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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1945
Page
8
A chiropractor named D C Withell operates in Elkader Iowa, advertising services with x ray and Neurocalometer at the State Bank Building. The brief notice indicates professional practice and location in the local business section.
The Cheery Valley News lists numerous visits and guests from Labor Day through Sunday. The Baumgartner and Schreiner families share birthdays and leaves, with relatives from Arlington West Union Decorah and Postville visiting area homes and hospitals. People joined meals and travel plans, while neighbors helped with grain work and shared meals in the community.
Community program at the church featured the 4 H pledge, singing, country creed, and various performances by Winters and Yearous families. Local residents hosted guests, attended baptisms, and joined picnics and dinners at multiple farms near Fayette, West Union, and Decorah with many family and church connections noted throughout.
Minute Make-Ups by Gabrielle and Mrs. Strong return home late as the Johns on family visit Cakato farm. Sightseers Helen Rothlisberger at McGregor. Numerous households host and visit including Schupbach Schneider Moore Dennler clans at Butkefer home. Picnics at Clermont park and Richard Erickson farm near Wadena. Julia Wettleson returns from Cedar Falls. Dinner guests fill two West Union households and many more neighbors attend showers and visits across Loftsgard, Opland, Reierson, Sutter, and Ossian connections.
Clyde Crandall and Lou Appelman households receive guests from Glen Boyer and Tom Boyer families. Marian Patterson and Vivian Welch stayed with S. 5. Patterson home. Barbara Gilbert visited Glen Boyer Friday afternoon. Lyle Granger returns to Racine after a week with Chloa Lyon and relatives. Dinner honors Chas Peters birthday. Dan Craft and others host gatherings. Elza Bartholomew of Cedar Rapids joins Hazelton picnic trip and Munger sale. Baptist youth travel to Fredericksburg for weekly meeting at A. E. Burroughs. Mrs. Wm. Sullivan hospitalized in West Union.
Gunder News reports numerous social visits as Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Loftsgard and Edna, with others, spend Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Reierson. Several residents travel to Elkader Chicago Forest City Cedar Rapids Janesville and West Union for kin and employment events.
The weekly list from Herbert D. Klammer shows marriages on Aug 1 and Aug 2. Aug 1 couples are John R. Nisson and Elaine Finch of Oelwein. Aug 2 includes Lloyd Kamaus and Delores Thompson of West Union, plus Leo Louis Groza of Oelwein and Louise Adele Dugger of Oran.
On August 3, Robert A Lamphier and Lucy Rubens of Fayette are listed, followed by August 6 entries for Raphael J Wieling of Calmar and Magdalen Myers of Waucoma, detailing union plans in the locality.
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