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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1941
Page
8
Social notices recount numerous Sunday and weekday visits across Hlyria and nearby towns. Residents include the Rothlisbergers Shaffers Medberrys Yearous Ogle Wilson and many more with church, 4 H, and Farm Bureau events noted.
Cheery Valley residents hosted and visited across several households. Ida Meyer, Oscar Baumgartner, Fred Hanson, and Albert Erickson dined with Elmer Baumgartner. families from West Union and Garnaville gathered for suppers, plays, and church events. Multiple weekender visits connected the Meisner, Dennler, Schupbach, and Cummings families, with relatives from Arlington, Elkader, Postville, Volga, and nearby towns joining for meals and social occasions.
Mrs George Howard hosted a neighborhood shower for her daughter Mrs Doyle Baker a recent bride. Numerous couples visited and joined in meals and calls at various homes in Oak Grove including the Howards Thoman Ottoson and Ash families with several other local households noted for guest visits and dinners throughout the weekend.
Local residents hosted and visited in Brainard and Clermont areas. Many couples and families attended nuptial showers and dinners, with occasional church notes and Future events at Brainard Church.
Mrs Herbert Brunssen of near Britt sustained a painful wound after a piece of enamel from the steering wheel pushed under her fingernail while driving. The incident caused a puncture and minor injury requiring first aid.
County Line News lists numerous families visiting Olaf Berg and others in Stewartville Ames Decorah and Garnavillo from Friday to Sunday. Distinct gatherings include Magnus Berg and Harry Alfred Christianson Orville Berg and Mervin Huns berger families with numerous relatives. Also notes hospital care for Mrs. Martin Amundson and travel by Leslie Ruroden Melvin Stry and Liogd Ruroden to Colorado. Telegraph-Herald and Elgin Echo subscription offer ends.
The Bauman publishers of the Mount Vernon Hawkeye lost a sum 18 years ago. Recently Mrs. Bauman was in Mount Vernon when P. W. Peterson found the money in a safe bought from the Baumans years earlier. It had slipped behind shelves and remained undisturbed since.
The second oldest church in Canada stands near Montreal’s busy waterfront area near grain elevators and the Marche Bonsecours. Notre Dame des Victoires in Quebec predates it, with Notre Dame de Bonsecours whose first stone was laid in 1657.
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