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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1939
Page
6
Elgin residents share visits and travel notes from Chicago to Fayette and Decorah. Local families host dinners and quilting bees while students from Upper Iowa University plan holiday returns. Multiple well known names appear in a bustling social calendar with Christmas ahead. Many neighbors drive and ride to see relatives and attend church events in nearby towns.
Church schedule listing worship services and Sunday school times for Methodist and Myria Church. Ed Klingman and I F Shaffer are superintendents. Union Church offers 7 30 p m service. A welcome is extended to those without a home church, signed by J C Warton, pastor.
Elgin Baptist Church lists Pastor Paul F. Zoschke and organist Chrystal Miller. Saturday evening caroling planned. Sunday worship at 10, Sunday school at 11 and during the Christmas program. Sunday evening service at 7 45. Wednesday December 27 prayer service at 7 pm with choir rehearsal at 3 pm.
The Elkader Register notes holiday church services at Lutheran parishes with December 24 25 and 26 schedules including tree lightings and programs led by Dr S J Strandford. It also reports Poinsettia sales at Elgin Furniture, local travel updates, hospital stay recovery news for Wim Reusser, a dividend from Winne shiek County State Bank, and the relocation of Roy Combs to Ames with health updates for Clayton county residents.
Robert Kamm of West Union is acknowledged in the 1940 Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for his extensive activities at Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls. He belongs to Theta Alpha Phi Blue Key Kappa Delta Pi and Kappa Mu Epsilon, serves as freshman orientation chairman for the class of 1943, acts in major drama productions, co directs Tutor Ticklers 1940, and played clarinet in the college band for two years. He is a drama major and graduated from West Union High School as valedictorian of 1938.
A group of small children started a fire with matches near a barn at the Fred B틱ofer farm prompting an Elgin Farm Fire Department response on Monday. Family members extinguished the blaze before the fire truck arrived, causing only minor chaos with no damage.
Herman Jacobson of West Union was elected president of Fayette county Farmers' Union at a Friday night meeting in Legion hall Fayette. Herman Boyer of Elgin was chosen vice president Ted Reisner of Hawkeye secretary treasurer and Albert Stahr of Elgin county councillor. The session included a Christmas program a special hour and an oyster supper.
F D Welch was ill and confined to bed for several days this week while local notes mention Mr and Mrs Charles Feller visiting in Marshalltown, Mrs Ed Boleyn at home after caring for Maude Peters, and a December dividend at First National Bank Sumner. Also items on ledgers for sale, Mrs S K Langsdale visiting Racine, and Lillian Patterson’s Thanksgiving letter from Council Bluffs. South Pasadena Tigers win LaVerne invitational title.
Callers at the Lester Butikofer farm Sunday evening were Bernice Laviane Leah Butikofer Dan Lehman Joel Lerch Noah Metzger Harry Butikofer Johnnie Friederich Elizabeth Schneider Katie Metzger Leonard Herman Moor Reuben Metzger Lem Schneider and Erma Gladys Butikofer.
Mrs Gus Gunderson was called to Clermont this week due to her sister in law Mrs Andrew Thorson ill Rev and Mrs J C Warton and son John visited Mt Vernon on Friday after their daughter Ella joined them for the Christmas holidays They traveled to Dubuque that evening and spent the night with Mrs Wartons mother Mrs Helen Schiltz before returning to Elgin Saturday morning.
The Weibel Mill Co announces a Christmas vacation trip to Chicago with a mill closure on Christmas Day and the following Tuesday. Jerome Yearous of Highland, a patient at West Union hospital, is reported to be improving steadily.
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