Local Cresco Visitors Fill Vern Boyer Home Weekend
Brainard area notes note numerous social visits with Mr. and Mrs. Leo Boyer Cresco guests Thursday through Sunday in Vern Boyer home. Many relatives and friends circulated among Dan Craft Gilbert Kerr Reeder and Lyon households with meals and overnight stays reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Boyer
Cresco
Vern
Betty Larson
Junior Boyer
Emory Buroden
Gilbert Buroden
Clarence Tripp
West Union
Robert Kerr
Dan Craft
Ray Gilbert
Vern Boyer
Don Reeder
Harvey Howard
Clifton Kerr
Karl Martin
Robert
Sheldon Moats
Monticello
Gilbert
L. J. Farnsworth
Mason City
Melvin Hanson
Doris
Jimmie
Lyle Martin
Syria Items Miyria Church Notes Sunday activities canceled
Church and Sunday school will not meet this Sunday as the pastor attends the North Iowa conference in Cedar Rapids through Sunday. Community Day program is scheduled for Friday. Families and individuals are listed as visiting or hosting, with a Progressive Home Study Club gathering planned for June 28 hosted by Ruth Rothlisberger and Ed Wenger. The program includes talks by Mrs. Harold Knim and Mrs. Mary Ogle and a California trip recap.
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Miyria
North Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Harold Dennier
Albert Dennler
Dick Grover
Oelwein Park
Mary Baumgartner
Elkader
Visting
Oscar Baumgartner
Elmer Lembke
Florence Fette
Joan
Progressive Home Study Club
Ruth Rothlisberger
Ed Wenger
Several family picnics and visits at West Union area
The article lists numerous reunions and dinners across the West Union region. Ogle, Strong, Swanson, Heck, Kiple, Reusser, Gibbs, Winkler, Waldron, Garity, Chapman, Shaffer, Shaffer, Benson, Iverson, Gillman, Loftsgaard and other families gathered at farms, the West Union fair grounds, Villa Louis, and nearby towns. Visitors from Cedar Rapids to Dubuque attended, with many hosts hosting at homes and farms Sunday and over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle
Ash
West Union Fair Grounds
Ogle
Mary Ogle
H. F. Robbins
Hawkeye
Guernsey Smith
Harry Olesen
West Union
Reynold Strong
Martin
A. F. Swanson
Cedar Rapids
Tofield Heck
Earl Kiple
Swansons
Hecks
R. R. Reusser
Monona
McGregor Heights
Villa Louis
Prairie du Chien
Thos. Pollock
Rae Gibbs
Clarence Winkler
Johnnie
Howard Cushion
Maynard
Community notes from Fairbank and surrounding area
Gunder News Mile highlights a weekend gathering at the Paul Liddle home in Fairbank with Rosina Anderson and Carlyle. The Andersons and family joined dinner with Frederick Sutter and Eaten Landagard’s visitors, followed by a visit to Ole EB Olgon’s residence by the Landagards party.
Cheery Valley Neighbors Gather for Club Meeting and Picnic
The Good Neighbors club met Thursday at Mrs. Rose Dennler’s home with Mrs. Anna Metzger assisting. Eighteen members answered roll call. three guests attended. A memory wreath honoring Mrs. Rose Muehenthaler of Rock Valley was given. Ione Demler joined, and a reading titled Let's Unfurl our Flag was read by Tone. Contests by Ernestine and Myrtle Butikofer were won by Ellen Mason, Rose Butikofer, Rose Christen, and Anna Denmler. A family picnic is planned for July 17 at Elkader fair grounds with members and families invited. Luncheon was served by hostesses. other attendees included the Martin Hanson and Clayton Schreiner families, and Mrs. Lillian Schreiner as dinner guests. Several residents visited relatives and spent weekends with various local families and at Pike's Peak in honor of Francis Butikofer's birthday.
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Good Neighbors Club
Rose Dennler
Anna Metzger
Rose Muehlenthaler
Rock Valley
Ione Demler
Tone
Ernestine
Myrtle Butikofer
Ellen Mason
Rose
Butikofer
James Duff
John Christen
Carol Schupbach
Bert Thoman
Will Chase
Rose Ella
Lester Chase
George Nekels
Ernest Christen
Ern Meyer
West Union
Ethel Mae Thom
O. T. Knudtson
Guttenberg
Pike's Peak
Francis Butikofer
Martin Hanson
Clayton Schreiner
Oma Butikofer
James Schlee
Ethel Mae
Frank Christen
Kenneth Huber
Hawin Hanson
Wm. Lerch
Sam Frieden
Harry Dennier
Sam Yost
Andy Bracker
John Dennier
Edwin Hanson
Oscar Baumgartner
John Dennler
Jake Lehman
Explosion injures teen in wood shop accident
Fourteen year old Eugene Anton of Strawberry Township was hospitalized with flash burns to his face hands and arms after an explosion in his wood working outfit room. He staggered out not seriously hurt but confused about what happened as several windows were blown out.
