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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1934
Page
3
Elizabeth Priest, local editor and member of the Towa Press Association, is listed in the Clermont Fayette County Iowa post office records as second class mail matter.
St Peters Church schedules mass times for Christmas week including midnight mass on Christmas. A Decorah visit notes Pastor Wm. M. Holub and several church members called Monday, reflecting on Christmas thoughts from Santa to Bethlehem baby.
Christmas programs and services are scheduled across Clermont Lutheran churches. East Church offers Norwegian services on Christmas Day at 11:00 a.m. West Church hosts English services at 2:00 p.m. on Christmas Day with a Sunday school tree program at 7:30 p.m. East and West churches also hold a 7:30 p.m. program on the 26th and 19:30 p.m. tree services. Pastor G Gunsten extends warm wishes.
Sunday school at 10 am with Evening worship 7:30 pm. Special reading Children of the Inn. Christmas program and cantata set for Monday at 7 pm. Homecoming noted for August 1935. Local social news highlights visits and funerals among Clermont and West Union residents.
Clermont high school reports two strong teams with the boys unbeaten after five straight wins, beating Fayette 26 10 on their floor as the girls, despite roster losses, remain undefeated in league play. The Hawks face West Union and Monona visitors as holiday events unfold, with pep jackets, a band, and declamatory work starting after Christmas.
Maryon Halverson of Clermont, a freshman, pledged the Kappa Eta Beta sorority on Monday. The club, active since 1918, leads campus life with many offices held by members. Six pledges and six active members reflect its ongoing role at Upper Iowa University. Roosevelt notes a potential 81 billion dollar public debt by 1935, yet per capita debt remains manageable at about 250 dollars in the U S compared with France and Britain.
The Fayette County basketball league schedules key games this week with Stanley and Clermont boys undefeated leaders. Clermont girls also top their league as balanced teams promise close contests. Randalls, last year’s boys champions, already lost this season while Clermont, the girls champions, have not yet been defeated.
A Marshalltown Time-Republican reader says 16 neighbors considered stopping the paper over a sneer at Townsend's old age pension. They claim every person could use $200 monthly, and the editor would too.
In Kansas a legislative candidate boasted of an honorable discharge from an insane asylum, waving his papers in stump speeches to prove he was not crazy and challenging opponents to match the claim. He was elected to office.
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