Elgin News Notes and Social Roundup
Local items from Elgin cover visits, illnesses, and gatherings. Mrs. Herry Gilson hosted dinner in the J. D. Shaffer home. Florence Berg visited Iowa Falls. Betty Kohler celebrated her sixteenth birthday with family at home. Several residents suffer illness. a farm accident injured Clifford Osmundson. Market Day drew large crowds and Lea Baldwin plans a Fayette move while Mrs. Jackson joins six Baldwin generations in local notes.
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Florence Berg
Iowa Falls
Mrs
F. R. Berg
Lea Baldwin
J. V. Jackson
Medeapoolis
Iowa
Fayette
Mrs. Jackson
Lilly Baldwin
Miss Baldwin
Your Chosen Vocation and Habits Lessons
Two short essays advise on career planning and habit formation. Alice Hanson urges cultivating good friends, focusing on work, and aiming above the crowd to gain success. Alice Houg highlights habits as subconscious drivers and the need to replace bad habits with self disciplined routines in school years.
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Alice Hanson
Alice Houg
A Brave Mother’s Long Burden in Texas
Martha Berg recounts a widow in Texas whose husband drowned after sixteen years of marriage. After her son’s accidental death, she hunted alone by lantern, her house burned, and she lived eighteen years with her daughter in a shack. The daughter’s later neglect led to the mother’s death during illness, a lesson on obedience and loss.
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Martha. Berg
Texas
Do You Know The Union Of South Africa Gold Output
The union of South Africa produces more than 225 million dollars worth of gold annually according to the article. This figure is noted as part of a continued discussion on the page last page reference.
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Hans Keiser
Union of South Africa
M. E. Church Notes Service Details
M. E. Church notes J. J. Snyder minister and Mrs. Louis Klingman pianist. Call to regular worship starting next Sunday with morning service at 10 o'clock and Sunday school at 11. Ladies' Aid Society meets at Mrs. Chas. Feller's home this Thursday afternoon.
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J. J. Snyder
Louis Klingman
Ladies’ Aid Society
Chas. Feller
Bilyria Church Notes Service Schedule This Week
J J Snyder is the minister and La Fonda Shaffer the pianist. Sunday school begins at 10:15 a m with morning worship at 11:15. Special services are held each evening this week culminating in closing Sunday night. Everyone is welcome.
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J.J. Snyder
la Fonda Shaffer
Borrower’s note fear proves banker’s hard stance
A banker’s question about repayment reveals that the act of signing keeps lenders safe while failure to pay allows no recourse. The piece notes a brisk band practice with twenty five members and new players after basketball season end. Secretary Sheldon Boyle plans to publish a band member list with instruments soon. The quote about the joy of the hunt emphasizes action over committee meetings.
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Sheldon Boyle
Baptist Church Notes for Feb Twenty Second
Sunday schedule includes English service at 10 a m Sunday school at 11, Cantata rehearsal at 2 p m, B Y P U prayer at 7 30 p m. English service at 8 p m. Tuesday 8 15 p m male chorus, Thursday 8 p m prayer meeting, 9 p m chair rehearsal. Box of eggs for home for the aged sent last Monday. Pastor Ph Lauer invites all to attend.
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Ethel Rennison
Ph. Lauer
Lutheran Church Notes and Local Social Updates
Lutheran church notes list services for February and March at St. Olaf Chapel and First Lutheran of McGregor with times and languages. Social items mention Mrs Anna DeSart and Dorothy visiting Delwe and Ladies Dorcas Society meeting at Mrs Theodore Loftsgard's home. A local incident describes H T Loftsgard injured while sawing wood as a weed fiber, called wild hemp, is found along river banks.
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Marion
St. Olaf Chapel
Norway
McGregor
Doreas Society
Theodore Loftsgard
H. T. Loftsgard
Also Mentioned on This Page
Elgin
Echo O
Mabel Holzer
Fred Knight and
D. Smith
Weats Union
U. S
Mrs. Herry Gilson
J. D. Shaffer
Mrs. C. S. Kniel
Josephine
Fred Gehring Home
Geraldine Schori
Marie Mosby
Clarence Winkler
Cedar Rapids
Carl Schori
United States Department of Agriculture
Ladies’ Bridge ‘Club
Fred’Kohler
Ed Conner
Ern Holzer
George Vaughn
Dundee
Otto Gienapp
Bernita Bopp
Kathryn Strauch
Margie Christ
Mel Kohler
Betty Kohler
P. Stoehr
Postville Hospital
Clifford Osmmundson
E. C. Lien Farm
Mr. Osmundson
Dr. L. §. Hutchinson
Dr. H. S. Hadsel
Josephine Kniel
West Union
Mrs. C. 8. Kniel
F. L. Sires
June Marie
Clay Schultz
Marvin Sires
Postville
Lawrence Cannon
Celia Meyer
H. 8. Steele
Thoma
Chris Qualey
Charles Greenley
Decorah
Frank Greenley
Nell Schori
Miss Abbey
Gamble
Oelwein
Lena Benson
L. E. Benedict
Cadar Rapids
Frank Shipton
Alta Vista
L. C. Koevenig
Warren Harington
C. J. Harrington
George Falk
I Ani
Alice Hoag
Frieda Miller
Oo Lewis Thoma
William Weibel
George Anderson
Alma Opland
Ruby Boyle
M. E. Church Notes
Bilyria
Baptist Church
Lutheran Church Notes
J. Steandjand
Anna DeSart
Dorothy
Delwe
George Martie
Lansing
Marshall Field
Kohlers
M. E. Sutphin
South Bopp
Torkelson Bros
McCormick-Deering
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