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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1941
Page
8
Illyria notes report a busy weekend with visitors from Wall South Dakota and Waterloo and numerous local gatherings. Families including Frieden Hyde and McKellar hosts, plus Ritter and Klingman kin, enjoyed dinners, picnics, and church plans while school events and a Community Day play are in progress.
Visitors traveled among Brainard and Castalia households including Mrs Levi Learn and others. Local families attended picnics, registered for Cedar Falls summer school, and the Ladies Aid met with program and sewing tasks for Red Cross. next gathering planned for June.
Irene, Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard, Halverson and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Carmen Swenson attended the Villa Louis opening in Prairie du Chien Wis on Sunday. Mary and Margaret Techantz stayed with Lorraine Kittleson. Donald, Clarence and Glen Reiersen visited grandmother Mrs. Louisa Martie. Mrs. Ole Reierson visited Mrs. Belle Reierson Sunday afternoon.
Grand Meadow residents share visits across Stanley and nearby homes including Joan Wharram’s birthday celebration at the Robert Wharram residence. Several families, such as Reierson, Holm, Reinhart, and Olson, host and visit one another through Saturday to Monday, with quilting activities and plans for a June bazaar.
Mrs Rose McMillan and John visited in the Martin Wenger Home Thursday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Jake Lehman and Lavern, Mr and Mrs Jake Dennler were noted in social items.
A sequence of social visits and gatherings are noted across area households. Guests included Harry, Lester and Ben Butikofer, Leo Dennler, Mr. and Mrs. Wm Larsen, and Mr. and Mrs. Orlin Mason at John Dennler and Francis Meisner homes. Several families hosted dinners and calls, with afternoons at Martin Hanson, Carl Fickes, Philman Larson, and Will Friederich homes. The record also mentions travel to Guttenberg, Hawkeye, Elkader, and West Union for visits, picnics, and dinners, plus illnesses and mutual calling plans among the Dennlers, Butikofers, and Friederichs.
Local social roundup notes multiple households hosting and visiting on Sunday and Friday. Dinners and calls occur among the Friederich, Butikofer, Christen, Dennler, Meisner, Leuchtenmacher, and Schupbach families in the district. Schools in districts 8 and 9 closed Friday with picnics. Celia Andrae and Arlene Scholen teach.
A Wisconsin Sunday plans to attend his brother Clifford Weber's wedding on Wednesday May 21, detailing family attendance and the forthcoming ceremony.
While digging a ditch near Van Wert Ohio Daniel J Evans discovered a wedding ring. He returned it to his mother who had misplaced the ring three and seven decades ago, reuniting family with a long missing keepsake.
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