Scotch Grove Becomes Scene for Fourth of July Family Reunion
The Eby family of Cedar Rapids hosted a large Fourth of July gathering at the mill with many relatives present. Attendees included most Eby children and spouses, grandchildren, and several local and out of town guests from Ames, Monticello, Anamosa, Los Angeles, Davenport, and Cedar Rapids. The event featured picnics, water sports, and a later ice cream table, along with church activities and a farm bureau meeting planned for July 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Eby
Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Eby
Frances van Antwerp
Davenport
Beulah
Los Angeles
Thelma Gregory
Iowa City
Lewis Wright
Scotch Grove
Ames
L. E. Hutton
Merle
Monticello
Sinclair
County Farm Bureau
Anamosa
Farm Bureau
Presbyterian Church
Des Moines
Representative van Buren
Constance Naylor
Verna Loomis
Dorothy Otten
Geraldine Wright
Eloise Kuhns
Wilma Kuhns
Alfrieda Husman
Jo Royden
Roberta Clark
Selena Otten
Marcella Otten
W. B. Clark
Townsend
John Schone
Walter Eby
Sylvan Bixby
Edgewood
Royden
Oscar Miller
Center Junction
Grace Peet
Peet
R. P. Clark
Wilma
Roberta
Darline
Wisconsin
Gerd Hanken
H. J. Dirks
Mr. Hanken
Mr. Dirks, Sr
Winifred
A. C. Robbie
Phyllis Robbie
H. M. Hill
Zont
Doris
A. Alyen
Robert Livingstone
Peter Prahm
Charles Alyen
Independence
Kent Moats
Clarence Hinrichs
George Plueger
John Hinrichs
Merle Pangburn
Pangburn
O. M. Miller
Sons
Eby's Mill
Irving Eilers
Lovell Township
C. H. Nelson
H. J. Smith
Genevieve
Onslow
C.C. Livingstone
Wanda
J. W. Livingstone
Lucille
Sadie Scha
Jessie Arnold
Wyoming
Frank Dawes
C. C. Livingstone
Wanda Livingstone
Lottie Wells
Texas
J. M. Livingstone
Hopkinton News Briefs July 1931 Local Notes
Hopkinton community items cover Fourth of July quiets, visitors, and local gatherings. Paul Green returns from tonsil surgery in Anamosa. Irwin Kouba considers opening an implement store. Births noted for June 25 and July 1. Local deaths include Mrs. Anna Applegate of Welser Idaho. Hospital updates, travel to Chicago and Cedar Falls, and various relatives visiting Hopkinton homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinton
Paul Green
Anamosa
Paul
Billings
Irwin Kouba
Verdigre
Neb
Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
Esther Agnew Melrose
Nodoa
Hainan
Chris
Paul Melrose
Margaret Melrose
Mary H. Taylor
Ruth Herrington
Gertrude Reeve
Eleanor Marolf
Mary Elizabeth Gearhart
Rachel Stanger
Walter Kurth
Charles Fieldmann
J. M. Johnston
Selma
Alabama
Lincoln
Nebraska
Raymond Wallace
Monticello
Earlville
Berkeley Smith
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Clarke DeShaw
A. B. Soule
George Herrington
William Kenney
West Union
J. H. Cline
Dean Morton
Minburn
Pred Egger
Sand Springs
Lottie Johnson
Applegate
Erma Bradle
Portia Main
Cedar Falls
John Bolin
Arizona
Bolin
Frank Butler
Dora Morgan
James Fairley
Marion
Homer Brooks
Mount Vernon
William
Tom Edgar
Fayette
Don Johnston
Coe College
Eleanor MacDonald
Grinnell
Tris Statler
Muscatine
Laura Wheeless
Earl DeShaw
St. Louis
DeShaw
J. S. Ricketts
B. M. Ferguson
W. J. Kirkwood
Pau Johnston
Leslie Himebaugh
A. P. Himebaugh
C. A. Kellerton
C. A. Gearhart
J. R. Kirkwood
Wendell
Henry LeClerc
Archie LeClerc
Manchester
Archie LeClerc and
Bertha
Kirkwood
M. H. Whitney
Pierre
M. D
Dubuque
Zwingle
Relaves
Donald MacAllister
Des Moines
J. H. MacAllister
Ruth Dunlap
Morrison
Miss Butler
Sioux City
South Hopkinton
Julia Ricketts
Cynthia
San Diego
Calif
Jamie Ricketts
MacAllister
Kennedy
Mercy Hospital
E. W. Roberts
Phoenix
Aris
Minnie Zeuch
George
William Meyers
Hardin County
Waupaca
Wis
William Bradke
Mr. Bradke
Germany
France
Bradke
Everyon
Amber Grant and Gerald Kruse wed at Nashua Little Brown Church
