Thanksgiving Gatherings Span Multiple Iowa Homes
Holiday dinners brought relatives to Cedar Rapids Ames Lost Nation and surrounding towns. Hosts included Mr and Mrs Will Hiller and Ms Hilda Balster with a 35 person trance dinner party and several students. The Maire family hosted Mothers in the Maire clan and extended kin from Cedar Rapids and Ames amid a sprawling family reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Hiller
Phoebe
Lenox College
Hopkinton
John
L. F. Balster
Arline
F. C. Cramer
Pauline
H. A. Deischer
Alan
Hilda Balster
Dubuque University
Loren Cramer
Ames
William Gringis
Marcus Maurice
Jean Fatally
Montielio
Thanksgiving Feasts Spread Across Monticello Area
The Monticello region filled with Thanksgiving dinners as numerous households hosted relatives and friends from Anamosa Center Junction Lisbon Vinton Cedar Rapids and nearby towns. Guests included the Carpenters Drexlers and many local families in gatherings at homes of the Nulls Wentzels Klarks Prahms and others. DeMolays Eastern Star and neighborhood clubs held meetings and social events while marriages and church activities were announced and celebrated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merle Knight
Marion
Harriet C. Coughlan
Millington Carpenter
Iowa City
Henry Carpenter
H. M. Carpenter, Jr
Earl H. DeShaw
Peter Prahm
Center Junction
Polly Prahm
Vinton
W. E
Sharon
Lloyd Clark
Charles Clark
Fred Ahrenholtz
Ivan Reynolds
Larry
Alion Clark
Betty
Charles
Leigh Clark
H. Shelley
Carl Schneider
Bonnie
Nancy
Paul
Mary Brown
Emma Lees
Earl Aynerson
Billy
Marileigh
Virginia Clark
H. G. Pruit
Henry Monk
Wyoming
Will Pruit
Martelle
Ray Pruit
Ronald
Ben Pruit
Ambrose Schlarmann
Henry Che
Lou Ehrisman
Lawrence Carlson
Doris Mae
Town City
Ida Kissling
Cedar Rapids
Religious Services and church notices for several area parishes
Sundays feature St. Matthew's German and English services at 9:45 and 10:45 led by Pastor H L Adix. St Joseph's Prairieburg offers Masses at 7:30 and 9:30 with English sermons. confessions Saturday and Sunday. Castle Grove holds 10:45 English worship. Christmas program rehearsal at 2 p.m. and Luther League Sunday. Ladies' Aid hosts an all day Friday at Mrs Emma Kray. Methodist in Community building with 10 a.m. Sunday school and 11 a.m. sermon, Epworth League at 6:41 p.m. Youth story for children titled Birds Without Cages. Christmas program date soon. Presbyterian morning worship at 11 a.m. after 10 a.m. Sunday school. sermon The Stones Cry Out. Endeavor 6:45 p.m.. evening service 7:30 p.m. St John’s English service with communion. preparatory 10, main 10:30. Trinity not in service. Sunday school 1:30 p.m. Choir rehearsal and Christmas pageant plans noted. Wayne Zion Ev Lutheran Sunday school 9:30, worship 10:30 in German. 1:30 p.m. practice for Christmas program. Evangelical and Reformed Bible Sunday English 11 a.m.. Daniel study. consistory after worship. Ladies’ Aid and Young People meet next week. Pilgrim Fellowship 6 p.m. Sunday. Negro contributions discussion led by Jane Stuhler and Helen Gutensohn. Congregational Church church school 4 p.m.. worship 11 a.m.. women meet 2:30 p.m. next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph's Church
Prairieburg
Stephen J. Kucera
Castle Grove Lutheran Church
Arnold Thalacker
Luther League
Ladies’ Aid
Emma Kray
Munity
Epworth League
Presbyterian Church
Wm. J. Grossheim
Christian Endeavor
Mary Eggers
Gilbert Voorhees
Marion
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Paul T. Gutknecht
Trinity
St. John’s
Wayne Zion Ev. Lutheran
F. H. Kehren
J. W. Schweitzer
Congregational Church
Samuel G. Gutensohn
Grim Fellowship
Lois
Lila Cantrell
Jane Stuhler
Helen Gutensohn
Mrs. Coughlan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Smartwear Shop
Monticello
Tata
Antonette Doxsee
Mount Vernon
Wilbur Doxsee
Dick Mott
Ralph Rundell
Mary Doxsee
George Doxsee
August Siebels
Herman Seehusen
Fritz Lees
Frederick
Cascade
Bob McCullen
Ray Siebels
Gerd Null
William Hinrichs
Gon
Weery
Elmer Hinrichs
Joann
Norris Schrader
Joe Walters
Henry Hinrichs
Betty Lou
Raymond
Amber
Harry Moore
Dale
Marvin
Lester
Null
Onslow
Frank Divoky
Stanley
Oxford Junction
Alva Hinrichs
Len Fluckiger
Lauvonne
Mary Sanford
Joe Miller
Gree
John Stege
DeMolays
George Washington
The
Order of DeMolay
Masonic Temple
Dale Adams
Leslie Reade
Mabel Hoag
Beulah
First
Schreiner
E. S
Order of the Eastern Star
Rose Hodson
Worthy
Jennie Clark
Lester J. Swift
Louise Field
Ciate
Carl Sehneider
Lois Shover
Madge Shaffer
Caroline Schoenhut
Lulu Cass
Lenore Hein
Bertyce Goettsch
Lydia Guyan
Clara Bishopp
Green River
Olive Shover
Cecil Goettsch
Miriam Suter
Emma Stambaugh
Elizabeth Baty
Neema Hargrave
John Bateman
Willis Fairbanks
C. A. Babcock
Anamosa
Frances Ellen
Bethany
Fairbanks
Anamosa High School
Jones County
Lester Fairbanks
Monticello High School
Methodist
Methodist Church
E. H. Huibregtse
A. B Grimes
E. T. Landis
B. Hubbard
Lillian Harris
L. J. Swift
F. E. Stimson
L. Hearn
Langworthy
Burdena Prult
Donald Rickels
Langworthy Hall
Miss Pruit
Bernice Poppe
Gerald Nelson
Betty Wroblewski
Freda Zimmerman
Lillian Minnis
Annabelle
Mary Louise Yount
Dorothy Rolls
George Harford
Pearl
Mary
Anastacia McKees
Bess Dickey
Leona Taylor
Kathryn Barnts
Mesdames Holub
Howie
Leo Holub
Lynn Howie
Goudy
Ann Malnar
Maude Arduser
Robert Mullen
Bethel Merrill
Jean Liddy
Janis Grimes
Rebecca Grimes
Janis
Marilee Matthiessen
Betty Jo Guyan
Audrey Podhaski
P.E.O
P. BE. O
Wa. J. Grossheim
S. E. Guyan
W. H. McClintock
Flushing
Long Island
F. S. Stuhler
A. J. Stuhler
F. P. Stuhler
Nelson
Jewelry
Milwaukee Road
Milwaukee Roac
FKA Aau Sae
Ayintver
Wilson
NAVY
Ibs
National
Wisconsin
Swift
Florida
Banon Miwad
California
Marsh
Ritec
Fort Dearborn
Port Deaborn
Rahams
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church
H. L. Adix
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
A. L. Lorenz
George Woodall
Armin H. Tendick
F. D. McLaughlin
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