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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1959
Page
1
The Elgin Echo Dial is published every Thursday by Hermen and Bartunek from Elgin Iowa. It is entered as second class mail matter at the Elgin post office in Fayette County Iowa under the 1852 act.
Elgin Iowa town council held a special session with Mayor Leo L Schori and all councilmen present. Members Wilson Muehlethaler Boyle Mudford acted on purchases including a new Iowa Code and departmental rules and funding for a siren. A building permit was issued to William Moore for a fireproof business building on Center Street. Regular meetings will start at 7 30 pm thereafter. The meeting adjourned with no further action.
The WMF held its regular April meeting in the Lutheran church fellowship hall. Hostesses included Mrs Otto Blockhus and others. Usheresses were Mrs Pearl Johnson and Mrs Sam Dennler. President Mrs Mervin Hunsberger welcomed Highland society ladies. Pastor Stutrud led a group study on Ephesians Chapter 2. Guest speaker Mrs Norma Neumann shared slides on the Japan mission field. Delegates Mrs Belva Snyder and Mrs Elmer Meyer were elected to the Marion church convention on April 28.
The Syria Hit and Miss Club met at Mrs. Gay Ernst's home on April 17 with twelve members. They voted to donate 250 dollars to Pennies for Friendship and 5 dollars to the scholarship fund. Helen Rothlis berger, Mrs. Joe Dinan, and Mrs. Reynold Strong led a rug making lesson. The next meeting is set for May 2 at Mrs. Ed Gernand's home with an outdoor cookery lesson.
Mrs Inez Brackin entertained Saturday evening for the 66th birthday of William Brackin. Guests included F E Lehman Andrew Brackin Andrea LaPorte City Gus Pep madackis Cedar Falls Mary Brackin Cedar Rapids Rev Donald Caspers J O Anderson Thomas Pollock Donald Gilson Charles Wenger Allen Habeger Russell Wenger Steven Craig and others. Donald Gilson also celebrated a birthday. Mrs Russell Wenger and Mrs Thomas Pollock baked the cakes.
The Fayette County Extension Calendar lists events for late April: a money management lesson on Friday at the Grand Meadow Study Club hosted by Mrs. Lyle Aanes with Merle R. Bovis as Home Economist. a 4-H Club meeting by Pleasant Valley Sharpshooters on Monday at 8:00 p.m.. and a Fayette County Extension Council meeting at the Extension Office on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m.
The Progress Club met Tuesday April 7 at the home of Mrs. Donald Caspers with co host Gladys Feller assisting.
Members reported on a shut-in visit during roll call and elected officers: pres Mrs Elmer Meyer vice pres Mrs Robert Helms sec treas Mrs Ed Klingman and reporter Mrs Robert Wilson. Delegates to the State Federation Cedar Rapids were chosen, for the May meeting at Mrs Kenneth Blockhus on May 4. The program featured a panel The Faiths We Live By with speakers on Hinduism Islamism Judaism Greek Orthodoxy Quakerism.
The Illyria Clipperettes gathered at Lynnette Schori’s home on Monday evening April 1 with 13 members and three guests present. Talks on studied pictures were given by Lynnette Schori and Iantha Strong, with Dianne Reeder presenting and Tantha Strong and Iva Feller demonstrating Kitchen Revival. Janet Gehring and Ann Miles won the Better Groomed Girl contest and earn a spot at Rally Day on May 23. The next meeting will be at the Wyria Church.
The Pleasant Valley Homemakers Club will meet at Mrs. Allen Habeger's home on Friday evening, April 24, at 8 o clock. Lesson: Annuals, Perennials, etc., by Mrs. Leon Jacob and Mrs. Abe Habeger. Bulb seed and plant exchange planned. Bring as preferred. Prize offered to township club with the largest average attendance for the year.
The Elgin Asparagus Corporation receives 150000 asparagus crowns from a Rochelle Illinois grower to plant 20 more acres on the Schori river bottom north of Lehman's service station. Planting will start when soil is workable. fields must be disked and sprayed for weeds later this month. Previous years saw 180 acres in production with mixed field history.
Mrs. Ole Reierson Mrs. Lydia Wright and Linda Wanderen host a baby shower event with guests and activities noted in this social notice. The gathering highlights hospitality and communal celebration within the community.
Rev and Mrs Donald Caspers hosted a bridal dinner Friday evening for Anna Friederich and Duane Caspers who wed Sunday. Attendees included Allan Friederich Cedar Rapids Pastor and Mrs Dennis Stutrud Ern Friederich Hulda Sutter Leo Friederich Arden Greener Janice Loftagard Mavis Anderson Mrs Anna Stead Monticello Eugene Lehman Arien Peters.
The Spring Convention of the Women's Missionary Federation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Decorah Circuit meets Tuesday April 28 at Marion Lutheran Church. Theme Teach me Thy Paths from Psalm 25.4. Principal speakers Mrs Page Carlson and Rev G B Thompson. Delegates hear of mission work including support for a pastor in Mexico City and a church in Nome Alaska and Brazil. Member churches include Highland Elgin East and West Clermont First St Olaf West Union and Marion.
Infant Jane Hofer, daughter of Alfred and Ima Hofer, born April 15 1969, died April 15. Survived by parents three brothers Earl Benjamin Ronald Bradley grandfather Ben Hofer and grandparents Alfred Couch Loretta Hofer of Denver Colorado with many relatives. The obituary notes a family bereavement and lists survivors.
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