Grace Episcopal altar guild meeting at Grace Church
Mrs. Wm. Schloeman hosted the Grace Episcopal church altar guild meeting with a regular business session and a lunch. Irwin Nichols Howard Espeset and Jos. Orvis joined Spirit Lake trip for Master Masons fellowship led by Grand Master Fred G. Hansen and others. Will Howard was surprised for his 75th birthday with friends neighbors gifts and refreshments afterward.
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Altar Guild
Wm. Schloeman
Grace Episcopal Church
Irwin Nichols
Howard Espeset
Jos
Orvis
Spirit Lake
Fred G. Hansen
Will Howard
Missionary Society Gathering at Free Methodist Church
Mrs Carrie Gibbons hosted a Friday meeting of the ladie's missionary society of the Free Methodist church. At the business session plans for winter sewing were discussed and donations were arranged to support the church home in the Kentucky mountains.
Cooking Club luncheon at Bevans home
Six members of the D. D. D. cooking club enjoyed a cone o clock luncheon Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Sargent Bevans. The afternoon hours were spent socially. Those present were Mrs. Bevan, Miss Edna Barker, Mrs. L. C. Doo little, Mrs. G. H. Morse, Mrs. R. J. Ridley and Mrs. 8. O. Clark. Mrs. M. E. Wilson and Mrs. I. J. Robinson were out of town.
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Bevans
D. D. D. Cooking Club
Sargent Bevans
Bevan
Edna Barker
L. C. Doolittle
G. H. Morse
R. J. Ridley
O. Clark
M. E. Wilson
I. J. Robinson
Inspector Visits PE. O. Mrs Louise Meyers in Estherville
State Inspector of the P. FE. O. lodge visited Estherville Tuesday evening to inspect the local chapter. A special meeting at Mrs. H. 8. Greig's home followed a 6:30 dinner at the Gardston hotel, marking the progress of the lodge work.
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PE. O
Louise Meyers
Grinnell
P. FE. O. Lodge
Estherville
H. 8. Greig
Gardston
O. R. C. Auxiliary Meets Tuesday Afternoon
Routine business was transacted at a Tuesday meeting of the ladies auxiliary of the O. R. C. The gathering took place at the O. R. C. club rooms.
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O. BR. C
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Initiation of New Members for Teachers Bridge Club
Initiate New Members Miss Leota Hardy and Miss Alma Keyes were initiated Tuesday evening into the teachers' bridge club which met at the Shelter House at Fort Defiance Park. Miss Ethel.
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Leota Hardy
Alma Keyes
Teachers’ Bridge Club
Bhelter
Fort Defiance Park
Ethel
Cooper Misses Hostess as Club Holds Initiation
Cooper was chosen as a member but ill health kept her from attending. The group enjoyed bridge, held the initiation, and shared lunch. Members include Leota Hardy Alma Keyes Ethel Cooper Gertrude Dudley Florence Chambers Marie Stellingwerf Maric Meyers Frieda Anderson Catherine Malone Bertha Cook Edith Steenhusen Vivian Kelly Dorothy Ehlers Mrs John Lynman. Ehlers and Stellingwerf will host the next meeting October 25. Civics-Current Topics department of the Woman's club meets Monday at 3 PM at Mrs R E Gardinter's home with Mrs Geo Robb in charge of the lesson.
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Woman's Club
R. E. Gardinter
Geo. Robb
Meeting of White Shrine at Masonic Hall
Regular Bethel White Shrine meeting convenes at the Masonic hall on Wednesday evening. Mrs Geo Nichols, Miss Adelaide Nichols, and Miss Fitza Welsh serve on the committee. Missionary Guild hosts Mr and Mrs C S Barber at their Orleans cottage for a year end program with six delegates dressed to portray Siam, Korea, Japan, Africa, the Southern mountaineer, and China.
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White Shrine
Bethel White Shrine
Masonic Hall
Geo, Nichols
Adelaide Nichols
Fitza Welsh
Missionary Guild
C. S. Barber
Orleans
Missionary Guild of the
Presbyterian Lechured
Margaret Clark
Millahan McAffee
Siam
Grace Fothergill
Korea
Fern Jackman
Japan
Max Lynn
Africa
Marie Meyers
Marie Stellingwerf
China
Sororities Organize Estherville Pan-Hellenic
A group of women members of national professional and social sororities met Wednesday at Miss Dorothy Hill’s home to organize a local pan-Hellenic association in Estherville. They planned a dinner to be held on the first Friday of November.
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Dorothy Hill
Estherville
Dessert-Bridge Luncheon Sponsored by Grace Episcopal Guild
The Ladies Guild of Grace Episcopal Church sponsors a dessert-bridge luncheon at the G A Nichols home on Thursday October 20 at 1 PM. Parties may organize tables and come. Each lady will lunch before arriving, with dessert and coffee served before bridge for the rest of the afternoon.
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Ladies Guild of Grace Episcopal Church
G. A. Nichols
North Star OBE S meets in regular session
North Star chapter No 200 of the Odd Fellows pantip met in regular session to ballot three petitions two by affiliation and conduct routine chapter business as reported by officers and members present.
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North Star
O. BE. S
Notice of Assessment for Surfacing Secondary Road
Emmet County Iowa board proposes levying assessments on real estate within Secondary Road District No 96. Hearing set before the County Auditor and Board of Supervisors on October 20 at 1 pm. objections to the reports must be filed by noon that day.