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Eugene Anton
Strawberry
Eugene
Wonder Workers Meet in Wadena With Demonstrations
The Wadena Wonder Workers met at Mrs. Wilder Mattocks’s home on June 1. Activities included meringue and angel food cake demonstrations by Francise Moore and Imogene Morse, buddy burner fabrication by Gladys Thomas, and cooking demos by Donna Cook and Beverly Cline. Members and guests shared a lunch outside, with six girls bound for camp. Other local social items noted include the Moon reunion at New Hampton, bridge luncheon, family visits, and travels to Chicago and Wisconsin for events.
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Wonder Workers
Wadena Wonder Workers
Mra
Gladys Thomas
Sharon Heyer
Joyce Erickson
Katherine Winter
Diana Woolridge
Mary Cousins
Francise Moore
Donna Cook
Beverly Cline
Mary Messerli
June Herriman
Johnson of Des Moines Picnics With Fair Bank Party
Johnson of Des Moines traveled to Fair Bank on Friday night and enjoyed a picnic supper with local residents.
Conservation Progress in Soil Practices Across a Decade
Farmers moved from basic soil care to integrated erosion control. Over 15 years contouring terracing and drainage spread, aided by watershed demonstrations and CCC brush dams. Today districts help tailor plans with lime fertilizer and crop rotations, stressing education from grade school through to farming households.
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CCC
IOWA GOOD STUDENT AT LUDLOW NEAR WAUKON
Iowa good student Robert Hansmeier, an eighth grader near Waukon, completed eight years with only two days absent. His only long gap occurred in second grade due to illness. Friday the 13th struck Hartley when lightning damaged the Olhausen home chimney requiring major repairs. Don Bryson at Grant purchased a power lawn mower and last week stepped into it, losing one toe and requiring about 40 stitches. Mrs Grant Smith of Osceola hatched a hen laying an egg shaped like the ghimoos in Lil Abner.
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Ludlow No
Waukon
Robert Hansmeier
Robert
John Olhausen
Hartley
Grant
Don Bryson
Grant Smith
Osceola
Ghimoos
Lil Abner
Mushroom Foray Beckons in Bremerton County
Johnny Perkins of Waverly guided a prospective buyer across a farm fence and into a patch of the largest Bremner county mushrooms seen in years, drawing attention to the harvest field during a property showing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Perkins
Waverly
Mr. Perkins
Bremer County
A Want Ad a Day Increases Local Business Revenue
A daily classified advertisement habit boosts local merchants as shops report rising sales and steady customer traffic. Business owners credit consistent listing presence with attracting new patrons and maintaining visibility in the marketplace.
Lucky hobby? Tipton man crafts copper miniature horseshoes
Robert Beckman, a retired blacksmith living in Tipton, pursues a unique hobby of crafting tiny copper horseshoes. He uses copper wire about the thickness of a lead pencil and finishes them with nail holes and detailed touches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Beckman
Tipton
Weather Conditions Boost Rapid Corn Growth This Spring
Weather this spring favors rapid corn growth with warm days and adequate moisture boosting germination and early development across farming regions. Farmers monitor soil moisture and align planting schedules to capitalize on favorable conditions.
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State Bank Bldg
Etkader, Ia
George Meteger
Dubuque
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Syria
George Waldron
Howard Medberry
Oran Bane
Gene Wenger
Henry Holzer
John Garity
Patty
Near Maloy
Myron Chapman
Allen Schneider
Melbert Meyer
Alton Medberry
Carroll Klingman
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Roy
Clermont
Anna Gibson
Dan Gillman
Long Point
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West
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Howard Johnson
Dakota
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Byron
Dean
Melvern Wetherbee
Waterloo
Louis Zuercher
Arthur Hermen
James
Pike’s Peak
Ray Rice
Alice O'Brien
West Union Hospital
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Arthur Chapman
Harold Strong
Forest Shaffer
John Nydegger
T. J. Olson
Mary Erickson
Ole Loftsgard
Otto Gisleson
Gerhard Groth
Decorah
Eleanor Gisleson
Harvey Anderson
Alma Anderson
John Olson
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Seattle
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Esther
Morris Amundson
Arthur Amundson
Harold Opsand
Henry
Rodney Smith
Orlando Loftsgard
Gunder News
Cheery Valley News
Wadena News
Ben Hulbert
New Hampton
Ed Raftis
Bridge Club
Wilder Wattocks
Arthur’ Herrling
Kenneth Baldwin
Mary B. Wetzel
Lillie Livingston
Arthur Herrling and
Schori
Siren
Wis
Bud Ashley
Flossie Woshell
Fremont Marble and
Dawson Clark
Clare Clark
Robert Clark
Cedar Rapida
Lyal Whittenbaugh
Don Hinkel
Larry Fennell
Ray Herwig, Jr
Lyle Rubens
Chicago
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Savanna
Ill
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Handly
Texas
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Elmer Struess
Federal Dam
Pleasant Ridge Club
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Ella Humphry
Canada
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Mildred DeWald
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Barbara
Fe Employers Mutual
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Wadena
Younghtut
Oran
Ont
Zeke
Ceferend Plymouth Care
Ges
MSPAR
Chrysler
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Torkelson Motor Co
Elgin, Iowa
Elgin State Bank
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