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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1954
Page
6
Large group visits and weekend trips feature residents and guests from West Union and nearby towns. Chicago visitors stay with Cunningham family while several families plan vacations to Smoky Mountains and Lake Okoboji. Numerous reunions, picnics, and church events spread across Fayette Calmar Elgin and Dubuque with varied relatives and friends attending from Oelwein Postville and Clark counties.
The Friendly Church presents a June program led by Pastor John Vanderbeck with Evening Hour of Power on June 24 at 8:00 p m and senior choir practice at 8:45 p m followed by Sunday worship at 10:00 a m on June 27 featuring the sermon Hidden Among The Stuff. Sunday School at 11:00 a m and Gospel Hour at 8:00 p m with Is Suffering A Necessity as the sermon topic. Monday June 28 brings orchestra practice at 8:00 p m. Thought for the Week notes generosity toward good turns and remembering kindness.
Elgin Lutheran Church announces worship at 9:00 am with Sunday school at 10:00 am. A film strip on the Second Commandment accompanies the class and the divine worship service follows. There is no choir practice this week.
The Methodist Church under Minister E. G. Steinman holds worship at 10:00 a.m. Sunday school at 11:00 a.m. There is no choir rehearsal this week. A Youth Fellowship business meeting is planned for Sunday evening at the church.
St Olaf Lutheran Church schedules for June and July include Thursday aid meetings with Mrs Mina Orvis and Mrs Clara Wilke serving, Marion Dorcas Society hosting Nellie Hanson Ruth Loftsgard DeVere Halver son and Gilbert Loftsgard serving. Vacation Bible school program at Marlon church Friday at 8 PM. Sunday service at Norway on June 27 with confirmation and Communion. July 4 Norway Aid meeting with Mrs Ole Embretson and Mrs Thomas Peterson serving. Mrs Jack Whipple returns to Duluth after visiting. Donald Gilson home events and cornerstone laying at Elgin Lutheran church attended by Laura Olson Mill visitors and Harriet Juhl Cedar Falls.
Card of thanks from Bobby Schupbach thanking friends neighbors and relatives for visits cards and gifts during hospital stay and return home. Also a thank you note from Eliza Habeger family expressing gratitude for kindness during illness and death and special thanks to Good Samaritan Home Rev Vanderbeck Tabitha Society pall bearers and those who provided music.
A note of gratitude to friends for cards and gifts received during a brief hospital stay. Ellen Flanagan expresses appreciation and says the kindness will be remembered.
The family expresses gratitude to friends relatives and neighbors for cards letters gifts and visits during mother Alta Florence and Clarence Boman’s hospitalization and after returning home. Special thanks to those who brought food during constant care day and night.
Phyllis Gehring left Friday for Normal Illinois to attend an eight week summer session. En route she will stop in Taylor Missouri with friend Lauretta Hoerr. Numerous local residents and relatives are noted visiting, hosting, or traveling to events across Pastville Decorah Elgin and Cedar Rapids as last week’s community activity expands.
Mr and Mrs Lyman Ferguson of Gary and Dean and Don from Monona were guests of Norris Capper on Sunday. The Donald and Wayne Gilson families joined Mr and Mrs H B Gilson and Mr and Mrs Jack Adrian for Sunday evening visits. Mrs Roger Walker plans a two week vacation in Loma Montana with Mr Walker returning with them. Walker children to be cared for by relatives. Father’s Day visits included Mr and Mrs Fred Butikofer and Mr and Mrs Wm Moore. Bertha Kiple and Nelle Reusser spent a Wednesday at West Union with the Wm Howard home. Lew Gruver and Mrs Floren Baldwin hosted Father’s Day guests including Harry Baldwin and Donna of Marshalltown and Mrs Robert Gruver of Waterloo. Earl Aanes of Fayette hosted a family dinner Sunday with Mac McCurdy Rawleigh NC, Mrs W C Mitchell, David and Charles Traverse City MI, Mrs Mary Bailey and the Walter Bovis family Guttenberg. Mr and Mrs R L Knutsen of Estherville were weekend guests of son Pastor Vance Knutsen and family, bringing Mrs Vance Knutsen Kathy and Janet who had spent the prior week with Mrs Knutsen’s mother in Graettinger.
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