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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1959
Page
8
Clermont residents hosted and visited across many homes Sunday and Saturday. Families including Loftegard, Amundson, Loftsgard, and Olsen welcomed relatives and friends from Decorah, Waterloo, Dubuque, Elkader, and Manchester, with baptisms and workers conference notices noted among gatherings.
Illyria residents share a flurry of visits with friends and relatives in Decorah Cedar Rapids Clermont To ledo and beyond. Attendees include the Braker Thoman Andersons Shaffers Medberry Miles and many local families. Church events and club meetings mark the week with birthdays and future entertainments noted.
The Paul Smith family joined Milo Frieden and the Yearous households for Saturday evening, with Emma Yearous funeral attendees listed at Giard. Various guests visited across Postville Elma Elkader Volga and Clermont, including Virgil Troyer from Milwaukee and the Benson family, marking birthdays and dinners through Sunday.
Sunday through Tuesday notices list residents visiting relatives in Dan Butikofer and Christen households, hospital calls, birthday gatherings, and trips to Iowa City and Canastota. Names include Peake Dennler Nickels Dennler Leuchtenmacher Howard Christen family Butikofer Trafalet Embretson Knudtson and others.
The Dan Butikofer family visited Orlin Mason and Christen Bros., homes Monday, making a brief call that highlighted local property activity and family connections in the community.
Brainard news item records numerous social visits and dinners across Bellevue Clermont West Union Hawkeye Sumner and surrounding areas. Families mentioned include Lerch Peters Martin Gehring Kohls Boyer Nutting Meighan and Patterson with multiple Sunday dinners and Saturday callings in homes from Lyle Martin to Joe Peters Jr. and Ed Fenner homes.
Mrs Anna Reeder left the Ro ger Reeder home to spend November with the Oscar Reeder family in West Union. Sunday dinner guests in the Lyle Martin home were Mr and Mrs Melvin Hanson and Robert Musser in West Union. Mr and Mrs Lawrence Geh ring visited Monday evening in the Vern Boyer home, West Union. Donna Martin had a tonsillectomy at Palmer Memorial Hospital Wednesday and returned Thursday. She is the daughter of the Giles Martins.
Charles Gearhart of Harlan displayed a giant potato grown in his garden. The spud weighed three and one quarter pounds.
William Nags, a Dyersville freshman, showcases a bug display that has earned him numerous blue ribbons and awards. His collection totals over 100 distinct insect species.
Mrs. Cecil Slater of Masonville displayed a potato weighing three pounds three ounces and another potato in the same garden tipping the scales at two pounds two ounces.
Frank Pohlad of West Des Moines discovered a twenty pound mushroom. The find highlights local foraging activity and rare oversized specimens in midwestern woods.
Mrs. Rose Lang of Rockwell City reports a simple home experiment. She replanted the top of a store bought pineapple and it grew into a new fruit plant. She describes the result as perfectly delicious.
A large puff ball located in an alfalfa field near Manning is identified as a mushroom family fungus. The report notes the plant research confirms its classification and mentions efficient work habits as a proverb about getting tasks done through a busy person and their secretary.
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