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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1956
Page
3
About 180 alumni attended the Emerson Alumni Banquet on Friday evening at the Gemmat facility. The event featured a business meeting, committee appointments for next year, and a program with musical numbers and formal toasts. Notables from multiple classes and distant cities joined, including the 1552 and 1944 cohorts, with plans announced for the next year’s banquet.
Nuttings visit Shooks over weekend staying with Mr and Mrs Lester Shook and daughters. Jeanette Thomson to wed Robert Pickred. Farewell picnic honors Lohmans as they move to Cleveland. Omaha visitors Nathan B Steher and LeReay Finder attend baby baptism and Sunday service.
Evans discharged from service, arrival from Los Angeles. They will reside in the Evans apartment. Mrs Ko Evans attended a Des Moines conference. Bertha Ad King spoke, Elva Douglas visits from Omaha. The Langs host, and Sybil Tubbs visits from Omaha. Evans trio travel to Springfield for short visits with Ey, Murphey families.
Emerson Mre Jessie Douglas Tar hare of McAllen Texas and Mreo Leone Haseail stayed with relatives. Thelma Blank hosted breakfast guests. Mrs Wrendeell Kleine of Lincoln Nebraska and her sister Mrs Klepituer joined. Roscoe Greenwood and Mrs El EB Sturgeon of Cassil y Bam visited Macuie Durbin. The Good couple left for Spirit Lake fishing trip after weekend visits.
The note lists numerous family and friend visits, weekend trips, and departures across towns including The Dalles Oregon, Omaha, Des Moines, Cedar Falls, and Henderson. It mentions folk from Charles City, Oakland, Red Oak, Malvern, Creston, Jacksonville Florida, and Bemidji with various gatherings, dinners, and travel plans.
East Liberty residents hosted a cooperative dinner Sunday in honor of Mrs J E Henderson of Malvern birthday the next day. Guests included Mr and Mrs Walter Stille and Dorothy Jean, Mr Henderson, Mr and Mrs Pay Butterfield, Roy Henderson and family, Tommy, Max Henderson and children, Alva Henderson and children, Eugene Len, Richard Henderson, Bobby Stille, Kenneth Henderson, and Marilyn. Church group plans included Co Op Planting, First Baptist Church notices, Vacation Church School at Emerson, and MYF activities with no choir rehearsal on June 10.
Readers recount visits from Dianeandarold Hillyer and grandparents in Webster City, plus a six year old Eldon Ray birthday party hosted by Mrs. Harlan Westenburg. The piece lists multiple local guests, visits to Red Oak and Emerson farms, a hospital stop in Conneaut, and community notices including Pioneer Shippers banquet attendees from Mills County.
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