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By Betty MannRock County Historical Society PresidentKDUV Dance Hall at KanaranziThe following appeared in the Rock County Herald on February 18, 1927:The masquerade held in the K. D. U. V. hall Saturday evening was well attended and also a large number masked. Those receiving prizes were: First group — cards — Mrs. A. P. Wiese, Mrs. Roney Wiese, Mrs. Fred Mikkleson, Mrs. Thorwald Hanson, $7.00; Second group — tulips — Susan Meester, Grace and Lena Reemts and Mathilda Arp, $5.00; Third best group — Schlitz club — Ernest Willroth, Sr., Ernest Willroth, Jr., Dorothy and Elsie Hamann. Fourth best group — four sailors; first character, gent, accordion player, Helmer Schultz; second character — lady actress, Mrs. Ray Wiggins; prettiest costumes — George and Martha Washington — Harm Hisken and Engle Meester; best comic character — two faced — Mrs. Ernest Willroth; two boy hoboes, Clarence and Lawrence Akkerman; Easter rabbit, Loren Meyer; valentines, Lucille Untiedt, Celia Staack and Mildred Sindt; dude coons, Elmer Meyer and Raymond Johnson; Clown, Ernest Hamann. The Harmony Club orchestra, of Luverne, furnished the music.

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