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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1942
Page
8
Oak Grove residents spent Sunday visiting relatives and friends across Cler mont Volga Elkader West Union Decorah and Fayette. People called dinners and shared Sunday afternoons with neighbors and extended families including the Dens and Leuenbergers.
Illyria items list weekend and weekday visits among Waterloo Cres ton Tripoli Hawkeye and Alpha residents. Families including Zurchers Hermens Lembke Kraus Gehring Pfister Strong Rothlisberger and Kimball are noted hosting visiting relatives and friends with other callers and dinners mentioned.
Numerous families from Arlington and nearby towns hosted or visited friends and relatives over Sunday and Tuesday evenings. Guests included the Yearous, Gifford, Chapman, Pollock, and Smith families, with transfers for Alexander from Great Lakes Naval Station to California noted. Several Connexions with West Union, Waterville, Postville, and Floyd Frieden households reflect a broad local social network.
Mr and Mrs Orlin Mason and John Nagel of West Union visited in the Martin Minihan home Sunday afternoon. Dorothy Minihan of Rochester Minnesota spent the weekend with the Martin Minihan home. Numerous neighbors and families visited and hosted meals and a 70th birthday celebration at John Friederichs home with extended family from Clermont West Union and St. Paul area.
The Marion Doreas Society meets Saturday May 2 at the church parlors with hostesses Mis Gilbert Loftsgard the Houg sisters and Mrs T T Loftsgard. The Marion Ladies Aid meets Thursday May 7 at the church parlors with hostesses Mrs Ole Gisleson and Mrs Otto Gisleson. Pass Time club hosts a house warming for Mrs Ollard Nyborg. attendees knitted and shared lunch. Farmers discuss skim milk use for poultry and livestock and price guidance from the Office of Price Administration.
Ellen Hunsberger has recovered to return home from Iowa City after surgery. The Lehman family learned their uncle Mathias Strahm died at his Berwick Kansas home. Eddie Conner upgrades the Elgin livery with a Buick Six and four Fords. Ern Bauder at Detroit's Hudson plant faces layoff due to a finger injury and blood poisoning. Mrs C S Halstenson visits Iowa City for daughter’s appendectomy recovery. Edith Keiser visits her parents from Cedar Falls and returns to school. Mrs C L Shaffer improves under Mayo care in Rochester. Mrs George White home from Davenport after a patriotic display. Mrs C L Klingman cares for ill mother at Grover home. Hog feeding on pasture depends on market plans and farrowed pigs. early pigs should be full-fed corn or wheat with protein supplement. Iowa leads beef production with 12 percent of U S total.
Searcy Arkansas Harding College women in Home Economics study wartime privations using thrift learned by grandmothers. The four year college reports about 65 percent of students funding all or part of their expenses through work.
Peter Krug alias Muller, a 21 year old German aviator who fled Bowmanville concentration camp in Ontario on April 16 1942, reached Detroit by rowing the Detroit River then left by bus. He is described as 21, 5 feet 812 inches tall, 157 pounds, brown eyes, with a mole on his left shoulder blade and possibly horn rim glasses and wavy hair.
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