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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1953
Page
6
A dense list of card parties, dinners, birthdays, funerals, and weekend visits dominates the Clermont area social scene. Guests include Mr and Mrs John Kiple, Mrs Myron Chapman, Mrs George Mueller, Mrs John McMillan, and many others from nearby towns such as La Crosse Wisconsin and Oelwein. Events cover February gatherings, birthday celebrations for Mrs Light, anniversaries, and multiple family dinners with extensive name lists and places noted.
Elgin Baptist Church under Pastor Dr A Ittermann invites. World Day of Prayer Friday February 20 at 8:00 pm at Methodist church theme Walk as Children of Light. Next Sunday February 22 worship at 10:00 am on Topical Essentials in Christianity with Sunday school at 11:00 am and Prophecy Hour at 8:00 pm The End of the Gentile Age.
Worship at 10 a m Sunday includes Sunday-school at 11 a m Choir rehearsal Thursday at 7 30 p m Youth Fellowship Monday at 7 30 p m World Day of Prayer observed Friday at 8 p m at St Pauls Methodist Circles Esther and Rachael meet Thursday with hostesses and assistants Week of Dedication free will offering to be taken this coming Sunday.
St Olaf Lutheran Church hosts Marion Dorcas Society meeting on Saturday February 21 with hostesses listed. Sunday services in Marion at 9 30 am and Norway at 11 am and St Olaf at 8 am. Bible tour planned February 26 for St Olaf Aid. Community notes include thanks and local visits.
St. Peters church Clermont hosted the 9:00 a m wedding of Norma Hanna and Sheldon Kohls with Fr. Cooney officiating. Attendants wore pink gowns and carried colonial bouquets. dinner followed at the church social hall. Out-of-town guests included relatives from Forest City Clear Lake and Woden.
Mr and Mrs Gus Kohls of Hopkinton and Mr and Mrs Fred Schott Sumner along with Herman Kohls Waterloo were mentioned in local notes. The bride worked as a stenographer with a Des Moines law firm and the groom is with the S C railroad. Lizzie Garber Alf of Blunt SD and Eltor Methis of Pierre SD returned home after Elgin visits. Donald Gilson hosted a dinner for son Darwin on furlough from McChord Air Base with guests including Julius Olson and the Olson families Decorah H B Gilson and Wayne Gilson. Willis Schultz Prairie du Chien Wis and Gail Schultz Clermont were noted as supper guests. Milo Olson family moved from a rear apartment to a newly purchased home from Robt Lehman estate. Mr and Mrs Cliff Wilson and family visited Friday to celebrate Wilsons birthday with Louis Becker and family.
Mr and Mrs Robert Gruver of Waterloo and Mrs John Barnhouse with children of Clermont plus Wm Gruver visited Lew Gruver Sunday. Wm Gruver travels to Waterloo for several days off work due to a hand injury. Mrs Virgil Torson was taken to Postville hospital for medical care. James Cook son of Merlin and Mrs Cook Elkader and a Upper Iowa student will appear in a Feb 2 and 27 play at the library little theater staging Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Mr and Mrs Karl Meinhard went to Minneapolis for the funeral of Meinhard's aunt Mrs Rudolph Meinhard. funeral held Thursday.
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