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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1948
Page
10
The Rev. W. F. Huxford officiated the May 22 ceremony at First Baptist Church uniting Dorothy Meyer and Oren James Pengra. Guests included numerous family and friends from Minneapolis and Chicago. The couple's Chicago home honeymoon follows and Pengra works as a garage employee.
Mrs O G Brown and Mrs Ella Jackson hosted a Monday afternoon coffee in Brown home for Miss Louise McIntosh who will lead duties as hostess at La Crosse Country club Thursday. About forty guests attended with out of town visitors Ms Paul Sanwick of Houston and Mrs Lloyd Bekkedal of Westby. McIntosh will run her local coffee shop under Mrs Jean Potts management.
Nervous strain and emotional upset influence stomach ulcers and can worsen symptoms. Treatments target excess stomach acid with small meals and alkalis. some patients have vagus nerve surgery, though opinions vary. Medical therapies and other operations continue to help many ulcer patients.
Snoring results from air passing through narrowed breathing passages. Relaxed muscles or mucus can worsen it. Sleeping on the side or stomach and clearing nasal passages before sleep may help reduce snoring.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Goede celebrated their 40th anniversary May 16 with relatives and friends in Genoa Wisconsin. Gifts included an electric mixer from their children and a purse for the couple. Attendees included many Goides Bluskes Lemkes and Garbers with extended family and friends.
Valley Wisconsin hosts a mother daughter banquet with 130 attendees at the Evangelical Lutheran church. Guest speaker Mrs. Nell Truesdale of Richland Center spoke on the role of motherhood. Miss Sylvia Nottestead read an original Kickapoo poem and won a Madison contest prize.
Locals Mr and Mrs A W Britting ham Jr formerly Varva Michels and daughter Jennifer Kaye visit Georgetown Street Mrs John Michels 1346 George Street Memorial floral offerings via Lunds Flowers across from Cathedral Townsend club 3 meets Odd Fellows hall 121 South Fourth Thursday 7 30 pm with entertainment and refreshments Resale shop for women and children items Thursdays and Fridays 1127 King St Storkland intal department Byers Flowers 10 Market Open evenings La Crosse Tent and Awning Fourth and Market
In Viroqua, $477.40 was raised from Buddy Poppy sales on Saturday. Clarence Kilmer of the Running-Jacobson Post VFW reports the total. Mrs. Peg Bishop led the auxiliary as poppy chairman. About 70 percent stays in Viroqua for local veteran welfare, with funds assisting disabled veterans and a penny from each poppy supporting the VFW National Home in Eaton Rapids Michigan.
A list of pending marriages shows Kenneth Miller and Kathleen Thimmesch of 1702 Madison La Crosse to wed in La Crosse on June 5, plus multiple matches with dates May 22 to May 24 in Caledonia, Rock Island and Tomah, including Jerome Schansberg with Katherine Meyer and Warren H. Kerndt with Lou R. McCarthy, among others.
Mr and Mrs Peter Bicha announce the engagement of their daughter Es telle to John A Weber son of Mr and Mrs John J Weber. The ceremony is scheduled for Thursday June 25 at Holy Trinity Catholic church.
Mrs Mary Brophy of 5106 West Berteau Avenue Chicago announces the forthcoming marriage of her daughter Mary Ellen to Henry C Pedrick of New Castle Delaware The ceremony on Saturday morning May 29 will be at Our Lady of Victory Church Chicago and the couple will reside in Chicago Also visiting are Mrs Thomas H Birch and daughter Becky Lou and Melissa Lane of Baltimore at the Oscar Preidel home 1925 South 19th Street
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Herman Burmeister was christened Sunday May 24 at St John s Lutheran Caledonia by Rev Karl Gurgel and named Reuban Herman. Sponsors were John Backman Reedsburg Otto Hasse Hill Points Wis and Mrs August Banse Eitzen. Dinner followed at the Burmeister home.
A series of birth notices from May details newborns across Wisconsin towns including St Paul Winona Viroqua Westby Viola Waumandee and La Crosse. Parents named with residences and hospital data such as Winona General Hospital Genoa Viroqua Richards Ward and Dresbach. May dates range May 15 to May 26.
VFW poppy day sales will be conducted Friday and Saturday in two city locations the GAR rooms in the court house on the south side and 1351 Caledonia street on the north side. Proceeds aid needy veterans their dependents widows orphans and hospital and memorial work. Auxiliary members plan a Memorial day parade march and services and presented a Boy Scouts troop 7 with a flag. The group also donated materials and a radio to the VA hospital at Tomah and planned a business meeting Wednesday night.
Mid June ceremony planned for Dorothy Mauss and Merle Welper with a wedding set for June 15 in Waubon, Iowa. The couple hail from Waubon and Eitzen Minnesota according to the notice.
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