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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1942
Page
8
Oak Grove residents hosted and visited across weekends with numerous calls and dinners. Families including Leuchtenmacher Gilson Howard King Dennler and others shared time at homes such as Walter Denenler Harry Gilson and Thos Howard. Card club events yielded scores for women and men.
Illyria items list visits by Robert Gehring Kenmare N C and Fred Schneider family. Mrs Louie Zurcher returns to Waterloo. Wm Hitch and Yauslin family guests of Chas Doty. 4 H and Farm Bureau luncheon planned. Carl Gehring and Ed Gehring host. Looby Dennler Loftsgard Halverson guests. Mrs Pollock, Ogle, Marilana visit. Noel Paul Smith weekend with R D Smith West Union. Yearous visits. Woods family move to Cedar Rapids. Minihan family moves to vacated farm.
Weekend and midweek visits span multiple local families including Robbing, Ogle, Walters, Rothlisberger, Gehring, Looby, Medberry, Moore, and Hunsberger. Church Christmas plans list Tree Committee members, Tree Trimming group, Program organizers, and Gift distribution teams for the Community Church in Dee.
Cheery Valley News lists gatherings at the Lous Butikofer and Ben Dennler homes with Mr. and Mrs. Geo Schupbach, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Butikofer, and others. Eleanor Butikofer returned from Toccos Georgia while Mrs. Martin Hanson and Clara Muehlenthaler attended a Home Project meeting in Elkader.
Arthur Friederich spent a Sunday afternoon in the John Denner home. Leo and Harry Dennler and Mr and Mrs Frank Burwick of Waterloo were supper guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs John Denniler. Mrs Fred Butikofer spent Saturday afternoon in the Mrs Fanny Frieden home. Rob Lehman and Floyd Boyle along with Gary visited in the Bert Thoman home Sunday. Delia Andrae and Ruth Rothlisberger were weekend guests in Christen Bros home. Jake Lehman and Lavern Dennier spent Sunday afternoon in the Jake Dennier home. Walter Butikofer called at the John Dennler and Jake Butikofer homes Sunday afternoon. Betty Minihan of Oran and John Nagel of West Union spent the weekend in the Martin Minihan home. Geo Leuchtenmacher visited in the Orlin Mason home Saturday evening.
Sunday gatherings at the Loftsgard residence celebrated Corp Lloyd Loftsgard on furlough with extended family from nearby households and friends. Visits included Myron Hoag, E S Houg, and others while plans were set for the Marion Doreas Society Christmas party on December 19 at the church parlors.
A string of social visits was recorded with Mr. and Mrs Eldred Dummer and guests at Wayne Gilson and Lawrence Gehring households. Robert Gehring of Kenmare and others joined dinners and Sunday calls in several homes including Schneider Peters Craft and Boyer households near West Union Hawkeye and nearby areas. The Ladies Aid Society plans a Thursday meeting with a Christmas program and gift exchange.
The report lists daily gatherings with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dummermuth and relatives including Daryl Kay and Sheryl Faye of Fayette, plus Jud Conner and others at the Dummermuth home. Glen Boyer sought medical care in Waterloo after a Saturday trip. Nearby, the Becker family and Mrs. Alice Becker dined with the Robert Kerr household on Sunday. Afternoon callers in the Kerr home included Charles Peters, Arthur Patterson, Reuben Howard and family, and Bonnie. Raymond Mays and family visited Henry Danks near West Union on Saturday afternoon. Sidney Nutting and Evelyn and Ruth Hope joined the Nutting family at Clermont, and Vern Boyer or Alice traveled to Richard Miller’s home on Sunday.
Grand Meadow residents share visits and gatherings as Selmer Erickson returns from Erskine Minnesota. Ladies' Aid Society meets at church parlors with officers elected. Families visit friends at Various homes including Olson, Skaien, Wharram, and Larson households. Christmas program practices begin. Sewing Circle holds annual meeting. Several townspeople travel or host relatives and guests through the week.
A holiday pitch urges gifting a year long home town newspaper subscription to friends or relatives whether nearby or in another part of the county. Also notes Navy veteran Bob Milholm of Mt. Vernon cited for Midway duty aboard Yorktown. A Hardin County turkey raiser sold 1800 birds for 10360 dollars, average weights 19 pounds toms and 14 pounds hens.
Lightning struck the Lower Cruikshank farm in Davis county twice in the same storm. A heifer sheltered under a tree died, and the tree top and branches burned about 15 feet down. The Atlantic-Griswold line of the Rock Island railroad was discontinued after 63 years of service. Abandonment was approved by the ICC after the branch operated at a loss. In Nashua a divorce settlement awarded August Oleson items of personal property including crutches wool underwear a swarm of bees part of the potato crop a cap family portraits and a bed and mattress. Ray Johnson former Muscatine county treasurer and present state auditor examiner was appointed deputy secretary of state and will take office Jan 2.
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