West Bend Journal (Newspaper) - June 26, 1975, West Bend, Iowa Elsbury and Archives si i Trinity Lutheran 75th Anniversary Trinity Lutheran Church mem bers at Ottosen will observe their 75th June Plans for the celebration include morn ing worship at and an afternoon program at with members of the board of trustees of the American Lutheran 50300 THE WEST Home OF THE JOUR URL VOLUME WEST JUNE 1975 Page 1 NUMBER 26 Early Issue Do to early publishing of the Journal of July advance ads and news one Thank You Journal SERVICES HELD FOR ESTHER CARLTON John and son of the original Oliver Wig Mason Committees have been busy arranging sales of collector plates depicting the church and the date of its diamond compiling history and collecting pictures for Special music and ban ners have been provided for the Reverand Lars Ruth and five associates met at the Nels near in 1900 and founded the Reverand Wigdahl serv ed this congregation and the Bethlehem Lutheran and morning and afternoon every third as the minister also served other Reverand ATTEND FRESHMAN ORIENTATION AT ISU Clayton son of and Dick West Bend is of the students will be ari incoming freshmen in the College of Sciences and at Iowa State University in Septem Freshmen students have been attending orientation meet ing on the campus this The sessions were devoted to aptitude and place ment visits with counselors and planning class schedules for fall While on was called in 1905 and remained five years until poor health caused his Reverand provided services every third Sunday in Church services had been conducted in the language until the early Reverand Sande began preaching in English every other Sunday until gradually the language was drop Lightning struck the church in 1927 and it burned to the Everything inside the church was carried out and saved with the exception of a few books and some The present church was built on the same location and is using the altar purchased by the ladies aid of the early The painting bears the name and is centrally located in a frame of fine carved Reverand Sande resigned in after 29 years of and was followed by and Pastor who served until 1952 when his wifes ill health brought Reverand Harold Reverand Jer sing intern Charles and Reverand served the little congrega tion until they 1964 to call a pastor with the Trinity Lutheran Church near Pastor Robert LeMont served the two congregations until Janu when he accepted a call to The church was supplied with pastors from Waldorf until when Pastor Gerhardt Gosnell accepted the call to serve the two small churches until to go to Marcus Englehardt filled the pulpit and accepted the call in June 1974 and is presently serving the Esther died at the Humboldt Care Center early Services were held at Monday at the Presbyterian Church with burial in Ceme Among survivors are a Rolfe three grandchildren and two great Esther Anderson was born in Peterson and moved to the Bradgate area at an early She graduated from high school there and in 1908 she married Frank Carlton They fanned in the Rolfe Carlton died in Lee Carlton is a teacher in the West Bend Community CLEAR VIEW MANOR NOTES Rosa Zaugg and Regina Bauman were dinner guests at the Walter Zaugg home June Mary Jo Meyer of entertained her mo ther Dolly Anliker on June After attend ing church services er the two ladies went out to Dolly is enjoying the visits from her Laura Anliker and from Kelly was treated to a Sunday afternoon ride through the country by his Gwen was surprised to see how much the corn had grown since he last saw the fields a week Charles spent the day at his home on June with his and Ralph Richards are enjoying visiting with their daughter and and Glenn who are vacationing here from On June the were pleased to see Donald Zaugg with his guitar and his gang of They played and sang old time favorites such Ive been working on the Let Me Call You One of the young Master Donald was celebrating his so Betty Banwart and Evie Bruell man treated the group and the residents here at Clear View Manor with cake and ice cream DUFFY REUNION Members of the family of the late and Martin of Whittemore held their annual reunion with a potluck dinner at noon on June 15 at Dorweiler There were 90 in and Mrs Maurice Churdan and John Ann and Musco tine and William and Chris and Shannon Timothy and and Kay and Mike Tommy and Kellie Jo of Forest and James Sue and of Downers this did not dampen TUG OF WAR The second annual Tug of War contest will be held on July 4th at at the highschool football Prizes will be given for each of five The divisions and prizes are as follows Mens High School Boys El boys grade tickets to pork Elementary girls grade barbeque Girls and Ladies and barbeque tick All divisions except the girls and ladies will be operated on a weight basis this For the mens and highschool boys divi sion a maximum of 1500 pounds will be the weight For the elementary both girls and boys 800 the CATCH A HOG ON THE 4th Hey Kids Do you want to earn If so enter the greased pig contest to be held on July 4th at on the highschool football Entries must by in by July Just call and give your name and There will be three age groups with a maximum of 25 entries in each The first 25 to call will get to The groups will be ages 8 to 12 13 to 17 and 18 and Boys and girls will be allowed to enter so come on guys and lets get It is loads of fun and could be very profitable for the winner in each Come dressed for the Rules will be explained before the contest General Closing There will be a general closing of all stores in West Bend on July 4th in observance of the 4th of July honor of It sure hit These weights will be OPEN HOUSE the spot on a warn afternoon The newspaper read Showers Fell in the news came on More Rain hi store for Births students and their parents lived in university Residence halls and had their meals in the residence hall food service facilities if they Tours of departments were slated for students in order that they might become familiar with classroom and laboratory loca In the students attended on and offcampus housing and church orientation By attending orientation ses they have more free time during the first days of the school year to become familiar with the campus and building and Dennis Henry are the proud