Dead elm trees have been vanishing from city parking in Council Bluffs as the rate of 1,435 in less than a year. The city contracted last fall with Havelone Construction Company for removal of the diseased or dead trees and a new contract for removal…
Officers escort Walter G. Ellis to the Lowndes County, GA, jail Tuesday after bringing him from Las Vegas, Nev. Ellis is charged with murder in the Oct. 30 death of L. Harmon Tucker, vocational education director for Council Bluffs Community Schools.…
Mail Distribution . . . will once again take place in the old Wilson Post Office, now relocated to the Eshelman Rural Museum east of Elliott. A.C. Eshelman, owner of the museum and showgrounds, takes a package from Mrs. Roxanne Vance, Elliott…
Making Plans . . . for an antique machinery and threshing show are A.C. Eshelman with Mrs. Roxanne Vance, who will work in the old Wilson Post Office in the background. The postal building has been renovated and moved to the Eshelman Rural Museum…
This "Pinochle Palace" . . . in Elliott may well be the only building of its kind. Built by public subscription expressly for the use of the pinochle players, it is maintained by donations.
Floor Plan . . . shows various rooms of the building under construction at the New Elks Country Club. In addition to locker rooms, at the left, the building will include an office, room for mechanical equipment, lounge, kitchen and all-purpose room.…
Council Bluffs Police Dept. mug shots, side and front, of murder suspect Ronald Brewer. Slate around his necks reads:
Council Bluffs, IA
Police Dept.
26467
10-29-1957
(Date on back of photo is 12-58)
Examining Charter Membership . . . book are Dwayne Overholtzer, chairman of the East Side Christian Church Board, Pastor Richard Brown and Mrs. Lou Baggs, one of the church's charter members.
Spacious And Beautiful . . . is the proposed new East Side Christian Church to be located on its present 7 1/2 acres of ground at 1714 Madison Ave. First phase of construction will be the portion of the main structure pictured in the architect's…
In Sanctuary . . . of East Side Christian Church is Jack Maffitt, 320 Adrian Ave., Russell Starr, 224 Pickardy lane, and Mrs. John H. Hansen, 343 E. Graham Ave.