Alumni Jamboree Night Highlights Buffalo Center Event
A holiday season highlight at Buffalo Center is the Alumni Jamboree on Friday December 27 featuring an all alumni town team from Buffalo Center meeting another volunteer squad. Tickets support the Alumni Queen crowning with prizes and a pep band under Harold Dick, with stunts skits and musical numbers. Proceeds fund snacks and a festive atmosphere in the school corridors.
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Banders
Uelook
Audi
Hach Adinisticket
Old Buffalo Center High
Royal Neighbors Christmas Party Endless Family Gatherings
Royal Neighbors of Northern Light Camp No. 3098 held their annual Christmas party at Florence Costigan's home with a brief business meeting that re-elected all officers. An impromptu program followed, gifts exchanged, and refreshments served. Guests included Mrs. Merril Sparks, Mrs. Larry Costigan, Velma Steinberg and children.
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Northern Light Camp No. 3098
Florence Costigan
Elda Sparks
Merril Sparks
Larry Costigan
Velma Steinberg
Christmas Services and Classes at Congregational Church
A December church program lists a Joy to the World pageant and scripture reading, with names including Lillian Rank Shirley Heitland Jimmie Heitland Eisie and Marie Knutson Mildred Wittie and Lyle Letcher. Various Sunday and evening activities feature classes, singing, and a Christmas message from Pastor. Names of participants include Rolland Aukes Glenda Berryhill Kenneth Aukes and Bruce Hill, with offerings and Gospel readings reflecting a season of celebration.
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Pthee
Lillian Rank
Shirley Heitland
Jimmie Heitland
Eisie
Marie Knutson
Mildred Wittie
Lyle Letcher
Reece Wedesasere
Pture
Blaine, Wessels
Carol Jane Hofbauer
Jesus
Hill
Rolland Aukes
Glenda Berryhill
Kenneth Aukes
Donna Eitland Rae
Meleegg
Dickie Tash
Jesus Darvin Bowers
Bethlehem
Dorothy Eiseniaer
Dee Heitland
Rie Rai
Igi
John Steinmetz
Ae Iaeny
Byers
Stella Schuler
Xdorance Jordahl
Ronald Fredericks Dean Goodnight
Shri Bae Ceeary
Hamona Aukes
Ruth Bosma
Adie Horikentte
Christmas Programs at Our Churches Tonight
Methodist and Reformed church services tonight feature a sequence of Christmas programs. The Methodist program includes carols, readings, playlets, recitations, a pageant, and special offerings with Rev. A W Gauger leading. the Reformed program offers devotions, songs, skits, and a Christmas sermon with multiple participants and closing services led by pastoral staff.
Children Enjoyed Picture Show and Treats at Iowa Theatre
About 550 boys and girls attended a holiday matinee at the Iowa Theatre, where candy and nuts were handed out and films were shown twice to accommodate the crowd. Santa did not arrive in time to greet the children.
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Iowa Theatre
Santa
Around Iowa Bruised Heel And Other Tiny News Tidbits
A railing failed at an Irving school building in Waverly, injuring Duane Brandt who fell ten feet. A 24 pound raccoon was found by a small rat terrier last week. Dickie Edwards, three, grandson of Mrs E V Goad of Oska loosa, repaired a clock that had not run for a year. Bud Wright of Grinnell sold an 890 pound hog for about 340 dollars. George Hiser decorated a Grinnell hotel suite, causing a drunken guest to mistake it for a tap room. Two hundred bushels of shelled corn spilled on the road near Red Oak after a collision between Max Currie and John Artkott en route. Harvey Carter of Clarksville and Jack Brierly of Waverly were thrown into the Shell Rock River when their boat was crushed by a mile long ice floe.
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Irving School
Waverly
Duane Brandt
Dickie ~ Edwards
E. V. Goad
Oskaloosa
Bud Wright
Grinnell
George Hiser
Red Oak
Max Currie
John R. Artkotten
Iey
Harvey Carter
Clarksville
Jack Brierly
Shell Rock River
Wirtjes McGrath Tie The Knot In Congregational Church
Mildred Wirtjes and James McGrath wed at the Congregational Church in a candlelit double ring ceremony led by Rev. D. H. Farrington. The bride wore white satin with a fingertip veil and pink roses. the groom a dark suit. A wedding dinner followed for twenty relatives and friends. the couple plans to make their home on a farm southeast of Buffalo Center. The event included a high school trio from the bride’s class and out-of-town guests from Forest City and Fairmont.
