Never Too Old for Church School Iowa Man Honored
Nema ha Iowa 95 year old M L Lewis oldest Methodist Sunday School attendant nominated in a state wide inquiry receives recognition. Rev Clarence W Tompkins presents Sallmans Head of Christ on behalf of the church publishing house as part of a nationwide effort to stress adult church school attendance. Dr M Leo Rippy directs the department of Christian Education of Adults in Nashville Tenn.
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Nemaha
Iowa
M. L. Lewis
Sallman
Clarence W. Tompkins
Fort Dodge
Secre
Tary
Northwest Iowa Conference of Methodism
Our Church U
Lewis
Department of Christian Education of Adults
M. Leo Rippy
Nashville
Tenn
Merrimac News Wide Family Visits Refer Stortz Reunion
Merrimac July 30 notes list Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Guy and family visiting the Kientz and Kientz households. The Stortz reunion was held in Fairfield. Also noted are calls by Will Brannon on E. C. Hinkle and Delbert Lowe with son Billie and other local visitors.
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Carl Amrine
Merrimac
L. P. Guy
Robert Kientz
Rilla Kientz
Will Brannon
E. C. Hinkle
Delbert Lowe
Billie
Cy Trabert
Andrew Zihlman
Robertg
Visit of Karen with two ladies on Tuesday afternoon
The text notes that Karen and her daughter visited on Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Dale Zaidosier and Mrs. Margaret Baidosier, indicating a social call during that time.
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Karen
Dale Zaidosier
Margaret Baidosier
S. C. Wittmer Paints Interior of School
Havre patrons announce S C Wittmer will paint the school interior. His work is praised as thorough and dependable. Also notes social visits and local residents with family events and health news from the Wittmer and Hering circles in Havre and Crawfordsville.
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S. C. Wittmer
Local social visits and gatherings around Ainsworth
Mrs. Alis Kolosick hosts near Ainsworth while Ruth Stephens of Chicago visits Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eisele and Lee. The Everet Westen family spent Sunday with Dave Richard. Mr. and Mrs. Pat Swift visited Lewis Hering Monday evening.
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Alis Kolosick
Ainsworth
Ruth Stephens
Chicago
Fred Eisele
Lee
Everet Westen
Dave Richard
Pat Swift
Lewis Hering
Pauline Henss Ames Visits With Parents
Pauline Henss of Ames spent the past week with her parents Mr and Mrs Lester Henss and with relatives Mr and Mrs Robert Witting Judy and Bud of Indianapolis arrived to visit Mrs Lenore Wenger and Mr and Mrs Edw B Witting. A male quartet from Goshen college will present a sacred program at Sugar Creek church on Sunday evening Aug 1 at 7 30. The son born Sunday July 25 to Mr and Mrs Harold Kauffman has been named John D Kauffman.
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Wayland
Pauline Henss
Ames
Lester Henss
Robert Witting
Judy
Bud
Indianapolis
Ind
Lenore Wenger
Edw. B. Witting
Kenneth Henss
Des Moines
Wayne McNeely
New London
Laurence Henss
Jed Hixson
Swedesburg
Euema Levert
Earl Brown
Aurora
Goshen College
Sugar Creek
Harold Kauffman
John D Kauffman
Contour farming preserves water in soil for crops
Contour farming slows runoff and allows water to sink into the soil where it falls, aiding crop use and soil moisture retention. It emphasizes following the land’s contours to maximize absorption and reduce erosion.
Moon orbit distance and period brief
The moon travels its elliptical orbit around Earth roughly every 27.3 days, completing a cycle about every four weeks. It averages a distance of 238,900 miles, nearly 30 times Earth's diameter.
The Dude Goes West Opens At State Theatre
Rollicking 1876 western spoof from King Bros Allied Artists stars Eddie Albert and Gale Storm with James Gleason Binnie Barnes Gilbert Roland and Barton MacLane. Comedy dominates amid thrilling mine plot and chase sequences with cowboys and Indians and outlaws seeking a mine.
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King Bros
Allied Artists
State Theatre
Eddie Albert
Gale Storm
James Gleason
Binnie Barnes
Gilbert Roland
Barton McLane
Weekly and special farm sales schedule across Iowa
Community sales every Friday at Whittaker sale barn and livestock sales on Wednesdays at Midway Sales Columbus Junction Kalona and Tuesdays at Ollie Livestock Exchange Kalona Hi Dollar Sigourney. A public sale of grocery store stock is planned west of Fairfield on highway 34 at 1 30 pm August 3. Other auctions include a Spotted Poland China sow sale and a closing out sale of household goods with start times in early August.
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Whittaker Sale
Midway Sales Company
Columbus Junction
Iowa
Kalona
Ollie Livestock Exchange
Ollie
Hi Dollar Sales Company
Sigourney
Fairfield
Highway
Klett
West End
Winfield
Earl Kellogg & Sons
North Sixth
Bo Hox
Soviet farming literature boom tops ten million in 1947
More than 10 million copies of popular farming literature were issued in the Soviet Union in 1947, about two and a half times prewar. Textbooks for collective farms and elementary agricultural schools also saw a substantial rise in publication.
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Soviet Union
Pioneer Captain Ford First to Make Plate Glass
The passage notes that Captain John B. Ford was the first American to produce plate glass. It adds that several of his great-grandsons remain linked to the glass industry.
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John B. Ford
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Professional Directory
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Morrison Building
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Hotel Washington
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East Side Square
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Osteopathic
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Mt. Pleasant
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