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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1916
Page
4
Fragmentary text appears to be postal and publication notes. It hints at second class matter status and subscription rates but lacks coherent events, dates, or names to anchor a full news item. The readable elements suggest archival boilerplate rather than a distinct article.
Local brief mentions Miss Biae Wakefield 58 business caller in Orange City Bir and Mrs. Dave Patton leaving Fortucip home Pipestone. Various visitors and neighbors listed including VanderPloeg, Mensink, Verdogs, and others. A stray hog found and owner to claim by paring piglets. sale notice for Rhode Island Red cockerels.
Farmers Elevator lists prices for corn with weights and prices. Orange City visitors include Henry DeJong and Mrs Jake DeJong. Several residents travel to Sioux City LeMars and Rolfe for business and visits. Hans Verdoes Bendrix and others attend gatherings and sales. A Wakefield state Mable Sale is announced for December 20 with fall partisan bills. Local social events include a birthday dinner and a ladies aid meeting.
CommunityScene lists visitors including Hebert DeJong and Eldora LeMois in town for weekend events. Miss Lizzie Lyne and Miss Dovthey Prericks spend time shopping. Wilmer Kukuk of Brookings visits friends. Church services noted at St John’s with Rev Nuofer.
The Ladies Aid of the Am Ret church has secured the east window for a Christmas gift sale at the Hells Bankveld store. The sale runs each afternoon until all items are sold.
The list records pupils by grade from Maurice High School with names such as Carlton Van Pearsem Bernard Van DerBeek Gertrude Hoekstra Renkes Mildred Mieras Eddward Rosenheam and others across first through ninth grades. Several Van Pearsem VanDerBrek VanDeBrake Warnties Mieras Dickens and Popma families appear among the students.
A reflection on the spirit of Christmas emphasizing love and charity. It traces origins of Santa Claus from Saint Nicholas, notes English customs like hanging stockings, and urges sharing over merely giving to embody the holy day. The piece links decorations, music, mistletoe lore, and carols to timeless goodwill.
A five year old boy steals his mother’s stocking on Christmas Eve to hide a note printed in a Sunday-school style lead text. The page shows garbled handwriting and stray letters forming a jumble of phrases and clues from a toy and winter day scene.
Toa Scott Pace family is listed in a local notice read aloud in a community session. Residents gathered to discuss genealogy and family records with emphasis on lineage and local history.
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