Nineteenth Century club hosts Baldrige house gathering downtown
Members of the Nineteenth Century club attended a one o clock luncheon and book review at the Baldrige home. Mary Baldriso celebrated her 25th birthday returning from Iowa City while Jane Baldrige in Massachusetts reports war work. Mrs Carl Roberts was to broadcast a Mothers Day message from Iowa City station SUl. The club, nearing its 50th anniversary, began as a Mothers and Daughters group and remains an exclusive circle.
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William Lillies
Winter Harbor
Mary Baldriso
Iowa City
Jane Baldrige
Massachusetts
How
Carl Roberts
Sui
Garden and Gloom as War Stretches City Life
A reader reflects on flowering hedges and a rose garden amid a busy street scene. Concern grows over Honey Mead factory workers and pipeline crews filling neighborhoods as construction looms. Lamb rationing shifts taste, and a navy boy reports a vast banana plantation wasting fruit after the war.
Funeral Services For Mrs Wm Jones In Letts Community
Mrs William Jones 66 of Letts died at home Sunday. Formerly Mary Harriet Bennett. Husband survives. Services 2:30 pm Tuesday at Pleasant Grove Bethel church. Rev Lester H Bill officiated. Burial Indian Creek Cemetery. Columbus Junction Iowa May 16 1944.
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Martha Butler
Columbus Junction
Wiliam Jones
Letts
Mary Harriet Bennett
Pleasant Grove Bethel Church
Lester H. Bill
Methodist Church
Indian Creek Cemetery
Twenty Graduates In Wellman Class
Wellman high school held graduation exercises for twenty seniors with a key address by Chaplain Eimer Elsen of Iowa City. The program featured the band, read names of 140 graduates now serving, and noted a classmate in Navy training. Rev. R. W. Pinnell spoke at the baccalaureate on Truth and Consequences.
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Mayer
Wellman
Eimer Elsen
Iowa City
Navy
R. W. Pinnell
Coffey
H. W. Durtan
Lowal
Lola ‘Coffey
Kalona High School Holds 23rd Commencement Exercises
Kalona May 15 The Kalona high school commencement was held in the auditorium. Rosetta Vodicka played the processional while ushers led the seniors. Rev S C Peterson gave the invocation and Mary Colleen Grady sang The Lords Prayer. Rev S F Williamson gave the address. A clarinet quartet performed two pieces. P T A medals were presented to Leona Brenneman Alfred Dean Grady and Ruth Ann Liebiz. Honorable mention students were Kenneth Hershberger Jean Miller Jane Kallous.
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Rosetta Vodicka
Freda Stalder
Howard Spreaker
Zamencnik
Alabama
Cohen
P.T.A
Logan Reif
Leona Brenneman
Alfred Dean Grady
Ruth Ann Liebiz
Kenneth Hershberger
Jean Miller
Jane Kallous
Sitler Tells Rotary His Life History
Rotarian Bill Sitler shared highlights of his life at the Monday luncheon. He was born in Washington on August 14 1910 and attended nearly every town school. Sitler, working with his father on war contracts at the Sitler plant, recalled a trip to St Louis at age 16.
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R. L. Lytle
Washington
Bill
Sitler
St. Louis
Father Sitler
Frank Kos
Rotary
Rob McLaughlin
Florida
The
Club
Iowa
Kalona Graduation Delivers Diplomas With Service
Supt H V Snodgrass and school board president H V Beck presided as diplomas were issued to Alfred Dean Grady Milton Ehrnfelt Jr Betty Madden Joseph Chody Jean Miller Mary Catherine Kallous Robert Scott Clair Shenk Heulah Dickel Leona Brenneman Maurice Strabala Warren Shaffer Burdette Hershberger Richard Shalla Kenneth Hershberger Leo Miller Ruth Ann Liebig Jerome Schnoebelen Jane Kallous Shirley Fileen Kennard Marie Stumpf Two others Paul Bender and Calvin Perrin were absent. Kalona pupils enjoyed picnics on the last day of school. Dorothy Louise born to Mr and Mrs Eli Mast in Mercy hospital Iowa City. A note on coal reserves states the US holds about half of the world total 7 490 billion tons, likely lasting 1 000 years if used for oil.
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Paul Bender
Supt
H. V. Snodgrass
H. V. Beck
Rev. S. C. Peterson
Alfred Dean Grady
Milton Ehrnfelt, Jr
Betty Madden
Joseph Chody
Jean Miller
Mary Catherine Kallous
Robert Scott
Clair Shenk
Heulah Dickel
Leona Brenneman
Maurice Strabala
Kalona
Eli Mast
Dorothy Louise
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
N O Neill of Junction Dies at 67
T N O Neill 67 longtime Rock Island agent at Junction died at his home after a heart attack he had mowed the lawn before illness born March 20 1877 at Bethany Missouri son Frank and a daughter survived by wife Madge Varney of Seymour a daughter Mrs Lambert Estle of Mt Pleasant two grandsons and two sisters funeral arrangements in charge of Stephens funeral home notations of civic roles and bank vice presidency end with incomplete details
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Columbus Junction
Thomas N. O'Neill
Rock Island Railway
Stephens
Bethany
James W. O'Neill
Gertrude King
Frank
Lambert Estle
Mt. Pleasant
Chicago
Name Teachers For Next Year
Crawfordsville May 15 The following teachers have been elected for next year D W Githens will start his fourth year as superintendent and coach again Margaret O De an of Fairfield begins second year teaching grades three and four Elsie May Larson will teach grades five and six Manda Davis of Crawfordsville will teach vocal music in grades and high school and two high school subjects Aileen Kepper of Fairfield will teach home economics commercial subjects and girls physical education in high school There are to be more teachers for grades one two seven eight and one more high school teacher Maxine Rickey had her grandparents at commencement Mrs M W Welch has fallen and is in poor health from out of town attendees Mr and Mrs Walter Rauscher and sons Fredrick and Billie of Lockridge attended with Rauscher a former longtime superintendent Mr and Mrs Harold Graham of Mt Pleasant attended a party followed by Lee Lease home
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Williams
Des Moines
John Wiles
H. B. Rugg
Russell Wisegarden
L. C. Swain
Mary Manners
Crawfordsville
D. W. Githens
Margaret O'Dean
Fairfield
Elsie May Larson
Salina
Jefferson County
Manda Davis
Aileen Kepper
Parsons’ College
Maxine Rickey
J. W. Rickey
Winfield
Clyde Beauchamp
Mary Allen
Wyman
Jeanette Hanna
Eldon
Wilma Wooley
Anna Lang&ford
Numa
Mary Witting
Wayland
Ileen Benson
Olds
Mae Kern
Washington
Edith Lindberg
van Horne
Esther Burkart
Estherville
Jane Maxwell
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mt. Pleasant
M. W. Welch
Walter Rouscher
Fredrick and
Billie
Lockridge
Rauscher
Harold Graham
Pleasant
Graham
R. R. Station
Plan Improvements At Still College
DES MOINES Still College of Osteopathy will enlarge its facilities at a cost of 253000 over the next two years. Dr J K Johnson Jr vice president of the Iowa Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons said at the sobriety's war conference that approved osteopathic colleges are expanding and accelerating courses. Stilley College will spend 150900 for a teaching clinical hospital with construction set to begin in June.
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Still College of Osteopathy
J K. Johnson, Jr
Jefferson, Ir
Iowa Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons
Sobiety
Hotel
Fort Des Moines
Johnson
War Manpower Commission
Stillev
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