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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1944
Page
8
Gunder News covers a weekend of visits and meals across the Lofts gard and nearby households. Numerous guests and callers from Manchester Wisconsin Ossian Jesup and Chicago share Sunday afternoons suppers and Friday outings. Several family groups are noted visiting or staying with relatives including the Loftsgard Hansen Nyborg Larson and Halverson households.
Amundson attended a Wednesday evening reception at the East Clermont church honoring Sgt and Mrs Donald Larson. Mesdames Milo Jacobia Myron Anderson Harlan Troy Qle Lofts gard O J Nyborg Quinton Clark Merle Olson and Mark Hanson visited Sunday evening with Mrs Ray Jacobia.
Illyria residents share updates from Fort Wayne visits to Waterloo hospital, Sumner chicken farms, and Wadena gatherings. Numerous Sunday dinners, birthdays, and club meetings are noted along with cemetery association plans. Agricultural concerns warn hog prices may surge by midsummer while soybean planting risks reduced yields from heavy seeding.
The Ladies' Aid Society met on February 16 at Mrs. E R Nutting's home with dinner at one. Barbara Gilbert, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray Gilbert, has measles. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Chas Peters and Colleen Howard in the Robert Kerr home Sunday. Mrs Sidney Patterson and Jim Bartlett visited the Nutting and Bartlett homes Thursday. Mr and Mrs Clive Helms and daughters and Mrs H W Helms spent Sunday with M K Helms. The Nutting family hosted guests including Mr and Mrs William Nutting and sons Sunday in Sidney Nutting's home.
Cheery Valley social rounds list visitors staying with Dennlers, Christens, and Butikofers from Darlington and Shullsburg in Wisconsin. Guests include Aliene and Bernadine Mayne, Hans Ubersax, Clifford Sargent, and others. Community reports mention illnesses, nurse care, clinic plans, and local residents hosting dinner and afternoon visits.
The six year old Solberger of Marion, Harvey, won the kiddie review on Saturday with a piano accordion performance. He is the grandson of Fred Dennler. Mrs. Harry Butikofer sustained burns to face shoulder and arm from hot coffee. Mr and Mrs Willard Schroeder of Marion moved onto the G Denier farm recently.
Inventory figures for Iowa farms at the start of this year show about a 10 percent rise over the 1943 record. Hog numbers lead with a 13 percent gain, cattle up one percent, and sheep slightly higher. Work stock declined from the prior year.
Farm Outlook by Jack Moran reports dairy production this year will fall but cash income from dairy products may exceed 3 billion dollars as more output is sold as whole milk. Hog price supports faced shifts, with government commitments to sustain hog prices near the Chicago ceiling amid market uncertainty and wartime adjustments. Also notes Iowa State College extension cautions against saving hybrid sweet corn seed for next year.
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