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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1965
Page
8
Cheery Valley social notes recount visits to Strawberry Point and Bloomington Wisconsin for nursing home and funeral attendances. Many gatherings include dinners and Sunday calls across communities like West Union, Oelwein, Arlington, Clermont, Guttenberg, and Wadena, with multiple families hosting or visiting in late week and weekend events.
Area residents spent days from Thursday through Sunday visiting relatives and friends. Guests included Harald Opsand and family for a birthday, many dinners and conversations at homes in Decorah Clermont and Ossian, and multiple calls to the Loftsgard, Halm, Amundson, Kijosa, and Leuchtenmacher households.
Mr and Mrs Otto Gisleson and Terri Winter were last Sunday evening visitors in the Henry Vellersven home, marking a family gathering after two weeks spent with Terri Winters grandparents.
The week’s notes record numerous visits and dinners in West Union Clermont and nearby households. Among those mentioned are Mr and Mrs Richard Kohls and Donald, Cindy Peters, the George Pape home, Jim Hanson, Lyle Martin and family, Joe Peters in the Veterans Hospital, and Mrs Vivien Peters. The entries name Cedar Falls Waterloo Sumner and Charles City as places linked to guests.
The Fayette County Farm Bureau will hold its 48th County Annual meeting Friday evening Oct. 29 at the Maynard Community Hall Maynard at 6:30. A fish supper will be served, Price $1.00 per person. Speaker will be J Merril An-Hetschh State Park Bureau president.
Mrs Dale DeSart hosted the Birthday Club Tuesday evening with guests including Mdms Laurence Knudison Leonard Heins Alice Kiosa Robert Medberry Earl Lembke Libbie Larson Arlene Leeman and Mary Kay Laurence West Roy Leuthtenmacher Mervin Anderson while several others were unable to attend Supper guests with Mr and Mrs Louis Lehman on Saturday included Floyd Wieland Detroit Mich Helen Wieland Bay City Mich Stanley Lehman sons Lena and Ruth Schuphach Mr and Mrs Oscar Jensen Independence attended Sunday afternoon with Dale Jensen and Dayra Harold Pfister hosted Monday supper with Leo Backman and Virgil Oelwein
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