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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1954
Page
8
The Illyria area presents a collage of visits, picnics, and church events. Families such as the Rothlisbergers, Shaffers, and Lofts gardds share meals and greet kin from Cedar Rapids to West Union. Various reunions, church anniversaries, and farm Bureau sponsored picnics unfold across Volga, West Union, Castalia, and surrounding towns with multiple households hosting relatives and friends.
Cherry Valley notes list numerous local families hosting or visiting others through Sunday and Friday evenings. Guests include Frieden, Nydegger, Christen, Dennler, Muehlenthaler, Odegard, Berse, Hanson, Metzger, Gulikofer, and Hartbeek families. Word of a wedding in Taylor, Ma. and move to Rockford appears alongside a Mercy Hospital patient update.
The article notes several relatives visiting Chicago and Marshalltown hospitals, plus dinners at the John Dennier and Christen homes. It mentions Mr. Buscher relocating from Switzerland to Chicago and multiple local trips including Davenport, Rock Island, and a birthday picnic at the Wm. Torkelson home with many Butikofer, Christen, Schupbach, Loftsgard, and Loftsgaarden family members in attendance.
Recent visitors to the Mrs Mol lie Mark home included the Lynes Simpson family and Ted Simpson with Shirley from Hudson. Gilbert Halverson and Wayne Ferguson of McGregor joined others to La Crosse on Wednesday. Gilbert Loftsgard hosted overnight guests for Arthur Eller and family, and supper guests from Inwood and West Union. A large group gathered for a picnic at Villa Louis Prairie du Chien. Carl Patrick and wife welcomed a daughter Sunday August 22 at Palmer Memorial Hospital West Union.
Mr and Mrs Everett Henkes of McGregor visited in Norris and Lavern Larson homes Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs T T Loftsgard were dinner guests in the Keith Brainard home in Postville. Ruth Loftsgard and Sharon spent Friday with Mrs Myron Hong Kendall Mark was five years old Tuesday and ten friends helped celebrate. Kenneth Anderton family of Clermont visited the Kenneth Mork home Wednesday evening.
The text argues against excessive parental choice for a child’s routine, noting no value in endless discussions or allowing constant decisions. It stresses that a child benefits from parental decisions for security while still practicing simple independent choices.
A brief lesson on letting children make small choices to build judgment. A four year old girl chose between two nap options, showing early practice in decision making. Parents often decide for children, depriving them of opportunities to exercise self direction and responsibility.
Mary and Rosalie Adams of Schaller discovered 5160 dollars tucked in a dresser drawer from the Knowles estate purchase. The chest held the funds once owned by George Knowles, unearthed by the sisters during a routine search.
Iowa hog producers short on corn increasingly rely on oats to fill rations. Farmers report a good oats crop and comparatively low oats prices. Though valued at about 75 percent of corn, oats can be fed liberally in hog rations to stretch scarce corn supplies.
After sixty years of threshing, 79 year old Lewis Dahl suffered a major accident when his tractor slid into a ditch and the separator tipped over during his final job of the year near Thompson.
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