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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
6
Elgin residents make numerous visits to Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns while family health, travels, and social events fill a weekend. Many headlines note ill health, school absences, and routine gatherings. performances, church notes, and local ads pepper the page amid travel and hospitality mentions.
Morning worship at 10 o clock at Illyria Community church and 11 15 a m at Illyria. Union church at Clermont at 130 p m. Visitors welcomed. Illyria cemetery flower bed work by Elizabeth Foxwell. District Supt Dr H D Temple visits Elgin Friday at 8 for 4th quarterly conference. Joseph C Warton minister.
Elgin Baptist Church announces Sunday worship at 10 o clock with Chrystal Miller organist and 11 o clock Sunday school. Evening service at 7 45, B Y P U in charge. Wednesday September 25 prayer service at 4 p m. Choir rehearsal at 9 p m. Friday September 27 B P U social and business meeting.
Lutheran church schedules English services at St Olaf and Marion with evening youth event. Local visitors and travels noted among residents, including Feeds about families, illness, school return, and visits to Cedar Rapids and Marshalltown. Community notices cover subscriptions, reunions, and local social events with names and places.
Mrs Edward P Larson nee Gunild Thompson born December 24 1867 on a farm settled by Norwegian immigrants. She died September 9 1940 at seventy two years nine months and fifteen days. She married Thor Knudson in 1887 and later Edward Larson in 1899. Surviving are Lena Cora Oswald Elmer and nine grandchildren, plus two brothers and two cousins. Funeral held September 11 at Highland Lutheran Church.
Ernest Lerch born August 2 1834 in Bern Switzerland died September 11 1940 at his Elgin home aged fifty six years one month and nine days. He was a carpenter and mason, married twice and survived by his widow Selma and seven children plus a grandson. Funeral services were conducted at Apostolic cemetery with Rev Wagonbach of Oakville delivering the sermon and several neighbors serving as casket bearers.
John F Krueger born in Germany December 22 1858 died September 10 1940 at eighty one years eight months eighteen days. Immigrating with wife Minnie Knoll they settled in Sumner then West Union Elgin and Madison South Dakota. Eleven children are named including Otto Edwin Martha Ella Herbert Richard Clara and Elva. Preceded by wife and two sons, he was a devout church member who read the Bible daily, wore out several Bibles, and attended services despite distance. Funeral services were held in Madison and Madison Baptist Church with Rev. Paul F Zaschke officiating.
Abe Habeger and Aulden Oelberg were interred in the Elgin cemetery. The service details are not provided in the surviving text.
Harris of Notarts Oregon creates a fully by herself moleskin coat. She hunted, cured, and prepared hides following government pamphlets. She designed the coat and sewed it, with experts valuing it at about $1000.
One cubic foot of fresh snow weighs 5 to 12 pounds based on air humidity. Wet snow with rain moisture weighs 15 to 50 pounds per cubic foot, showing how water content increases weight significantly.
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