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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1950
Page
8
A long list of social visits spans Prairie du Chien Waterloo Cedar Rapids Dubuque and surrounding towns. Families including Yearous Pollock and Kimball attended dinners picnics and birthdays while patients and travelers are noted. Community members travel by car plane and visit relatives across Iowa and Illinois.
The annual meeting of the Marion Mission Society will be held Thursday Nov 2 in church parlors with all members urged to attend. Hostesses are Mrs Henry Nyhus and Mrs Will Bergan. Dorcas Society is sewing quilts for a bazaar on Nov 14. Clarence Kirkeberg left Tuesday for New Hampton hospital and Wednesday underwent surgery. Mrs Kirkeberg stayed there with him and returned home Saturday. The Harold Gharshaug family of Ames visited the T J Olson family for the weekend. Visitors Sunday included Mr and Mrs Waldo Embreston and family Mrs Johnnie Olson and children and James Kiliney. Dinner guests Sunday evening included Mr and Mrs Martin Nelson of Manchester. Mr and Mrs Gerald Olson and sons were dinner guests of the Doyle Baker family. Mrs Lizzie Skarshaug of Ames and Joe Lind of Clinton spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Oscar Lind. Danice Anderson visited Karen Leath from Friday to Sunday.
Wadena report recalls Sunday gatherings at the Luther Crandall home with families including Henrichs Sanders and Nord hus. Rev Clarence Soden resigns from United Brethren ministry effective December 1. Missionary Society to meet November 1 in Mrs Frey’s West Union home with a noon picnic. Nearby visits include Moore and Francise at Chaplin Cedar Rapids and Hummel ElKader as dinner guests of Hermen, with Boleyns and Herriman in Waterloo and Albany. Roy Leonhart hosts dinner guests who attend granddaughter Rebecca Rae Reisner’s baptism in West Union Lutheran church. Wadena School Notes notes start with Primary Grades’ six-week overview.
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