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Local Notes Highlight Visitors and Community Life
Leroy Green of Iowa Falls visited this week while Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wigans stayed with relatives in Waterloo over the weekend. Bessie Thompson of Webster City visits the A G C Thompson home. Ira Overholt of Keosauqua visited his daughter and family. A 7 pound baby girl was born December 5 to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gugger at the Chester Open home. The seventh grade Christmas party is scheduled at the school Tuesday evening December 14 from 7 to 8:30. Rudy Lentwyler and family from Seaside Oregon have been visiting Otto Lentwyler and family. The Know Your Neighbor club held an all day meeting at Mrs. Carroll Gillespie’s home with a potluck. Mrs. Fairfield Dean and children visited Mrs. Henry Geigal’s family. Clara Huston Beauty in Eagle Grove advertises services. Art Friday and children plan to work in Backus Minnesota until March, then return to Renwick. Doris Bram returned to Rochester Minnesota to resume nursing after two weeks at home. Perl Bonsell’s mother has returned home to Cherokee. Mrs. George Baindrich of Clear Lake helps at the Bonsell home. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Grover and daughter Marlene of Beatrice Grove visited L. W. Fleming. Grovers sold their store and may move to St. Louis for a position. Ben Lam and family of Kanawha with Lena Lamfer and Dick Terherk visited George Schoolcraft’s home for a birthday party. Clarence Erwin and several Renwick residents attended John Blumer’s funeral in LaVerne. Mrs. Claus Block’s daughter Connie Block and Darlene Rhoades remain hospitalized after a bus-train crash. Connie faces weeks in hospital, Darlene expected home for Christmas.