Rev Voohees Sermon at Bethel Church
Bethel Church in Bethel hosts Rev. Voorhees and Mrs. Voorhees of Marion Iowa for Children's Day exercises with praise from longtime members. The report notes several local visits and social gatherings including dinners and birthdays, mentions a weed irritation misattributed to poison ivy, and describes recent rains affecting crops with oats and potatoes in need of care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethel
Bethel Lastunday
Ruth Gideon
Charles Sojka
Luella
New State 4 H Officers Assume Positions Today
Four Iowa 4 H girls were installed as officers at the 1941 state convention in Ames. Dorothy Daniel became president, Dorothy Behan vice president, Barbara Lieberknecht secretary treasurer, and Dorothy Hildebrand historian. Two towns’ delegates head to National 4 H Club Camp in Washington. D C. Kila Jean Waddell and Margaret Kelsey. Blanche Spaulding urged 1145 club girls and 432 leaders to preserve six enduring traits: keenness of feeling, adventure, zest for learning, joy, quiet courage, and faith in things eternal.
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Ames
Iowa
Dorothy Daniel
Washington
Phyllis Nissen
Walnut
Dorothy Behan
Sabula
Barbara Lieberknecht
Dorothy Hildebrand
West Liberty
Washington, D.C
Kila Jean Waddell
Bronson
Margaret Kelsey
Iowa Falls
Blanche Spaulding
St Paul. Minn
Rosemary Club Meeting Hosted by Mrs Casper At Home
Mrs Charley Casper entertained Rosemary club members at her home on Wednesday afternoon in Living Lake. Mrs Rennie Dawson reports attendance by club members and mentions Attend Band School Frances Whisler and Phillip in attendance.
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Rennie Dawson
Living Lake
Charley Casper
Rosemary Club
Frances Whisler
Phillip
Local summer band school and postponed Fleur-De-Lis luncheon planned
Brown attends the summer band music school at the high school. The Fleur-De-Lis club luncheon at the M. M. Flynn home was postponed to Thursday June 19 with Mrs. Floyd Letts as assistant hostess. Richard Birney accepts a research job in Le Sueur Minnesota in soil and field plot testing after Ames school closing. He will learn his exact duties once he and his parents hear from him. The note ends with mention of many neighbors.
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Richard Birney
le Sueur
Minn
Richard
Ames
Homer Birney
Hedrick
R. A. Logan
Bill
Carl Replogle
Floyd Crayne
Phyllis
Ed Mayhew
Bill Crayne
Eddie
Markets Chicago Livestock Report June 14
Hog market steady to weak with too few good hogs to form a market. top at 10.00 per cwt, 180 to 270 lb butchers closing 9.65 to 9.90, sows 8.75 to 9.15. Cattle steady to 25c higher. fed steers 9.75 to 11.50, few at 13.00 to 13.75, light grade 8.75 to 10.25, heifer 11.60, dealers 11.50 down. Sheep absent. native and western lambs 1.00 to 1.50 lower, early lamb 13.25, closing 11.60, most sales 10.75 to 11.50, old crop 10.00.
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Chicago
Chicago Grain Table highlights June price shifts
Grain table from Chicago dated June 14 shows July soybeans at 1.40 with bids around 1.46 and 1.28. Corn futures for September touch 1.03 with nearby reductions, while oats display mixed July and September quotes. Old and new crop soybean lines indicate ongoing adjustments in prices across contracts.
Chicago Cash Grain Prices Report
Chicago cash grain prices list various corn oats and soybeans with mixed readings on yellow and white samples. Figures show yellow corn around 74 75 percent and white samples near 3 7 percent, soybeans with yellow percentages around 1.39 to 1.49 and mixed 1.40s, oats with white fractions around 33 to 43 percent and heavier samples noted.
Chicago Market Firm Receipts Note June Report
Chicago market report notes firm receipts with totals for firsts and dirties, including current receipts and checks percentages. The June update lists figures such as 17 393 for receipts and 25 for extra firsts amid market activity at CHICARD.
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Mpmhwaiuue
Kees
Fatal Auto Accidents Rise Across U.S. Regions This Winter
Reports show a 40 percent jump in fatal crashes in the northern half of the United States during winter, while the southern half sees a 20 percent increase. Authorities urge drivers to take extra precautions as weather and road conditions worsen.
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United States
Krakatoa eruption heard across continents in 1883
The Krakatoa volcanic explosion of 1883 produced the loudest noise in history, heard in Bangkok 1,400 miles away and beyond. The event reshaped perceptions of volcanic power and global atmospheric effects.
