Iowa
Old Press
Spencer Reporter
Spencer, Clay co. Iowa
May 18, 1927
LINN GROVE
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Seifken and Mr. and Mrs. Omer Seifken
of Rembrandt were Sunday dinner guests at the J. W. DeGriselles
home.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Anderson and family of Rossie were Sunday
guests at the Emmet Hegland home.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pohlen and children spent Sunday with relatives
in Alton.
Mr. and Mrs. Watson and children of near Royal were week end
visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Stark.
Rev. S. D. Holden was a caller in Sioux Rapids on Wednesday.
Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Bridge and baby were visitors in Albert City
on Sunday.
On Sunday evening the baccalaureate will be delivered by Rev.
Sherman and on Friday of next week the commencement exercises
will be held in the high school auditorium. The speaker of the
evening will be Dr. Wilson of Iowa City. The members of the
graduating class are as follows: Willie DeLong, Margaret
Landsberg, Harvey Nelson, Florence Taylor, Everett Englebretson,
Freda Emanuelson, Lester Larson, Agnes Fonley, Ellis Leehy, Effie
Emanuelson, Bernice Knudson, Glow Christensen, Thelma Davis and
Wilma Sutton.
Harold Wilson and D. R. Miller left on Tuesday for Sioux City
being called there by the serious illness of Mrs. Harold Wilson,
who is in the hospital there.
Hazel Johnson, who teaches near Alta, spent the week end at her
home here.
The annual Junior-Senior banquet was held on Friday evening in
the Lutheran church parlors. The menu served was as follows:
fruit cocktail, new potatoes, chicken croquettes, creamed peas,
rolls, Waldorf salad, jelly, coffee, strawberry ice cream, angel
food cake. The toast program included Frightening Ghosts, Elinor
Parry; Rattling Bones, Effie Emanuelson; Imaginations, Aaron
Anderson; Day Dreams, Oma Williams; Apparations, Agnes Fonley;
Yesterday’s Haunted House, Wilma Sutton; Response, C. R.
Kremenak; Toast mistress, Clara Haase. A short program following
was presented by the Juniors, quartet, Elinor Parry, Carlton
Sundberg, Aaron Anderson, and Clara Haase. Senior farewell song,
Junior Class.
J. D. Gaskins and son of Peterson were Sunday visitors at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Gaskins.
On Wednesday afternoon May 11, the Seniors presented their “class
day” program: Class song, Bye, Bye High School; Salutatory,
Lester Larson, Class History, Effie Emanuelson, Glow Christensen;
boys quartet, graduation song, Vern Thomas, Sanfern Mangold,
Ellis Leehy and Willie DeLong; class grumbler, Margaret Landsberg
and Florence Taylor; giftorian, Everett Englebretson, Harvey
Nelson, Norman Phillips; duet, Florence Taylor, Bernice Knudson;
class will, Wilma Sutton, Freda Emanuelson; piano solo, Margert
Landsberg; class prophecy, Agnes Fonley; valedictorian, Bernice
Knudson; class song, farewell blues.
Miss Grace West went to Des Moines Saturday to spend several days
with her sisters, Misses Esther and Lyle West.
[transcribed by L.Z., October 2014]