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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
8
Cheery Valley News lists numerous social visits and dinner gatherings across Elkader and nearby towns. Families including Boland Dennier Meyer Meisner Hanson and others hosted or attended events at homes in Volga Cedar Falls Arlington and West Union with reminders of birthdays and oyster supper gatherings.
Guests stopped by the Charles Wenger home on Sunday. Mrs Orlin Mason and Edwin Hanson called at John Dennler Albert Butikoter and Oscar Baumgartner's homes Friday afternoon.
Frederick and family were supper guests in the Harry Gilson home. Victor returned home after a week with grandparents. Viola Howard and several neighbors shared meals and visits amid birthday celebrations for Mrs. Howard. Additional guests included Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Strohschein, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Hummel, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Shaffer, and Arthur Patterson among others.
A string of Sunday and midweek visits appears across Illyria and nearby towns. Albert Glass funeral in Manchester. multiple hosts and guests in Fayette West Union and Dubuque. A Fayette county sheriff talk on crime slated for May 8 at the church followed by a sack lunch. Jeanette Niehaus of Waterloo stayed with the Harold Glass family.
County Line residents hosted and visited neighbors from Sunday to midweek. Mr and Mrs Carmen Swenson and children joined Mrs T T Bilden, Mrs Anna Blockhus, Odney, Helen, Paul Oelberg of West Union and Mrs Barbara Berg at Sven and Carl Blockhus homes Sunday afternoon. Edgar Kimball and Georgana Probert stayed with Mrs Anna Gibson. Anna Mae Buroden helped with Richard Miller's housework. Helen Groth returned home after weeks near Decorah with Jim Halverson and Arthur Groth. Milton Nelson and family spent Sunday with Emma Gunderson. Neighbors gathered at Ames Olson’s Wednesday to celebrate her birthday with a meal hosted by the women. Carl Halverson, Selmer Groth, Ardis and Verna visited Harry Groth at Decorah hospital, then stopped by Jim Halverson’s home on the way home.
Richard Friederich was a week end guest in the Orville Berg home Norma Blockhus returned to her home Saturday after visiting relatives in this vicinity Andrew and Anna Gunderson visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Larson at Oelwein Severein Blockhus and Ronald were guests in the Pichels West home at Elkader Orvin Reierson spent Sunday in the Ole Reierson home Mr and Mrs Arno Foscher took Eileen Buchiem to Elkader Saturday evening Mrs Sven Blockhus is ill Mrs Harry Helgerson called at the Tom Olson home Sunday Mr and Mrs Olaf Berg were dinner guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Orville Berg in the afternoon both families visited at the Jim Halverson home at Frankville Mr and Mrs Clarence Peterson Mr and Mrs Clifford Kittleson and family and Mr and Mrs Alfred Waltherson were visitors Sunday afternoon in the H H Gilbertson home Myrtle and Clara Peterson and Mrs Henry Skarshaug called at the Selmer Groth home Sunday Mr and Mrs Walter Mitts and children were guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Otto Blockhus Dinner guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Ole Blockhus near Decorah were Mr and Mrs Clarence Olson and Quinton Mrs Carrie Thorson Clara Blockhus and Mr and Mrs Elmer Larson and Oliver Mr and Mrs Otto Blockhus and Burnell and Gerald Orvin Reierson visited Sunday evening in the Severein Blockhus home Mr and Mrs Bernard Hanson and children were dinner guests of the Harold Opsand family Sunday
Brainard residents hosted and visited relatives from Chicago and nearby towns. Friends and kin gathered for dinners and suppers at the Lyon Nutting and Patterson homes. A hospital visit, church notes, and a theft at Marion County Sale Barn are also recorded.
The AAA Educational Assistant in Fayette county urges farm women to support the national defense effort by increasing production of pork poultry and dairy within existing limits. Open market purchases aim to stabilize prices with a Chicago basis while urging no new buildings or gear.
A Winterset report details a scam where a girl posed as a nurse and two men claimed funds for a flying course. Grand Meadow boy Delaine Irwin was injured after entangled in a grader. Billy Ray was saved from a 40 foot well by his father. Red Oak greenhouses suffered hail damage with over 2400 panes of glass. The Telegraph-Herald and Elgin Echo offering $5.60 yearly.
A Special CFI photo shows Marshal's Dictator, a purebred Short horn bull, part of a consignment of 53 head bought for export to the Dominican Republic. The shipment, a $15,000 investment, was purchased for Gen Rafael L. Trujillo and shipped from Fort Everglades, Florida to Ciudad Trujillo. The herd origins span 25 leading Short horn breeders across Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
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