Yesterday in Wayland

Mr. P.E. Everts, a well-known resident of the town passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Piper, at four o’clock this morning. Mr. Everts was eighty-four years of age and to mourn his death is leaves four children: Mrs. C.A. Hodges of Superior, Nebraska; Mrs. John Piper and Mr. Clark Everts of Mt. Pleasant; and Mrs. Calvin Keith of Wayland.

S.D. Garretson, of Jackson township, has long been a believer in soy beans, and every year he has sold out completely all of the seed of the Mongol variety that he produces. People in his neck of the woods are beginning to have a lot of faith in his opinion about soy beans as he receives many requests about the best varieties or hay, or hogging down so to satisfy himself he has ordered seed of nineteen different varieties and will try them all out side by side, making careful observations about the way they stand up, how high they grow, how the pods retain the beans, the late and early maturing varieties and the yield. Next year, Sumner will be a regular encyclopedia on soybeans. If anyone wants to know something about varieties he should go and see this patch and get the right information on soybeans from out section from Sumner Garretson.

50 years ago — May 31, 1973

Mr. and Mrs. Andy Kaufman of Wayland will observe their 45th wedding anniversary at an open house on Sunday, June 10, 1973 from 2-4:30 p.m. at the Kaufman Schoolhouse one mile south of Wayland. The children of the couple will host the open house and invite all relatives and friends to share the courtesy with them. Andy Kaufman and the former Hazel Conrad were married on June 9, 1928, in Ottumwa. They are the parents of five children, LeRoy of Wayland, Raymond and Robert of Lockridge, Louise (Mrs. Edd Carpenter) of West Point and Lous (Mrs. Gene Fields) of Iowa City. There are 23 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wagner moved their household goods Tuesday to Shiloh Boys Ranch, Ware Shoals, South Carolina Tuesday where they will be employed. The Wagners had a sale of household goods and antiques at their Wayland home on West Main on Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Gene Klopfenstein have moved their mobile home to the lot owned and vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Klopfenstein in east Wayland. Mr. Klopfenstein is employed by Ivan Yoder and Sons, Inc.

The Bertha Shumaker property was purchased at public auction for $5000 by Willis Hildebrand.

Marla Wyse of Goshen, Indiana is spending a week’s vacation in the parental Marlin Wyse home.

Mr. and Mrs. Glen R. McCoy were Sunday dinner guests in the Mildred Gisel home, Mt. Pleasant. In the afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy and Mrs. Gisel visited in the Ralph Moser home in Farmington.