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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1966
Page
8
Illyria area residents share details of numerous Sunday visits and supper gatherings as families Klingman and friends mark anniversaries and socialize across Postville West Union Clermont Osage and surrounding towns with extended kin and parish members attending dinners and casual reunions over the weekend.
The text lists weekend guests in the Glenn Shave home in Dubuque and several midweek visitors to the Harold Hanson, Selmer Holm, and adjoining households. Names include Ran dine Hanson, Warren Bissell, Pat Lehman, Margaret Hanson, Alice Long, George Long, Lori, Dannie, Bernard, Cara Tanson, Ruthryn Jensen, and others from Cedar Rapids, Postville, Marion, West Union, and Dubuque areas.
Brainard News notes Sunday visits and dinner guests across West Union Postville Sumner Polk City and nearby towns. Families mentioned include the Lenton Dyke, JoAnne Donnan and Ronnie, Miller and Roland families, Mrs Vivien Peters group, the Peters clan, Robin Kerr Jr, and others visiting or hosting in the Reeder Gehring Fenner Martin and Rolfs households plus students and servicemen in town. Pfc Dennis Olson arrived from Fort Sheridan for a week with his family.
Cheery Valley residents hosted and visited on several days with Mrs. John Lyford, Mrs. John Kirkpatrick, and Marie Schmidt among others. Visitors included Rev. Lev Roy Collins, Clem Meyer, Lillian Kimball, Archie Howard, Lizzie Chase, Ralph, Jake Sollberger, Fred Butikofer, Jacob Gehring, Robert Hanson, and Mrs. Andrew Braker. Attendees at events included Glenda Probert, Albert Dennler, Tom Yorkelson, Ida Frieden, Roscoe Larson, Frank Kulish, and the Butikofer family plus Wilbur Peake at Old Threshers picnic in Mabel Minnesota.
Mr and Mrs Roscoe Larson hosted Monday supper at their Monona home. Several local residents attended weekend visits and hospital events including Edwin Hanson Ernest Christen Lucy Christen and others. Diane Wenger and Genevieve Christen plan Cedar Falls enrollment while Karla Moore remains in Rochester Minnesota for weeks.
Mrs Lee Breitsprecher formerly Ada Kay Falb of Ossian was honored at a bridal shower held Wednesday at the Robert Falb home. Guests included Marilyn Anderson James Herbert Falk Dean Robert Wilson and others with readings by Lee Lehman and gifts exchanged by attendees.
J F E Steinmetz from the State Department of Social Welfare completed a financial records examination for Fayette County Department of Social Welfare. The review checked all fiscal transactions for proper accounting under prescribed procedures covering the period August 38, 1264, through
Total advance payments for Old Age Assistance Aid to Blind Aid to Disabled Aid to Dependent Children and Medical Assistance to the Aged totaled 17. The Fayette County share covered 98,619.89 after reimbursements and recoveries attributable to the county were noted. Reimbursements received during the period amounted to 21,906.74 with 16,472.58 obtained by Fayette County Social Welfare employees. A tour group gathered for supper at Prairie du Chien including Mrs Selma Groth Ames Martin Nelson Manchester and many others from St Olaf Quinton Torkelson West Union Elma Gur dereon and more.
Members of the Willing Workers Club and guests spent Tuesday September 6 on a tour to points in Wisconsin. The club chartered a hut for the trip visiting Finnimore Little Norway New Glorius Lace factory and yardage mill church linens the state fair Ital and zoo at Madison and the House on the Rock at Dardge
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