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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1967
Page
8
Community notes show numerous visits and hosted gatherings in Postville and nearby towns. Guests include the Loftsgard and Reierson families, the Nuehring wedding party, and multiple calls at the Gisleson, Kjosa, Olsons, and Landsgard households with birthdays and Sunday dinners mentioned.
Mrs Clifton Yearous senior and junior families and Sarah Lansing hosted Monday dinner at the Wm Yearous home. Annette Meyer and Minneapolis roommates attended Friday events. Several residents visited friends in Volga and Madison area. Alaska’s land area is 586 400 square miles with a population around 267 000. over one tenth of its residents, about 1 270 000, are veterans per the Veterans Administration.
The 68th International Live Stock Exposition will run November 17 to 26 at the Chicago Amphitheatre in the Stock Yards. Hundreds of top purebred farm animals from 40 states and Canada will display and compete for top honors in 37 breeds of cattle horses sheep and swine. A panel of 49 judges from 20 states and Canada will officiate the judging.
The Cheery Valley Good Neighbors Club will meet Tuesday afternoon November 4 at the Elgin Lutheran Church. A sequence of visits and family gatherings is noted across multiple homes including the Lehman Roth insberger Yearous Christen Thoman and Lantz households with meals and hospitality for various local residents in the West Union Decorah and Oelwein area.
Benton Harrison of Fayette will be the official voting delegate for the county Farm Bureau at the 49th Iowa Farm Bureau meeting in Des Moines November 13 to 15. He will join 99 delegates to adopt policy resolutions and participate in key elections including a state president and eight delegates to the American Farm Bureau convention. The program features an orchkist talent event, a report by J Merrill Anderson, and a banquet with U.S. Senator Roman Hruska.
The Bill Peters family were Tuesday supper guests in the Wm. O Loughlin home West Union. Mrs Vivien Peters spent the weekend in Waterloo with her children and other relatives. Various local families hosted meals and visits across West Union Guttenberg Clermont Sumner Waterloo West Bend and KeWanee Ill with birthdays noted for Mrs Hanson. Last week visitors to Willis Lyon included Mr and Mrs Ray Chapman and Mr and Mrs Marshall Helms.
Clayton County Extension schedules November meetings with events in Waverly Elkader Fayette and East Clermont. Local Government Problem Conference November 9 at 7:00 p.m. County Home Economics Committee November 10 at 1:30 p.m. Grand Meadow Extension Council election November 13 at East Clermont Lutheran Church 8:00 p.m. Clothing Project Leaders meeting November 15 at Farm Bureau Building 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Beef Carcass Evaluation Elkader Municipal Building November 15. District County Extension Directors meeting Fayette November 16 at 9:30 a.m.
Seven classes visited during National Book Week with stories and book selection help. New donations added to the permanent collection include adult, juvenile, and children titles from donors Linda Collins and Mrs. Willard Grove, covering classics, histories, adventures, and biographies.
A note about a murder on the links alongside Mac Innes double image feature. The items indicate crime coverage and a photography-based visual piece in a historical newspaper page.
Elgin residents host supper guests including Mrs Bertha Lehman and Mrs Anna Schupbach. Weekend visitors to the A B Jacob home include Grace Light Viola Steffins and many others from West Union and Wheaton. John Anderson attends the Barrett anniversary in Waukon while Mary Dennler moves to Karl Lembke apartment and Craig Wenger visits Decorah.
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