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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1930
Page
6
Elgin residents share visits and events with neighbors. John Falk hosts Elkader callers. Mrs. Roy Smith and others visit Falk home. Local clubs host meetings. families attend funerals and hospital visits. Several moves and visits across Elgin, West Union, Dubuque, and Clermont mark a bustling social week.
The M. E. Church notes report growing morning attendance with 10:00 a.m. preaching and 11:00 a.m. Sunday school. Prof. Carter teaches New Testament study. Mrs. Geo N Schori and Mrs. A C Quinrod host the Ladies' Aid Society today. The Ladies' Sunday school class meets Friday March 7 with Mrs. Peters as hostess. program includes devotions, roll call, poem, and minutes.
J. 3. Snyder, minister, announces 1:30 p m Sunday school with efficient teachers for all classes. At 2:80 p m preaching services with fine music led by W L Peters as chorister and J M Shaffer as assistant. Attendance was good last Sunday despite bad roads. absent members are missed and urged to attend for added life.
Sunday events include German service and communion at 10 a m, Sunday school at 11, dinner and junior meeting at 12 45, committee meeting at 1, English service at 2, and Bible Day rehearsal for March 9. Midweek Ladies Aid meet March 5, prayer meeting March 6 and choir rehearsal at 9. Pastor Ph Laver notes praise for a Gospel team from Upper Town University visiting Fay ette.
A collection of lines endorses Sunday school attendance and personal growth. Nearby notices report visits and a medical emergency, plus poultry flock sanitation tips stressing dry, well ventilated housing and clean litter to boost fertile eggs during breeding season.
Guttorm Knutson died at his home two miles south of Gunder on Wednesday evening February 19 after a few weeks of illness at age seventy eight years ten months and twenty seven days. He was born in Haling Dal Norway April 14 1861 and married to Ragnald Lofstuen. They had six children, three of whom preceded him. his wife died sixteen years ago. They came to Clayton county in 1885 and settled on the farm where he died in 1888. He leaves three children Lars Olson Got fred Kurth and Oscar Knutson, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He was a quiet kind neighbor and father. God bless him.
The article notes lighting should strike washing and ironing gear from the side for better results. It highlights eggs as versatile for meals from ham and fried eggs to midnight suppers and omelets. It mentions a U S Agriculture leaflet with egg centric recipes and desserts.
The guide advises keeping manure away from cows and the milk room. Store it in sheds or pile away from the barn, spreading when fields permit. Use a spreader or wagon, scrape yards regularly, and haul manure to fields to maintain sanitation and boost crop yield. Read all the ads. it pays.
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