Music Is Highlight Of Busy, Useful Life For Mrs Trotter
Irene Trotter grew up with music from an early age. She played sousaphone in school and college bands and piano as a child. Her strongest talent is singing and directing choirs. She performed at a 1937 Chicago festival and represented Iowa nationally. Irene directed church choirs from 13 and led Christmas cantatas in high school. Her father could play many instruments and her mother was a church soprano.
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Ainsworth
Irene Trotter
Irene
Iowa
Drake Hotel
Methodist Church
Marengo
Cedar Rapids
Maude Bishop
Trene
George
Mary Margaret
George Bishop
Year Ends with Thanks and 1950 Business Resolutions
A year end note thanks customers for 1949 support and outlines intentions to improve service in 1950. It discusses alfalfa seed supplies and prices, crop reports, and notes about animal feed products including linseed oil meal and soy bean meal. A humorous tale about Smithers and a mountain guide ends with a solitaire joke.
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Canada
Irene Trotter Ainsworth music teacher and community leader
Irene Trotter grew up around music and earned a Coe College voice degree studying under Paul Schumann Ray. She taught four years in Ainsworth and West Liberty, directed church concerts, and as a mother of two balances home duties with active community musical work.
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Irene
Ainsworth
Coe College
West Liberty
Cedar Rapids
Paul Schumann Ray
Juilliard
Newton Minister is U P speaker Sunday
At the United Presbyterian church in Newton Rev. Van Dyke delivered the sermon on Sunday followed by communion. Thirty members brought sack lunches and coffee was provided for the noon meal. In the afternoon two films were shown We Too Received and From Fear to Faith with several musical numbers included.
Young People Party At United Presbyterian Church Event
United Presbyterian church youth group held a Saturday evening gathering at the John Koehler home. Sixteen members arrived after detoured mud roads and played games until midnight. John Koehler Jr led a devotional service and fashion forecasts for 1950 were staged with men and women competing. Refreshments were served by Betty Julia John and Louis Koehler.
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Ainsworth
United Presbyterian Church
John Koehler
John Koehler Jr
Betty
Julia
John
Louis Koehler
O Connors Entertain At Christmas and New Year Dinners
The O Connors hosted Christmas dinner on Monday December 26 at Ainsworth with guests from Ottumwa including Mr and Mrs Ralph Wilkinson and family and Mrs Effie Wilkinson. They held a January 1 dinner for the O Connors with Mrs Mary O Connor Myrtle of Washington Gladys Hopping Riverside and Orie O Connor family members.
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Ainsworth
Earl O’connor
Orie O'Connor
Larry
January Sermon Themes at Ainsworth Methodist Church
The Ainsworth Methodist Church outlines January sermons with the general theme Everybody Is Afraid. Rev. Carl Stiefel leads services each Sunday at 11 to 12 with topics Afraid of Failure January 8 Afraid of Myself January 15 Afraid of Life January 22 and Afraid of People January 29 offering help to overcome fear.
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Ainsworth
Ainsworth Methodist Church
Carl Stiefel
Ainsworth Area Folks Share Holiday Visits
Mrs Mabel Fullerton of Iowa City vacations at O R Thorna home. Fred Hawkins Carl guests at Kenneth Woodruff home in Moline. Christmas Day at J D Ravenold home with family. Various relatives and friends from Des Moines Washington Montezuma Columbus Junction Davenport and Wichita visit or stay with locals. Methodist church youth held a taffy pull at John Clegg home. Edith Mae Simpson stayed with Dick Lopshire in Davenport.
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Mabel Fullerton
Iowa City
O. R. Thorna
Fred Hawkins
Carl
Kenneth Woodruff
Moline
J. D. Ravenold
Donna
Tommy
Des Moines
Bill Young
Vickie
Washington
Carrie Rabenold
Manford Kilgore
Ainsworth
Harry Rabenold
Mary
John Rabenold
Montezuma
Edith Mae Simpson
Dick Lopshire
Davenport
Past Matrons Celebrate Annual Xmas Party at Ainsworth
Mr. and Mrs. Blake Spencer hosted the Past Matrons of the Ainsworth chapter and their husbands for a Christmas party near Crawfordsville. Twenty two attended as the men played cards while the women socialized. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. I K Beal of near Little York, NL. Yuletide decorations and buffet refreshments set a seasonal mood.
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Ainsworth
Blake Spencer
Crawfordsville
I. K. Beal
Little York
Hawkins Dinner Readied by Hawkins Family
Mrs M F Hawkins hosted the Christmas Day gathering with most of the family at home. Two daughters were in Oklahoma, son Max in Olympia Washington, and son Claude in West Union called in from his location.
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Ainsworth
M. F. Hawkins
Journal
Child Health Conference Set in Ainsworth
A Child Health conference will be held in Ainsworth on January 18 starting at 12 30. Children will be examined by appointment with mothers asked to telephone Mrs Gene Stephens for appointments. Eligibility covers children up to school age.
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Ainsworth
Gene Stephens
Dinner guests honor Mr and Mrs Max White
Last Monday Mr and Mrs Max White entertained at a dinner with guests including Mrs Lou Barnes of Crawfordsville Mrs Eva Nelson of Washington and the White family from Washington Maude Barnes of Chicago and extended family. Everette Jenkins and daughters Joan and Donna of Coralville were recent callers at the Frank Henderson home.
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Max White
Mr. White
Lou Barnes
Crawfordsville
Eva Nelson
Washington
Leland White
Maude Barnes
Chicago
Everette Jenkins
Joan and
Donna
Coralville
Frank Henderson
Ainsworth Methodist Women Meet Thursday
Ainsworth's Women’s prayer group of the Methodist church meets Thursday afternoon January 5 at 2 o'clock in the home of Mrs. Dewey Stephens Jr. The meeting lasts one hour. Open to any woman. Mrs. John Clegg, chairman of spiritual life, leads the group.
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Methodist Church
John Clegg
W. D. Roberts
Ainsworth
Town’s Best Cook Shines At Coffee And Bridge
One of the town’s best cooks is praised for excellent coffee, sewing skill, and a very good bridge hand, highlighting her versatile talents and social warmth in community life.
Birthday Eve and Christmas Echo in Local Shopper Note
The piece notes Paul Hazletts December 24 birthday and the festive mix with Christmas. It lists stock items including machine and carriage bolts Allen screws metal screws hand saws chalk line rules hammers and rulers for carpenters.
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Larry Trotter
Mrs. Trotter
Bill Trotter
Smithers
Jake
Ainswort
Dad
California
Coe
American Legion
Merchant Marine
South Pacific
Ainsworth Meat and Locker
Front Street
Trotters
Eclipse Lumber Company
Ainsworth Heck
United Presbyterian
O’connors
Mrs. Glenn Sands
Columbus Junction
Clarence Richards
Keith Williams
Earl O'Connor
Washington County Hospital
George McCaleb
Wichita
Kansas
Estella McCaleb
Griffith-Hedberg
Stone's Furniture
Ainsworth, la
Glen Miller
Ainsworth State Bank
Ainsworth Methodist
Keith Genkinger
Art’s Electric Service
Ainsworth, Ia
Winter
Ainsworth Meat
Paul Hazlett
Heck & Chic Repair Shop
Iraq
Elliott's Food Store
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