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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1946
Page
9
E R B Withell a chiropractor and dentist operates from the State Bank Building Elkader Iowa providing X ray and neurocalometer services as listed.
The Illyria items list a June meeting hosted by Mrs. Retta Davis in Alpha with many local families attending. Visitors include Mollenhauer of Grays Lake and Yearous relatives from Fort Morgan, along with Wilcox and Rothlisberger kin. Several Sunday visits, picnics, and a farewell for Anna at Cedar Rapids are noted, plus a planned conferen ce of Rev. Warton at Mt. Vernon and an Ames agronomy day.
Mr and Mrs Walter Lehman and Eugene spent the weekend with Emil Dennler near Des Moines. Mrs Will Friederich leaves Sunday for Iowa City to enter the university hospital for surgery. Mr and Mrs Charles Erickson of St Olaf were dinner guests Sunday in Albert Erickson Jr home, with Mr and Mrs Clayton Schreiner of Independence, Archie Howard family and Lyle Butikof.
The report lists numerous households hosting or receiving guests Sunday including Betty Low Baumgartner, Ida Christen and family, O T Knudtson and Orvin of St Olaf, Edwin Hanson, Lavern Dennler, Frank Christen, Wm Baumgartner, Louis Butikofer, Geo Schupbach, John Albert, Bert Thoman and Ethel Mae. Relatives from Merrill, Wis ended a weeklong visit as Geo Leuchtenmacher and family returned home Wednesday.
Community members and relatives spanning Olson Loftsgard and associated families enjoyed Sunday gatherings and dinners across multiple homes. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Henry Olson and their children, Milo Olson, Ole Loftsgard relatives, and others attending confirmation at Highland church and a West Union picnic. Several trips to Des Moines and Decorah hospitals, Cedar Rapids visits, and weekend stays in family homes rounded out the day’s activity.
Sunday evening visitors from the Edwin Leftsgard and Henry Vellersven homes traveled to Chicago after two weeks of vacation. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Carmody and Marie, plus numerous stops at friends’ homes such as Wm. Bergan Ames Olson Louis Kjosa Mervin Anderson John Helium Adelph Olson and others.
Encyclopaedia Britannica notes Burrows Prairie dogs often share their burrows with owls, weasels, and rattlesnakes. This does not imply a happy family arrangement as visitors prey on young prairie dogs, while prairie dogs feed on grass, also destroying young owls and sometimes burying rattlesnakes alive.
The term cloudburst describes violent upward air currents that suspend rain drops until a mass of water at high altitude suddenly releases. In Porto Bello Fanams a severe cloudburst dumped almost 2 percent inches of rain in three minutes.
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