Anderson Family Hosts Relatives for Dinner in Pilotburg
Long list of relatives from Villa Park Olpe Wellman and Kalona gather at Carl Anderson home for a Christmas visit and wedding of Pauline Gellipsie and Lakin Hole at Pilotburg church. Also notes Lookout School reopening and Rev DeKoning New Year sermon. English duelists and debtors once visited Boulogne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Stransky
Pilotburg
Kenneth Anderson
Villa Park
John Kiene
Dwane
Olpe
Kansas
Marion Stransky
Carl D. Anderson
Kenneth
Carl
Kiene
Anderson
Marion
Daryl Oldfield
Rochester
Bruce
Seymour
Frank Stranaky
Vencel
Stanley Vodicka
Lydia Horax
Harold
Lookout
DeKoning
Pilotbore
Isaiah
Hezekiah
Pauline Gellipsie
Lakin Hole
Pauline
Albert Gellipsie
W. BE. Hole
Wellman
Albert Batterson
Washington
Wayne Stransky
Iowa City
Mercy Hospital
V. Spevecek
Kalona
Earnest Jones
Near Washington
Robert Edmondson Returns From Aviation Camp Visit
Brighton readers note Robert Edmondson home for a week from an Army aviation training camp in St Louis. Local families visit relatives over Christmas, with multiple trips to Des Moines Chicago Ames and Mt Pleasant mentioned among residents and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhua Helmick
Brighton
Robertdmondson
St.uis
William Koepeck
Iona
Robert Laughrige
Bobby Joe
Keokuk
Joe Day
Florence Lioyd
Visi
Lucian Wilkinson
Chicago
Ruth Retzinger
Louis Gaffana
Elgin
Ill
Edgar Rotzinger
Marjorie Patzinger
Homer Rotzinger
Ralph Parks
Marion
F. W. Johnston
Ft. Madison
Eloise
Mt Pleasan
Galen Moore
Newton
H. W. Helmick
L. D. Campnarl
Des Moines
B. V. Galbry
Group of Friends Spend Christmas at Harrison Home
A Highland Center report details multiple families gathering for Christmas at the Ben Harrison home. Attendees include Steyn Westfall family of Coneville Elsie Stock James from Lone Tree Mullinnix Lenz Westfall Cryt Westfall Iowa City Earl O Connors O Connor families Ainsworth Lloyd Honping Merle Steele Riverside Milford McCreedy Campbell Rothlisburever and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eula Mae Coon
Highland Center
Steyn Westfall
Coneville
Elsie Stock
James
Lone Tree
John Mullinnix
Keota
Ed Lenz
West Branch
Cryt Westfall
Iowa City
Tom Nelson
George
Ben Harrison
Earl O'Connor
Christmas Day Gatherings Across Washington and Nearby Towns
Omer Flanders visits his parents in Washington as families share Christmas meals. Many households host relatives from Wellman to Chico California, with dinners at the McCreedy, Murphy, Endicott, and Merrifield homes. A flu outbreak and church activities mark the holiday week, including a cooperative chicken dinner and a joyous Christmas program. A long distance call from Los Angeles brings holiday cheer to the Washington family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Cocklin
Washington
William McCreedy
James Murphy
Wellman
Samuel Murphy
Earl Steele
William
Floyd Martin
Betty Jean
Clarice Brumfield
William Murphy
Burke McCreedy
Jimmy
Orie O'Conner
Carrie Rabenold
Ainsworth
Purdette Mercer
Savannah
Illinois
Leo Graf
Jeannine
Joe Endicott
Edward Endicott
Thomas McMillan
Joy
Jean and Gilman
Chico
California
Case Steele
Mae MecCreedy
McCreedy
Clarence Miller
Kahoka
Missouri
Burke MecCreedy
Duane Hazen
Lewis Coon
Eula Mie
Olive Lewis
Everette Coon
West Chester
Russell Carter
Louisa County
Melvin Soukup
Dickie
Charles Soukup
Carl Merrifield
Town City
Lenora Merrifield
Elwin Lewis
Wade Gardner
Lexington
Omer Flanders
Fort Des Moines
John Flading
Helen Jean Bishop
Business
Davenport
Warren Bishop
Junior Bishop
Chicago
Marion
Daryl Hell
Packwood
Harold Timmins
Ralph Tadlock
Tadlock
Cy Timmins
Clarence Timmins
Lyle Oldfield
Josephine
Lissa Timmins
Willis Gill
Des Moines
J. E. Gardner
Santa Claus
Emmett Gingerich
John
Los Angeles
Iowa
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Dixie Dugan
Boulogne
France
Bradway
Acadet
Robert Edmondson
Ira Schaffer
Rhoda McFarland
Drakesville
Nelson
Carmen, NL
A. K. Horton
Grace Vanerus
Washington Hospital
Dan Bailey
Sally
Ames
B. C. Tracy
Harrison
Eldridge Insurance Agency
County
West
Geo. Pauls
Thomas McMillian
The
Journal
Stimson
Dunkerque
Flanders
Finland
Blitzkrieg
Maitland
Haakon
Adolf Wither
Paris
London
United States
England
Taly
Germany
Japan
Neville Chamberlain
Havana
Leon Trotsky
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