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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1937
Page
6
Local residents report visits by W C Falk in Dubuque and Chicago guests including William Stephenson and Mrs Murray. G H Falb returns with a new Buick and families gather for meals with Kerrs and Buchholzes. Norma Torkelson attends Highland parochial school while Reuben Hackmann logs a 61 hour tractor stint. Memorial Day reunions, Iowa carrier convention invites, and booster club tours mark a busy period.
Mrs Louis Klingman will play piano as J J Snyder leads the Children’s Day program at 10 am next Sunday. The sacrament of baptism will be offered during the program at St Paul’s M E Church.
Lutheran church notes list English services at St Olaf nine o'clock and Marion ten thirty. Pastor J Strandford invites parishioners to attend each service and welcomes all.
No morning services at Tilyria Church next Sunday. A 2 30 p m program will feature appropriate music and readings followed by a violin solo by Rev Dana Boggies of Hawkeye who will also give the address. The event includes piano by Grace Foxwell and remarks by Minister J Snyder.
Elgin Baptist Church lists Sunday worship at 10, Sunday school at 11, evening service at 7 45, and B Y P A at 8 35. Wednesday June 16 Tabitha Society meets at 2 and prayer service at 8 with choir rehearsal at 9. Pastors Paul F Zoschke and organist Lillian Jacobs are noted.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy flowers and acts during illness and burial of a wife and mother. The column lists health updates for neighbors and relatives, visits, hospital stays, births, travel, accidents, and social gatherings in Decorah area families, with names such as Lehman Schori Schweitzer Gray Yunker Yenney Matthys Durscher Mosby Gray Dunham DeSart Anderson Frederick Briggle Draewel Krueger Miller and Johnson families.
Elgin Iowa council meets in regular session with all members present. Bills audited include water main labor for several workers, street labor, printing, pipe fittings, power, insurance, and park expenses. Cigarette and beer permits granted. adjournment motion carried. Local notes cover visits and a failed robbery attempt at Young Coal Co in Oelwein.
Gertrude Grether was ill and confined to bed last week. Eva Bennett of Frankville visits grandmother Mrs. N Holm. Clara Nelson visited Signy Hanson at George Hanson’s home. Laurence Knudtson and Elmer Lantz visited Elkader Sunday. Robert Steele of Fayette spent Saturday with his parents. Roy Steele of Decorah returned home Sunday to visit his parents. Lois Lehman went to Farmersburg to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Walters. Ida Christen and Mrs. Norris Capper had mumps but are improving. Mabel Frieden left for Charles City for summer employment. Mrs. Dickens of Hawkeye visited Mrs. Alfred Ruckdaschel and family. Joe Becker returned home Friday after sophomore year at the State University and will stay this summer. Mrs. H W Kruse Ida Olson had an emergency appendectomy in Detroit and is recovering. Pa and Me and Mrs Walter Draewel of San Francisco were guests in the F C Muehlethaler home over the weekend. the Draewels’ first wife is a former local minister’s wife now in Philadelphia.
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