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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1937
Page
6
Elgin residents share a weekend of visiting kin in Cedar Rapids and Ames while others host guests. A Cedar Rapids guest visits Ed Bauder and families. Miss Mauke and relatives stay with Evans. Locals tour Cedar Falls and Long Beach with relatives. rhubarb harvest noted as prime.
Clarence Becker of Valley Junction spent the weekend here with his mother Mrs. Alice Becker and relatives. Visitors in Dehve on Monday included Mr and Mrs Sam Lehman and Mrs Hugh Casper with Mrs Lehman seeking an eye specialist. The Benson house now occupied by the G J Mosby family was reshingled this week. Mary Goetz and Gladys Gulsvig of Postville spent the weekend with LeRoy and Miss LeRoy Larson at McGregor. Tola Feller will graduate this spring and teach at Albion Iowa. Chas Habeger returns from Eureka California to Elgin to help on the farm. Gladys and Bud Sorenson brought Mrs Elmer Pinney Jr and Phyllis home after Rochester visit for a skin exam. Irma Redwinkle and others returned to Rochester with them.
May 9 Marion 9 o clock Norse services Norway 11 English services St Olaf Chapel 7 30 Luther League May 16 Marion 9 18 English Pentecost Norway 11 English Pentecost May 23 Norway 9 15 Norse service Marion 8 Luther League You are welcome at each service Pastor J Strandjord invites the community to attend.
Elgin Baptist Church announces Sunday morning worship at 10 o clock and Sunday school at 11 o clock with an evening service at 7 45. B Y P U and Mother's Day program planned. Wednesday May 12 features prayer services at 8 p m and choir rehearsal at 9 p m with Paul F Zoschke pastor and Lillian Jacobs organist listed.
Minister J. Snyder and pianist Grace Foxwell invite worshipers to Illyria Church for a special Mother's Day service next Sabbath with Sunday school at 10 15 a m and church worship at 11 15 a m Baptism and reception of members will be offered during the service.
St Pauls M E Church announces Sunday services at 10 a m with Sunday school at 11 a m J J Snyder minister R Jorgenson pianist The evening program features living pictures illustrating motherhood with as many as four generations depicted by local families Mrs Fred Schaer Mrs Guy Probert Mrs Otto Krueger Mrs B J Baumgartner Mrs Abe Habeger and others Gladys Yearous leads program arrangements Alfred Baechler presides and leads devotionals The public is invited
Elgin watches in natural gold cases priced from 12 50 to 21 00 plus factory rebuilt Elgins with new guarantee also offered. Gift items include watches compacts rings bracelets pearls fountain pens and more. Store touts mail order match and quick delivery with no obligation. Carnations for Mother’s Day available at Elgin Furniture Store. Mrs H B Moore and daughters Janet Judy and Ruby Olson visiting Ed Bauder home near West Union. See the Gibson refrigerator with magic freezer shelf at Feller’s Hardware Elgin. 36tfe
A letter from E J Halverson to R P Strauch of Elin Iowa suggests a fire department fundraiser, the Fireman's Ball, to boost dues and fund equipment. It explains a local mutual fire insurer with low rates, paying volunteers 25 dollars for runs, and notes other towns adopting the idea. He reports a growing surplus and urge adoption, with seasonal spring delays.
Des Moines makers, disabled World War veterans, craft crepe paper poppies for Elgin Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary. The flowers, replicas of French and Flemish poppies, will be distributed city wide on Poppy Day May 29. Veterans receive little government pay and most workers have dependent families.
The new fishing and game laws are in effect allowing catches of trout suckers redhorse carp buffalo quillback bullheads gar dogfish and catfish in inland waters except closed artificial lakes Catfish may be taken only in May with June closed for spawning The season runs July 1 to November 30 and trot and throw lines require shore attachment and constant angler supervision Also notes illness of Mrs Emil Snyder and a dinner visit by Mr and Mrs John Neuenschwander and son Donald of Payette to Albert Schori’s home
The Progress Club met at Betty Kohler’s home for a pot luck supper and a theatre party at Postville. Sixteen of nineteen members attended the year’s last meeting. Mrs. Sam Lehman has been ill. Ula Boleyn helps with housework at the Follett home this week. June first marks homestead tax exemption deadline with no extension or refunds.
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