The Alton Democrat from Alton, Iowa • Page 5

THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950 THE ALTON, IOWA DEMOCRAT PAGE SEVEN PERSONAL Produce Markets Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pohlen were hosts to the Supper Club (Courtesy Floyd Hatchery) Sunday evening.

EGGS Mrs. T. A. Straight Price (all eggs) tertained the Trianbid club en- at Hemmingson Graded her home Tuesday afternoon. No.

1 -30c No, 2 24c Loyal Martin of Cherokee visNo. 3 -20c ited at the parental Nic Mar-; All Roosters -13c tin home one day last week. HENS Heavies lbs. and over Mr. and Mrs.

P. M. Tanfield All others --------14 are Mr. spending several days with and Mrs. Henry C.

Shull at Sioux City. Don't take chances. Insure with Mildred Gibbs Allen. 11tf Mrs. Peter Vander Stoep was hostess to fifteen ladies of the The Contract club met Tues- Dorcas circle of the Ladies Aid day, afternoon Mrs.

Wednesday afternoon. Gibbs as hostess. Miss Jean Kooreman of MinMr. and Mrs. J.

K. Bekman neapolis arrived Friday for a spent the week end with Mr. visit with her mother, Mrs. and Mrs. Westerfield at Florence Kooreman, leaving again Sunday afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gebauer. visited at the parental Joe Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Braun Erkes home at Sheldon Sunday attended the 51st wedding an" evening. niversary celebration of Mr. Braun's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Faber Frank Braun at LeMars Sunday. and daughter, Karen of Orange City visited Sunday evening Miss Mary Ann Kass, who in the Sam Faber home. attends the nurses training at St.

Joseph's hospital, Sioux Mr. and Mrs. Nick Henrich City, spent the week end here and Francis visited last Wed- with her mother, Mrs. Mina nesday at the home of Mr. and Kass.

Mrs. Leo Henrich in Sioux City. Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Brink Mr.

and Mrs. Peter Eulberg of Estherville visited at the and Marie were guests at the John Jansen home. They arrived John Reith home near Remsen back last Thursday after a trip last Thursday afternoon to help California, where they Mrs. Reith's birthday. ited relatives and friends.

Mr. Brink's mother accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kooreman them back for a visit. and Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew De Graaf attended the funeral of James and Louis Jansen of William Rexwinkel at Newkirk Sacramento, arrived FriFriday afternoon. day for a visit at the home of their brother, E. J. Jansen and SERVICE GARAGE--A good family and left again Tuesday place to come for repairs and for their home.

They had atrepairing. Phone Garage 3541- tended the Builders Convention House 3221. 37tf at Chicago. Grease and wash jobs, tires, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Zeutenbatteries, accessories--for horst, had intended to celebrate extra service, try the Conoco, their 40th wedding anniversary Station. 18tt quietly, but their children surprised them Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Peter Keizer when they arrived with their and Mrs. C.

L. Britton attended families, presenting their parthe funeral of Mrs. Edith Dar- ents with a lovely rug and servville LeMars last. Friday. Mrs.

ing a two course luncheon. A Darville is the mother of Ger- bouquet of flowers was the ban Keizer of Hawarden. gift of the Ray Jansen family and Mr. and Mrs. Wm.

GeFor Fire Insurance, Auto bauer, also presented them surance, Farmers, with a gift, sive Personal Liability, and Tractor Insurance, see Chris B. Mrs. William Gebauer, Schneider, Dial 4131. Alton, entertained at a stork shower 45tf last Thursday with Mrs. Willard Foreman as honor guest: Mrs.

Arthur Braun spent sev- Other guests present were: eral days with her "sister, Mesdames Gene Klein, Rich Jacob Wittry of Breda at Ro- Foreman, Cornie De Vries, Wm. chester, who underwent major Gebauer, and John Van surgery there. also visited Pelt, all of Alton; Mesdames with John Jasper of Ireton, Joe Erkes, William Granstra, former Alton resident. Gerrit Reekers, Henry Foreman, Herman Erkes of Sheldon, Mrs. Elizabeth Kellen Mesdames Marlin Den tained at dinner Sunday.

Pres- Beste, Mike Foreman Harent were: Mr. Mrs. H. N. Boersma, Boersma Kellen and Mr.

and Mrs. Leo Harry Boersma, Bob Boersma Henrich of Sioux City, Mr. and and Donald Raak, all ot HosMrs. Vic Kellen and family of pers. Games were played and Remsen, Mr.

and Mrs. George a two course luncheon was Kellen and family, Mr. and Mrs. served to conclude a pleasant Nick Henrich and Francis. afternoon.

