Iowa Old Press
Kossuth County Advance (Algona, Iowa)
Thursday, December 12, 1940
FOREST CITY YOUTH WEDS SWEA CITYAN.
Swea City, Dec. 11: Anna, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Mogensen, Swea City, and Einar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Johnson, Forest City, were married Saturday, November 30, at the Lutheran parsonage, Forest City. The couple were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fielding, of Swea City, and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson, Bricelyn.
A wedding dinner was served at the Mogenson home here to 50 people, including the bridal pair, the families, the Clarence Johnsons of Bricelyn, the Edw. Rasmussens of Forest City, the Helgar Johnsons, of Woden, the D. A. Hoisers, the Howard Hoisers, the Harvey Hosiers, and the Axel Paulsens, Swea City.
After a week’s honeymoon the couple are housekeeping on a farm near Forest City.
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Kossuth County Advance (Algona, Iowa)
Thursday, Dec. 12, 1940 Page 3 Ad
Shaded part of map shows where the November sleet storm wrecked telephone lines.
[Map Image published with Northwestern Bell Telephone Company ad]
When the Storm Struck.
On November 11, 1940, the combination of rain, snow and rapidly falling temperatures, accompanied by a severe wind, caused many telephone lines to break in northwestern Iowa and other parts of the territory served by this Company. About 200 cities and towns were cut off from telephone communication.
This Company and its associates, the Tri-State and Dakota Central telephone companies, had more than 50,000 wire breaks and over 2,000 poles down in the territory indicated on the above map. The telephone property loss of these companies was nearly $200,000. This brings to more than $3,000,000 the amount it has cost these companies the last 10 years to repair property damaged or destroyed by storms.
Restoration of telephone service interrupted by the November storm was accomplished in the usual manner. Trained telephone men were assembled in the affected areas as quickly as possible and immediately started to work repairing the lines. In this storm, about 850 men were required. They continued work in spite of cold weather and nearly impassable highways in some localities, until service was restored, practically all of which was done in two or three days.
In emergencies such as this, much valuable time is saved because we are prepared to meet them. This Company and its associate companies, as a part of the Bell System, have promptly available to them the resources of the entire System. Supplies for rebuilding lines are rushed from our own and the Western Electric warehouses. Crews of telephone men with trucks, tools and materials are rushed to the scene of trouble. Standardized materials and methods make it possible to restore service with the utmost speed.
NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY
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[Transcribed by Linda Ziemann, Aug 2022]
**And many years ago a former employee of NWBell**