Local families share gatherings in weekend visits
Locals recount Sunday dinners and Sunday afternoon visits with the Horns Mole Blankers Kamminga Heemskirik Riemers Smit Houtsma Barenwald Van Diepen Heitritter Barenwald Moore Vander Bergh Kooima and Dokter Slothouber families. Multiple households hosted and guests traveled from Sheldon and Rock Valley during Mother's Day period.
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Martha Heitritter
Martin Barenwald
Thomas van Diepen
Tommy
Lewis Heitritter
Merwin
Ronnie
George Barenwald
Homemaker's Corner and Hikers A Guide to Home Craft
A reflective musing on domestic life and care within a home. The piece contrasts practical tips for waxing and sewing organization with poetic lines about tenderness, shelter for the aged, and a wholesome domestic haven under a roof where love sits and virtues are celebrated.
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Earth
Household Tips From a Past Era On Tidying and Storage
The passage offers practical advice for organizing households. It suggests using paper napkins as blotters, using a kitchen fork to pin curtains, and avoiding tight book shelving to allow air circulation. It also recommends a wheeled cart to move laundry from line to storage and folding items before placing them in chests and linen.
Home as a Retreat and Workspace
The passage defines home as more than a house a dwelling or a social space. It portrays home as a place of mental rest and productive work where comfort and personal value meet daily life.
Mother's Day Visitors Fill Parental Homes in area
Afternoon and Sunday visits filled the day as families gathered in Sioux City Hull Rock Valley and Rock Rapids. Guests included the Kwikkel Den Hartog Dickevers Funk Green Keele Bos and other relatives from nearby towns. Glenda Koerselman stayed with relatives after a Omaha weekend.
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Wm. Kwikkel
Elmer den Hartog
Sheldon
Sioux City
George Dickevers
Marinus Funk
Rock Valley
Clarence Green
Rock Rapids
Keele
Hull
Gerrit J. Bos
May City
A. J. Bos
Elton Cady
Sioux Falls
John Sitter
Chester Vande Weerd
Local families host gatherings and visits across towns
Sunday guests in the Henry L. Moret home joined by a trip to Sioux City to see Henry Bosman at St. Joseph's Hospital. Many relatives and friends gathered for Mother's Day meals and weekend hospitality across Cedar Falls Hull Sanborn Orange City Harrison.
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Sioux City
Don
Henry L. Moret
Henry Bosman
St. Joseph’s Hospital
John Humme
Walter Dickevers
Delmer Slykhuis
Wm Humme
Deloris
Lewis Heitritter
Wm. L. Moret
Baartman Family Visits Doon Home
Mr and Mrs Ed Baartman and family were Sunday evening visitors in the parental Henry Kuiper home in Doon.
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Henry Broescher
Bert Kruger
Little Rock
Jack Byker
Kenneth
Sanborn
Bert Engelsman
Ed Baartman
Henry Kuiper
Doon
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Wilbur Heemskirik
George Riemers
Rusty Dickevers
Ring Smit
Mrs
Neal Houtsma
Ray Smit
Wm. Moow
Connie Vander Bergh
John Dokter
Gerrit Slothouber
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Earling Kosters
Willard Horn
Arthur Kreulen
Dick Kreulen
John Veen
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Lane Heemskirk
Roy Riemers
Jack Rensink
Orange City
Anne Vander Hoex
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