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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
1
In this column a Fayette county update notes the War Chest drive quota reached promptly within the region. Editorial quips, jokes, and anecdotes comment on postwar plans, attire, aging, and thrift while residents share social visit snippets from Thanksgiving weekend events and local gatherings.
Night and a half pound son born Sunday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Max Thoma. The town welcomes Herbert, George Falk, Louis Klingman, Harold Greenley, and Johnny Yenney home from Fayette for Thanksgiving. all are in the S A T C. Frank Greenley served as juror in West Union. The Shiptons visit from Waucoma for Thanksgiving at C J Harrington’s home. Mrs. Frank Greenley aided the E A Weibel family in Fairbank during the flu siege. Clayus Holm writes he is sick in France hospital. Bennett family moves into home purchased from N W Evans opposite the schoolhouse.
Families and neighbors shared holiday hospitality across Clermont and nearby towns. William Nutting, Paul Craft, S Patterson, and Patterson relatives hosted relatives from West Union Cresco and Chicago area. Visitors included Richard Johnston, Marian Patterson, and Mrs Boyle, with multiple drops by the Craft and Barnhouse households.
The Ladies Aid will hold its annual meeting on Friday December 3 instead of Thursday December 2 hostesses are Mrs Adolf Kummer Mrs Lorence Rhinehardt and Mrs Kenneth Mark. Numerous local families share hospitality during Thanksgiving weekend with dinners and visits at several homes including the Vick Anfinson Loftsgard and Olson households and many guests from surrounding communities.
The community report lists numerous Thanksgiving visitors to area homes in the T. J. Olaun and Loftsgard households, with extended family gatherings across nearby towns. It also notes crop seed results for 1943 showing declines in alfalfa and several grasses, a sharp drop in sweet clover, and soybeans not harming milk flavor even at one third of grain rations.
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