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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1952
Page
8
Local families and relatives from Leota Minnesota to Orange City and Sheldon Iowa shared visits and dinners through the weekend. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Henry Landhuis, Miss Edna Scholten, and families from Gowrie, Sheldon, Sioux Center, and Lakefield with many nieces nephews and friends noted in attendance.
Mrs Elmer Anderson and children visited Mrs Donald Dunnick while men fished. Henry Moss and family celebrated their 8th wedding anniversary with Hull neighbors. Attendance included De Groot, Moss, Meyn, Brendle, Oldenkamp, Menning, and Meyerhoff households with trips to Worthington Minnesota for a Dykema reunion.
The girls team beat K I H O of Sioux Falls 6 to 5 in eight innings and then defeated Dakota Laundry 8 to 1. Battery for both games from Boyden was Iola Horn and Joan Van Velzen. They play Sioux City on Monday night, August 4.
Bernard De Jong will start as bookkeeper at the Farmers Co op Lumber Yard and Elevator in Sioux Center Iowa. He begins duties on August 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bosman hosted a Saturday picnic dinner at their home in Sheldon honoring Mr. and Mrs. George Talsma and Mr. and Mrs. Harm Jager of Grand Rapids Michigan. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dieterman, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Wolthuizen and son, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Vande Tuig and boys, Mrs. Martin Brinks and Harriet, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Vanden Heiden and Wilma, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Cuperus, Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Brinks, Mr. and Mrs. George Brinks and girls, Mr. and Mrs. John Scholten, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Salmon and family, and Mr. Gerrit John Bosman of Boyden.
Sunday evening guests included Mr. and Mrs. George Talsman of Grandville and Mr. and Mrs. Harm Jager of Grand Rapids. Also present were Mr. and Mrs. Martin Brinks of Middleburg and other relatives from Garvin Minnesota Sheldon Boyden and nearby areas.
Boyd Carlson aged 29 of Lake Wilson Minnesota died at Minneapolis hospital Sunday morning after bulbar polio contracted last Tuesday mistaken for flu. He was married to Jean Horn and leaves two young daughters aged near one and four months. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon in Lake Wilson Minnesota.
An assortment of small notes lists farm loans with rates as low as four percent and no commission from Farmers Savings Bank in Boyden. The page also features multiple classified items for sale including precast concrete septic tanks, a tape recorder, a wire recorder, a leather briefcase, a twin lamp set, an all wool winter coat, brown pumps, a Westinghouse table radio, and a ten acre home for sale near Orange City. Names and addresses include Petten gills Concrete and Lumber Co Rock Rapids Iowa and Mrs Christine Lavie Canton South Lincoln.
A series of social visits are recorded with families entertaining guests in Sanborn Sheldon Alton Orange City Sioux Center Hull and Boyden Iowa. Notable stops include Mr and Mrs Laurance Haze in Sanborn and a farewell picnic for Mr and Mrs B Vande Berg in Dubuque with related gatherings in Orange City Hull Sioux Center and nearby communities.
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