Friendship Club meeting in Bethel notes
Ruth Gideon hosts Fiji Club with seventeen members and four guests. Plans for January 13 soup and sandwich supper at North Church Ainsworth at 6 30 p.m. Members bring sandwiches or dessert by roll call. Secret Sisters gifts, games, prize draws, and a lighted tree gift exchange described. Weather observations and Christmas reflections included.
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Bethel
Fiji Club
Ruth
Mab Gideon
Marty Kron
Hal Williams
Ardith McQuire
Eva Simmering
Matt Kaufman
Mark Campbell
Treasury
Ainsworth
Lee Letts
Marion McGinnis
Nora Knottnerus
Ray Niffenegger
Irene Kron
Luci Lasek
May
Ruth Gideon
Gladys Wulf
Halcyon House
Christ
Bethel Church
Hammond
Ind
Junction PEO group in McCormac home
Twenty four members of Chapter CX PEO Sisterhood met at the home of Mrs Harold McCormac with the Social Committee serving from a Christmas table. President Mrs Roy Hauenstein led the business meeting and reports. Mr Paul Duncan and the Columbus Community High School Mixed Chorus presented a Christmas program. Next meeting January 17 hosted by Mrs Ralph Ortberg with program led by Mrs Anna Robertson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helene B. Dillon
Columbus Junction
Chapter CX
P.E.O. Sisterhood
Harold McCormac
Lester Orr
Tom Perry
Robert Hedemann
Roy Hauenstein
Larry Robertson
Paul Duncan
Columbus Community High School
Ralph Ortberg
John Dillon
Anna Robertson
Prairie du Chien bridge wins top steel award
The new Mississippi River bridge at Prairie du Chien has won the top award in the American Institute of Steel Construction competition. Among 117 entries in the long span category, the Prairie du Chien structure opened to traffic a year ago and cost $4 million.
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Madison, Wis
UPI
Mississippi River
Prairie du Chien
American Institute of Steel Construction
State Transportation Department
Cedar Chips 4-H Club Holds December Meeting
The Cedar Chips 4-H Club met Monday at Joey Patterson’s home with 22 members present. A parliamentary procedure quiz was given, a skating party was held on December 9 at Wellman, and a sledding party on December 11. A gift exchange followed. The next meeting is set for January 3 at the home of Dean and Don Timmins.
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Cedar Chips 4-H
Joey Patterson
Wellman
Steve Thomas
Dean
Don Timmins
Louisa County Cattlemen Elect Officers
Richard Utter is secretary treasurer and Harold Hunter vice president, both from Columbus Junction with Noel Townsley Letts as northeast director. The Letts Public Library gains funds from Grandview Community Club for a youth reading list including Nancy Drew and Time Machine titles.
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Helene B. Dillon
Columbus Junction
Richard Utter
Louisa County Cattlemen’s Association
Harold Hunter
Noel Townsley
Letts
John Dillon
Iowa City
James Epps
Bethel Baptist Church
Fredonia
Oscar Coolbaugh
Missouri
Doug Luithly
Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
H. Lee Huston
University Hospitals
Columbus Community
CCJH
Jerry Geret
Emma Beckman
C.E.S
Letts Public Library
Grandview Community Club
Betsy
Andy & the Lion
Nancy Drew
Sam Bell new head of Columbus Community Club
Columbus Jct Dec 11 Sam Bell is the new president of the Columbus Community Club. Other officers elected were Jerry Weber vice president Larry Prior treasurer and Larry Robbins secretary. Outgoing president James Rutt was honored for his term. Guest was Ann Toner Muscatine Journal representative.
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Columbus Junction
Sam Bell
Columbus Community Club
Jerry Weber
Larry Prior
Larry Robbins
Max Quigley
Bill Fulton
Don Kelley
James Rutt
Ann Toner
Louisa
Muscatine Journal
Columbus City Township Farm Bureau
Peoples National Bank
Shirley Owens
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Friendship Club
By Ruth Gideon
Junction Peo Group
McCormac
Louisa Cattlemen
American Legion Auxiliary
Juanita Sands
Sally Pugh
Jane Gabriel
Judy Shear
Kaddy Helmick
Glenn Quigley
Bill Quigley
Walter DeVore
San Francisco
California
Ann Quigley
Mickey Griffin
Alice
Mike
Fyi
Esso
Wapello
Iowa
Oakville
Hitch
JD F
Krause
JD TW
Kewanee
Lilliston
Noble
Calhoun
New Holland
Osgood
Mayrath
Lundell
Killbros
Minnesota
Knoedler Burr Mill
Bachtold
Sears
Century
Motorico
Richard E
Henry Thye
J.R. Hoyer
H.H. van Syoc
Louise
Lucy
Washington Evening Journal
By Helene B. Dillon
Association For Retarded Children
Robert Teimeyer
Burlington
Blanche Williams
Williams
Mercy Hospital
Louisa Center Community Church
Sandy Buser
Lynn Ann Foster
Drake University
Drake
Cedarcrest Country Club
Untouchables
Russ Orrs
Earl Martins
Dick Harbisons
Cleo Orris
Grayden Knutsons
Columbus
Booster Club
Woodrow Wilson
Tip
Thermogas Co
By Duane Buenzow
Washington, Iowa
Mapco
Purina
Eric & Jr. Graber
Crawfordsville, Iowa
Milton Schnicker
A.D.G
Don Lukovsky
Home Feed & Lumber
Iversl
Kalona
Prairie Feed & Grain
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