Elgin High School year in review and activities summary
Elgin High School activities span health tests and creative projects with students testing hearing, preparing plays, showcasing polio vaccine surveys, and celebrating LeAnna Frieden’s freshman attendant role. Seniors like LeAnna mix choir band and journalism while juniors present one acts and sports begin under Coach Kjaer with seven lettermen absent.
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Elgin High
LeAnna Frieden
LeAnna
Cherry Valley Country School
Dlags
Newaraft
U.S. Air Force
Bell Telephone Company
Polio Vaccine Survey At Elgin School Yields High Returns
Survey of 396 pupils and teachers at Elgin school shows 394 responses. Eighty five have had three shots, 141 two shots, ten one shot. Eighty five plan to begin soon while 83 show no current interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Question of the Week Encourages Polio Vaccination
Mr Zurbriggen states the polio vaccine is a major medical contribution and urges all students to get polio shots. Eloise Lantz notes she completed all three shots after her parents’ belief in their value, highlighting family influence on vaccination decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klass Romiments Special Education
Owen
Miller
Elgin
Dennis Meyer
Richard Newmann
Billy Moyle
Falk's
Judy Larson
Curtis Gilson
Betty Bennett
Kenny Klingman
Sandra Anderson
Mr. Whitworth
Mr. Zurbriggen
Eloise Lantz
Calendar of Week Highlights and Thanksgiving Menu
The Calendar lists: C E plays Aurora and Randalia for boys and girls on select dates, with Thanksgiving vacation noted for November 21 and 22. The Hot Lunch Menu covers November 19 to 21 featuring mashed potatoes, pork and beans, beef gravy, chicken, celery, carrots, cranberry relish, and milk. A note explains cornstalk pasture can supply nearly half the roughage for beef cattle.
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C-E
Aurora
Randalia
Elgin Iowa Council Proceedings September 1956 Highlights
Elgin Iowa town council met September 1956 with May or Schori and Dean absent. Minutes approved, bills audited including salaries, utility charges, fuel and repairs. A sanitary sewer system plan discussion urged waiting for Federal Aid applications. meeting adjourned to October 1, 1956.
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Elgin
Iowa
Boyle
Capper
Fauser
Muehlethaler
Schori
Dean
Mueblethaler
Orville Moore
Jacob Lehman
Fauser Oil Cs
G. Ptster
Wilbur Tractor Co
John Falk & Sons, Batte and Repairs
Iowa Public Employees Retirement System
Towa Employment Security
Internal Revenue
Waterworks Fund
O. Dean
Reuten L. Schupbach
John M. Tillotson
Nee Interstate Power Co
Arwell, Inc
Interstate Power Co
Hall and Park
Chas
O'Neill
Max Thoma
R. E. Kohler
Ladies' Cemetery Assn
Public Safety Fund
Philip Moser
Councilman
Sanitary Sewer Aid Delayed. Meeting Adjourned to Nov 5
Town council discusses federal aid for a proposed sanitary sewer system but finds applications still not submitted. By motion of Fauser and seconded by Boyle, the meeting adjourns to November 5, 1956. Several local birthday celebrations and visits are noted, including Sandra Martin Victor Kupfer and Mrs Lyié Martin.
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Elgin Furniture Store
P. A
State Dept. F of Health
Boyle
Capper
R. E. Kohler
Igin Canning Co
Mueblethaler
Fauser
RE. Korler
Sandra
Sharon Martin
Victor Kuepker
Lyié Martin
Melvin Hanson
Lyle
Martin
Jeri
Mickey
Robert Hanson
Darrell
Gary Alber
West Union
Beverly Benson
Independence
Social rounds in Brainard area families documented
The Brainard News lists numerous social visits across Waterloo Clermont Hawkeye and West Union. Guests include the Feiler Peters Boyer Patterson and Gehring families with weeks of dinners, overnights, and Sunday gatherings as residents host and visit in homes from Tuesday through Sunday.
