Prairie Center Social Roundup May Guests and Visits
Sunday and midweek visits populate Prairie Center as families and friends drop by homes of Koehler, Montgomery, Simmering, and Zieglowsky. An alumni banquet in Ainsworth and a Glendale school picnic are noted among neighbors sociably gathering in May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CnNibn
Mel. Oun Martin
Paul Vou Bob
Crawfordsville
Anne Graber
Wayland
Carl Koehler
Joan Koehler
Ehme Koehler
Geo. Koehler
Wal
Geo. T. Koehler
Michael
Leo. Chalupa
Duane White
Janet Jean
Ceo. Koehler
Delbert Maxwell
Wellman
Ollie Blake
Washington
Rex Smith
Ralph Wilson
Malcolm Montgomery
Virginia Meyer
Lester McGinnis
Wess Meyer
Glendale
Clarence Shull
Robert
John Koehler
Ainsworth
Carl Schneider
Frank Schneider
Don Simmering
C. C. Miller
Marion Sheetz
Albert Zieglowsky
Pvt
Wilmer Zieglowsky
Merel Sheetz
Bernice Sheetz
Fred Mangold
John Simmering
Bob Warren
Win, Davis
Muscatine
George Howard
Rubio
Lester Raymond
Sam Warren
Billa Warren
Norbert Te Bockhorst
Dan Cline
Wayne
Rudy Wagenknecht
Lewis
Columbus Junction
John Ziegowsky
Everett Westen
Martin Westen
Louis
Robert Koehler
John Martin
John Koehler Jr
Ames
New Trees Grow After Drought Talk In Community Note
Bertha Schoepfer spent Friday evening with her sister Bessie. Jerry Lewis and Joe Stalder visited Edith Stalder. Mrs. Matt Kern is the new helper in the county home. The note recalls drought talk about trees not raining due to deforestation and observes that the new trees have grown up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Schoepfer
Bessie
Jerry Lewis
Joe Stalder
Edith Stalder
Matt Kern
Railways Reduce Indebtedness And Interest In 1942
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports that 35 selected Class I steam railways cut their total indebtedness by 300.7 million dollars or 3.76 percent in 1942. Annual interest accruals decreased by 11.6 million dollars or 3.58 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Community notes from Young America and surrounding areas
Local families gather for visits and dinners with the Beech, Marie, Humston, and Koehler households. School events include a Young America teacher’s year end and junior senior banquets plus graduates Lois Humston and Norma Rhodebeck. Veterans and service members are noted with Wilma Palmer’s ten day furlough and Leonard Humston at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Butler
Lloyd Humston
Jack
Chester
U.S
Leo Marie
Darlene Humston
Darlene
Young America
Miss Wolfe
Alice Hunter
Wyman
Lois Humston
Mes. Diddums
Diddums
Young Peoples
Claude Rhodebeck
Lloyd Miller
Norma Jean Rhodebeck
Rhodebeeck
Ruth Michels
Marima
Wilma Palmer
Iowa City
Native Rubber Content Found High in Pingue Plant
Colorado State College experiment station reports pingue, a native plant found as a weed in mountainous south central Colorado, has the highest rubber content among tested natives. Roots of 10 to 11 year old specimens contain 4.5 to 5.9 percent rubber and the plant is poisonous to livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Colorado State College Experiment Station
Pine Wood Pulp Converts to Navy Firepower Parts
The article notes pine trees used for parachutes smokeless powder blueprint paper and treating soldiers. Resin impregnated kraft pulp is pressed into airplane parts and a cord of pulpwood yields enough smokeless powder to fire two rounds in a 16 inch naval gun.
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Anatomy
Daddy
Peature
Bru Carlsdon
Ae Iairin
Russell Hayden
Dub Taylor
Almo Carroll
Prairie Center
Daryl Hoyle
Moline
Yard & McFarlane Insurance Agency
Atchison
Rommel
Afrika Korps
R.A. F
Monty Woolley
Ida
Lupino
20Th Century-Fox
the Fox
Constance Worth
Cherie McElhinney
Joe McElhinney
The
State University
Carl Kohler
Charlie Palmer
Jeanette
Carrie Kyle
Chas. Beech
Sigourney
Jerome
David Marie
Will Marie
Emma Humston
Grant
Humiston
Kathryn Vacha
Ralph Shannon
Lester Luckenbill
Mediap
Olis
John Wooley
Floyd Brown
Anna Sanders
Rogsella
Herman Sanders
Jerry of Donelson
Ralph Peiffer
Arthur Wiley
Frank Pringle
Lester Lueckenbill
Ed Squires
Clarence Jackson
John Cherry
Harve Porter
Mr. Porter
Leonard
Mrs. Humston
Raymond Humston
Wilton Junction
Omer Lemley
Morris
Edith Stakker
Bessie Schoepfer
Mrs. Lemley
Edith
State Cafe
Aes
Wingaa North Side Cafe
Washington Lumber & Fuel CO
Pioneer Yard
Lowe Bros
M. J. Gabriel
Jim White
Kender
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