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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1948
Page
6
Community notes detail visits and travels of residents from Ames and nearby towns. Families welcome guests from Chicago Duluth and Des Moines while members join Navy service and college groups. Local events include birthdays parties dinners and hospital visits across Postville Lawler and Elkader with many weekend trips and gatherings.
An analysis argues poetry and science share truth and both are essential, noting poets in biblical times and Jesus’ poetry in the Psalms. It highlights how hymns shaped Christian worship, the Bible’s poetry across books, and how truth set to music endures as central to faith and culture. The piece frames poetry as practical and sacred, influencing religion and everyday life.
Sunday service at 10 a.m. with Sunday school at 11 a.m. Harvest Festival offering supports Schantz family missions in Colorado and a national contest. BYU P U program at 8 p.m. Tabitha Society meets Thursday at 2 p.m. a clothing drive ends 7 p.m. junior choir Bible study and memorization follow.
Methodist Church schedules morning worship at 10 oclock with Sunday school at 11 oclock. Choir practice Thursday evening at 7 15. Youth Fellowship votes to return to two Sunday evenings a month. The next meeting is November 28 with a December 12 session. Evening service at Oelwein next Sunday features Rev Szczepkowski, Hiroshima Girls School principal during the atomic bombing, as a guest speaker.
St Olaf Lutheran Churches announce Norway service at 11 o clock and Marion service at 7 30 p m with Luther League. All welcome at each service. Dr S J Strandjord pastor.
A note of thanks expresses gratitude for food and help during illness and for cards. The text lists a long set of dinner guests and visits from local residents including Clarence Hoag Paul Ralph Blanche Hendren and Donna and many others at Ed Klingman home. Additional visits from Mabel Ishman Dale Eldon West Union and Robert Musser home are noted.
Mrs H H Wolf hosted the Batoffe Club at her home Friday evening with prizes won by Mrs Mel Kohler first and Mrs Leo Schori second. Low prizes went to Mrs Louis Klingman and Mrs Walter Falk. Mollie Schneider and Darlene Elizabeth Schneider and Mrs Ern Baumgartner and children spent Saturday in Oelwein. Mr and Mrs Edwin Frieden and family arrived Sunday at the Mrs Fanny Frieden home and will stay for now. Celia Lehman of La Porte City visited relatives and friends and is now at Floyd Frieden's home.
Martin Flynn of Leon reports ears of pop corn with numerous kernels popped in the field. Local observer notes unusually warm conditions in early reports from Iowa.
Dr. J Martin Klotsche, head of Milwaukee State Teachers College, will speak on Europe 1948 at St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran church in Postville Friday night at 8. There is no charge, but contributions for European relief are welcome. Separately, Orlan Gorsch, 26, of Marengo died by drowning after a foggy auto crash into a ditch near a bridge.
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