Thanksgiving gatherings fill area with family visits
The Cherry Ugley News lists numerous Thanksgiving dinners and weekend visits. Families including Baumgartner, Meyer, Butikofer, Hanson, Dennler, Christen, and Leuchtenmacher shared meals and stayed with relatives in Postville, Merrill, Pocahontas, Volga, and surrounding towns. Several members traveled, hosted guests, and attended parties at the Mark, Dennler, and Frieden homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Baumgartner
Harold Meyer and
Oscar Baumgartner
Louis Butikofer
Oma and
Lewis
Torkelaon
Wm, Jr
Larry
Dennis Butikofer
Herman Schupbach
Postville
Martin Hanson
Archie Howard
Clayton Shreiner
Beverly Howard
Ida Meyer
Walt Friederick
John Dennler
Stanley Wenger
Kenneth Mark
Orlin Mason
Amanda Mason
Forrest Mason
Pocahontas
Harry Dennler
Floyd Odegard
Ivq Olson
Lavonda
Will Christen
St. Olaf
Lydia Hanson
Harry
Aden Hanson
Lucille Despoke
Teddy
Adolph Elvers
Elkader
James ‘Duff
Volga
Bert Thoman
Ethel Mae
Frank Christen
Jacob Christen
John Christen
Christen Bros
Bill Lerch
Sam Frieden
Oscar
Wayne Baumgartner
Martin Wenger
Elmer Meyers
Pauline “Déhnler
Walter Butikofer
Leo
Lavern Dennieer
Jake Lehman
Ida Christen
Betty
George
Dale Jensen
Adolph Henninger
Bill Moore
Fred Butikofer
John
Henry McMillan
Martin Tanson
Jerome Yearons
Illyria Church Plans December Activities and Visits
Sunday school at 10 15 a m and church service at 11 16 a m for Illyria Community Church. board and committees met last Thursday to discuss improvements. Youth Fellowship will carol Dec 19 and a Christmas program is set for Dec 23. A Progressives Home Study Club meets Dec 16 with carol singing piano solo poems and a contest. Numerous families and guests visited or hosted events through the week and weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mlyria Community Church
Illyria Youth Fellowship
Sunday Social Guests Spread Across Local Homes
Thos Pollock and family visited Chris Dennler home Sunday afternoon. Carl Schori and family from West Union visited the Raymond Benson family Sunday evening. Myron Chapman and Harold Strong families visited Nellie McKellar home Sunday. Della Chapman had dinner with Andrew Yearous Thursday. Leo Rothlisberger Raymond Lena Miller visited John Pulfer family near Clermont Sunday. Earl Kiple and Tofield Heck family dined with Fred Burrow Sunday. Friends were guests in J. M. Shaffer home last week and Sunday, including Guy Whitford Floyd Shaffer H B Gilgon Clyde King Glen Little Donald and Forest Shaffer family. Jim Yearous visited FH J Kiple at Farmersburg and Art Glawe at Elkader Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progressive Home Study Club
Floyd Frieden
Helen Rothlisberger
Thomas Ogle
Orvin Thompson
Jim
Hlyria
Clarence Thoman
Chicago
Ogle
Mary Ogle
Led Benson
Diane
Orvin -Thompson
Big Fels
Wat West Union
Ralph Shaffer
Wm. Kerr
Kenneth Heck
Cedar ‘Rapids
Tofield Heck
Lena Miller
Mederville
Leo Rothlisberger
Rothlisberger
California
Robert Gehring
Kenmare
N. C
Fred Schneider
Harry Reichert
Jim Taylor
Jessie Taylor
Orville Berg
Harold Kimball
Donald Winters
Ernest Christen
Lucy Christen
Martin Minihan
Richard Hofer
Mervin Hunsberger
Roscoe Larson
Jerome
Guernsey Smith
Harry Olesen
West Union
Thos. Ogle
Albert Demler
David
Forest
Shaffer
Edwin Loftsgard
Janice
Eddie Christianson
