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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1946
Page
6
The item notes ESean Ewe and Mrs Pete Lichsinger reporting a multi yolk egg, with other social visits listed. Local residents including Albert L. Schupbach of Detroit and Anna Schupbach are mentioned along with numerous visitors to Ed Medberry, Frieden, Schupbach, and related households. The column records various weekend visits, travels, and hospital checks across Elgin and nearby towns with many relatives and friends named.
Sunday August 18 marks homecoming with a union church service at the high school auditorium at 10 a m. The pastor will return for regular service on August 25. Call Rev S J Baldwin for pastoral needs before August 19. No church school during the pastor's absence. General W S meeting at the church this afternoon August 8 hosted by Mrs Norris Capper Mrs S W Kuster Mrs Ruby Berison and Mrs Herbert Ash Rev Bruce D Janes pastor.
In the absence of the pastor Rev C Stoeckmann of St Paul Minn will supply the pulpit for two and a half weeks. Thursday prayer at 8 pm choir rehearsal at 9 pm. Sunday union worship in the school auditorium at 10 am with Rev Stoeckmann as speaker. Sunday school at 11 am. Evening service at 8 pm led by the BYP U for their monthly program.
Lutheran Church schedules August services in Marion and Norway with speaker Charles Benson on Lutheran World Action. August 26 to 30 invites youth to Luther College Bible Camp. Local notices mention travel, visits, birthdays, and social calls among residents including Zoschke, Dibble, Habeger, and Olson families with various trips and greetings around town.
A religious study teaches human life is sacred as God made man in His image. It limits taking life to crimes of murder, self defense, or legal execution, and urges prevention through heart change, humility, and prayer. Readers are challenged to view self Godward and to honor every person as valued by God.
Philman Larson measured 104 bushels per acre on six acres of Ajax oats, a result praised by Larson and the seed salesman. The figures are a strong local showing though not a global record.
Miss Margaret Tope daughter of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Tope West Union became bride of Thomas Foxwell in a West Union Methodist church ceremony Sunday at 8 pm Rev S J Baldwin officiated Elizabeth Foxwell sister of the groom was maid of honor Harold Tope brother of the bride was best man Helen Sue Landon of Cumberland was flower girl and Juanita Yearous of Fayette sang Always and O Promise Me A reception followed in the church parlors The couple left on a trip through the western states Relatives and friends from the area attended the wedding including Mr and Mrs Ralph Shaffer and family Mr and Mrs Floyd Frieden and family and Kenneth Medberry Sheldon Boyle attended the Rural Letter Carriers national convention in Des Moines He was to return home Friday Mrs Boyle visited with Mr and Mrs Robert Miller and a family at Oelwein Edith Berg went to Waterloo with Mr and Mrs Ed Anderson and Frederick who had been here for the Lehman picnic They will return for homecoming
West Union visitors in the M. A. Boyer home and Margie Germann's weeklong visit after returning from Waterloo. Leo Boyer’s Freshol California trip noted alongside Town City and Walter Germann households. Floyd Larson reports a new oat yield record of 1150 bushels per acre near Soldier. Pinkie George buys Milo Motor from Jo Anne Roberts in Des Moines. Mrs Hoepner seeks clues to a vanished gold fish in Reinbeck as a surprise fish count appears next morning.
Logan Hansen of Newell, Iowa, was gored by a bull on his farm and hospitalized in Council Bluffs after the animal charged during pen work. He lost consciousness briefly as the bull knocked him down and left him for dead. A second item notes a Marine kennel dog named Spike arriving in Newell. Another report states Warren Sargent, 55, was killed after a fall while trimming a tree near Spirit Lake. An early morning panhandler incident in West Des Moines involved Phil Blaucstuss seeking 10 cents for a ride.
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