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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1948
Page
8
Sunday school at 10 15 a m and worship at 41 15 o clock mark a busy Diyria schedule with a color coded contest among four groups. District Rally at Dubuque next Wednesday evening invites men for fellowship and tickets from Harold Strong or Otis Rothlisberger.
The Cheery Valley News lists numerous visits and social gatherings across families including the Schlee Friederichs Butikofer Dennler and Dennler households. Attendees traveled to Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Fort Madison while birthday celebrations and hospital calls mark a busy period in the community.
Last week and Sunday guests gathered at Fred Rothlisberger home with relatives and friends including Gene and Kenneth Lewis Cresco Chas Rothlisberger Wash ington Sidney Neuenschwander Ellsworth Gilmore Maynard John Walter Rothlisberger Carrie Doty Rae Gibbs Arnold Silas Wilson Tofield Gerald Heck Cleve Bennett and family at Ralph Shaffer home Sunday afternoon.
Mr and Mrs Roscoe Larson visited Sunday with Mrs Dennlers father Fred Ubersax and other relatives at Shullsburg Wisconsin Mr and Mrs Albert Erickson Carol and Lee of Postville visited Saturday afternoon in the John Christen home Mrs Frank Christen spent Sunday afternoon in the Orlin Mason home
Grand Meadow residents and relatives frequent homes across the community. Visits include Leo Larson, Adrian, Ole Block, Clarence Olson, DeElia Buraas at Cedar Falls homecomings, Clemens Loftsgard, Caroline Erickson, Nickels Martie, Ernest Holt, Helen Blockhus, Carrie Thorson, Inga Larson, Rudy Reinhart, Andrew Reinhart, Julia Landsgard, Vernon Anderson, Florence Hein, Selmer Groth, Verna, and others. Many attended the Cattle Congress in Waterloo last week.
The lay ing house should be thoroughly cleaned in fall to disinfect from floor cracks to rafters. Pallets from summer range are typically free from lice mites and disease, protecting gains and preventing winter disease outbreaks.
Hog producers expect peak flow to market later than usual in 1948 as spring pig crop hogs are held longer to gain weight on new corn. Feeding corn to fatten late spring pigs is expected to yield higher returns than saving the corn for hogs next summer and fall.
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