Easter club notes and community gatherings in Elgin area
Cheery Valley Good Neighbors Club met April 12 in Elgin Auxiliary rooms. Hostesses named. Twenty-one members attended with a house cleaning hint. Members sent $2 to Cancer fund. Readings included Easter themes by Mrs. Lester Wengar and Lily by Mrs. Harold Meisner. Various social visits and family activities noted in surrounding towns.
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Good Neighbors Club
Elgin
Louis Butikofer
George Schupbach
Orlando Loftagard
Cancer
Jerome Yearous
Lester Wengar
Lily
Harold Meisner
Fred Butikofer
Wilbur Peake
Leater Wenger
Martin Hanson
George Leuchtenmacher
Elkader
Ellen Mason
Frank Christen
Celia Thoman
Arthur Chapman
Waterloo
Laverne Lantz
Victor
Milwaukee
Leslie Lantz
Clarence Hofer
Clayton Schreiner
McGregor
Cynthia
Clayton Shreiner
Henson
St. Joseph's Hospital
New Hampton
John Dennler
George
Community social notes from Gunder area events
A stream of visits and gatherings fills weeks in Gunder. Neighbors and relatives from West Union Fayette Elkader Clermont and Manchester attend dinners showers and holidays across the region while clusters celebrate birthdays weddings and Easter with extended families and friends.
Illyria Social Notes Open House Visits Across Town
Mrs. David Bartelma returns to Boulder after a week with her parents Mr and Mrs Andrew Yearous. Paul Smith family guests at Lewis McNallys. Roy Fast and others visit Orran Bane and Gordon Pollock households. Elmer Lembke and Flanagan families visit Edwin Loftsgard. Hermen and Hermen families dine with Oliver Heins in Oelwein. Sanders Dennler and Medbery families celebrate Mrs Sanders birth. Kimball and Iverson visit Roy Halverson. Patterson and Whittenbaughs with Yearous visit Earl Rothlisberger.
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Ivan Anderson
Farm Home
Gene Wenger
Theleve Hennett
Virgil Torson
Joe Ogle
Janie
Clyde Ramsey
Arlington
LaVern Schneider
Clermont
Ervin’ Metzger
George Butikofer
Fred Schneider
William Burrow
Emma Anderson
Imilo
John Durscher
Ole Olson
Tillie Kloster
West Union
Jacob Schneider
Patty
Richard Hofer
Wilbur Peake
Thomas Foxwell
Lloyd Tope
Harold Tope
Hawkeye
William Schoen'heider
Chicago
Donald Burchette
Shalley
Moline
Roy Fast
Milwaukee
John Nydegeyer
Iowa Falls
Alexander Pollock
Mason City
Florian Burchette
Dave Dawson
Thomas Pollock
Gordon Pollock
John Grimm
Orran Bane
Howard Medberry
Eugene
Ed Wenger
Roy Halverson
Will Frey
Wadena
Leslie Yearous
Louis Dempster
Ale
Will Kerr
Helen
Hazel Rothlisberger
Orvin Thompson
Cleve Bennett
Elmer Lembke
Ralph Shaffer
Gene Lehman
Kenneth Medberry
Edward Christensen
Clarence Buroden
Dennia
Edwin Loftagard
Walter Rothlisberger
Earl
Otis
Ruth Rothlisberger
Floyd Frieden
LeRoy Rothlisberger
Kenneth
Myrton Strong
Chas, Strong
Mabel King
Harold Strong
Elia Foxwell
Fayette
Carol Kruempel
Iowa City
Harold Kruempel
Progressive Home Study Club
Mary Metzger
Patty Schneider
Duane Strong
Alton Medberry
Walter Ash
Emmett Light
Cedar Rapide
Glen Medberry
Harold Dennler
Glen Yearous
Brenda
Arthur ‘Yearous
Elkader
Stanley Boyer
Waterloo
Milo Frieden
Elon DeWitte
Ed Jacobson
Clifford Gisleson
David Bartelma
Boulder
Colo
Andrew Yearous
Paul Smith
Lewis McNally
Luana
William Schoenheider
Mary
Thomas Flanagan
Edwin Loftsgard
Arthur Hermen
James Hermen
Oliver Heins
Oelwein
Arnold Sanders
Elgin Local News Highlights Social Visits and Winners
Mrs Ole Reierson hosted Julia Halverson in Clermont on Tuesday. Supper guests included Mr and Mrs Oliver Torkelson Fred Martie and Alphia Reierson. The Lands gards visited Waureka and Seely and Christianson. Nellie Muhly, 88, was visited by DeSart and Linda. Winners in the April 9 drawing were John McMillan Joe Heierson and Mrs Walter Kohls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole Reierson
Julia Halverson
Clermont
Oliver Torkelson
Fred Martie
Alphia Reierson
Arthur Landsgard
Wil Seely
Henry Christianson
Af Waureka
Wisc
Dale DeSart
Linda
Nellie Muhly
West Union
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Cheery Valley
Glenn O'Neal
Rita
Dubuque
John Christen
Marvin Lantz
Castalia
Walter Lantz
Carl Cousins
Robert Hanson
Wm. Moore
Kent
Francis Butikofer
Belle Knudtson
Guttenberg
Fred
George Leuch‘tenmacher
Jack Zurcher
Mt. Vernon
Mr. Zurcher
Stephen
Kenneth Halverson
Thomas Ogle
Fremont
Don Sutter
Ross Whitcher
Harold Onsand
Thomas
Mary Flanagan
Bernard Hanson
Gunder News
Wayne Sawyer
Hillsboro, Il
Kenneth Mark
Alan Seabrooke
Jill
Timothy
Arthur Amundson
Morris Amundson
Edward Lenth
Ricky
Bruce and
Billy
Wheeling
Selmer Holm
Vebjon Landsgard
St. Olaf
Lawrence Naylor
Otto Gisleson
Carroll Klingman Jr
Howard Helgerson
Kathy Jo
Milford Sampson
Clarence Helgerson
Theodore Sampson
Floyd Thompson
John Butikofer Jr
Olvin Olson
Vickie
Will Bergen
Kenneth Krosa
Cornelius Reierson
Orvin Loftsgard
Keith Brainerd
Postville
Julia Loftsgard
Ruth Loftsgard
Sharon
de Vere Halverson
Raymond Loftsgard
Lloyd Loftsgard
Harold
Myron, Houg
Sam Schneider
Dan Butikofer
Myron Hoag
Harold Pfister
Bernard
Manchester
John Solomon
Ole Loftsgard
Milton Olson
Harold Christopherson
Dale Fogle
Kenneth Mork
John Tillotson
Illyria News
Elgin State Bank Dial
Iowa
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Wapena
Elgin State Bankwrence Knudison
Illyria Community Church
Donald T. Caspers
Circle of Ladies’ Aid
Strawberry Point
Waterers
Elgin Produce
Interstate Power
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