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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1949
Page
6
Numerous families shared Christmas dinners and gatherings across Postville and nearby towns. Highlights include the Baechler, Schneider, and Baumgartner clans at home celebrations. guests from Jennings, Boleyn, and Jensen households. visits by Olson, Frieden, and Schori families. and births and travel notes spanning Decorah to Oelwein and Des Moines as relatives exchanged holiday cheer.
Our church will host a joint baptism service with Sumner Baptist, to close the year Christ first in life. A New Year service follows at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday January 1 1950 with Sunday school at 11:00 a.m. Lunch will be served.
Methodist Church schedules morning worship at 10:00 a.m. and Sunday School at 11:00 a.m. Choir practice occurs Thursday at 7:15 p.m. A skating party is planned Thursday at 8:00 p.m. Mrs Me Kohler and Sunday school teachers receive credit for a Christmas program by the children, with Mrs LeRoy Steele leading Christmas music. Youth Fellowship plans a skating outing for local youths at 8:00 p.m. Thursday. all members invited. Bruce D Jones, Minister.
The Wm. Grover family spent the weekend in the Lloyd Gross home at Waterloo. Mrs. Alta Gehring and Hazel went to West Union Monday to spend a few days with Verle and Josephine Kniel.
I thank all my friends and relatives for cards letters gifts visits and phone calls while I was confined in the Decorah hospital and for acts of kindness shown me and the family since my return home Elmer Frieden 18.
Mrs. C O Torkelson expresses gratitude for cards gifts and flowers received during illness and hospital stay. She notes how hearing from friends brought much happiness and appreciation.
Rev. and Mrs. Bruce Jones thank friends for the many sympathy cards sent during our sorrow.
Mrs Ray DeSart thanks well wishers for prayers cards letters and gifts as she recovers from illness expressing appreciation and noting their support aided her recovery.
Inadequate space for feeding and watering in the laying house leads to reduced welfare and lower egg output, suggesting that proper cage or floor space is essential to maintain high production levels and bird health.
Elgin residents hosted numerous Christmas dinners and gatherings. Guests included the Schori, Robinson, Gehring, Kiple, Kohler, Shipton, and Henke families, with relatives from Sioux City, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Mason City, Clinton, Postville, and West Union joining in seasonal visits and suppers.
Dorothy Etter of Davenport plans a visit with her mother Mrs. Frieda Etter this Saturday marking the start of Christmas holidays. The Lawrence Etter family of West Union joined in Christmas dinner with the group at the Etter home. A wide circle of relatives and friends from Guttenberg Janesville Clinton Franklin Park Fayette Waukegan Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas were listed as guests and dinner companions.
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