YOU BE LOW COMPARE THE PRICES OUR JUDGE! Specials Thursday, Friday, Saturday Vel Soap Powders, 2 regular boxes Glim, new improved liquid soap, per bottle Plenty for 50 dishwashings 25c Ohio Blue Tip Matches, per carton Ajax Cleaner, two cans All-Good Sliced Peaches in heavy syrup 16 oz. can .190 Stokely's Tomato Catsup, 14 oz. bottle 19c Sardines in Natural Oil, 2 large cans 19c Cudahy's Pure Leaf Lard, per lb. Welch's Grape Juice, pint bottle California Seedless Naval Oranges doz. 39c Red Emperor Grapes, per lb.

Extra Fancy Delicious Apples, 2. lbs. Extra Fancy Winesap Apples, 2 lbs. Pascal Celery; extra large stalk up U. S.

No. 1 Red Pontiacs, 10 lbs. Homan's Dept. Store Alton, Iowa We deliver twice daily Dial 3501 Mrs. Lottie Thomas of Valley was a caller Tuesday Rock the Bowers home, Mr.

and Mrs. Ray De Jong spent Wednesday in Sioux City, where Ray had a checkup. Be sure to attend the stockholders meeting of the Farmers Mutual Co-op Saturday, March 4. 48-1 Mrs. Bob Schneiders and children of Sunday at the parental George Hansen home.

Announcing--the opening of the New Grey Shop in Sheldon, under new management, with a new stock ladies apparel. March 4th 48-1 E. G. Klein attended the convention of the state Druggists Assn. in Des Moines Monday and Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Dalton and sons of Carroll spent the week end at the parental Mike Hansen home.

Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Wiersma of Orange City were here Monday to call on Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fennema.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Van Surksum entertained Mr. and Mrs.

Ray and daughter, Mary at dinner Sunday. Annual stockholders meeting of the Farmers Mutual Co-op on March 4th, at 1:30 p. m. at the Alton town hall. 48-1 Milo Streff underwent a minor operation on his eye at the LeMars hospital Tuesday and was expected home Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hanson of Sioux City were afternoon callers at the home of Mrs. J. B.

Braskamp last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Klein and girls and Mr. and Mrs.

Wm. Gebauer, visited at the Henry Gebauer home in Akron Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. G.

P. Ivancie spent the week end at Elkpoint, help celebrate the birthday of Mrs. Ivancie's grandmother. Mr. and Mrs.

Herman Van Werven of Sheldon and Mrs. John Huygens of Newkirk were Sunday evening callers in the Jansen home. Betty Watson is working this week in the Peter Noteboom home at Orange City. Mr. Noteboom has returned home after being hospitalized for 6 weeks.

March 4th will be the openin Sheldon new management ing day for then new. Grey Shop March 4th will be the openin Sheldon new management ing day for then new. Grey Shop -new stock complete line of ladies coats, suits, dresses and accessories. I have been appointed Avon Cosmetic representative for the Alton vicinity in place of Mrs. Bill Freriks.

If interest call Mrs. Wm. Vogelaar, 377M, Orange City. 48p2 Miss Pauline Hoeven of Alton is one of 93 elementary education students at Drake University participating in the spring semester plan of student teaching in Des Mountie school system, says the University News Bureau. William H.

Riedeman of Waupun, Wis, arrived last Friday to attend the funeral of his uncle, Wm. Rexwinkel at Newkirk Friday afternoon. He was a house guest at the parental H. Riedeman home, leaving Sunday. Sunday supper guests at the Dan Watson home were Mr.

and Mrs. Virgil Beckman and Kenny of Hartley and the Misses Elizabeth and Jennie Jongetjes of Sheldon. Additional evening callers were Mr. and Mrs. Gt.

Lyzen and Linda, Mr. and Mrs. H. Riedeman, Dr. Riedeman William Riedeman of Waupun, were dinner guests at the Richard Cambier home Saturday evening.

Also a guest was Miss Virginia Cambier of Sioux City who spent the week end here. Mr. and Mrs. Ray De Jong entertained last Wednesday evening, Feb. 22 in honor of their daughter, Mary's third birthday.

Guests present were Mr. and Mrs. W. P. De Jong of Orange City, Mr.

and Mrs. Gerrit man and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gesink and Carrie. The local Music club met Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs.

A. Kemper and those present concluded there was insufficient interest to warrant continuing it as a monthly club. If there is a desire among members and prospective members to reorganize as a women's chorus, with weekly rehearsals, there may be a meeting called for this purpose. A birthday party honoring en by her children Tuesday Mrs. Mary Brunsman a was at her home.

Present for the happy occasion were Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wiltgen, Mr.

and Mrs. Gilbert Brunsman, Mr. and Cletus Brunsman and 1 children, Mr. and Mrs. Linus Freking and son of LeMars, Mr.

and Mrs. D. J. Thill, and Mrs. Art Faber of Remsen, Mrs.

