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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1937
Page
8
Local families including Wenger, Kimball, Frieden and Yearous hosted and visited through the week. Sick lists noted mumps and ailments. many guests joined in card parties quilting and weekend visits across Volga Elgin and Oak Grove with scattered trips to Fort Wayne and Charles City.
A long roster of visits and meals across Oak Grove and nearby towns. Thomas Pollock, Florence Thoman, Muncie, Wilson, Dennler, Kerr, and Kohls families recur as hosts or guests at homes in Walther Dennler Dubuque Wadena Volga Arlene Medberry Chicago and Elgin with multiple Sunday dinners suppers and weekday visits.
Rosa Schlupp joined a birthday dinner in Martin Hanson’s home on Sunday. Louise Dennler visited Ellen Hanson on Friday. Jake Dennler and family shared meals with Wm Larson’s family Sunday. Adolph Hanson and Margie Lucille Leo and Herman Frieden of La Grange plus John Christen were guests in the Christen home. Jake Dennlex and son Harry dined with Ida Christen in Elgin Saturday. Alma Hanson of Elkader stayed with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hanson. Louis Lehman of Elgin and his wife were supper guests in the Albert Schupbach home. Mrs Gottfried Friederich and Eliza Friederich with Freddie and Albert Friederich, and Louis Lehman were present as well.
The remark notes how slow soil formation is and warns that productive land vanishes quickly once erosion begins, highlighting the fragility of fertile ground and urging recognition of long-term damage from soil loss.
A lengthy list of social visits spans Sunday to Tuesday with Mrs Roy Peeper and the Butikofer families hosting and visiting relatives in Elgin Millville and surrounding areas. Guests include Elen Hansen, the Baumgartners, the Frie derichs, the Christen and Meyer households, and many others in extended family gatherings.
Clermont and nearby areas report frequent social visits and home gatherings. H. E. Landsgard and A. J. Priest from Clermont were business visitors in G under Friday. Multiple residents hosted guests over the weekend and Dorcas Society planning a church event on Saturday.
A lighthearted note compares rowing with an anchor to chasing maximum returns in business hindered by unsupported opinions of a new advertising medium. It asserts that the Want Ads in this paper will yield results and humorously calls them little salesmen.
Mr and Mrs Fred Shelton narrowly avoided a worse accident while driving from Maynard when their car swerved at Koehler corner and went into a ditch. They suffered only minor bruises and the vehicle sustained some damage according to the Fayette Leader.
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