August Yearous
Floyd Patterson
Marie Pulfer
Levi-Pulfer
Jim Yearous
Kathleen
Jerome Yearous
Carroll Klingman
Merle
Frank Loving
Davenport
Thos. Pollock
Chris Dennler
Carl Schori
Raymond Benson
Myron Chapman
Harold Strong
Nellie McKellar
Della Chapman
Andrew Yearous
Raymond
John Pulfer
Clermont
Earl Kiple
Fred Burrow
J. M. Shaffer
Guy Whitford
Floyd
F. Shaffer
H. B. Gil Gon
Clyde King
Glen Little
Donald
Forest Shaffer
Fh.j. Kiple
Farmersburg
Art Glawe
Elkader
Local visitors and a new Baby in Postville area
Beaman resident LeRoy Craig visited the Blayne Gilbert home last Monday. Reuben Howard family and Bonnie were Sunday dinner guests at the Robert Kerr home. Mrs. Chloa Lyon spent Sunday with the Wm Nutting home. Blayne Gilbert couple welcome a daughter born December 7 at Postville hospital weighing 7 pounds 34 ounces. Karolin Kerr is noted as another child of Mr. Kerr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeRoy Craig
Beaman
Blayne Gilbert
Reuben Howard
Bonnie
Robert Kerr
Chloa Lyon
Wm. Nutting
West Union
Postville Hospital
Karolin Kerr
West Union Hospital
Blayne Gilbert and Son
Melvin Hanson
Chas. Peters
Louis Becker
Wm. Kerr
Sydney Patterson
Wm. Sullivan
Dan Craft
Barbara Gilbert
Clarence Tripp
Paul Craft
Dorcas Society Christmas Meet near Gunder Church
The Dorcas Society will assemble Saturday December 14 at the church parlors for a Christmas party with gift exchanges hosted by Mrs Orvin Thompson Mrs Merle Olson Mrs Myron Anderson Mrs Elmer Anderson and Mrs Lloyd Reierson. Emma Bear of Clermont visited at the P K Peterson home. Earl Medberry heads to Texas for the winter. Arthur Raisch Norman Raisch of Hampton dined with Ray Jacobin family. Norman Raisch and Jean joined them. Marion Mission Society held its annual meeting last noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorcas Society
Orvin Thompson
Merle Olson
Myron Anderson
Elmer Anderson
Lloyd Reierson
Emma Bear
Clermont
P. K
Hampton
Ray Jacobin
Norman Raisch
Jean
Jacobin
Arthur Landsgard
P. K. Peterson
Marion Mission Society
Community notes and visits fill weekend in West Union area
Residents shared visits and meals across households including Mr. and Mrs. Kerr Mrs. Gilbert and son inlaws and friends. Officers were elected Thursday with Mrs. Henry Mark as president and Rosina Anderson as vice president. A local boy Stephen Anderson, eight, attends school by telephone due to polio while Richard Schutter, twenty, of West Bend died in a head on crash after returning from military service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Anderson
Chariton
Iwca
Stephen
Richard Schutter
West Bend
Real Estate Transfers Include Small Sums and Lot Bets
May Wherry et al transfer right of way 30 feet wide along SW 18 84 7 to LR O Brien for $1.00. May Wherry et al transfer 58 acres of SW 48 04 7 to E R O Brien for $1.00. Co B Schori and wife with Henry H Wolf and wife and John Falk and wife transfer Lots 7 and 8 in Forbes 2nd Add Elgin to Henry H Wolf for $500. Ella Johnson and Malvin Johnson transfer Lots 4 5 6 in Clermont B17 to Karl H and Blanche E Martin for $1000. Clara Reinhart and Melvin Reinhart transfer to George F and Irene Boyle for $1 00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Wherry
Forbes
Elgin
Ella Johnson
Malvin
Karl H
Blanche E. Martin
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