Wayne Hatton and sons of Pender, Nebr. Public Welfare Assn. Will Meet At Storm Lake Iowa Welfare AssociaThe Northwest. District of the tion will hold a workshop meet. ing at Storm Lake on March 16th, 1950.

This mecting is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a. m. with Miss Esther Immer. Research Division of Child Welfare, Des Moines, as speakthe morning session and Dr. Ray Wakely, Professor of Sociology Ames, will be speaker for the afternoon session.

The meetings are open to lay people and members of the association who are vitally interested in youth activities such as education, health, recreation, rehabilitation, employment, and other youth activites. This meeting is one of several to be held throughout the of Iowa as a forerunner of Mid-Century White House Conference on Children in Washington, D. C. President Theodore Roosevelt called the first White House Conference on Children in 1909. Similar conferences have been every tea.

years since in Washington, D. The purpose of the workshop at Storm Lake on March 16th is to assemble facts pertaining to needs and care of children and youth in the Northwest District Iowa. After the introductory speeches, the assembly will be re-grouped into six or eight smaller divisions to meet with committees appointed in charge of education, committee in charge of protective care, committee in charge of handicapped children, committee on care and rehabilitation, committee on health, committee on community facilities and recreation, committee on employment of youth, and the committee on the family. The meeting and the smaller group meetings will have a free and open discussion of the youth activities and. problems in northwest Iowa.

Facts and information gath'ered during discussions will be conveyed to the Iowa Executive Committee appointed by Governor Beardsley and also to the Iowa Commission who will be representing Iowa at the Mid-Century Meeting in Washington, D. C. People who are interested in the youth movement in the State of Iowa should contact their local County Director of Social Welfare, Mrs. Willa B. Reiniger, for detailed information regarding this workshop at Storm Lake.

Mrs. Reiniger will arrange for your reservation and the noon day luncheon. A representative group of interested citizens is invited and expected to attend this meeting. 1 Nell Lohr Briggs Way Early Resident Of County Seat Mrs. Nell Doolittle Lohr Briggs, who passed on at Orange City Saturday, was a belle of the '90's at Orange City, where she was popular in the young set.

Later became the bride of Freeman J. Lohr, young abstracter there, for many years. Their son, Freeand they lived in Orange City man, was born and reared there. Some years after Mr. Lohr's death, Mrs.

Lohr was married to Mr. Briggs of Humboldt, and resided there for several years, until after the death of her second husband. Her son also passed on several years ago. For the past few years she has been in the care of Mrs. James Jasper, at the Jasper home.

She was 86 years of age. Funeral services were held Feb. 27 at the Van Etten funeral home, with Rev. J. Veldman officiating.

Pallbearers were H. C. Moret, J. W. Cambier, J.

Te Paske, Ellsworth De Jong, Gerrit Noteboom, C. L. Barks. The Northwestern Schools' Quartet and Mr. W.

B. Bertson, Chairman of the Department of Music of Northwestern Schools, the Bible School, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Theological Seminary, of Minneapolis, are to be featured in a program of sacred music at the Second Chr. Ref. church of Orange City on March 10 at 8 p. m.

Four young men, Jack Markey of Minneapolis, Dale Bull of Salem, Odell Parrott of Flint, and Bob Wilkin of Duluth, make up the quartet, which, along with Mr. Bertson, traveled thirty thousand miles in the United States, Mexico and Canada in the past two years. All four men are students in Northwestern College. The Northwestern Schools' Quartet is acclaimed as one of the Northwest's outstanding musical groups and has gained national renown for its work in sacred concerts, evangelical services, Youth for Christ rallies, etc. Mr.

Bertson, pianist, preacher, and composer, is a graduate of Iowa State Teachers College, Moody Bible Institute, and Northwestern University. He has had a wide experience as pastor, evangelist, and musican as well as considerable experience in the teaching ministry. He is acclaimed for his choral directing and song arrangements across the continent. 773 DONATE BE A Thankful for the Red Cross blood plasma which helped save his life on Okinawa, this former Marine Corps platoon sergeant signs up for his tenth blood donation even though permanently blind as a result of wound. "Prince Of Peace" Unusual Production Blind Veteran Donates Blood One of the most unusualdefinitely one of the most worthwhile--movies to reach a theatre screen in many years is the new cinecolor production, The Lawton, Story of "The Prince of showing March 3 and 4 at the Palace theatre.

