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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1941
Page
6
Local brief notes record events including a concert at the Elgin Opera House with Les Hartman and his WMT Band on Wednesday January 29. Several residents share social visits and courtesy calls across Elgin and nearby towns, with gatherings at Vernon Knight home and Clermont.
Mrs H H Wolf visited relatives in Chicago Tuesday. Sunday worship at 10 with 11 Sunday school and 7 45 evening service. B Y P A at 8 35. Many guests attended dinners and gatherings in West Union and surrounding farms. Delbert Lyon funeral attendance, cannery convention in Chicago, and local social events fill the week.
Local church notices list worship and Sunday school times. Methodist St Pauls Elgin hosts service at 10 am and church school at 11 am. Community Church Wyria holds church school at 10 am and worship at 11:15 am. Union Church Clermont offers 7:30 pm service. Joseph C. Warton is the minister.
In memory of our dear husband and father who died one year ago on January 24. Dearest father, since thy parting, thy place is empty. But we will be united again at the throne of grace. Mrs. Ole Thorson and children. ip. Want ads get results. Try one.
A home remedy touting lemon juice with Ru-Ex Compound promises rapid relief from rheumatic and neuritis pains. Mix Ru-Ex with water, add lemon juice, consume two tablespoons twice daily, and note pain reduction within hours or overnight. Sold by druggists with a trolley-back guarantee, marketed through O'Neill Drug in Elgin Iowa.
Dr S J Strandford notes an eye injury from a pebble kicked by train wheels in Red Oak. Laurel Eggers lost partial sight as glass fragments entered the eye after breaking his glasses. Strawberry Point Horse Thief Detective Assn re elected officers and plans to cover auto theft this year. An alumnus of Cornell Mt Vernon Iowa recalls a campus dance incident from 1917 and jokes about alumni.
Delbert Henry Lyon born November 19 1872 in Elgin spent most of his life here. He died January 12 1941 at age sixty eight at his home. Survived by wife Jane Jennings Bush and three children Marie Jessie La Verne plus three stepchildren and two grandchildren. Funeral January 15 at Muehlethaler with Rev. Zoschke. burial at Elgin cemetery.
Twelve years ago Lloyd Breeden and John Murphy of Grinnell debated who would go bald first and vowed to prove the point. Now they seek popular judgment from Grinnell residents as time has proven inconclusive.
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