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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
6
Elgin residents and friends are reported visiting in Cedar Rapids Wadena and Wisconsin. Many trips include family meals and birthdays, with gatherings in the Ash, Wenger, Muehlethaler, and Keiser homes. An ice cream social at Illyria Church benefits the Red Cross and Judith Florence Knight is welcomed as a newborn.
Sunday worship at 10 o clock and Sunday school at 11 o clock. Evening service at 7 45 p m. B Y P U service at 8 35 p m. Wednesday August 14 Tabitha Society at 2 p m Prayer Service at 8 p m Choir rehearsal at 9 p m. Elgin Iowa. Reverend Paul F Zoschke pastor. Chrystal Miller organist.
Church notices list August 11 service at St Olaf at 9 English, Marion at 10 30 English. Pastor Dr J Strandford invites all to every service as warm welcome.
Elgin residents record visits by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hardy of Uniontown and Kay Anderson of Waterloo plus many guests from La Crosse Postville Clermont and West Union. Numerous relatives celebrate birthdays travel for summer visits and school work moves noted along with a Burpee Sealer promotion and a seven inning Elgin win over Corn Hill.
On Sunday Clermont Airport was the next stop as crowds departed to Rochester Minnesota to attend the airport dedication. Most fans returned home by six o'clock after a long day with travel times averaging about an hour from Clermont to Rochester.
The annual Lehman family reunion and picnic will be held Sunday at the Elgin School grounds. Harry Johnson of Ossian is visiting his sister Mrs Walter Dummermuth. Mr and Mrs Balz Kamm and family of West Union were dinner guests in the Chris Schweitzer home with Mr and Mrs Robert Miller of Oelwein and Ted Imholtz of St. Louis visiting in the Sheldon Boyle home Sunday.
Sheriff Kutschat urges extra caution for weekend drivers on Towa highways noting most auto accidents occur Saturdays and Sundays. He reports urban crashes peak 4 to 5 PM, rural June crashes mainly at dusk and from 10 PM to midnight, and warns motorists to not drive without an operator's license.
Mrs Chas Chapman plans to leave Friday for Minneapolis Minnesota to visit several aunts and relatives. The trip will cover a few days as Mrs Morrison Norris Capper Erma Rehwinkel and Mrs E C Pinney sr have been ill and confined to their homes.
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