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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1953
Page
8
Sunday school at 10 15 a m and worship at 11 15 a m. The article lists numerous guests and visits from families across Cedar Rapids Waterloo West Union Elkader and Clermont with church events including a Cemetery Association and Ladies Aid meeting.
The Good Neighbors club met on Thursday April 16 at Mildred Minihan’s home with Elsie Larson and Ida Meyer assisting. Twenty three members listed their favorite flowers and tended to them. Guests included Mrs Selma Holm Mrs Guernsey Smith Mrs Walter Butikofer and Mrs Edward Leath and her son. The club sent a memory wreath costing 2 50 to Mrs Frank Chisten in memory of her mother and a 2 50 gift to Glen Dennler who is in the army and a 2 50 wedding gift to Mr.
The Brainard area notes multiple gatherings with families hosting supper and weekend visits. Reeder, Boyer, Peters, and Martin homes welcomed relatives and friends from Davenport to Lime Springs, with illness mentioned as Herman Boyer recovering from a virus infection. Several households hosted guests including Nutting, Lyon, Musser, and Cherry families during the weekend.
At his death, Charles Benner had resided in the Britt community for 67 years. He was 82 years old.
A guide on toddler curiosity, noting normal explorations from pulling plaster to ink stains on rugs. It argues such investigations spark learning and future problem solving, urging parents to channel curiosity rather than scold, as kids master objects by touching, banging, and handling them.
The passage underscores guiding children away from dangerous items like radios and ice boxes by offering safe materials such as kitchen pans toys and a purse of cast-off trinkets. It notes children explore due to curiosity and a drive to master their world, not from any fault of character.
In service news notes Sgt Earl G Baumgartner, son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Baumgartner of Elka der, left Korea April 4 for the U S after about a year overseas with front line service. George Leuchtenmacher has returned home from a Veterans hospital stay in Iowa City and will travel there for further eye surgery. Raymond Loftsgard left for the Hot Spring Arkansas hospital after a three week furlough with his mother Mrs Ruth Loftsgard.
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