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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1928
Page
8
Local column records a May birth for Mr. and Mrs. B Yauslin and numerous visits and travels among Clermont residents. Included are social calls to Dr. Carr in Britt, a move for Bernice Lee, and attendances at homes of Beecher, Olson, and others. Several family updates and one serious stroke event are noted.
R P Strauch publisher and Ruth Skarshoug local editor credited for the Clermont Inquirer. newspaper note states it is entered in the post office at Clermont Wayette County Iowa as second class mail matter.
Dover Mills notes list numerous local visitors and gatherings. Families from West Union Knoxville Ossian and nearby areas visit, dine, and attend funerals while relatives travel to Wisconsin Minnesota and Sumner for family events. Several members are ill or moving homes as community ties and daily routines fill the week.
Wadena items note Mr Trusty and wife stored household goods west of town, visits by Roy Cline and family from West Union, Thelma Davis assisting at Garden Prairie, and Charles Talcott visiting daughter Mrs Otto Herrling. Local workers reroofed J C Probert residence while others visited relatives and attended church noted with Mother’s Day events and a school picnic.
Nine meetings in Fayette county townships study and demonstrate eradication of ground hogs pocket gophers rats and ground squirrels Extension Entomologist Fred Butcher says cooperation is essential This week events are in Clermont Pleasant Valley Ilyria and Fairfield townships with dates May 17 and 18 Also a fashion note about short skirts disappearing references Elijah’s path.
The Oelwein Register argues that money alone does not bind a couple for life. A $250 wedding day is not a reliable gauge of future earnings, as a partner earning $150 today could rise to $500 later, while a $250 earner may become a loafer. The piece stresses partnership beyond finances.
Hulda Berg left Monday for Chicago to attend the commencement exercises of the Norwegian American hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Olson and others motored to Decorah to visit the I. H. Skarshoughone. Mrs. J. W. Miller and son drove to McGregor to visit Ezra Grossman and Ed Clark homes. Mrs. Robert Wittleson and Mary Ray and Julia Wettleson were guests at the Martin Nelson home.
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