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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
8
Local notes list numerous social visits across Oak Grove and nearby towns. Family gatherings, dinners, and Sunday visits feature many residents and neighbors in Cheery Valley Elgin West Union Fay ette and surrounding areas. The piece ends with an Illyria Church Christmas program listing songs and recitations by area children and adults.
Illyria items report the Comrades Sunday school class presented their play One Minute of Twelve in Volga last Friday evening. Various local residents are listed visiting relatives and socializing, including Foxwell, Rothlisberger, Strong, Yearous, Medberry, Holtzman, and Stirk families across Fayette West Union and nearby areas.
The Elgin Echo advertises one dollar Christmas cards on sale for 75 cents while supplies last. Orders for printed cards are taken through December 19 with delivery after that date. Magic Slates are available again at the Echo office.
The letter thanks stockholders for a December 5 1936 resolution and recalls early days of the creamery. It notes growth from about 12500 dollars with 60 to 70 patrons to over 200000 dollars with 380 to 400 patrons annually. The writer praises Reichert for insisting on honest business and mentions relief from secretary duties and granddaughter Ethel Luchsinger assisting.
Mr and Mrs Leo Larson welcomed a son at Postville hospital on Friday December 11. Doris Landsgard of Clermont visited Jeanette Loftsgard. Mrs Kenneth Kjosa of Decorah stayed at parental home of Mrs T Kjosa. Mrs Lena Clark visited Mrs E E Landsgard, who is recovering from illness. Elmer Benson hosted visitors in Geo Lands gard home. Kenneth Hellum stays with uncle Gilbert Peterson near Decorah. H T Bilden and Hilden spent evening with Mrs E Nelson. Doral Society bazaar at church a success raising a neat sum. Mrs Roy Meyer of Clermont gallered at Gilbert Loftsgard home. Joseph Kjosa operated on for appendicitis at Postville hospital. reports favorable. Area ladies visited Bertha Cold ahead of move to Decorah Old People’s Home. Rev Smith of Decorah was a business caller in Gunder.
A reflective editorial notes motor accidents in the country have claimed more lives than all wars it has fought, and comments on the ease of gaining friends during debt and the challenge of finding them while recovering.
A vivid account frames a fatal highway crash as a wrecked cargo truck incident near an undertaker's door. The piece links the tragedy to unregulated itinerant truckers, urging comprehensive safety laws and stricter highway controls to cover all drivers and taxes.
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