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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1950
Page
8
The Milton Olson and Hiram Olson families hosted and visited relatives including the Ole E Olson and Allen Anderson households. Numerous social calls occurred Friday through Monday with extended visits from the Lindberg, Krueger, and Anderson families and a birthday gathering in Postville.
The Merion Mission Society will meet Thursday June 8 in all church parlors with Mrs Nellie Hangon and Mrs Marvin Staake as hostesses. Visitors Sunday included Mr and Mrs Oscar Lind, Louie Hovland, Sophia Groth, Mrs Jack Ransman, Mildh, and Roy Gulsvig of Postville. Also Mr and Mrs Die E Olson and Theodore Wold visited Mr and Mrs Henry Velrente Lotteyard, who was sister to Postville hospital June Tuesday for an appendectomy and returned home Saturday evening. Milo Olson family were guests of Henry Olson Sunday evening.
Illyria community notes announce no church or Sunday school this Sunday with memorial services at 2:00 p m led by Rev E C Franke at Syria church and a procession to the cemetery under Legion supervision. Other items include youth fellowship, local birthday party honors, play practice, and visits among residents including Wetherbee and the Schneider families.
A flurry of guests visits across families in the area, with Lorraine Yearous and the David Bartelma family hosting in Minneapolis and many others visiting in Bl eeader, Arlington, Mederville, and near Postville. Attendees include Mrs. Eddie Meyer, Mrs. Arthur Schrader, Betty of Casu taria, the Yearous, Suba, and Kohls families, plus numerous others listed as supper and dinner guests.
Friday and Sunday visits fill the Cheery Valley scene as families entertain and host relatives. Harry Everett Delores and Sylvan Torkelson and Mary Thornton share time at the Albert L Dennler home. The Francis Meisner family dined with Harold Meisner at his home. Lydia Hanson Lucille Doeppke and Teddie visited Christen Bros. Amy L. Torkelson spent days with Albert and Dennler. Louis itikoter Oma joined Herman Schupbach for Sunday afternoon calls. Bert Thoman hosted guests at Christen Bros. Elizabeth Christen visited her father Jacob Christen and John Christen hosted a picnic dinner with Will Christen and others. Mrs. George Schupbach Orlando Loftsgard and family visited Frieden home.
After a recent windstorm Kenneth Cakerice of near Eldora saws a tree from his automobile a six inch limb pierced the hood dashboard and firewall. Farm topics discuss wool as a key income 20 to 25 percent for town ewe flocks and US wool supply at 40 percent. A tractor incident injures Ruthvan in a barnyard accident wheel passes over a leg. Shallow cultivation advised for potatoes while clean eggs spoil slower. Thieves steal about 2000 dollars worth of musical instruments from Leon school before a high school state contest.
Reported rabid fox attacks, local sightings, and numerous community guests highlight a string of unrelated incidents. In Lucas County a fox bit dogs and people before being killed near Bellevue, while many residents hosted visitors across towns including Waterloo, Eldora, and Cedar Falls. A 3,000 bushel corn theft from government bins was noted near Extra. A Cedar Falls area residence plans a live fence of 10,000 rose bushes. Continuous local notes cover births and visits, farm life, hog cholera vaccination, and general rural conditions.
John Denny escaped from Van Buren county jail last week, changed his mind, and returned to the jail minutes after the absence was discovered. George Clark, aged 81, died in Ida Grove after 43 years as a lawyer in the city, having opened shop there in 1907. A toddler fell into a 12 foot cistern on the Wirtz farm after his mother aided him. the two year old sister witnessed and told parents Denny is in the water. A pioneer Monticello home will be dismantled this summer to make way for a new house on the site of a 100 year old log structure.
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