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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1948
Page
6
A humorous guide tells grooms how to handle wedding prep and married life with practical jokes and cautionary advice. It covers planning, etiquette, attire, and in law relations, urging steadiness and attention to details to keep the bride happy and the day memorable.
Vernon County Wisconsin WCTU members visited the Vernon County Home with flowers fruit and a program of readings and music. Rev J Ellery Beal spoke and Mrs Ira Best led arrangements for Flow er Mission Day annual observance. An earth furnace note appears as a historical aside.
Locals Townsend club No 3 will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m in Odd Fellows hall 121 South Fourth street. Entertainment after the meeting. Humboldt Resale shop women s and children s apparel Thursday and Fridays 1127 King. Lund s Flowers to the Cathedral. Bake at Doerflinger s balcony Saturday June 12 starting 10 30 St Thomas More parish. Mrs Mabel West Loose guest of H J Hirshheimer 2136 Main street. Carrie Owen and Clara Semingson have returned from California. Noise can raise brain pressure.
Violet Fruechte of Caledonia and Joseph M Rostvold Jr of Harmony were married June 5 at 3 p.m. at St Luke's Evangelical and Reformed in Eitzen. The double ring ceremony featured spring flower decor, a reception for 100, and a Piney Ridge Lodge honeymoon before settling in Caledonia.
June notices list births and christenings across Wisconsin and nearby states. Families named include Garder Griffin Mindoro Dockendorf Mack Meade Putthammer Haber Newburg Horstman Bright Eisen Johnson Miller Evenson and others with dates from June 3 to June 8 and locations in Sparta Bangor West Salem La Crosse Chaseburg Tomah Port Ransom La Crescent and Seattle.
The notice lists multiple couples with planned La Crosse weddings on June 12 and June 16 including Erwin Mickelberg and Carolyn Ryan, Lawrence Iverson and Elizabeth Thornton, Willard Comings Jr and Esther Zellmer, Peter Brasic and Eleanor Belcher, Eldon Zimmerman and Lela Hackett, Boyd Zietlow and Virginia Behrens, plus Arvid Wiste and Carmona Havitgstad. An unrelated line notes an estimated 3 000 000 habitual golfers in the United States.
Otto Voll and Lena Johnson Voll marked sixty years of marriage at their Hanover township home. The 83 and nearly 80 year old couple hosted about 100 relatives, including son Emmett Voll of Washington and daughters Mrs Adolph Blilie and Mrs Irving Bangs with their families. A cash purse was presented to the celebrants.
Mr and Mrs Lewis Tollefson announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter Thelma Madison to Frederick Nechkash Oak Jr Glen Hills son of Mr and Mrs Fred Nechkash Sr Montford Wis. The wedding will be held June 19 in Viroqua.
Mrs Jessie Chadwick announces the engagement of her daughter Lucy Ellen Chadwick to Leon J. Hunter Jr son of Mr and Mrs Leon Hunter. Marriage planned for June in Viola Wisconsin locale to be announced later by families.
Caledonia CDA Court No. 555 installed officers at the Knights of Columbus hall with Dorothy Thrun assisting. Officers named include Grand Regent Mrs. L. L. Boerkohl and other posts. retreat planned for early September and a July picnic discussed. Miss Thrun attended as a guest at Mrs. L. L. Roer's home.
The annual Estenson family reunion was held at the Iver B Olson home in Whitehall on Sunday when Mr. and Mrs Theodore Estenson of Chicago could attend. Attendees included Ole Boe and family, Floren Boe and Blair, Oscar Estenson, Ferdinand Estenson with Floyd Vernon Donald and Kenneth, Pigeon, Oliver Iverson and family, Schaefer and daughter Marjorie, Harland Schafer and family, Edwin Estenson and family, Joe Maldonado and family, and E O Paulson.
Mrs John A Jacobsen will present her piano pupils in recital Friday evening June 11 at 7 30 at the high school. Seventeen named students including Virginia Mattson Luella Johnson Kay Iverson Roger Erickson Waltrout Vohs Sheldon Ivers Rita Jackson Dorothy Birkeland Robert Foss Joan Schroeder Gordon Ringsten Shirley Robinson Kari Lynn Rice Georgia Staff Joan Hunter Mary Mattson Sharon Wood Nancy Bell Joyce Herness Doris Hertzfeldt Elaine Jacobson Solveig Ambli Anne Holtafi and Shirley Lee will perform.
Mr and Mrs Henry Dummer drive to Nekoosa on Tuesday to join Mr and Mrs Hubert Elsen and Mrs Catherine Misna for the Madison trip. They will attend Richard Elsen 18th birthday party, while he remains hospitalized at Wisconsin General for nearly four months. The small party includes the Rev James J Misna of Montfort with the group returning Wednesday accompanied by Mrs Catherine Misna mother of Mrs Elsen, Mrs Dummer and Rev Misna.
Maple Grove women golfers opened the season with an approaching and putting contest won by Mil dred Mendell and Dana Mutton. Luncheon and bridge followed, with Mrs F C Storandt and Dorothy Emigh taking bridge honors and Mabel Marsh and Dorothy Thornton winning 500. The guest of Dorothy Larson was the last named. Hostesses were Effie McKinley, Myrtle Boehm and Hilda Evenson. Next week’s hostesses will be Dorothy Larson, Grace Roberts and Minnie Johnson.
Arleen Deloris Thompson and Leland Thomas Larsen joined in marriage on June 5 on the Thompson lawn at Upper French Creek Ettrick Wisconsin. The Rev S E Verang officiated with an improvised altar and pink white peonies. The bride wore white satin with a long train and a vintage orange blossom wreath. A reception for 60 followed at the bride’s home. The couple reside Ridgeway Minnesota with Thompson a Winona Business College alumna and Larsen a Winona State Teachers College student. A prenuptial shower was held prior to the ceremony.
La Crosse residents attend the national convention of the Norwegian Lutheran Church and the Women's Missionary Federation in Minneapolis from June 8 to 10. Delegates include Mrs. I L Grangeard, Mrs. Carl O Rauk, Mrs. Ben Bertleson, and Rev I M Gjelistad with other Church of St Paul and Our Savior's members also at the meetings.
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