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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1966
Page
2
Community notes recount various local visits and gatherings across several towns including Ontarix, Cedar Falls, and Clermont. The item lists social calls, birthday observances, and a death report for Riley Moody of McGregor with funeral details at St. Marys Church. A Friday cash drawing yielded multiple winners with one entry listed as unknown.
Community sketch with lists of visits, travel, and illnesses. Names include Richard Welsh, Celestine Wo Dubuane, Lamphier family, Mrs White of Cypress, Mr and Mrs Cass, George Wood and family, Louise Christeleit, Ella Puffett, Ralph Hansel, and many local residents. Reports cover travels to San Diego, Texas, Colorado, and Iowa miles, hospital treatments, funerals, and social visits across Postville, McGregor, Calmar, and nearby towns. Weather notes from Chicago to Germany and family events are interwoven with local interactions and church and school connections.
A fragmented report notes a crowd reacting to a comedian routine that mocks Nourse. Jenkins and Jamason clash in a wrestling moment while others cheer and jeer. The piece mentions a performer called Byonee and a line about a “vert ceremony” as spectators react.
Wesley Dillon, 65, died Wednesday July 20 at Central Community Hospital in Elkader. Funeral services were held Saturday July 23 at 9:30 am at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Strawberry Point with burial in Strawberry Point Cemetery. Survived by wife Emma, four brothers Clair and Loyd in Cedar Falls, Reid and George in Strawberry Point, four sisters Mrs. David Kenneally of Littleport, Mrs. LeRoy Berns of Lamont, Mrs. Charles Otterbeck of Strawberry Point, Mrs. Selmer Olson of Volga, and other relatives.
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