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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1965
Page
8
Community notes record visits and guest stays across Colesburg Fayette Ossian Oelwein and Manchester. Names include Loftsgard Long Berge Nyberg Solomon Peters Petersen and Knute Olsen with gatherings at homes and churches and a funeral at Stavanger Lutheran Church.
Mrs Tom Hayzlett and family spent time in the Richard Kohls home from Monday to Wednesday. Mrs Vivien Peters and Dennis Olson were Sunday guests in the Harvey Meyer home. Don Reeder hosted visits with Vern Boyer and Lyle Martin families. Further gatherings included interactions with Miss Wilma Grimes, Paul Buckley, Elmer Kohls, Bob Kerr, Gail ig, Ed Fenner, and Emma Grimes birthday party. The Wilson Patterson family joined a Saturday game and later coffee at the Reeder home.
Mr and Mrs Ed Fenner hosted a game Thursday afternoon in Ross Whitcher and Floyd Whitcher homes West Union. Sunday visitors at Lyle Martins included Melvin Hanson Jim Hanson Guttenburg Jock Hanson Brent Greg Cedar Falls Roger Russell Reeder. Richard Kohls and Donald visited. Last Thursday afternoon Clarence Tripp home West Union hosted a gathering.
Elkader residents and neighbors hosted relatives and friends in பொர several dinners and luncheons. Visits included Leuchtenmacher, Christen, Dennler, Thoman, and Hanson households with extended family stops in Brackin La Porte City and Colorado areas, reflecting a busy weekend of hospitality.
Mr and Mrs Reynold Strong and Jeannette and the Duane Strong family were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Earl Strong in Monticello.
A townwide social roundup lists numerous families hosting and visiting during the weekend in West Union and nearby towns. Guests include the Thomes Foxwell and Thompson families, Orvin Thomp son, Rob Schneider, Gordon Pollock, Alton Medberry, Roger Amundson, and many more. Activities feature Sunday dinners, afternoon visits, and birthday gatherings across Clermont, Postville, Monona, and surrounding locales, with additional notes on travel to Chicago and Madison for events and visits.
Clayton County Extension posts a week of events across Elkader Guttenberg Marion and Volga with meetings for 4 H leaders stitching classes and youth groups. The schedule lists times and venues from February 25 to March 2 including an Elkader Municipal Building session and a Guttenberg youth meeting.
The article details the Future Farmers of America emblem, listing its five symbols: the owl, the plow, the rising sun, a corn ear cross section, and the American eagle. It explains each symbol's meaning from wisdom and labor to progress and national scope, and notes the motto Vocational Agriculture and the letters F F A. It mentions copyright protection of the emblem.
Future Farmers choose the week of George Washington's birthday each year for National FFA Week observance. Washington, famed as a revolutionary general and first president, was also a pioneering farmer who practiced contour planting, crop rotation, and soil conservation. The group honors his farming legacy by marking the week of his birth.
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