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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1963
Page
8
The report lists numerous Sunday and midweek visits across Clermont and nearby homes. Names include Wilson Patterson Gehring Reeder Peters Kohls Pape Strong Squires Hanson Roland Peters and Kerr in households like Kenneth Strong George Pape and Melvin Hanson.
The Cheery Valley Good Neighbors Club will meet Tuesday March 12 in the Auxiliary rooms in Elgin. Numerous local families and members like the Christen, Parker, Mason, Bilden, and Hanson households were noted in recent community activities and visits across Elgin, West Bend, and Farmersburg with church and family gatherings.
Mrs Harry Feller Iva and Mr and Mrs Elmer Lem bke and Wanda visited Friday at Harold Strong home. Thomas Foxwell family dinner guests at Harold Tape home Hawkeye. Progressive Home Study Club picnic at Elgin Legion rooms last Wednesday with next meeting hosted by Mrs Pete Rubbon. Mr and Mrs Will Christen guests of Floyd Chase in Fayette. Arthur Chapman visited Will Frieden Della Chapman West Union. Clara McNally Luana week's end with Hob McNally. Luana joined for dinner. Harold Vogt Farmersburg visitors in Milo Frigden home. Clarence Buckdasher Clermont family visited Roy Halverson. Ivan Anderson and Tofield Heck guests. Gene Wenger family Orrar Bane guests of Ed Wenger. Jean Metzger Patty Schneider supper guests of Elizabeth Schneider family. Metzger also spent weekend at Schneiders. Clarion Hagelie West Union supper guests of Mervin Hunsberger. Richard Hofer Clermont Saturday guests of Jacob Schneider. Judy Ogle Betty Bennett Cedar Rapids Janet Rothlisberger Billy Bennett Virgil Torson family dinner guests of Wil Kerr. Lester Chase family Louie Zuercher Volga Michael Eder Jesup Arthur Hermen Sunday dinner guests at James Heren home. It was for Mrs Chase and Duane Hermen birthdays. Joe Olson Clermont joined afternoon. Mrs Arthur Yearous ill. Bill Smith Cedar Rapids Albert Parker Volga callers Saturday evening Gordon Pollock home. Orville Bonjour Volga callers Saturday evening Jerome Yearous. Arthur Chapman Sunday afternoon callers John Nydegger. Mrs Jim Whitford and sons guests Saturday Forrest Shaffer home. Charlton Looby Twyla Oclwein Sunday afternoon callers Edwin Lottsgard. Glen Yearous and children.
A string of local hospitality notes lists guests and meals across Sumner Clermont Tripoli Atkins and surrounding areas. Residents hosted dinners and suppers for relatives and friends including Block Diemer Baker Wilson Leuenberger King Schneider Loftsgard Gass Shaffer Yearous Strong and others over the weekend.
LaVerne Larson reports Clayton County Farm Bureau reached its 1963 goal of 2,363 members on March 1, making Clayton the largest county Farm Bureau in Iowa. The current membership is 2,383, up 15 from 2,348 in 1962, with 94 percent of Clayton farmers already in the fold since 1943.
Bureau president Bowman said membership work is going exceedingly well with fifty five counties meeting or surpassing goals, compared with only a few counties at this date last year. He noted broad support for keeping government controls and regulation out of agriculture.
Elgin residents hosted guests and visitors over the weekend with dinners and receptions. Charles Becker of Clermont dined with the Louis Becker family while Saturday hosts included Kenneth Nelson Tammie Brenda Hiawatha and Milton Nelson Rickey from Frankville. Vingil Tor son visited Louis Becker Jr. Alice Winkler returned home after weeks with the Lawrence Cannon household in West Union. Rene Yack, staying with Tom Desmonds in Davenport, is recovering from a four week illness. Howard Stewart of Strawberry Point joined at the Vaughn home. Mary Clothier moved to an apartment over Leo Falk’s market. Lloyd Swartley of Duluth, Minnesota, visited Bertha Lehman, who herself was a dinner guest of Mrs. Swartley.
Metta Krueger and Mrs Francis West visited Mrs Bertha Lehman on Monday afternoon. Leo Grether of Manchester visited Mr and Mrs Leo Schori on Saturday morning. Mr and Mrs Paul Zurbriggen and sons were supper guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Matt Zurbriggen. Sumner and Gordon Zurbriggen with David of Cedar Falls were also guests.
The Tertia Club gathered March 4 at Mrs Otis Torkelson's home with Mrs Leo Lehman assisting. Valley High students Wanda Hofer Janice Durscher and Maureen Baldwin performed declamatory selections under Miss Marlene Durscher. Officers announced contributions to state federated project Arthritis Foundation and S S and Hope and set March 28 for the county convention in Arlington. Mrs William Moore named club woman of the year.
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