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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1950
Page
2
A senior class play selection Our Hearts Were Young and Gay is announced with cast including Marlys Wenger Arlene Wedberry and Bonnie Howard under the direction of Mrs Schori and Mrs Grove. The article lists promoters, property crew and ushers and outlines plans for the remainder of the year including banquet prep and various class activities.
A school notes sustained progress across grades with perfect spelling scores among first and sixth grade pupils. Sixth and seventh graders practice angles using protractor and compass while central Europe studies unfold. Weekly menus list meals for May 1 to 3.
Elgin area social notes record various visits with families in Strawberry Point Clermont and Postville. Attendees include Elgin D E Tinker family at J W Tinkers, Elmer Reitz Kahoka and Paul Butikoter Quincy for Mrs Ross Lehman funeral, plus meals with Ray Tomsbeck, Robt Wilson, C J Harrington, and others. Rita Newman visited Clermont Monday amid local hosting and supper gatherings.
Sunday and weekend visits fill Postville area households with many guests from Waterloo Detroit Fayette and West Union. Local families welcome relatives and friends including the Kohlers Buck Humphry Hutchinson Shipton and Howard households with multiple dinners and visits noted. A new daughter was born to Bernard and present in the community at Postville hospital weighing 19 pounds 6 ounces.
Mr and Mrs Leo Hutchinson of Joliet Illinois visited West Union on Monday for seven o clock dinner at Mrs Hutchinsons sisters home. They traveled to Fayette Sunday to visit Owen Cummings Ahmad Wren Radi Robter and Karla at Quincy. They spent the past week with Ethel Kohler and others and attended the ensio pavitent.
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