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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1940
Page
2
Congregational Church holds Sunday School at 9 30 A M and morning service at 10 30 A M Sr C E meets at 7 15 P M with an 8 00 P M evening service The Bible Study is Tuesday evening and Sr C E meets on Wednesday at 7 The pastor will speak at Sunday services.
Sorlien pastor leads Bethlehem Luth Church with Sunday School at 10 and Divine Worship at 11. Wednesday August 28 Ladies Aid hostesses Clarence Lund and S C Sorlien. Wednesday chair at 8 PM. Sunday School Rally on September 8 at 10 30 AM.
The Reformed Church lists worship times with Sunday School at 9 30 A M English preaching at 10 30 A M and leagues at 7 30 P M English preaching at 8 00 P M Mrs Fred Krull hosts the Dorcas Society this Friday evening using the church social rooms.
The Methodist Church led by Pastor A. W. Gauger will hold Sunday School, morning worship with a meditation and the Lord's Supper, and an inspirational service. A Young Peoples Service is scheduled in the afternoon, and Ladies Aid meets Thursday with Mesdames A. C. Peterson and Ed Vahnke hosting. The Altiorias will not meet this week.
Pater Peters, pastor, leads a busy week at the Baptist Church with a 8 o clock Bible Study and Prayer Service, 9 45 Sunday School, 10 50 Morning Worship featuring Rev August Winklemann, and 7 30 P M Junior and Senior B U P U activities plus a guest speaker for the Senior Society. Miss Carrie Swyter, Sudan Inland Missionary Society, will speak and is expected to return to Africa soon. Hail damages on Harold Hughes farm near Richland Center ruin crops after a second storm. Bet ye Margaret and Mary Rose Ott of Oskaloosa own a pet porcupine named Porky in a wire enclosure.
Mr and Mrs Albert Sloper Sr marked their sixty second wedding anniversary on Saturday August 17 in Marble Rock. In Milo a land boom saw six properties change hands in two weeks as conservation officers investigate thousands of dead fish in the Shell Rock river and residents rake and bury the carcasses.
Lindsay Crabtree of Kansas City will spend the time he would have served with the National Guard at Camp Ripley in a LeMars hospital after a fall in the LeMars business district left him with a head injury.
The 8 E O Club will meet at Mona Bryant's home Friday afternoon. Visitors and guests appear at several local homes including the Friis, Sickels, Beaver, Elman, Range, Frandle, Rake, and Forest City households. Moves noted include Odell Forslund relocating to Forest City to take a junior high coaching position.
South west region residents visited Walter Tapper for a birthday celebration Sunday with many families from Triumph Armstrong Montevallo Arizona Lakota Bancroft and Bancroft area attending. Miss Fannie Kardoes is spending time with relatives and friends.
When you need spraying call Johnson Produce. Spraying is satisfactory and priced reasonably. If you have poultry to sell, they will come and buy it.
A week at Klemme included Sunday visits by Andrew Risius to Ben Miller and Jennie Rippentrop with Dorothy Gruis. A wedding in Dubuque for Rueben Tjaden prompted attendance by Louise and John Miller and George Beenkens. Funeral of Carl Jansen in Ackley drew John Sleper. Reikens family reunion at Eagle Grove featured many relatives from Mason City Thornton Kanawha Belmond Buffalo Center Garner and Clear Lake towns among others.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hugo and family visited the John Hugo Sr. home on Sunday. Eppie Johnson and family attended the Johnson reunion at Pilot Knob with 43 relatives present. Laveren Brue visits near Joice with the Petersons. Hermina Westendorf and Marion, Lillian, Muriel Johnson visited relatives in Estherville. Roy and Charley Hugo of Mason City visit grandfather for weeks. Donald Silbers visited the Eppie Johnson home. Brue and Millerd families spent Sunday at Holstad home. Helin and Goranson families visited the Michaelson, Lappe, and Bancroft households. Tonsil removal for Ernest Goranson Tuesday. Darley Goranson visits with Lloyd Frowick and Clarence Heitland homes. Jerry Voortman and son visited Clarence Heitland. Henry Baade and Titonka guests with Minnie Baade. Senne family dinner at Ernest Senne home in Woden. Darlene Cline visiting grandparents Vino Heitland.
Sidney Harkness of Des Moines visits his mother and father Mr and Mrs Earl Harkness. Marjorie and Sidney drive to Mason City on Tuesday to see Mrs Sidney Geissinger a Mercy hospital patient.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union met August 16 at Mrs. Mary Andrews home with Mrs. Ed Yahnke presiding. Members discussed war peace efforts, donated $5 to the Benedict Home, approved $1.40 for materials, ordered Crusaders magazine for school, and voted $2 for state work. Mrs. Ed Yahnke was elected president.
A. M. Gilbert is vice president, Mrs. Roy Hill secretary, and Mrs. H. J. Schuller treasurer. The next meeting is scheduled for September 20 at the home of Mrs. Mar, but the report ends mid sentence with an interrupted note.
Buffalo Center Consolidated Schools begin Monday September 2 with an all time enrollment prospect. The high school offers varied courses, extensive facilities, and extracurriculars in glee clubs dramatics band and athletics. Faculty includes J E Smith superintendent and staff across agriculture homemaking commerce and science.
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