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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1938
Page
6
Elgin residents hosted and visited with relatives and neighbors across the area. The column lists numerous callers from Arlington Sumner Muscatine Postville Cedar Falls and Des Moines, plus local gatherings, clubs, and a surprise birthday party at the Krueger home.
Minister J Z Snyder leads at Grace Foxwell plays piano. Sunday school at 10 15 a m followed by church worship at 11 15 a m.
Elgin Baptist Church shares services led by Pastor Paul F Zoschke with Lillian Schroeder as organist. Sunday worship and communion at 10. Sunday school at 11. Business meeting at 2. Wednesday April 6 Women’s Missionary Society at 2. Prayer service at 8. Stereopticon pictures and choir rehearsal at 9.
St Pauls M E Church with J J Snyder as minister and Winifred McMillan as pianist holds worship at 10 am and Sunday school at 11 am. Ladies Aid Society divisions meet Thursday at three homes Thos Knudtson M V Kiple and Ray DeSart with lunch and hostess help. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meets April 6 at Mrs J L Appelman in Clermont.
The Lutheran notes list April services at St Olaf Chapel and Norway with English and Norse services including Palm Sunday Holy Thursday Good Friday and Easter. Times are 9 11 7 30 etc. Come to church you are welcome at each service. Dr. Strandford, Pastor.
Misses Davis Dunkle and Steinmetz spent the weekend in Waterloo. Gene Habeger visited the Wm. B. Miller home near Clermont. Mrs. Wm. Ewing of Postville visited her parents. Lea Baldwin of Fayette stayed with her sister Mrs. Will Pritchard. Walter Pritchard of Marquette visited his parents this week. R. P. Strauch Elgin Tom Powell and W. H. Beall of West Union drove to Waterloo on business. Mrs. Walter Pritchard and her three youngest children joined the Will Pritchard home supper. Dr. and Mrs. S. W. Kuster spent the weekend with their daughter in Eagle Grove. Mary Skarshaug came from Cedar Rapids for an indefinite visit with Mr. and Mrs. Eri Bauder and relatives. John Luehsinger, Lester, Ted Neumann, John Frietag and Thomas Kerr were supper guests at the Peter Luchsinger home. Tom Lien, Mrs. Silas Hatlestad, Donna and Donald, and Mrs. Carl Knutson of LeRoy, Minn., attended dinner at the E. Q. O. Lien home. Mrs. Carl Knutson and Mrs. Silas Hatlestad and twins Donna and Donald, plus Clarise Lien and Velma Thorson, called on Nelvin Loftsgard and Alphia Thorson. A truckload of shingles was seen at Schori & Easter Lumber yard, bound for the Eddie Hanson farm southeast of Elgin for re-shingling. Emma Reusser and son Eley arrived home from wintering in Bloomfield and Middletown. son-in-law W. D. Siems brought them from Middletown.
Library notes discuss Elizabeth Foreman Lewis's Ho-Ming Girl of New China and Amy Steedman's When They Were Children. Ho-Ming's tale of a Chinese girl at twelve blends tradition with modern ideas via Wei Doctor, illustrated by Kurt Wiese. The piece promotes these works for both adults and young readers and lists notable figures featured in Steedman's book.
Five girls were initiated into the Oelwein Rainbow assembly Saturday evening. Supt and Mrs D R Roberts welcome a new nine pound daughter, Mary Kathryn, born Tuesday morning March 29 at their home. Mrs Sarah Marshall of Stanley visits and cares for mother and baby. Neighbors from LeRoy Minnesota and local families visited Clifford Kittleson home Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Fred Rothlisberger were callers in the Mrs N M Fritz home Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Wm Boyle and family were dinner guests in the home of her parents Mr and Mrs John Johnson on Sunday.
Mrs. Thos. Knudtson entertained a party of ladies at a quilting gathering Friday afternoon. Keith Thoma returned to Ames last Thursday to resume school duties after a spring vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max Thoma.
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