Visitors and locals share weekend in LaPrairie
LaPrairie and surrounding area residents frequent Quincy and Burlington for visits and business. A two week vacation for Wayne White from Chicago brings him home to his parents. A reception for newlyweds Joe DeHaven and his wife in Quincy marks weekend social activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowen
la Prairie
Ethel Freuhling
Mabel
Lima
Wayne White
Chicago
Carl White
E. J. Sims
Quincy
Lawrence McFarland
Golden
Verna Robbins
Marilyn
Henry Duden
Charles Strawhacker
Strawhacker
Burlington
Ruby Young
H. N. Kinman
E. W. Sims
Joe DeHaven
George Musick
Harold Thomas
Marilyn Robbins
Gene Aden
Ralph Rose
LaPrairie
Nellie Garrett
Camden
Social rounds and visits fill West Point notes
West Point society notes a thimble party for Mrs. May Bivens of St. Louis with needlework and angel food dessert. Various gatherings include pinochle club at Mrs. Hart’s and a banquet in Keokuk for S. Hamill Grocery. updates cover travel to Chicago, Hamilton, Mendon, and Quincy, notable moves, visits, and hospital or church events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Guthrie
May Bivens
St. Louis
Bernice Hyatt
Fern Clampitt
Alleyne Banks
Nellie Rampley
Kathleen Neill
Bivens
Scott Gordon
J. K. Gordon
W. E. Simmons
L. F. Workman
George Dunn
Virgil Neill
Susan Guthrie
E. R. Hinkle
John Brunnen
Clara Vornkahl
Karl Hart
Maurice Betisworth
U. S. Navy
Great Lakes Training Station
San Diego
Calif
U. S. S. Richmond
Blanche Markley
R. N
Veterans’ Hospital
Knoxville
Iowa
Laura Markley
D. B. Mensendick
Ernest Whitledge
Hamilton
Warsaw
Mary Hicks
John
Louis Pittman
Pittman
Minneola
Kansas
Stillwell PTA Elects Officers and Socials Mark Month
The September PTA meeting at the school elected Mrs Donald Walker as president replacing Mrs Harold Sparks who moved away. Miss Martha Wiedmeyer became Vice President and Mrs Frank Newell Secretary-Treasurer. A box and pie supper was planned for the coming month to fund an oil stove. An orchestra and several student performances highlighted the program as residents attended events and visits in Quincy and Timewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Sparks
Donald Walker
Martha Wiedmeyer
Frank Newell
Mary Crear
Dorothy Cheney
Doris Short
Glenn Lunt
Junior
Wayne Junk
Eldon
Dickie Howard
Audrey Nelson
Colleen Newell
Fanny Sanderson
Keith Lowary
Jimmie Howard
Dickson Mounds
Lewistown
Adabelle Stillwell
Lyle Walker
Clarence Cheney
Gerald
Randolph Place
Flesner
Christian Church
Woodville
Henry Pomeroy
Muscatine
Iowa
Lonnie Pomeroy
Glenn Tanner
Lawrence Blythe
Frank McCune
Kathleen
Quincy
Mattie Houston
Hamilton
Eliza Hopson
Arthur Reed
Burnside
Martin Reed
Sophia Wishon
Irwin Wheeler
Near
Loraine
Big Trees Ride To New Home At New York Fair
The New York World's Fair 1939 moves hundreds of mature trees from five states to Flushing Meadow. A 35 foot Norway maple weighs 12 tons and travels 120 miles on a special truck. The fair will relocate 10 000 trees and 250 000 shrubs as landscape work advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Flushing Meadow
Harvey D. Gibson
Manufacturers Trust Company
Grover Whalen
The
Fair Corporation
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Ill
Bruns
Harrison
Golden, Ill
Iil
West Point
Keokuk
I’. E. Marlett
Helen Bettisworth
Peoria Methodist Hospital
George Bettisworth
Gerald Hull
Peoria
Virginia
Evelyn Guthrie
Ed Enright
Nauvoo
S. Hamill Grocery Company
Harry Culkin
Europe
Culkin
Iowa State
Rotary Club
Eva Freeman
Grand Lodge
Eastern Star Lodge
Eur
Frederick Kleiber
Vivian Ward
J. B. Ward
G. S. Wolf
Lawrence E. Hunter
Marvin Hanson
B. S. Kirkendall
Earl Brunnen
Dwight Speer
W. F. Hunter
Dallas
Hanna City
Hunter
Methodist Church
Supt
Ragan
Jacksonville
Schreiner
Ohlman
Carson Worth
Mary Dooley
Stillwell
Maggie Holden
John Mensendick
Carthage
Bernard
W. A. Cunningham
Earl
Mensendicks
Freeman
Wes Seaton
California
Earl Buffington
Jesse Richardson
Charles Laffey
S. E. Neill
Sam Neill, Jr
Ethel Neill
Amelia Maberry
Augusta
A. L. Nicely
Frank Scott
Elvaston
Ilton
H. W. Markland
Charles Peterson
Elizabeth McNeill
Eliza Decker
Kirksville
Simmons
Argyle Crawford
Topeka
W. G. Zinn
R. K. Crawford
Alva Schwartz
Texas
Rhetta Howard
W. A. Pomeroy
Wm. Wiedmeyer
Thos. Ensminger
Salem
Paul Watt
Joan
Danny
Belle Stillwell
George Dierker
Fred Dierker
Florence
Wm. Bailey
Fowler
Carlene
Maxine Reed
Kathleen McCune
Audrey
Dor
Othy Cheney
Mary Louise Crear
Esther Reed
Phyllis Hudson
Doris
Wilma Short
Marian Sanderson
Carlene Reed
L. R. Howard
Timewell
E. A. Tanner
Frank Hopson
Stanley Howard
C. W. Reid
Orlo Reid
Eugene
Shelbina
L. M. Burner
Leo Saunders
Roseville
John Elston
Ferris
Cart Yeager
Ft. Madison
Doris Burner
Martha Milby
Fred Johnson
Roy Junk
Rushville
Mattie Markey
Fred Hull
Darolene and
Russell
Bowen Elevator CO
Bowen, Illinois
Denver Cooperative Elevator CO
Denver, Illinois
Leeds
John V. McKim
Illinois
Vernon QC
Miller
Loraine, Ill
Radio Manufacturers’ Service Assn
Maytag Sales & Service
Heim
East Lake Street
West 63Rd Street
Broadway
Gary
Indiana
Chicago Motor
Chicago Motor Club
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