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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1952
Page
6
A busy social week features a surprise engagement and wedding eats for local couples, plus a long list of Christmas visits and dinners. Residents welcome relatives from New York City Detroit Chicago Madison Ames and Decorah as they travel to town for holidays with families and friends.
Methodist Church announces worship service at 10 am and Sunday school at 11 am. A Christmas program is planned for Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. No choir rehearsal this week.
Dec 23 and Dec 25 services at St Olaf Lutheran Churches with Communion at 9:30 and 5.30? Marion and Norway locations host Christmas tree, program, and worship. Pastor Strandjord leads at 9:30 in Marion and 11:00 in Norway with welcoming invitation to all.
Elgin Baptist Church presents a Christmas Eve program on Wednesday at 7 30 p m with Sunday school. Next Sunday December 28 morning worship at 10 a m and Sunday school at 11 a m follow a closing year service at 8 p m. Watchnight service December 31 at 9 p m. January 11 to March 29 weekly Sunday evening sermons on Prophecy with questions invited. Hilder Gilbertson traveled to San Haven ND to visit his sister Mrs Alfred Walterson and the writer notes In Memoriam Pauline Dennler a memorial poem from The Children.
Christmas dinner guests include Ethel Kohler and Clifton of Wilton Junction, plus the Russell N. Kohler family of Waterloo and the Robert Kohler family. Visitors in Clinton and Elgin include Mrs. Robert Prestley and son Donald, Mrs. O. L. Henke, with plans for Christmas visits. The Gehring and Krueger households host and welcome multiple relatives. A census note cites 100 women to 98.1 men in 1950. the National Geographic Society was founded in 1888.
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