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Personal News Notes From West Bend and Vicinity
John Wagner visits from Mallard. John Bannart flown from Rodman. Hartman leaves Emmetsburg for business. Many locals travel to Des Moines, Ottosen, Iowa Falls, and Dubuque for farm deals, banking, and meetings. A head-on auto collision near Thanksgiving injures occupants. Upcoming events include a Hard Time Dance, a two-reel feature, and a Price She Paid performance at the opera house. Local births, purchases of farms, and sugar beet farming plans noted among townspeople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Stover
Rodman
MacFarland
Opera House
J. A. Hull
C. C. Miller
U.S
Ike Buttemore
Lake Park
Schreiber
Ireland
United States
Africa
South America
West Bend
Moore
Opera
Dayton
Iowa
L. J. Ring. Cris Lien
Ottosen
Sherman Township
Bode
Waverly
Wendell Gartner
Blackwell
Oklahoma
Near West Bend
Kossuth
Gartner