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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1956
Page
6
Buck Creek notes list visitors and gatherings from Delhi Manchester and surrounding towns. Meals, showers, birthdays, and weekend calls mark community life with many names including Flannagan Wilson Smith and Moulton. The item details weddings and holiday gatherings across multiple households.
Judy Bohlken of Langworthy returned to school on Wednesday after a week of sickness. The notice lists Sunday dinner guests at several local homes including the Poppe, Cruise, Marion, Menster, and Harms families, with other visits noted through Monday. Gloria Ricklefs missed school for a week due to mumps and Mrs. Arthur Riedel attended a Barbara Guyan shower on Tuesday evening November 21 at the Paul Guyan home.
A Sunday dinner at the Frank Miller home celebrated Mary Lu Miller’s first birthday with guests from Worthington Castle Grove Dubuque Monticello Centralia and Cascade plus 4-H training attendees. Local families and friends visited across multiple towns including Manchester Hopkinton Coggan and Cas- cade during the weekend.
Express area dairy farmers shipping grade A milk to the Cedar Rapids Iowa City market in October will receive a uniform price of 3.77 dollars per hundred pounds of 3.5 percent milk. The price includes a 7.3 cent butterfat differential per one tenth percent variance from the 3.5 standard. October price is the highest since 1953, with Class I price at 4.196 dollars per hundredweight of 8.6 percent milk, and November expected at 4.243. Average daily Class I sales rose 16 percent from September and 12 percent from October 1955, with October milk production up 4.6 percent from September and 12.8 percent from a year ago.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Stoddard of Cedar Rapids spent Monday with Mrs Joe Price and Mrs Tina Boysen and Tommy. Mrs Ray Kirby Mrs Tom Wil genbusch and Mrs Nick Wilgen busch of Farley were Dubuque callers Monday.
Onslow and surrounding area society notes include weekend visits by Floyd McCarty family Lisbon to Samuel McCarty and others. A praise service planned November 28 at the Wyoming church. Mrs Heasty of Albuquerque died formerly Ethel Johnston. Otis Babcock anniversary celebrated in Newport. hospital patient Bill Doll. various visits and birthday events reported.
Mr and Mrs Paul Zimmerman and Diana dinner guests of Mr and Mrs John Reiken in Anamosa at Thanksgiving. Mr and Mrs William Foy spent Thanksgiving with Mr and Mrs Jimmy Foy and son in Bennett Town. Mr and Mrs Arnold Latare and sons Cedar Rapids and others visited Mr and Mrs Fred Latare in DeWitt. Mr and Mrs Donald Latare and daughters and Mrs Bernetta Nobles also attended. Mr and Mrs Ed Lloyd and family noted.
The Ambrose Krapfls have bought a farm near Prairieburg and will move there in March. They have also purchased Ed Lloyd's home in Wyoming.
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