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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1957
Page
5
Sumner eleven dominated Valley High Tigers with a strong defense and efficient offense. Injuries and sickness hampered Sumner’s opponents while Calmar looms in a non conference clash on October 11 at Elgin.
Official invitations mailed to 2,178 Fayette County Farm Bureau members for the county annual meeting in Fayette on Monday evening October 14 at 7 46 in Colgrove Walker auditorium. Business includes final adoption of farm policy resolutions elections of township and county officers and progress reports.
The Progress Club met at Mrs Leo Grether home on Monday evening Oct 7 with thirteen members present. Roll call referenced neighborliness. A quiz on neighborliness was led by Mrs Harry Johnson. Names were drawn for Christmas exchange and traveling baskets to begin this week. The president announced 1958 59 program committee: Mrs Kenneth Blockhus, Mrs Clifton Wilson, Mrs Lorence Mueh lethaler, and Mrs Harry Johnson. Next meeting at Mrs Kenneth Blockhus home.
The annual 4-H Girls Mother Daughter Award Tea will be held Saturday Oct 19 at the Farm Bureau building Fayette beginning at 1 30 p m. The program includes group singing reports by four 4 H girls who attended camps the Clover leadership award and committee member recognitions.
The Tertia Club met on Monday October seventh at Mrs Wm Moore's home with Mrs Russell Wenger assisting. Seventeen members answered roll call with an unusual remedy each. An invitation was accepted to visit Town and Country Club on October twenty fourth. President Mrs Clifford Gisleson reported on the district convention. Mrs Winifred Leahy spoke on mentally retarded children. The group met again Tuesday November fifth at Mrs Otis Torkelson's home with Mrs Robert Moore assisting.
Mrs Dale DeSart and Mrs Charles Strong hosted a pink and blue shower for Mrs Robert Helms at the Methodist church parlors Friday evening with thirty five guests. After games, the guest of honor opened her many gifts.
Iowa will form a governor led Committee of 100 to study social and economic trends statewide. First 19 appointees named. executive committee will guide a broader study on rural to urban migration and residents moving to other states. The piece includes notes on university land purchases and tax policy debates.
New state fire safety rules for nursing homes are now officially part of Iowa law though not voted on. The item notes continued discussion on the last page.
The Tri Parish Reformation Festival invites the public to Valley High School auditorium Sunday October 27 at 8 00 p m. Rev S D Faulke president Waldorf College Forest City will be the speaker and headline the event genuineness of the three Lutheran communities noted locally
Dr Paul Gebauer long served in the Cameroons West Africa since 1931 with the Cameroons Baptist Mission. He received the Order of the British Empire on January 1 1957 and was decorated by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on July 23. Florence Miller born January 1925 in Benton Harbor Michigan trained at Moody Bible Institute Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary. She served as missionary in Japan and is welcomed as senior missionary to Japan at the conference.
Charles Gehring of Gehring's Hardware marks his tenth year in business with a pancake breakfast on Saturday. Free pancakes, a pancake eating contest for boys, prizes for ladies, and door prizes accompany special weekend bargains. Full details appear on another Echo page.
Reverend and Mrs Donald Caspers hosted an open house on Sunday afternoon October 6. One hundred seventy five guests viewed the parsonage improvements and the church study room. Youth Fellowship guides Glenda Wede Kathryn Knudtson Doris Meinhard Roger Howard and Curtis Gilson assisted with tours. Allyn Caspers oversaw the guest book. Craig and Roger Caspers served candy and nuts. Mrs Leo Schori Mrs Inez Brackin Mrs B Schori and Mrs Duane Schwarz presided at the tea table.
Mrs Kohls was surprised by neighbor ladies with a pound shower in the parsonage recreation room last Tuesday Oct 1. Entertainment included contests and readings, bride opened gifts, lunch served. Hostesses were Morms Guy Probert Karl Miller Kenton Edward and Edwin Krueger George Durscher Abe Habeger Clifton Miller Harold Orth John Schaer AB and Leon Jacob. Forty five ladies attended.
Herman Kohls of Waterloo died suddenly at work on Tuesday morning October. He was sixty three years old and a brother of Walter Kohls of Elgin. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Public services invite the community to a Missionary Conference with Dr Paul Gebauer speaking on Cameroon Report Friday October 11 at 8 00 p m A Saturday program for children led by Miss Florence Miller starts at 2 30 p m Sunday October 13 features Miss Florence Miller discussing Pioneering in Japan with color slides Youth Singspiration follows the evening service Local youth groups are invited.
Frieden's Market erected a new store sign last week featuring blue letters on a tan background that spans the full storefront. The front facade has also been painted tan.
Lord Leonard Heins has purchased Bud's Tavern and took possession on Monday this week. Andrew Brackin, former owner of Bud's, has owned the Gunder tavern for three years and still runs it. His plans for the future are indefinite.
Over $20,000 in building notes were sold last week from the Echo issue through Saturday evening. The notes bear 6 percent interest, run ten years, and are redeemable on demand. Both farmers and urban residents invested, with one inquiry from an investor in western Iowa to Mgr. Keith Kohler.
Sheriff Fred House announced a cooperative campaign with the Iowa Highway Patrol to tackle the secondary road accident toll. Lt. Melvin Howe said a basic plan, developed with the Iowa State Sheriffs Association and the Department of Public Safety, aims for intermittent patrols on secondary roads in seven counties, using maps of traffic and fatal crash sites to focus enforcement where it will save lives. The plan seeks to deter reckless and intoxicated drivers by unpredictable patrol timing, with details finalized at a October 4 meeting in Strawberry Point.
The Harvest and Mission program will be held at the Baptist Church on Sunday October 13 at 11 00 am with songs prayers scripture and offerings. Participants include Sharon James Linda Krueger Rita Neuman Kay Miller Abe Habeger Tommy Zurbriggen Janice Durscher Christie Thoma Dean Boleyn Janet Ja edb Sherry Miller Robert Jacob Kathy Vanderbeck Diane James Jim Zurbriggen Barbara Muehlethaler Nancy Miller Karen Krueger Patti Johnson Mark Vanderbeck Joyce Boleyn Jeff Thomas and others in a sequence of music readings and blessings.
Methodist Circle meetings are scheduled Oct 16 and Oct 17 at three homes with hostesses and program leaders listed. Members should bring gifts for Harriet Ballou day nursery, Sioux City, including T shirts, jeans, paper products, tissues, towels, plates, cups, sacks, toys, books, and more, unwrapped.
Town Clerk R. E. Kohler reported only four nomination papers filed by Tuesday’s deadline. Named were Leo L. Schori for mayor and Norris Capper, D. O. Doan, Lorence Muehlethaler for council. Incumbents Don Fauser and Sheldon Boyle did not file. Two council seats remain open for write ins.
The state highway from Wadena to primary 56 is completed and open for travel. The Mink Creek bridge and approaches are finished though approaches remain rough and drivers must slow for safety. The road cuts almost a mile from the previous route.
Sixty petit jurors have been drawn for the October term of court. Jurors from Clermont Roy Brandt Arlington Laura Burco Katie Loomis Margaret Tobar Bertha Ward from this county section will report upon further notice. Names from Wadena Clement Messerli Elgin John Durscher Herbert Haas Lillian Habeger Edward Klingman Delilah Knudtson Nelle Reusser Bess Stohr Castalia Frances Horan Lamont George Pattison.
Henry F. Harris known as Grandpa Harris reached 104 in Fort Dodge area. He has lived in the Fort Dodge region since 1894, marking a long life in the community.
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