Elgin News Notes Local Visits and Illnesses
Elgin residents and relatives are listed in a series of social notes. Visits include Ruth Van dee Waa in McGregor, Hans Grether and Theodore Hanson at Elgin area homes, and Mrs. Ed Grimm’s death prompting family travels to La Grange Mo. Carl Bergan to Finley hospital. arm reset after multiple injuries. Several locals attend Upper Iowa University for the second semester. many short visits and sewing bee hosted by Mrs. C. B. Schori. Henry Rassmusson visits from Colorado. weather affects planned events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth van Dee Waa
McGregor
Mrs
Hans Grether
Theodore Hanson
la Grange
Ed Grimm
Elgin
St Pauls M E Church Service Details
St Pauls M E Church announces worship at 10 a.m. led by Minister J J Snyder with Mrs Louis Klingman at the piano. Sunday school begins at 11 a.m. and all parishioners are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Snyder
Louis Klingman
Hilyria Church Schedule Highlights Sunday Services
J.J. Snyder serves as minister Grace Foxwell and Piani attend Sunday school at 10 16 a m Church worship follows at 11 15 a m at Hilyria Church in a brief Sunday schedule noting clergy and participants Sundown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.J. Snyder
Grace Foxwell
Piani
Elgin Baptist Church Service and Activities
Elgin Baptist Church led by Pastor Paul F Zoschke offers Sunday worship and communion at 10 am with Sunday school at 11 am and a 2 pm worship service. Wednesday February 5 features Women’s Missionary Society at 2 pm with Mrs J B Miller and Mrs Cleve Erhardt as hostesses. Prayer meeting is at 8 pm and choir rehearsal at 9 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul F. Zoschke
Lillian Jacobs
Women’s Missionary Society
J. B. Miller
Cleve Erhardt
Folly and wisdom in daily life and love
A reflective Themed aphoristic reel on love, marriage, friendship, honesty, and progress. It muses on wisdom, freedom of speech, restraint in anger, and how daily habits shape benefit to others. It comments on poets, historians, hope, and humanity’s need for frank, humane conduct.
Lutheran Church Notes for February Services
St Olaf Chapel 9 o clock English services Marion 11 o clock Norse services February Norway 11 o clock English services First Lutheran 2 30 o clock English services Marion 7 30 o clock Luther League Some to church You are welcome at each and every service S J Strandford Pastor
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Olaf Chapel
Marion
Norway
First Lutheran
Luther League
S. J. Strandford
In Memoriam Mrs Wm Torkelson One Year Passed
In loving memory of Mrs Wm Torkelson who went to heaven February 2 1935. One year has passed since that sad day when death’s shadow entered our home. Deep sorrow and silent tears remain as loving hearts remember and miss her. Sadly missed by husband and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Torkelson
Want ads tell and sell in small town notes
Mr and Mrs Ern Scholz were dinner guests in the Arthur Herrling home at Wadena Sunday Harriet Peterson and Helene Scholz visited Cedar Falls Friday and weekend with relatives and friends Mr and Mrs Albert Dummermuth and family and Mrs Eldred Patterson dined with Jud Conner family No church services were held at the Methodist church due to cold weather The Des Moines Tribune credits Richard and Robert Schmid of Nevada as crack newspaper salesmen with a 35 record Their grandsons Lulu Schmid of Elgin Mr and Mrs Richard Stolle moved from Houston Minn to Oreanna Idaho where he is an engineer in a CCC camp They moved two weeks ago to a desert town with one house stern and post office The camp is about two miles from town
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs
Ern Scholz
Arthur Herrling
Wadena
Albert Dummermuth
Eldred Patterson
Jud Conner
The
Des Moines Tribune
Richard
Robert Schmid
Nevada
Hey
Lulu Schmid
Elgin
Richard Stolle
Houston
Minn
CCC
Oreanna
Idaho
Stern
Festival of Sixteen Bands Ends in Ret Village
The largest musical event in Transylvania clare concluded at Ret village with sixteen bands competing. Most instruments were hand crafted by players and many musicians relied on ear tuning. Judges found it hard to pick winners due to high overall quality. A fifteen year old led the third prize winning Youth band. Over 300 peasants attended, with many traveling long distances. After gypsy bands faded, villagers carved violins and other instruments from forest wood and learned to play, inspiring others nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transylvania
Mttle
Ret
Rabbits Glimpse Salt Favor In Crops
An experimentalist notes rabbits show a partiality for salt. Two wheat crops were grown, one in salted soil and one in normal soil. Salted land produced the better harvest and rabbits later swarmed the stubble, eating to the roots, while the unsalted paddock remained untouched.
