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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
6
Local residents share visits and dinners across Elgin and surrounding towns. Highlights include Hazel Howard aiding Mrs Doan. multiple family gatherings with the Falbs, Fellers, Boyles, and Bakers. teens and students visiting colleges and participating in state programs. Community events cover church group activities, bazaar planning, and local travel for education and leisure through June and early summer.
Illyria Church announces Sunday school for all ages at 10 o clock with Minister J C Warton leading. Sunday morning worship is at 11 o'clock, with Israel Shaffer and S S Supt. in charge.
St Pauls Church lists Lula Francisco as pianist for Sunday worship at 10 o'clock and Sunday school at 11 o'clock, inviting worshipers to attend services.
The Lutheran Church invites all to the June 18 confirmation at 10 o clock in Marion and the Norway confirmation class. Marion hosts an 8 o clock Luther League. Pastor Dr. S. J. Strandjord urges families to attend together and welcomes all to every service.
Elgin Baptist Church led by Pastor Paul F Zoschke hosts Sunday worship at 1 o clock and an evening service at 7 45 with B Y P A in charge. Tabitha Society meets Wednesday June 21 at 2 pm with prayer at 8 pm and choir rehearsal at 9 pm.
Mrs George Osborne allows her five year old Krehe to bid farewell to nurse Graham Gaylord who is charged with kidnapping. Chief of Police Quinn reports Gaylord abducted the child from the Osborne home leaving a demand for 16000 and a threat to kill. Police intercept with the child fifty miles from San Francisco in San Jose.
A large delegation from the local Baptist church attends the annual Young People's Convention in Town at Sheffield. Delegates attending all sessions include Lloyd and Leon Jacob, Ethel Rennison, Hulda Nydegger, Mrs. P. F. Zoschke, Bud Lehr, Hugo and Louise Hackmann, Gladys Yearous, Louise Marie Baumgartner, Eula Boleyn, Lois Burrow. Wednesday attendees are Clarence Muehlebthal, Helen Muehlebthal, Paul Zurbriggen, Mary Haechler, Lorence Muehlebthal. Thursday attendees include Karl Miller, Erwin Miller, Aulden Oelberg, Abe Habeger along with their spouses.
The Baptist church marks its sixtieth anniversary with July 2 and 3 services. Rev. H. W. Wedel preaches Sunday morning, Rev. Thos. Stoeri in the afternoon, and a special communion at 8 o'clock. An informal gathering with reminiscences follows Monday evening at 8.
A large crowd gathered at the Elgin opera house Tuesday evening for a shower and dance honoring Mr and Mrs Alan Anderson who wed June 8 at Clermont Lutheran church. The couple opened gifts and refreshments followed. Several local visitors and relatives were noted including Elgin residents and guests from Kanawha and Fayette.
Mrs. Clarence Hagelie returned to her Ossian area home from a Rochester Minnesota hospital where she underwent gallstone removal. She spent four weeks confined and is steadily regaining strength. Mrs. Hagelie, formerly Elen Thompson, lived near Elgin before her marriage.
Eli Habeger, appointed last fall, has transformed the Elgin cemetery with meticulous upkeep. Members of the Ladies' Cemetery association praise the results and Habeger also does work at local homes. Evelyn Johnson of West Union spent a week with her brother Harry Johnson and family. Glen Schori of Chicago visited his mother Mrs. Geo. N. Schori over the weekend and returned home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Etter and daughter Colleen of Janesville, Wis., visited his mother Mrs. Frieda Etter over the weekend.
Hawkeyes win undisputed Big Ten baseball title marking first Iowa team crown in the sport and sixth clear Hawkeye title. Strong hitting and sharp fielding support great pitching from Harold Haub who went four wins in eight decisions and allowed about four hits and one run per game.
Nikola Tliteh of Belgrade Yugoslavia advertised in the wanted columns offering astonishing demonstrations of strength and endurance. He claimed to lift 500 pounds with his teeth hold four horses pulling in opposite directions dance barefoot on broken glass or burning coal lick white hot iron and endure being run over by automobiles.
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky formed as the Green River eroded its valley during the glacial epoch or a nearby period in geologic time. This process shaped the cave system through ancient geological activity and river action over long time scales.
Bellevue Herald reports on growing home ownership and the tax trend as the state expands its homestead program. About 30,000 more beneficiaries joined the system in the past year, boosting refunds to roughly 12.067 million dollars, over a million higher than 1937. The piece argues the homestead act encourages ownership and citizen engagement in communities.
A quirky collection of witticisms defines prevailing winds as those that blow when others stop. The split infinitive is joked as a sign of doom. A tantrum is described as a cycle enabling two people to ride it.
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