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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 04, 1940

Page

6

Elgin Social Roundup Spans Visits And Local News

Decotah visitors and numerous telephone and home visits fill Elgin life. The column records guests Mr. and Mrs. Langsdale, Mr. and Mrs. Durtcher, Augusta Pfister, Herman Scheel family, J Harrington, Mrs. Lara Carter, Mary Ann Roberts, Reuben Lehman, Gertrude Smith, and many others. It notes Special Paint sale at Feller's Hardware, and mentions Elgin church and WCTU activities along with community travel to Chicago, Waterloo, and Hot Springs.

S. K. Langsdale Decotah Walter Durtcher G. J. Mosby Augusta Pfister Fayette Herman Scheel J. Harrington Lara Carter Miles Margaret Rogers Oeviwein Peter Luchsinger Jake Hoover W. T. Wilson de Reorah Halstenson J. F. Berndt Geo. Nydegger Colesburg Guttenberg Chas. Greenley Robert Decorah Bess Stohr Mary Ann Roberts Vern Roberts Vernon Knight Reuben Lehman Gertrude Smith Chicago Cicero Sam Lehman Feller’s Hardware West Elgin G.N. Schori Louise Kori E. C. Olesen Hawkeye Robert Olesen Elsie Dons Theo. Dons Forestark Ill YWCA Monmoth John Grimm Jarie Verna Chiago Hilary Wytash Wardrice Bessie Mabel Grimm Roy Knight Robert Barker Rath Gacking Co Waterloo Saturay Robert Mott Elgin WCTU Harry Johnson Rs. Johnson Rs. Wm. Nutting Over Sidney Nutting Wm. Weibel West Union Ternoon M. Zurbriggen A. . Weibel West Mion Weibel Alvina Frieden Rudd Alvina Est Union Mard

Lutheran Church Services Schedule and Invitation

Lutheran church notices announce confirmation on Sunday June 30 at 10 o clock in Marion, English communion at Norway church on Sunday July 7 at 10 o clock, with an open invitation to all to attend every service. Dr. H. J. Strandjord, Pastor, conveys welcome to each gathering.

St Paul's Ed Klingman Tigrla F. Shaffer Clermont Union Joseph C. Warton Marion Norway Church J. Strandjord

Elgin Baptist Church Announcements

Sunday worship and communion at 10 o clock. Sunday school at 11 o clock. Junior meeting at 2 p m. Annual business meeting at 2 p m Wednesday July 10. Women s Missionary meeting in Hawkeye at 2 p m. Prayer service at 3 p m. Choir rehearsal at 9 p m.

Paul F. Zoschke Chrystal Miller Hawkeye

Miss Austa Durkee A Life Of Service In Education

Austa Durkee born June 23 1882 in Elgin Iowa spent youth on Kimball farm then moved to Atlantic Iowa and Omaha Nebraska for schooling and teaching. After twenty years guiding exceptional children in Omaha she died June 22 1940 at her Omaha home leaving sisters Myrtie and Florence Reynolds an aunt and several cousins in Elgin.

Miss Austa Durkee Elgin Iowa Kimball Lyda Kimball Durkee Nebraska Atlantic University of Iowa Cedar Falls Vineland Training School Vineland New Jersey Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio Myrtie Florence B. Reynolds Omaha Neb George Gibson Charles Edgar Kimball

Deaths in Elgin Iowa 1883 1940 Schaer family notes

Anna Huldah Schaer nee Etter was born April 10 1883 in Elgin Iowa and died June 30 1940 at her home at age 57 years two months and twenty days She converted at 14 and joined the Baptist church She married Jacob Schaer in 1904 and lived in Oklahoma for a time where their first child Wilma was born They later returned to near Elgin where two sons Fred and John were born She is survived by her husband two sisters Louise and ...

Lyle Light Louis Light West Union T. W. Dean Kensington Club Rob Grimes Ed Medberry Walter Asa Betty Strauch Selma Light John Lachsinger Jake Hoover Peter Luchsinger Charlene Herbert Ash R. W. Muehrenthaler Winona Rochester Minn Lorenz Schatz Dena Dummermuth H. N. Stoehr Cedar Rapids Hulda Stoehr Gerald Freeman Decorah Rock Island Heh Wolf Marcia Chicago Burton Wolf Mel Kohler Elgin Opera House Herbert C. Woods Tama Fayette Wim. Ewing Postville J. Olson Schori Roy Steele H. S. Steele Oulwein Deesrah Chas. Greenley Robert Deavark Frank Greenley Hot Springs Ark Greenley Anna Huldah Schaer Etter Iowa Fellowship of the Baptist Church Jacob Sehaer Oklahoma Wilma Fred John Schaer Jacob Schaer Louise

Obituary of Caroline Etter in Elgin Baptist services

Caroline Etter is mourned by her three children Wilma Fred and John, three sisters Mrs Christ Schweitzer Mrs Elmer Pinney Jr both of Elgin and Mrs Baltz Kamm of West Union, four brothers Louis and Ernest Etter of Menahga Minn Fred Etter of Mounds Minn and Frank Etter of Seattle Wash, plus four grandchildren and many relatives. Funeral services were held at the Elgin Baptist church Wednesday at 2 oclock with Rev Paul F Zoschke officiating.

