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Social visits span towns in Iowa Minnesota and South Dakota
Local residents and families from Orange City Sheldon Sioux Center and Sanborn hosted guests in homes across several towns. Visitors came from Ashton Lake Benton Spencer Sioux Falls Hull and George with gatherings in Hadfield Dan Dykstra and Fred Boer homes and several Sunday suppers in Orange City and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake van Grouw
Sheldon
John Brinks
Andrew Bruns
Elmer Sleeper
Sibley
John Slykhuis
Jake Hofmeyer
Orange City
Bob den Hartog
Newkirk
Cornie Brunsting
Dora Rohlfs
Sioux City
Margaret Horn
Rohlfs
Jack Hilton
John Dykstra
Harold Boeing
Sioux Center
John Engelsman
Prairieview
Kansas
Bert Engelsman
Ray Grooters
Sanborn
John Grooters
Harold Drenth
Rushmore, Inn
Paul Schreuder
Ernest Kammlade
Herman Meester
Cornie Brinkman
Lake Benton Minn
Hom
Ashton
Morris Moon and Sons
Arnold Dykstra
Paul Wolf
John Rensink Sr
Jack van Veldhuizen
Sioux Falls
Joe van Velzen
Robert Dethmers
Henry van Velzen
Walter Dickevers
John Moret
John
Bertha
Bas Zwart
Edgerton
Minn
Mary Meester
George
P. H. Brendle
Spencer
Bill Meyn
Albert Grooters
Herman Vander Maten
John Buurman
Mathilda Vander Wilt
Henry Harmon
Texas
Lawrence Haze
C. Maris
Jim Ver Hoef
Peter Herwynen
Ver Hoef
Mrs Herwynen