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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1941
Page
8
Tilyria items recount guests visiting from Canoe and Arlington. Families share meals, hunts, and quilting events while celebrating birthdays and hosting quilt gatherings. Attendees include Iversons, Kimballs, Schmidts, Rothlisbergers, Strongs, Yearous, and Welters among others across West Union and nearby towns.
Brainard society notes recount visits among families from Cedar Rapids Polk City Janesville Wis and West Union. Genial gatherings at the Craft Miller and Mays homes plus a BPU meeting and Sunday church services led by Ray A E Burroughs. Timely fire truck appeal ends with minor jail damage amid Calumet fire scene. Bacon item notes Winterset merchant Kellogg receiving Florida bacon order claiming acorn flavor.
Vera Zurcher of Farmersburg spent the weekend with her teacher Selina Olson. Ole Loftsgard and Orlando were at New Hamp Carol with Lorraine Jacobia and Ethel Mae Thoman. Dor othy Jacobia, teacher of the 7th and 8th grades at Keswick, hosted a weekend visit. Delores Nyborg of Brandon visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nyborg. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Anderson hosted guests in honor of Marlin Luth’s birthday Thursday. Johnsons and family spent the weekend at Dubuque. Harold Skarshaug and Winifred and Thelma Groth of Ames visited the T. J. Olson home Sunday. Merrill Olson and others returned from North Dakota after a funeral. Marion Dorcas Society meets Oct. 18 with Mrs. Christine Rypestol and Mrs. Henry Olgon hosting.
Mrs. Wm Pritchard called Friday to see Mrs Ed Boyle and numerous neighbors shared meals and visits. Families from Sumner Volga Pittsville Clermont West Bend Des Moines and Des Moines attended dinners and suppers with the Kohls Gilson Leuchtenmacher Meyer Wilson Wilson and Brackin households.
Community notes describe Elmer Meyer on furlough from Camp Claiborne Louisiana and numerous local visits and family gatherings. Names include Minihan, Frieden, Dennler, Meyer, Christen, Hicks, Mason, and Larson with trips to Des Moines for a wedding and Fairfax Minnesota for a funeral.
Mrs. Jake Lehman, Lavern and Leo Dennier hosted at the Jake Dennier home to honor Mrs. Dennier on her October birthday. Howard Mason and Mr. and Mrs. Orlin Mason accompanied Amanda Mason to Hampton, with Forest Mason and family meeting there for a picnic before returning to Pocahontas. Several families shared visits and meals across Sunday and Wednesday evenings.
Mrs Amanda Mason hosted dinner Thursday at the Will Stirk home near West Union. Guests included Herry Dennier Edwin Hanson Louis Hofer and Lawrence Wilder and Mrs John Dennier. The group traveled to Quincy Tl and back with Tillie Bukof er joining for a visit. Later Mr and Mrs Jake Lehman Lavern and others joined supper at the Jake Dennler home with Mr and Mrs Harold Meisner Elva Lawrence and George Lerch also noted.
A recently delivered card reveals it was mailed on October 21, 1980 by A. D. Swan, an early Indian goods merchant, to Perkins & Gray. It lay lost in the Des Moines post office for decades and was only delivered last week to the Francis Meisner home.
Child guidance specialists say children learn to like unfamiliar foods by eating small amounts repeatedly in pleasant settings. The approach emphasizes positive associations and repeated exposure as the key to expanding a child’s palate.
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