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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1969
Page
8
A long list of weekend visits and social calls across towns recounts relatives and friends gathering at homes in Waterloo Cedar Falls and nearby areas. Guests include Lisle and Mire Diemer, the Ley family, the Niemann clan and many others visiting from Ames New Guinea Chicago and Sacramento among others. Several weddings birthday suppers and anniversaries are noted along with church events and travel plans to Calgary Alberta Canada.
Mrs Helen Wescott left Wednesday and stayed Monday with Mr and Mrs Jim Anderson in Marian. Mrs William Bohr joined Sunday supper with her mother Mrs Richard Bartels. Ann Pat and Tommy Kirchhoff of Waterloo returned August 16 after two and a half months touring Europe. Mr and Mrs Merman Diemer hosted Friday supper with relatives from New Guinea. Stanley Kleiss and family of Ames stayed Friday night and Saturday with Leonard Kivisss parents. Carrell Henning of Waverly and Mr Mrs Paul Johnson and Mr Mrs Herbert Johnson attended the wedding of Larry Johnson and Wendy Foster at the First Baptist Church in Waterloo. Mrs Clara Bartels returned Tuesday after attending Leo Schnurstein's funeral in Los Angeles and visiting Harald Lampe of Canoga Park and Alvin Drape at Hemet.
A minor collision occurred on West First Street near Poock's station at about 5 20 p m involving a car driven by Duane Lee Scuft and a pickup driven by Wilbert John Zabel. The pickup, a 1958 Ford owned by Niemann Construction Co, struck the car as the auto left the station. Damages were 100 to Sentt's car and 250 to the pickup. Sentt was charged with failure to yield. no injuries reported.
Marilyn Kirchner of Extension Home Bemon County promotes the Adventures With Your Children program to help parents of preschool and early elementary age kids provide varied experiences for sensory and intellectual development. The free booklets Adv entures With Your Children for Parents, Through Nature, and Doing offer simple activities. contact the Extension Office in Tripetl to obtain.
The Fredericksburg band uniform fund rises after ice cream social and land concert at Railroad Park plus a slave auction. over 300 added. Other contributions followed, with band parents expressing thanks and planning further events including another ice cream social on Sunday evening August 24 and watermelon sales by band students.
Beemer County receives flood relief payment details from Iowa Civil Defense. Partial payment totals 19,874 dollars for damage to local secondary roads from July floods, with federal aid claims separately totaling 15,000 dollars for damage in June 1964. The filing was approved by all state agencies and forwarded to Denver for payment.
The hospital notes list admissions on August 21 to 25 for Theodore J. Steede IV Arthur Rice Ola Barker Mrs Roger Werten fort Claude Llewellyn Mrs Gary Rathbone Ronald Rohrig Arlin Fueck M oJ Kianer Rosemary Osewald and more. Discharges include Mrs John Kasemeier Norma Tremaine Theodore Steege and Artin Rieck. A Milwaukee event saw a new line of Case tractors and a corporate armibel unveiled at the North American Dealer Congress with 1700 Case dealers in attendance. Coral Schwarzenstein and Emory M. Creager attended from Sumner Statement Co. Shop Sumner stores are advertised.
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