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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1938
Page
8
There is a distinction between chiropractors noted as E. 8. Withell, D. C. and others. References to X-Ray, Neurocalometer, and the state Bank Building in Elkader indicate separate practitioner details in Iowa.
Mr and Mrs Fred Butilofer and family visited with Mr and Mrs Roscoe Larson and others last Sunday. Many locals hosted meals and visits at homes of Hanson, Wenger, Dennler, Leuchtenmacher, Peeper, Christen, and Friederich. A move to Arlington was noted for the Peeper family and several households hosted gatherings tied to birthdays and Sunday school events.
The report lists numerous visits including Ben Dennler at the Ben Dennler home Sunday, George Butikofer in the Jake Butikofer home Sunday afternoon, and Mr and Mrs Arthur Friedericn spending Thursday in the Tofield Lehman home. Lavern Dennler joined the Jake Dennler home over the weekend and Lena Schupbach stayed several days last week at the Albert Butikofer home to care for Mrs Butikofer who is ill. Jake Christen visited John Friederich Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs Ernest Christen and Frank Christen guests Sunday afternoon in the Wilbur home.
A long list of visitors and hosts from Stanley Wisconsin Elgin Fayette and nearby areas shared gatherings over the weekend and week. Families including Troyer Roberts Knight Dunn and Doty etc visited or hosted relatives and friends. Christmas program at the church on December 24 is announced along with assorted dinners and social events across Fayette Arlingon West Union and Cedar Rapids areas.
Oak Grove News reports Christmas wishes to all. Social items include visits by Earl Kiple Dan Butikofer and Mary Keiser. Lyle Wilson hosting a farewell for Bob Wilson bound for Hollywood. Silas Wilson’s visit with Brackin Kohls Baechler and Baumgartner families. trips by Wm Kerr and Robert to see Ella Kerr in Waterloo hospital. Brabham Winkler and Howard escorting to Epworth.
Friday visits and Tuesday gatherings center on the Wilson, Dean, Vie, Nydegger, Holzer, Kohls, Howard, Boyle, Boyer, and Bennett households. Neilsville, Rochester, and Mediapolis connections surface as relatives and friends share meals and plan health, winter, and travel arrangements.
Elaine Holm returns home after an extended visit with her grandparents Mr and Mrs Andrew Reinhart. Mrs Carolyn Erickson remains on the sick list confined to bed. Various neighbors share visits during the week with the Olson and Lyngaas families, Ruth Anderson's illness, and a Farm Bureau meeting at Austen Helgerson's home.
Brainard Items list Sunday visits at Arlo Homewood near Hawkeye with Mr and Mrs Glen Boyer and Carl Appelman. Oliver Paul of Fayette spent Sunday in the Rev A R Belknap home as well as Mr and Mrs D H Craft and Bobby Gilbert at the Wm Barker home Saturday. Other gatherings include Mr and Mrs Harvey Howard and daughter and Mr and Mrs Hugh Howard and daughter sharing time together.
Neilsville Wis residents visited relatives last Tuesday with Harvey Howard Jr returning home. Local households hosted guests including Gilbert, Hanson, Howard, Becker, and Cummings families. Church groups met. a Christmas program and notes on Christmas seals for tuberculosis education were shared, with Rev Belknap and local officials listed.
The piece notes Christmas holds, Yuletide spirit, and festive shopping as backdrop to Christmas Seals supporting the tuberculosis campaign. It highlights seals on gifts as showing human interest and helping reduce TB through mail gifts and public support. The text invokes Santa and holiday cheer alongside health advocacy.
Rudy James and Joey Ferguson discuss their weekly savings and plans to buy a bike. They compare allowances and parental contributions, with Rudy saving about 60 cents weekly and Joey about 75 cents, while the boys dream of earning and buying their own bike.
A speaker describes saving allowance after chores to buy a bicycle, expecting parents to notice and approve. The teen notes the purchase will please their dad, who allows spending as needed, while the bike embodies practical common sense. A final line notes that eighty percent of rubber industry products are used in automobiles.
William Spitz, 18, a Cunlver Military Academy senior, plans a 4626 mile flight to Honolulu for Christmas to be with his father C. W. Syrits and mother in Shanghai, who will join him there for the holiday.
Raymond G. Sterns of Rock Island United States army engineer visited Fort Atkins on Monday afternoon to inspect the Turkey river flood control measure. He noted the War Department plans to widen and deepen the river bed to handle flood flows and to tail dikes to prevent property damage during high water.
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