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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1957
Page
1
Elgin Iowa weekly newspaper published every Thursday by Strauch and Hermen. Second class mail matter registered September 1, 1891 at Elgin post office Fayette County under the 1852 act.
Deborah Jane Schultz seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Schultz died last Thursday after a two and a half year leukemia battle. Funeral services were at Luana Lutheran Church with eight classmates as escorts and cousins Tom Roger Harry and Stanley Waters as pallbearers. Burial followed at the nearby cemetery. She recently attended Luana schools and had treatment in Rochester Minnesota. Survivors include her sister Susan nine and brother David ten months. Grandparents Mr and Mrs Lawrence Schultz of Luana and Mr and Mrs R P Strauch. Great grandmothers Mrs Ida Casper and Mrs August Schultz.
The Marion Busy Bees met August 5 at the Schupbach home with twelve members sharing admired figures, club years, and ages. Committees were named for a style revue, 27 exhibits were shown at the National Fair, and ribbon winners were announced across blue red and white categories with multiple members earning top placements. The demonstration team presented talks and demonstrations by Barbara Gibbs, Marion Christen, Helen Christen, Dariene Hofer, and Marie Friederich.
A terse note credits Helen Christen as reporter for coverage of style and revue acts, highlighting a feature on the performers and the event’s fashion elements.
The sixth annual Christen family reunion gathered 119 people on Sunday at the West Union fair grounds. Attendees hailed from multiple states, including Iowa, Indiana, Texas, Missouri, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, with numerous Christen family members listed by locality and relation. The event featured a noon picnic, performances, readings, and a formal program. Mollie Schneider was elected president for 1958, with John Christen as vice president and several officers and committee members named.
Elgin residents Mr and Mrs Carl Rasmusson of Oelwein were supper guests at the Nels Olson home along with Mrs Joanna Hughes and several others. The group traveled to Luana for the funeral of Deborah Schultz on Monday attended by residents from Chadwick and Ottumwa areas.
Visitors and residents shared a busy period with picnics in Prairie du Chien and gatherings in Manchester, Strawberry Point, West Union, and Winneconne. The record notes multiple households entertaining relatives friends and guests from Illinois Kansas California andThroughout the week locals hosted dinners showers and birthday parties.
Fayette County transfers list parcels in 30-93-7 used by St. Paul Railway, with Marion Corbin transferring NE 30-93-7 to David Stetson, plus G W Alderson and wife selling Lots 38 and 39 in Herriman Add Wadena. Clermont incorporates Pin Co with Nelsons as incorporators. Farm lease Mary Jacobson to Gordon Osmundson 50-50 until Feb 28, 1959. Cars registered include Raymond L. Boleyn Elgin Chevrolet sedan and Ray M. Herwig Elgin Chevrolet, Clyde Wenger and Mildred Wenger Elgin Ford.
Mr and Mrs Andrew Hansen hosted Andrew Monson, an old Seattle friend and former schoolmate, as house guests at Armstrong. The reunion marked five decades since they last saw each other.
Miss Annie Akamine of Hawaii visited Mrs Roger Yndman of Churdan recently. The two ladies became pen pals in 1948. The Hawaiian nurse recently came to the mainland and is working in Chicago. In earlier years Detroit was proclaimed The Cosmopolitan of the Western World.
Floyd Thompson of Bedford designed and built an apple picker while using crutches due to muscular ailments that keep him grounded.
Mrs. Lillian Dieriksen of Manchester admires blooms on a cactus plant she has tended for 20 years. The plant, long dormant, flowered after a 16 year gap, reflecting a remarkable rebloom event.
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