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Kinser Valley and Maple Grove Social Notes
Kinser Valley and Maple Grove items recount neighbors visiting, dinners, and calls at various homes. Families mentioned include Darby, Scott, Derby, Tadlock, Arnold, Dowd, Tadlock, and Bentons, with trips to Ottumwa Indianola Des Moines and Moravia. Weather, crops, a broken fruit jar incident, and local lodge and bridge repairs appear alongside college enrollment and blackberries canned.
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Maple Grove
Jean Scott
Gabe Johnson
Wands
Dale Derby
Delia McCrory
Ivan Harsh
Walter Scott
Albert Thomas
Morgan Thomas
Betty Wilson
Clarence Schaffner
Carl Derby
Charlotte
Lois Jean
Scott
Phyllis Haver
Wanda Johnson
Rex Haver
Phyllis
Mardeena
Deloris Hiatt
Irene Tadlock
Eddie Pollard
Des Moines
Bert Arnold
John Dodd
Berl Arnold
Russell Tubaugh
Virgil Johnson
Ralph Robinson
Ottumwa
LeRoy
Donald
Pearl Hiner
County Bridge Gang
Indianola
St Mile
Guy Robinson
Ralph Davis
Troy Adams
Harold Mason
Moravia
Donald Darby
Masonic Lodge
Blakesburg
Donald W. Darby
Jack Keeton
Russell Darby