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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1967
Page
3
The first semester examinations for the school year 1966 67 at De Sales Central Ossian are scheduled for January 18 and 19. Classes will not be held on January 18 but resume at the regular time on January 23. Report cards will be distributed to students by their pastors on January 27.
Enoch Nelson appears as a Saturday caller for Oscar Lind. The Nora Choir of Luther College sang at St Pauls Lutheran Church in Monona with Jo an Gunderson among the choir. Mr. and Mrs Merril Gunderson attended the dinner after. Klingmans Clothes Shop promotes January Clearance with sales on work clothing and shoes. Several local families visit, travel, and host gatherings in the Moville area. Forrest Medberry travels to Rochester for Wilson Company training. Birth announcement from Lyle and Lford Jenkins for a son born Dec 29 weighing 8 1/2 pounds. Various social visits and dinners are noted across West Union Decorah Postville and neighboring towns.
The Clermont Iowa city council held its regular meeting on January 4 1987 with Mayor Merle Clark presiding. Present were councilmen Riegel Griebenow Johnson Kiosa and Guyer. none absent. Minutes from the previous meeting were read and approved. Bills were discussed and allowed as read, including payments to police utilities salaries and other municipal expenses.
A post nuptial shower honoring Mr and Mrs Eldon F Rahmiller was held Friday night Dec 30 at the Volga Methodist Church parlors. Mrs Rahmiller formerly Gayle Jean Peterson Cresco. Hostesses were women of the church congregation.
A Volga area town meeting approved reports by Elmer Olson and the board. Er nest Holt was set to receive 120 dollars a month. Clerk Geo Durscher noted no further business before adjournment. Separate notices recount John Walter Roys born 1900 near Arlington and his long life on Iowa farms, church service, eight children, and funeral details at Volga Presbyterian Church. The Volga Fire Department contributed gifts during fall and holiday season.
Names and brief travels dominate this fragmentary social column. Charley Baker and a fish pole visited Harold Bowmas in Arlington as Mr and Mrs Frank Sutton spent Sunday and Monday with Mrs Mary Sutton in a Cedar Falls nursing home and relatives in Waterloo. Ted Whitford did business in Michigan last week. Borden family Christmas in Elkader and trips to Durango to see Verlyn Schmitt and family. Heidi Moore and Jeffrey Stepp spent last week in Iowa City with grandfather Wm W Moore and Mrs Moore and joined the Larry Moores from Cedar Rapids. Carrol Kechner returned from North Carolina to visit W B Kelly and Albert Kunzman. Lulu Parsons visited in Oelwein at Bakke Rest Home. Candee family returned to Fontanelle via Wadena after visiting R E Candee. Mrs A F P Robinson flies Waterloo to Houston to see daughter George Wood’s family. plans Tempe and Tucson visits later. Charter Leete turned 14. Ohio visitors Francis Forster and Judy Storm stayed with Ben Prideaux and Crandall family. Proberts return from California after Christmas.
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