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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1912
Page
3
Irvin area social hints list neighbors visiting kin and hosting dinners at various farms and towns. Families include Keen, Hoover, Gill, Piper, Henderson and Banks with gatherings at State Center and Barns City. A child school picnic at a local house entertained parents and splashed laboriously into community memory.
Special Correspondent reports visitors and local social movements in Butlerville. Mr and Mrs Mart Fisher hosted Marshalltown callers and guests included the Braath family and their daughters. Mrs Lewis assisted by Nellie LaValley, with chores while Wilcoxen and Filloon called at Frank Lewis home. Ozie Butler visited Tama with her parents Mr and Mrs B J Stuart. Mrs G W DeLong returned from New Mexico with daughter Mrs Hugh Piper.
Mr and Mrs L C G Knudson attended the Montour High School alumni banquet last Friday night where Mrs Knudson is a member.
Clinton resident Mr Geo Anderson visited here on Sunday. Marshalltown guests Bertha Poduska and Reba Stetingen spent Sunday with Poduska family at Rock Nelley. Sandy and family hosted Stavanger neighbor on Sunday evenings. Cronk siblings Gladys and Ercil of Marshalltown visit sister Maude Davidson Union. A large crowd traveled Friday to LeGrand for the high school graduation exercises.
Glen Mills began work for John Latham on Monday. A trip to Mason last week involved Delmar Latham and Gurney Mellyed ness. School closes soon and a vote is planned. Tollot Woogen shelled Friday. Kellogg has plans to visit. a mother is in poor health.
Meas Gorn plowing noted as order day among farmer T Heggem who left for home Thursday. A Thompson moved three loads of hogs to Ditton Tuesday revenue. Ole C Stangeland renewing barn on farm near Stavanger. J Larson shelled corn for Tennes Olson and Malinda Thompson last week. Peter H Thompson adding finishing touches on sporélies at his mother’s house. Meltvedt’s hauling tile to resume tiling after delay. First Day Scripture school began last Sunday at 10 o’clock and runs through summer. Chester and Racine Tweet visited after funeral of T J Heggem. Colorado letter reports safe arrival of Nels Thompson and family. Orchards in blossom and snow visible in the distant mountains.
East LeGrand and Marshalltown visitors appear in the week’s notes. Mrs Geo Paxton entertained. Priscilla Circle met. Mrs Scott Mover and children spent Friday in East LeGrand. Mrs Nodland and family are on a business trip to Tama and Toledo. Frank Zednichek and daughter Bessie visited Dundee last week.
Mrs Josiah Paxson and Rebecca O Neal called in Marshalltown on Wednesday. A J Banks headed to Knoxville for a short visit with relatives. Several residents, including Mrs Enoch Strom and Mrs Tom Magee of Butlerville, spent time with S D Narber. Others shared visits with A J Banks, Wm Peterson of Lyons, and extended family across Ames and Belle Plaine during a busy week of social calls.
A column cites homemaking help from the Record-Herald and Marion Harland with menu ideas and recipes, while news briefs report Civil War veterans encampment in Maxon City, a hotel fire remodel in Washta, a shooting arrest in Keokut, a fatal brain concussion in LeMars, a Raleigh fire threat, a suicide near Estherville, Black Hawk County road plans, Sac County corn figures, a Marcus auto accident injury, and a Cherokee suicide case.
Iowa briefs report Primghar approves a $30,000 school building contract while plans unfold for an old fashioned Fourth of July in Marshalltown with games races a parade and fireworks. The drowning of Robert Baker of Lone Tree is noted as a river bathing accident. Reverend Lewis of Ma gnoketa resigns to take a post near Lenox.
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