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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1942
Page
8
Local residents hosting and visiting across multiple households. Sir names include Glass, Medberry, Yearous, Rothlisberger, Wetherbee, Kiple, Hu m mel, Dennler, Gehring, Chapman and many others. Events cover suppers at West Union Arlington Ottumwa and Fayette areas with frequent visits, hostings, and birthday celebrations.
County Line News reports a flurry of calls and visits. Amundsons and Thorsons hosted Elmer Larson family. Jim Bilden recovers slowly. Berg and Reierson relations noted. Decorah visitor Luella Gilbertson stayed with Gus Gilbertson. Amundsons hosted at Arthur Helgerson home with multiple families. West family visited Otto Gisleson home.
Mrs John Dennier and John Ubersax spent Tuesday at Bert Thoman home. Families including Meyer, Baumgartner, Christen, and Mason hosted and visited across the week. Various relatives and friends gathered at the Dennler, Wenger, and Leuchtenmacher homes, with illnesses noted and birthdays celebrated.
Grand Meadow residents hosted and visited neighbors throughout the week. Social calls included Olson and Lyngaas families, with multiple gatherings at the homes of Johnson, Martin, Buraas, Landsgard, and Olson households. A Saturday evening party at Anton Skaren’s featured Lavanda Olson hosting a large guest list and a long social program.
Sunday visits and Wednesday calls populate Oak Grove as families host friends and relatives across multiple homes. Entries record gatherings at the John Howard sr and Archie Howard residences, Methodist Missionary Society meetings, and dinner or supper visits involving Wilsons, Gilsons, Dennlers, Muncies, Hunsbergers, Kuhnes, and Powells among others.
The Pass-Time club surprised Mrs Ed Brackin Tuesday evening March 17 by visiting her home before her move to Chana Illinois. A pot luck supper was followed by bingo and the group gave a monetary token of remembrance.
A West Union company attempted to deliver milk with horse drawn wagons when an old fashioned runaway occurred, startling patrons as the procession veered out of control.
A Fayette county family story shows women trained in Food for Health and National Defense planning meals. The kitchen plan features creamed deviled eggs, baked potatoes, scalloped tomatoes, whole wheat muffins, carrot strips, oatmeal cookies, cherries, and cocoa served as an informal buffet. The menu highlights energy, protein, calcium, iron, and vitamins A B C D, with feedback from Forest, Jim, and the men voting it okay.
Bloomfield businessmen and their employees enjoyed a special war diet dinner recently with corn bread and milk served to attendees in a small observance reflecting wartime rationing and community support.
Mrs. Josephine Burchett of Bloomfield received an award after stumping the Information Please experts. Four questions were submitted and the panel could answer only one. meanwhile a fire in a London man’s potato bin required the fire department as Mrs. Proesch’s 70 potatoes were already baked and dinner plans were unaffected.
Brief classified notice invites readers to place want ads for buying and selling items. Mentions contact or column placement to reach advertisers and readers seeking bargains. Describes ad submission as straightforward and spotlit in the newspaper’s classifieds section.
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