Its reverence, simplicity and faithful portrayal of the Life of Jesus Christ makes it indeed a thing of beauty and a picture of great significance in this war weary world. Produced at a cost of more than $2,500,000 by Hallmark Productions as an answer to the plea from Christian leaders everywhere for a featurelength motion picture with a great spiritual message, "The Prince of Peace" that will be viewed over and over again by youngsters and adults alike as the decades roll by. Its showing at the Palace is to be its only local run within three years, according to the theatre's announcement. The Lawton Story of "The Prince of Peace" is actually two stories in one. The picture is based on the life of the famous Little Minister, Rev.

A. Mark Wallock of Lawton, and his world-famous Easter pageant which has become America's greatest Passion Play. A full year in filming, the producers have tried the impossible and accomplished the unusual by casting professional Hollywood actors and actress into certain of the story's rolls and surrounding them with a cast of more than 3,000 strict amateurs citizens of Lawton, handle the biblical roles with sheer perfection and amazing sincerity. "The Prince of Peace" is top fare for Christian people -men, women and children who believe in God and who want to learn more of the story of Jesus Christ. It incorporates 53 tableaux from the New Testament in providing the screen's first, great treatment of The Passion Play.

The story of Jesus is enacted with simplicity and told such thoroughness that from tiny tots to aging ministers, everyone in the audience learns more of the Greatest Story Ever Told than has ever been possibl thru reading or studying. Visual education is at its very best in "The Prince of -and the film already has been tagged as one that will be seen by more school children than any other picture ever made. A new and pleasing childstar, 6-year-old Ginger Prince, is introduced in The Lawton Story of "The Prince of A native of Atlanta, Miss Prince is a discovery of Hollywood's young Ohio-born producer, Kroger Babb, and her talents are well displayed in this, her first screen vehicle. Ginger sings four songs well and gives a creditable performance throughout. Her rendition of the well-loved hymn "Holy, Holy, Holy" in Uncle Mark's church choir will move the most hard-hearted.

In gayer vein, Ginger really puts over "Down in Oklahoma" and has the audience humming it as they leave the theatre. She sings two other songs with charm and an amazing sense of rhythm in one 50 young. ROCK VALLEY Russell Brandsma of Hawarden was a guest in the home of and Mrs. Gordon Dearborn here on Saturday and attendled the Boyden-Lester game at night there in the Sectional tournament. Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Veltkamp of Rock Rapids visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ver Doorn Thursday. The Methodist study class was held on Wednesday afternoon and the lesson proved very The study book is Japan Begins Again by William C.

Kerr. This book deals with the time the occupation forces are in Japan. rather highly of the work being done by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his forces. Class Plays Featured The freshman and sophomore plays presented at P.

T. O. Monday night were highly praised. Participating sophomores were Walt Van Boxtel. Molly Mulder, Richard Swasand, Edwin Van Surksum.

Sidney Jiskoot. Esther Huisman. 'Mary Schrier, Frances Noteboom, Leo Starkenburg and Kathryn Bouma. Miss Lee directed the play. The freshman, play directed by Mrs.

had Stanley Vander Weide, Paul Stander, David Neuroth, Jerry Kemper and Marcel Van Boxtel and Charles Hocven, as characters. Solos by Marcella, Van Boxtel and Colleen Mulder were featured between acts, Mr. and Mrs. R. C.

Larson and daughter of Kimberly, Idaho arrived Tuesday for a visit at the Myron Mason home. They reported that former Alton, residents living in Kim- berly are well and send best wishes. Mrs. Larson is the former Maxine Mason. Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Hentges, David and George, spent. Sunday in Sioux Falls, where they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Den Herder, (nee HerVande of Rock Valley) and enjoyed a chicken dinner.

Mr. Den Herder, formerly of Sioux Center, is assistant cashier at the Sioux Falls railway station. WATER HAULING For Hard and Soft Water. Call Don Freriks, 2631 Alton, la. Mothers! the ideal children's garment ANY CHILD CAN PUT ON LANG'S KWIKI IN A JIFFY ALL.

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Beautiful bright plaids. Formerly priced to $7.98 Special at only $5.00 Men's plaid Mackinaws Boys' plaid flannel shirts Children's corduroy overalls Special 98c Men's washable gabardine Dress Shirts. All colors, Sizes 14 to 17. $4.98 to $5.98 shirts Reduced to only $3.49 Beautiful gabardine, tissue faille and Wool Plaid Dresses Formerly to $16.98 Now only $5.98 All sizes 9 to 261: including half sizes. One rack of smart rayon dresses in gabardines, failles, spun rayons etc.

Mostly junior sizes. Special at only $3.98 2 for $6.00 Mitzi Frocks for The Little Miss Sizes from 6 months to 14 years. $1.98 dresses only $1.49 $2.98 dresses only $1.98 Rag Rugs--A well made serviceable rug in two sizes at 59c and 98c. Homan's Dept. Store ALTON, IOWA.