Buck Creek Social Note Lists Visits Saturday Afternoon
Buck Creek Mrs. Joe Crowley visited Mrs. Bill Chapman Saturday afternoon. The small social item notes a friendly call between neighbors and reflects local community life.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1954
Page
6
Buck Creek Mrs. Joe Crowley visited Mrs. Bill Chapman Saturday afternoon. The small social item notes a friendly call between neighbors and reflects local community life.
Ray Saunders returned home after fourteen months in Austria and was honored at a Sunday dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Saunders in Buck Creek. The event drew many Saunders relatives and friends from nearby towns, with plans for further visits and local church activities noted throughout the column.
Last Sunday evening the Congregational church Couples club met in the basement for a potluck. Rev Ellett presented colored slides of church activities including before and after pictures of building improvements and a film on cancer detection titled 146,000 Could Live. A game of Camouflage closed the evening.
A corrected address for Cpl. Robert P. Schuster is published replacing the previously printed ad dress. The proper listing places him with US55388792 in the 84th Engr. Co. (Combat) at 29th R.C.T. Fort Buckner APO 331 San Francisco Calif.
Bob Thoeni of Monticello returns from a five day farm service course in Fairbury Illinois sponsored by Honegger and Co. The training covered live stock and poultry nutrition disease diagnosis and control and farm store management. Thoeni works with Wilcox Hatchery at 317 Main Street and toured the Honegger research farm near Forrest Illinois.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Kuntz hosted their couples club Sunday November 21 at 4 6 p m. Dinner was served and pinochle played at two tables with prizes won by Mrs Herbert Kuntz high traveling Mrs Tom Henderson and low Mrs Verne Mc Curdy
Mr and Mrs Alva Hinrichs of Monticello and Mr and Mrs William Bronson of Wyoming attended a testimonial dinner and reception Sunday for Rev Albert J Hoffman national chaplain of the American Legion. Featured speakers included National Commander Sea born Collins of Las Cruces New Mexico Mrs Percy Lawson national Auxiliary president of Fort Madison and department commander Glenn C Hamm of Glenwood Iowa.
Corporal Frederick C. Ketelsen son of Mr and Mrs Carl Ketelsen Ana mosa is serving with the U S Forces in Austria. He is a clerk in the Sixth Ordnance battalion 413th Ord nance company and arrived overseas in September 1953 from Camp Chaffee Ark. Before enlistment in April 1953 he worked for Iowa Manufacturing Co Cedar Rapids.
Monticello firm Standard Parts unveils a new battery line led by partners C. L. Norlin and J. F. Reding. The rollout expands offerings at the Monticello location, signaling growth for the supplier.
Co., Monticello, will partner with Willard Storage Battery Co. during 1955 to market the new and complete battery line. Norlin and Reding say the Willard line, named the Key Line for 1955, expands options to meet battery needs of every car owner.
Fred H. Poppe was honored on his birthday as about 45 relatives and friends visited. Cards were played with Mary Rieken winning high for ladies and Ernest Ricklefs high for men. Low scores went to Mrs. Louie Zimmerman and Carl H. Harms, with Gerd Behrends winning the traveling prize from Minnesota. Lunch followed.
Mr and Mrs Ray Marolf welcomed couples to their home on Sunday November 21 for a 6 30 p m dinner. The group named Mrs Ray Marolf and Carroll Podhaski as honored guests with Mrs Carroll Podhaski noted for traveling.
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