Elgin News Chronicle Highlights Weekend Socials
Residents of Elgin and nearby towns enjoyed visits and gatherings as families returned home for spring break. Local errands included trips to McGregor, Waterloo, Cedar Falls, and Rochester for sightseeing and medical visits. Community members, including Harold Conner and Margie Christ, traveled to state basketball events and returned with plans to visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CG. S. Whitney
Creighton Conner
Cedar Falls
Paul, Zurbriggen
Harold Conner
Dale DeSart
Joe Becker
Don Helms
Cedar Falla
Margie Christ
Elgin
Waseca
Minnesota
Elgin Baptist Church Schedule and Gatherings
Elgin Baptist Church lists events for March and April including prayer meetings at 8 p m and 9 p m, English services Sundays at 10 a m and 8 p m, Sunday school at 11 a m, B P U prayer meeting at 9 p m led by Clarence Muehlthaler, Ladies Aid at Mrs Fred Muehlethaler’s home on April 3 at 2 p m, choir practices, and a note that next Sunday will be the last Sunday in Elgin. Pastor Ph Lauer invites all to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Muehlethaler
Ladies’ Aid Society
Fred Muehlethaler
Elgin
Lutheran Church Notes for March and April
St Olaf Chapel holds services at 9 and 7 30 p m with Norse and English Norway at 11 and First Lutheran at 2 30 p m Norse services listed Marion at 11 o clock and Luther League St Olaf Chapel at 7 30 p m You are welcome at each service Pastor J Strandford invites parishioners to attend.
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St. Olaf Chapel
Norway
First Lutheran
Marion
Luther League
J. Strandford
St Pauls M E Church Worship and Activities
St Pauls M E Church led by Minister J J Snydar holds worship at 10 a m with junior catechism at 9 30 a m on Saturdays. Choir practice is Thursday evenings with Mrs Louis Klingman as pianist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Snydar
Louis Klingman
Illyria Church Service Schedule Shared
J J Snyder serves as minister and Grace Foxwell piano soloist for Illyria Church. Sunday school begins at 10 16 a m and church worship at 11 15 a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Snyder
Grace Foxwell
Tabitha Society Met at Baptist Church Meeting
The Tabitha Society held its regular monthly meeting on Thursday afternoon March 21 at the Baptist church. Amelia Wede joined the society as a member, bring the roll call to 21. The program featured Bible questions by Esther Durscher and a quartet including Metta Krueger Lena Wenger Amelia Hackmann and Marie Muehlethaler. Members sewed afterward and hostesses Frances Pinney Opal Miller and Esther Krueger served refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabitha Society
The
Baptist Church
Amelia Wede
Esther Durscher
Quarette
Metta Krueger
Lena Wenger
Amelia Hackmann
Marie Muehlethaler
Farewell to Elgin Pastor Ph Laver and Family
The Laver family bids farewell to Elgin after nearly fourteen years of service from June 14 1921 with 122 baptisms and 17 by letter. They note illness spared pulpit time, praise church growth, and highlight roles in Northwestern Conference town association and Ladies Aid.
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Elgin
Christ
Ias
Tave
Chicago
Local Notes From Postville West Union And Elgin
Local society notes list visits and gatherings including Peter M Luchsinger with a Boston Bull pup new washing machines at Fellers Hardware and family visits to Elkader West Union Cedar Falls and Oelwein Also Upper Iowa University spring vacation and farmers facing muddy roads as a prompt for a farm to market idea
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feller’s Hardware
West Elgin
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William Weibel
Ames
A. M. Weibel
L. S. Hutchinson
Leo
McGregor
F. R. Berg
Waterloo
Mrs. Berg
Ed Anderson
Kathryn Strauch
C. B. Schori
Carrie Whitney
Fayette
Schori
Paul Liddle
MelIntyre
Melvin Olson
Postville
K. E. Mark
Erma Grether
Raschel Helms
Hans Grether
Fred Gehring
West Union
Hazel
Hattie McKellar
Bridge
Floyd Harvey
H. §. Steele
Betty
Steele
Betty Huhter
Benson
F. L. Sires
Mra. Sires
Nashua
Mra. F
Reuben Mark
Elkader
H. L. Weide
Guttenberg
Ed Fehey
Harriet, Peterson
Jeanette Lindaman
Aplington
O. W. Krueger
Ruth
Steamboat Rock
Harry John JSON
John Falk
Strawberry Point
Fred Smith
L. D. Smith
Lorenz Schatz
Dena Dummermuth
Herbert Dummermuth
Rochester
Minn
Walter Dummermuth
W. F. Kohler
Elgin State Bank
Walter W. Dummermuth
Mayo Clinic
Coronel Rothlisberger
Margaret Young
Cedar Rapids
ES. T. C
W. 8. Rothlisberger
Yria
Marie Schupbach
Cada
Monarch Wheat
Monarch
Kohler Elgin, Iowa
Rollin
Coats & Suits
Elgin Baptist Church
Ph. Lauer
Lutheran Church Notes
St. Paul’s M. E. Church
Illyria Church
John Barnhouse
Lew Gruver
Ph. Laver
Peter M. Luchsinger
Boston
W. ©. Falk
A. J. Philips
Mrs. Alden
Guy House
Mrs
Reuben Mork
Near Elkader
K. EB. Mork
Will Rogers
Helene Scholz
Harry Bennett
Oelwein
Peter Luchsinger
Wm. F. Miller
Des Moines
Louise Evans
Lillian Nelson
Ethel Luchsinger
Elmer Grover
Harry Baldwin
H.W. Falk
Herbert
Albert Dummermuth
W. W. Dummermuth
Herbert Dummermouth
Upper Iowa University
Fred Lauer
Lewis Thoma
Robert Steele
Echo
Elgin Furniture Store
Elgin, Iowa
Elgin Echo News
Iowa
Stuart Cleanaar
Stuart
Marx Shoma
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