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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1956
Page
8
Illyria News covers Sunday school services and Holy Communion at Illyria Community Church with a Friday Farm Bureau meeting, and a Women’s group gathering next week. It lists numerous social visits, family dinners, birthday observances, travel, and hospital visits among local residents and churches, including Styria Church events and West Union moves.
Cherry Valley News reports repeated weekend visits and social calls among local families. People's gatherings include dinners, suppers, and Sunday visits across the Mason, Christen, Dennler, Thoman, Hanson, and Butikofer households. Several residents attend funeral services and hospital stays related to a fall.
Last week letters list multiple local gatherings. Herman Boyer hosted New Year dinner for Pyt. Stanley Boyer with guests from Waterloo Waterloo area and nearby towns. Several families including Howard, Glen Boyer, Dick Henry, Martin, Gehring, Peters, Shadman, Erickson, Hanson, Pritchard, and Corbin are noted as visiting or hosting across Brainard and surrounding communities with weekend and weekday get-togethers.
A flurry of visits from family and friends throughout the Lawrence Gehring and nearby homes marked a busy period. Norma and Edith Gehring hosted a New Year’s Eve slumber party with Dixie Helms, Marlene Wede, Mary Brackin, and Patsy Capper. Weekend and weekday visits included the Musser, Cheney, Hanson, Johnson, de Vos, Peters, Alber, Bantz, Boyer, Homewood, Farnsworth, Whitcher, and Martin families from West Union, Oelwein, Newton, Clermont, Mason City, Elkader, Darrell Hanson, and others, with Mickey Hanson’s second birthday noted.
Joe Peters Jr returned to Fort Bragg North Carolina Tuesday after a leave at the Joe Peters Sr home. He will soon be transferred to Fort Campbell Kentucky. The Roger Reeder family were supper guests in Clermont. The Lyle Martin family visited in the Ron Bank home Friday. Mr and Mrs William Nutting of West Union spent Sunday in the Mrs Chloa Lyon home. The Billy Peters family spent Sunday in the George Pape home Clermont. Mr and Mrs Herman Boyer visited Sunday in the Clyde Crandall home Hawkeye. The Ray Gilbert family and Marcella McIntyre were supper guests.
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