Social visits and family gatherings fill bundles of weekends
Several dozen names appear in a long list of weekend guests and dinner gatherings across multiple households. Patrons visited relatives in Dubuque Ottumwa Decorah West Union Sumner Strawberry Point and Stanhope while attending picnics and a funeral service. Names include Everett Adrian Schupbach Lehman Butikofer Nutting Klingman Peters and Knudtson among others. The piece paints a community wave of hospitality with frequent travel to nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Adrian
Gordon Schupbach
Dubuques
Louis Lehman
Claytont
Paul Pulfer
Gottlieb Pulfer
Dennis
Larry ‘Butikofer
Add
Louis Butikofer
Ruth Schupbach
Leney Schipbach
George Schupbach
Lawrence Grimm
Oliver Torkelson
Sheldon Boyle
Walter Kohls
Reuben Howard
Janice Torkelson
Herbert: Ash
Walter
Raj West Unione Ie Fur
L. D. Hitch
West Union
Selma Greenley
Frank Greenley
William Hitch
Sumner
Lawrence Knudtson
Rochester
Minn
Edna Hunsberger
St. Mary’s Hospital
Kenneth Kjos
Wallace Oldfather
Leo Grether
Volga
Clarence Kohls
Strawberry Point
Ida Grether
Howard ‘Shaffer
Burton Wolf
Dean Torkelson
Gene
Glen Snyder
Clear Lake
Harry Johnson
Marjorie
Patti
Otto Krueger
Lake
Imalac
Willis Petratz
Steven
Sioux Falls
Dak
Bruce
Clarinda
Thore Thompson
Maine
Mr. Thompson
Farm Bureau
J. Page County
Down
Louis Martin
Hazel
Sutton
No. Dak
Pearl Peterson
Elgin Lutheran Church Plans Congregational Meeting
Vance R. Knutsen presides at Sunday worship in the gymnasium July 12 at 9 30 a m followed by a congregational meeting to vote on parsonage plans. Youth choir practice July 9 at 7 30 p m ages B to 18. Ladies Aid and Luther League Bible camp run July 16 2 00 p m and July 26 to Aug 1 at Luther Park Chetek Wis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vance R. Knutsen
iGeme
Ladies’ Aid
Luther, League Bible Camp
Luther Park
Chetek
Wis
St Olaf Lutheran Church Services and Thanks Card Notes
Sunday services at St Olaf Lutheran Church Marion and Rochester brief notices invite worshipers. Shirley Reusser thanks for visits and hospital care. others express gratitude for cards gifts and prayers after surgeries and hospital stays.
Card of thanks from Mary Lou Becker
Mary Lou Becker thanks friends and relatives for cards letters and gifts while a patient at Colonial hospital Rochester. Every thing you did was greatly appreciated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin Lutheran Sunday School
Thief Gift
Vance Knutsen
Postville Hospital
Janice Loftsgard
Colonial Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Shirley Kay Larson
Merle Clark
Jeanine Marion
Mary Lou Becker
Herman Schupbach
Social News Roundup of Regionals and Visitors
Clarence Becker of Wilton Junction visits with Mary Becker in Rochester Minnesota. Numerous local calls and dinners involve Becker, Holzer, Gehring, Frieden, and related families in Decorah, Oelwein, Volga, Elkader, and surrounding towns. Weekend trips include Clear Lake, Lake Malac, and Des Moines area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Becker
Willis Schultz
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Hillman Sersland
Ida, Grether
Leo Grether
Volga
Clare Cunningham
Don Cunningham
Chicago
Henrietta Cunningham
Postville Hospital
Mary Allen
C. B. Schori
Georgia M. Schori
Sioux City
Albert Schori
Leo Schori
William Muench
Shirley
Kay
Elkader
Louis Dennler
H.W. ‘Falb
West Union
Leo Falb
Ada Kay
Larry
John Falb
Robert Falk
Milo Olson
Otis Torkelson
Fairbanlt
Minn
Leighton Beate
Ruth
Robert
Janice
Elka~ der
Roy ‘Leuchtenmacher
Gertrude Follen
Leota Welch
Bess Stohr
Clerjmont Park
Howard Wolf
Wilton Junction
Louis Becker
Junior Becker
Grace Evans
Arthur Lantz
Eloise
LaDonna
Garnaville
Flora Walther
Leo Walther
O. L. Henke
Doan
Robert Prestley
Clinton
Robert Dunham
Oskaloosa
Ray DeSart
Robert D. ‘Wilson
Richard Melson
Des Moines
Alving Frieden
Walter Ladd
Muskegon
Mich
Also Mentioned on This Page
Patsy Everett
Dundee
Harry Everett
Mary Kirkeberg
Alfred
Henry
Elmer Peterson
Luella
Lorstuen
Kenneth Peterson
Selmer Peterson
Donald Olaon
Decorah
Reuben Mark
Wm. Proviznil
Richard Nightengale
Elmer
Lloyd Meyer
Kyle ‘Kirkebere
Ostermoor
Aeva
Elgin Furniture
Massey-Harris Clipper
Massey- Harris Clipper Combine
Massey-Harris
Wassey-Harris
Torkelson Motor Co
Elgin, Iowa
Elgin Lutheran Church
St. Olaf Lutheran Churches
J. Strandford
St. Olaf
Marion
Shirley Reusser
Rochester, Minn
Nelle Reusser
Ray Frieden
Levi Frieden
Walter Lehman
P. J. Anderson
George Anderson
Bradley
Parkersburg
Millard Olson
Lorence
Wilma Fischer
Washington
Cathryn Weittstein
Congerville
Bertha
Pulfer
Gridley
Ill
Ida Pulfer
Elmer Frieden
Alvina Frieden
James and
Jane
Harry “Schertzer and Lee
Columbus
Alton Ganders
Charles City
I. C. Jerde
Scholl
Max Thoma
Elgin
Iowa
Ladie Rayor
Anties Nylons
Gindams
Cotton & Rayon
Nyl
Lee
Tayon
the Elgin Clothes Shop
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