Archer Oil convention attendance and regional visits noted
Mrs. Elma Bye reports Archer Oil convention participation in Omaha. Multiple families from Lenox Gibbons Pocatello Hastings and Creston area are cited visiting relatives and attending social events including birthday dinners and club meetings. Community groups such as the Kensington club and Hi Way Culture Club hold events with plans for future activities and officers are elected in several organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elma Bye
Kensington Club
Yale
Louise Wintermute
McPherson
Minnie
Lou Stevenson
Eunice Calkins
Edna Brown
American Legion Auxiliary
the Legion Hall
Edna Ly@ton
Lavon Brown
Lucille Miller
Lavon
Thelma Brown
Conway Philatha Class Sees 16 Members And Guests
Conway Philatha class met in the church basement with 16 members present and two guests Miss Inza Hughes and Margaret Stimson. They exchanged gifts for shut ins and Flora Ginn led a Christmas program. Trays were bought and hostesses were listed. Visitors at Edwin Murray home included Will Welton California Dale Sleep and family Barbara Sleep Bedford Bertha Scroggie Taui Swanson Angela Gail Fitzhugh and families from Clarinda and Tony Glassman Creston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conway
Philatha
Inza Hughes
Mias
Margaret Stimson
Shutins
Flora Ginn
Neilie Piper
Gladys Davis
Orda Hess
Nefie Davis
Edgar Murray
Will Welton
California
Dale Sleep
Barbara Sleep
Bedford
Bertha Scroggie
Taui Swanson
Angela
Gail Fitzhugh
Clarinda
Tony Glassman
Creston
AthelstAN Social News Roundup of Visits and Travel
Mrs. Marion Jenkins reports multiple family visits across Braham Minnesota Clarinda Whiteaville Des Moines Kansas City and Camp Chaffee Arkansas. Relatives include Byrns Rusco Burns ONeal Waugh Shuster Manes and Childers with travel by plane and car for gatherings and a funeral attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Jenkins Athellstan
Ida Pierson
Braham
Minn
Geo. Scroggie
Joe Rusco
Leonard Rusco
Ralph Schuster
Clearfield
Hilda Rusco
Grant City
Garland Shhuster
Des Moines
Clyde Manes
Cora Anderson
Fred Bownes
Emma Childers
Tessie
Santa Ana
Calif
Kansas City
S. M. Childers
Vilas Morris
C. Robinson
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Junior Morris
Edwin Robinson
Denzel Fidler
Dean Weese
Howard Scott
Jimmy
Clyde Branson
Maryville
Hopkins Lodge Elects Officers As Tornado Damages Masonic Temple
Xenia Lodge No. 60 of A F and A M met in Hopkins December 4 at the Masonic hall in Pickering. Officers elected included Wilkinson as Worshipful Master Whaley Senior Warden Thompson Junior Warden Fristole Treasurer Fine Secretary Niles Senior Deacon Lyle Fine Junior Deacon Cobb Chaplain Calkins Marshal Holland Senior Steward Boring Junior Steward Grotey Tyler DS. The Hopkins Masonic Temple sustained substantial damage from the recent tornado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Boyd Hopkins
Xenia Lodge
A. F
A. M
Masonic Hall
Pickering
Masonic Temple
Hopkins
Charles Wilkinson
Harley Whaley
Jean Thompson
Ava Fristole
Lloyd Fine
Max Niles
Lyle Fine
George Cobb
Beryl Calkins
D. W. Holland
Wayne Boring
Claude Grotey
Tyler
Freemyers, Garrards Visit In Area
Mrs. Geo. Bentley reports social visits in Clay County. Bill Freemyer and his wife traveled to Creston to see Mr. and Mrs. Earl Matheny on Thursday. Leroy Waugh and family from Bedford visited Mrs. Garrard and family Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Bentley Blockton
Bill Freemyer
Earl Matheny
Creston
Leroy Waugh
