Annual Mid-Prairie Awards Day Honors Underclass Pupils
The first annual sophomore and junior awards assembly was held at Mid-Prairie High School Wellman May 17. Cheerleaders were honored by Mrs. Evelyn Truax, and many students received science, sports, letters, and publication awards from multiple teachers. The event also recognized National Scholastic Press Association and other honor societies with special plaques and certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mid-Prairie High School
Wellman
Evelyn Truax
Connie Peterseim
Jane Houseal
Charlene Bush
Ruby Mast
Shelia Maxwell
S. Statler
Donna Schlaubaugh
Mary Ann Miller
Richard Weaver
Brad Kiesey
Phil Miller
Gary Swain
Joel Schwartz
Linda Pence
Marvin O’hare
Cecil Capper
Tom Jirsa
Ken Kepler
Gary Wain
Gary Martin
John Orr
Rusty Parcell
Steve Leyda
Virgil Davis
William Kephart
Judy Slemmons
Deanna Statler
Sharon Hough
Linda Timmins
Carol Whetstine
Rita Grout Ronda
Ehrenfeldt
Dorothy Mast
Glenn Sakulin
Shirley Yoder
Carmen Griggs
Marvin O'Hare
Judy Horesowsky
Ronda Fehrenfelt
Dorothy Lampe
O'Hare
Gene Stromley
Connie Bomber
Evelyn Fordyce
Rick Fry
Phyllis McDowell
Esther Rodgers
Fordyce
Gregg
Miles Sullivan
Janet Johnson
Elizabeth Birkey
Donna Graf
Ruth Bringman
Donna Schlabaugh
Donna Geyer
Colleen Groff
Sandy Figgins
Janice Yoder
Pat Hoenshell
Jane Honseal
Anne Nicholls
Rita Koening
Wegptague Evening Journal headline section
The fragment appears to show masthead details for the Wegptague Evening Journal Iowa with editor, business manager, and staff roles listed. It hints at publication cadence afternoons except Sunday and a Christmas July date note, plus postal and press association references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wegptague Evening Journal
Ngton
Iowa
Javid Eider
William Shannon
Charles Morris
Bruce Cowde
Howard Hagen
Post Office
Washington
United Press
Inland Daily Press
Daily Press
Lowa
la Ral
Richland Seniors Outline Summer Plans and Futures
Pekin Community High School seniors from Richland Iowa map summer jobs college enrollments and trades. Janet Houseal enters Burlington School of Business June 11 and others plan to work and study at Northeast Missouri State Teachers College Kirksville William Penn College Oskaloosa and local trade or service programs. Several 1961 graduates report summer employment and return to college backs播.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland
Pekin
Ronnie Ward
Burlington School of Business
Parsons College
Fairfield
Iowa
Iowa Barber College
Des Moines
Laverne Messer
Keith Thomas
Kirkville
J. D. Hadley
Penn Oskaloosa
Hal Rusk
Parsons
Melvin Widner
State U. of la
Iowa City
Nome
Larry Egbert
Toledo
Ohio
WD. Hollingsworth
Donna Adam
Kirksville
Beachy Litwiller Wedding in Kalona Church Ceremony
Mary Ellen Beachy and Wilbur W. Litwiller wed in a candle light ceremony May 19 at East Union Mennonite church Kalona with Rev A Lloyd Swartzendruber officiating. Attendants included Emma Arlene Beachy maid of honor and elders of the Beachy and Litwiller families plus a Kalona quartet provided music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalona
East Union Mennonite
Mary Ellen Beachy
Wilbur W. Litwiller
Parnell
A. Lloyd Swartzendruber
Herman Ropp
Henry Beachy
Isaiah Litwiller
Dale Yoder
Wilbur Yoder
J. Paul Yoder
Duane L. Yoder
Wayland
Emma Arlene Beachy
Shirley Ann Beachy
Kokomo
Ind
Ruby
Rachel Yoder
Hesston
Kansas
Eldon Yoder
Chicago
Illinois
Calvin Jay Litwiller
Stanley Litwiller
Herman Slabach
Kansas City
Donald Rensberger
Omer Troyer
Judy Miller
Hillcrest Union
Curtis Brenneman
Mary Jane Burkholder
Wanda Hershberger
Sharon Rensberger
Phyllis Yoder
Dorothea Zook
Francis Litwiller
Robert Moberly
Edwin Slabach
Dennis Miller
Merton Roth
Mary Roth
Merle Beachy
Elsie Slabach
Anna Roth Beachy
Ula Jane Schlabaugh
Aldene Yoder
Marlan
Missouri visitors join Jaspering families in Wellston weekend
Mr and Mrs Tomy Van Liebber of Warenton Missouri and Mrs Clara Jaspering of Jonesburg Missouri visited Jaspering relatives in Wellston May 22. The gathering included Melvin Jaspering and family at the Cedar River cabin and a Mother’s Day visit to the Careys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellston