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Mildred, Wirtjes
Ralph Wirtjes
Buffalo Center
James McGrath
Fred McGrath
Forest City
D. H. Farrington
Lillian Jutting
Edith Milbrandt
Miss Milbrandt
Richard
Charlotte Kiewier
Ruth Johnson
Ruth
Dorothy.Butts
Algona
Evelyn Schendel
Barbara Holland
Fred Brooker
Fairmont
Minnesota
Anderson
Marie
McGrath
Thompson High School
Auto Accident Fatal to Thompson Man
Funeral services for William Bell 39 Ford garage owner at Thompson were held at the Methodist church in Thompson on Monday at 1 30 with Rev A B Gedye in charge Burial was in the cemetery at Algona William Bell died in Dolmage hospital early Saturday morning from injuries suffered when struck by a passing car late Thursday afternoon on highway No 9 east of here
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William Bell
Ford
Thompson
A. B Gedye
Algona
Dolmage Hospital
Highway No. 9
Here
Carlson to Spend Winter in California
Mrs. Helen Carlson, who has stayed with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Julius Jensen for six weeks, departed this Tuesday morning for San Fernando California. She travels by auto and will be joined by her parents who will visit during the winter months.
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Helen Carlson
Julius Jensen
San Fernando
California
Carlson
G C Man Initiated Into SUI Economics Society
Carl Folkerts, a graduate student from Buffalo Center, was initiated into the Iowa Order of Artus, an economics honorary society at the University of Iowa campus. Eligibility requires definite interest in economics and economics grades of B or higher, with other courses not lower than C.
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Carl Folkerts
Buffalo Center
Iowa Order of Artus
University of Iowa
Hereford Bull Shipped for Strong Price in Minnesota
Earl Ostrander and V Y A Keil shipped their Hereford bull to South St. Paul Minnesota by truck with Harry Nelson. The animal weighed 2285 pounds and brought 7.10 dollars per 100 pounds for a total of 162.23 dollars which is considered a very good price.
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Earl Ostrander
VY. A. Keil
South St. Paul
Minnesota
Harry Nelson
54 Books Donated to American Legion Auxiliary
Fifty four books were donated to the American Legion Auxiliary by the people of this community. The local Unit will donate 25 books to the public library, ten to the Winnebago County Home, eleven to the CCC camp at Bancroft, and eight as town gifts. The Auxiliary thanks LaVon Kuchenreuther for his help in this Christmas Gift Book project supported by the local Unit and the Iowa Department of the American Legion Auxiliary.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Winnebago County
C.C. C
Bancroft
LaVon Kuchenreuther
Iowa Department of the American Legion Auxiliary
Do You Suppose Ray Murray Poem Refers to Snow
A brief poem by Ray Murray contemplates a mother’s scolding for a muddy footprint on a scrubbed kitchen floor and questions whether God grows angry as the country remains covered in white snow.
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Ray Murray
Christmas Eve Prelude at Baptist Church Program
A Baptist Church service on Tuesday evening December 24 at 7 30 features a Prelude by Fannie Jurgens Hymn Joy to the World responsive readings by the congregation and a series of prayers readings songs and dialogues led by various class members and teachers. The program includes Welcome by the superintendent Wonderful readings and songs such as Glad Christmas Chimes and Little Stars plus several Christmas exercises and a choir performance culminating with a prayer.
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Fannie Jurgens
Geiken
W. Winkleman
Ed Feldick
Janice Feldick
Ariene Murra
Geraldine
Beekman
Ieee
Donald Geiken
Faul Weaver
Bobby Winter
Arville Murra
Myrna Kiewier
Violet Davids
Beulah Folkerts
Gerald Steen
Lowell Bond
Jackie Myer
Richard ‘Wempen
Dallas Davids
Lydia Geiken
Rodger Finlayson
Artis Murra
Harold Vahnke
Shirley Enenga
Elaine Finlayson
Bonna Weaver
Eunice’ Murra
Carol Murra
Beverly Winkleman
Ruby ¥ Rerichs
Dorothy Winkleman
Marjorie Murra
Myr
Lubben
Richard Mi
Mr.w. Winkleman
Harris Feldick
Walter Miller
Arthur Beekman
Arlene Lubken
Kenneth
Mrg
Stratman
Dwane Feldick
Glory To God
Sara VanHoorn
Eters
D. Beekman
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Roy Johnson
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Christ My Dolly
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