Amber Miss Marian Grant daughter of Mr and Mrs John Grant and Gerald Kruse of Hale were married Monday June 22 at the Little Brown church in Nashua. Honeymooned at the Dells Wisconsin. Bride taught at Hale school three years and they will reside in Hale. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Monti Messer and Mr and Mrs Westly Mahachek of Cedar Rapids at Otto Danneman and Ed Duncan homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Nelson
Little Brown Church
Nashua
Will Serbousek
Irene
Moline
F. L. Serbousek
Henry Seehusen, Jr
Monticello
Jim Smith
L. R. Pashong
Patty Lou
Des Moines
J. F. Livingstone
Anamosa Park
8. N. Smith
Mary Stuart
James Douglas
Ames
John Alexander
Dean
Springville
E. F. Burr
Castle Grove Township
J. N. Smith
Clinton
Troxle
Mayme
Carrie
California
Presbyterian Ladies
Elmer Andrews
Alan Serbousek
F. L. Himebaugh
Thelma
Frank Husman
McDonald Hospital
Wesley Hanken
Presbyterian Church
Selma Prahm
Camp Huaga
Pauline
Charles Dawes
Ossen
Wis
Lorna Livingstone
Tfowa City
Phyllis Morecrost
Cedar Rapids
J. W. Livingstone
Peter Prahm
Beulah Holm
Maquoketa
Otto Godskesen
U. S
Marian Grant
John Grant
Gerald Kruse
Hale
Dells
Wisconsin
Hale School
Monti Messer
Westly Mahachek
Otto Danneman
Ed Duncan
Will Michels
Charles Gray
Albert Hawkins
Chester Hawkins
James Gray
Harry Courtright
McGovern
Betty
Cletus Boland
Community Notes Include Visits and Summer Activities
Local families hosted dinners and gatherings this week in Viols and Oxford Junction. The Young People's Sunday School held a Friday party at Genevieve Streeter's with thirty attendees and plans for a July 10 event. Amber Presbyterian Church hosts a vacation Bible school with about thirty scholars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Eileen
Genevieve Streeter
Vacaion Bible School
Amber Presbyterian Church
Julia Toenjes
Cedar Rapida
A. Toenjes
Reuben Dress
Monticello
Bernell Dress
Otto Danneman
Will Zimmerman
Adolph Messer
Oxford Junction
Otto Otten
Carl Gerdes
Langworthy
Louis Helgens
Scotch Grove
Alva Gerdes
Bernice Schaffer
Anna Behrends
Jack Huaman
Anamosa
Roscoe Lincoln
Henry Dirks
Cascade Mourns Widow Mrs. Joseph Liebold
Cascade community mourns the death of Veronica Kurt Liebold at John McDonald hospital Monticello at 9 30 am Sunday after a battle with high blood pressure She leaves husband Joseph Liebold and parents Peter and Mary Kurt with seven brothers and three sisters among survivors Funeral services were held at St Marys church with a large turnout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Liebold
John McDonald Hospital
Monticello
Peter Kurt
St. Mary’s School
St. Mary's Church
J. B. Albers
Rosary Society
John
Joseph
Clarence
Leo
Urban
Raymond
Lawrence
Cascade
Mary
John Liebold
Cnsscade
Anna
John Luther
Fillmore
Margaret
Helen
Cathryn
Ambrose
Assett
Leona
Leo Till
Joseph Hoach
John Welter
William Knapper
Carl Kurt
Fred Kurt
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Father Albers
US Forces Open Door to Sleeping Japan in 19th Century
A terse historic note recalls how United States naval pressure cracked the isolation of Japan in the 1850s, forcing modernization and opening trade. The event reshaped regional power dynamics and sparked rapid reforms in Japanese governance and economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Japan
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Paul Schuetz
Henry Hanken
J. B. Hanken
Olin
B. D. Heiken
O. O. Watson
Baldwin
Nashville
Albert Heiken
C. A. Burmeister
Gert Hanken
H. H. Seehusen
George Seehusen
Freda
Austin, Minn
Mra. Pashong
Jackson County
Dorothy McDonald
Sateen
Circle Bargains
Circle
Lonsdale
Comforter Batts
Ricklefs’ Dry Goods Store
Amber
Charles Rabenberg
Fred Kingsley
Consolidated Church
Rabenberg
Kingsley
Spring Valley
Mary Beatty
David Beatty
James Hill
Samuel
Boulder
Cole
David
Alice
Thomas Kingsley
George Cowan
Edward Burrichter
William S Burrichter
George Craft
William Burrichter
Frances Corbin
Cascade Protestant Cemetery