Stockport: Thursday, April 30, 1942

BESWICK, BRADFIELD, BRYSON, CRABB, DEWITT, ELMORE, JOHNSTON, KNOWLES, LEFFLER, MCGLOTHLEN, MORRIS, MOXLEY, NELSON, PRATT, RADTKE, SMITH, STILLE, STOUT, TAYLOR, WATSON, WELLER, WHITE

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 3/3/2014 at 19:04:42

THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942
Stockport
Leading Agricultural Area

The L.L.G. club will meet today at the home of Mrs. Belle Beswick. The theme for this meeting is "Through the Garden Gate." Mrs. Crete Leffler will give a talk on "the Gladiolus" and "American Tulips for American Gardens" still be discussed by Mrs. Brooks McGlothlen, Mrs. Lola Johnston will talk on "Garden Pests." An exchange of seeds, plants and bulbs will be made at this meeting. The May meeting of the group will be held at the home of Mrs. Nettie Morris.

A home canning demonstration was held in the home economics room of Stockport school on Friday afternoon.

Fred Taylor of Salem is constructing a four room cottage on his farm west of Stockport on the site of the building destroyed recently by fire. The building, to be occupied by the Jesse Elmore family, will be completed by mid-summer.

Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bradfield and Mr. and Mrs. Marion Nelson and son of Packwood were Sunday guests at the Virgil Bradfield home.

Mr. Stille, wife and son of Silver City, were weekend guests at the Methodist parsonage.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Weller and daughter of Illinois were weekend guests at the parental James Weller home.

Wallace DeWitt, who last week enlisted in the navy at Burlington, failed to pass the physical examination in Des Moines and has returned home.

Mr. and Mrs. Dee Bryson have received word from their son Gene who recently enlisted in the army air corps that he is stationed at Jefferson Barricks, Mo.

Mrs. Ira Pratt and daughters Jeanette and Carol Ann spent Sunday in Cedar Rapids with their son and brother Bob Pratt, wife and son Jerry Lee.

Mr. and Mrs. John Knowles are visiting this week with their daughter, Mrs. Letha Stout and husband in Des Moines and their son Edgar and wife in Omaha, Nebr.

Mrs. Wilfred Crabb visited last week with relatives in Sioux City.

Mrs. John Pratt sustained a serious collar bone fracture in a fall at her home last week.

Howard Smith and Hollis Watson left Wednesday for Des Moines to be inducted into the army.

Gurden Radtke spent the weekend with friends in Moline, Ill.

Mrs. Grant Moxley is the new clerk in Wheatley's store.

Mrs. Lafe Knowles visited last week in Newton with her daughters, Miss Juanita Knowles and Mrs. Charles White and family and her son Edward Knowles.

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