Local Residents Visit, Travel and Family News Across Towns
Neighborhood notes from Sheffield to Bridgewater recap visits by James R. Gugin to Grand Island and multiple Southwestern hosts in Huron and Mitchell. The column lists relatives, travelers, hospital stays, funerals, vacations, and school ties involving Wessels, Vondracek, Maass, and Purintun families, with Pearson, Walsh, and Rodman trips and local business updates.
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Sheffield
James R. Gugin
Grand Island
Neb
Ed Pier
Dwayne
Huron
J. W. Bieger
Harry Schroder
R. T. Buckley
J. J. Bottomley
Leo Best
Vincent Lawles
North Dakota
Miller area notes and family visits documented
At the William Thaden home, ST LAWRENCE area residents traveled to Madison for their daughters to enroll at Eastern Normal. Velta and Marcia Rogers visited relatives in Sioux City. Max Ellis hosted Sunday dinner with Glenn Amyar and family, tying kinship through Mrs. Amyar. Phil Bridenbaugh and his Omaha family visited Miller households.
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Willow Lake
Joyce
Alta Fryett
Bradley
Henry Pommer
Charles Phillips
B. H. Landrigan
Black Hills
John Meyer
Wennebeg
Ind
J. J. Meyer
YALE
Harold St. John
Maywood
Calif
Lizzie Marsh
Irma
Leon Vonderacek
B. Maass
Sioux Falls
Bob Filip
Chicago
E. O. Vondracek
A. Maass
Ir Home
R. Maass
Puyallup
Wash
Blanche Porter
Los Ange Calif
Annabelle Marsh
Mankato
Minneapolis
Hobart
Peter Hietlsdorf
Dell Rapids
Irma Vondracek
Mitchell
Tulare
Milton Walsh
Harrison
Huron Business College
Hague
Walsh
Judith Kathryn
Virgil Brugger
Doris Holm
Kathryn Anderson
Redfield
Laura Tasche
Sioux City
Minnie Tasche
Richard Witte
W. A. Witte
Montevideo
Minn
Lee Parrish
June
Seguin
Herman Blume
Parrishs
Herb Ellis
Wyndmere
N. D
Mont
Lyman van Voorhis
Tyler
Worthington
Beverly
van Voorhis
Bancroft
Joe Purintun
Allan
Bertha Purintun
de Smet
Earl Purtintun
Marl Brooks
Karl Clay
Aberdeen
Bobb Webb
Wichita Falls
Tex
Bobb
Walter Magee
Bridgewater
A. C. Gordon
Margaret Prouty
Fanny Gassebrock
Huron
Eastern Normal
Velta
Marcia Rogers
Max Ellis
Glenn Amyar
Miller
Amyar
Ellis
Phil Bridenbaugh
Omaha
Eva Bridenbaugh
Leonard
St. Lawrence
Dewey
Local Social Notes Highlight Area Visits and Births
Willow Lake and Conde notes share visits by Gertrude Piers and the Kuehners. Families in Miller St. Lawrence and De Smet welcome relatives from Wiscon sin and Gaylord Minnesota. Sergeant George Klaschen visits Ft Riley and friends while Lou Smith tours former haunts. A six pound son was born to Harvey and Alene Kuehner of Gaylord. Richard Strauss is noted for learning the musical scale early.
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Wolsey
George Klaschen
Ft. Riley
Kans
Frank Klaschen
Lou Smith
Monroe
Wis
CONDE
Harvey Kuehner
Gaylord
Minn
Kuehner
Alene Hamburg
Merle Longman
Bob Collins
Guy Mil_ler
Jessie
Watertown
Just Listen To That Corn Grow
In Omaha on August 14, Frank E. Shopen, a skeptical radio engineer, demonstrated a radio set amplifying sound 2,500 times beside a field of hybrid corn growing at nearly six inches daily. A microphone at the base captured the rapid growth sounds for verification.
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Omaha
Neb
Frank E. Shopen
Listener hears faint hum during stalk experiment
An eyewitness Miss Jackiy MacBride and Farmer W. H. Woodward listened as Shopen moved a microphone away from the stalk. Through headphones a faint shh noise emerged, likely tube noise, before Shopen declared concern and paused the test.
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Jackiy MacBride
Farmer W. H. Woodward
Shopen
Snake Killer: Road Runner Preys on Rattlesnakes
The southwestern road runner, a bird, kills rattlesnakes by circling and delaying their strike until they coil and become vulnerable, then attacks. The behavior highlights the bird's predatory tactics in desert habitats.
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Arthur Padfield
Haroldt Jackson
Virginia
Hazel
Louis Wolf
Bud Phillips
R. N. Jackson
Brentford
Jackson
T. F. Dunn
Stemi Valley Hospital
Art Nyvold
Montevideo, Minn
Kate Funk
Erwin
Elsie Johannesen
Percy Gilbertson
Soren Johannesen
Martin Johannesen
New Effington
Annie Paulson
Virgil
Vereen Cavanaugh
St. Joseph, Mo
O. D. Wessels
Japan
Russia
Manchukuo
Amur
Siberia
William Thaden
Willow
Richard Strauss
ED Moldenhauer
Wagner
Bas Ees
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