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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1939
Page
6
The Elgin area notes a flurry of weekend activity with Roberta Mosby visiting in West Union, Bess Stohr and Betty Crowell traveling to Cedar Rapids and Cedar Falls, and many others visiting relatives in Elkader, Waterloo, Postville, Oelwein, Fayette, and Anamosa. Several locals attend church events, bridge prizes are awarded, and a group drives to Chicago for family visits while members mark birthdays and share paper subscriptions.
St Pauls Church announces Sunday worship at 10, Sunday school at 11, March 30 Ladies Aid divisions with a lunch host home Mrs Falk and others at Clermont. Pre Easter services in the Methodist church at 7 30 each evening the week of April 3. No Epworth League. Good Friday union service at Baptist 1 30 to 3, Methodist Sacramental service 7 30 p m.
Paul F. Zoschke is pastor with Lillian Schroeder as organist. Sunday school at 11. Church dinner. Church session and junior meeting at 2. Women’s Missionary Society at Em. No prayer service Wednesday. Special communion Thursday April 6 at 8 p.m. Union service Friday April 7 at 11:90 to $:00 in our church.
Lutheran Church in Fayette hosts April 2 English communion at 11 o'clock with Marion at 2 p m Luther League invites all to attend. Local visitors include O W Bauder Decorah T W Dean Geo N Schori and Maude Brown Bloomington Wis with daughter Mrs Milton Miller. Mrs A C McNeil returns to Waukegan Ill after visit with J B Miller. Real estate transfers list Bery l Boleyns purchase of farm east of Fayette about 83 acres.
Mrs Ella Kerr born January 12 1857 in Highland Township Clayton County died March 20 1939 at St Francis Hospital Waterloo after fifteen weeks illness. Survived by five children Lulu Rothlisberger Will Kerr Lydia Patterson and Elmer Malkow nineteen grandchildren four great grandchildren and one sister Hattie Gordon. Funeral services were held March 23 at Kearns Chapel Waterloo and Wyaria church with burial in Clyria Cemetery. Her life centered on family church and community service in the First M E Church and Deborah Society.
A light-hearted notice recalls a couple’s quick wedding after a brief engagement, with a kiss and sigh signaling their union. The item highlights a simple, cheerful ceremony and the happiness of the newly joined pair.
Illyria farm women hosted four teen guests for a Progressive Home Study Club meeting on Tuesday March 14. Papers on operas were read by Rothlisberger sisters. lessons on child development and homemade drums were discussed. a lunch followed and the group planned to meet April 11. Special notes cover Villa Louis opening dates, courtesy driving, and a county relief stop after April 1 with calls for workers.
The text notes a police raid on poker players at Hawkeye and mentions the radio premiere of Ring Around the Moon by August Scheel. It also includes remarks on health myths about eating, new tractors with features, a loss of five horses near St. Lucas, a highway relocation plan in Fayette, and attendance at the Iowa Press Association meeting in Des Moines with multiple publishers listed.
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