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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1966
Page
8
Sunday evening visits marked a busy period with the LeRoy Rothlisberger home hosting Illyria News amid family guests. baptisms, dinners, and call-ins spread through LeRoy, Luana, Wadena, and Volga communities with numerous Andersons Dennlers Bendersons and Christens among those listed in the day’s social notices.
Gunder News Dtr and Mrs Rodney Smith and other families from Cedar Rapids Ossian Decorah and Wadena visited in various homes Sunday and Saturday. Guests included the Otto Gisleson home the Raymond Loftegard family and the Ed Monroz family among others with several dinners and informal visits reported.
Mrs Bernard Loftsgard Marilyn and Larry visited Sunday at Dan Butikofer Jr and Phil Boland homes. Harold Op was a dinner guest Saturday at Morris Amundson home. Sunday visitors in Henry Olson home were Gerhard Halversons. Lunch Sunday at Henry Olson home included P K Petersen Selma Groth Marion Olson Lloyd Schutte LuAnn and Michael. Olsons hosted Saturday dinner at Lloyd Schutte home Castalda. T L Loftsgard and Marion spent Friday afternoon with Nina Amundson and Louise Vick. Merrill Olson visited Paul Gogg home at Clarksville Sunday. Will Bergen spent Sunday afternoon at Floyd Thompson home.
Elgin area residents host and visit relatives across towns including Postville West Union Cedar Rapids Rochester and Arlington. Gatherings feature numerous dinners suppers and weekend stays with families such as Halvorsons Kruegers Beckers Schaers and Lehmans. The March birthday occasion includes Oliver Larson and LaVerne Larson families attended by Amundson and Ladvon kin.
A sequence of social visits shows residents hosting relatives and friends from West Union Des Moines Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns. Numerous weekend dinners dinners and Sunday gatherings involve families including the Wede Petche Sehner Schaer Wenger Nutting and Staake households with guests from Volga Gilman Cedar Rapids West Bend and North Dakota among others.
County Extension Director M C Wangsnes notes early spring insecticide use can curb soil pests. Iowa State entomologist Harold Gunderson recommends chlordane or diazinon for white grubs wireworms and cutworms with 1 10th actual material per 1000 sq ft and mixing into upper soil inches. Chlordane protection lasts about three years and diazinon requires reapplication.
Calendar of events lists meetings and conferences across Iowa including Economics Assn Waterloo and Family Life Conference at Town State University Ames. Also notes 4-H clubs and leader trainings with dates from April 1 to April 7 in multiple towns.
The Pleasant Valley Sharpshooters met March 21 at Jeff and Jake Cline’s home. Secretary and treasurer reports were read, and the group held talks and demonstrations on staking tomatoes side dressing vegetables and plant propagation. Lunch was served by Mrs. Cline. The next meeting is planned at Phillip Ruckdashel’s home.
Fragmentary early Elgin Echo text from 1852 appears to reference a post Fyette County notice. The legible portion includes newspaper branding and dates, with unclear continuation.
Classified brief notes show minimum ten cent per word want ad rates, with church society and school notices at standard rates. Obituary poetry also priced at regular advertising rates.
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