Village Social Roundup Ties Neighbors Across Counties
The Rev and Mrs Vance Koutsen hosted clergy guests at dinner while many locals entertained visitors and attended events. Ill Erna Baumgartner planned to return home for a few days before Gates College. Sunday gatherings included anniversaries and shared meals at multiple homes, with several families hosting or visiting in West Union Luana Elkader Guttenberg and Clermont. A list of visitors, travel to Waterloo Elkader West Union and Chicago for schooling highlights community ties and local notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vance Koutsen
V. C. Haugen
Aase Haugen
Stanley Knudsen
Clermont
Hulda Sutter
Fred’ Frederick
Waterloo
Erna Baumgartner
Gates College
Weekend Visits and Thanks Highlight Local Notices
A long list of weekend visits and dinners across towns such as Quincy and Taylor, Missouri, with relatives and friends, is followed by multiple thank you notices. Recipients express appreciation for cards, gifts, flowers, and visits during illnesses, hospital stays, and a 50th wedding anniversary. Names include Keith Waters, Harry and Roger Postville, Dale DeSart, Linda, Lenni Moore, Israel Shaffer, Paul Christen, and Ole Loftagard among others. The notices reference churches, nursing, and local social groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illyria
Israel Shaffer
Harry L. Cline
Michael
American Legion Auxiliary
Old Neighbors Club
Postville Hospital
Ole Loftagard
Elgin and Highland Lutheran Churches Event Schedule
Vance R. Knutsen, Pastor announces events for Elgin and Highland Lutheran Churches. Activities include junior choir practice, a course in Christianity on Feb 24, a Friday prayer observance, junior and senior confirmation sessions, Sunday school, and divine worship with communion on Feb 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vance R. Knutsen
Pastor Elgin
Prac
Highland
Methodist Church Weekly Schedule and Prayer Day
Reverend E G Steinman leads worship at 10:00 a m with Sunday school at 11:00 a m. Junior choir meets Thursday at 4:00 p m and senior choir at 7:30 p m. Youth Fellowship joins Sunday at 7:30 p m. World Day of Prayer observed at Lutheran church Friday at 3:00 p m. Special offering to mark Week of Dedication. Youth Fellowship and community youths plan Lent Friday morning meditations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. G. Steinman
Lutheran Church
St Olaf Lutheran parish events and speaker announced
Thursday February 24 St Olaf Ladies' Aid meets at 2 30 p m hosts Mrs Melvin Johnson and Mrs Gunnar Landsgard. St Olaf chapel 7 30 p m visitation committee and board of deacons Norway congregation. Saturday February 26 Confirmands meet 9 16 a m. Sunday February 27 Norway services 10 30 a m. Monday February 28 Marion 8 p m Brotherhood. Thursday March 3 Ladies' Aid meet NATO Norway church 2 00 p m Thor Haugen Gateway Mission Minneapolis speaker pictures shown all welcome. Come to church. Dr J Strandford pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Olaf Ladies’ Aid
Melvin Johnson
Gunnar Landsgard
St Olaf Chapel
Visitation Committee
Board of Deacons
Norway
Confirmands
Marion
Brotherhood
Ladies’ Aid
Norway Church
Thor Haugen
Gateway Mission
Minneapolis
J. Strandford
First Baptist Church Schedules for Friday and Sunday
The Friendly Church with a Living Message lists events led by John Vanderbeck including 8:00 p m senior choir and cantata practice. Friday features World Day of Prayer Union service at the Lutheran church 2:30 p m, and 10:00 p m morning worship plus a parsonage anniversary service. Sunday includes 11:00 a m Sunday school, 2:00 p m cantata practice and 8:00 p m Gospel hour. Camp Fire Girls night noted. Thought quotes Bruce Barton. Social mentions guests and visits at several homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friendly Church
John Vanderbeck
The
Lutheran Church
Camp Fire
Bruce Barton
Social Roundup From Weekend Visits And Birthdays
Sunday gatherings filled the Walter Medberry and Olaf Berg homes with family and friends. Multiple visits took place across Postville and nearby towns as Neilson Amundson and others celebrated Sylvia Hanson and Mrs Gunda Olson. Mrs Mary Bailey stayed as a guest with the Guttenberg party while Gene Moorhead and others hosted a farewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Moorhead
Eugene Thorson
Messrs. and Mdris
Oliver Larson
Dean Kittelson
LaVerne Larson
Clarence Amundson
Norris Reierson
Wm. Bacon
Som’rset
Who Did It A Parent’s Guide To Honest Replies
The piece argues that asking who did the act is often useless with young children and hampers conscience development. It recommends a calm, explanatory approach, inviting the child to tell how an incident occurred to foster responsibility and honest replies.
