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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1936
Page
8
Cheery Valley residents host and visit with relatives in neighboring towns. Numerous family ties are noted with Butikofer, Weigand, Christen, Leuchtenmacher, and Hanson families visiting in Elkader, Oak Grove, La Grange, and Arlington over the weekend and past week.
Ben Hofer and family spent Sunday at Henry Holzer home. Chas Holzer plastering at the Medberry house to be occupied by Mr and Mrs Howard Medberry. Raith Hope staying with Ernestine in John Howard home. Low Dennler family dinner guests at George Jones home near Wadena. Arthur Chapman and son Douglas visited Silas Wilson and Mrs Martha Chapman. Lou Dennler family spent Saturday at Reuben Howard home. Will Raber Rev Jacob Pfister Aenil Banwart from Fort Scott and Ben Banwart from La Mars listed among attendees.
The list records residents and visitors from Elgin West Union Wadena Fayette Volga and Oelwein visiting relatives friends and attending events. Names include Gehring Chapman Barnhouse Wilson Kerr Thoman Muncie Dennler Boleyn Pritchard Baldwin Kohls and others with dinners visits and a funeral noted.
Residents in Brainard and nearby Elgin share visits and gatherings. Mrs. Harry Stillman stayed with the Jesse Olson home. Ula Howard and Grace Peters joined Chas Peters’ Elgin residence week. numerous guests attended meals and birthday celebrations at the Louis Becker home.
Sunday school at 10 a m. Morning worship at 11 o clock. Evening services at 7 30 o'clock.
Sunday visitors fill homes across Grand Meadow with many families hosting relatives from Harmony Clermont Hawkeye and beyond. Residents attend the funeral of Mrs Millard Bear in Clermont and other social visits noted throughout the week.
Ruth Rothlisberger visits West Union aunts while cemetery and Ladies Aid plan joint church meetings led by Mrs Martha Chapman. Gertrude Miller and Ruth Rothlisberger visit schools and homes of Fred Rothlisberger and Ralph Holtzman. Visitors include Mrs David Bartelma and Mrs Eugene Woodworth from Minneapolis and Fort Wayne helping care for a sick mother. Funeral of Claratelle Foster of Dubuque held at Hhyria church with praise for her years as a Dubuque teacher. Marie Frieden dies after illness. community offers sympathy. Mrs W F Albright of Beach, Va., death reported.
Zephine Fox Albright, a former teacher in Fayette and Clayton counties, married Rev. Albright and served as a self-supporting missionary in Chile for 15 years. Six children were born there, four sons and two daughters. She was known for a quiet retiring disposition and many sincere friends.
Application for emergency crop loans for 1928 are now being received at the farm bureau office at Fayette. The loans will be to farmers unable to obtain credit elsewhere and will be limited to immediate cash needs for growing the 1936 crop, with a maximum of 100 dollars per farmer. Elgin is noted for its land and hospitable people as shown when two married men comforted a young lady after her boyfriend left. An estimated three to six tons of frozen fish were buried near Big Duck lake in Warmington State Park. WPA workers removed and buried them after thawing.
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