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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1952
Page
6
A parade of visits fills weekend social pages as locals host relatives and friends from West Union Postville Clermont and Cedar Rapids. Evelyn Miller enters Wheaton College Ill as a junior, while others tour Manson Decorah and Wauneka Wisconsin.
A sequence of social visits spans Wisconsin and Iowa towns. Henry Peterson in La Crosse hospital receives calls from Hanson and Peterson families. Barbra Louise Hanson baptized at Mason City. Guests include Reuben Hall Clinton and Robert Prestley Clinton. Janesville visitors Law rence Etter and Freida Etter join at dinners. More gatherings involve Meinhard, Schori, Anderson, Wolf, Cooney Construction crew, and weekend hosts in Parkersburg, Oelwein, Fayette, and Guttenberg.
Cpl. Douglas K. Guyer returns home from Korea for a 30 day leave, staying with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Guyer in Elgin while awaiting reassignment to Fort Custer. Navy notes include Robert Hanson in Kodiak awaiting a November homecoming and Jack Hanson aboard the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt maneuvering off Norway and Denmark. Robert E. Moore transfers to Eniwetok? Jima for 14 weeks of code school, with new APO address. a typesetting error is corrected for Burdette L. Anderson.
E G Steinman minister leads worship at 10:00 a m on Sunday with Sunday school at 11:00 a m and Youth Fellowship at 7 30 p m the following Monday evening scheduled as announced by the church authorities.
St Olaf Lutheran Churches announce October 12 services in Marion at 9 30 a m with no service in Norway at 11 a m. An evening service will be led by the Marion and Norway Leagues at 8 p m. J Strandford, Pastor invites all to attend and welcomes everyone to each service.
The Tabitha Society will meet next Thursday afternoon October 16 at the Baptist church. Devotions from Hebrews the book of the month, Ruth Jacob music by Mrs Arthur Ittermann, paper The Bible the Source of Our Faith by Mrs Esther Oelberg. Hostesses will be Gladys Hackmann Lorraine Krueger Metta Krueger and Mary Kohls.
The Lutheran Ladies Aid will gather Thursday October 16 at the home of Mrs Belva Snyder with co hosts Mrs Lawrence West and Mrs Mervin Hunsberger. Program chairman is Mrs Roy Leuchtenmacher.
Mrs Earl Kiple and Mrs Fred Burrow hosted the Baptist Missionary Society last Thursday at the former’s home. The program included devotions by Mrs Arthur Itterman, a season of prayer on missions by Dr Arthur Ittermann, a song by Anna Heck, poems by Edna Miller and Mrs Alf Wenger, a poem read by Mrs Farl Kiple, and lunch was served.
Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Wolf attended the Longines Symphonette concert at Coe College last Wednesday evening and visited with their son Howard in Iowa City during the afternoon.
Fall plan to sell aging hens and replace with an all pullet flock to nearly eradicate tuberculosis in local poultry. The program advises farmers to rotate stock and monitor for disease while boosting biosecurity.
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