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Island
Krakatoa
Bangkok
Friends and travels mark local notices and funerals
The day includes obituary mentions for Ralph Livingston and Lem Armstrong with funeral details in Des Moines. Nearby, P. F. Whisler family and Clarice Meek visit Jacksonville and return, hosting Mrs. Author Bishop and Betty from Creston until Monday. Fred Hermann and Edd Gallagher deliver corn to farmers' stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Author Bishop
Betty
Creston
Whisler
Fred Hermann
Farmers
Edd Gallagher
Armstrong
Rennie Dawson
Mel Crandall
Vernon Witting
Des Moines
Lem
Mae Netterfield
Wayland
Harold
McCall Letter Continues From Page 3
The writer describes dire living conditions in a city under Japanese occupation. He notes scavenging by the poor for scraps, makeshift fuel, human waste used as fertilizer, hot water vendors, and transport by foot and wheelbarrow. He recounts a recent arrest by Japanese soldiers and mentions Luciente and a Hollywood tied film rumor.
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Nanking Road
Bubbling Well Road
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Africa
Luciente
China
Altho
Lucienne
Mdited
Hollywood
Local Social Roundup and Draft Notice
Mrs Grover Custer and others attended a shower in Sigourney for Rita Monaghan who will wed Donald Custer. Phyllis Flenner visits from Des Moines. Winifred Geisler from Muscatine visits. Arthur J. McCaffrey, registered with Washington county draft board, to join the i draft group June 28 for Peoria then Fort Sheridan. Charles Parkinson of Berkeley Calif. and family visit. Mrs Raymond Stotts and son Ben arrive from Garden City Kansas for weeks with relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Custer
Oscar Burham
Cary Brrham
Sigourney
Rita Monaghan
Donald Custer
Bridge Club
Arthur J. McCaffrey
Petersburg
Inl
Washington County
Menard County, i
Peoria
Fort Sheridan
Raymond Stotts
Ben
Garden City
Kan
Automobile Races at Burlington on Sunday
Burlington prepares for a major auto racing program on Sunday June 15 featuring more than a score of top title contenders on the Tri State Fair dirt half mile track. Iowa will send strong talent led by Gus Schrader in a $15000 Offenhauser car, plus a 200 car stunt show by Jimmie Lynch's New York World's Fair Death Dodgers with sensational high ramp and crash acts.
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Burlington
America
International Motor Contest Association
Iowa
Gus Schrader
Cedar Rapids
Schrader
Des Moines
Jimmie Lynch
Rural Homemakers at M Lowe Home in South Htwe
Rural Homemakers met at Marie Lowe's on June 12 with 13 members and five visitors. Minutes by Pearl Beauchamp. meeting led by Ida Wooley. Members named three favorite garden vegetables. Refreshments served by the hostess and Helen Young. Next meeting with Mrs Dale Riley. Also notes dinner guests with Mrs F M Wood and others. weather and local notes follow. Housefly passengers noted with 1,000,000 bacteria per fly.
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Vera L. Sands
South Htwe
Marie Lowe
Pearl Beauchamp
Ida Wooley
Helen Young
Ernest Clark
Kenneth Kirkpatrick
Dale Riley
Frank Sands
Willard Lee
Doyle Sands
Bobby
Larry Lee
Linda Ruth
F. M. Wood
Ainsworth
Joe Conrad
Washington
Tinkey Rhea
Iowa City
Lyn Lowe
Gwendolyn Rhea
Donald Sands
LeRoy Conrad
Kenneth Long
Crawfordsville
Frank Sands and Sons
Dayle and
Donald
Muscatine
Crooked Creek
Sound Concentrates When Fork Uses Surface as Resonator
A tuning fork struck and held against a solid surface seems louder to the listener because the surface acts as a resonator. The overall sound power does not increase. instead the energy is concentrated toward the listener.
Shinabargers Visit Pittsburgh Family Members
Mr. and Mrs. Fr. C. Shinabarger of Macentine and their son Bruce of Pittsburg Penn spent several days with Mrs. R. G. Shinabarger’s sisters Mrs. Boyd Berdo and Mrs. Alex Tutte and Mr. Lytle. They left yesterday for Pittsburgh via Wisconsin and Canada.
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Ger
Bruce
Pittsberg
Penn
Fr. C. Shinabarger
Macentine
R. G. Shinabarger
Boyd Berdo
Alex Tutte
Lytle
Shinabargers
Pittsburg
Wisconsin
Canada
District No. 4 Social For June 13 Recap
District No 4 notes a series of Sunday visits and dinners. Mr and Mrs Harry McConnell hosted relatives including Arnold and Helen Carr. Several families including Replogle Dare Harter Wheelan McConnell and Mayhew are mentioned with dinners and calls.
