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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1953
Page
8
Friday and Sunday social visits recur across Clarence area homes with many families hosting relatives and friends. Berg Thoyonne, Zuercher, Butikofer, Dennler, Christen, Hanson, and Mason households appear in multiple gatherings during weekend hours.
Brainard News notes visits by Carl Appelman West Union and the Henry Cheney family Spring Valley to Clifford area homes. Local households report supper guests and gatherings with the Erickson, Boyer, Pape, and Wede families, with other relations visiting Clermont and Farmersburg. Dairy cattle fed corn silage as winter roughage. no ill effects observed.
The Marion Dorcag' Society will meet Saturday January 17 in church parlors with hostesses Mrs. Lloyd Loftagard Mrs. Robert Wettleson Mrs. Kenneth Mork and Mrs Enoch Mork. Bernie Olson died at Larnon Nursing Home St Olaf Sunday morning. Dinner guests and visits noted through local families in Decorah Postville and West Union as Merlin Anderson prepares to depart for the Army.
Illyrian Community Church led by Minister E G Steinman lists Sunday school at 10 15 a m and worship at 11 15 a m Church night with supper and program set for Thursday evening Readers note visits by Roger Reeder and family and Willis Lyon to Robert Kerr and Ban households plus dinners with Wenger family and Taralee Ervin Metzger Gehring pa Gehring and Fred Schneider homes social hosts Clarence Pins Guttenberg and Clarence Pins hosted a rock club gathering Jim Yearous entertained the rock club at home Reynolds Strong and Jeanette returned from a Houston trip after visiting relatives in several states
A sequence of social mentions lists several families hosting or attending events. Mr and Mrs Floyd Rieden hosted a rock club gathering. Harold Dennler Thos Fox and families with Lois Medberry visited the Howard Medberry home. the Yearous and Faye Whittenbaugh families shared dinners. Ladies Aid Society and Cemetery Assn plan a meeting at Alton Medberry home January 31 with hostesses Cleve Bennett Reynold Strong Jim Yearous. Myron Chapman family hosted Sunday guests including Raymond Benson and Susan. Alton Medberry family and Thomas Ellen Mary Flanagan enjoyed Saturday supper with Floyd Frieden. Carl Gahring visited Wenger Bros. Thos Pollock and Paul Bossard dined with their families. Melbert Meyer Floyd Frieden Orvin Thompson and families dined at Lea Meyer home. Jim Yearous Gerald Shaffer Carol hosted. Marian Gehring and Linda and Marian Gehring with Linda, Lois, Marlene Medberry visited Gene Wenger family Sunday afternoon.
Social gathering honors a birthday at the Francis Wheeler home. Duane Jellings heads to Camp Crowder in Missouri after enlisting January seventh. Don Gatum landed in the United States and expects discharge soon. Local residents attend Farm Bureau, mental health, and youth rally events in Decorah Elkader and Independence. Dale Boys suffers head injuries after icy road accident while helping a stranded driver.
Mr and Mrs David Fay attended the homecoming and rededication services at Spring Grove Methodist Church near Troy Mills on Sunday January 5 marking the churchs seventieth anniversary. The Rev John Fay, Fay s grandfather and a circuit rider from Ohio, organized the first Methodist class in 1958 with 13 charter members represented by descendants at the anniversary. The friendship circle class met after morning worship with forty two present and a donor appeal for discarded glasses sent to Eyes For That Date. Mr and Mrs Fay were named host and hostess for the April meeting while Mr and Mrs Oliver Fallon led the program. Wallace Oldfather presented home movies Mendoza Cedar Rapids. The bride wore a rhinestone trimmed white gown while the groom wore navy. Attendants included Mrs Hazel Tuel of Chicago and John Lopez of Cedar Rapids. The bride had worked at Collins and the groom, a Valga high school graduate, is the son of Mrs Ley Cousins of Volga. He enlisted in the navy in 1950 and served in Korean waters and expects to be stationed in San Francisco for several months. The couple
Miss Esther Mendoza became the bride of George Morarie on Tuesday January six at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Rich. The ceremony joined two local families in a simple early winter wedding with attending relatives and friends.
The groom will make their home near his base. The groom's mother Mrs Cousins was the only other guest. A wedding supper followed at the Montrose hotel. A wedding dance was held on Wednesday evening. Mrs Cora Lowe returned Friday from Graf after holidays with her daughter Mrs Zenda Potter. Mr and Mrs Gee Oldfather were Sunday dinner guests in the Leroy Sloan home.
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