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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1941
Page
8
Illyria residents hosted many visitors and groups Sunday through Tuesday. Families from Dundee Volga and West Union joined gatherings at the Kiple Glass Kimball and Yearous homes, with DAR members, religious and civic groups meeting, and several dinners and supper events noted across the community.
Brainard residents record Friday gatherings and weekend visits with Becker, Nutting, and Peters families. Attendees include Belknap, Patterson, Nutting, Helms, Cline, Hermen, and assorted grandchildren. WCTU conference trip to Storm Lake noted. parsonage painting bee held at the church. Sunday visitors include Craft, Lyon, and Bartlett households. Sunday school at 10 led by Rev. U. Burroughs.
Mrs Harry Gilson called Friday afternoon at the Clifton Powell home. Mr and Mrs Robert Dinan and Mr and Mrs Silas Wilson were dinner guests at the Joe Dinan home Sunday. Mr and Mrs Arthur Chapman and family visited the Chris Denner home Sunday afternoon. Viola Howard helped with housework at Clifton Wilson home. Mrs Salome Thoman and family were callers at Silas Wilson home Sunday evening. Mrs Thos Pollock returned home.
Sunday visitors and illnesses fill a Clifton area column as Mrs. Dennler remains bedbound and cared for by Mrs Christen. Friends, relatives, and neighbors share calls and visits at the homes of Wilson Gilson Kohls Chapman and others throughout the week with funeral attendance noted for Mrs Malesha Fishback.
Residents and guests attend dinners visits and house calls at multiple homes. Carrie Thorson and Elmer Larson host, while Ol e Blockhus family and surrounding kin share meals and evenings. Attendees include Gilbertson Reinerson Martie and Helgerson families among many others with notes on cattle congress attendance and neighborly calls.
Edwin DeWitt of Portland Oregon visited his mother in Stockport last week and then secured work aboard a merchant ship routing through the Panama Canal to the east coast and up to the St. Lawrence river and the Great Lakes. He chose the long way around with no doubt.
Cheery Valley News lists visits and gatherings around West Union, Bern, Volga, and nearby towns. Residents including Martie, Streit, Dennler, Christen, Meisner, Thoman, and Meyer join family dinners, showers, and hospital visits with numerous relatives and neighbors across several dates.
The Marion community notes a Thursday afternoon gathering of the Marion Ladies Aid at church parlors with hostesses Mrs. Ole E. Olson, Mrs. Mellien Lofts gard, and Mrs. George Larson. Dinner guests at the P. K. Peterson home included Mr. and Mrs. Henry Christianson and family, Mrs. Betsy Christianson, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Seely and family from Waureka. Betsy Christianson remained for a longer visit. Afternoon guests at the Peterson home were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gunderson and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lands gard and family. Selina Olson spent Sunday near West with Weybjorn Lands gard. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Reierson and Joseph visited LeRoy Minnesota to see Reierson’s ill father. Marion Luther League members were guests of the Norway Luther League Sunday evening. A pleasant social evening followed as Eileen and Norma Loftsgard spent Sunday afternoon with Arlene Hanson, and Henry T. Olson and Harold Gops are building new machine sheds.
Leo Powers of near Graettinger was injured when a barbed wire fence was pulled from a tractor and pinned him. Deep leg and body gashes followed. Algona youths Faithful Kohlihaas and Jack Lichter swapped toys, Phil summarily knocked unconscious for 30 to 40 minutes until help arrived. Phil later received a new bike and hopes to ride again with Penny the dog guarding him.
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