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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1934
Page
6
Local residents shared Thanksgiving with relatives in Elgin and surrounding towns. Guests included the Deans, Tripp, Doan, Bailey, and Schori families, with travel from Postville, Janesville, Fayette, Cedar Falls, Iowa City, and Waterloo. Desserts and gifts noted, with plans to return for Christmas photos at Cottage Studio in Oelwein.
M E Church notes worship hour at 10 a m on Sunday with Sunday school at 11 a m and choir practice on Thursday evenings. The article urges members to join in the church’s work, calling the sanctuary a schoolroom of Christ and stressing personal and community losses if one misses worship.
The church lists events for Thursday Dec 6 at 8 p.m. prayer meeting and 9 p.m. choir. Sunday Dec 9 English service at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 11 a.m. B Y P U prayer at 8 45 p.m. Leader Charlotte Krueger. The church announces December 24 Christmas program at 8 p.m. and invites all to services.
Minister J J Snyder presides as Grace Foxwell plays piano in church notes. Sunday school begins at 10 15 a m and church worship follows at 11 15 a m. The piece emphasizes worship as essential and each person contributes to the service whether present or absent, mirroring Christ’s Sabbath example.
Elgin Iowa town council met in regular session at the town hall with all members present. Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. Bills audited include Kohls salary Dean salary Echo printing Harrington timekeeper ERA nine weeks Hunsberger use of teams Home Bakery supplies Stoehr Co filling extinguishers Sutter labor waterworks Falb's Market supplies. Adjournment motion carried. Berg prices on suits and overcoats. Thanksgiving dinner guests listed. Local travel and school duties noted.
Parish notices list December 9 and 16 Lutheran services at Marion and First Lutheran with times, inviting attendance. Local society items mention Berg’s shop, illness of Georgiana Fath, Mrs. E G Stoehr's improvement after an accident, and Thanksgiving visits by Mabel Frieden, Frances Skarshaug, C R Stone, Chas Greenley family, plus Kenneth Evans’ sixteenth birthday party with friends and refreshments.
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