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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1956
Page
2
The EHS weekly notes cover student activities across departments, from "Klass Komments" and a newsreel to biology dissections and home economics projects. Senior and junior students, teachers, and clubs are named amid reminders of March of Dimes drives, calendar events, and long campus routines.
Volga High School attended the Elkader declamatory contest on Wednesday January 25 with seven entries. They earned two firsts one second and four thirds. Participants included Raema Francis Geraldine Zapf Yvonne Brooks Andrea Zwanziger and Billy in various categories.
A string of social visits and family milestones are listed. Mary Little and Leo joined Nancy Moats for a Des Moines visit with the Al Kunzman family. Several dinner guests frequent the Guy Brooks, Harry Wood, and Clark Hummel homes. Maryann underwent hearing tests in Iowa City. Health trips include eye tests in Rochester and surgery there for Mrs. Ray Klingman. The Virgil Marquette family from LaClair stayed with Les Wheeler. Linda stayed a week with the Wheelers. Other gatherings occurred in Waverly, Ames, and Blooming Prairie. Death notices cover a Volga resident, Mrs. Charley Adams, aged sixty-one, with funeral in Volga and burial at Cox Creek. The 4-H Leaders’ Day in Ames is noted and baby arrivals in Manchester and Oelwein.
Carrie B. Davis born August 7, 1894 in Chase county Nebraska to David L. and Isabelle Gould Adams. The family moved to Volga in 1903 and she grew up near Volga. She married Reid M. Davis on June 16, 1826 in Nashua, then lived six years in Mederville where he barbered, later settling in Volga with one son, Donald.
The regular Tertia Club meeting at Mrs. Ben Schori's home had eighteen members present with Mrs. John McMillan assisting. Guests included Mrs. John Cannon and Mrs. Leo Olesen. Reports covered Danish cookery Danish customs and the Federated News with committee appointments for Nominating and Program chaired by Mrs. Russell Larson.
Leo J Milo Olson announces the upcoming event with Myrna Lane and Mrs Harry Cline as co hostesses for the next gathering.
A fragment reports a drive in Osceola where a car with its engine running smashed into a front glass window of Jerry’s Drive-In and references Wolfe’s drug store and Cliff Coyle. The details are unclear and incomplete.
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