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Newspaper
Greene Recorder
Location
Greene, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1960
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Galen Smith hosted last Friday honoring Mrs Mary McRoberts on her 96th birthday. Attending were Mr and Mrs Harold McRoberts of Waterloo, Mr and Mrs Paul Shook of Plainfield, Mr and Mrs James McRoberts of Nashua, Ira McRoberts, and the McRoberts families from Greene, Nashua and nearby areas.
Engaged Linda Lu Busse daughter of Mr and Mrs Dan Busse to Tom Kline son of Mr and Mrs William L Kline. No wedding date set. Miss Busse will be a 1960 graduate of Greene High School. Fiance is also a Greene High School graduate and is engaged in farming.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Buttjer hosted an open house at their Aredale home on Sunday April 3 to mark their silver wedding anniversary. They were married February 22 1935. Guests registered from Sheffield Hampton Aredale Greene Dumont Dougherty Geneva and Charles City.
Upper Iowa University senior Elvin Kingery has been accepted by the Atomic Energy Commission for a specialty fellowship in health physics. He will pursue graduate study at Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee and spend next summer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The fellowship covers tuition fees limited travel allowance and a basic annual stipend.
Girl Scout Troop 265 met at the Youth Center Monday evening with 31 girls and 3 adults in attendance. Mary Ellen Worley, the president, conducted the meeting.
Pam Drakle acted as secretary and Sally Hammel collected dues at the meeting. Members discussed correcting behavior in public places and bus etiquette ahead of the Girl Scout Tour on April 23. The next night for swimming is April 20, with all girls meeting at City Hall at 6 30. Cookies will be distributed the week of April 24 30, and the meeting closed with Taps.
The Music Mothers of Greene Community School met Monday afternoon at the Presbyterian Church basement with 25 present. A report on Sheffield ratings from April 8 and 9 was given along with a note about a missing uniform from a recent Whiteside home fire.
Thirteen Butler County residents joined attendees from Clarksville Aplington Greene and other Iowa locales for the Annual Family Life Conference in Ames on April 5. Anthropologist Dr. Kimball Romney of Standard University spoke on youth and cultural ceremonies, with the theme Youth in Our Time. Nearly 750 people attended.
June wedding announced for Darlyle Jean Buhrow daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanie Buhrow to Earl Steere son of Sophia Steere of Greene. The ceremony set for June 12 at 2:00 PM at St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church Siegel. Darlyle is a senior at Tripoli High School and Earl is engaged in farming.
At the annual Spring Organization Meeting for girls 4-H leaders in Butler County dates were set for summer activities. May 19 kicks off with the Better Grooming Contest, followed by Ray Day on June 4 and a series of camps and demonstrations through July. The county enrollment reached 261, with 108 first year members. The newest club New Hartford Busy Beavers has 44 members. Mary Jo Lubben was selected to attend Health Camp in Madrid. others will attend camps and workshops in May and July. Leaders praised for work across clubs.
Ground breaking ceremony Sunday at 2:30 pm marked by singing and prayers as Powersville Alliance Church members and locals gathered at the corner of eth and Clinton. Leaders Rev Rueben Strecker and Rev Carl Volstad spoke. Mayor-elect Lee Albaugh announced an April 20 meeting. multiple clubs listed for upcoming April events. The project features 46 by 70 feet Releo Laminated Arches with mosaic veneer, estimated value about 60000 dollars.
Five Greene Community High School FFA members joined instructor Richard Wagoner at the State Future Farmers of America convention in Cedar Rapids on April 8 and 9. Attendees included Roger Wells Dean Dralle Stan.
The Greene F.F.A. Chapter elected Roger Martzahn as president, David Rottink as vice president, Roger Wells as secretary, Charles Steere as treasurer, Harlan Martzahn as reporter, and Dean Dralle as sentinel. Delegates and guests attended with Governor Loveless and Dr Carl Winters speaking at the Memorial Colosseum.
Stanley Brown son of Mrs Arlene Brown had a tonsillectomy Friday at Cedar Valley Hospital in Charles City and returned home Saturday.
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