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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1942
Page
6
Elgin and Postville residents filled with visits and travels over the weekend. Notables include the Ewing and Olson families hosting relatives, the O Neill, Falk, and Zurbriggen households welcoming guests, and several members attending the State Legion convention in Waterloo. Community members also shared thanks for illness get well wishes and reports of engagements and informal gatherings across multiple towns.
Elgin Baptist Church announces prayer service at 8 o clock and choir rehearsal at 9 o clock tonight. Sunday worship with Methodist church at 10 o clock due to Rev Zoschke’s absence. Sunday school at 11 o'clock in the church. no evening services.
The Methodist Church invites worship at 10 o clock with Elgin Baptist members joining the service. Sunday school follows at 11 o clock and the choir meets for rehearsal Thursday at 7 o clock led by Minister Joseph C. Warton.
The notice lists church services at St Olaf Marion and Norway with times and English sermons, plus an ice cream social. It records visits and travels of local residents including Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Anderson, Merlin Feller, Alice Frieden, Carl Reider, H. W. Helms, F. D. Welch, J. S. Phillips, F. J. Keeling, Barbara Crider, Ed Boleyn, Ruth, Senda, Geo. Anderson, Bradley, Wm. F. Miller, Mrs. Chester Arthur, Leon Shepherd, Ruth, Vonda Boleyn, and Robert Kohler with Geraldine Kohler and Frank Shipton.
The Lehman family held its 18th annual reunion on Sunday at the Elgin schoolhouse with 84 attendees. After a picnic, a business meeting led by Louis Lehman, re-elected officers, and a piano solo by Frederick Anderson, the gathering ended with God Bless America. Participants listed span Mason City to Fayette, including Lehman relatives from multiple towns and states.
Mrs. Nels Holm has been ill with pneumonia but is somewhat better. Edwin Krueger Aulden Oelberg and Beverly of West Union returned home Sunday after a week touring North Dakota South Dakota the Badlands and the Black Hills visiting Madison Cleveland and other relatives and friends.
In Boston Massachusetts a society advocating prevention of cruelty to children is established this day, reflecting concerns of the era about child welfare and protective families. The formation signals civic action and local organizing on child protection.
The custom of ringing wedding bells began in England during the Middle Ages with bells pealing as the bride entered and again as she left.
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