Eastern Star installs 1975 officers at Masonic Temple
Crawfordsville notes list installing officers led by Mary Margaret Stebelton of Washington as installing matron and Alberta Rhea as worthy matron. Various community members attend ceremonies, social hour decor, and gifts exchanged. Local residents receive health updates and family announcements including a new baby boy David Allen Finke born January 16 at Memorial Hospital Mt. Pleasant.
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Marian Waters
Crawfordsville
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Mary Margaret Stebelton
Washington
Beulah Osborne
Wayland
Ruth Craig
Mt. Pleasant
Gladys Dare
Alberta Rhea
Kenneth
Myrtle Brown
Marengo
Haydn Thomas
Gladys
Brown
Ada Spencer
Henry Davis
Maurine Wilson
Hazel Moorhead
Gladys Thomas
Betty Davis
Dascal Hamilton
Mr. Thomas
Marie Howsare
Helen Lease
Gladys ‘Thomas
Ainsworth
Lone Tree
Vernon White
Memorial Hospital
Mary Helen Jewell
Mary Helen
Betty Gipple
Jean Fletcher
Bob Finke
Olds
David Allen
Ronald Crocker
Mt. Union
Merlin Finke
Lloyd Crocker
Grace Conard
New London
Jessie Rees
Wyman
Velta Finke
Barb Finke
Bertha Hill
Wilbur Wheeler
Mike Wesley
Laurence Hill
Trenton
Vera Williams
Wheeler
Kenneth Miller
Alfred Davis
Dale Janecek
Mark
Jackie
Wilbur Schantz
Highway 92
Rex Smith Corner
Larry Love
Sonya
Cedar Rapids
Schantz
Larry
Jim Edgar
Des Moines
DMI
Iowa Fertilizer Dealers Show
Veterans Auditorium
Pleckers write of winter in McAllen
Ruth Gideon Bethel reports winter notes from McAllen Texas with Doyle and Irene Plecker’s update on flowering gardens, freezes, rising gas prices, and Mexican sugar shopping trends. The letter also mentions visiting guests, flu illness in the Knottnerus family, and a six degree below zero cold snap.
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Ruth Gideon Bethel
Doyle
Irene Plecker
McAllen
Texas
Mexico
United States
Juarez
George Plecker
May
Ruth Gideon
Junior Knottnerus
Gary
Eating Out Takes 29 Cents Of Each Dollar In 1973
The Farm Index notes that 29 cents of every food dollar went to eating places and institutions in 1973, up from 24 cents a decade earlier. Consumers spent $38.3 billion dining out versus $93.9 billion at home.
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U. S
Women meet at Ainsworth Community Church
Ainsworth Iowa January 16 the general meeting of the Ainsworth Community Church Women was held in the south building with meditations on The Hands of Christ Mrs Louis Koehler led the program and the group voted to hold a potluck supper April 1 The next meeting is February 20 when Rev Jack Hooten will present a Lay Witness Mission Preview The April meeting will feature a report by Mrs Marsh Atkinson on work with Indians in Wisconsin and 3418 Campbell labels were collected for Labels for Education by Ainsworth Elementary students.
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Duanewotth
Ainsworth
Burke McCreedy
Jim McCreedy
Richard Havel
John Skubal Sr
Bob Gerot
Jack Hooten
Marsh Atkinson
Washington
Wisconsin
Campbell
Campbell Soup Company
Livewires 4-H Club Holds January Meeting
The Livewires 4-H club met at Rhonda Van Auken's on January 18. President JoEtta Gipple called the meeting to order at 1 30. Mothers were invited. Five members and two leaders attended. New programs were handed out and discussed. Project data sheets were reviewed and the projects checked. Rhonda Van Auken demonstrated No Bake Cookies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livewires 4-H Club
Rhonda van Auken
JoEtta Gipple
Keota Fortnightly Club Meets In January Program
Keota Fortnightly Club met at Mrs. Warren Bennett home with nine members. program led by Bennett. L.G.W. Club gathered at Mrs. Gwendolyn Luers home with six members. winter crafts and refreshment. January 27 program to be at Wilson Memorial Library hosted by Mrs. Elva Statler. Other community notes include visits by Fr ancis Feltz and Clarke Pfeifer, hospital updates, a birthday for Lisa Heisdorffer, Royal Neighbors dinner, and installation of Oracle Irma Han with new officers. Months for future entertainment set for February with Mrs. Maxine Carris.
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Paul Sievert Keota
Warren Bennett
Paul Sievert
Joan Stout
Lori
Cedar Rapids
Robert Heckert
Lewis Sabatka
Susan
Ottumwa
al Lane
Sigourney
Maurice Lane
Harper
Lewis Sabika
Veterans Hospital
Iowa City
Kim Sanders
Gene Sanders
Boyd Sanders
Jamaica
Lisa Heisdorffer
John Heisdorffer
Wayne Zehr
Milo Heisdorffer
Emmie Siegler
Keota
Dave Campbell
Kathy
Lisa
Birthday Club
Harold McConnell
Wayne McCallister
Verne McConnell
Bernice Dill
Cheryl
Raymond Hammen
Leonard Sonday
Royal Neighbors
Oracle Margaret Sellman
Margaret Sellman
Martha Sanders
Irma Han
Myrl Waller
Washington Care Center
Maxine Carris
Mrs. Gerot Hosts S & C Club Meeting in Riverside
The S and C Club gathered at Mrs. Larry Gerot’s home with eight members and guest Mrs. Carl Havel of Ainsworth. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Sam Gerot, Mrs. Ed Mathes, and Mrs. Ralph Klein, with the traveling prize going to Mrs. Robert Gerot. Lunch followed. February 13 meeting set with Mrs. Ralph Klein. Walter Horn had surgery at Mercy Hospital and will stay about a week. Everette Latta released from Mercy. First baby of 1975 born at Anamosa Community Hospital, Jennifer Jean Janssen, a hospital physical therapist’s child.
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Wilbur Riene Riverside
S & C Club
Larry Gerot
Carl Havel
Ainsworth
Sam Gerot
Ed Mathes
Ralph Klein
Robert Gerot
Walter Horn
Mercy Hospital
Everette Latta
Jennifer Jean Janssen
Anamosa Community Hospital
Janssen
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Pleckers
Factory Aotiee
Plymouth
Qorwu
Town and Country
Mae Ted
Waldorf College
Forest City
Immanuel Lutheran Church
East Washington
13Th Avenue
Rollie Ehm
Jim Nielsen
John Grebner
Sue Lane
Chris Olson
Margit Moen
Naomi Fetterman
Kathy Dove
Mary Noerenberg
Mesa
Ariz
Robert Buck
Waukee
Richard Stephens
Winga’s
Stephens and Bucks
Herb Campbell
John Berdo
Charles Berdo
Claude Kilgore
Columbus Junction
Don Orr
West Chester
Gene Stephens
Open House Furniture Sale
Ettenne Spenser
East van Buren
Ren To
Bilton Dia Cale
Golden Sol
Comer Square
Washington, Ia
Mrs. Gerot
Rowars
Wolf's
Wolf's Flower Shop
Osinoup’s
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