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Thanksgiving Greetings Fill Des Moines Township Notes
A long list of Thanksgiving visits and family gatherings across Rolfe Bradgate Gilmore City Emmetsburg Pocahontas Rolfe West Concord and nearby towns. The report notes dozens of relatives including Carpenter Hovland DeVaul Lawrence Pease and Johnson clans visiting from Iowa Minnesota and Omaha with varied events from dinners to birthday celebrations and a surprise birthday party at Clarence Jensen home.
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Ella Beth
Robert Truelsen
Roy George
Eldon Methe
Storm Lake
Wilbur McClurg
C. W. Carpenter
Joe. Kreesi
Pocahontas
C. G. Ryen
Rachel Nelson
Ryen Brothers
Louise
Jess DeVaul
James DeVaul
Evelyn Hovland
Fairmont
Minn
Richard Hovland
John Lawman
Orville
Jack Spies
Gilmore City
George Rutgers
Jefferson
B. F. Rutgers
Phillip Carpenter
West Concord
Glen Carpenter
Loren Pease
E. S. Pease
Bradgate
Evelyn Sennett
Earl Johnson
Sylvia
Joyce
Clarence Johnson
Johnnie
Tommy Johnson
Emmetsburg
Hans. Nielsen
Leslie
Johnson
Janice
Knud_ Christensen
West Bend
Harold Duhn
Graettinger
Lawman
Duhn
Rolfe
Edna Grimm
Floyd
B. F. Rittgers
Fred Bannart
Eva Barber
Leslie Johnson
Knud Christensen
Porter Butler
Ross, Brown
Baltimore
Hermansen
Capital City
T. C. Thorson
V. E. Thorson
Lowell
Virgene Kae
Francis Vaughn
Clear Lake Virginia
Havelock
Divona
Cedar Falls
Ernest Vaughn
Virgil
Majorowicz
Des Moines Township
George
Charles
Conrad
Franklin
Thomas Diggs
D. M. T. and
Lester Thorson
Janet
Harrison Knapp
Plover
Knapp
William Snook
Mallard
Fred Hoffert
Albert Hoffert
Royal
Dean Stowell
Herbert Laws