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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1925
Page
4
Fragmented local notes recount town visitors, family events, and farm news. Frances Harrisco-Witner, Mrs Freeman, Mrs Verne Gand, and others feature in social tidbits. Shipped cattle, health updates, and fair plans relate to Emmetsburg and nearby communities, with names like Gubpa, Johnson, Goeders, and Heister appearing amidst assorted personal updates.
Rodman News reports visitors and travelers including Mrs J D Watson and sister Mrs Clayton returning to West Bend from Geo Sloan and C F Carter homes. C Henson of Ocheredan visited. H Hanson and Mrs H Sweeter were in West Bend between trains. Dorothy Walker visited relatives. Stover and wife enjoy a vacation to Nashua Cedar Falls and a Waterloo cattle show. Lloyd Martin covers mail duty in Barr's absence. Palm Bureau ladies hosted a well attended program. Chas Watson of Doage Center Minnesota visiting relatives. Senator Breakenridee north of town. Leta Greve teaching duties to a Kirkman home trip. Spencer saw heavy rainfall flooding felt grounds and a bridge near Spencer washed out.
Graettinger residents attend card parties and style shows while visitors arrive from Emmetsburg Estherville and Fort Dodge. Local clergy friends travel for funerals and family ties are noted as residents move, visit, or plan trips to Arnolds Park Starkweather and California.
Mallard column lists visits by Mes. Kimor Ntvhot from Assumption and Mr and Mrs Karl Sands from honeymoon in northern Minnesota. Ches Krieg funeral in Dubuque after sudden death at Emmetsburg hospital. Des Moines visitor Mr McCoy, and many Mallard, Ayrshire and Havelock locals drop by homes and attend a band concert, high school party and baseball game.
West Bend items record a busy week with fishing trips to northern Minnesota, visits by relatives from Fort Dodge and Spencer, a marriage at the Catholic church, a local theater showing Circus Sally, and community notes on travel, employment, and farm shipments. Parson killed in an Albert Lea area auto crash is reported by relatives.
Local notes from Ruthven list Mr and Mrs J R L Phoenix spending a couple of weeks with relatives. AC Kort Dodge and Dr and Mrs Hemphill called to Iowa City last week. Mrs Hemphill's mother Miss Kale Block of Whittemore passed Friday. Martin Peterson family leaving for Morris, Manitoba to settle. Roy de J. Kine visited Linborn last Tuesday. LeGrand Gott on business in Lerril Friday. Mrs Shannon of Sioux City visiting sister Mrs J H Thatcher. Westergerd of Graet Hager and Clyde Piscus attended auto races in Sioux City Friday to Sunday. Porter Parker and Margie Washington shopping in Spencer. Edith Neilson of Spencer visited Sunday. Kenneth Meyers left for Morningside College, Sioux City. Hayden family returned from county fairs. Mrs M F Washington returned from Omaha after three weeks visiting daughter. Mrs Beselin accompanied home from Omaha. Chas Reeley Spencer business visitor. Glen Brown Emmetsburg Ruthven visitor. Sheriff Leo Shea visited Ruthven. Ward Sanford family from Garner visited Ruthven. Clyde Hughes family sold household goods and left for Missouri. F Anderson and son Howard of Audubon visiting parents and showing horses at Clay County Fair. Rev George O Brine Emmetsburg visited Rev J J Kane. Deltil Rosacker attended Heisler funeral in Spencer. Heisler had farmed south of Ruthven before moving to Spencer. Miss Anna Torpey went to Wisconsin to help care for sister Mrs Dodge who has been ill.
Curlew residents and visitors weave a busy week with trips to Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. Notables include John Treasler of Malta and families from Manson, Gowrie, and Graettinger. Local events feature a chicken supper, lessons, and travel reports amid illnesses and housing changes.
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