Caroline Etter John Rudolph Etter Wilma Fred Christ Schweitzer Elmer Pinney, Jr Elgin Baltz Kamm West Union Louis Ernest Etter Menahga Minn Etter Mounds Frank Etter Seattle Wash Hfe Baptist Church of Elgin Paul F. Zoschke

Rose Schneider dies in California at seven

Rose Schneider of Elgin Iowa passed away in Los Angeles on June 24 1940 at seventy years old. She lived with her father Caspar Schneider until his death then with two sisters in Southern California. She requested burial near her mother in Elgin Cemetery. Survived by sisters Carrie Leman Olympia Washington P H Nelson Los Angeles and Mary Nelson Pasadena and brother Fred Schneider Milbank South Dakota.

Rose Schneider Elgin Iowa Casper and Mary Schneider Los Angeles Calif California P. H. Nelson Mary Nelson Eigin Rose Carrie Lelman Olympia Wash Pasadena Fred Schneider Milbank 5. D

Elgin Alumni Association Celebrates Fifty Years of Ties

The Elgin high school alumni association marks its golden anniversary with a homecoming celebration on Friday August 16. The Echo provides a reader list of graduates from 1890 onward including 1930 to 1934 classes with names such as Fridtjof Blockhus Elmer Christe ten Lorraine Carpenter Eldred Dummermuth Eva Dummermuth Floyd Dummermuth Mabel Frieden Leo Grether Edward Krueger Esther Krueger Raymond Krueger Lois Lehman John Sehner Ruth Schneider Carl Sehori Serene Yack Eda Zurbriggen.

Elgin High School Echo Fridtjof Blockhus Elmer Chriseten Lorraine Carpenter Eldred Dummermuth Eva Dummermuth Floyd Dummermuth Mabel Frieden Leo Grether Edward Krueeger Esther Krueger Raymond Krueger Lois Lehman John Sehner Ruth Schneider Carl Sehori Serene Yack Eda Zurbriggen Bernita Bopp Dale DeSart Tola Dummermuth Elizabeth Foxwell Edith Holzer Alice Hoag Clifton Kiple Hilda Meyer Ruth Peterson Gladys Schneider J. D. Shaffer Marguerite Schupbach Lewis Thoma Robert Wilson George Anderson Myron Anderson Clara Baechter Cleve Bennett Edith Bennett Margie Christ Harold Conner Maurine Erickson Lawrence Grimm Alice Hanson Lola Hanson Betty Harold Grimm Joseph Franson Don Helms Fern Kerr Russell Kohler Winifred McMillan Florold Meyer Melbert Meyer Alma Opsand Norma Robbins LeRoy Roethlisberger LaVerne Sechneider Forest Shaffer Susie Stillman William Weibel Cornelius Ycarous Paul Zurbriggen Herbert Blockhus Lillian Christen Dorothy Brackin Floyd Frieden Marjorie Larson Frederic ‘Lauer Elmer Meyer Myrtle Nel Reuben Nydegger Dorothy Olson Marian Patterson Rose Reitz Marjorie Reierson Coronet Rothlisberger Marie Schupbach Gladys Yearous Hazel Patterson Mae Anderson Viola Berndt Zella Boyle Lewis Butikofer Merton Cook Marie Dennier Kenneth Evans Signy Hanson Geraldine Kohler William Krueger Catherine Powell Verle Roberts Anna Mae Burod

Class of 1935 to 1940 Graduates List by Name and Class

A long list of graduates by class year from 1935 to 1940 is presented, naming numerous individuals across clusters such as 1935, 1936, 1957, 1939, and 1940. The fragment includes many surnames like Yearous, Krueger, Reis, Schupbach, and Dummermuth, indicating a regional school cohort.

St Bernard dogs trained by farmer near Hancock Wisconsin

Kathleen Schneider, Rob ert Wenger, Chrystal Wenger appear in a fragmented note from St. Bernards in Harness Hancock. George Dund las, a farmer nearby, trained the dogs to obey a narrow set of signals. The text references pups and weights but remains unclear in detail.

Hancock Wis George Dundlas St. Bernard Mr. Duntiey

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