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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1946
Page
6
A long list of relatives and friends traveled and visited across Wisconsin and Iowa. Families from Ed C. Boleyn to Quinns frequent gatherings, picnics, and短 trips, with several members moving residences and hosting guests in Neenah Madison Cedar Rapids West Union and Oelwein during the holiday period.
Sunday worship at 10, Sunday school at 11, choir rehearsal Thursday at 7 30 pm. W G U S general meeting Thursday afternoon July 14 in church parlors hosted by Mesdames Leo Schori Robert Martin Albert Schori and Reuben Howard. Rev Bruce D Jones, Pastor.
In Elgin a church service planned with Minister Paw F. Zoschke absent due to the Northwestern conference at Wausau Wisconsin July 10 to 14. Gideons from Waterloo will lead the service. Evening service at B o'clock to be led by the B Y P U with Alfred Jacob Jr as organist.
A list of local visitors and hospital recovery thanks from A C Quinrod and families. Mentions Mrs Grant Dawson and sons visiting in the Dawson and Gruver homes. Detailing trips to Waukegan Illinois, California planning, and hospital operations for Harry Baldwin and Emma Olson family ties. Mr and Mrs Harvey Kruse and Bob traveled from Detroit for a family stay, with departures to Detroit and California. Other notes include Wm Stephenson’s return from Chisago and visits at Mrs Emma Olson home, and LeRoy Steele returning home after staying with his mother following hospital stay.
A preacher explains the first three commandments, urging exclusive worship of Jehovah and true devotion over idolatry. It traces loyalty to God as central, warns against modern idolatries, and links obedience to blessing while disobedience brings ancestral consequences. It emphasizes Christ first when family ties clash and calls believers to a self-sacrificing cross-bearing faith.
A reader laments persistent adverb misuse and adverbial forms in English. The note discusses safe and safely usage and traces dialect contractions like ain't, ain’t, ain’t going, noting historical shifts and judgments on proper form.
Anna Schmid daughter of Fred W and Augusta Schmid born April 14 1871 near Elgin died June 29 1946 at the home farm aged 75 years two months and fifteen days She spent her life on the home farm and rarely left home for fifty years She was one of seven children and leaves one brother John a niece Marie and many relatives Funeral services were held Tuesday July 2 at the Apostolic Christian church with Rev Gust Schietlan of Oakville officiating Burial was in the adjoining cemetery Pallbearers were Werner Jorville Moore Pauli Bert Lawrence Butikofer and Ervin Metzger Attending from a distance were Mrs Louisa Schmid Monroe Wis Mrs S W Rubger Randalia Rev Gust Schietlan John Henneger Jesse Kisaman John Frank and Mrs Leslie Gerst and sons of Oakville Mr and Mrs G A Brooks Mrs Lawrence Hofer Mrs Henry Bigler Mrs James Schlee and Mrs Herman Schupbach of Postville and Hannah and Margaret Minahan of Elkader.
We thank all who helped through Anna Schmid’s life and last illness and burial, and for the flowers. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Schmid, Marie E. Schmid, Mrs. Louisa Schmid.
The lyre bird of Australia can imitate not only other birds but also a dog barking the buzz of a saw the sound of an axe and the toot of a motor horn in remarkable mimicry observed by researchers.
Before the war owners of select German vineyards produced rare wines from top grapes. One cask of the esteemed Trockenbeeren Auslese, usually under 400 quarts, has commanded as much as thirty thousand dollars.
Our falling water table, dried up springs, man made dust bowls, and abandoned cattle ranges may be early symptoms of the same things that turned ancient garden spots into deserts.
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