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By MARGARET IRELAND

Youngtown correspondent

(620) 382-2713

Leon and Cate Hayen were here Tuesday visiting Dorothy Hayen. Leon asked me to solicit pictures and stories relating to the Youngtown community. He has school and church history and now would like information about the town. Dorothy is improving following a case of flu and pneumonia this past week.

Cy Goertz is in the Marion hospital since Friday. David and Jessye Goertz from Nebraska are here visiting him.

Jeannine Bateman visited her mother, Alvina Skibbe, Wednesday at Newton. Kristine Bateman was home for the weekend. Jeannine attended the 50th birthday party Saturday honoring Paul Swan at the home of Tim and Becky Makovec.

Kathy Swan, Justin and Katrina Griffin, Kandace and Kassidy, and Tim and Becky Makovec, Morgan and Tyler, and Mike Steppe hosted a surprise birthday party Saturday evening at the Tim Makovec home for the 50th birthday of Paul Swan. More than 100 friends and family members gathered to wish him a great birthday.

Vicki Smolik was a supper guest Monday night of Tim and Becky Makovec, Morgan and Tyler.

Shirley and David Bowers, Leonard and Rosalie Klassen, Howard and Beth Collett, and Ken and Margie Nienstedt attended the annual Farm Bureau dinner meeting Saturday evening at the city building. Jim Hoy of Emporia was the speaker. Everyone enjoyed his pictures of farm machinery of the past.

Shirley and David Bowers and Skip and Eileen Sieger attended the "Come Join Us" Sunday school class breakfast Sunday morning at Stone City Café.

Beth and Howard Collett were guests Saturday night at the wedding of Lindsey Matz and John Paul Morgan III at Eastmoor United Methodist Church. John and Rita Spinden of Cottonwood Falls, Becky Hullett and sons Baily and Bryce of Raymore Mo., and Angela Baungarten and daughter Marea of Kent, Wash. visited Saturday evening with Howard and Beth Collett.

Mary Beth Bowers was in western Kansas from Wednesday through Friday attending the Western Kansas Wheat Commission training tour. She toured a flour mill and four Mexican bakeries. They toured the Kansas Wheat Home in Cimarron where the farm wife is marketing wheat in packaged products such as wheat mixes and wheat nuts.

Eileen Sieger hosted her afternoon bridge club Friday.

Roseva McLinden attended funeral services Sunday for Richard Forsberg at Burdick United Methodist Church.

Leonard and Rosalie Klassen attended the 50th birthday party honoring Marv Fisher this past weekend in Wichita. Ed and Margaret Heins visited the Klassens Thursday and viewed their new home. The Klassen home now is finished and they are moving this week. Leonard and Rosalie visited Richard and Lois Johnson Sunday evening. Parker Van Campen, great-grandson of the Klassens, has had the cast removed from his leg and how has a brace. The brace can be removed for swimming therapy. The leg is growing and we hope he continues to improve.

I met Brenda Larson, new owner of the Klassen farm, at the Marion hospital Thursday morning. She told me of the changes they are making inside and out. It sounds lovely.

Marj and Emily Johnson visited me Sunday and Marj took us to dinner at Kingfisher's Inn. Marj helped with yard work and we had a great visit.

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