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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1959
Page
7
The Town and Country Griff club met February 26 at the home of Mrs Aldorsens. Details are sparse in the damaged text but confirm a local meeting of community members and a Corn Club gathering.
The IchWAR Society will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday March 95 at the home of Mrs Louie Mion but due to weather and roads it will be held at the home of Mrs Louis T Olson. Mrs Willet Miller and Mrs Alfred Baechler are noted organizers.
The Odako Camp Fire Girls met at Mary Garrison's home on Tuesday after school. President Marcia Knudtson led the business session as Elaine Thomas delivered Trail Seeker's Desire. A Fayette County Home thank-you note for Valentines was read, and plans were made for church day March 36 at the Methodist Church with Kinunka Group to celebrate Camp Fire Week. Next meeting set for March 24 at Marcia Knudtson's home, Connie Baker, Scribe.
Cards of Thanks express gratitude to friends neighbors and relatives for cards gifts and visits after an accident. Mrs John Shipton extends thanks while Bob Mott thanks Clermont merchants and businessmen for winning 90 dollars in Clermont Bucks last Saturday.
The Junior Auxiliary Girls met March 4 at Marilyn and Roberta Paulson’s home with twenty members. They planned the district meeting for April 2 at Valley High and prepared Easter items including 336 Easter chicks and 70 marshmallow bunnies for hospitals and schools in multiple Iowa cities. The group made crafts, studied a film on El Salvador, and will meet next at Carolyn Follett’s home.
Mrs Gordon Hoop man was admitted to the Methodist Hospital in Rochester last Monday for medical care and treatment.
St Peter s Church lists Masses on Sunday at 8 00 and 10 00 am and daily Masses. Confessions are heard from 8 00 to 9 00 pm. Fr Joseph A Gullivan is the pastor.
Dairymen of Fayette County will meet at the Ernest Miehe farm in Mayhard at one p m on Thursday March 19. Don Voelker from Iowa State College Extension Dairyman will discuss record systems and merchandising Holstein cattle. The Fayette County Holstein Breeders sponsor but the meeting is open to all dairymen.
Notice of a food and fancy goods sale at West Clermont Lutheran Church Parlors on Saturday March 21 starting after the drawing. Cake and coffee will be served from 2 30. Everyone welcome. 29 cents.
The American Legion Auxiliary met March 10 at Mrs. Lloyd Meier's home. Mrs. Chrystal Thoma led due to the absent president, with 10 members present and one reading. A $25 donation to the band uniform fund was approved. Girls State candidates were named, and canteen books were to be sent to Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute. Carol Gunderson visited her grandmother. Charles Wagner of Elgin made the university honor roll with a 2.2 GPA.
Joann M. Bennett and James Schuer from Upper Iowa University Fayette Iowa earned dean's list honors for the first semester 1958 69. Bennett, a 1955 Clermont High graduate, is the daughter of Mrs Ralph Bennett of Clermont. Schuer, a 1956 Elgin Public graduate, is the son of Mr and Mrs Fred Schuer of Elgin.
Mr and Mrs James Mueller of Evansdale announce the birth of son Keith James on Friday morning March 6 weighing 10 pounds 13 ounces. Keith has a sister Cynthia. Mrs Mueller is Margarite Sullivan daughter of Fre mont Sullivan now living in Independence. A snow plow and ambulance aided Mrs Mueller in reaching the hospital.
Mrs. George Belschner hosted a birthday club gathering at her residence on Friday March 13. March celebrants included Mrs. Truman Paulson Mrs. George Durscher and Mrs. Heribert Dummermuth.
The Woodland Study Club gathered at Mrs. Marion Kir kestue’s home on March 10. Sixteen members answered roll call with Written Comments on Our Monthly Programs. Two guests attended, Mrs. Carl Hovland and Mrs. Leo Drier. A Red Cross donation was voted.
Richard Disney of Stuart was killed while oil hauling wood on his farm after unhooking the wagon and attempting to turn the tongue. The load toppled over him, causing the fatality.
Cler mont unit members of Sheehan-Olson request old felt hats in red gray and black and any thread spools. Please check closets or storage for these items to aid the junior girls projects sent to orphans homes and hospitals. Deliver within ten days to help Mia Aldora Anderson.
Grace Salisbury of Emmetsbury recalls tulips blooming two inches above ground on the sunny side of her home, marking the earliest she can remember seeing the flowers emerge this season.
Seventeen month old William Powell of Riceville pulled a dining room tablecloth. hot water from a vaporizer spilled onto his legs and hands causing burns. His condition was described as manageable with medical care.
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