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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1938
Page
1
Raymond Kiefer attends Camp Foster this week while Mrs. Adah Eveleth visits relatives in Sac City. The column lists numerous local residents on vacations, visits, and returns, including Sconberg in Montevideo and Minneapolis, the Clark family in Royal, and many trips to Minnesota and Iowa sites.
Mrs O Norby visits Lamberton sister. Miss Matilda Johnson wed Dr H B Frayer at Greencastle Indiana. They reside there. Essterville ties: bride's kin, Mrs Chas Johnson and Mrs George Bale. Guests F E Allen and soya Severas with Jay Howard. Raineys return from Chicago trip. boast northern Iowa and southern Minnesota roads best. Ford tractor aids grader on streets. Gen Shade back from Pleasantville. Jessie Ridley tours South Dakota with sister Mrs Lou Cranston. Frank Peterson returns from Chicago. Toshay at Spirit Lake.
Thirty years ago a disastrous fire swept a large Peoria block Wednesday night causing an estimated $250,000 in losses. The article notes residents visiting relatives and various local trips, including Mrs. Fred Trevett and Walter Wilson, with many returning from trips to Nora Springs, Tennessee, the west coast, and Canada.
Mrs. Chaos Lewis entertained a group of friends Friday afternoon. The gathering featured a bridge game followed by lunch served at three small tables.
Mr and Mrs L E Stockdale hosted a Saturday afternoon cocktail party with 36 guests including Mr and Mrs A W Clapp of St Paul as the guests of honor. The social event drew a sizable local attendance.
The Bet ter Yet 4-H girls club held a meeting July 18 at the Schultz home. Vice president Opal Jean Schultz led, roll call cited Suggestions to Demonstration Team, and demonstrations showcased Swedish Tea Ring muffins popovers burnt sugar cake and table setting. Members and mothers attended, with a lunch served.
In a small ceremony attended by both families, Miss Ione T anico Cramer became the bride of Charles E Spengler. The couple, after a trip to the Dells, will reside in an apartment on South 8th. Both are graduates and employed at the Estherville packing plant.
A series of marriage notices from mid July list couples across Minnesota and Wisconsin. Names include William Edward Mor, Darlene Lidke, Earl Zehms, Dora Tourtellet, Floyd Shosquist, Frances Jewell, Donald Kampa, Dorothy Fernell, Helge Bohm, Irene Gars Jensen, Frank Voss, Elle Hanner, Curtis Page, Fritz Brunette, Mary Owens, Earl Glackler, Irene Sweine, Dorothy Evans, Mrs Wm Erickson, and others. The notices reference witnesses, judges, and the officiant Justice Schloeman, with locations such as Silvis Rock Island Sherburn St Paul St James St Paul Park Fairmont and several Minn. towns. ceremony read by Justice of Peace M. H. Schloeman and other attending individuals are named.
A newspaper consumer advice item presents Madame DeLore offering one free question per reader with initials used in answers. Readers may pay for private replies by mail. Several sample questions and answers cover jobs, property, marriage, sales, relationships, and business ventures with cautious, non-definitive guidance.
Household advice covers refreshing faded window shades with kalsomine and painting awnings and rugs thinly with paint or dye. Quick ice cream sauce blends melted chocolate peppermint creams. Meadowsweet suggested for shady borders with growth from June to July. Editor Bahne and family travel with J. N. Darling's Dog Movies trailer visits Spirit Lake.
In Luke Short’s Western tale Dave Turner and Rosy Rand return from prison to Soledad to tended ranch affairs. A town showdown, a nesters defense, and a land settlement plan unfold as Dave offers alfalfa farming and water rights to squatters, complicating a perilous frontier future.
Dave outlines a farming scheme to exploit water from a creek to flood a basin and plant alfalfa. He envisions hiring Mexican labor to ditch water, creating multiple crops in a summer, contracting部分, and using future sales to settle debts and stock the place. They scout a grassy basin with six log shacks and fallow checkerboard fields awaiting spring plowing.
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