Elgin Social Notes From Clermont to Prairie du Chien
Elgin residents share visits and travels across Clermont West Union and beyond. Families like the Stewarts Boyles and Johnsons host guests while others attend weddings, Mother Daughter events, and church services. A long list of trips includes a Des Moines clinic visit for D R Roberts and a Prairie du Chien catfish dinner for many locals.
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Elgin
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Mississippi Gardens
Mel Kohler
Walter Kohls
H. H. Wolf
Chas. Wenger
Lyle Wilson
Walter Falk
Chas. O'Neill
Dalel
Erma Jane DeSart
Harold Conner
Donna Wenger
Ilyria Church Schedule with Warton and Shaffer
J C Warton minister and Israel Shaffer are listed for Ilyria Church. Sept 8 details include Sunday school at 10 oclock and Sunday morning worship at 11 15 oclock.
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J.C. Warton
Israel Shaffer
St Pauls Church announces Sunday worship and class
St Pauls Church lists services with J C Warren as minister and Lula Francisco as pianist. Sunday morning worship at ten o'clock followed by Sunday school at eleven.
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St. Paul’s Church
J. C. Warren
Lula Francisco
Luther League Meeting Noted for June Eighteenth
A church notice invites Luther League members to meet on June 18 at 8 o clock. The message encourages attendance and asserts spiritual nourishment through God's Word and Sacraments, signed by Pastor Dr. S. J. Strandford.
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Luther League
S. J. Strandford
Elgin Baptist Church events and community notes
Sunday worship and communion at 10 with dinner at noon and 2 o'clock services. Children's Day program and vacation bible school commencement. June 14 prayer service at 8 pm and choir rehearsal at 9 pm. Visitors from Sedalia and Guttenberg. thanks expressed for illness cards. Local students and residents noted for summer plans and honor rolls at Upper Iowa and Coe College.
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Elgin
Illyria
Elgin American Legion Post
Paul F. Zoschke
Lillian Schroeder
Albert Pringle
Son Junior
Sedalia
Ray DeSatt
Clarence Fischer
Arlene Moser
Guttenberg
Harold Fischer
Creighton Conner
Ale Elizabeth
Winnifred Mc‘Millan
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Louise Marie
Forest. Moore
Wadena
Upper Iowa University
R. M. Deming
Helen Muehlethaler
80 Year Old Twins Celebrate 80th Birthday in Carthage
Mrs Abby Scott of Bowen and Mrs Osie Hilstid of Denver Illinois twin sisters lifelong Hancock county residents marked their 80th birthday. Their mother was the first white child born in St Marys township. The sisters wed in a double ceremony at their parents home in 1878 and each has three children and one granddaughter.
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Carthage
Ill
E. F. Butler
Abby Scott
Bowen
Osie Hilstid
Denver
Hancock County
St. Marys Township
Death of Bertha Brusdal Former Elgin Resident
Funeral services for Bertha Brusdal 94 were held in Wisconsin Rapids where she had lived the last four years. Born in Oslo Norway March 4 1845 she came to the United States 55 years ago with her husband Ole Brusdal settling in Elgin Iowa. She died May 31 after a lingering illness leaving four of nine children and four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Surviving are Oscar Hrusdal Chicago Mrs Laura Moldenhauer Oslo Mrs F W Anderson and Mrs Robert Mertz Chisago and Mrs D C Minard Wisconsin Rapids.
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Bertha Brusdal
Wisconsin Rapids
Wis
Brusdal
Oslo
Norway
Larse Thoresen
United States
Ole Brusdal
Elgin
Iowa
Iowa. Mrs. Brusdal Lived At Wisconsin Rapids
Oscar Hrusdal
Chicago
Laura Moldenhauer
F. W. Anderson
Robert Mertz
Chisago
D. C. Minard
Perfect School Attendance Record at Parlour NC
Dwight Nichols captures rare feat as 10 year old R G Cardwell, son of Mr and Mrs John Cardwell, is awarded a gold medal for not missing a day of school in 7 years. Weather did not deter his steady attendance in this local Echo photo feature.
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Parlour
N. C
Dwight Nichols
R. G. Cardwell
John Cardwell
Dinner guest honors birthday at Fred Gehring home
Josephine Kniel of West Union visited the Fred Gehring home on Wednesday as a dinner guest to celebrate her birthday anniversary.
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Josephine Kniel
West Union
Fred Gehring
Mrs Edward Olesen and Hawkeye Visit in Sehori Home
Mrs Edward Olesen and her children from Hawkeye visited Tuesday in the home of Mrs Geo W Sehori.
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Edward CC, Olesen
Hawkeye
Geo. WN. Sehori
Jewish Refugees Seek Haven In Havana Harbor
German Jewish passengers aboard the liner St. Louis, refused land in Cuba, gather at the railing in Havana Harbor as the ship faces possible return to Hamburg after President Federico Laredo Bru signs a decree barring landing. Evacuees converse with relatives in launches as urgency grows.
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Havana
Cuba
Germany
Hamburg
St. Louis
Federico Laredo Bru
Echo
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George Vaughn
Matthew Kinney
Donald
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Vernon Knight
M. Zurbriggen
Traer
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J. J. Snyder
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William E. Hughes
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E. L. Morris
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Clarence Houg
Amy Layton
Clarence Becker
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Waukegan
Henry Frieden
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Nevada
Wm. Ewing
Richard
Postville
O. J. Olson
Kenneth Evans
Festina
Jud Conner
Creighton
Harold
Herbert Dummermuth
Conner
Harold Schneider
Lois Lehman
Anamosa
L. G. Leh
John Lyford
Elma
Lulu Schmid
Lyford
University of Iowa
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Herbert Falk
Allen Habeger
Caledonia
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Lake View Gardens
Gordon Zurbriggen
Des Moines Register and Tribune
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Eldred Patterson
Kensington Club
Thos. Knudts
Nelle Schori
T. W. Doan
Wm. Wilson
Frank Greenley
W. Kuster
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M. R. Yenney
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Ilyria Church
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Max Thoma
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Wm. Kohls
Betty Wenger
Elkader Junior College
Betty
J. B. Moore
Judy
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Clarence
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Love Brothers
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