Notes Worth Four Hundred Thousand Vanish in Straits
A colonial treasury statement reports that 400000 dollars in small notes with 10 and 25 cent face values issued early in World War I have been redeemed. The notes disappear from circulation in the Straits Settlements, as banks and money changers say they never see them. In 1925 they were replaced by silver coins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Straits Settlements
Colonial Treasury
Turkey bans clerical attire in public except during ceremonies
A government campaign aims to curb the influence of the Mohammedan priest hood by requiring clergy to wear civilian clothes in public. The rule covers Moa Jom, Armenian, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Jewish clergy, allowing attire only during religious ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Belle Sues for Damages Over Heartbreak
A woman sues a man for 2000 claiming damages to her heart after he jilted her. The case presents a high personal stakes dispute and a claim seeking financial redress for emotional injury.
Dodger Operation Tenor Next Year Safer Tone
Fragmentary text discusses a planned operation and tone shifts for the next year. Mentions loam, pegs, and weights in unclear phrasing. Names and clear facts are not discernible. no concrete events or entities can be confirmed from the readable portions.
Meow Tsy't It Remirkable Drow Nee Keeps Foe Aw Yew
Fragmentary text appears to be garbled OCR. No coherent events, names, or facts readable to summarize into a factual news item.
Sale bills and strange quips in Echo column
A jumble of snippets from the Echo office includes ad pitches, odd sayings, and local tidbits. A furmer near West Union reports 20 pheasants fed, only one hen remains. F. Rickner of St Paul, likely America’s oldest white man, plans to celebrate his 115th birthday February 18. Tommy Manville faces a divorce after inheriting large sums for three ex wives. A 700 pound steer froze to death at Diamond Lake during a 40 below night, with witnesses. Frisco railroad boosts service with pillows, meals at 35 cents, and a snack car while debates over press passes continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
F. Rickner
St. Paul, Minn
Speetnee
Spirit Lake
Iowa
Diamond Lake
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Bel Neser
Geo. N. Schori
Edward C. Olsen
West Union
Harold Greenley
Linds Lou
Clermont
Chas, Greenley
Ben Robert
Decorah
Frank Greenley
Carl Bergan
Finley Hospital
Dubuque
Millard Olson
Herman Perington
Mr. Bergan
Lawrence Brause
Patarolman
Methodist Ladies’ Aid Society
C. B. Schori
Joe Becker
Paul Zurbriggen
Georgia Stillman
Fayette
Upper Iowa University
Clara Streit
Bern
Kansas
Mary Matthys
B. J. Baumgartner
Lena Baumgartner
Noah Metzger
Oelwein
Fred Gehring
C. S. Knial
Mrs. C. ©. Torkelson
Elmer Hoag
Oliver Torkelson
Carl Torkelson
R. A. Crider
George Anderson
Allen Habeger
Josephine Moellerman
John Lyford
Elma
Harold Conner
Lyle Nelson
Waterloo
Russell Kohler
Kathleen Steele
Lena Follmer
Hazeldon
Supt
D. R. Roberts
C. H. Larson
Elkader
C. 0. Torkelson
Betty Kohler
Margie Strauch
Axel Nelson
Fosston
Geo. N. Schari
Elizabeth Fitzgerald
Jimmie
Postville
John Grimm
Albert Schupbach
Reuben Schupbach
G. Palfer
Clarence Schneider
Edward Grimm
Farmersburg
Mercury
Henry Rassmusson
Long Mont
Colorado
Gus Gunderson
Rassmusser
Prairie du Chien
Wisconsin
St. Paul’s M. E. Church
Hilyria Church
Elgin Baptist Church
Evercine
Hope
Rollin’s
Rollins
Monarch
Kohler Mag Eee
Lutheran Church Notes
Memoriam
Harriet Peterson
Helene Scholz
Cedar Falls
Methodist Church
Echo Office
Vow
Echo
Chied
Charles Swale
Tommy Manville
Tommy
Frisco
Elgin Echo
Household Thrift List
Stuart Lye
Patie
Bkl
Arcties
Niaxw
Elgen, Lowa
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