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Plover Area Christmas Gatherings Highlight Local Guests
A flurry of Christmas dinners and family visits across Rolfe Laurens Plover and surrounding towns featured numerous households hosting relatives and friends from Ames Des Moines Fort Dodge Pocahontas and beyond. Many households welcomed kin from Gilmore City Havelock Emmetsburg and George Bush Minneapolis with occasional travel to Des Moines and Biloxi.
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Marion Ham
A. A. Firkins
Rolfe
George Arnold
Fred Kerns
Marathon
Guy Kerns
Jay Arnold
Laurens
Bert Kerns
Lewis Cirks
Cirks
Paul Cain
Knoke
Bert Smith
Art
Emmetsburg
Lewis Branshire
Richard Buck
Alva
Pocahontas
Charles Nieman
Jimmy
Dennis Reiter
Walter Gretcen
Bill Hough
Jim Buck
Lora Buck
Ames
W. F. Hofert
Fred Duitsmans
Art Smith
Mankel Boys
Havelock
Peoria
Donald Forry
Rockwell
Fred Eilers
Harold Forry
Claude Wassom
Walter Greth
Jean Ann
Guy Smith
Humboldt
E. E. Burgardt
Lawrence Thompson
Burgardt
Wm. Thompson
la Verne
Howard Hubbell
W. H. Henderson
Ed Davis
Thor
Bob Weseloh
Fort Dodge
Wayne Henderson
Lawrence Henderson
Leonard Henderson
Dick Henderson
Wilna Henderson
Omaha
Don Ferry
Louis Wilson, Jr
Jim Perry
Jay Bush
George Bush
Minneapolis
Franklin
Ind
A. R
Wayne Arnold
J. W. Arnold
Des Moines
Miss Norine Arnold
Gerald Henderson
Geraldine
Donna Henderson
Henry Hotovec
Ware
Bill Ralph
Osage
Edna Henderson
Wichita
Kan
John Parradee
John Cox
L. E. Chambard
Wm. Hanish
Paul Amick
Dick Martin
Leo Hanish
Mallard
Raymond Hanish
Emma Hanish
Ernest Hanish
Ted Hartley
Palmer
Chester Orwig
Spencer
Elmer Hanish
Bancroft
Clarence Otto
Frank Hanish
Alan Ives
Carrie Hubbard
Edwin Gehrt
San Gabriel
Calif
Ted Benjamin
Bradgate
Lester Goodchild
J. E. Grove
Lrren
Eewin Grove
Danabeth Grove
J. H. Bucher
L. A. Prichard
J. A. Prichard
Onawa
Bill Wagner
LaVerne
O. M. Compton
Lester Guess
Warren Henderson
Camp Polk
Camp Hope
O. G. Horsman
Karen
Emory Johnson
Curlew
Ernest Hubbell
Carol
S. J. Christensen
Grachtinger
Jefs Nielsen
N. J. Meurer
Lutheran Hospital
Margery Pirie
R.N
Iowa City
Harry Erickson
Polk City
Fay Pirie
Byron Pirie
H. L. Nelson
Salem
Ore
John Beach
Mary Hofert
Cicero
Ill
Wm. Piper
Oscar Piper
Mountain Lake
Minn
Roy Simonson
O. E. Lehnus
Lehnus
Tony Peterson
Fonda
Kenneth DePew
Roy DePew
Frank Broadwell
Gilmore City
Huey Holcomb
Ida Garlock
Elwood Garlock
Ed Garlock
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