Elgin Community Notables Journeys and Visits Reported
Local residents travel to Decorah Harmony Chicago and Cedar Rapids visiting relatives and friends. Families with IO and Evans households, Mrs Miller confined by hand infection, Delberts Berndt Clothier return from vacation, multiple visits to Waterloo Clermont Oak Park and Monte, while football fans attend Town Colgate game. preparations and social calls noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Boleyn
Barbara Kay
Roy Steele
Decorah
Floyd’ Harvey
N. W. Evans
Gus Boyer
Fayette
Kenneth Evans
Richard Miller
G. J. Mosby
Samuel Mosby
Pittsburg
H. W. Wedel
Oak Park
Paul Gebauer
Africa
Hlyria Church Service Schedule Promoted
J.J. Snyder serves as minister and Grace Foxwell accompanies on piano. Sunday school begins at 10 15 a m and church worship at 11 16 a m with orderly service timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.J. Snyder
Grace Foxwell
St Pauls M E Church Announces Oct 18 Conference
St Pauls M E Church with Minister J J Snyder and pianist Mrs Louis Klingman invites worship at 10 am Sunday, 11 am Sunday school. Dr Travis will conduct the first quarterly conference Friday evening Oct 18 at 8 pm. all official members urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Snyder
Louis Klingman
Travis
Elgin Baptist Church Announces Summer Worship Schedule
Elgin Baptist Church under Pastor Paul I. Zosehke and organist Lillian Jacobs invites worshipers to Sunday service at 100 o clock Sunday school at 11 o clock summer service at 2 30 p m and evening service at 7 46 o clock nightly services for two weeks at 8 o clock Evangelist Rev Eckhardt Umbach to speak at each service Topics listed on page 1 1 ou are cordially invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul I. Zosehke
Lillian Jacobs
Eckhardt Umbach
Lutheran Church Notes October Services Schedule
October 20 Marion service at 10 o clock Norse services Marion 12 o clock dinner by Dareas Society First Lutheran 2 30 St Olaf Chapel 7 30 Luther League October 27 Norway 10 30 Mission Festival Rev T A Hoff festival speaker St Olaf Ladies Aid serves supper Oct 18 Come to church You are welcome at each and every service 5S J Strandford Pastor
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Dareas Society
First Lutheran
St. Olaf Chapel
Luther League
Norway
Mission
T. A. Hoff
St. Olaf Ladies’ Aid
J. Strandford
We Are Friends Boys and Pony Front Page Feature
A front page Sunday school poem features Norton, Clifford, and Robert Olsen with their pony in Iowa. Their uncle Glen Sehari noticed the photo during a July visit and granted permission to enlarge it for publication by Covenant Book Concern of Chicago. The Olsen boys are sons of Edward and a grandson of Geo. N. Schori.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brothers
Pony
Norton
Clifford
Robert Olsen
Our Covenant Taide Police
Glen Sehari
Chris
Reunion hints at long journeys and hometown ties
Adolph Koevenig of Hill City, S. D., arrived in Postville for a weeklong visit with his parents and old friends, marking his first return home in years. He recalls a tourist camp past, now serving as Hill City postmaster, while noting changes and the enduring value of familiar faces. In Elgin, Mr. Keavenig managed his mother-in-law’s property as families from Waterloo and Elgin visited local relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echo Office
Edwin Anderson
Frederick
Waterloo
Fred R. Berg
Helen Schulz
Helen Wegner
Elgin
Edna Scholz
Werner
Postville
J. A. Koevenig
Adolph
Dakota
Hill City
West Country
Postville Herald
Keavenig
Hbis
L. B. Mattoon
Echo Office highlights and local notices in Iowa news
Construction Paper All kinds and colors at the Echo Office. Donald C. Wolf, a University of Iowa freshman, earned a right tackle spot after Tryouts among 95 candidates. A double wedding in Decorah linked Mrs. Evelyn Chalmers and her daughter Regina Chal mers with spouses Erick Smith and Albert Borzan. Postville denies PWA storm sewer funds, budgeted at 25500 dollars to employ 62 workers. Rainbow flint corn captivates West Union area with kernels displaying red pink yellow green white and more patterns on each ear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echo
Batt
Donald C. Wolf
University of Iowa
Elkader
Hawkeye
Donald
Eskader Register
Decorah
Justice of the Peace
Lewis Lang
Evelyn Chalmers
Winona
Minn
Erick Smith
la Crosse
Chalmers
Regina Chalmers
Albert Borzan
Postville
PWA
Gustav Dietsch
Iocal
Postville Herald
West Union
Millay Marting
Gruver Property for Sale in West Elgin
The Gruver residence in West Elgin is offered for sale at a bar price. The listing promises a quick sale with immediate possession upon interest and viewing. A.M. Weibel, Realtor, License No 1774, to arrange showing and quote the special sale price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Gruver
West Elgin
A.M. Weibel
Princess Theatre switches to Ship Mates For Ever
The Princess Theatre West Union drops Page Miss Glory for the Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler film Ship Mates For Ever in a major opening. It promotes the picture as a top hit for Sunday Monday and Tuesday and encourages readers to use Want Ads for buying or selling. Georgie and Ellen Stillman give up their apartment with Georgie planning a Chicago move and Ellen rooming with the Zurbriggens while attending school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess Theatre
West Union
Dick Powell
Ruby Keeler
Georgie
Ellen Stillman
Chicago
Ellen
Zurbriggen’s
Walbridge apples on short branch hint at bumper harvest
Payette county farm home head N C Carvey shows a 22 inch branch from a Walbridge tree bearing 32 apples, suggesting a large county crop. He notes county farm folks already stored over 100 bushels of winter apples. the rural resettlement program plans retirement of 10 million submarginal acres. Thirty drivers lost licenses since October, with suspensions ranging six months to a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.C. Carvey
Payette County
Arco-Gazette
Walbridge
United States Rural Resettlement Administration
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Reuben Miller
Kathryn Rosalie
Tille Hanson
Robert Clothier
Henderson
Castalia
Fred Lyford
New Hampton
Lulu Schmid
R. Stone
Collins
Mary Skarshaug
Verle Roberts
Soren Sorenson
Rochester
Myra
Elmer Pinney
Oelwein
Edgar Kimball
Fairbank
John Goehner
Robert M. Krone
H. H. Wolf
Harriet Peterson
Cedar Falls
Geraldine Schori
Richard Stolle
Houston
Ind West Union
Betty Strauch
Cedar Rapids
Wayne Gilson
Kohler Elgin
Iowa
Monarch
Wearwell
Hlyria Church
St. Paul’s M. E. Church
Elgin Baptist Church
Lutheran Church Notes
Robert
Fair Iowa
Baton Waters
Col
Geo. Waters
Elgin Opera House
Business Men of
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Norman Foster
Judith Allen
Sidney Hlackmer
Ex-Q-In Chemical Co
Grand Ave
Des Moines, Iowa
IN Chemical CO
Grand Avenue
Maines
Towa
Ity
Ok American
Lamb
New London
Rhomberg
Dubuque
Yankee
Hills’ Bros
Richelieu
P. B
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