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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1960
Page
1
The Elgin Echo from Elgin Iowa announces itself with the address dial 3711 and notes it is published every Thursday by Hermen and Bartunek. It also records entry as second class mail matter at Fayette County post office under the 1891 act.
Advertising rates listed per line ten cents per line with a minimum charge of thirty cents weekly if paid with cash otherwise sixty cents. Blind ads or inquiries require a fifty cent weekly minimum. Card of Thanks and In Memoriam cards are one dollar. Resolutions of Respect and obituary poetry follow regular rates. limited to ten lines with five cents per additional line.
Busy Beavers 4 H Club August 8 meeting featured IFYE delegate from Germany Miss Margarete Hold. Twenty one members answered roll call and a program with talks on sweat ers storage foundation garments and sewing machine demos was presented.
The 36th annual Lehman reunion met Sunday in the Baptist Church basement with attendees from Postville Daveport Hawkeye LaPorte City Chicago Bettendorf and other towns. Deaths in the year included Lydia Veale Bu cher Cresco Oscar Lehman Ed Schmidt Celia Lehman and Ed Lehman. Two births were reported.
Donald T. Caspers pastors St Pauls Methodist Church announces August church meetings. No Woman's Society of Christian Service Circle gatherings this month. Sunday August 21 features Worship at 9 am and Sunday School at 10 am.
Marion and Norway church notices list August events. Henry J. Mathre is pastor. Choir practice August 18 at 8:00 p.m. Dorcas Society August 20 at 2:00 p.m. Worship August 21 at 9:00 a.m. Norway Ladies Aid August 18 at 2:00 p.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. Communion 4:30 p.m. Communion at chapel. August 25 St Olaf Ladies Aid 2:30 p.m. chapel.
The Marion Mission Society gathered in church parlors on Thursday August 11 with hostesses Mrs Robert Wettleson and Mrs Enoch Mark. After hymn scripture reading and prayer led by Pastor Mathre members discussed reports.
Ten girls and one leader from Busy Beavers 4-H Club attended camp at the National Fair Grounds this year. Attendees from junior camp on July 2 and 26 include Inga Hanson Bonnie Kittleson and Cheryl.
Becky Anderson, Patty Amundson, Karen Olson, L Myra Anderson, Diane Frieden, Margaret Hanson and Mrs Melvin Reierson attended senior camp on July 27 and 28. The theme was Nature with music recreation crafts and outdoor cooking enjoyed by all.
Louise Schori from Davenport and Mrs. Bertha Lehman joined Mrs. Lulu Schmid and Mrs. Edith Berg for a Sunday luncheon in Elgin. Floyd Halsten son and daughters of Inwood were enroute to Wisconsin Dells and visited Wednesday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Anderson. Mr and Mrs Fritz Ruck also noted in the social page.
A flurry of social visits and weekend stays across Iowa communities. Switzerland guests Fritz Ruch and Gottlieb Pulfer joined Mrs. Esther Moore and others for suppers while Delights of Cedar Rapids, Brookings and Hawkeye were among the many homes hosting friends and relatives during the week.
In memoriam notice honors Mrs J Not deed oun who loved her and has gone before. The brief tribute recalls her kindness and life, acknowledging those she touched and the memory she leaves behind.
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