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Bill Crayne
Harry McConnell
Charles McConnell
Arnold
Helen Carr
Roy Gordon
Homer Kephart
Richard Leet
Cecil Replogle
McClellan
Harmony Club
James Swift
James Brooks
Nelson Thompson
Dorothy Thompson
Norman Evens
George Dare
Joe McGraw
Elvin Luers
Kyota
Harry Huston
Wyman
Carl Replogle
So and Sew Club Meets at Home of Mrs H Dusenberry
The So and Sew club met at Mrs. Harry Dusenberry’s home in Dayton Grove with seven members present. Plans were made for an ice cream social at the Leet home on June 19. Guests and relatives visited in nearby towns, sharing social time and local news.
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Sew
J. 3. Moore
Dayton Grove
Harry Dusenberry
Mary Ruth
John
Walter Leet
Dusenberry
Moore
James Manders
Council Bluffs
Harold Leet
Ames
Wit3r Leet
Herman Sehuty
Sadie Notts
Fairfield
Hirold Leet
Clausing
Ottumwa
Chicago
John Mayer and Son
William Embree
Sadie Moore
Dean
Washington
William Carr
Lee Embree
Cedar Rapids
Forest Embree
Keota
Lindberghs push recovery after crash and studies on nerves
Anne Lindbergh faced a plane accident and Colonel Lindbergh urged immediate flying again to boost nerve recovery. Dr Carl Smith at Harvard found electric shocks linked to later emotional responses to the word cat in a test group.
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Anne Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Carl Smith
Harvard
Wayland School News Mixed Summer Assignments
Mr Pritchard Wayland music instructor failed army physical in Des Moines and was sent home. Dean Mallory a Wayland High School graduate enrolled at the State University of Iowa for a chemistry course. Mrs Irene Paydor and others attend summer school at Iowa State Teachers College.
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Pritchard
Des Moines
Dean Mallory
Wayland High School
State University of Iowa
Fairfield
D. W. Githens
Dale Nebs
Birch
Sir. Nebel
Iowa State Teachers College
Irene Paydor
Alvin Rommel
Jackie
Chicago
Kilis
Rommel
Hla
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Sebastian Brown
George Young
W. J. Kritzman
Sordens
J. D. Rabenold
Foster Radio Service
Gamble
Sorden Music Company
Louis Laird
Mose Levy
Iowa Ave
George J. Breitenbach
W. Jefferson
Riverside Road
N. Ave
Goodwin
Rev. Voohees
Bethel Church
Children’s Day
Marion
Lone Tree
Mary Swolensky
Charley Horak
Norma
Horak
Ernest Gideon
Ray Niffeneger
John McNeamer
Birmingham
Charley Plecker
Charley Wulf
Gladys Wolfe
Ernest, Ruth and
Mae Gideon
Roy Kephart
Ernest Green
Journal
Midway Safe Co
Columbus Junction
City Feed Yard
Geo. J. Breitenbach
Deweys Fruit Farm
Bradley
Mt. Pleasant
E. Landrum
Poland
R. B. Stephens
Tucker Chevrolet
Minnie Chance
Goodie
Farrow
Call
Fred Chalupa
Stanley Mouser
Wellman
Harry J. Gerdes
Firestone
White Rock
Wolfe Hatchery
Eclipse Lumber Co
IFOR
S. W. Kepner
Winfield, Town
Johns-Manville
M. M. Flynn
Briggs Stratton Motor
Glenn Wahl
Kalona
John Reschley
Noble
Wayland Phone
Foodyear
Goodricd
Washington Oil Company
the Evening Journal
Glen Watson
East 3Rd St
New State 4-H
Ainsworth Produce
C. Casper
West Chester
Paiges
Dot
Chicago Livestock
U. S
McCall
Phyllis Fletnner
Mrs
T. A. Flenner
Winifred Geisler of
Martha Guest
Charles Parkinson
Berkeley
Caltff
H. M. Richer
R. G. Shinahar
M. Lowe
Wilber Harter
Jim Harter
John Wheelan
George Hollinrake
Thomas Wheelan
Francis McConnell
Bill McConnell, Jr
Will McConnell
John Adams
J. R. Vittetoe
Charles
Ed Vittetoe
Etieine Spleniar
Frank Kephart
Wayland School News
Max Lieechty
Iowa State Teachers ¢Eoege
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