dickinson Emmet Hamilton Hancock Hardin Humboldt Kossuth Palo Alto Webster Winnebago Wright.
August 11 study club meets Friday at 8 PM at Mr and Mrs Merl Moller home to study Christian Fundamentals. August 18 divine services at 10 30 with Sunday school at 9 30. August 16 Luther League meets Tuesday at 6 PM Bring your Bibles. August 20 services and Sunday School at usual times followed by a congregational and Sunday School picnic at the Walter League camp after services.
Sunday school and Bible class convene at 10 a.m. The Mission Society gathers in the evening at B with hostesses Mrs Melvin Christian Mrs Arnold Olson Mrs Clifford Saul and Leona Bryan. Ladies Aid meets Wednesday August 16 at 2 30 p.m. in the church parlors.
Wan Lingford Lutheran Church posts Sunday school and Bible class at 11 a.m. Ladies Aid meets Aug 17 at 2:30 p.m. with hostesses M N Jacobson Johannie Johnson Norman Larson Henry Cordes Ferman Watson. Annual L D R Birthday supper Aug 18 at 7:30 p.m. All welcome. First Christian Church announces programs by Rev Fred D Sawyer and Rev Mark H Scott, church school at 9:45, services at 10:50 and 11:15, morning sermon Elijah the Prophet of Changing Moods. Calendar lists church maintenance and guest speaker Dr A T De Groot Aug 20. Methodist Church notes resumption of Sunday services, church school at 10, worship at 11, summer symbolisms series Lakes, Fourth Quarter Conference Aug 29, midweek service, Older Youth Institute Aug 18-19 at Lake Okoboji.
Estherville Lusheran Church announces services on Sunday August 20 at 11 am with Sunday school recess during August. No services this Sunday. Ladies Aid meets Thursday next week hosted by Mrs Victor Mortenson, Mrs Eli Anfinson, Mrs Waldemar Fransdal, and R W Meyers. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Willing Workers meet Saturday afternoon hosted by Mrs Everett Shaw and Mrs A Berven.
Union State Line announces services on August 20 at 9 o clock with a note to observe the early hour. Sunday school convenes each Sunday at 9:45 unless services start at 9 am, in which case Sunday school starts at 10:15.
Joseph F. Kennedy, pastor, leads Sunday worship at 11 a.m. with scripture from Deuteronomy 30 and a sermon titled So Distant Faith. Sunday school meets at 10 a.m. Families away on vacation urged to remain engaged through summer. cordial welcome extended to all.
Iris care guidance from L C Grove of Town State College urges transplanting irises in late July and August to boost blooms. Dividing prevents crowding, rhizome rot, and borers, with varied rotation: some types need 4 to 6 year cycles, others longer. Divide with a digging fork or spade, plant sections 2 feet apart, and reset deeply but not so deep as to rot the thick fleshy roots.
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