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Newspaper
Greene Recorder
Location
Greene, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1961
Page
4
Local and personal notes recap visits and travels of Greene area residents. Families and friends travel between towns such as Des Moines Waterloo Chicago Minneapolis and Wayzata. People attend events including picnics ball games and state fairs and visit relatives in Charles City Fertile Spokane Primghar and Clinton region.
The Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Pooley will be celebrated with an open house on Monday September 4 from 2 to 5 pm at their home. Hosts are their children S Dwight Pooley C E Burroughs and Eleanor J Pooley of New Jersey and Paul E Pooley of Bennington Nebraska. they married September 6 1911 in Greene First Presbyterian Church. They spent most of their life in Greene with months at Charles City. They have fifteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Mr Pooley owned Pooley Lumber Co for 46 years retiring in 1959.
Local obituary and social notes detail funeral attendance for Frank A FPagles of Spokane and Leo Lynch in Lawler, plus visits among the Henline, Kaiser, Rottler, Blake, and Keller families. Mentions Miss Sherol Shultz leaving for Palatine Illinois to teach, and trips to Toledo, Corpus Christi, King’s Ranch, and Moose Lake Minnesota.
Barbara Osier daughter of Mr and Mrs Lyle Osier marked her 11th birthday with a Thursday party at her parents home. Attendees included Carol Murphy Leavens Holzschuh Fischer Barth and guests from Marble Rock and Springfield Mass. Games and refreshments followed the cake baked by Mrs Dean Groshens. The honoree received many gifts. Mr and Mrs Merlin Benter and daughter Cindie visited from Waterloo.
Harold Schoenfeld offers feeder pigs for sale in Greene with contact by phone 28 F-21. Item appears as a local classified notice from a historical newspaper snippet, listing available pigs and basic contact details.
Mr and Mrs Paul Hamilton and family were honored at a farewell party at the Country Club Sunday evening A pot luck supper followed by a social evening about 75 Country Club members attended and presented the honored couple with a gift Attendees included Mr and Mrs Lewis Majewski Mr and Mrs Dale Willey and Mr and Mrs Jim Schroeder
Miss Maureen Allison daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Allison attends the National Newman Club Convention at the University of California Berkeley this week. One of six delegates from the State College of Town Cedar Falls she will be a sophomore this fall. She is corresponding secretary to the President of the Iowa Province overseeing five Catholic Student Centers in Iowa and will visit her sister Jane Allison in El Cerrito California before returning home.
Miss Pamela Hamilton was honored at a farewell party at the Youth Center Saturday evening. Host and hostess were Peggy Willey and Mike Majewski. Twenty friends attended. Mrs. Lewis Majewski and Mrs. Dale Willey helped serve refreshments. Pamela received a group gift and left Sunday for Ankeny to begin school Monday.
Vera M. Davis was guest of honor on her birthday at the home of her son in Waterloo. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Michael Phalen of Mason City, Mr and Mrs Elmer Heiser and Mrs Oliver Hoch of Waterloo, and others from Greene and Waterloo with Ev erette Shatzer family hosting.
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