parents of a new baby Corey who 8 and was born at June The Henrys have four other all Shona Audry and and Marcy who is Illinois and Herman and Earl Connors and Toni Keokuk and Neil and Bruce and Sioux City Renee Sioux City Denise Rock Rap ids Sister Mary Paul and Lewis Duffy and Teresa Duffy and from West and Ferd and Raphael Milissa and and Harold Teresa and Agnes and Marvin John and Mary and Mark and Mark Donald and and Marvin Maurine and Members of the Committee for 1975 were and Lewis Duffy and and Marvin Appointed on the Committee for 1976 were and Earl Kay Duffy and Sister Mary GEBER REUNION JULY 4th The Semi annual Gerber re union will be held this year at the Call Park in Algona July 4 at Please bring covered dish and table service for your and Melvin Ingen mansen and their Jason and Tony were in from friday to Sunday attending the funeral of Virgil They spent the time in the home of and Harold Bicentennial Meeting A bicentennial committee meeting was held June 23rd at at the community We had a turn out of seven The school and the historical society were the only organizations Weare going to hold another on June at at the community We hope to have organizations represented as well as individuals who are interested m getting something going for next We are hoping to get some interest in a local celebration as well as county There is hope to have a county wide celebration at the county fair in Lets get some of this spirit and attend the next meeting June at the spirits at Clear View Plans for a Potluck were in progress and continued to materialize as the rain came pouring The date was June The time was 5 Wednesday morn ing we awoke to a very gray dismal by midmorning it was raining but the show must go By 10 oclock a slogan appeared on the lounge bulletin Lets Make Our Own The spirit caught on and spread throughout the By midafternoon Sunshine showed his face in all his plans were Relatives and friends with lots of delicious food were arriving as Promptly at 5 oclock the grand march to the food laden table The wheelchair residents and their families lead ing the The decisions to make on what food to take and what had to be left undiscovered took some and twelve people passed through the line wich took some time but was well worth the It seemed like a big family reunion as many pitched in and helped the clean up committee after The joys of the day are still the main topic among our It was all so great because everyone worked to make it that AUXILIARY SCHEDULE June 27 Bette Bleuer and Dolores Mertz June 30 Craft or Leona McCue and July 4th scheduled entertainment absolute maximums and weigh in will be held at the contest site between and on the The entire team will be weighed at the same The girls and ladies teams will be composed of 6 team with no weight Those teams wishing to enter should call one of the following numbers by July 2nd 8873756 Baade or 8876459 Rules are the same as last year with a few minor Re member to bring tennis shoes or plan to tug bare The Paul and Henry sers of West Bend are holding an Open House at the Community Center on June from 2 to 4 for the 65th wedding anniversary of their and Piper of West Friends and relatives are invited to Sale Date Southeast of West Bend School in West Bend on July 6 and Henry Martin auctioneer Zaugg Auction ANDERSEN REUNION The Andersen reunion was held at the West Bend Community Center on June 22 with about fifty in Presi dent Ronald Struthers and Lorraine Secretary made the A potluck dinner was enjoyed at noon and the afternoon was spent visiting and singing songs with Stanley Andersen of Spirit Lake playing the Those in attendance from the original Andersen family were and Stanley Andersen of and Emmet Hanson of and Lorin Larson of and Luella Rising of Others attending the reunion were Darwin Hanson of and Gerald Hansen and family of Lavonna Struthers and and Ronald and family of and Victor Lothe and Jim of and Ken Brees of Ron Baker and boys of Eagle and Stan Andersen and family of Spirit Jeanette Brock man and Dianne of Grover and Larson and of Des and Gordon Tom and Nancy of West and Bruce Andersen and Jeremiah of Spen and Miss Chide Kabrick of New officers for the 1976 reunion are Darwin President and Ronald WEDDING RECEPTION There will be a Wedding Reception honoring and Allan Metzger of It will be held Sunday July from to at the Community Center in West All relatives and friends are cordially Committee WEDDING RECEPTION There will be a Coin Wedding Reception honoring and Rodney Gress of West Palm It will be held at the West Bend Community Cen ter on July from to 9 Everyone Committee WEST BEND HISTORICAL SOCIETY A nice size group of members and guests attended the regular meeting of the West Bend Historical Society which was held June 18 at the Community Several new memberships were turned in making the toal One renewal from Earl Stout along with a letter of a list of articles he would give to the if they could use Donna Bonnstetter announced about a bus tour to the Living History Farm sponsored by the Palo Alto and Kossuth on July Hazel and Cliff Munson and Violet Ferden will possibly Dorothy Hundertmark gave an interesting report on the Struth ers Family Lunch was served by Cobb and PRENATAL CLASSES IN EMMETSBURG The Palo Alto Public Health Nursing Service announces a series of prenatal begin ning July 1975 at in Henely Palo Alto County Hospital The classes will be conducted by the Public Health with members of the hospital staff The four sessions will cover prenatal labor and and the care of the newborn and will be informal discussion type classes with some films and A tour of the maternity ward of the local hospital will be conduct ed by a staff member and the general procedures There is no charge for the Prospective fathers are especially NAVY NEWS RELEASE Gregory Philip Schuller of West son of and James has enlisted in the Navy at Des Bruce Byron son of and Richard also of West has enlisted in the Navy at Des Gregory and Bruce will be undertaking recruit training at Upon comple tion and two weeks at Gregory will attend hospital Corpsman Class A school in or Bruce will attend Airman Apprenticeship training in He enlisted for three He and Gregory enlisted in the Navy Buddy Both are 1975 Graduates of West Bend High
