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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1950
Page
6
Fragmentary text mentions Ga Mes Allen Habeger illness home visit and families including Mr and Mrs F C Muchlethaler and J Sheldon Boyle with guests. Details are garbled and uncertain.
A long list of social visits and greetings from Clermont and nearby towns recounts dinner guests and family gatherings. The record notes numerous families hosting, traveling to Castalia and Cedar Falls, students returning home for holidays, and a 60th wedding anniversary for Fred and Hazel Falk as they visit Minneapolis.
Morning worship at 10 o clock and Sunday school at 11. Christmas practice at 3 and choir practice at 7 30 with sessions at Carl Robinson home. Pageant set for Sunday afternoon at 3 to share Christmas story Luke 2. Youth sang carols for twelve shut-ins. No envelope this year for Christmas missions. contributions via Ednad Hunsberger.
St Olaf Lutheran Churches announce Christmas and holiday services. On Sunday December 24 Marion hosts a 10 30 service and St Olaf holds a 7 30 p m tree and program. Monday December 25 Norway at 11 o clock Christ mas services with Marion at 7 30 p m tree and Tuesday December 26 Norway at 7 30 p m tree and Come to church. You are welcome at each service conducted by Dr H J Strandford pastor.
Elgin Baptist Church led by Pastor Dr. Arthur Ittermann hosts a Berean Songsters meeting on Thursday December 21. Youth groups meet to sing and study spiritual topics with a prayer service scheduled for 8:00 p.m.
Through bible study and spiritual training the church prepares a Christmas program and services. Sunday Dec 24 at 10 00 a m Christmas morning worship topic The Joy of Bethlehem. Sunday school 11 00 a m. A Christmas Eve program at 8 00 p m and carolers meet Friday evening Dec 22. The pastor’s family wishes a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Mr and Mrs R F Wenger and son of West Union hosted Sunday dinner in C J Wenger home. Also attending were Kenneth Mark Guernsey Smith Martin Wenger families Mrs Ida Meyer Oscar Baumgartner and Mr and Mrs Elmer Meyer. The Baumgartner home celebrated Mr Baumgartner birthday. CARD OF THANKS Burnell Benson thanks relatives friends neighbors for cards letters gifts and calls during hospitalization and return home. GO IN APPRECIATION A M Weibel Waukon thanks those who sent cards letters during illness and wishes happiness for Christmas and New Year 1951. CARD OF THANKS Jimmie Daniels thanks all who remembered him with cards gifts and visits during hospitalization and since return home.
Guests stayed across Wednesday to Friday in Excelsior Springs Missouri with Virtus Yack family, while Tom Desmond family from Booneville planned weeklong holiday stay. Numerous dinners and weekend visits tied Clermont Oelwein West Union Des Moines and Waterloo households with local families and association directors. An Iowa-Nebraska Canners director Leo Schori attended a meeting in Des Moines, and a Kentucky Christmas dinner appeared in Max Hunsberger’s home. A Want Ad a day, makes all business pay.
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