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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1954
Page
6
A flood of social notes records dinners and Sunday visits as families from Clermont and Postville host relatives, attend the Messiah performance in Decorah, and plan Christmas travel. Guests include the Jacob, Lehman, Schupbach, Moore, and Olsen households with numerous extended family attendees. Holiday plans feature trips to Los Angeles and Chicago, and local Christmas carol outings.
Worship service at 10:00 a m Sunday school at 11:00 a m Choir rehearsal Thursday at 7:00 p m Special annual Christmas offering for world service and conference benevolences during worship Vesper by the choir directed by Leo Grether Sunday at 3:30 p m Public invited Circles of the W S C S meet Thursday evening for a Christmas party exchanging 50 cent gifts.
Elgin Lutheran Church under Pastor Vance R. Knutsén lists Thursday December 16 at 7:30 p m junior choir practice above the locker and 8:00 p m membership class at the parsonage. Friday features junior confirmation at 9:00 a m and senior confirmation at 10:30 a m with a 1:00 p m Ladies' Aid bake sale at Elgin town hall. Sunday December 19 has 9:30 a m Sunday school above the locker, 10:30 a m divine worship above the locker, 1:00 p m rehearsal above the locker for the Christmas program, and 6:30 p m Luther Leaguers meet at the parsonage to carol before a party at Mr and Mrs Orvin Thompson's home.
St Olaf Lutheran Parish lists Christmas and Advent services with times at St Olaf Norway Marion and other groups. Readings, communion and Christmas tree events scheduled across December 23 25 26 with congregants invited to attend all services. Pastor Dr J Strandford and community members noted.
Charles A. Murray of Lynchburg Virginia is promoted to lieutenant colonel in Korea and receives the silver oak leaf from Maj. Gen. E J McGaw at Korean Communications Zone headquarters. Murray, son of Mrs Estella Feller of California, arrived overseas in September 1953.
Elgin Study Club members Mrs Gordon J Mosby and Mrs Henry H Wolf along with Gladys Feller of the Progress Club and Jane Dennler of the Tertia Club attended a Fayette meeting for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. County chairman Eugene Alcorn and Iowa state representative John V McCarthy spoke. Director John Hofmeyer outlined funds need as a film was shown. About forty representatives were present as Elgin clubs plan a 1955 March of Dimes effort and a future film in Elgin with public invitation.
The Elgin Progress Club held its annual Christmas party at Mrs. Robert Kohler's home Monday evening with a three course dinner served by hostesses Marys Kohler Grether Knudtson and Walker. The group exchanged handmade gifts, sang carols, and enjoyed festive decorations described as traditional Christmas colors with wrought iron centerpiece and candelabra.
Charles Holzer sold two mink pelts for 30 and 25 dollars, saying prices were excellent and the pelts were high quality. He also sold nine muskrats for a total of 9.50 dollars. Spring disease prevention via poisoning is advised this fall. Ilo M Meyer of Clermont spent Saturday in West Union. Mrs Meinhard attended a funeral in Sioux Rapids. Clarence Becker reports Rock Island bridge crew now in Joliet Illinois. Patsy Capper hosted a farewell party for Allen Weston who moved to West Union. Guests included Ruth Mitts and others. Robert Wenger of Waterloo visited Lyle Light on Sunday. Harry Helgerson thanks readers for cards and visits during hospitalization. 16p.
Bonnie Lantz graduated from the stewardess school at Cheyenne Wyoming on Wednesday December 15 and received her wings in Denver Colorado. She will be stationed at Newark New Jersey. Miss Lantz is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Maynard Lantz.
Five northeast Iowa towns Decorah Fayette Postville Sumner and Waterville were named as sectional tournament sites. Pairings and game times will be announced later by the Iowa High School Athletic Association.
The meeting Tuesday evening elected Henry McMillan W M Keith Kohler and Don Fauser as Wardens J W R E Kohler as treasurer and Lyle Light as secretary Installations for January will announce appointive officers later and installation will occur in January
A staff member suffered several cracked ribs and bruises after a pickup spill near Gander last week. The injured person was hospitalized in Postville and, after a short stay, released to return home.
A collection of witty, aging reflections and jokes about memory, youth, and households. It recalls a subway foot incident misread as a spouse, a bachelor diplomat, and family antics with a nostalgic, humorous tone.
Iowa State College recommends Plains, a feed barley, and Kin dred, a malting barley, as the two leading varieties for 1956 Iowa plantings. A joke notes after dinner speakers are always men, questioning why women might not wait to speak.
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