Bedford
Wayne Garrard
Glen Bentley
Max Sanders
Kansas City
Community Guests and Local Social Roundup
Social notices list Saturday and Sunday visits across multiple towns. Families including the Cort, Wolfe, Quinn, Devault, Bentley, Sanders and Loghry households share dinners and gatherings. Club activities feature the Klatter club hosted by Amy Buckley with George Schoenmann assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cerston
Harry Loghry
Liberty Club Christmas Party and Sunshine Sisters Gatherings
Liberty Club hosted Mrs. Howard Pierce for a December 11 Christmas party with thirteen members, gift exchange, and plans for a card shower for bedridden Mrs. Vennie Huddle. A Children’s Home box was sent and next meeting set for January 8 with Mrs. Don Stickelman. The Sunshine Sisters held a Christmas party at Mr. and Mrs. Ames Larsson with a pot luck dinner, gift exchange, and short program attended by multiple local families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Pierce
Liberty Club
Guy Poore
Vennie Huddle
Don Stickelman
Sunshine Sisters Club
Ames Larsson
Keeping It For a Day and Yet Never Alone
A pithy reflection invokes shared responsibility and companionship over time. The quote notes that keeping something for a day implies communal care and connection, suggesting that lasting things require others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry van Dyke
Humility as Measure of a Great Man, Ruskin Quote
A concise reflection on character notes that the first test of a truly great man is his humility, attributed to John Ruskin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bendix
Also Mentioned on This Page
Canasta Club
Chas. Quinn
U. P. Missionary
the Missionary Society of the
United Presbyterian Church
Fannie Gelvin
Myrta Young
Hazel Morey
B. C. Owena
Maud Peltier
The
Christian Church
Holy Land
EB. EB. Stringfellow
Drake University Bible College
Helen Lou Duey
Verlea Hinshaw
Friendly Neighbor Club
Chris Larson
RNA
Oracle
Ethel Graham
Mamie Nickle
Jean Keller
Mary Gaule
Maud Hepperly
Inner Sentinel
Irene Wall
Outer Sentinel
Nina Gaule
Lenore Gaule
Masons
Leonard Scroggie
Dixie Lee
Kenneth Bruner
Debra
Bilton Bruner
Nelle Davis
Paul Jacobs
Bloomfield
Nebr
Kemp Taylor
Orda Hesa
Clint Powell
Sim Beemer
Denver
Dean Beemer
Ansel Freemyer
Greater Community Hospital
Arval Norton
Athelstan
DS. Co
O. L. Mutt
Glenn Gordon
Charles Gray
Alma Hutcherson
Kreps - Cross
Alice Fay Kreps
Ray Kreps
Raymond Eugene Cross
W. R., Cross
Lloyd Eads
Bada
A. V. Hart
Sheridan, Mo
Joyce Wright
Columbia
University
Joe Wright
Robert Mutt
Albert DeMutt
A. F Mutts
Cecil Appleton
P.E.O
Roy King
Albert DeMott
Northside
O. L. Mutti
CWF
Youth Fellowship of the Christian and Methodist Churches
Art Club
James Owens
Bertha Ringgold
Earl Rosecrans
Herold Thompson
Charley Worley
Hilltop
Woodrow Elifris
Radio & Television Sales and Service
Sickers & Holmes Appliance
Ford
Fordomatic
O. Taylor County Motor
Blockton News
Sandee
Grant City Granite Works
Charles Quinn
Dale Walters
Douglas
Charley Cortner
Carl Devault
Blockton
Marie Wolfe
Don Wolfe
Shannon City
Paul Smith
Sickels & Holmes
Missouri
J.O. Lynch
Mer
Col
Roy Johnson
M. D. Ballard
Carl Newkirk
Roy Dillon
Dale
Ray King
Clark Stroburg
Straight
Glen Stroburg
Frank Gunson
Janet
Henry Hennigan
Edwin W. King
Phillip
Cecil Ewart
Florence Kenery
Francis Hill
Iness
Merry Christmas
Ike Terrell
Lenox
Sherpsburg
Fred Osler
Macedonia, Iowa
Beemer Bros
Lenox Bank
Taylor County Motor CO
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