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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1935
Page
8
A humorous local column notes a women’s fashion tease and a bridegroom Hank Behneider joining Archie Howard and Johnnie Falk in marriage. It recalls barbershop banter, bootleg humor, snapshots of residents, and daily life as Wilma Kohler and others attend to chores and winter snow.
Pat Langsdale and Nick Bakeman recall the forthcoming community stage event and a 1926 performance featuring Galli Curci as Tiff Green, bridegroom Harry Wenger, infant Al Schori, ushers Dean and Pfister, and many local names. The note ends with a nostalgic line about good times ahead.
Oak Grove community pages list supper guests and calls at multiple homes. Families including Luchsinger, Hoover, Thoman, Strong, Kerr, Reed, Leuchtenmacher, and Nydegger appear in dinners and gatherings across West Union Elkader Elgin and nearby. Several events include Good Will Society, phower in Wadena, and a blizzard alarm at Luchsinger home.
Illyria Items Coronel Rothlisberger and Elizabeth Foxwell spent the weekend with their parents in Cedar and near St. Olaf. Mr and Mrs Francis West hosted relatives at Elkader. Neighbors report a chain of moves: Shaffers farm near West Union. Robbins family moves to Shaffer farm. Peter man family to Robbins vacancy near Clermont. Chapman farm to Elgin. Frieden family to Chapman farm. George Hyde family relocating.
The community records several neighborly moves including the Friedena and Butikofer farms, with families relocating to Cheery Valley and the Reichert farm near West Union. A large Ilyria church banquet honors the I. F. Shaffer family as they move to a farm south of West Union, with extensive attendance and a gas incident ending the evening safely.
Mr and Mrs Ed Butikofer and children visited Sunday in the Fred Butikofer home. Mrs John Pulfer received word Thursday from Oakville of her mother Mrs Tofield Fischer passing away. Sympathy extended to the Pulfer family. Arthur Friederich accompanied Ben Schneider and Mollie to West Bend visiting relatives. Several other visits and residence notes follow including Friddle Dennler and Butikofer families and Rosa Schlupp and Lerch assistance.
Margaret Dennler and Jake Lehman visited at the Jake Dennler home on Sunday. Dozens of guests and neighbors, including Mrs. Albert Butikofer, Mrs. Ida Christen, Mrs. Louisa Martie, and others, gathered for visits, sewing, and meals across Oak Grove and nearby towns. The Emil Dennler family moved to Slater, Iowa for new work.
Brainard items cover social visits among Nutting, Tripp, and Miller families, B Y P A activities, church services, and local gatherings. Residents attend, host, or plan events. gas station talk sours with I W W customers. Officials raid Waukon and Postville for slot machines and liquor. A Davenport alimony court scene involves two wives. West Union liquor store vacancy and reorganization noted.
The Dionne quintuplets face a flood of jokes from radio comics and columnists about the five year plan and family matters. Critics say quips about the sisters are increasing faster than derisive jokes about the old tin lizzie.
A Pottsville boy testifies in a damage suit challenging his competence, joking about truth. Arlington News urges towns to curb wanderers and panhandling, arguing for hard limits on aid to transients visiting for work relief programs.
Bremer county supervisors leased an additional eighty acres from Walter Beisner to accommodate the growing number of residents at the county farm. Plans include establishing a rural school in a county home building, with twelve children currently eligible to attend. Sumner Gazette.
A recent court decision permits settling a $100 debt with pennies. The Echo will accept 200 pennies as payment for a one year subscription.
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