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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1930
Page
6
Berg's features discounts on oxfords and suits during January Sales while Elgin residents hear about auctions and free overalls. Community notes cover visits, family news, a new baby, travel to Chicago for the Canners convention, local sales, and arrivals in Postville and nearby towns.
The Baptist Church lists services for Sunday January 26 with English services, Sunday school at 11, B Y P U, and prayer meeting at 7:80. An English service at 8 p m and Thursday January 30 B P m prayer meeting. Choir rehearsal at 6 p m. Last Sunday evening Young People's Society welcomed new members Leo Grether Erma Grether Selma Habeger Elias Habeger Hugh Hackman Adt Zurbriggen and Wm Kroger. The congregation welcomes them as future co-laborers.
The morning worship hour is at 10 o clock and Sunday school at 11 o clock. The Ladies Aid Society will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs Albert Behori. J J Snyder pastor.
Sunday school starts at 10 15 a m with morning worship at 11 15 o clock led by Pastor A A Snyder.
Wadena items note a bake sale earning 16, Geo. Gale of Elgin made a business call there, and Alice Minger helps at Gerald Gage’s near Lima. Several birthdays, parties, illness notes, and church benefits are listed, with many visits among Arlington, Waterloo, and Oelwein residents.
Mr and Mrs Walter Medberry of Tlyria spent Sunday with L C Popenhagen in Elgin. The town shows growing interest in high school basketball with larger crowds for Upper Town home games and more auto loads traveling to the games.
A shopper reports purchasing two suits at Berg's sale for personal use amid severe cold. Kathryn Strauch missed several days of school this week due to a severe cold. Berg's January Sale has exceeded expectations despite bad roads and frigid weather. The M. E. Ladies' Aid Society plans a meeting at Mrs. Albert Sehori’s home this Thursday afternoon.
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