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Local social notes from Marcus area New Year gatherings
Community members from Marcus and nearby towns visit relatives during New Year holidays. Attendees include Lighter, Ruebsam, Hickey, Gustafson, Lydell, and many others visiting family homes in Marcus, Alta, Cherokee, Storm Lake, and Galva. The notes mention insurance ads and a wedding at RLDS church in Cherokee.
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Selene Lighter
Oliver Erickson
Battle Creek
Ellen Lighter
Clarence Lighter
Marcus
Ralph Ruebsam
Omaha
Art Ruebsam
D.B. Littell
Northwest Iowa
Horace Mann Insurance Co
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
Earl Webb
Ted
Pierson
Corrine Larson
Joe Coombs
Oakland
Cliff Coombs
Joyce Hickey
Sioux City
Garland Hickey
Dale Doescher
Pender
Nebr
Hickey
Orville Langlet
Alta
Roger Miller
Jay Bennett
Washta
Clarence McCleery
Virgil Gano
Sutherland
Ed Gano
Lowell Gano
John Patterson
Clarence Bengtson
Karen
Loren Peckenschneider
Roy Lydell
Mervin Gustafson
Emil Rydstrom
Russell Hanson
Storm Lake
Steven Peterson
Walter Jensen
Jim Lewis
Frank ‘Leasure
Marshalltown
L. J. Kreger
Earl Ware
Cherokee
James Lewis
George Bumann
Henry Nelson
Lorenz Roth
Lorenz Koth
John and
Fred Koth
Galva
Lockin Insurance Agency
Arden Koch