September 30, 1943
Randalia
Old Friends Day
Old Friends Day, which is sponsored annually by
the Thursday Reading Circle was observed Thursday at the church
social room, when about 50 former residents and old friends enjoyed
dinner, followed by an hour of visiting preceding the program:
Welcome, Mrs. Hattie Odekirk, pres.; Response, Mrs. Henry Hettler,
Fayette; Auld Lang Syne, by all, led by Mary Severson; Skit, "It
happens in the best of families," Irene McFadden and Sarah Hoepfner;
Solo, "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose," Mary Severson; Playlet, "The
Cure for Neuralgia," by six club women. Three bouquets were awarded,
one to the oldest club member present, Mrs. Sarah Tiffany; to the
one present who had lived in Fayette county the longest, Mrs. Carrie
Vought, and to the one who had come the farthest, Miss Helen
O'Bryan, Waterloo. the program was concluded by all singing God
Bless America.
Those present were: Mrs. Maude Devine, Mrs.
Harriet Bacon, Etta Donat, Mrs. Ettie Hanchett, Mrs. Fred Orbell,
Mrs. Eloise Sturey, Mrs. Rhoda VanSickle, Mrs. Mary McNaul, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Smith, Mrs. Nell Saltsgiver, Mrs. Mary Riley, Mrs. Maude
VanSickle, Mrs. Amber Odekirk, Mrs. Charlotte Vaughn, W. D. Arthur,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Donat, W. C. Wells, Fred Grant, Mrs. J. W. Ranney,
Mrs. Carrie Vought, W. I. Miner, Mrs. Grace Holmes, Ernie Bellis,
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Ostrander, J. E. Holmes, all of Randalia and
vicinity; Rev. and Mrs. John Dawson, Mrs. Anna Ruvenacht, Mrs. Sarah
Tiffany, Frank Wilder, Oelwein; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hettler, S. E.
Robison, Mrs. A. J. FOX and Mrs. Agnes Llewellyn, Fayette; Mr. and
Mrs. Ed. Stewart and Mrs. Cora Dyer, Maynard; Miss Jennie Smith,
Hawkeye; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Howard and Mrs. John Howard, West Union;
Miss Helen O'Bryan, Waterloo, and Mrs. L. E. Cowles, Clermont.
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