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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1952
Page
8
Illyria Community Church hours listed with minister G Steinman. Numerous local families attend funerals, birthdays, picnics and open houses. Community groups announce meetings, reunions, and social gatherings at farms, homes, and fairgrounds in West Union Wadena Elgin Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas.
Cherry Valley News lists multiple Independence Day gatherings. Families including Butikofer Dennler Nickels Pollock and Hanson enjoyed Fourth events in Guttenberg Elkader and Evansville. Community picnic plans at West Union fair grounds are noted for Sunday July 13.
Melissa and Myrna Moore dined with the Walter Butikofer home Saturday. Albert L. Dennler and Ben Dennler families hosted supper Friday for the Harry Butikofer group. Roscoe Larson hosted Sunday dinner for Elmer Bracklmeyer and Martin Larson of Postville. Afternoon visitors included Clara Muehlenthaler and Ernest Christen. Gladys Hanson left for a Denison trip. Several families and individuals, including the Schupbach, Lehman, Nickels, Mason, Christen, and Dennler groups, noted picnics, visits, and Sunday gatherings in nearby towns.
Brainard residents welcomed numerous weekend guests from Iowa and Wisconsin. Visitors included the Erickson and Boyer households in Brainard, with stops from Waukon Farmersburg Volga and West Union, plus members from Clermont Clermont McGregor Decorah and Elkader. The Lyle Martin home hosted Jorris Martin Robert Musser and others. the Peters family relocated to Brainard from their prior home.
Keson Cedar Rapids visitors attended a Fourth of July picnic at Clermont park hosted by the Olson family. Attendees included Olaf Olson and family, Harold Opsand and Rosella, Morris Amundson and Janice, John Opsand, and many relatives. Also noted are visits from Pvt. Burdette Anderson of Fort Leonard Wood and trips to Chicago for the Gold Star Wives convention.
Tuesday evening guests included Mr. and Mrs. Geo Landsgard and Gera dine, plus Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Anderson and their boys. Kathleen Gisleson, who had been visiting the Gerhard Groth home for a week, returned home Sunday.
Luther Hazlet, 74, died at Xavier hospital in Dubuque on June 29 after a six week illness. He was buried in Dubuque, his longtime home. Surviving are his wife and two sons. Born in Elgin, he graduated from our high school and taught school in this.
A long career in public service ends as a railway mail clerk and later a desk clerk at the Page hotel in Dubuque. The subject spent several years in the community before joining the railway mail service and retiring from that role.
The Cooney Construction Company moved their large crusher from the Martie quarry to north of Postville the last week in June. They had been here since last winter and resurfaced several Clayton and Fayette county roads nearby. They also built a huge stock pile of crushed rock for the new Turkey river bridge.
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