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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1959
Page
8
Sunday events and gatherings fill a week in Clermont area communities. Residents and visitors include the Amundsons, Sanders, Shaffers, and Dennlers among many households in Clermont Cherry Valley and Elgin hosting dinners, birthdays, and back-to-back visits. Several clubs meet, plans for the next Aid meeting are made, and local families share meals and greetings across West Union Fayette and Volga.
Weekend visits spread across towns as families and friends gathered for events and meals. Marl Ramsey acted in Kiss Me Kate in Cedar Falls while guests included Clyde Raracy and Joe Ogle with Janie, and Walter and LeRoy Rothlisberger hosted in West Union. The Emmett Light family visited Francis Baldwin in Wadena, and Elmer Lembke and Orvin Thompson circles were active in Elicader and Clermont respectively. Mark Stutrud spent Sunday through Tuesday with the Thompson family.
Brainard notes a flurry of weekend and weekday visits with Mr and Mrs Bob Peters and others in Reinbeck and Waterloo. Families from Fayette Clermont and West Union joined gatherings at multiple homes, including Peters Gilbert Hanson and Reeder households, with guests such as Ray Chapman Wilson Patterson Harold Bennett and Ed Heins.
Callers Sunday in the Billy Peters home included the Doyle Baker family and Bob Peters and Don Peters. Jim Hanson visited Lyle Martin for supper. Glenn Boyer and M A Boyer hosted visitors Thursday. A birthday party surprised Mrs. Roger Reeder Sunday evening with Bob Kerr Harjo Meyer Hubert Cummings Clermont Colleen Howard Willis Lyons attending. Dinner guests Saturday in Vern Boyer’s West Union home included Don Reeder and sons. Joe Peters and Barbara Pritchard were supper guests Thursday in the Billy Peters home. Jeri Martin spent the weekend with Anna Reeder. Mrs. Anna Reeder left Sunday for Oscar Reeder’s in West Union for February. Joe Peters stayed in West Union hospital Monday through Friday. Bob Kerr, Harlo Meyer with families visited Wednesday evening in Joe Peters home in Clermont.
Mrs Slemer Groth joined Mr and Mrs Henry Olson to Rochester last Tuesday to visit Milo Olson in hospital Mrs Lloyd Schutte returned home with them Saturday dinner guests at the T J Olson home were Mr and Mrs Waldo Embretson Mr and Mrs Kenneth Krosa and Sandra were Saturday eve ning guests at Otto Gisleson home Thursday afternoon Hilder Bilden visited Lloyd Loftsgard home Mr and Mrs Gerald Winters and Doreen and Mrs Laurence Naylor were Sunday dinner guests at Otto Gisle sons The Orvin Loftsgard family were supper guests Thursday evening of the Keith Brainerd family Mr and Mrs Bernard Loftsgard and family visited Sunday afternoon at the Otto Hanson Jr home
Local residents shared hospitality at numerous gatherings from Friday to Sunday. Attendees included Lena Nyhus Mellien Loftsgard Harold Pfister and many others visiting kin at homes in Bernard Loftsgard Milo Gisleson Emory Landsgard St Charles Monona West Bend and Prairie du Chien.
The Good Neighbors Club of Cheery Valley will meet Tuesday February 10 in the Auxiliary rooms in Elgin with Mrs Lester Wenger and Mrs George Leuchtenmacher as assist ing hostesses. Nearby visits included Mr and Mrs Lester Butikofer at the Ben Butikofer home and the Alfred Hofer family at the Albert Dennler home. The Nickels and Linda of Marion stayed with George Nickels, while Mrs Joe Olson and Mer lin Nickels visited.
Henry Winch of Hopkinton suffered a severe hand cut when a buzz saw during woodcutting injured his right hand. Medics report his fingers were saved and he is recovering.
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