Elgin Local News and Community Notes
Local items recount visits and guest rooms across Elgin and nearby towns. Names include Schori, Probert, Horn, Habeger, Heins, Olson, Yunker, Durscher, Muehlenthaler, and DeSart. Events feature theater at Elgin Opera House with Ken Maynard in The Phantom, Wolf Song, and Backbones State Park outings with family gatherings and visits to relatives in Oelwea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ken Maynard
Elgin Opera House
Wolf Song
Gustave Dorn
Mya
Myrlin Feller
Ray DeSart
R. W. Muehlenthaler
the Backbone State Park
Leslie Cooley
Dubuque
M E Church Notes Service Schedule
Worship hour at 10 o'clock features a musical reading by Miss Winifred Schmid. Church school begins at 11 o'clock. Sunday school picnic details to be announced next Sunday. Women's Foreign Missionary Society meets at Mrs R V Brandt's home in Clermont on Friday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winifred Schmid
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
R. V. Brandt
Clermont
Baptist Church Notes June Meetings and Visits
Sunday services include English worship at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 11 a.m. B Y P U program committee meets at 7 30 p m followed by the B Y P U at 8 p m. Prayer meeting Thursday at 8 p m choir rehearsal at 7 p m election of B Y P A officers Tuesday June 18 at 8 p m Rev A A Schade from Pittsburgh will speak at both meetings and accompany the group to Sheffield for addresses at the B Y P U convention. Pastor Ph Lauer invites all to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner
B. Y
A. A
Schade
Pittsburgh
Brother Schade
Sheffield
B B P U Program Set For Sunday Evening
The B B P U will present a program Sunday at 8 o clock. Captain Erwin Miller will lead. Frieda Freiburghaus performs piano solo with a quartet. Kathryn Kruger reads, then Elizabeth Jacob Lilian Jacob Luella Miller Clara Baechler perform double duet. Freddie Lauer conducts piano items. Marie Reusser reads. Bible questions by Meta Buser. A double quartet including Erwin Miller George Dypendher Guy Probert Olarence Kohls Gus Hackman Rof Buser Alfred Jacob Elmer Kohls closes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erwin Miller
Frieda
Freiburghaus Quartette
Karl Hackman
Edwin Kruger
Max Lehman
Otto Kruger
Sheffield
Kathryn Kruger
Elizabeth Jacob
Lillian Jacob
Luella Miller
Clara Baechler
Freddie Lauer
Marie Reusser
Meta Buser
Gao
Dypendher
Guy Probert Olar
Ence Kohls
Gus Hackman
Rof Buser
Alfred Jacob
Elmer Kohls
Elgin Iowa Council Proceedings June 8 1929
City council met in regular session at the town hall with Mayor Weibel and councilmen Stoehr Yenney Schori and Kiple present. Bills approved by unanimous vote including painting signs pumping power lighting repairs and water service with several small items and staff wages. Community notes mention Mrs Benson teaching a parochial class, new home under roof for the Schori family, and Mr Etter returning from Janesville Wisconsin with remarks on local activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Iowa
Weibel
Stoehr
Yenney
Schori
Kiple
Reuben Lehman
Central States Power & Light Corp
Chandler Pump Co
C. J. Harrington
T. W.dean
Henry Topp
Ern Holzer
Central
Gunder News Notes Local Social and Doings
Gunder area residents and visitors are listed with many small items from church events, family visits, and travels. Names include Mollerman, Ruth, Nelson, Williams, Blockhus, Wettleson, Loftsgard, Gisleson, Mattocks, Patterson, Frieden, Chas. Frieden family, and many others. The Dorcas Society bazaar is set for June 14 at Marion church basement with lunch to follow. Obituary for Gunild Wettleson noted. more details to follow next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Mollerman
Ruth
Egin
George Landsgard
Martin Nelson
Clermont
Marion Church
Mr. Ward
Wagner Township
L. C. Reierson
Chas. Christianson
Waseca
Wis
Pete Peterson
Mary Kirkeberg
Reuben Mark
Gunild Wettleson
Gunder
GC. Briar
Monona
Harold Landsgard
E. E.landsgard
Chas. Meder
Mederville
Gunder Jast
Dorcas Society
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dr. L
Hutchinson
City Drug Store
Geo. N. Schori
Potrats
Milton Miller
Bloomington
Wisconsin
Guy Probert
North of Town
Linn Probert
Wadena
George Snyder
Marion
Rev
J. J. Snyder
L. L. Kiple
Mrs. Kiple
Rowley
L. T. Horn
Oelwein
Allen Habeger
C. C. Cooley
Chicago
Ann Cooley
George Gale
Wanda June
Albert Schori
Oelwe
Gerald
Standard Oil
C. L. Husinga
Pau
Aplington
Laura Kramer
Parkersburg
Hans Keiser
Mr. Husinga
Myre
Ray Heins
Chiscago
A. M. Weibel
Center Point
Mr. Heins
West
Bertha Mealey
Rob, Grimes
Near West Union
Mel Kohler
Elmer Schori
J. W. Allen
Waterloo
Charles Huebner
Ben
Postville
John Falk
John
Walter
Fred
The
State University At
Iowa City
C. B. Schori
Fayette
Paul Muehley
Jack Wood
West Union
Mrs. H. Sawvell
Huron
John .Johnson
Nels Olson
Mary
Mary Goetz
Jack Malone
Rudy Yunker
J. B. Miller
Milton, Miller
John Durscher
Esther
George Durscher
John Durscher Jr
China
Athletic Union
Max Thoma
M. E. Church Notes
Baptist Church
Ph. Lauer
Council Proceedings
N. W. Evans
Belva Benson
Highland Lutheran Church
C. H. Larson
John Etter
Janesville
Irvin
Gunder News
Agnes Hoag
Gilbert Halverson
Mamie Nelson
Gilbert Loftsgard
H. H
Ole Gisleson
Millard Gisleson
Osage
Henry
George Gisleson
Jenetta Loftsgard
Ee Refery Vera
Loretta Mattocks
Lillian and
Grace Patterson
Warren Harrington
G. J. Harrington
Elizabeth Schmid
Davenport
Theo. Schmid
Theo. L. Olson
Harold Stoehr
Cedar Rapids
Hulda Stoehr
U.su
Robert Greenley
Decorah
Mrs
Frank , Greenley
Rosa Baumgartner
West Union Hospital
Alben Kimpson
Frank Gehring
Emmer Patterson
N. M. Fritz
Chas. Frieden
West Bend
Oscar Frieden
Elkader
Lew Kohler
Elmer
Frieden
Henry Frieden
Geraldine Schori
Mary Hanson
Los Angeles
California
Fred Hanson
Canada
Bobby Falb
H. W. Falb
Mary Spahr
Irvin Hendershott
Oscar Bauder
Higin
Eva Monnahan
Helen
Genevieve Herwig
Chas. Feller
Mason City
Dr. Roy DeSart
J. C. Morris
Long Beach
Calif
Mra. S. W. Rubger
Randalia
University of Iowa
Helen Rubyer
Anna DeSart
Plymouth
Torkelson Bros
Elaine and
Gordon Zurbriggen
Ezra Rowland
C. E. Huisinga and Son
Mre
Earl Kiple
J. H. Williams
Fairbank
Elizabeth Lehman
Celia
Floyd Sires
Sugar Riser
Vern Sires
Preston
J. 1. Phillips
Fred O'Dell
Milwaukee
O’dell’s
Quaker Oats Company
Schumacher
Weibel Mill Company
Elgin, Iowa
Hamilton - Brown
Kohler’s Store
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