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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1937
Page
8
Rural teachers met at West Union to discuss school matters while locals hosted visitors and celebrated a grandchild’s birthday. Residents absorbed social calls from Elkader to Fayette amid weekend travels, with numerous reunions and small-town greetings noted throughout.
My and Mrs Paul Voshell and Ivan Medberry were dinner guests in the Henry Holzer home Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Frank Howard and children spent Friday and Saturday in the John Howard home. Mr and Mrs Thos Pollock and children visited in the Arthur Chapman home. Sunday afternoon Harold Leuenberger was a dinner.
Numerous households report guests and gatherings across Elgin and nearby areas. Several celebrations and dinners include the Shaffers, Holzers, Gilsons, Hoffers, and Horwaths, with visits to and from the Luchsingers, Dennlers, and Brabhams.
Hilda Meyer and Rose Marie Dennler attended the county spelling contest in Elkader with Rose Marie winning at Highland school. Several residents, including Mrs. Francis West, are ill and staying with relatives to see doctors. The piece lists multiple social visits, carpentry work, and mumps cases among Marion township residents.
Mrs Lou Embertson spent the weekend with her sister Mrs Lou Reier son Emery Landsgard stayed Sunday with Merlin Hellum Mr and Mrs Clarence Anderson visited in the Mrs T Kjosa home Neighbors helped Mrs T J Olson quilt Center school teachers and pupils enjoyed a week long spring break Trustees and assessor met at the schoolhouse John Hellum visited the BP K Peterson home Lilian Halverson stayed with Oscar Lien Lillian Meyer spent Easter at Clermont Gunder switch board moved to Mrs Carrie Nelson home Elvira Gisleson will occupy the living rooms Postville high school glee club members from here spent Saturday in Waterloo
A long list of dinner visits and social appearances graces Brainard. Local families such as Homewood Appelman Boyer and Nutting host and attend events across Fayette Hawkeye Elgin Clermont and Ossian with trips to Monticello Rock Island and Chicago. Easter program at Brainard school noted amid moves and illnesses including George Tripp's illness.
Gunder News Junior Johanson of Elkader spent a week's vacation while John Johanson and Mr and Mrs Waldo Embertson and daughter were dinner guests in T J Olson's home Sunday. E 8 Hoag and family visited Richard Erickson's near Maynard, Lillian Loftsgard stayed with Mrs Otto Gisleson Friday, and Nels Anderson with Otto Gisleson were business callers in Monona.
The settlement known as Losantiville was renamed Cincinnati by General Arthur St Clair during a January 1790 visit. He disliked the original name calling it effeminate and ordered the town to be known as Cincinnati in honor of the Order of Cincinnatus, the Revolutionary War officers’ society.
A poet or columnist argues that distrusting friends is more shameful than being deceived by them, urging readers to examine motives and loyalty in personal relationships. The reflective piece contrasts trust with betrayal to encourage prudent, steady friendship.
Furniture and other articles will be sold Saturday afternoon at Elgin's street sale. The Little German Band will provide music for a library benefit dance at the Elgin opera house next Thursday evening April 15. A German Tyvoler troupe entertained at the opera house Tuesday with a vaudeville show and many attended the dance afterward.
Mr and Mrs Will Christ of Waseca Minnesota celebrated their silver wedding anniversary with a purse of silver from immediate relatives on Saturday evening. Out of town guests Bonnie Bull and Jack Carson from Des Moines attended the gathering and Easter decorations complemented a Sunday lunch at their home.
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