Richard Knoll Family Farm Life in Letts Area
Richard Knoll, a lifelong farmer, runs 240 acres and milks 30 cows on Route 1 Letts. He and his wife Mary are active in local groups while Knoll’s wife Mary Stout Knoll serves on township and federation roles. The piece notes family activities, upcoming picnics, and a range of extended relatives and neighbors across Muscatine region.
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Louisa County
Richard Knoll
Nichols
Mary
Route 1
Letts
Richard
Women Win Talent Show At The West Liberty Fair
Mrs Lorna Welk and Mrs Doris Hoag shared the Variety Box stage in the grove on Monday afternoon and performed a musical dialogue to win top honors in the RAVE talent contest at the West Liberty Fair. Sponsored by Muscatine County Farm Bureau, the eight contestant event stands for Rural Amateur Variety Entertainment. The Bloomington township pair will represent Muscatine County at the district RAVE contest on November 2 at Mt Pleasant.
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Lorna Welk
Doris Hoag
The
Grove
West Liberty Fair
Muscatine County
Zion Lutheran Church Women meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Social Calendar notes Group 6 meets at the parish house and the Women of the Moose College of Regents gathers at Isabel Johnson's home Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The Ziegnehorn family reunion is set for Sunday at Weed Park Point Shelter on Aug 18.
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Zion Lutheran Church Women
College of Regents of the Women of the Moose
Isabel Johnson
Conesville Weekend Visitors Noted In Local Briefs
Tulsa guests Mr and Mrs Tom Buser and Charles Allmond of Texas visited the Buser family. An Ann Steele of Phoenix and several others from Iowa and Missouri joined family gatherings, dinners, and reunions at various homes in Conesville and nearby towns over the weekend including Gray, Bennett, Fromer, and Heither households. Approximately 55 people attended the Lone Tree McCullough reunion at the park.
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Conesville
Tulsa
Okla
Tom Buser
Charles Allmond
Texas
Don Buser
Scott
Donne
Ann Steele
Phoenix
Ariz
Manley Sarnowsky
Moline
Ill
Gerald Allen
Elton Allen
Boris Butryn
Cindy
Chris
Shelly
Sacramento
Calif
John Westburg
Greg
Davenport
Iva Jarrard
Lone Tree
George F. Westaway
Robert L. Gray
James Bennett
Nancy
Jeffrey
Bret James
William Gray
Brenda
Harrison Bennett
Bettendorf
Earl Hungate
Sara
Muscatine
Bob Gray
Bobby
Stephanie
Jerry
Columbus Junction
Raetta Fromer
Randall Russell
Kansas City
Walter Fromer
Mike Weikert
Mikey
Elsie Babbitt
Meta Mae
Linda Schneckloth
Lemoine Heither
Tom
West Liberty
Iola Heither
Crete Heither
Milton Diveney
Mike Diveney
Daren
Timmy Yates
Pat Diveney
Jennifer Robin
James Bell
Robert Brown
Lester Hoback
Mike
Jon
Ellen
Charles
Bell
Pearl Kennedy
Harold
Fred Showalter
Lela Bell
Showalter
C. F. Mulford
Karen
Stan
Kelly
Marion
Iowa
J. K. McKee
Man Accused of Burglary Has Parole
John Earl Hicks a 22 year old from Muscatine was paroled on a sentence not to exceed 10 years at the Men s Reformatory at Anamosa in Muscatine County district court on a charge of breaking and entering Hicks pleaded guilty July 24 An information filed by County Atty Harvey G Alibee Jr stated he broke into Pete s Tap in Muscatine June 24 stealing goods valued over $20 The preliminary information was signed by Muscatine police inspector Clifford Bennett.
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John Earl Hicks
Muscatine
Anamosa
Muscatine County
Hicks
Harvey G. Alibee, Jr
Pete
Clifford Bennett
Des Moines Cyclist Dies From Aug 2 Crash
Thomas Burgess 26 of West Des Moines died from injuries after his motorcycle struck a car in Des Moines. He was last seen in Fayetteville Arkansas on a flight from Charles City to Longview Texas. His parents reported no trace of him when they returned home. The Powell reunion was held at Weed Park Buffalo Prairie with many Powells and relatives attending. The 1969 reunion will be at the same location on the second Sunday in August.
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Union Hall
Rudie Schmidt
Dan Helmich
Tama
Minnie Bair
Weed Park
Fridley-Mounts
West Liberty Park
Willie Collins
Fort Madison
Richard C. Fridley
Cedar Rapids
Luella Hartman
Grandview
Viril Fridley
Keswick
Harold Boorn
Moscow
Douglas Norton
Veil White
Davenport
Don Ruess
Dan
Mary Sue
Curtis Ot
Cindy Porter
Nichols
Robert Reynolds
Rod
Sheila
David
Harley
Shelly
Sue Wellens
Nellie Connor
Clifford Cozad
Ronald Cozad
Kim
Virgil Irwin
Robert Fridley
April
JT. Fridley
Muscatine
DES Moines
Thomas Burgess
West Des Moines
Arkansas
Texas
Harold Swartzrock
Fayetteville
Ark
Charles City
Longview
Tex
Sherman Powell II
Harold Powell
Michael
Paula
Shawn
Ballarat’s Last Saloons Closure Echoes in Tragic Deaths
Slim, a Ballarat character who survived since the town’s seven saloons closed in 1917, was found ailing in a rundown trailer. He died five days after being taken 70 miles to Trona. A simple funeral is planned Saturday in Boot Hill, marking Ballarat’s first burial in half a century.
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Ballarat
Slim
Trona
Boot Hill
Hunt for Missing Youth Abandoned
Charles City AP reports a search for a 17 year old missing since July 28 on a flight to Longview Texas has been called off after Civil Air Patrol and others failed to locate the teen.
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Charles City
Civil Air Patrol
Longview
Tex
Ballarat’s Last Resident Dies in California Ghost Town
Seldom Seen Slim, eight years old by nickname, lived as a recluse for half a century in Death Valley’s Ballarat. He was the town’s final resident, born Charles Ferge in October 1881 in Springfield Illinois. A CAP search and welfare records tie Slim to Ballarat’s empty streets as the long vanished community fades from memory.
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Ballarat
Calif
Slim
Death Vailey
Charles Ferge
Vernon Swartzrock
Springfield
Ill
Sim
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