Tomy van Liebber
Warrenton
Missouri
Clara Jaspering
Jonesburg
Jaspering
Melvin Jaspering
Walter Jaspering
Cedar River
Mara Brinning
Milt Smith
Shull
Joe Shellman
Earl Galloway
Richard Carey
Local Weddings and Community Notes from Kalona Area
Logan and Don Yoder are graduates of Iowa Mennonite School. The bride works at Farmers Savings bank in Kalona and the groom farms. After a Kentucky trip they will live near Parnell at the Lester Mayer home in Fairfield. Neighbors share garden produce as planting nears completion and a shower is desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Don Yoder
Mrs. Litwiller
Iowa Mennonite School
Kalona
Farmers Savings Bank
Kentucky
Parnell
Lester Mayer
Fairfield
Jack Knox
J.A. Mayer
Horie
Everette Kendal
Milton
South Dakota
Paul Kendal
Florida
Haskins Residents Visit in Missouri
Haskins residents travel to Philadelphia Missouri for visits with Virgil Graves and family. They cross the Mississippi at Burlington and dine on the Illinois side, then tour Keokuk before returning. Vivian Booth and Ethel Booth join Elva Richards for Sunday dinner and a stop at Lone Tree rest home. They buy a 1962 Studebaker Lark. In Wellman they attend a graduation, and a family gathering is hosted by Jim Bean with relatives from Cedar Rapids Marion Oxford and Ainsworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Don Bean
Diana
DeLanna
Marion
Maynard Edmund
Milton Edmund
Oxford
Richard Bean
Ainsworth
Jim Soukup
Mark
Our
Banquet Draws 110 At Richland Methodist Church
One hundred ten men and boys attended the father and son banquet Tuesday evening at the Richland Methodist Church. Minute steaks were featured on the menu. John King attended graduation exercises at Wellman Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland
Father and Son
Methodist Church
John King
Community events and local notices in Pekin area
Master of Ceremonies Chalmers Haskins and Kim Kelly led a program with a trumpet duet by Bill and Steve Allen Fred George and Bobby Adams. Gifts honored the oldest father 87 and youngest child 2 and 22. Gardening themed gathering featured miniature flowering plants. Local clubs, visitors from Albuquerque and Kirksville, property purchase by the Whitneys, and a small fire in Pleasant Plain were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chalmers Haskins
Kim Kelly
Bill
Steve Allen
Fred George
Bobby Adams
Fred Smith
Keith Sasseen
Bruce Robinson
Jerry Robinsons
Elmer Adam
George Hendrickson
John King
Methodist Church
Harold Greeson
Ray Heilman
Greeson
Mabel Hollingsworth
Leland Rush
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Ben Rush
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Mid-Prairie
Tom Fordyce
Anne Nichols
Nancy Lewis
Miriam Small
Sheila Maxwell
Carol
Batterson
Tom Eddy
J. D. Wade
Larry Huber
Glen D. Miller
Barbara Strum
G. R. Evans
Sally Allen
Phil Hesseltine
June Kempf
Glenna Sakulin
Dale Schroeder
Beverly Yoder
Sue Butterbaugh
Doug Staubaugh
Richard Stutzman
Mary Bringman
Cheryl Ruegsegger
Jane Sakulin
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Washington Evening Journal
United States
Brad
Evans
The
Journal
Washington County
Ington
Mrs
Otto Pfeifer
Ken Shreve
New York
Ken
K. C. Shreve
Hatel
Washington, Iowa
TC. Henderson & Co
New
New York Stock Exchange
W. W. Litwiller
G. H. Mayer
Morris Meece
Laurie
Lake Darling
Ray Long
Ethel Hotle
Chas. Hotle
Hal Hotle
Jack Hotle
Meece
Colorado Springs
Cole
Arthur R. Gottschalk
Elijah Muhammad
Temple of Islam
John Ali
Muhammed S
Mosques of Islam
Gottschalk
America
Wil
Senate
Hickenlooper
Senate Agriculture
Bourke
U.S
Hickenlooper For
Vernon L. Clark
Haskins
Bessie Browning
William Whitney
Elmer Pickering
Pickering
Whitneys
U. S
Charles Jr
Frank Pacha
Pleasant Plain
T. R. Wolf
Washington Concrete Co
12Th St
Rock Island
Uncle Sam
USA
U.S. Savings Bonds
Treasury Department
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