Social guests hosted by Rev and Mrs Vand enbeck
The Rev and Mrs John Vandenbeck entertained Wednesday evening guests including Mr and Mrs William Kohls and the Richard Kohls family. On Tuesday evening the Alfred Baechler family from Clermont and the Laurence Muchlethaler family were hosted as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Walterson
Minneapolis
Roy Leuchstenmacher
John Vandenbeck
William Kohls
Richard Kohls
Alfred Baechler
Clermont
Laurence Muchlethaler
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oscar Frieden
Elkader
Rudy Possehl
Perry Medberry
Linda Medberry
Fred Rinkert
Volga
Mr. Rinkert
Calvin Anderstrom
Waukon
Milo Olson
Gregory
Karen
Levi Frieden
Thomas Howerd
Archie Howard
Clifton Wilson
Clara Brabham
Clarence Olson
Postville
Quinton Olson
Henry McMillan
West Union
County
John Ward
Guttenberg
Leota Welch
J. F. Shaffer
Ruth’ Kuehl
Hartley
Henry Kuehl
Jacquelyn Doerring
Luana
Norms Gehring
Elgin
ISTC
Mae Meyer
Louis Becker
Reuben Howard
Mabel Peters
Colleen Howard
Leonard Heins
Burnell
Larson
Chicago
Elaine P. L
Floyd Puffett
J. E. Heyer
Walter Lehman
Manchester
George Vaughn
Albert Butthofer
Ruth
Shirley
Albert
Anna Schupbach
Lyle Light
Letha
Robert Kohler
David
Leo Grether
R. P. Strauch
Robert Schultz
Elgin Echo
Towa
Phyliss
Eunice
Uriel Gehging
Ruth Schupbach
Dennis Butikofer
Dorothy
Bockenhier
Hawkeye
Quincy, Ill
Taylor
Keith Waters
Harry and
Roger
R. P. Strauc
John Nydegger, Jr
John Nydegger
Iowa City
Dale DeSart
Linda
Ray DeSart
Robert D. Wilson
Dean DeSart
Carl Schori
Kyle Light and
Mel Kohler
Bess Stohr
Kohler
Don Page
Myron Moore
Fayette
James Fox
Harold Grimm
Lester
Mrs
John Grimm
Richard Gehring
Hugo Hackmann
Carl Hackmann
Harold McIntosh
Decorah
Chester Perry
Kenneth, Castalia
Raymond Boleyn
Elmer Meyer
Robert Miller
Tommy
Roberta
Mary
Oelwein
Sheldon Boyle
Emil Moor
Lenni Moore
Leonard Moore
C. H. Larson
Wayne Gilson
Eugene Schori
Charles Wenger
Ivan Torkelson
Paul Embretson
Paul Christen
Elgin and
Highland Lutheran Churches
St. Olaf Lutheran Parish
First Baptist Church
Wm. Landsgard
Washington, D.C
Vebjorn Landsgard
Ole
St. Olaf
Gordon
Maurice Landsgard
George Landsgard
Ed Boleyn
Bertha ‘Lehman
Clara Hendrickson
Marvin Perry
John Kiple, Jr
John III
Walter Medberry
Rex Medberry
Leo Schori
Chiago
Kenneth Schori
Robert Prestley
Donald
Clinton
D. C. Dean
Harald Upsand
Sylvia Hanson
Gunda Olson
Hernard Hanson
Morris Amundson
Arthur Amundson
Robert Wettleson
Christine Rypestel
Corrine
Olaf Berg
Louie Anderson
Astrid ‘Kimball
Juli Halverson
Georganna Probert
Clarence Thorson
Debbie
R. L. Grimes
Mary Bailey
Hazel Gehring
Lena Cooley
Lulu Schmidlow
Bernard Hanson
Robert Kohley
Marian Bilden
Sylvia
OWN
Child Welfare Research Station
Asiearmen
West Union, Iowa
Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton In
Tony Curtis, Gloria Delfaven
Paris
Big Smith Buck
Georgine
Max Thoma
Iowa
Elgin Furniture Store
Muehlethalers
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