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Emmet County
Iowa
Board of Apportionment
Board of Supervisors of the Auditor's Office
Pschorvitle Tete Hk
U'Clock
Local Bridge Events and Luncheon Socials Recap
Transacted and the evening closed with a lunch and a social hour. Those on the serving committee were Mrs. Henry Mahlum chair man assisted by Mrs. Fred Hime bauch Mr. and Mrs. RB H. Brack ett Mrs. Mary Shelton Miss Alma Lee White Mrs. Williard Crim Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McKay and Mrs. Russell Peterson. Enjoy Luncheon at Cottage Mrs. E. V. Pierce entertained the "pot luck" bridge club Wednesday at her cottage on Okoboji. Bridge was played at two tables in the afternoon following a one o'clock luncheon. Hostess to Past Matrons Miss Elizabeth Colt and Mrs. M. FE. Wilson will be at home to the Past Matrons association Saturday at the home of Mrs. Wilson. A social afternoon will be enjoyed following a one o'clock dinner. weve
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Henry Mahlum
Fred Himebauch
RB H. Brackett
Mary Shelton
Alma Lee White
Williard Crim
Ralph McKay
Russell Peterson
E. V. Pierce
Okoboji
Elizabeth Colt
M. FE. Wilson
Art Balmer
Elvie Wicks
A. K. Iverson Place
Fred Moltzen
Clara
Tom Richards
Martin Eckhart
Martin Balmer
Albert Thorson
Geo. McKean
Fred Burkkhelter
Winthrop
Minn
Church Annex
Carver
Martin Bleich
A. J. Oswalt
Marshalltown
Mr. Hayes
L. E. Trees
Sherburn
T. B. Richards
Harry Poffenberger
Lawrence Cuyler
Martin Balmer Place
Roy Richards
Gerald
David Richards
Inperior
Mabel Hanson
Velma Olson
Henry Brooks
Armstrong
Ike Watts
Irma McIntire
Oscar Petersen
Swea City
Halfa
Ladies Aid
Theodora Hovey
Swen City
Julia Gangestad
Harriet Cargill
Lena Skie
Lutheran Church
Ralph Fuller
Allende
Jesse Felkey
Kenneth Boyd
Engle Grove
Tom Huntley
James Edwards
Joe MeIntire
EF. Burkhead
Ernie Johnson
Arm Strong
Axle Burkhead Paling
Mondave
Leonard Mad. Gen
Bev
Buchan
Ambitious Bride Turns On Bank Mood For Merger
A humorous note concludes the column as a bride quips that the local bank should merge to fix its funds after a $4.27 check bounces. The punch line contrasts a bank with insufficient cash and a man of his word, reflecting small town wit and social notes from Lincoln area.
Iowa corn production tops half a million bushels in 1932
Iowa’s 1932 corn crop is estimated at 516 million bushels, a record high. Yield per acre stands at 184? per acre, with 11,732,000 harvested acres matching 1931. Oats, barley, hay, and fruit outputs are given with varied gains and declines, while disease and weather influence yields.
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LeSlie M. Carr
Iowa
United States Department of Agriculture
Julius H. Peters
Federal Agricultural
Indictment Returned in Infant Death Case at Harris
An unmarried mother from Sibley was formally indicted for the murder of her newborn daughter around December 15, 1931. No indictment was returned against the man involved in the related case, tied to the discovery May 31, 1932 of an infant’s body in an improvised grave beneath garage flooring in Harris.
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Sibley
Harris
High Amana farmers find ears of corn 12 inches long
Here and There items note unusually long corn ears measuring 12 inches and 9 inches around, each weighing two pounds. It would take 37 ears to make a bushel, with farmers sharing other rural curiosities and local notes.
Local History Notes From Early Iowa and Nearby Regions
Capt Ike Spinsey of LeClaire sells William Cody home to C B and Q for 150 dollars. It will be moved to a Cody Wyoming memorial park next spring. Highway Ten from Goldfield west 15 miles opened Oct 6 with paving begun Aug 4. Payroll reached 5000 dollars weekly, including 85 Wright county men. Downey school south of West Branch earned 100 percent dental hygiene rating from University of Iowa bureau. Walter Kutch of Davis County found 24 sweet potatoes from garden. Toledo hosts 18th annual Halloween on Oct 31 featuring a masked pavement dance for Tama county residents. Spirit Lake rises 2 feet 3 inches above East Okoboji. Dean Diminy, 58, and his 4 year old Arkansas son visit Mount Vernon. Diminy left home 50 years ago after earning a pharmacy degree, owning a cotton plantation, and prospecting. O W L girls 4 H club of College township Linn county recently marked 4-H clubs founding in May 1923. several charter members remain active. Iowa Corn served as Kare table syrup, paralleling Replogie's Golden Pancake flour on Pancake Day.
Snow fence expansion reaches 90 miles in O'Brien County
O'Brien county has contracted for more snow fence bringing the seen up to 150000 feet about 90 miles. K. W. Buell north of Maynard sold the r& oak and hickory crop from an 85 acre tract bought 55 years ago. The Wilton Junction high school freshmen class includes 3 sets of twins. Emmet county board of supervisors contracted for four one story cottages to house dependent families on the county farm.
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O'Brien County
K. W. Buell
Maynard
Wilton Junction High School
Emmet County Board of Supervisors
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