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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1933
Page
6
Community diary from Elgin and nearby towns lists visits and weekend trips. Residents including Mrs. Willems Mrs. Sutter Alfred Bauder and Celia Lehman share highlights. various guests attend bridge parties and socials at the Falk, Stoehr and other homes. Local trades advertise plow sharpening and hardware deals.
M E Church notes J J Snyder, minister and Mrs Louis Klingman as pianist. Worship scheduled for 10 a m with Sunday school at 11 a m. Choir practice tonight Thursday.
The notice lists church services in English and Norse at Marion and Norway locations. It notes service times around 11 o clock and 2:90 o clock with Strandjord as pastor, inviting all to attend each service.
Illyria notes report Ya Fonda Shaffer pianist for Sunday school at 10 15 a m and worship at 11 18 a m. Large attendance at the morning hour is encouraging and organizers urge more members to attend every Sunday to aid and encourage others.
The Baptist church issues a March schedule with evening and Sunday services including communion at 10 am and an English service at 2 pm. The week lists choir rehearsals, a 12:16 pm church dinner with a long serving committee, junior and committee meetings, Revelation study, and a Ladies Aid gathering at Mrs. Fred Reusser home.
Readable notes show Lois Miller Walter Becker Betty Strauch and others achieving perfect spelling papers and 100 percent arithmetic in various rooms. Honor roll lists include Nester Grimm Helen Hoag Ruth Muellarman and Gerald Boyer. Health contest concludes after seven weeks as students Lester Grimm and Anna Schupbach earned daily stars for grooming.
The Echo notes 12c per pound Wisconsin brick cheese at Falks and tells of Masonic meeting in Elkader on March 23. It advertises pork and beans sale at Falks and promotes harnesses and horse collars. Also reports on Alden Pinney heading a Reconstruction Finance Corporation group, plus travels of E A Weibel and a Chicago comics promotion. Elgin Masonic lodges Clermont and Elgin held a joint meeting with about 50 members attending.
Twenty five beef breeders and readers gathered at the farm bureau office in Fayette last Friday to discuss issues in beef production. They debated baby beeves feasibility and felt the method, while risky for some, could be safest with proper feeding. A summer tour will be organized with the 4 H baby beef club. W S Rottsberger and Clyde Ostrander were reelected president and secretary. Mrs T A King left for Des Moines to attend the American Legion Auxiliary mid winter conference. Newell Rogers, late editor of the Hawkeye Beacon, is seriously ill with pneumonia in Paris, France, as cablegraphed to his mother. Mrs Newell Rogers is Elgin girl Alice Keenan, formerly of Elgin High School, hoping for his speedy recovery.
Dela Chapman returns home after a country visit. Frank Greenley and Lyle Wilson attend a Standard Oil Co. meeting in Dubuque. Will Kohler hospitalized in Iowa City for healing bone fractures. Hans Frederick rents Mrs. Bennett House in Elgin. Grant Dawson operates Capper’s Oelwein Hatchery this season. Ida Lehman visits Castalia sister. La Porte City fire caused damage. Tille Hanson visits Oslwein. Irvin Miller welcomes a daughter Mavis Arlene born Feb 21. Mrs. John Falk hosts sewing party with several friends. Capper’s hatchery ships first baby chicks to Catakill, NY. 200 in order. Elgin’s Little German Band assists at West Union high school benefit. Dr Clinton of Fayette features U I U pageant photos from 1882.
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