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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1956
Page
6
Social notes detail birthday celebrations and visits across Oelwein Waterloo Custer Cedar Rapids and Clinton. Relatives including Schoentags Capper Gehring Grimm and Dennler share dinners trips and weekend stays with extended family and friends in Iowa Illinois and beyond, highlighting community ties and local travel.
Minister E G Steinman leads worship at 10 00 a m with Sunday school at 11 00 a m Youth Fellowship Sunday at 730 p m Holy Communion observed and a special offering for needy causes Choir rehearsal Thursday at 730 p m WSCS meets Thursday at 200 p m hosting guests Rev and Mrs Walter Dimmlich Arlington on program
Parish notes for Elgin and Highland Lutheran Churches outline upcoming activities. Junior choir practice, Sunday school teacher courses, confirmation class, rally day, and Divine worship are scheduled with details for Elgin and Highland locations. Luther League fall circuit convention is noted for October 6-7 at Glenwood Lutheran Church near Decorah.
The Friendly Church With the Living Message invites attendance by Pastor John Vanderbeck. Thursday events include Hour of Power at 8:00 p m, choir practice at 9:00 p m, morning worship at 10:00 a m, Sunday school at 11:00 a m, fellowship dinner at 12:00 noon, board meetings at 1:00 p m, and Gospel hour at 2:00 p m. An 8:00 p m special musical program features Fayette County Women's Chorus. Thought for the week notes that many appear hard boiled but are only half baked.
St Olaf and Gunder Lutheran Churches list a busy week of services, classes, and meetings led by Pastor Bruce Boyce. Key items include Smorgasbord on Thursday, Oct 4 at 3 30 pm, deacons meet Friday, and confirmation class Saturday at Circuit Luther League within Decorah and Glenwood Church. Choir rehearsals, Sunday worship, and Sunday school are scheduled across Nor way Church St Olaf Chapel Marion Church and related venues. Local families Milo and Ray Jacobia visit Norman Haisch in Chapin.
Mr and Mrs Marvin Perry entertained at dinner Sunday to observe Mrs Harley Jones and Cynthia Perry birthdays with guests including Harley Jones the Dubuque Mrs Edgar Ford Debbie William and the Sam Howard family Alpha and Ed Boleyn and Vonda Also Bertha Lehman Lyle Leath Anna Schupbach Deb Wenger and Jacob Friederich visited Harold Meisner home Melvin Larson Elkader and Lawrence Lerch Fairbank families visited Sunday CARD OF THANKS messages express gratitude for flowers gifts cards hospital visits and support to various individuals including Mrs Walterg Med iberry Leo L Schori Bur well Blockhus and Mrs Fanny Frieden and David Boleyn.
Mr and Mrs H D Yack returned home Monday from a trip with their son Virtus and family in Excelsior Springs Missouri They attended the National Shrine parade in Kansas City and toured Springfield Missouri visiting Mrs Yacks sister Mrs Tim McGregor and husband Other relatives and friends from Clinton St Joseph Postville Rochester Decorah and St Olaf visited or were seen at various gatherings including a funeral service for John Swingle A note discusses farm injuries in Iowa and care of clothing and footwear standards for field workers.
A Pomona California minister was involved in a vehicle collision with a pair of cows near De Witt. He dodged the first cow crossing the road but struck the second, causing extensive damage to the right front end of his car.
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