Christmas visits and community notices fill Crawfordsville
Larry Jones returns from Cedar Falls to spend vacation with the Tow family as his history teaching stint ends. The Edgar family hosts a large Christmas dinner with relatives from Ainsworth Martelle Iowa City and Cedar Rapids. The article notes school dismissal for Christmas break and recalls community events including a Women’s Society of Christian Service installation and donation efforts.
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Crawfordsville
Larry Jones
U.N.S
Cedar Falls
Charles City
Wayne
1.S.U
Ames
Edgar
Bill Edgar
Linda
Howard Swift
Loveland
Colo
Kermit
Pat) Jenkins
Rhonda
Krusty
Randy
Harlan Dear
Cathy
Billy
Ainsworth
Sam Edgar
Marcia
Debbie
Sharon
Doug
Martelle
Ray
Nancy) Wombacher
Terri
Ike
Sandy
Janet
Patrick
Iowa City
Larry
Ellen) Waggoner
Lori
Lisa
Lynn
Cedar Rapids
Jim Edgar
David
Brenda
Scott
Susan
Richard Stephens
ACO Board of Education
Kenneth Cherryholmes
Glen Cherryholmes
Walter Smith
Washington
Oline
Ill
Jessie Henss
Exington House
Henss
Kenneth
Glen
Smith
Cherryholmes
Burlington
Jax Owens
Earl Woodard
Cleo Cherryholmes
Michael Roth
Paul Roth
Burlington Hospital
Mike
Stop and Go Club to meet Dec 28
The Stop and Go Club will meet Tuesday evening at 6 30 p m at the home of Mrs John K Skubal for a cooperative supper. A gift exchange will occur and Secret Pals for the past year will be revealed. Carl White reports improving from an arterial hemorrhage in Dallas and hopes for home discharge in Garland within the week.
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C. A. Thompson
Insworth
John Kskubal
Irs
Carl White
Dallas
Tex
Duane White
Carl
Garland
Harold Booth
Fairfield
Lela Miller
Halcyon House
Washington
Startler
Stoutner
United Methodist Church
West Chester
Willows
Lildred Hawkins
Duane Hazen
Don Hazen
Ron Hazen
Fredonia
Joeshley
Norbert Norris
Jane Hazen
Georgina Stirling
Howard Pearson
Robert Stirling
Ire
Tom Stirling
David
Columbus Junction
Joe White
Brian
Carl Phillips
Highland School
Lloyd Farrier
Brighton
Harvey Farrier
Moline
Lacy Sines
Paul Sines
Livestock Auction Prices Reported in Joliet
Live stock figures show 1 835 cattle with steers mostly 50 higher and heifers steady. High option steers 36 25 to 36 75 per hundredweight, choice 34 75 to 36, good to choice 32 50 to 34 50. Heifers 34 50 to 35 25 high option, 33 25 to 34 50 choice, 32 00 to 33 00 good and 30 00 to 31 75. Canner cows 17 00 to 21 00. Mrs Erwin Knepp and daughters from Iowa City attended, with another daughter from Germany joining by phone.
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Joliet, al
UPI
Erwin Knepp
Iowa City
George
Janice) Widmer
Germany
Pepperettes enjoy caroling in Ainsworth
In Ainsworth on December 20 the Pepperettes 4-H club gathered 18 girls to carol at the County Home Pines Rest Home Sunny Haven and United Presbyterian Home delivering treats and touring each place. Mothers drove the cars and refreshments followed at Jennie Bartmann’s home.
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Ainsworth
Pepperettes
Jennie Bartmann
Dale Johnston
Gerard Megcelsen
Bartmann
Bill Stout
Pines Rest Home
Sunny Haven
United Presbyterian Home
Bartmann Home
Inaction on POW releases drew protest from Michigan lawmaker
Reps Lucien Nedzi and James O'Hara accused the Pentagon of missing chances to trade a small number of U S prisoners for North Vietnamese POWs after Sgt John Sexton was freed. They cited Sexton’s rapport with Viet Cong captors and two officers demanded in return. They urged follow up on informal exchange ideas despite hopes for a broader settlement.
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Washington
UPI
Pentagon
U.S
Lucien Nedzi
James G O'Hara
Michigan
John Sexton
Defense Department
Sexton
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Nedzi
O'Hara
Mrs Nora Ebner 94 dies after illness in Iowa and Fort Wayne
Nora Irena Hofsteater Ebner 94 died December 21 1971 at United Presbyterian Home after two year residency. Born January 13 1877 in western Iowa she married twice first to Samuel S Paul and later Mel E Ebner. Survived by four daughters nine grandchildren 32 great grandchildren a sister and one deceased son. Funeral Thursday 2 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home with Rev William Kettlitz. Burial Elm Grove Cemetery. Memorial fund opens through funeral home.
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Nora Paul Ebner
United Presbyterian Home
Jones Funeral
William Kettlitz
Elm Grove
Nora Irena Hofsteater
Iowa
William
Maria Albertine Sweet Hofsteater
Ainsworth
West Chester
Will
Mildred) Shalla
Washington
Reed
Irene) Moore
Gertrude Hofsteater
Spokane
Wash
Donald C. Paul
Ebner
Iowa Hog Market Report Shows Active Trade and Mixed Prices
Des Moines Iowa markets report fairly active trade with generally good demand. Butchers steady, sows mostly steady with some 25 cent gains. Hog price ranges per weight class listed, plus 90,000 today, 73,000 last week, and 103,000 a year ago.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Minnesota
U.S
Kaplan Survives Long Huddle To Try Five Diamonds
In a four handed bridge contest Edgar Kaplan opens 1NT and reaches 3NT after West leads hearts. He wins the ace and deliberates a long diamond play to five tricks. East returns spades and Kaplan loses eight. Teammates hail the approach as a bold but costly plan. Tomorrow: Planning the play.
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Edgar Kaplan
New York
West
Kaplan
East
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