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Portland Community News Highlights Social Visits and Events
Jim Shipler and family spent Sunday at the Brink Shipler home while Will Larsen joined at the Hawcett home Monday for dinner and business. The article notes numerous visits, dances, farm moves, and a school meeting in district 8 with director Lewis McWhorter appointed. A baby girl Emma Lillian was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Schrader. The O'Neil family moves to a farm west of Dean church as Jol ly Joy Hunters continue entertaining. The council met January 2, 1928 at Titonka Savings Bank with bills approved and adjourned.
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Jim Shipler
Brink Shipler
Will Larsen
Hawcett
Hiram Ward
Burt
del Fitch
Walter Faulstich
Lotts Creek
Agnes Primasing
Ben- Jah Larson
Gladys Rike
Gladys Ward
Mason City
Carl Whitney
Jack Stewart
Herman Schroeder
Portland
A. Rike
C. EB. Sigsbea
Lewis Bartlett
Lloyd Bartlett
Jake Stewart
Margaret Hedrick
Algona Hospital
W. W. Ringsdorf
Donald
Fred Ringsdorf
Bancroft
Myrtie Ringsdorf
J. J. O'Neil
Joy Hunters
Charles Leck
Zanke
Merle Waltz
Chris Bisgard
Bisgard
Denver
Colorado
Willie
Bill Schrader
Emma Lillian
Schrader
Florence Ditmer
Ed Dittmer
Grandma
Grandma Dittmer
Dean Church
Amos Bonacker
Portlland
O’neils
Jolly Joy Hunters
W. A. Sprow
Lewis McWhorter
McWhorter