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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1951
Page
4
Scotch Grove Oak Drive Community club members met in September with sixteen attendees. An exchange of plant slips and seeds was featured by Mesdames Rieniers Mohr and Neal. Plans were made for a costume party in October and committees were named. The group also discussed the annual family picnic.
CUT club members and their families. Mrs D C Hansen and Mrs Delbert Husman presented numbers before refreshments. Mr and Mrs William Rosencrans lost a newborn son Douglas Dean, buried in Wayne Zion cemetery after birth at McDonald hospital Monticello. Scotch Grove Women's Community club fall meeting covered travel topics including Niagara Falls and Washington DC.
Local church classes for juniors and seniors are listed with names of participants. Layman representatives Louie Hanken and Lester Rickels will attend a Lutheran Home for the Aged meeting in Marshalltown with Rev. R. P. Young. Various residents attend weddings, visits, and operations in nearby towns. The Presbyterian church plans and 4-H meeting details are noted with locations and dates.
Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p m for Harriet Alden eight year old pioneer resident of Wyoming and descendant of Plymouth's John Alden. She died Wednesday afternoon in Denver Colorado. Burial followed at Oxford Junction cemetery. Interment was conducted by Dr A S Nickless of Chicago and Rev F E Somerville of Wyoming. Miss Alden was daughter of W H Alden the first school teacher in Wyoming. Her mother was Emily Williams a pioneer of the community. She came to Wyoming from Sterling NL with her parents at age two. Her birth date was March 24 1864. Wyoming has been her home since with the exception of
Mrs Usual spent winters with her niece Miss Ruth Alden in Denver and summers in Wyoming. A charter Hawthorne club member since 1898 and a Methodist Sunday school teacher, she leaves several nieces and nephews as survivors. Previously, she attended the local church and participated in charitable work. The obituary notes three brothers and three sisters predeceased her.
The fall meeting of the Presby terial will be held in Wyoming Tuesday Oct 2 sessions 9 30 am to 3 pm All church women invited. Numerous social notes From Wyoming area include visits guests anniversaries and family events with names such as Albert Tompkins Azilda Alden Tompkins H J Achter Etta Fishwild W W Fordham and many others plus library notes and church activities.
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