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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1944
Page
8
The report lists numerous Cheery Valley families hosting and visiting over the weekend and into Monday. Repeated gatherings include Dennler, Meisner, Christen, Hanson, Zaugg, Thoman, and Meyer households with extensive relatives and neighbors sharing meals and calls across multiple homes near Garber and Volga.
Agricultural notes state carrots and beets may yield 15 tons per acre, onions up to 40 tons per acre, and tomatoes 25 tons or more per acre depending on conditions.
Elkader families and relatives gathered for Sunday meals and visits across multiple homes including the Glawe, Gisleson, Reierson, Bergan, Loftsgard, Anderson, Olson, and Hellum households. Visitors included Lena Clark and Christine Tollefson, with dinners and suppers shared among neighbors, kin, and friends over the weekend.
The Illyria column records guests and visits across Froelich Volga Sumner Sabetha and nearby areas. Names include the Medberry Doty Learn Plaster Yauslin Burrow Dillion Frieden Shaffer Benson Nydegger Klingman Schmidt and others with a Farm Bureau program and church events noted.
Day events across the region include Sunday dinners with the Medberry Leonard Kohls and Shaffer families. Guests came from El kader Wadena Cedar Falls JeMars and nearby farms. The Cemetery Assn Ladies Aid meet November 15, and a Farm Bureau women workers open meeting was held with H D A Miss Vaupel in charge.
Local residents shared hospitality across Elgin Dubuque Clermont and Arlington. Mrs D H Craft Charles Barker and Ray Gilbert leading a gathering at the Robert Barker home in Elgin with others present including the Barker family and Ray Gilbert’s birthday supper guests.
Passenger traffic on intercity buses rose to a record 963 million in 1943, up 39.1 percent from 1942 and twice the peacetime level. Large lines carried 783 million of last year’s riders, with 175 major operators accounting for most, while smaller outfits added 180 million. The big carriers moved 42.1 percent more passengers as mileage grew 11.3 percent.
Rev N W Boman, a returned missionary from Africa, will speak at the U B church next Sunday evening at 8. Rev and Mrs Boman are en route to their Oregon home. Mrs Clyde Bond is at Mercy hospital after an operation. Mr and Mrs Robert Bond moved to a newly purchased home from Lloyd Coffman. Pvt John Cline left Tuesday for Fort Ord California. family and friends hosted a dinner in his honor. The Wadena high school freshman class attended a Halloween party at Stella Whittenbaugh’s home. Patty and Shirley Herwig of Waterloo were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Orville Corbin. Mr and Mrs Roy Leonhart and Dicy attended a miscellaneous shower for Mrs Derryl Leonhart at the home of her parents in Volga. Mr and Mrs Frank Everett visited in Waterloo. Mrs Eugene Foote and Michael of West Union, E E Beers of Berry Indiana, and Mrs Roy Heyer and children were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Ed Gehring. Mrs Bess Tschantz and daughters of Clermont were weekend guests in the M A Klingman home.
U B Church notes list Rev C R Belknap Sunday school at 10 morning worship at 11 Presbyterian Church notes Rev Russell P Nelson Sunday school at 10 morning worship at 11 St Joseph Catholic Church notes Rev Dorrance Noonan Mass at 10 15 Lutheran Church notes Rev Branlick services first and third Sunday afternoon at 2 30
Brackin Bros west of Elgin plan a sale November 24 as they also purchase the Mrs Anna Schupbach home and will move soon. Andrew A Nordhus a mile west of Clermont will close out sale on Saturday November 25 after selling his farms to Geo Larson as he plans to retire. Remember scrap slaps Japs and sock them.
Train timetable listing west and east bound departures for B and Q from Prairie du Chien to Minneapolis and Chicago, CGW and Mason City routes via Oelwein, with multiple train numbers and times including Zephyr services and dawn to afternoon departures. Includes Milwaukee connections at Postville and transfers to Des Moines, Chicago, and Minneapolis.
Noted vitamins such as thiamine niacin and riboflavin play vital roles in nerve stability pellagra prevention and normal growth. Thiamine keeps nerves steady and mood calm niacin wards off pellagra and riboflavin supports overall growth and health.
The anchor, long seen as a sign of safety and security, is identified here as a Greek invention shaping maritime and cultural symbolism across nations. It highlights origins of a widely recognized emblem tied to protection and steadfastness.
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