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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
6
Numerous guests from La Crosse Wisconsin Fredericksburg Fredericksburg and Waterloo visited Elgin and surrounding homes over the weekend. Relatives attended picnics dinners and social calls at multiple residences including Gehring Reed Kohler and Strauch families while several members traveled to Oelwein Chicago and Dubuque for reunions and events.
Helmer Carl Loftsgard born February 24 1889 in Inwood Lyon county died August 11 1949 at age fifty. survived by widow Ruth Hoag five children two grandchildren five brothers and many relatives He resided on Clayton county farms before moving to the 1925 Clayton farm served twenty years on Marion Telephone Co board Funeral held at home and Marion Lutheran Church with Rev Strandford music by choir and Arthur Amundson casket bearers listed Relatives from Schlei svig Ames St Ansgar and Spring Valley Minn attended
The Methodist church held morning worship at ten and Sunday school at eleven. Pastor Bruce D. Jones led a recognition for Georgana Falb who spoke of her summer training for mission work. She will serve at Calcutta girls school in Calcutta India sailing from New York on August thirty under the Woman's Society of Christian Service sponsorship. The church will attend a Hillcrest babyfold campaign training conference Thursday at Monona and thanks were sent for support at homecoming.
The Psalmists treated their partly formed Bible as God’s word not mere literature or luck. They trusted miracles as evidence of God's power, saw the Bible as a guide for life, and considered it God’s revelation and plan. Psalm 119 emphasizes inner commitment and living truth over empty knowledge.
Lutheran church holds worship Sunday August 28 at 11:00 a.m. in the school house gym with Dr N Astrup Larson of the Iowa District preaching. A picnic dinner follows on the school grounds. A business meeting will discuss the future of a Lutheran church in Egin. all are invited.
The Elgin Baptist Church under Pastor Arthur Ittermann announces a schedule of events including a junior choir Friday, prayer meeting and study at 8 p.m., choir rehearsal at 9 p.m., and next Sunday worship at 10 a.m. with Sunday school at 11 a.m. Gideons conduct the evening Gideon Night at 8 p.m.
The writer thanks relatives and friends for the many kind cards and letters received while in hospital and at home. Signed by Mrs Geo L Miller.
Mrs Kenneth Anderson and Curtis thank relatives and friends for the many lovely cards gifts and visits during our stay at the hospital and after returning home. 52c
Mr and Mrs Henry Bemiss hosted Saturday supper in the Robert Falk home Cedar Rapids. Weekend guests included Mrs Lulu Schmid Mr and Mrs Ted Neuman of Volga and the Lester Luchsinger family in the Jacob Hoover home. Richard Neuman returned home after a week visiting. Dale Jensen entertained Mrs Pauline Dennler and Mrs Ida Christen for dinner and Mrs Christen birthday. Jacob Friederich Jr and wife welcomed a daughter Danielle Kay born Aug 14 at West Union hospital. H A Bartlemay Gregg of Morton Illinois dined with Lyle Light Friday. later they joined Carl Schorl in West Union. Belva Snyder and Carl Embretson with others from St Olaf vacationed at Clear Lake. Roderick Imholte earned a top four carrier slot and a paid trip to Des Moines after attending games and touring the Register and Tribune building. Edith Berg accompanied the Edwin Anderson family to Waterloo for several days.
Acknowledgments express gratitude from Ruth Loftsgard and others for kindness and sympathy shown after the death of a husband and father. Many relatives and friends are listed as visitors and guests at various homes, with thanks to the choir, soloist, and Rev. Strandford for comforting words.
Herman Scheel born September 18 1865 in Hohenochagan Germany died August 14 1949 in La Crosse Wisconsin at eighty three after various complications. He married Augusta Bohm September 19 1889 in Pagenkoff Germany and they emigrated to America in 1897 settling in this town section. Nine children born four died in infancy and one son Otto died in World War I. Survived by widow and children Albert Cedar Falls Martha Pfister Oelwein Frank Rochelle August Lawler, eleven grandchildren and five great grandchildren. funeral August 18 at Elgin Baptist church with quartette and pallbearers named.
The Scheel family expresses gratitude for kindness sympathy floral and memorial offerings during the illness and death of their husband father and grandfather Mrs Scheel and family acknowledge these acts from Rev Ittermann Tabitha Society pallbearers and neighbors and thank all who shared in their sorrow.
Mr and Mrs Ervie Baird and Mr and Mrs Earl Thomas of Harvard visited Saturday in the C J Mulford and John Tillotson homes along with Mr and Mrs Earl Mulford of Winthrop.
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