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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1950
Page
8
A rural church gathering notes Sunday school at 10 15 a m and morning worship at 11 18. Guests include the Carl and Son families from Portland Ore and Will Deerhammer party from Oelwein. Numerous local families hosted and exchanged visits across Cedar Falls Dubuque and Fayette regions.
The Marion Dorcas Society will gather Saturday November 21 at the church parlors with hostesses Mrs Otto Gisleson Mrs Louis Kjosa Mrs Selma Groth and Mrs Harold Landagard. A long list of local families attended meals and visits around birthdays and Sunday dinners including the Mork Anderson Reier son and Loftegard households and others connected to Postville Decorah and Owatonna.
The John Christen family visited Sunday in the Hattie Duff home at Volga and called at the Will Smith home. Sam Yost, Andy Bracker, and Mary Eggiman were dinner guests Monday in the John Dennler home. Esther Bracker, Andy Bracker, and Miss Eggiman visited Bert Thoman on Wednesday. The Archie Howard family were dinner guests Sunday in the Martin Hanson home, with Kenneth Otterbeck of Strawberry Point a dinner guest Sunday in the John Dennler home.
Names of residents and visitors across Fayette and surrounding towns appear in a Sunday guest list. Persons from Elkader Oelwein Des Moines and Farmersburg attended and shared meals, with several stopping by Friederich, Butikofer, Christen and Dennler households. A hospital check up in Iowa City and a Drake Bradley football game visit are noted.
The Charlton Looby family dined with Harold Dennler and later visited Elmer Lembke. Ela Falk and Waterolo granddaughter stayed with Louise Gehring, while Henry and Edward Larson families vacationed with John Lancaster in Glen Haven. The Richard Lambert family visited Sycamore and Derry Rubens. Wadena basketball rosters list Bob Bond Loren Everett Eddie Jellings Dale Patterson Joe Schimk Ben Ainsworth Carl Cousins Gary Jellings Jack
Wadena lists a full boys and girls basketball schedule with games from November to February at multiple sites including Volga Alpha Fayette and Arlington. The note also covers grades one to two Pilgrim unit costumes, spelling bee winners, a seventh and eighth grade Halloween party, and classrooms studying Armistice Day, farming and grazing, plus the civics judicial unit.
Mr and Mrs Harry Johnson near Osage escaped injury when their car struck a gravel track on a narrow Osage river bridge. The impact pushed the car halfway off the bridge but the guard rails bent yet held, stopping a 25 foot plunge into the water.
At Dysart, Mr. and Mrs. Chas Stahr will observe their 60th wedding anniversary on November B. The event honors a long marriage with family gathering planned in the small-town community.
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