Harvest News and Local Social Notes from Ringsted
Most farmers are harvesting grain as combines run heavily this year. Numerous local residents attend gatherings and visits, with several on relatives’ visits to Cedar Rapids Estherville and Minneapolis. Several surgeries and medical visits are noted, including tonsil removals at Holy Family hospital and a hospital trip for health. Local hosts, parties, and dinners mark community life, with many family members traveling to visit kin and celebrate events in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John. Skow
Calif
Fis
Isi High Lake
Sam
Skow
Fessler
Bros
D “Kinney
Helmers
Schuler
Kohl
George
Madden
Kohl Will
Geo.” Madden
Hally
Evelyn
Kruse
Dr. Kirkegaarde
Estherville
Petersburg Socials Tie Local Groups to Festive Gatherings
Petersburg residents reported a Mission Festival at Henry Ebeling’s grave site with numerous neighbors attending. East Petersburg club members hosted a Thursday session at Mrs Sever Knuts with many locals taking part. Visitors included L J Hoovel of Spirit Lake and North Jackson guests at Knutson home. Several families hosted relatives and friends across Lakefield Estherville and Sioux City areas, with Stitch and Chatter club meetings and social dinners noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Sanderson
Henry Ebeling
Arthur Peterson
H.P. Rasmussen
Lars Johnson
Charley
Jim Koenecke
Jesse Allen
A.J. Pass
East Petersburg
Sever Knuts
Reuben Meyer
Curtis and Shirley
Chester Brady
R. J. Rasmussen
Kielblock
Walter Nielsen
Karl Seeger
Ed Weiner
Wm. Peterson
Lee Cushman
Victor Kielty
Frank Wieskus
L. J. Hoovel
Spirit Lake
S. A
Pete Rasmussen
N. A. Jensen
E. E. Peterson
Garland Peterson
Lakefield
S. A. Knutson
Moray
Marold Halleck
Sioux City
Marjorie’ Hill
Fairmont
Palmer ‘Paulson and Son
Walter Paul
Lowell’ Johnson
Estherville
A. Thy. Paul
Bud .Nasby
Thencient
Ollee Nasby
Dolliver Ladies Aid and town events gather many locals
Dolliver social notes detail Ladies Aid at Anna Balmer home with Rev A P Anderson Sept ringsted. July 20. Attendees include Balmer family, Dickenson cousins, and Stow family at O Sells for William Stows birthday. School board fixed budget hearing and September 4 opening. staff listed. Various visits by local families, travelers, and teachers described with brief arrivals and departures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid Society
Dolliver Lutheran Church
Anna Balmer
A. P. Anderson
Ringsted
Mines
Ollie Watland
Albert Rasmussen
J.C. Weber
Art Balmer
Conrad Frerichs
James Hill
Harry Balmer
Martin Balmer
O. P. Stow
William G. Stow
Luann
Patsy
Marcia
William C. Stow
William V. ‘Olson
Bobby
Margery
Jimmie
John
O'Sell
O Sell
Paul Anderson
A. B.eckhart
V. L. Whalen
Olson
Lowell
Ronnie Dickenson
Wisona
Milan
C. W. Dickinson
James Dickenson, Jr
General Eddy Leads Ninth Division Frontline Tours in Normandy
Ernie Pyle profiles Maj. Gen. Manton Eddy commander of the Ninth Infantry Division, praising his honesty approachability and front line presence in France. The piece recalls Eddy’s Tunisia and Sicily service, his love of Chicago home, and his habit of visiting troops at dawn then sharing stories and humor to lift morale. It also recounts Eddy’s camp routine, a night patrol aboard an unarmed jeep, and a famous anecdote of aiding a soldier in a rain soaked bivouac during Africa. The narrative closes with broader notes on the Ninth’s extensive combat sequence from Africa to Cherbourg.
