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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1937
Page
8
Illyria items record weekend visits by the Rothlisberger and Fisher families to Oakville and Cheery Valley. Numerous relatives and friends attend house calls, fairs, and Sunday suppers across Oak Grove, Fayette, Elgin, and surrounding areas with a focus on relations, travels, and local events.
Fred Rothlisberger, Ruth Rothlisberger, Otis Rothlisberger, Rosanna Rothlisberger, Lyle Jones, and others were seen enjoying a sunny Sunday afternoon at the state park near Strawberry Point.
A parade of visits and gatherings unfolds in Cheery Valley and surrounding areas as residents from Elgin Strawberry Point Garnaville and West Union share weekends and midweek calls. Guests include Mrs Walter Butikofer and family, Mrs John Leonard, Mr and Mrs Hanson Bros, and many others visiting relatives, attending weddings, showers, dances, and a Democratic meeting at Elkader fairgrounds. The gatherings span Friday through Sunday with multiple host homes and extended family exchanges noted.
Brainard and nearby communities share social visits as multiple households hosted relatives and friends. Mr and Mrs Wm Mueller and family dined with Mr and Mrs Clive Helms. Ray Gilbert returned from Marshalltown to reclaim his wife and daughter visiting D H Craft home. Other gatherings occurred in Glen Boyer, Calmar area, Oelwein, Clermont, Oak Grove, and Clermont with numerous Nutting, Munger, Krosa, and Howard households noted.
Listings recall supper hosts Mr and Mrs D H Graft and others in Elgin. Visitors include Mrs Sidney Patterson and Mrs Paul Patterson plus Mr George Schroyer in West Union. Moats family visits Monticello. Mays Nutting and Jimmie join Wm Hoover at West Union. Brainard church Sunday school at 10 with no preaching.
Notice to heirs of B M Benson and interested parties that a petition by O H Larson executor seeks authority to borrow six thousand dollars at four and a half percent for five years secured by a first mortgage on estate real estate to pay claims and administration costs. Hearing set for Oct 1 1937 at 10am in West Union Court House. objections due. The petition is filed in Fayette County Iowa District Court. The notice includes attorney W W Davidson.
The Ossian Bee urges merchants to use advertising as a tool for growth. It contrasts vanity ads and charity views with practical space sales, stressing service to the public, efficiency, and honest advertising as keys to business success. It includes humorous anecdotes about pretensed masquerades and a fisher of men.
A Cleveland motorist found a note and a ticket after parking in a non parking zone. In Decorah officers are rounding up bootleg liquor dispensers near the state liquor store, tightening control on illicit alcohol activity.
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