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Steamboat Rock News brings church and social visits and livestock sale notes
The Steamboat Rock community highlights guest speaker Mr. Ruriyan Jacob from the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary at the Steamboat Rock Presbyterian Church. A weekend at Dick Harberts home is noted along with extended family visits from Grundy Center, Wellsburg, Story City, and Des Moines. Livestock sale plans include 60 Blackface ewes, 120 feeder lambs, breeding boars, and 3 carloads of Western feeder cattle. Cpl Blaine Beane receives honorable discharge after two years, returning from Seattle. Various local visits occur across Wellsburg, Hubbard, Iowa Falls, Dunerton, and Des Moines areas.
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Ruriyan Jacob
University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
Dick Harberts
Travancore
India
Steamboat Rock Presbyterian
Menno Bakker
LaVern
Gerald Bakker
Wellsburg
Edward Peterson
Story City
Ralph Beane
Jim McDonald
Peggy
State Center
Clara Green
Eldora
Tom Eilers
Arthur Frerichs
Douglas
Albert van Dornum
Russell van Dornum
Hubbard
Grace Bakker
Russell Holmes
Glen Willig
Grundy Center
Fred Harberts
Carolyn
John Harberts
Harvey Smith
Marshalltown
Henry Wabben
Harm Bakker
Cpl
Blaine Beane
Seattle
Wash
Russell Karstens
Iowa Falls
Orville Wilts
Keith
Lloyd
Dunkerton
Henry Andreessen
Waterloo
Rena Frerichs
Bob Tidman
John Tidman
Ben J. Eilers
Shirley DeVries
Chicago
Minert DeVries
LaVern Embree
Della Moore
Whitten