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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1934
Page
8
Numerous neighborhood guests and visits fill a long list of hosts across Cheery Valley Elgin and Wadena. Families including Yearous Frieden Rothlisberger and Schneider hosted dinners and birthday gatherings while relatives from Waukon Des Moines and Oak Grove joined in varied social calls and travel.
The George Christen and Elmer Baumgartner families were dinner guests Sunday in the Oscar Baumgartner home. Eliza Pulfer of Elgin visits to care for ill relatives. Several families hosted gatherings including Butikofer, Christen, Hanson, and Knudtson households. Local visitors traveled to Elkader and Oak Grove for meals and quilting events.
A brief readers note reports the pmocle club hosting an event at their residence on Wednesday evening, describing it as a local club gathering with unspecified activities and attendance.
Community diary entries document numerous visits and hospitality in Brainard and nearby towns. Names include Barker, Craft, Boyer, Peters, Nutting, Appelman, Bartlett, Tripp, and Barnhouse with frequent domestic gatherings and visits across West Union Hawkeye Postville post townships. Local illness and recovery updates note A L Patterson and Wills Lyon improving after flu and illness.
Residents report a busy week with guests visiting several homes in Fremont Ogle Elgin and Volga. Attendees include Rob and Lyle Wilson Jud Conner Thomas Howard John Cunningham Dorothy Becker John Howard Sayler and families with many Sunday and Wednesday gatherings plus church confirmations in Elka der.
The note mentions the Girl Friend as a safe to eat item amid a Bell syndicate report. It references WNU service and brief food safety remarks. No further concrete details.
Mrs Donald Gilson and children of Elgin visited in the Harry Gilson home Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Herbert Dummermuth Mr and Mrs Jud Conner Mr and Mrs Eldred Patterson Mr and Mrs Albert Dummermuth and Mrs Nora Patterson called at the Donald Jensen home near West Union Sunday afternoon.
Gunder residents share birthday gatherings at Holm and Wettleson homes while families and guests visit. Moves include Chas Bergan to Gander, Joe Lind repurposing his Gander store to his oil station, and Reuben Mork renting a farm near Elkader. Easter services are set for Marion church at 9 a.m. Sunday.
EcO eco Mr and Mrs Fred Griesinger Arlington visited the home of Mrs Griesingers parents Mr and Mrs Ole Benson Sunday. Mrs Rudy Yunker is resting after a winter illness with two months rest ordered by her doctor. Reuben Lehman to arrive home Saturday evening from Chicago for a two week vacation with his parents Mr and Mrs Sam Lehman. Mrs M Yenney was sick and confined to bed late in the week. Doriz Miller, who has been working at the Rob Wilson home, stayed home this week due to a blood poisoning risk in her hand. Mr and Mrs C A Huisinga and three sons and Anna Wallbaum of Upington drove here Saturday evening and visited over Sunday with Mrs Huisinga's parents Mr and Mrs Hans Keiser. The visit was a surprise to the Keisers.
A brief excerpt notes that assembling a car requires many nuts while misfortune scatters it, followed by a fragment quoting Mi Hi Hest mentioning a wife from a fine old family. The passage mixes a jokey hardware line with an informal kinship aside.
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