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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1952
Page
6
A long list of local visitors, dinners, card parties, and weekend trips is recorded. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Brockway, St Paul. Dr. and Mrs. T. A. King, West Union. Mr. and Mrs. Henry McMillan. and many others from Fayette, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Milwaukee and beyond. Activities span horse shows, dinners, birthdays, and sightseeing in Wisconsin and the Black Hills.
At Elgin Baptist Church events include Women Mission Society meetings at Mrs E Elpie home and Mrs F Burrow co host. Berean Songsters rehearsal and midweek Evangel Night. Power of Faith sermon Heb 11 23 40. Dr B Blunt guest speaker Central Baptist Seminary Kangas session. Rally Day marks US contest with Dr Blunt preaching Sunday Evening Service final message.
St Olaf at 9 30 with services Marion at 11 00 West Union at 3 00 and 8 00 p m Youth rally October Marion Mission Society Mrs Palmer Halverson and Mrs Clarence Anderson will serve Come to church You are welcome at each and every service J Strandford Pastor
The Methodist Church led by Minister E. G. Steinman holds worship at 10:00 a.m. with Sunday School at 11:00 a.m. World Communion Sunday observed and a special offering for needy causes and displaced people abroad. WSCS meets today in the church parlors.
Elgin resident Marlene Mosby, a Strawberry Point teacher, spent the weekend at home. G J Mosby and Mr and Mrs C C Christ drove her back to Strawberry Point Sunday. Nearby Milwaukee area family events included Mr and Mrs Mel Kohler attending a silver wedding in Austin Minnesota for Joe Groth and family. Oregon visitors Lenth arrived at Selmer Holm's home and plans to join husband later. Glen Little family visited Waterloo for Dairy Cattle Congress with relatives. Rex Medberry and Fred Burrow hosted dinner at Max Lehman home.
Verlee Greer, two, is recovering after a tractor backed over her by her father in Westphalia Iowa. Dallas County resident A M McColl dies after long county service. A nighttime tractor ride damages corn fields and fences near Rockwell City causing $625 in losses.
The program lists a two day opening service for The Association with Rev W G Gerthe speaking in Buffalo Center on Tuesday October 7 at 8 pm Miss Eleanor Weissenburger guest speaker for Cameroons Missionary on Wednesday morning October 8 devotions by Rev Fred Lower and multiple brief sessions including sermons by Rev J Brugger Rev F Mashner and Dr Bruce Blunt with times from 9 00 am to 12 00 pm and a music and song service featured throughout.
James Q du Pont, MIT graduate and Wilmington resident, shares a personal creed in a Murrow broadcast. He asserts humanity is tough, believes in both good and evil within us, and emphasizes honesty with oneself, charitable impulses, patience, and faith in God amid life’s hardships.
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