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Normandy
Perenoucers
Manton
Eddy
Tunisia
Sicily
France
Omar Bradley
Chicago
General Eddy
Africa
Bud
Cherbourg
Ninth
England
Tr “Ir
Germany
Ringling Brothers
Estherville Notes On People Places And Storm Damage
Dennis Bazin visits Sibley. Howard Espeset appointed to resolutions committee from the fourth district at the Republican state convention. Shadle and Son’s store remodeling with a larger plate glass front for Rhodes block. Halloway Co closes store in Masonic building and moves to Kansas. Fred Hendershot buys new house on Des Moines Street. Catherine Doyle heads to Cedar Rapids after visit. A storm in Stierburn area knocks down buildings and silos, with some tornado-like damage. Lyman rent DeLoss cottage. Brown moves to Ralph’s Cafe apartment. Sternborg builds a weekend cottage at Swan Lake. Rev. Chipperfield from Sac City visits Estherville. Local residents return from Chicago World’s Fair. Miss Story resumes Woolworth work. Ethel Koenecke visiting. War effort boosts production. baseball double-headers on Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Bazin
Sibley
Howard Espeset
Forith
Shadle and Son’s _ merchantile
Halloway Co
Masonic Building
Kansas
Fred Hendershot
J. P. Kirby
Des Moines St
Catherine Doyle
Cedar Rapids
John Lyman
DeLoss
South Seventh Street
Merwin Brown
Estherville
Millers’ Bay
H. A. Jensen
Don L. Woodley
Thelma Story
Chicacago
Miss Story
Woolworth
Ethel Koenecke
Lisbon
Kennedy party to Estherville for summer visit
J. P. Kennedy and his daughters are in St. Ann Illinois visiting relatives. They plan to come to Estherville in about ten days where the girls will spend the summer with their father, brother and sister. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Strube and children and Mrs. Strube's mother Mrs. Ds Dillon are on a vacation trip to Port Arthur. Clabaugh family currently resides.
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J. P. Kennedy
St. Ann
Estherville
Ed. Strube
Fall Causes Skull Fracture for Mrs. Turner
Mrs. Mary Turner mother of Mrs. Leon White suffered a bad fall Saturday resulting in a skull fracture. She was taken Monday to the W. L. Peterson home for care with friends in the vicinity. The Eggers family once lived on a farm south of town near the Ray area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. P. Stow
Gerald Stow
Helen Schwietert
Bure
Melvin L. Hunt
Miss Schietert
Mrs. Hunt
Delbert Burgess
Armatrong
Doll- Iver
Sgt. Burgess
New Guinea
Edmonton
Canada
James Dickenson
Mary Turner
Leon White
W. L. Peterson
Eggers
Ray
High Staff Officers Visit Invasion Front
In early invasion days a host of Allied generals and admirals toured the beachhead. Marshall Eisenhower Arnold King Ramsey led the procession as brass paraded bravely, refusing armored cars and riding in open command vehicles despite shells near.
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Marshall
Eijsenhower
Arnold
King
Ramsey
Simple and refreshing garden salads for summer meals
Combines greens from victory gardens with tomatoes cucumbers cabbage and peppers for tossed salads. Describes wilted bacon dressed greens and basic dressings including French dressing with mustard sugar salt vinegar oil and optional additions like horseradish eggs pickles or Roquefort. Provides a making method jar shake or mixer and notes yield about 3/4 cup of dressing.
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Victory Gardens
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Lewis Aanonson
Clarence Olson
Dean
Dwane
Moore
Holy Family
Rand
Kirgegaarde
Nels Ming
Emil Swanson
Eugene
Walter
Nielsen
Donald Howard
Alice
Palmer
Julia Stahl
Silas Nyborg
Calvin Nyborg
Ollie Nasby
Eghan
Hob ‘Brown
Gordon Ring
Jake Nyborg
Joe Haugland
S Sgt. Clinton
Camp Adair
Oregon
Wm. H. Rosendahl
Ruby
Ernest Haugland
Clarence Haugland
Herman Beiner
Basil Poynter
Arthur Haugland
Richard Haugland
Raymond
Claude Rasmussen
Pfc
Howard Nielsen
Lloyd Peterson
Naomi Ebeling
Delores Rasmussen
H. P. Rasmussen
Ray Rasmussen
Jerome
Malvern Dorr
Northwestern Hospital
Minneapolis
Jackson
Miss Rasmussen
Petersburg
Dolliver
Grover
Florence Hill
Elaine
Lorraine Balmer
Dolliver School Board of Directors
James H. Smith
Dolliver High School
H. OD. Mererness
James Stillman
Jean Knight
Perl Rost
DeEtte Wunder
Milford
William Maron
C. P. Stow
Burt
Jim Stow
Hugh Marlow
Lone Rock
Fred Davis
Dennis
Ruth Cayler
Lyl
Kilgore
Ruth
Jane
H. D. Mereness
A. R. Eckhart
L. P. Stilylman
W. L. Peterton
D. D. Megeness
Ernie Pyle
Erniie Pyle
Ecuador
Lindsey Nelson
Knoxville
Nelaton
Cation
C. W. Dickensons
Ronald
Winona
Minnesota
Dickenson
Mich
Kansas City
Missouri
Maurine Harker
Hiarker
Anna Eggers
Ethel Hitchew
Des Moines
Stierburn
John Graft
AC Womens Army Corps
Women's Army Corps
U.S. Army
U. S. Army
American: Legion
Dodge
Iowa
WAC
Wacs
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