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Local snippets from Eastern Iowa towns celebrate anniversaries and deaths
A mosaic of notices from Troy Mills to Monona recounts a sixteenth wedding anniversary in Troy Mills for Mr. and Mrs. Harris Wilson, obituaries for Joseph Rolland Ramey in Onslow and Lassina Forde in Decorah, and community reports including plays, baptisms, divorces, school events, and club meetings across eastern Iowa towns.
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Troy Mills
Heerendeen
Harris Wilson
Central City
Onslow
Glidden
Cedar Rapids Business College
Niles and Watters Bank
Anamosa
Onslow Savings Bank
Sidney Ramey
Helen Bright Ramey
First Presbyterian Church
Masonic Lodge
Baldwin
Mattie Maynard
Elsie Hedager
Los Nation
Wallace Winegar
Clinton
Joseph Rolland Ramey
Cedar Rapids
Norway
Order of Foresters
Opera House
N. A. Keffeler
Watkins
Joseph Drexler
Howard Girsch
Fort Atkinson
Everett Frese
George C. Iekel
Independence
M. W. O'Rieley
Charles E. Byrnes
Leo J Wegman
Des Moines
Decorah
Lassina Forde
Bottolf H. Forde
Decorah Hospital
Big Canoe Lutheran Church
Olaf Kjarland
Lena Ottney
Hopkinton
John Kennedy Schoolmaster’s
Manchester
John Barton
State Hospital
D. H. Johnston
Thomas C. Tibbitts
Dean E. V. Laughlin
Lenox College
Douglas Munger
Leonard Gibbs
Wheatland
Washington
Sadie M. Zeigler
William
Mary Jane Skipton
Marietta
Ohio
Washington County
Crawfordsville
John Zeigler
John Skipton
Charles Skipton
Conesville
Howard Benn
Washington County Sunday School Association
Haskins
Kalona
Brighton
Toledo
Thelma Flowers
Tama
Darlo Flowers
Flowers
Delhi
Delhi Methodist Sunday School
Fuiay
J. D. Irmscher
Raymond Lanning
George Irmscher
Helen Pulver
Lucille Sutton
Edith Shepherd
R. C. Muench
Alice Albrook
Nellie Holtzman
A. R. Wheeless
Donna Mae Keith
Maynard
Velma Jennison
Loraine Allen
Presbyterian Church
Charles Pabenberg
Ruth Schumaker
Burnette Trower
Bremer
Althea Goodrick
Hazelton
Ruth Warnke
Miss Goodrick
Verlie Hahn
Fairbank
Allen
Purley Jennison
Maynard Consolidated School
Guy Allen
Jennison
John Watters
Stone City
Watters
Charles Haas
Oelwein
Geraldine Turner
Thomas Edgar
Edgar
Miss Turner
E. F. Kingsbury
Justice Court
John Strachota
Traer
B. O. Tankersley
Strachota
Joe P. Chaska
Carroll Township
Pauline Petrovas
Peter Petrovas
Alice Martha Wagoner
Homer Jennings Wagner
Fayette
Chi Phi Club
Upper Iowa
George Lawrence
Jones County
Center Junction
Methodist Ladies Aid Society
Capitola Courtney
Lucy Dodge
Blanche Mead
Grace Mead
Belle Watson