Portland News Family visits and migrations noted
Mrs. Derwood Nietzel spent the weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Hatten at Bancroft. Victor Appelgate spent Sunday afternoon at the Nietzel and Haupert homes. Mrs Ralph Roberts and Mr. Vincent Adair and Mark Long left Friday for South Dakota. Mrs. Roberta will visit her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Adair returned to Stickney after six weeks with Dave Weber. Mark Long returned home after spending this fall per e picking corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derwood Nietzel
Local social notes recount visits and showers across Algona
A stream of social visits, dinners, and gatherings is recorded. Attendees include Me and Mrs Elmer Potter, Mrs Jenry Smith, Mrs Sam Wendell, Teenie Leech, Art Tietz, Gret Jenkenson, Mrs Chias Larsen, Rev Patterson, H A Nelson, Velma Jean and siblings, L M Owens, Rev and Mrs Dome, Miss Marie Grover, Mrs G U Fairbanks, Fred Largen, Merle Woltz, George and J H Graham families, Bernard Phelps, Donald Graham, and others. A pre nuptial shower for Theo Govern, a shower for Mrs Clair Heffner, and a Bancroft marriage are noted, with multiple family visits to Burt, Thompson, Wesley, and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Potter
Algona
Victor Appelgate
Jenry Smith
Sam Wendell
Bob Fraser
Sexton
Fred Henken
Ruth
Port Dodge
Teenie Leech
Litchfield
Minn
Art Tietz
Gret Jenkenson
L. H
M. H. Larsen
L. M. Owens
W. Q O. Grover
Dome
Burt
Marie Grover
G. U. Fairbanks
Wi-H
Alfred Godfredson
Leo Fox
Geo. Graham
Richard Fox Shert
George Graham
Fred Jennings
J. H. Graham
Harvey Graham
Bernard Phelps
Thompson
Donald Graham
Gene
Himer Haneens
Albert Martinek
Wesley
Mike. Farrell
Bancroft
Leroy Burger
W. J. Stewart
Thanksgiving and Attendance Highlights at THS
A THS report card summary shows perfect attendance honors for several students including Robert Downs, Delores Isebrand, Janet Prussman, Dart Young, and others across grades. The notes cover six weeks of attendance, spelling scores, classroom activities, geography studies on Norway, and upcoming events including a Thanksgiving break and a poetry/arts focus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wars Young
Robert Downs
Robert Batt
Robert ‘Downs
Delores Isebrand
Janet Prussman
Dart Young
Janet Pruinman
Sharon
Janice
Julce
Lenice
Rosella
Doris
Robert
Marietta Norland
Elmer
Melvin
Irvin
Bonnie
Lois
Norway
Doris Isebrand
Herbert Callies
Rev. Patterson
England
Donald Budlong
Ola Rippentrop
Thanksgiving Mouse Poem Teaches Gratitude At Grandmother’s
The memory of a grandmother’s house fills the page with a small Thanksgiving tale. A child recalls a friendly mouse who proclaims the holiday’s arrival, sharing simple joy and gratitude with pumpkin pie.
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Wiyself
Gene” Peterson
Mildred Beth Schutter
Local residents share visits and hospital updates
Mrs Herman Rachut of Burt visited Titonka friends. Mrs Lee Dr Wolfe went to Des Moines to visit her husband at the Veterans Hospital and found him improving but lonely for home. Mr and Mrs H O Beenken and family plus Mr and Mrs John Beenken visited Peter Beenken in Titonka. Louis Bartletti, Raymond Bartlett, and Mrs Hit Torgersen spent Tuesday in Des Moines while Mrs Torgersen visited her father Lee O Wolfe at the Veterans Hospital. Vincent Heifner, recently at University of Iowa Hospital, is improving. Mr and Mrs Fred Steil welcomed a daughter, a one and a half pound baby, their fourth child with two older adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Dr. Wolfe
Des Moines
Veterans Hospital
H. O. Beenken
John Beenken
Peter Beenken
Titonka
Andrew
Hansen
Charlotte Reibsamen
Mason City
Nora Springs
Loveland
Colorado
Louis Bartletti
Raymond Bartlett
Hit. Torgersen
Torgersen
Lee O. Wolfe
Vincent Heifner
University of Iowa Hospital
Fred Steil
Stell
Anne Harms
Titonia
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