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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
6
Elgin residents attend visits and gatherings across Iowa and Illinois. Juries, travel to Chicago and Rochester, and family arrivals mark a busy period. Community Day, bond vote, and Hawaiian guitar classes reflect civic and cultural life.
The Methodist St Pauls Wyria Church invites church school at 10 a m with J F Shaffer as superintendent Worship service at 11 16 a m Clermont Union Church holds worship at 7 30 p m A warm welcome is extended to all to worship Joseph C Warton Minister.
Sunday morning worship at 10 o'clock and Sunday school at 11 o'clock. Evening service at 7 45 p m B Y P U service at 8 35 p m Wednesday July 3 Women’s Missionary Society meets with Mrs Fred Draeger in Hawkeye Prayer service at 8 p m Choir rehearsal at 9 p m.
Sunday service at Marion on June 30 at 10 o clock with confirmation. Sunday July 7 at 10 o clock English communion at Norway church. All are welcome at each service. Pastor Dr. J Strandjord announces.
Mrs Ida Baldwin visited in Lew Grover's home in Waterloo while Mrs C B Schor and Ben traveled to Fayette to see relatives. Mrs Louis Ishman called on Celia Rennison. several couples picnicked at Backbone State Park near Strawberry Point. DeSart and De Sart families visited Paul Muhly in Westman. Lloyd Swaitley from Duluth stayed with her parents. A note of thanks from Mary Puffer for hospital stay support rounds out the snippet.
Susie the stenog quickly cleans coal water and air stockings after work at 4:45 in the office wash bowl with water under 100 degrees. Five water changes, towel roll, and air drying finish by 5 o'clock, yielding clean stockings ready for view.
The Elgin High School Alumni Association marks its fifty year milestone with a golden anniversary on Friday August 16 during homecoming. Lists of graduates from 1890 and subsequent classes through 1929 are published with names including Falk Klingman Hoag and many others. News notes detail local visits and movements among alumni families such as the Millers and Boyles, with itineraries to Rochester and Sumner.
The ad emphasizes Wi Martin-Senour Barn Paint as superior to impure cheap paints. It argues for long term value, noting lower long run costs due to greater coverage, durability, and protection, urging buyers to choose Martin-Senour for quality and economy.
Construction on a Channel tunnel under the English Channel linking France and England progressed but was abandoned due to financial difficulties and British fears that it would ease invasion by an enemy, ending the ambitious plan.
The robin has sharper eyes than lower animals though its ears are less keen. A robin can hear a worm crawling underground, illustrating its sensory strengths and limits.
Stromboli on Lipari islands offers visitors near constant volcanic activity with hourly eruptions. Tourists watch glowing lava shoot from the crater, gaining brief thrills from the earth’s fury.
The First U. S. Cafeteria introduced a self service restaurant in New York on New Street in 1885. A second establishment followed on Adams Street in Chicago in 1895, marking early growth of the dining concept.
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