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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1961
Page
1
The Elgin Echo lists subscription prices for four northeast Iowa counties with higher rates for outside territory, plus advertising rates for want ads and memorial notices. It notes charges for memorial cards and obituary poetry and specifies rate rules for expanded or restrained listings in a midwestern paper.
Gentlemen the members of the First Baptist Church thank your staff for publishing notices of meetings and activities during the past year They appreciate the time and space you have given us Yours A B Jacob Clerk
Elgin area residents travel to Iowa City to see Loren Frieden at University Hospitals while other locals host and visit kin in Sumner Strawberry Point Waterloo and Waukegan. Families include Friedens Schupbach Fettkether and Jarrells with several relatives listed as guests and visitors.
The Marion Lutheran Church Women met July 13 with hostesses and remarks on prayers and why prayers aren’t granted. Corrine Rypestol led devotions and Bible studies, a thank you was read, and July’s publication drive urged subscriptions to Scope. A library plan and August senior area were discussed along with benevolence funding.
Mrs. Robert Wettleist gave the noterup offering meditation. The gathering included the Lord's Prayer and table prayer. Ushers were Mrs. Harvey An estol.
Mediberry returned home Thursday from the Rochester hospital in Minnesota. His daughter Barbara Medberry RN of San Francisco flew to Rochester to be with her father and retired home with him Thursday. She left Monday for San Francisco.
Mrs Lydia Miller 73 of Spencer died at St Josephs Hospital Marshfield Wisconsin Funeral services were held Saturday The Rev W A Ganz pastor Trinity Lutheran Church officiated and burial was in Lutheran cemetery Born February 28 1648 in Elgin her first marriage was to Henry Robinson in 1912 at Maynard He died in 1098 Later she married Fred Miller in October 1040 in Elgin Her second husband died in 1946 She resided in Iowa prior to death
Allyn Caspers of the Des Moines Register and Tribune reports a bus tour planned for thirty-five Iowa Peper-boys. They depart Monday July 24 from Des Moines traveling to Hannibal Missouri and Cairo Illinois then Pittsburg Landing Mississippi and Redstone Rocket Arsenal Huntsville Alabama before continuing to additional sites. The trip aims to be educational and uplifting, with gains in happiness as they age.
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