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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1948
Page
9
Local Happenings notes Christmas weekend visits among families in Indianola Lakota Good Hope Lutheran Ladies Aid plans meet next week with hostesses named. The Sathoff and Isebrand families celebrated with relatives including a return from California and Christmas guests at various homes.
A Christmas week note records a newborn son for Mr. and Mrs. Evert Sloper at Kossuth hospital named Russell Lyle, with the Sloper family already consisting of three children. Lois Schram returns home for holidays from Oregon to stay with her parents and relatives. Harold Miller piloted a plane to Mt. Ayr with Virgil Roach, facing landing challenges due to deep snow. Guy Bruns was taken by ambulance to the Des Moines Veterans Hospital. Christmas Day dinners featured numerous neighbors and relatives at the homes of Art Rode, Raymond Spear, and associated families, with guests from Buffalo Center, Rake, Woden, Titonka, Britt, and nearby towns. Funeral attendance noted for M. F. Schiltz in Bancroft with family from several towns present.
A long list of holiday visits and homecomings from Titonka and nearby towns includes Mis Jean French arriving from Chicago to stay with her parents, twin boys born to Mr and Mrs Robert Hamilton in California, Christmas guests for Mrs Mary Michaelson, and multiple trips by relatives from Des Moines Des Moines and Des Moines area. Other items note library hours, travel anecdotes from Elmer Peterson, and staff changes at local eateries and schools. Names include the French, Hamilton, Gross, Michaelson, Bunkofske, Stott, Mehlan, Bowker, Scholer, Intermill, Becker, Higdon, Prideaux, Shining, Torgersen, Gard, and others.
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