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Gilbert community notes and social calendar
A long itemized column lists local visits and hospitality in Gilbert Iowa including visits by Misses Lillian Bingman Adelaide Shearer and Anna Anderson, tours by Mr and Mrs Sam Wakefield and many others. It notes a box social for the Gilbert Silver Cornet Band and a theater outing to Story City. Community events mix church activities school friendships and travel to nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Brown
Teachers’ Association
Ames
George Shepard
Bennett Templeton
Adelaide Shearer
Ross Dodds
Kimball
John Beesden
Rachel Marshall
L. Oliver
A A. Lungren
Lillian Bingman
Wm. McKinley
M. W. Templeton
Anna Anderson
Vera Wierson
Story City
M. Abrahamson
The
Christian Endeavoree
Monte
Ione Bell
Lena Howland
Marshalltown
Rutger Brothers
Washington Irvine
Rip van Winkle
Gilbert
W. H. Marsden
West
Marsden
Thinkey Boo
Oregon
Isses Evelyn
Pauline Gilbert
Earl Strever
Webster City
Schmidt Girls
Kamrar
Messrs
Ed Holmes
Fred Zenor
Wolfe
Minneapolis
Christian Endeavor
Wm. Canady
A. L. Dunton
Margaret Helen
Dunton’s
Edna Barker
California
A. C. Smith
Arapahoe
Cal
Rev. Wolfe
Glen Bean
Floss Logan
Oren Dickinson
Margaret Abrahamson
Fredvis
Ward Dinsmore
Rudolph Dickinson
David Gibson
Mrs. Sawyer
Col
Delne
Otho
Mr. Sawyer
Indiana
I. O. O. F. Hall
Gilbert Silver Cornet Band
Mary Wright
Sam Wakefield
W. H. Totten
J. Totten
Out of Town
Emma Wakefield
Maude Wakefield
Earl Kooser
Robert Windgate
Lew Roberson
Faye McNeil