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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1928
Page
6
A cluttered Elgin Iowa column lists visits and health updates. Max Thomas Roze Hadd assists Dr L S Hutchinson. Walter Duracher improves after illness. various residents travel, visit, or host gatherings. Local optometrist Dr A Berger advertises glasses. Egg prices rise modestly with farm market notes and rising cull hens and chicks.
Baptist church notes outline a full day program including German services and communion at 10 a m, Sunday school at 11, church dinner at 12 15, junior meeting at 12 46, committee at 1, church meeting at 2 with annual reports and officer elections, and reminders of Tuesday July 3 meeting at Brainard and Thursday July 5 prayer meeting plus junior choir at 9 p m. The Young Men’s Bible class invites community young men to join. Pastor Ph Lauer reports visits to Sister Zurbriggen in Oakdale and Sister Hladd in Iowa City.
Morning worship with communion at 10:00 a.m. Sunday school at 11:00 a.m. Evening service at 8:00 p.m. Stereopticon slides titled Indian Trails in the Northwest. Ladies Aid Society meets in the church basement with Mrs. C. Kniel and Mrs. Clem Schmid as hostesses. Invitation to worship at St. Paul’s.
Last Monday June 25 the Junior Society of the Baptist church held its annual social at Mr and Mrs Edwin Kruger residence. About fifty six attended on a pleasant evening with a short program and a talk titled Win One. Mrs Lauer leads the Juniors and Hugo Hackman is president. Monthly meetings are planned.
Emma Reinhart visits relatives in Elgin while Mrs. Harry Becker stays with Mrs. Ed Delaney in Clermont. West Union guests dine with the Alfred Jensen family, and Albert Schori with Ida Lehman visit Cedar Rapids relatives over the weekend. Numerous local relatives host gatherings as travel continues through the region.
The H D Yack family were Oelwein visitors Friday. Martha Friederich spent Tuesday at her aunt Mrs Sam Lehman. Mr and Mrs Paul Doan and two daughters of Waukegan Illinois, visited Sunday at the T W Doan home. Doan will be away this summer for canning and his family will stay with relatives L D Hitch near West Union. Ben Weibel and family visited Mya Ben Weibel home Sunday. William Torkelson and son Sylvan were dinner guests at Clarence Torkelson Sunday night. J B Brackin and Del Wiltsie drove from Neilaville Wisconsin Friday night and returned Sunday with Mr Wiltsie’s piano stored since last fall at Mrs Patterson home.
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