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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1953
Page
8
Long list of visits and dinners across Cherry Valley through the week. Families from Hobson to West Union joined the Dennlers, Pritchards, Ericksons, and several Dennler and Butikofer relatives for meals, parties, and quiet gatherings. A breathing section notes discharge plans and a birthday tribute at the Landsgard home.
Sunday visits in Brainard centers included Mr and Mrs Melvin Hanson and Jimmy at the Lyle Martins. Monday the Bill Cheney family went to Oelwein to see Jim Murphy. West Union guests included the Vern Boyer family and the Reuben Miller home.
The Marion Mission Society meets at the church parlors on March 12 with Mary Kirkeberg and Mrs Woodrow Reed as hosts.
Illyria community church announces Sunday school at 10 15 am worship at 11 15 am church night program and lunch on Thursday at 8 pm with public invited. Numerous social visits and trips update families from Ames Des Moines Cedar Rapids Rockville Conn Mason City West Union and Webster City. A chicken pox case is noted and a third family night with home talent program and luncheon planned.
Home of Guy Ernst hosts a noon family dinner followed by a rock party in the afternoon. Next month Mrs. Gerald Shaffer and Mrs. Earl Kiple assist as hostesses for a garden hunt and roll call. Wm Yearous and family and Larl and Helen Rothlisberger attend a birthday party for Wm Yearous and Dale Patterson in Floyd Patterson’s home, Wadena. Rock parties occur at Tofield Heck, Carol Wilson, and Mrs. Lawrence Hofer in Postville. Ed Wenger visits Cedar Rapids relatives. Arthur Hermen’s home hosts many relatives and friends including Will Chase, Ralph Chase, Floyd Chase, the Zuerchers of Volga, Oliver Heins of Oelwein, Ben Denniler, Gerald Heck, and family. Jerome and Martha Yearous dine with Ellen Hunsberger for Ellen’s birthday. Friends visit Fred Schneider’s home. Dr. Robert Schneider family of Postville, Sharon Schupbach, George Metzger, Albert Schupbach and Ruth, Levi Pulfer and Lena Schupbach.
Economists at Iowa State College predict hog prices will rise while beef prices fall in the near term. They cite rising urban beef demand, shifting diets away from carbohydrates, and higher incomes as drivers of meat buying trends.
A sustained drop in demand for fats and oils shifts value in pork parts. Lard and fat cuts now play a smaller role compared with tallow's share in beef, altering carcass economics for hog farmers.
A virus that has infected many Towa chicken flocks this winter can spread to spring purchased chicks if not properly separated. The disease is infectious bronchitis and it has been spreading statewide for two years. It rarely kills hens but dramatically reduces egg production as recovered birds may carry and spread the disease to chicks.
Fourteen year old Walter Sear cy of Independence, a budding naturalist, found a cluster of hibernating bats in an old brewery and brought them home in a cardboard box. A few days later the bats warmed up and killed 20 bats in the Searcy household.
Francis Reiter, 36, of Hopkinton, was killed when his tractor overturned and pinned him beneath it. The fatal incident occurred recently as he operated the machine.
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