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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1941
Page
6
A long list of Elgin residents and guests fill recent days with visits, trips to Chicago, Dubuque and Chicago area, plus local social events. The column notes multiple families hosting, leaving for summer stays, hospital visits, picnics, and club gatherings across West Union, Arlington, Guttenberg, Dubuque, Fayette, Oelwein, Sumner, and surrounding towns.
Elgin and Siyria churches announce services with Methodist Church St Pauls at 10 o clock and Community Church at 11 15 am Worship offered by Joseph Warton minister No services at Clermont Sunday evening
August 17 schedule listing English service at 9 o clock and 10 30 o clock for Norway, and 8 p m Luther League. Pastor S J Strandjord invites all to attend each service and welcomes everyone to come to church.
Thanks to the Elgin fire department for quick action that brought the farm fire truck to the scene and extinguished the blaze with minimal damage. Neighbors aiding also contributed to the effort. Card of thanks follows for hospital visitors and support.
Tell 'em you saw it in the Echo. Ernest Christen and Betty Christen left Wednesday for Rock Valley to visit relatives. Mrs. John Falk went to Waterloo to consult an eye specialist for infected eyes. Donna Wenger and Harold Conner visited Strawberry Point as supper guests of Elmer and Mrs Bartels. Norris Capper family and Gus Brause traveled to Carrollton Ohio to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Becker of Grinnell and Mrs. H. F. Becker of Clermont were guests at the Chris Wenger home last Thursday. Louise Baumgartner and Dorothy Doolittle from Cedar Rapids attended the Lehman reunion and returned to work. Lena Cooley arrived from Decorah to visit her brother Adolph Lehman while staying with Hulda Stoehr in Elgin. Spahr Hendershott, son of I. D. Hendershott of Oelwein, promoted to Sergeant at Lake Charles Louisiana in the engineer's division with the H. & F. Co. W. J. Grove came from Webster City to fetch his wife and children after a week with her parents S. W. Kuster. They left Tuesday for home. Clive Helms and daughters spent Sunday with relatives in Bloomington Wisconsin. Helen Stippich of Fennimore returned to Elgin with them for a week. Susie DeSart went to Randalia to visit relatives, planning to return to Elgin then Mason City. Carl Lehman of Minneapolis arrived for Lehman reunion Sunday and stayed with Adolph Lehman before returning home Monday.
Funeral services for Paul Yearous 44 of Volga were held at the Illyria church Tuesday afternoon led by Rev. Dean Butler. Yearous died after a hunting accident caused sunstroke and unconsciousness from Friday. He is survived by his mother Mrs. Will Yearous and other relatives.
Otto Torkelson sustained a scalp laceration needing stitches and bruising after a collision with a truck in Garnaville. Passenger Will Christen suffered a knee bump. The south Garnaville crash left the car a total wreck and reconstruction was not planned.
Bertha Rothlisberger of LeMars and Mrs Elizabeth Smith of Sioux City arrived Tuesday evening to visit their aunt Mrs Hulda Stoehr while Mr and Mrs Geo Nydegger planned a Sunday start on a vacation trip
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