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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1937
Page
8
Cheery Valley's social scene brims with visits and gatherings as families from Cheery Valley and nearby towns travel to gainful stops at homes of Dennlers, Leuchtenmachers, and Fischers. Neighbors share meals, church booster events, school openings, and weekend trips to West Union and Oelwein, highlighting a bustling community life.
Oak Grove residents Marie, Lorena Martie, Anna Abersell from LeMar Missouri and Dan Butikofer and Ruth visited in Tim Thoman home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. George Boyle and family were guests in Frank Boyle home Sunday. Ed Jones and three sons from Postville called on Rosa Reed home Sunday. Elizabeth Foxwell and Dave Wilson visited Tim Thoman Sunday evening. Harold Strong family were supper guests in Henry Feller home. Arthur Chapman and son Douglas visited Archie Howard home Wednesday evening.
Leo Paige and family joined Ben Paige near Fayette for a Sunday visit while sick list rumors. A threshing ring party gathered at Arthur Yearons Friday night with many families attending. Della Falk of Waterloo and Marie Gehring had supper with Leo Paige last Tuesday. Coronel Rothlisberger began teaching Monday at Mayward School for the eighth grade and rural teachers met in West Union for a meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Craft and Mrs. Clara Bartlett traveled to Marshalltown on Friday to spend a week in the Ray Gilbert home. Mrs. Jim Bartlett has recently suffered rheumatism during the past two weeks.
Mr and Mrs George Howard and family were dinner guests in the Ash ley La Velle home Sunday. Sidney Nutting had an accident in Elgin last Wednesday when he stepped off the sidewalk to let children pass on bicycles and struck the cement edge, breaking several ribs. Mr and Mrs John Barnhouse and family and Frank Barnhouse spent Wednesday and Thursday in Lansing. Mrs Arthur Patterson has been ill since Sunday. Mr and Mrs Frank Lyon and Mrs Sidney Patterson and Wilson and Marian returned Sunday from Chicago after visiting in the Paul Patterson home. Mr and Mrs Wm Nutting and son Jimmie and Mrs Sidney Nutting spent Sunday evening in the Kenneth Kjosa home at Clermont. Brainard Church Notes: Sunday school at 10 a.m. Evening service at 7:45 p.m. conducted by Newall Brink.
A lighthearted note asks whether corn on the hip could be treated as a traffic hazard, playing on a pun about road corn. The joke contrasts formal traffic rules with rural humor about corn consumption or mishap.
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