Iowa
Old Press
Humboldt Republican
Humboldt, Humboldt co. Iowa
August 11, 1933
PERSONAL MENTION
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lowder visited over Sunday at Austin, Minn.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McFarland are attending the World’s Fair
in Chicago.
Grace White and Winifred Nielsen are spending the week at the Ted
White cottage at the Country Club while the Shellenbergers are
attending the World’s Fair in Chicago.
Marie Ferguson who is a dramatic instructor at Hunter’s
College at New York City, is visiting her friend, Mrs. Mary
Dyvig. Mrs. Dyvig and Miss Ferguson were classmates at college.
Elsie McClow of Sac City is spending a few days this week at the
R. I. Hess home and visiting old friends here. Miss McClow was
formerly a teacher in the junior high school in Humboldt.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Trauger and Grace left Tuesday morning for
Cumberland Gap, Tenn., to get Mrs. Trauger’s father, whom
they will bring back with them. They also plan to visit in other
southern states and will be gone for several weeks.
Mrs. J. M. Watson and daughter, Arleen, of Los Angeles,
California, who have been spending the past four weeks visiting
her sister, Mrs. Matt Locatis, is now in Des Moines visiting at
the parental William Herman home. Agnes Locatis, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Matt Locatis, is also in Des Moines visiting her
grandparents. They expect to return to Humboldt the last of this
month and Mrs. Watson will visit here again before returning to
California.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Taylor and children of Fort Dodge were Sunday
evening visitors at the home of Mrs. Taylor’s grandmother,
Mrs. Ellen Scott.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Wright, of New Mexico, who are visiting his
father in Algona, were Tuesday evening visitors at the W. A.
Dunscombe home to see Emmet Dunscombe.
George Shedd of Los Angeles, who was called to Kansas City to
attend the funeral of a friend, is visiting at the L. H. Nelson
home. Mr. Shedd is a son-in-law of Mr. Nelson.
Mrs. Geo. McCollough and daughter Esther plan to drive to Odebolt
Friday after Louise Eggerich, who has been visiting there the
past three weeks at the H. W. Frahm home.
Mrs. Harriet Bohning left last Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. L.D.
Snyder for Des Moines where she will visit her sisters, Mrs. Anna
Beers and Mrs. Sue Dunster, and nephew, L. L. Eisentraut.
Mrs. Merlin Johnson and son Gary of Algona, arrived Sunday for a
week’s visit at the Perry Morse home southwest of town, and
the Lawrence Lindhart and Julius Johnson homes here.
Mr. and Mrs. Hass of Eldora and their daughter and husband of
California called Monday in Humboldt to visit their friends, Mr.
and Mrs. G. J. Gudknecht, enroute to West Bend to attend to farm
interests.
Kenneth Allen Sawyer, nine months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Sawyer of Dakota City, who was injured recently by falling out of
a swing and wrenching his back, is getting along nicely at this
time.
Mrs. Clarence Watson and son Richard of Alta, who have been
visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Mel Strom and family at
Fort Dodge since last Thursday, arrived Tuesday for a week’s
visit at the parental Thomas Sawyer home.
Elizabeth Shockley and friend Mr. Triplett of Des Moines, were
Tuesday visitors at the parental Lou Shockley home, returning to
Des Moines Wednesday. Miss Shockley is completing her course in
nurse’s training in the Methodist hospital in Des Moines.
Word has been received here that Mr. and Mrs. Frank Congdon,
former Humboldt residents, celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding
anniversary Sunday, August 6th. They were entertained at a party
by their son Emery and daughter, Maxine. Mrs. Congdon was nee
Hattie Knutson, daughter of Mrs. Martha Knutson of Humboldt. Mr.
Congdon used to operate a bakery in Humboldt.
[transcribed by L.Z., October 2014]