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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1948
Page
6
A flurry of guests visits West Union Calmar and surrounding areas as families host relatives from Des Moines Sioux Center Minneapolis and Fayette. Weddings and overflight visits mark the week with outings in Cedar Rapids Canistota and Chippewa Falls.
Interim pastor Rev. G. P. Schroeder will lead morning worship August 22 at 10:00 with the sermon The Man in the Gap Hes 22:30 and Sunday school at 11. Evening service at 8. Tabitha Society meets Thursday at 2 p.m in the church parlor Ruth Krueger is organist. Junior choir practice and children's instruction Friday at 7 p.m. Reports from the N W conference at the Bible message.
Lutheran Church announces services on Sunday August 22 with Norway at 9:30 and Marion at 11 o'clock. All welcome at each service. Dr. S J Strandjord is pastor.
The Priscilla Working Band and Mission Society of West Clermont Lutheran Church express gratitude for donations to the food stand at the Clermont Dairy Days celebration and to all who patronized and helped with the work. Sle
The Ed Sparks family, long residents of the Pinney house just west of Elgin, sold their household goods on Tuesday and departed for Missouri, ending years at the location.
Notice of sale of funding bonds for the Town of Elgin Fayette County Iowa. Bonds worth 2000 dollars dated September 1 1948 in 100 dollar denominations payable 100 dollars yearly 1949 to 1968 at up to 5 percent interest. Sealed bids due sale time open bids thereafter. Town reserves right to reject bids. R E Kohler town clerk.
Dean Torkelson and Jennings Mitts traveled to Cedar Rapids to collect Dorell Mitts who stayed with relatives Mrs Belva Snyder and family. Ione Torkelson attended Grandview church and pulpit dedication in memory of J Howard Snyder. Dr H H Wolf and Burton travel to Iowa City for a check up. John Falk hospitalized for sciatic rheumatism with expected recovery at midweek. Kohls family reunion held at Oelwein park. Emy Lou Weile of Grandview visiting Mrs Belva Snyder home.
Mr and Mrs John Wagenbach and Mr and Mrs Henry Gerst sr of Oakville and Edith Wagen bach of Peoria Illinois were callers Wednesday of Mrs Fanny Frieden and Tada Mrs Harold Stoehr and John Krumnholtz of Cedar Rapids visited Sunday in the Mrs Hulda Stoehr home Harold Stoehr returned home with them after visiting the past week with his mother
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