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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1933
Page
6
Frances Hoyt visited Fay nette to see friends while Mrs. Enieling Capper lies ill in bed. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Landsgard visited Gus Gunderson, and Anna Schmid suffers a recent pleurisy attack east of Elgin. Clifton Bailey moves in with the Frieden family to farm jointly near Wadena.
Lutheran Church Notes list communion services on April 6 at 11 o clock in Marion and at 2 30 in Norway. The note cites Pastor Strandjordy and mentions Coxie quietly attending each service.
Illyria Church notes minister J J Snyder La Fonda Shaffer pianist. Sunday school at 10 15 a m worship at 11 15 a m observing the Lord's Supper. Emphasis on reconsecration renewing minds and hearts. All are urged to attend and begin if not regular. choir provides excellent music.
Worship hour at 10 a m next Sunday will be Communion Sunday with special music. Sunday school at 11 a m. Choir rehearsals Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the church for the cantata. Ladies Bible class meets Friday afternoon at the parsonage. Membership class Saturday at 2 o clock at the parsonage. Baptism and church joining via Sacrament offered on Easter Sunday morning.
Baptist Church notes outline Thursday and Sunday services and rehearsals in April. Prayer meetings at 8 p m and 9 p m on various days, English services at 10 a m and 8 p m, Sunday school at 11 a m, and a special program planned for Sunday evening April 16 at 8 o'clock with a dialogue of six persons and extra numbers in the Echo next week. The note invites all to attend and prays for the sick.
The advice by MacDonald Smith emphasizes keeping weight on the heels to enable body rotation, prevent arm-overswing, and maintain balance. It urges slight knee bend, mild give to avoid stooping, and firm planting of the weight-bearing foot throughout the swing for proper pivot and smoother transfer.
In Cresco preparations for the annual commercial contest begin with a focus on merchandising trade accounts and controlling accounts in the bookkeeping class. Practice will start soon on the operetta titled Hulda of Holland directed by R. C. Jorgenson.
Decorah readers note the transfer of Will Cooley from Decorah to Iowa City due to Rock Island Railway Mail Service cuts. Three Cooley families will relocate this week. Mrs Emma Cooley resigns from Connor Knight store. Fred and Vern Cooley are sons of Will Cooley. Other local items include visits and illness notes, plus the death of Alfred Falk of West Bend.
Seniors had class pictures taken at the school house Monday. Visitors from the Mecca studios of Davenport did the work. The district attorney play, postponed due to high water, will be staged Friday evening April 7. Germaine Erickson Olaf Olson Mizg Friederich and Mary Carpenter visited last week. The home economics club met Wednesday with a style show led by Coronel Rothlitsberger. A new project, dress making over, started this week. The junior shorthand class is dictating 60 to 70 words a minute and transcribing within a set time.
Clifton Kiple Wilma Richards Reuben Lehman Lewis Thoma Floyd Tate and Kenneth Bender of Fayette spent Sunday evening with relatives and friends in Elgin Mr and Mrs E L Morris and daughter Jean of Marquette Mr and Mrs Chas Huebner and George and Jerine Schultz of Postville were guests in the John Falk home Sunday Two friends of Mr and Mrs Jim Bailey joined them for bridge Friday evening The guests enjoyed themselves Exa Schori Samuel Mosby B J Baumgartner Gordon Mosby and W S Rothlisberger drove to Des Moines Friday to confer with state bank officials Stillman girls moved Thursday to rooms in the Elgin Hotel Anna Falb will occupy vacated rooms in the Enos place Mrs Carence Sohori Mrs Walter Palb and Mrs Allen Habeger drove to Fayette Thursday for the district meeting of club women Mrs H D Yack and Mrs C O Torkelson drove over for the afternoon session
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