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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1935
Page
8
Illyria area residents and relatives are noted visiting with kin and neighbors from La Grange Elkader West Union and nearby towns. The piece lists multiple gatherings at homes and churches with a forthcoming Aid supper at the church on Friday Nov 8 and various Sunday visits among families and friends.
Mrs Will Chase of near Volga visits her mother Mrs Rose Schlupp for a few days. Gottfred Kauffman of Marshfield Wisconsin stays in the Jake Kurth home. Ida Meyer helps at the Elmer Baumgartner residence and aids Mrs Baumgartner and newborn baby girl born Oct 18. Mr and Mrs Korth and family of Down lows call at the Jake Chris-
Mr and Mrs Jake Yearous and anilaret spent last Thursday in Fayette. Will and John Christen and Martin and Edwin Hanson spent Thursday evening with Chris Gregerson at the West Union hospital. Mr and Mrs T H Mason and son Forest spent Monday afternoon with Hanson Bros. Werner Karrer and Mr Nydegger of Monroe Wisconsin called at the L Christen home Saturday. Mrs Rosa Baumgartner and Mrs Brest Friederich and baby spent last Tuesday afternoon with Hanson Bros. Mr and Mrs Ernest Christen, Mr and Mrs Adolph Hanson, Lucy Christen and Clara Muehlenthaler called at the West Union hospital Sunday afternoon to see Chris Gregerson and Mrs Chris Dennler. Duke Christen and sons John and Will visited in the Fred Nydegger home Sunday afternoon. Fred Hanson and Joe Baumgartner finished putting up a new barn at the Gregerson Bros farm near Elkader.
Oak Grove notices list visits and dinners across many households. Names include Dennler, Jones, Bishop, Follensbee, Howard, Boyle, Leuenberger, Popenhagen, Voshell, Meyer, Denalex, Muncie, Kerr, Shaffer, Gilley, Shaffer, Howard, Brabham, Shaffer, and others. Reflects a steady pattern of Sunday gatherings, hospital stay for Mrs. Dennler, and multiple neighborhood social calls over the past week.
Anna Mae of Elkader is noted with visitors Beryl Boleyn and Wm Woodle at Archie Howard's home Saturday. Chas Peters, Mrs George Howard, Joe Peters and family were supper guests at Reuben Howard's. Frank Christen spent the weekend with Christ Dennler s. Harold Leuenberger dined with Clyde King. Fremont Ogle Cathryn Mrs Hunt Ward Brabham Hazel and Bonnie Howard visited Tommy Howard last Sunday.
Local family visits from Minneapolis and Clermont relatives fill weekend social rounds. Women’s Missionary and Dorcas Society delegates attend events in Waukon and upcoming church gatherings noted. Rural life updates include harvest tasks, rye plantings, corn-hog meeting, medical visits, and health wishes for K A Kirkeberg.
The article warns that large corn supplies by 1987 under uncontrolled production could raise hog costs as the corn hog ratio grows. It notes the key to fall pig success is immediate full ration after weaning, while sows graze briefly but pigs need full corn feed rather than grass or partial rations.
The best talk in favor of a town is spending money at home. Some uncultivated people are called roughnecks, but not all fear the rough necks as much as smooth tongues. An arrangement with Minnesota and Nebraska lets Iowa hunters hunt on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers with a resident license, as long as they avoid islands, bars, or wing dams attached to the mainland of the neighboring state.
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