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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1934
Page
6
Elgin residents host relatives from Kansas and Wisconsin while couples return from trips to Milwaukee Chicago and Cedar Rapids. Local chapter collects jams for Boone Iowa, and sports see Elgin Independents defeating Randalia 14 to 2 with finals upcoming against Eldorado.
Thursday 8 p m prayer meeting and 9 p m choir. Sunday 10 a m English service 11 a m Sunday school 7 30 p m English service 8 30 p m B Y P U prayer meeting Thursday 8 p m 9 p m Choir. Last Sunday service at Sumner. Seminary quartet from Rochester N Y gave a splendid program Sept 13. Fayette county Sunday school convention Sept 27 at First Baptist church Oelwein. Rev Newton Carmen of Des Moines spoke last Sunday evening after B Y P U. All welcome at all services.
Upper Iowa University reports nine students from Hawkeye in the fall. Alfred Stolle of Seattle visited Elgin last week, Sally Rand famed bubble dancer is to wed Charles Mayon of a tobacco family, and she plans to use smoke rings in a forthcoming costume. Iowa reports 34,039 horse colts under one year old on farms in 1934, a 36 percent rise. Various local notices include obituaries, travels, visits, and accidents across Elgin, Center Point, Decorah, Postville, Castalia, and nearby towns.
The M E Church notes regular worship at 10 p m and Sunday school at 11 a m. The note urges record attendance next Sunday and punctual officers and teachers. Sunday school orchestra practice Friday evening and the Ladies Aid Society meeting this afternoon in the church parlors with a picnic lunch.
Church notices list Sept 28 English services at Norway 11, First Lutheran 2 30, Marion 8 for Luther League. Sept 20 St Olaf Chapel 9 00 English, Norway 2 30 Norse. All welcome to every service. S J Strandjord, Pastor.
Sunday school at 10 16 a m and church worship at 11 15 a m led by J 3 Snyder with Grace Foxwell at piano. Visitors include Warren Harrington and family from Postville, Heston family from Mechanicsville, and Rev J J Snyder and wife driving to Mt Vernon for Cornell College work. Della Chapman cared for Theresa and Betty Snyder during absence.
Let The Echo publish printing. Residents exchange dairy and hog feed for potatoes at Weibel Mill. Several locals attend Upper Town Methodist conference in Waterloo. Relatives visit Cedar Rapids Chicago Seattle Lawrence Kansas, with family news on Dr Mock and Haskell Institute. Rain and heat trends noted. Kansas City shopping trips mentioned.
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