Honor Roll and School Activities Report from Crawfordsville
Honor Roll lists seniors Mildred Anderson Violet Pletcher Gladys Rose. juniors Doris Graber William Jones Jane Maxwell Anna Mae Graber Russell Miller. sophomores Leah Anderson Dorothy Rees Margaret Williams James Young. freshmen Gwyneth Davies Wilma Wooley Kathryn Reschley Anna Sommer. Mt Pleasant visit for Visitation Day and guidance conference. junior senior banquet planned. sixth grade publishes newspaper with editorial comic weather sport and society pages. Emmet Ross wins school ping pong title 22 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Manners
Crawfordsville
iMildred Anderson
Violet Pletcher
Gladys Rose
Doris Graber
William Jones
Jane Maxwell
Anna Mae Graber
Russell Miller
Leah Anderson
Dorothy Rees
Mararet Williams
James Young
Washington
Sixth Erade
Emmet Ross
Maurice Rose
Jimmy Young
Boo Martin
Cop pock Students Shine At Mt Pleasant Reading Festival
Cop pock School seventh and eighth graders competed in the Henry county reading festival in Mt Pleasant on April 12 with 99 entrants. Three students earned superior ratings and 12 received excellent marks, including Evelyn Dold Richard Hesser and Colleen McKune. Other local notes report visits and moving news around Cop pock and nearby farms and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gleede Dold
Coppock
Mt. Pleasant Dust
Evelyn Dold
Richard Hesser
Colleen McKune
Howard Zilhman
Rock Island
Mr. Davison
Charles Davison
John Mann
Brighton
Katherine Mann
Mann
Omaha
Nebr
Miss Mann
Rex Briar
Jimmey
Winfield
K. EK. Nichols
Lester Nicola
Sunrise Services at Soldiers Field in Xenia
Florence Baird and her mother visited Chicago and attended the ninth annual Sunrise Service at Soldiers Field in Xenia. About sixty thousand attended outdoors with Dr. Walter Kallenbach delivering the sermon. The column also notes Easter vacation questions and local notes about new farm machinery and visiting relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey Stephens
Xenia
Florence Baird
George Baird
Chicago
Florence
Soldiers’ Field
Haster
Walter Kallenbach
Kallenbach
Harry Jillgore
Julia Wood
Carol Stephens
Davenport
Ralph Young
May Quinn
Iowa City
James Quinn
Alva Boileau
Winfield
Roy Sweet
Mt. Pleasant
Earl Edmondson
Dundee
Floyd Edmondson
Sherm Wiley
Joe Reaney
Waterloo
Roger Colthurst
Norna Clege
Burdett Wagenknecht
Anna Wagenknecht
Herman Wagenknecht
James
Lowa City
Henry Wagen
Barn expansion and family visits noted in Brighton
Sunday visits observed at the Dunbar home in Brighton with Mr and Mrs Cook accompanying Donald Shills. A new cattle and hay barn 56 by 120 feet rises at Dewey Stephens farm with water tank and feed banks under shelter to protect feeder and cattle in bad weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knecht
Dunbar
Brighton
Mrs. Cook
Donald Shills
Dewey Stephen
Vehicle output dwarfed prewar motor totals in 1940
In a single month of 1940 truck production exceeded the total commercial motor vehicle output of all years before World War II.
Ancient Arrow Heads Found Near Oxford North Carolina
Archaeologists report discovering Indian arrow heads near Oxford North Carolina estimated to be more than 10 000 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
N.C
Mrs Ellen Dayton Leaves Westchester for Milwaukee
Mrs. Ellen Dayton, longtime resident of Westchester, moves to Milwaukee to live near two nieces Ruth Dayton and Gladys Lemon. Her property is rented to Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Whitehead as she departs with kin and friends in Wis. Other notes include local visits from Cairo Nebraska and Kentucky families, a baptismal service at the Methodist church, and a plan to view a future picture by Isaac Sprague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Ferguson
Westchester
Ellen Dayton
Milwaukee
Ruth Dayton
Gladys
William Lemon
Dorothy
Jean Lemon
Dayton
Clyde Griggs
Miller Garage
Tom Hopkinson
Sigourney
R. O. Dyer
Esther
Cairo
Neb
Foursquare Church
Washington
Methodist Church
Art Rigenhagcen
Zook
Appy Rigenhaxen
Willma Zook
Elsie Bratten
Wilson Coffey
Chicago
St. Coffey
Roy Bauer
Uy Methodist Church
Ke George Pennington
Isaac Sprague
Tularaemia Link to Handling Wild Rabbits Noted
A historic note warns that tularaemia spreads through handling or dressing wild rabbits carrying the disease. Officials urge caution for hunters and vendors to prevent transmission.
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Henry County
Bairds
Karl Nicola
Fred Cold
Edwin Leeper
Everette Pine
Burlington
Jarental Frank Manning
GMC
General Motors
FN Yin Iulaabuy
Willits Motor Co
West Second St
Washington, Iowa
America
Wisconsin
Kentucky
Dora Grinstead
West Chester
Hiram Baker
Irvin
Alice Dozier
Emma Miller
A. T. Augustine
Sue Reif
Will Reif
Betty Reif
Parsons College
Fairfield
Esther Lindenmeyer
Monticello
Kathryn Hoover
Martha Stout
Whateheer
Florence and Uth Stout
Cedar Rapids
Francis Booth
Des Moines
Dulux
Lovell
Ese IG
Montgommery
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