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Birthday greetings and visitors fill holiday week in Elkader area
Readable notes show a flurry of Sunday dinners, guests, and birthday celebrations across families in Elkader Postville and nearby towns. Names include Randine Hanson, Bertina Halverson, Celia Butikofer, Jacob Friederich, Reuben Schupbach, and many others with visits to Luther College and Elkader hospital. Santa promotions and a Moore’s sale appear amid community life.
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Siater
Randine Hanson
Beran Bertson
la Moure
Cleve Bennett
Bill
Virgil Tors
Gon
Randy
Herold Dennler
Anitay Eveninr
Celia Butikofer
Elmer Butikofer
Silas Butikofer
Cindy Hill
Chatfield
Minn
Giles. Martin
Anne Denner
Eugene Schori
Levi Frieden
Maynard Lantz
West Union
Alma Gunderson
Jessie Schrader
Postville
Milton Miller
Bettina Halverson
Bertina Halverson
DeVere Halverson
Merlin Hellum
Roger
Kenneth Hellum
Post
R. D. Smith
Reuben Schupbach
Anna Schupbach
Robert Sieleman
Oelwein
Herman Schupbach
Paul Butikofer
Chris Rinkenberger
Burlington
Anna Butikofer
Lester Staake
Lowell
Lyle Olson
Elkader
Carlyle Anderson
Charles Wenger
Rosina Anderson
Keith
Kenneth Crider
R. A. Criders
Massachusetts
Leonard, West
Hiawatha
Lawrence West
Lehman
Schupbach
Jacob Friederich
Leslie Kleppe
Greg
Reuben Schupbath
Elgin
Robert Heins
Leonard Feira
Leo Boleyn
Breitkreuz
Lew Gruver
Roger Boleyn
Mike
Linus Hildebrand, Jr
Ered Wede
Arden Greener
Allan
Clifton Fanhress
Will Kerr
Raymond Boleyn
Robert Boleyn
Thomas Gorgas
Mike and Paul
Waterloo
Carl Hackmann
Deville Moore
Esther Moore
WSCS
Moore
Elliott Olson
Brenda
Clermont
John’ Suhten
Quincy
I11
Russell Goodell
Walter Medberry
Jerry
Robert Medberry
Lori
Elsie Popenhagen
Marion
California
C. W. Alleman
San Francisco
Calif
W. J. Grove
Clare Kuster
Linda Clare Frager
San Mateo
Correction
Mia
Sam Wieland
Matt Wieland
Michigan
Sarah Schupbach
Vernon Geiger
Inez Lockard
Marcia
Anna Schiach
Russell
Jones
Yonthia
Susan
Wadens
Louis Denniler
Celia Kohts
Strawberry Point
Rose Baechler
Lena Bauntgartner
Bertha Lehman
Martha Frieden
Elkader Hospital
Joseph Reierson
Cornelius Reierson
LeRae Mark
Decorah
Russell. Wenger
Ole Reierson
Alton Stott
Kenneth
Millard Larson
Glen Reierson
Levi
Molokken
Peet Martie
Otto Blockhus
Burnell
Francis West
Francis Et
Bert Bruckner
McGregor
Clarence Reierson
Walker
Jacob Wander
Steven
Cedar Rapids
Russell Wenger
Fayette County
Arlington
Keith Johnson
Julienne
Janis
James Kruse
Kent
Kirt
Luana
Schori Herrling
Kevin
Wadena
Clara Hellum
Max Medberry
Roger Bender
Spring Grove
Gordon Dodge
Clifford Medberry
Scott
Janet
Harry Cline
John McMillan
Randolph Peterson
Henry McMillan
Mark
Jack Adrian
Leon Shepard
Moore's
Roger Frieden
Dale Seitz
Glen Nims and
Shelvy
Ronald Paranere
Harold Pfister
Leo Bachman
Maynard
Jacob Gehring
Gottlieb Pulfer
Fanny Frieden
Bernard Hanson
Mervin Anderson
P. J. Anderson
Doyle Baker
Ina Kohler
Ruth Boyle
Libbie Larson
Ellen Hunsber- Tar