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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1954
Page
8
A long list of weekend and weekday visits, suppers, dinners, and garden parties across Sumner and nearby towns. Guests include the Zurbriggens, Heyer, Gienapp, Bane family, Medberrys, Burnidge, Sullivan, Longmuir, Lehman, Schaer, Hofer, Martie, Hunsberger, Peterson, Groth, and many more. Events feature family picnics, birthday celebrations, and hospital or camp-related visits across multiple households.
The First Baptist church of Elgin presents the Gospel Messengers brass quartet from William Jennings Bryan University in a program of music and testimony on Thursday evening July 22 at 8 00 p m. The ensemble, two trombonists and two trumpeters with piano, is in its second summer tour covering fourteen states of the Midwest and Southwest, ending August 22. Bryan University, 25th year in September at Dayton Tennessee, started with about seventy students and now enrolls nearly three hundred, offering BA and BS degrees at a Christian liberal arts college 33 miles north of Chattanooga. The public is invited.
A lengthy listing of Sunday dinners picnics and visits across West Union and surrounding towns. Families such as Burrow Lehman Gehring and Meinhard hosted guests. __Reuben Howard__ and Mabel Peters attended gatherings. multiple trips to Rochester and Mason City noted. many names and residences across Iowa towns.
Multiple readers offer thanks for sympathy cards memorials gifts and acts of kindness following bereavements and hospital stays. Individuals named include Mr and Mrs M E Mikkeson Kenneth Josa Mrs Lawrence Butikofer Jeanette Krueger Mrs Milt Lard Olson. Gratitude extends to relatives friends neighbors and Postville hospital caregivers across several notices.
The Methodist Church announces worship at 10:00 a.m. Sunday. Sunday school follows at 11:00 a.m. Youth Fellowship meets Sunday at 7:30 p.m. No choir rehearsal this week. An official board meeting is called for Sunday at 9:30 a.m. All board members are asked to attend.
Elgin Lutheran Church announces an Open Forum at the parsonage Thursday July 22 at 6 00 pm led by Pastor Vance R Knutsen. Sunday July 25 features Sunday school at 9 00 am a film strip on the 6th Commandment and divine worship at 10 00 am. Luther League leadership school begins Monday July 26 at Waldorf College Forest City.
The Friendly Church led by Rev. John Vanderbeck lists July 22 Tabitha Society meeting at 2:00 p m and 3:00 p m program by Gospel Messengers from William Jennings Bryan University. July 25 worship at 10:00 a m and 11:00 a m Sunday school and 8:00 p m Gospel Hour with Rev. Paul Zoschke. July 27 friendship tea at Sumner church with transportation arranged.
Georgia M. Schori and relatives from Sioux City spent the weekend visiting family. Marcia Wolf and Janice Schori were guests as they traveled from Sioux City. Mrs. George Howard Jr. went to Fort Leonard Wood to visit her husband. Mrs. Ole Reierson and Darlene joined a Rochester trip for a checkup. Several other locals hosted dinners and gatherings in Decorah Postville and Evansdale as families shared time with relatives and friends. A death notice for Hazel Van Horn from Manitou Springs was received by Mrs. Schort.
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