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Newspaper
Bayard News
Location
Bayard, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1966
Page
1
A Christmas column notes Rev Dale M Bass visiting a 300 pound hospital patient on a 200 calorie diet and reports a 19 pound loss. It includes poetry by Alice Jorgensen, a Christmas letter from Bass, and community notes about children, gifts, and hopes for 1967.
Mr and Mrs Gerald Watkins were Sunday guests of Mrs Will Longman Edna and Mildred in Omaha. Mr and Mrs William Booth of Bagley and Mr and Mrs Paul McClellan of Bayard were Saturday overnight and Sunday guests of their daughter and son Mr and Mrs Duane McClellan in Bayard.
Bayard nursing home residents enjoyed carols by Highland Hustlers 4H Club members and received gifts from the Coon Rapids Junior Chamber of Commerce. Rev Dale M Bass led a youth fellowship carol sing, with visits and celebrations noted throughout December. A December 9 wedding in Dakota City united Doris Geopfert and Pete Bennett.
Youth from the community come home for Christmas from colleges and military posts. Names include Richard Rogan from Norfolk Junior College and Sally Agre from Northwest Missouri State. ISU students, Viet Nam veterans, and local families host returning students and relatives for the holidays.
Guthrie Center resident Wilbur Knauss and Elmer Christensen of Bayard join Drake University students in Des Moines for the holidays. The list includes Larry Watkins Greenfield Lana Hughes Lyons Marcia Nance and David Whitver. Privates Dennis Ayers and Dennis Wailes arrive from Fort Polk and Fort Leonard Wood to visit parents. Private Jack Fuller visits his mother. Gary Bucklin returns from service and leaves December 26 for Keesler Air Force Base Biloxi Miss. Enid Calder at SUI rests at home. Joyce Whitver and Larry Crawley from Wartburg College are home on vacation. Harold and John Lloyd visit from Ellsworth JC in Waverly. Linda Johnston stays with ard Johnston for holidays. Richard Brideson of SUI Iowa City spends vacation with Louis Brideson. Danny Curl arrives from Memphis for a ten day furlough with Harold and Mrs Curls. John Parker Ames with ISU student at home. relatives in Ames also host.
Mr and Mrs Elmer Weldy of Hamlin were Sunday afternoon visitors of Mrs Vic Nelson, sharing a friendly afternoon call.
Mr and Mrs Lyle with McClellan and Curtis from Des Moines were guests of Mr and Mrs Paul McClellan until Saturday. Curtis stayed with his grandparents, the Paul McClellans, after attending the funeral of Claude Betts in Sioux City. Louis Ault and family attended the ISU Ames Christmas Festival. they were supper guests of the Craig Beer family and visited Dr Lloyd Frederick home.
Readable OCR fragment notes a host family event tied to December 19 with Mrs Joha R Rosenbeck and Mrs Robert Date in a morning gathering on Calle, indicating a social or family hosting arrangement.
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