Quaker Lane Social Roundup From Our Special Correspondent
Miss Kathleen Latham spent Sunday with Jeannette Perisho. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harris traveled to Waterloo on Memorial Day. The Q L Club met with Mrs. Emmett Rubenbauer and elected officers planning a June 9 picnic. Visitors from Omaha and Los Angeles joined at Geo Keen home for a family gathering. The Knudson relatives held a birthday celebration for Mrs. Knudson with Mary Knudson visiting here.
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Kathleen Latham
Jeannette Perisho
Charles Harris
Waterloo
Q. L. Club
Emmett Rubenbauer
Carrie Hudspeth
R.V. Talbert
Omaha
Homer Saye
Roland
Los Angeles
Geo. Keen
Marvin Burns
Houston
Perisho
Burns
Thos. Keen
William Hoover
Virginia Keen
Clyde Hoover
Knudson
L. C
Local Notes From Marshalltown and Area
Miss Maxine Mertka spent Friday night and Saturday at the Charles Bowles home in Marshalltown. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Harvey and daughter Evelyn of Ames spent Decoration Day at the Wm. Dougherty home. Ada Johnson, teaching at Hazel Green, returns home for vacation. John Sloss and son Pierce, now in Des Moines, visited Louis Mertka home. Peter Lunde and family move to stay briefly as he recovers health. Jerome Lunde’s milk cow was struck by a train after picnickers left a gate open, releasing cattle onto the tracks.
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Maxine Mertka
Charles Bowles
Marshalltown
Charley Harvey
Evelyn
Ames
Wm. Dougherty
Ada Johnson
Hazel Green
John Sloss
Pierce
Des Moines
Louis Mertka
Peter Lunde
State Center
Jerome Lunde
Marshall County Old Settlers Meet at Riverview Park
The Marshall County Old Settlers Association holds its fifty-ninth annual reunion Sunday at Riverview Park with an all-day event. A noon basket dinner precedes an afternoon of speaking and music. Officers Re-elected Rev Frank M Wheeler president W G McAfee vice president H F Clemens secretary J P Cooper treasurer Committee chairs named H F Clemens grounds W G McAfee publicity John A Tallman and a motion bans political references in speeches.
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Marshall County
Old Settlers’ Association
Riverview Park
Frank M. Wheeler
W. G. McAfee
H. F. Clemens
Local residents visit LeGrand and area gravesites
W. M. Gaunt, recently working in Waterloo, returned home Sunday morning. Henry Hanson and his Chicago family spent Sunday and Monday with relatives here. Mae Draper of Marshalltown called on her brother C. B. Adair and family. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bowen of Tama were LeGrand visitors Monday morning and visited Pleasant Hill cemetery.
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W. M. Gaunt
Waterloo
Henry Hanson and
Chicago
Mae Draper
Marshalltown
C. B. Adair
H. J. Bowen
Tama
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Doctor Kauffman Opens Office in Arshalltown
Dr W A Kauffman establishes a medical office at 4 East Main Arshalltown, with local contact via OWA phone in 1950.
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Arshalltown
East Main
Free Baths for Clergy in Old Brooklyn
Edward Gray of Brooklyn operated a floating and land based bath service in the 1850s to aid clergy. Each fall the bath tub was towed to Gowanus bay and tied for winter. He never charged clergymen for baths, drawing numerous ministers who left rosy and ready to revise Sunday sermons.
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Brooklyn
Edward Gray
Fulton Ferry
Maurice E.mcloughlin
Brooklyn Eagle
Mr. Gray
Franklin House
Fulton Street
Gray
Gray's
Toy Sailboat Misadventure In Bath Tub
Sharon, told to sail a toy boat in the bathtub, faced a tub overflow as water spilled and the boat kept falling out. After fifteen minutes she gave up, saying she tired of putting it back in.
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Sharon
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State Center Enterprise
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Davis
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LeGrand
Corwin O'Neal
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