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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1941
Page
8
Long list of Sunday dinners visits and neighbors from West Union Clermont Fayette and Hawkeye with families. threshers meeting and Farm Bureau events noted. multiple guests including Mr and Mrs leaders and extended kin from Iowa communities.
Charline visited Fayette after two weeks in the Herbert Ash home. Oran Bane and family called at Louis Dennler’s. Mr and Mrs Harry Gilson visited in the Wm Frederick home. Robi Wilson has improved after illness since Thursday. Walter Dennler and Margie Dennler visited Thos Pollock’s. Henry Holzer hosted Cedar Rapids visitors Mr and Mrs Cecil Northrup and family at Herbert Ash home Sunday. Ward Brabham and Mrs Hans Winkler of West Union visited Robi Wilson. Wayne Gilson’s family called at Harry Gilson’s Friday. Social Hour club hosted an oyster stew and cradle shower for Mrs Melbert Meyer at Mrs Walter Dennler’s home. Mrs Sid Walters visited Harry Gilson Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Ida Wareham and daughter...
Community notes list numerous visits and dinners across Cheery Valley households. Families such as Mason Hanson Butikofer Christen Dennler and Lehman are seen hosting and visiting in homes from Sunday through Thursday, with oyster suppers and livestock show plans at Chicago mentioned.
Mr and Mrs Reuben Metzger and others visited various homes including the Will Priederich and Bert Thoman households Thursday evening. Several families traveled to West Bend for weekend stays, and many residents hosted or visited in numerous homes through Friday and Sunday.
Brainard notes list visits by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Moats Leo and others to Sheldon Moats and D. H. Craft homes. Farm Union and BYPU gatherings held at Herman and Vern Boyer residences with several local families attending. Church notes cite Sunday school at 10 and Rev A E Burroughs as pastor.
The Marion Dorcas Society schedules a Christmas party for Saturday December 13 at the church parlors with Mrs Merrill Olson Mrs Ollard Nyborg Mrs Earl Hanson and Mrs Vern Hupfer as hostesses. A panty shower honoring Larry Hanson and Shirrel Jean Nyborg was held Sunday afternoon November 30 at the Nyborg home.
Vern Hopfer returns home Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Harold Berg and daughters Ethel and Alfred Berg of Mineral Point Wisconsin spent the weekend at the Earl Hanson home. Gerald Olson left Monday for Ames for work at a service station. Several women including Mrs Bert Erickson Mrs Glen Minger of Wadena Mrs Richard Erickson of Arlington and Mrs Ray Klingman of Strawberry Point attended the funeral of Mrs Annie Loftsgard and later were supper guests in the Ole Loftsgard home.
Local families from County Line News visit relatives across multiple farms and towns. Numerous guests join Sunday gatherings at the Olaf Berg, Jim Taylor, and Johnny Friederich homes, with additional visits to Waterloo Traer and the West household. Hospitalized Harlan Blockhus noted. Irene Helgers hosted East choir. Groth and nearby families share meals and hospitality.
Blockhus and Peterson households hosted guests Sunday including Martin Amundson and family H. H. Gilbertson and children Hilder and Millard M. J. Blockhus and family Bernard Hanson and children and Julia Helgerson. Monday evening Harvey Gilbertson Oliver Lavern Larson and Kenton Krueger called on Harlan Blockhus at Decorah hospital. Otto Blockhus and Gerald Burnell were dinner guests in the Elmer Blockhus home near West Union.
Residents and relatives visit and host across Grand Meadow and nearby areas. Guests include James Olson home visits, Julia Landsgard gatherings, Loe Amundson family events, and multiple calls at homes of Reinhart, Lyngaas, Olson, and Loftsgard. Funeral attendees from the vicinity attended Annie Loftsgard’s Marion church service.
Mrs Albert Stage of Eldora keeps Muscovy ducks weighing seven pounds or more. At feeding time the birds perform a coordinated dance described as resembling the Rhumba, a lively display that draws attention on the farm.
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