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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1938
Page
8
Cheery Valley residents and kin gather for family visits across Volga City West Union and Elkader. Many hosts welcome relatives including Dennler, Leuchtenmacher, Meyer, Christen, and Ogle families. church events, picnics, coin showers, and a Children’s Day program mark a busy period with travel between Cedar Rapids Des Moines and Winnebago.
Mrs Sidney Nutting recovers at home after illness. Mrs George Howard and family hosted and visited others at several homes. Laura Appelman and Beatrice Boyer stayed in John Barnhouse’s. W B Clements of Vesper visited Herman Boyer. A Ladies Aid meeting is planned with Mrs Carl Appelman. A church note lists Sunday school at 10 and preaching at 7 45 with Rev A R Belknap as pastor.
Vern Northrup of Arlington visited Friday with his daughter Mrs Lyle Wilson and family. Several local residents attended a pre nuptial shower for Cathryn Ogle at the Illyria church. The gathering included Mrs Leila Seevill and three children.
Illyria items note Guernsey Smith and family as guests of his parents in West Union on Sunday Noel Smith returned home after two weeks at Presbyterian bible school Dwight Richards of Arrow Wood Canada Anna Ernst of National City California and Mrs Jack Clement of Gilt Edge Montana visited Roy Ernst’s home near Elkader and at the Arthur residence.
Filmer Frieden and sons Gene and Donald were dinner guests Sunday at the Henry Frieden home. Walter Medberry and family were guests in the Jasper Mitts home last Sunday evening.
The article urges drivers not to rely on others to slow down or yield. It cites a Massachusetts highway survey showing only four in ten drivers act safely. The advice is to slow down, keep the car in good condition, and yield when unsure to meet emergencies instantly.
An amusing misprint reveals the sentiment that advertising pays as the codfish lays ten thousand eggs while the homely hen lays one. The column notes a mistaken births heading and reports A J Hochberger resigning as cashier of Farmers’ Savings Bank at Frederika to take a Cresco post, plus a divorce case from Cambridge involving Mrs John B Crane.
A writer likens the human body to a violin prompting a cheeky observation that some men are always fiddling. Hawkeye voters approved a franchise for Central States Power and Light by 49 to 44, a proposition previously voted down in a prior special election. Iowa highway patrol cars join the American Red Cross as a unit, with patrol chief John Hattery announcing emergency treatment materials. Each car will bear an inscription Emergency First Aid American Red Cross on front and rear bumper plates.
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