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Harry Feiler
Harvey Howard
Joe Peters
Dick Henry
Mark
Julia Boyer
Waterloo
Boyer
John Barnhouse
Clermont
Billy Peters
Cindy
Geo. Pape
Wilson Patterson
Don Reeder
Sidney Patterson
The
Missionary Society
A. G. van Nordstrand
Hawkeye
Ed Fenner
West Union Hospital
Lawrence Gehring
Lois Clark
Barbara
Marian Pritchard
Richard Kohls
Glen Boyer
Ron Bantz
Rhonda
Lyle Martin
Janet
Thomas Meighan
George Butikofer
Glenn Boyer
M. A. Boyer
Forrest Witcher
Linda
LaVerne
Don Reeder and
Vern Boyer
West Union
Ray Gilbert
Jeri
Mickey
Irvin ‘Kuepker
Victor
Sumner
Jorris Martin
Week in Volga social and church notices
Volga residents host guests and attend church events as the community shares meals visits and meetings. Activities include St Paul Lutheran Tades Aid gathering with 15 members and 4 visitors, St Paul Luther League officer elections, a Methodist Church bazaar on Nov 15, and multiple visits among families from Cedar Rapids Ames and Elkader with meals and hospitality extending through the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Nus
Hulda ‘Nus
Fred Gernand
Walter Boys
Oaklin Probert
Gary Jellings
Art Staack
Clear Lake
Tom Robinson
Ames
Lera Robinson
Lucille Moore
Bud Moore
Cedar Rapids
Harold Light
West Union
Lyle Tennings
St. Paul Lutheran
Treas
Methodist Church
Oscar Lamphier
University Hospital
Iowa City
Gerald Nestady
Elkader
D. J. Crain
Center Junction
Kenneth Smith home help noted in birth notice
Report of assistance seen at the Kenneth Smith residence with Mr. and Mrs. Smith acknowledged as the parents of a son, D. J., born on October 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth ‘Smith
Mrs. Smith
D. J
St Olaf and Gunder Lutheran Church Notices
Bruce Boyce, pastor, lists events for St Olaf and Gunder Lutheran Churches. Activities include Sunday school teachers meeting at chapel, Marion choir rehearsal, confirmation classes at Norway and Marion churches, Dorcas Society meeting, Holy Communion and Sunday school services, open house for Mr and Mrs Oscar Olson's golden wedding anniversary, and a family night at Marion.
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Bruce Boyce
Bergan Ladies’ Aid
Norway Church
St. Olaf
Norway
Chapel
Marion
Marion Church
Marion Dorcas Society
St. Olaf Chapel
Oscar Olson
Mar
Thanksgiving services and Lutheran World Relief drive
Glerfiont invites Norway church attendees to hear Atty. Artfult Jacobson of Waukon on Thursday November 22 at 9:00 a.m. Thanksgiving service at Norway church scheduled for 10:30. A similar service at Marion church runs November 18 through 23. Clothing drive supported by Lutheran World Relief accepts donations at Marion and Norway churches and the St Olaf chapel.
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R Ion
Glerfiont
Igin Ang
Norway Church
Arftult Jacobson
Waukon
Marion Church
Lutheran World Relief
Marsion
Norway
St. Olaf Chapel
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Tiger Tales
Poyo
Ted Kjaer
Kjaer
Tiger
Upper Iowa
Jim , Hanson
Elliott Olson
Tigers
Mrs. Moore
Martha Schaer
Harlan Bilden
Connie Dummermuth
Cat
Larry Halverson
Youngberg
Barbara Gibbs
Merlin Butikofer
Alexander
She Li
Amy
Council Proceedings
General Fond
Helen M. Bauer
Hall and Park Lights
Elgin Echo
Bris Meinhard Hardware
F. D. Welch
Town Hall
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Chas. O'Neill
Ae Thoma
R E Kohler
D. O. Dean
Je Pfister
Jjacob Lehman
Fauser Oil Co
W.S. Darley & Co
Utilities Fund
Brainard News
St. Olaf and Gunder Lutheran
Paul N. Moser
Postville
L. R. Tappan
Optometrist
E. R. Withell
D. C. Chiropractor
K-ray
State Bank
Elkader, Te
M. F. Schlein
Oak Drive
Huebner Corner
Louis Schutte & Son
Clermont and
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