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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1937
Page
8
Illyria church hosted Community Day with dinner supper and a program including the Elgin band and a play. A homecoming Sunday featured music and solos. Numerous relatives and neighbors visited, with many guests at local homes and travels between Elgin Garnaville and nearby towns.
Uncle Jim notes an afternoon of entertainment and plans for the annual Fourth of July picnic at Echo Valley park near West Union. Numerous visits and social gatherings are listed, with residents and families from West Union, Volga City, Elgin, Elkader, and nearby areas stopping by homes, sharing meals, and helping with chores. Carol Wilson had tonsils removed at West Union hospital Monday morning.
Our community mourns the death of neighbor and friend Mrs Robi Wilson on Monday morning. Mrs Walter Dennler hosted the Social Hour club meeting on Wednesday with roll call responses sharing current events and questions from the Voice of.
Brainard items list social visits among residents. Mrs Raymond Mays Mrs Reuben Miller and Rosalie dined at Ernest Crane home. Herbert Dummermuth family visited Wm Nutting home. Frank Lyon Wm Nutting and Jimmie spent afternoon in Clive Helms home. D H Craft helped Joe Peters with house work three days. Robert Grover of Elgin visited John Barnhouse. Laura Hazel and Edna Appelman of Hawkeye spent week with Glen and Herman Boyer. Sheldon Moats hosted John Barnhouse. Richard Johnston of West Union stayed with Wm Nutting. Farm Union hosts at Clive Helms. E G Boyer Mrs Glen Boyer and Thomas Boyer attended Community Day at Illyria. Ray Gilbert Barbara Rae of Marshalltown visited D H Craft home. Gilbert returned home Sunday, Barbara Gilbert stayed longer. Clive Helms and Dixie Lee went to Bloomington Wisconsin for a visit with Alfred.
Hilda Meyer attends summer school at Cedar Falls and spent the weekend with Oscar Baumgartner and the Christen family. Friends and relatives including Ethel Muse Thoman, Ida Meyer, Dan Sehnider’s baby funeral at Monona, and visits to Slater, St Olaf, Guernsey Smith, Hanson Bros, and Dennler households are noted with multiple family names and weekend get togethers.
Grand Meadow residents joined Mr and Mrs Ben Erickson and family and Mrs Carolyn Erickson at the Peter Erickson home near Lansing. Earl Payne of Fayette stayed with Willard Martin. The Olsen and Amundson groups visited Decorah and Harold Blues. Several families attended a Lars Larson birthday party near Clermont. Anton Skaren spent Sunday with the Oscar Lien family. Joseph Olson and Ansten Helger- gust were also mentioned in gatherings.
Names of many local residents attend birthday gathering at Mrs. Henry Kittleson. Visits continue at the Arthur Olson home with a long list of Olson and Moore family members and friends. Also noted is Civil Service news on a steel plate engraver’s high daily wage and a Decorah rural carrier sighting of a large bird and a seven-rattle rattlesnake remains.
A collage of short items reports three killed and fifteen injured in a bus collision near Lexington Tennessee. Bremer County opens a new courthouse in Waverly with finishing work ongoing. A goldfish expert warns about salt baths to curb fungus. two horses on the Dan Gebrielson farm collide, one dies, the other injured. The Little Brown Church hosts sixteen weddings in one day. Jean Harlow dies at 26 after earning a fortune. Law students fail the Des Moines bar exam by a large margin. An Indiana man is held up by a hitchhiker who later leads police to the thief in Osceola. Tuwa’s major paving contract drive proceeds with bids for 442 miles of road.
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