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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1935
Page
8
On the spot note shows FEH S. H. S. basket team lifting pep with an upset potential against Clermont. Three games feature Clermont and Elgin town squads, all three wins in one night, marking a rare strong performance. Ben Bennon and Frank Bohanan noted in snapshots.
A local chronicle notes Rev J J Snyder kept a lively Sunday with M E church services at 10, Dyria at 11, afternoon funeral rites, and Clermont evening worship. Interludes include ping pong with Lorence Muchlethaler and Rudy Jorgenson, a chimney scare aided by Efford Hunsberger, and Ben Grover referencing Joe Penner after a black eye incident.
Cheery Valley residents hosted and visited family members across a weekend, with many gatherings at the homes of Ida Christen, Elmer Dennler, and other locals. Guests included Mrs. Gunner Landsgard and daughter Glenda, Margaret Dennier, Ruth Schupbach, Bert Thoman, Ethel Mae, Ida Christen, Walter Butikofer, Louise Dennler, Will Nydegger, and numerous Dennler, Butikofer, Christen, Friederich, and Meyer family members. A wedding dinner at Jake Dennler’s drew many relatives, followed by an Elgin opera house shower.
Illyria items report guests and moves in Elgin including Rothlisberger, West, and Frieden families. It notes visitors from Albany and Wisconsin, dressmaking help, and new homes. Also mentions sick lists, callers at homes, and a 1934 Clayton county total of 169 marriage licenses.
Mrs Eva Mays and Roy Burnside wed at West Union on Tuesday January 15 Rev G A Barker performed ceremony L W Reed dies at home January 17 Rev and Mrs G A Thomas and Mrs Sidney Patterson hosted supper at Frank Lyons home last Friday Azalia Nutting unable to attend school. Dorothy Etter substituting from Elgin A R Craft and family visiting Chas Craft and Clarence Tripp homes Melvin Nutting helps brother William with wood chopping crowd at ice cream supper Roy Burnside home last Saturday evening Evelyn Grimes visiting grandmother Mrs Sarah Helms returns home Rev Thomas continues Dispensational Truths sermons Brainard Church notes: Sunday school 1045 am morning worship 11 am BYP meets 7 pm evening services 8 pm
Community notes recount Saturday and Sunday visits at homes of Opland Loftsgard Olson and neighbors. Several residents, including Barnt Wold and Eliza Nelson, fall ill. funeral services for Mrs. A. O. Nyborg held at Marion church, obituary promised next week.
The Elgin Cemetery Association presents its 1934 financial summary showing January cash balance of 60.04, receipts totaling 893.99 from care of lots sales trust funds and interest, and disbursements of 203.61 for cemetery care secretary fees fence and flowers plus trust fund payments. by January 1936 cash balance 189.78 and total assets 2,297.65 including bank deposits and trust certificates. Signed by Edith Berg and Lille Scrori.
American Legion Auxiliary held a regular meeting January 16 at Lena Baumgartner’s home with eight members and one guest. President C C Torkelson presided as $5.80 was spent on Christmas cheer and flowers. a drive to send contributions to child welfare educational fund and national defense was approved. A Fayette county meeting invite was read for January 22. a family supper is planned for February. refreshments followed.
The Elgin Study Club met at Mrs. Bernice Falk's home on Tuesday evening to discuss poetry. Members opened with quotations from Poe and Holmes, studied Lenore by Poe, and explored how Poe uses music with poetry for romantic effect. Guests Gilmg Olson, Wilma Steinmetz, and Mary Frances Hoyt attended.
In Octani Romania Nikola Stepan hosted a feast celebrating his wife’s absence. Guests investigated when she did not return and learned Stepan had killed her and served her at the feast.
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