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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1955
Page
6
A long list of Sunday and weekend gatherings centers on Elkader West Union and surrounding towns with numerous families visiting hosting dining and birthday events. Notable names include Krueger Larson Schori Baker and Halvorson among many others at homes in Clermont Postville and Volga with others traveling to Rochester Minneapolis and Chicago on banking and employment matters.
Anna grows from doll clothes shopping with her mother to selecting ready made dresses, learning values of quality and suitability on a modest income. The piece contrasts her mother’s guidance with how Anna now dresses her own children, illustrating the proverb that actions speak louder than words. Local social notes list visits and dinners among the Falk, Moore, Frieden, Pape, Gehring, Boyle, Kohls, and Rasmussen families with relatives in West Union, Postville, Clermont, Oelwein, and Elgin.
A quoted remark from James Stephens describes a bachelor as unsettled and constantly moving. He notes a man’s gaze shifts between a woman and away, implying she senses his thoughts. The passage contends bachelors are odd and appealing to women.
Worship service at 10 00 a m Sunday school at 11 00 a m Junior choir rehearsal Thursday at 4 00 p m Senior choir rehearsal Thursday at 7 30 p m Youth Fellowship this coming Sunday at 7 20 p m
The Friendly Church With a Living Message invites members to a sleigh ride and Valentine party on February 9, followed by junior and senior choir practices and Hour of Power studies in Hebrews on February 10. Sunday services February 18 feature a morning worship with the message New Jerusalem and a 11:00 a.m. Sunday school. Evening sacred concert by Payne A. M. E. Church adult choir from Waterloo. Thought for the week urges minding one’s own business.
At Elgin Lutheran Church Pastor Knutsen leads junior choir practice at 1 30 PM and a 7 30 PM survey visitors meeting for P T R Mission publicity and prayer committees followed by A Course in Christianity. Saturday features junior and senior confirmation classes and Sunday worship at 10 30 AM with a 2 30 to 4 00 PM pre conference rally at St Pauls in Postville.
St Olaf Lutheran Parish Marion announces meetings hosted by Mrs Kenneth Kross and Mrs Selma Groth. Confirmands meeting at 9 15 am. Sunday Feb 13 Norway sermon at 10 30 am St Pauls Postville P T R pre conference rally Pastor Conrad Thompson to speak. Marion Dorcas meet Sat Feb 19 with hosts. Sunday Feb 20 time changes: St Olaf chapel 9 30 am Marion 11 am services. All welcome by Pastor S J Strandford.
Female Cinch American women could reduce their collective waistline by 90 million inches this year by compressing their figures with the cinch that grandmother employed to compress her girth by an extra inch and a half to two inches. Industry officials say healthy support and good posture, not a pinched-in look, are the main goals of modern foundation garments.
A card from Mrs. M. J. Blockhus and family thanks relatives and friends for cards gifts letters and visits while in Decorah Hospital and after returning home. They express gratitude to those who helped at their home and note enduring memory of the kindness.
For best wear from nylon hose, to buy the highest gauge available for any given denier. Because of their cost, soil conditioners are still impractical most Iowa farms.
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