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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1914
Page
5
We thank friends and neighbors for kind assistance and sympathy during our sorrow and for the flowers. Esther Reusser is the new clerk at the Max Thoma store.
A Chautauqua meeting will be held Saturday evening in the City Council rooms. All who have been selling tickets are requested to report at this time. The exact number of tickets sold is known. reporters should be ready with their figures, Base Bail Sunday.
The Elgin Chautauqua announces a full week of programs starting Tuesday with Caswells and Reverend Byrnes, and July 4 features three band concerts by the Elgin Concert Band plus Upper Iowa Musical Club. Tickets are urged before opening. season passes sell for 1.00 and 1.25 after opening. children's passes 0.50 or 0.65.
A twister roared through Elgin Tuesday around midnight, waking residents and driving some to cellars. The Welbel Bros. barn at the mill was demolished, but no stock died. Trees fell, outbuildings toppled, and scattered debris filled yards as neighboring areas reported losses including a silo, a barn, and two cows killed near the Wenger and Hurley farms.
At the bride's parents house on Tuesday evening June 16 the marriage of Lee Smith to Arthur Taylor of Wenatchee took place. Rev H A Luckenbach officiated in a family setting with a few intimate friends. Out of town guests included both groom’s Spokane parents and his sister from Lamont. The bride, a popular Newport teacher and former principal, leaves for Spokane with the groom. Newport friends wish them happiness.
The column urges all in Elgin to attend Sunday church service at 8:00 p.m. next week. It stresses the church calendar on the back, invites parishioners to be “Boosters,” and notes hot weather should not keep them away from church.
The German Baptist Church holds Sunday School at 9 46 a m and an 11 a m Children's Day program followed by an 8 p m literary program by the Young People’s Society. Prayer meetings occur each Thursday evening and are open to all. Oliver Kimball arrived from Decoral Tuesday to visit his brother Oscar, who sustained injuries in a recent auto accident.
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