Wadena Area Residents Share Weekend Visits
Wadena area social notes recount visitors from West Union Decorah and Clermont including Dr. and Mrs Leon Motumby Mrs PLD Glennon and families. Also reported are dinner guests, birthday celebrations and church events with local families from Klingman Moore Corkery and Fayete among others. A Christmas program and a Volga Valley church meeting are noted along with illness and a funeral in West Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Motumby
West Union
Pld. Glennon
Volga City
J. D. Motumby
Clermont
Bernadetta Corkery
Fayette
Harry Corkery
Fremaont Clark
Fayete
G. J. Clark
Lowenberg
Mr. Olson
Mary Florence Whittenbaugh
W. ¥. Moore Nome Monday Fren and Helped Annetie Fay
Neam Crandall
Mchmiey Gage
Pearl Johnson
Made Johnson
Delweir Thesday
W. L. Peters
Arlington
M. A
U. B
Lyk Whitenbaugh
Woodrow Leonhart
Dubuque
W.F. Moore
Allen Carter
Bill Berger
M. A. Klingman
James Kimenan
Ralph Shaffer
Lissettia Wilson
500 Club
Maude Peters
Elgin
F. L. Ernet
Howard Mason
Frank Sveretis
Everette
Kern Hill School Christmas Program at Kern Hill School
The Kern Hill School announces its Christmas program on Thursday evening, December 21. Welcome by Johnnie Hofer and Shirley Frieden starts a sequence of performances including recitations by Ardath Roberts Dawn Duommermuth and Vernie Frieden, songs such as Reindeer Song and Soldier Boy Brill, a Girls Dramatization Newsboy Tim Snow Flake Drill, and a final goodbye by Dell De. All first graders are invited with Georgia Meyer as teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern Hill School
Johnnie Hofer
Shirley Frieden
Gil
Ardath Roberts
Santa’s
Dawn Duommermuth
Tim Snow
Elsie
Ardath
Phyllis Roberts
Vernie Frieden
Soldier Boy Brill Group
Maxine Lehman
Shirley Frieden Dell
Georgia Meyer
Follow-up Meeting of Farm Bureau Ladies in Syria
The farm bureau ladies in school district No 2 Syria held a second follow-up gathering at Mrs. Albert Dennler’s home on Friday evening December 15. Seventeen members from ten families attended and the lesson covered dress trimmings with tips to make an old dress look new by altering sleeves and collar. The lessons are described as extra good this year and a next meeting attendance urged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Wadena Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Sunday School
Volga Valley
Chich
Mae Lamber
Georgie Leonhar
Geo. Jones
John Wilson
Will Jones
J. Oelberg
Farm Bureau
Syria
Albert Dennler
Clayton County CWA Works With 431 Men
Clayton County reports 431 men employed on CWA projects. The county will receive about $54,000 for the work, which continues through February 18.
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Clayton County
Will Notice of Knute Kittelson Probate Hearing
District Court in Fayette County will hear the will of Knute Kittelson, deceased, on January 2, 1934 for admission to probate. West Union date on record is December 4, 1933, with Edgar A. Praeger as Clerk. The notice appears in the Union area reporting local legal action and other community items.
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State of Love
Fayette County
District Court
Wotine
Knute Kittelson
West Union
Laws
Edgar A. Praeger
Shrimp Recipes From the 1953 Western Newspaper Union
A compact recipe note lists canned shrimp preparation tips from 1953. It covers rinsing and draining, serving on lettuce with a French dressing, making salad rounds with lettuce nests, shrimp wiggie on buttered toast with peas, and a fricassee with white sauce, egg yolk, and cream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
Christmas Day date origins traced to early festival shifts
The text notes uncertainty about when Christmas was first celebrated and links the festival to Telesphorus and Antoninus Pius era. It explains the final date choice tied to shifting winter solstice symbolism as Christians adopted Christ the Light of the World, marking the season’s transition from darkness to light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corietmas
Antoninas
Christ
The Christmas Carols Are Welcome Everywhere
A nostalgic portrait recalls midnight caroling as a county custom from window listening to humble singers. Percival Chubb notes in the Standard that bands went house to house around Christmas time, sharing old melodies like Good King Wenceslaus. Though gone from many homes, the tradition of singing peace and goodwill endures in pockets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dasag Percival Chobb
Standard
New York
The
American Ethical Union
Wenceslaus
Afr. Chubb
David
Angela Hing
Christmas Burden Versus Holiday Cheer in Rural New Yorker
The Rural New Yorker argues against cynics who call Christmas vanity and greed. It defends gifts given out of selflessness, noting mothers and daughters sacrifice vanity to please family. The piece frames negative views as a blame of society’s standards, not the festival itself.
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New Yorker
Christmas gifts to Oslo and Naples babies across districts
Many districts in Norway and Sweden give newborns gifts on Christmas Day. Recipients receive bounties from ecclesiastical and civil authorities, sometimes totaling significant sums invested until the child reaches maturity. In Naples, children born to prominent families are visited by "wire men" from a Philanthropic society and given imitation stones valued highly later, sometimes linked to supposed supernatural qualities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Sweden
Nameelagsea
Naples
Dobbs Receives Unfulfilled Christmas Presents
Local tale describes Wheat provoking Dobbs by exchanging gifts during a festive season. In return Dobbs offered Christmas cattle, but the gesture sparked anger. The incident echoes a broader pattern as similar exchanges occurred with Irisnda, Wellt, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dobbs
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