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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1966
Page
8
Local society items list Sunday and weekend visits across many farms and towns. Families such as Harold Hanson, Floyd Thompson, Olvin Olson, and Loftsgard host guests including relatives and neighbors from Green Bay, Ossian, Monona, and Cedar Rapids, with trips to St Olaf and Moorhead noted.
Bennie Hunsberger returns from military service to Illyria. Will Frieden visits the Dennlers. Dr. Kenneth Heck and family, Cedar Rapids, visit Tofield Heck on Labor Day. Progressive Home Study Clue gathers with Mrs. Medberry and plans with Mrs. Ernst. Paul Smith visits Jere Probert’s, Wadena. Hazel Rothlisberger sails to Dubuque to teach. Phyllis Hunsberger and Darwin Preuss, Omaha, stay with Mervin Hunsberger. Lee Conner family visits Milo Frieden in Littleton. Arnold Sanders family hosts Gordon Pollock and Albert Dennler in Hawkeye. Dennlars and Strongs, Chapmans travel to western states. Carl Gehring attends Elmer Baumgartner funeral in Flander. Francis Little of Cedar Rapids visits Flannagan home. Melinda, Loraine, and Brian Wenger dine with Orran Bane and Kenneth Rainey in Waterloo.
A sequence of Sunday visits and gatherings features the Ogre and Wilson families in Waterloo and West Union, plus numerous calls in Arcadia Arlington Castalia and nearby locales. Attendees include Dennier Dennler Mitchells Brakers Hunsberger Beermann and many extended relatives at multiple homes and events.
Mr and Mrs Wm Torkelson Ir and Tommy of Marion called at the Albert L Dennler home Sunday. Mr and Mrs Roscoe Larson visited from Tuesday to Friday in the Otto Peterson home at Eau Claire Wisconsin. The Petersons joined them and they spent some time in Canada.
Mr and Mrs Francis West visited in the Harry Butikofer home Thursday. Mr and Mrs Ernest Christen and Edwin Hanson dined with the Robert Leuchtenmacher family Sunday. George Nickels of Lancaster Texas arrived Friday to stay with relatives. Clayton Schreiner of Lee Summitt Missouri visited his mother in West Union. Multiple other relatives and friends were mentioned visiting or staying with local families this past week including Martin Hanson Archie Howard the Robert Hanson family Mrs George Nickels Mrs Walter Lantz the Dennler and Meyer families. Decorah and Leonard Lofstuen Davenport stayed with the Butikofer family Thursday. The Butikoferes attended the Threshers reunion at Mt Pleasant and visited Rev Stutrud in Washington en route home. Lena Nyhus Gle Ermbretson Elkader and the Ben Butikofer family visited Forest City Monday Mo. Andy Ingebrieds on Gene and Mike Rockwell City were recent dinner guests in the Butikofer home.
Brainard residents Mr and Mrs Fred Wede visited Sunday afternoon in the Don Reeder home. Mrs Glading Nutmnagel of Portville and Willis Lyon visited Sunday afternoon in the Ed Fenjerner home. Mrs Roger Reeder visited there Sunday evening. Mrs Vivien Peters and Mrs Julia Boyer visited in the George Craft home at Marshfield Wisconsin from Tuesday until Friday. Mrs Boyer spent the weekend in the
Fred Barker of East Dubuque visited Friday to spend days with his sister Mrs Harriet Craft and help her celebrate her R2nd birthday. Mrs Kohls went to Independence Tuesday and stayed until Wednesday at the Tom Hayzlett home. Mrs Hayzlett and Mrs Kohls visited Richard Kohls at Scholtz Hospital Water Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Bayzlett spent Wednesday and Thursday in the Kohls home with Mr and Mrs Anton Kohls. Evansdale brought Mr Kohls home from the hospital Thursday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Lyle Martin and family were Labor Day dinner guests in the Melvin Hanson Vern Bayer Lola and Alice West Union visited Monday afternoon in the Don Reeder home. Mr and Mrs Tom Hayzlett Independence spent Saturday evening in the Richard Kohls home.
Mrs. Mary Boyer of West Union visited a Wednesday afternoon at the Richard Kohls home.
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