Social notes and visits in Elgin and surrounding towns
A long list of visitors and family gatherings in Decorah, Diyria, Muscatine, Chicago, Des Moines, and nearby towns is recorded. Residents including Samuel Mosby, Marie, Celia Lehman, Clarence Kohls, Edward Kroger, Niles Hogan, Walter Kohls, Sheldon Boyle, Art Earle, Anna Cox, Verle Kniel, Frank Gehring, Lubben family, Amos Wempen, Louise Nevuenswander, Bert Allen, Zella Boyle, Ruth Mosby, and others are noted for weekend visits, illness, town events, and community activities. Marriages and divorces are mentioned in passing along with local booster activities and improvements to Elgin creamery grounds and nearby property developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Mosby
Marie
Decorah
Celia Lehman
Kniel
Verle
Frank Gehring
Fred Gehring
Lub ‘Lubben
Amos Wempen
Buffalo Center
Ervin Miller
Clermont
Zella Boyle
Louise Nevuenswander
Non
Charles
Castalig
Bert Allen
Capper’s Hatchery
American ‘Weekly
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Harry Nicklaus
Chicago
C. W. Nicklaus
Des Moines
Elgin
Rand
Nicklaus
Hanson
Oelwein Boosters
Ocelwein
Baptist Church Notes May Events and Meetings
Baptist church notes list covenant meeting and choir rehearsals on May 4 and 7, communion at 10 a.m., Sunday school at 11, church dinner at 12 15, table serving committee names, junior meeting at 12 45, English service at 2, Ladies Aid Society meeting May 10, prayer meetings May 11, and a state Sunday school convention report from Independence with a community chorus of 80 voices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Buser
Mary Haas
Anna Heck
Louise Miller
George Durscher
Richard Kruger
Edna Miller
Esther Durscher
Metta Buser
Independence
M. E. Church Notes and Schedule
The M. E. Church lists J J Snyder as minister and Mrs Louis Klingman at the piano. Worship at 10 a m, church school 11 a m. Choir practice Thursday 7 80 p m. Women’s Foreign Missionary Society meets at Mrs Chas Feller’s on Wednesday afternoon May 10. Bible class with Mrs N M Fritz Friday afternoon May 5. Official board meets next Monday at 8 p m to discuss matters before the Fourth Quarterly conference on May 16. Conference year ends June 30 with full financial report due.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Snyder
Louis Klingman
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
Chas, Feller
N. M. Fritz
Illyria Church Sets Recreation and Christian Day
Illyria Church notes Sunday school at 10 15 a m and worship at 11 15 a m. Congregation votes to hold a recreation day on June 16 followed by an all church day on Sunday June 18 with committees posted by the general committee secretary. There is call for greater cooperation to ensure success and a critique of worldly distractions amid depression.
School Awards And Activities Reported In District Notes
Absent students and high scores mark a district report detailing primary and grammar room arithmetic and spelling achievements. Grade summaries include 97.4 percent sixth grade average and 90.8 percent fifth grade average, with standout performers in several classes and a high school plant outlay and upcoming events.
Decorah and Cresco Dominate At Cresco Event
At Cresco on Saturday Decorah and Cresco captured most honors as the only schools with contestants in all four divisions. Elgin participated strongly with higher rates than in past years. Ruby Boyle scored 95 in the amateur shorthand contest and Elgin’s novice typing team took second place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cresco
Decorah
Elgin
Ruby Boyle
Walter Falk Heads for Cities on Weeklong Business
Walter Falk left Monday for Dubuque Chicago and Detroit on business and will be away the rest of the week. Walter Kohler joined him to Chicago to visit relatives for a few days. In Elgin only the Hadsel building ground floor remains empty once home to Mrs Teales beauty shop. E M Hong R A Crider and Earl Kiple drove the Little German Band to Knoxville last Friday for a veterans hospital engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Hanson
Ochwein
Tile
Hanson
Jack Hogan
Chicago
Howard Boyle
Sheldon Boyle
Lena Retz
Arlington
Clarence
Viola Craft
Aurora
George Vaughn
Rose Bauman
Oklahoma
Kansas
Marshall Helms
Wolves
Ph. Lauer
Frederick
Louis Lehman
Elgin Creamery
Myr
Koevenig
Jimmy
Phyllis Kobler
Postville
Elgin
Phyllis Kohler
J. J. Marten
Kohler
Baumgartner
Walter Falk
Dubuque
Detroit
Walter Kohler
Hadsel
Earl Kiple
Knoxville
Veterans’ Hospital
Guttenberg resident L L Kiple visits on business
L L Kiple of Guttenberg spent a few hours here on Monday on business matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. L. Kiple
Guttenberg
Decorah circuit meeting in Marion May 6 details
Lutheran notes announce a Decorah circuit meeting in Marion on May 6 with attendance planned. The sermon invites all to attend services for the bread of life and welcomes everyone, signed Pastor J. Strandford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Nomyay
Elgin Primary Students Bridget 100 Percent Spellers
In Elgin, second graders Betty Strauch Anna Schupbach Otis Torkelson Alice Becker and Lois Miller earned 100 percent in spelling on Friday. First graders Helen Hovg Ruth Moellerman and Helen Pfister Harald Pfister also achieved perfect spelling Friday. We made May baskets last week as pink eye epidemic spread in our room causing several absences including Anne Schupach Verlie Bailey and Alfred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Strauch
Anna Schupbach
Otis Torkelson
Alice Becker
Lois Miller
Helen Hovg
Ruth Moellerman
Helen
Harald Pfister
Anne Schupbach
Verlie Bailey
Alfred
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Es Ih
Kohler’s
Monarch Coffee
Monarch
Monarch Kraut
Monarch Chocolate
Monarch Soda
Roglens Ae
Baptist Church
M. E. Church Notes
Illyria
la Fonda Shaffer
Verna Groth
Leon Loftegard
Memers
Ethel ‘Rnoman
Margaret Crider
Lewis Carter
Betty Elkema
Lois Burrow
Ardis Groth
Ronald Hoag
Elmer Hong
Merriel Johnson
Elmer Hoag
Bessia Grimm
Robert Kobler
Maxine Hunsberger
Pauline Boleyn
Lillian Nelson
Doyle Bennett
Marie Grimm
Violet Miller
Helen Muehlethaler
Louise Baumgartner
Junior Schupbach
Helena Boleyn
Lois Dean
Virtus Yack
Robert Kohler
Arnold Johnson
Alma Grimes
Darlene Yearous
Evans’ Iga
IGA
IGA Coffee
Ehesse
Ces
Oxfords
Happy Vale
Stuart
V. C
Max Thoma
Elgin, Iowa
Lutheran Church Notes
J. Strandford
Lowa Brothers
Lowe Brothers
Stoehr Drug CO
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