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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1965
Page
7
A long list of social visits, family gatherings, and weekend outings spans West Union and surrounding towns. Residents like the Torkelsons, Backmans, Andersons, and Hansons host and attend dinners, suppers, and church services with relatives and friends from Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Decorah, Elkader, and beyond during a busy spell in late spring.
A flurry of Sunday and weekday visits spans Oelwein Cresco Cedar Rapids and Muscatine with numerous families hosting relatives and friends. F W Welch is discharged from Veterans Hospital Town City after weeks of illness.
The Iowa District convention is set for Aug 19 to 21 at Luther College open to all Leaguers with a $15 fee. Pastor Gross, leading the Norway study committee, calls a July 13 meeting at 8:00 p.m. at the parsonage. it serves as an advisory committee to the council. NLCW holds a general meeting July 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel and a leadership school July 5 to 10 at Luther College with Lee Embretson Kendall Mark Ruth Ann Peterson Rita Torkelson Marilee White as counselors. Pastor Gross will head the school.
Sunday social rounds connect the Block hus family at the Jepson Juhl reunion on the Dick Juhl farm near Waverly with calls to Rev and Mrs Harlan Blockhus in Waverly. Janice and Joyce Blockhus stay at the Blockhus home for four days as weekend visitors stop by the Dwayne Frieden and Leo Schori households. Various families from St Paul Fairfax Elkader Des Moines Postville Chatfield and Park Ridge gather for dinners and dinners and visits through Sunday and Monday.
Budget notice for Fayette County assessor estimate and filing records. Meeting set July 13 at 1:30 PM at Court House West Union for taxpayers to review proposed expenditures for the coming year beginning January 1. City and county officials urge public attendance.
Church notices list events for Norway and Marion Lutheran Churches. Norway hosts board of education June 3 at 8 00 pm, NLCW July 1 at 7 30 pm, Circle 5 hostess, July 4 service at 8 30 am with Circle 3 on July 2 at 2 00 pm and Mrs Waldo Embretson as hostess and Mrs Millard Houg for Bible study. Marion lists June 30 worship, July 2 choir practice at 7 30 pm, July 4 Divine worship at 10 00 am, and Luther League convention canceled.
St Pauls Methodist Church led by Pastor Lee Roy Collins lists worship at 9:00 a.m. and Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. A WSCS general meeting is set for Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. June 30 in the church room. Myria Community Day is planned for Thursday July 1.
Apostolic Christian Church invites the public to Sunday school at 10 15 a m and church services at 10 30 a m with afternoon services at 1 00 p m. Public is welcome.
The 85th annual sessions of the Northwestern Conference of North American Baptists will convene at First Baptist Church in Elgin. Delegates and guests from churches in Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin will attend these days of worship business and fellowship July 7 to 11.
ELGIN conducts worship Sunday at 15 am and Highland holds service at 9 45 am. Both communities invite members to attend worship.
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