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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1937
Page
8
Local notes: Mr and Mrs John Pulfer host and visit relatives in Independence and Oakville. Neighbors assist with farm work, attend garden tasks, and share Sunday visits. Dozens of names appear with gatherings, gate visits, lunches, and birthday tributes across Cheery Valley and nearby towns.
Robert Schneider is on the sick list with mumps. Marian Pulfer has an eripie. Mrs. Gottfried Frieden and Ida hosted a quilting gathering. Celia Andrae visited the Rey nold Strong home. Mrs. George Wilkinson of near Wadena stayed with Jim Yearous. Elmer Holtzman and family joined his parents near Arlington. Mrs. Alfred Wenger from Clermont helped Myra Ed Wenger with housework. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Popenhagen were mentioned.
Sunday dinners and weekday visits populate Oak Grove as Rev. J J Snyder Elgin and many area families share meals. The Tim Thoman, Dennler, Kerr, Boyle, Voshell, Pollock, Schmiddall, Schupbach, Moor, Butikofer, Metzger, Gehring, Medberry and Muncie households host dinners and gatherings through the week in a patchwork of community hospitality.
Uncle Jim warns that erosion destroys soil making a living near impossible. The piece chronicles many social visits in Elgin and surrounding towns, including the Howards, Boyles, and Shaffers. It notes a birthday celebration for Enos Howard and lists numerous dinner and supper guestings among local families and kin.
News notes report Joon Ned and Jacob Neynes of Le Mars as supper guests in the Jack Shaffer home. Other items cover Homestead Tax Credit filing rules, county courthouse carpentry, a walkout at Decorah Produce, a Postville garage gain, a Tar coated road patch near Clermont and Elgin, a long separated Fayette family reunion, McGregor merchants free day, daylight saving time in Chicago, and Des Moines spelling winner Kathryn Armstrong with runner-up Maurine Paluka.
Elgin R P Strauch is described as out in a brief item with a contact phone line 20. The note conveys a decisive status update about Strauch.
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