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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1953
Page
7
Alendari lists events from Monday Sept 28 to Thursday Oct 4 including a firemen meeting Clermont Study Club First PTA meeting Town Ladies Alderman East Clermont Societies St Peters Rosary Society and Altar Guild and Cab Scouts with dates and groups shown.
Mrs Bigler spent Sunday in Cedar Falls with Mr and Mrs John Bakewell and daughters and Mrs Verni Engle visiting Engle’s brother John Wersinger and family. Mrs Engle also visited Mrs Fred Bigler at Christie’s Nursing Home and reported her improved. She is able to sit in a chair most of the day with assistance and can take a few steps. Letters or cards for Mrs Bigler can be sent via the nursing home or to her sons Charles or Floyd in Cedar Falls.
Mr and Mrs Lyle Aanes announce the birth of Robert Cornell on Friday September 11 at Postville hospital, 6 pounds 7 ounces. They also mention another son and a daughter Debra. Mrs Jessie Hoover of Materloo visited Mrs Lorrinne Crowe, who hosted a party for Mrs Begs Blake at the Blake home with guests including Fred Cline Jerfee C Halverson and others. Charles Gilmax of Dubuque dined with the Paynters. Families from Fredericksburg Decorah Fayette and others joined Frank Nims Jr at his birthday celebration.
St Peter's Church Clermont hosts a country style chicken dinner on Sunday September 2 starting at 4:00 p.m. Entertainment by several choirs plus games for children. Hand-made items baked goods and home made candy will be sold. numbered tickets reduce lines.
The first PTA meeting will be held Tuesday evening September 29. Grant Lauer N E Iowa representative will show the film on the farmers tour through Europe two years ago. Essays by school children will be reviewed. Mrs Norman Amundson will speak on the pre school child. Other entertainment by the school. A large crowd is hoped and everyone is welcome.
Clermont and New Albin played a sectional baseball game in Lansing on Saturday Sept 19. New Albin won 5 to 4 with Clermont’s H Kittelson and J Knudsen on the mound and Clermont collecting 9 hits and committing 3 errors. Duane Bakewell hit a third inning triple for New Albin, while W Richard and Meyer pitched for New Albin. The scoring by innings read Clermont blanked before New Albin put up 5 runs. Additional notes mention residents visiting Clermont, a Rain Bow Girls meeting in West Union, an old fashioned charivari for a newly married couple, and a lunch/bridge for Mrs Fallows in West Union.
The biology class studies insects and honey bees while American Problems teaches media bias. Junior and Sophomore News describe grammar, typing, history, and play rehearsals, with a shift to the sophomore show on October 3. Freshman and magazine sales are noted along with class activities and student achievements.
Our first quarterly conference will be held this coming Sunday evening September 27 at 8 00 PM. Dr Dunn district superintendent will be with us to conduct the conference. We will meet at the Elgin church.
The Clermont parish led by Pastor S B Knudsen lists services and activities across East and West Clermont including choir rehearsals catechetical classes church and Sunday school times. Luther League activities at Luther College LAS and a Brotherhood rally at First Lutheran Corarh De corah are noted. Social items mention Keith Wanderen’s 3rd birthday celebration and visits by several families, with Gerald starting university courses in Iowa City toward a medical degree.
Joseph Robert Shipton son of J. H. Shipton Cedar Rapids wed Colleen Anne Maire daughter of Marcus Maire Monticello in Congregational church Monticello. Charles and Oran Shipton were ushers. The couple will reside in Mason City where both are employed.
A college football squad advances swiftly under Prof Koltenbach. Fourteen boys join general practice including Arthur Simpson Lloyd Gross Lewis Jacobson Kenneth Kellerher Donald Horn Alden Paulson Russell Larson Rossiter Simpson Olaf Olson Roy Buser and Kenneth Gress. Social notes list Grace Miller visiting Cedar Falls. Bernice Lee returning to Colfax Wisconsin. Edwin Olson and Harry Gunderson families hosted by Mr and Mrs Harry Stolle of West Union. The second grade reports its largest enrollment, about fifteen in Miss Boley and Miss Brinker rooms.
Mr and Mrs Tom Weston of Elkader visited Sunday afternoon in the Norman Leian home. Mr and Mrs Andy Clark of Waukon were dinner guests in the Phil Steffens home Friday. Mrs Gordon Hoopman entertained twelve ladies at dinner last Wednesday. Ruth Starkey won high and Fred Cline consolation in bridge. Starkey also won the special prize. Bess Blake was a dinner guest Tuesday of Ray Reirson. The Robert Steele family of Dubuque arrived Friday for a weekend visit in the Bess Blake home and enjoyed a family dinner Friday night for Mrs Blake’s birthday. Mrs John Sampson left Monday for Chicago to spend a week with Arnold and wife.
Mrs Hazel Meyer hosted the Business and Professional Women's meeting on Monday evening September 21. Assisting were Esther Oolberg La N or a Halvorson and Florence Martin. It was teacher guest night with luncheon followed by the business meeting and a bridge session. Prizes went to Jan Thomas and Bess Blake.
The Mission Society met at the church parlors with hostesses Molris Louis A Olson Art Amundson Lyle Gunderson Bill Schmidt Gilbert Anderson Joe Wander Walter Durscher and Ivan Anderson. Pastor Knudsen led devotion and Mrs Knudsen led Bible study. A Lutheran World Relief baby layette card was read. Five books were bought for the library. Mrs Millard Nelson Sr gave the society’s history for 1952. Birthday offerings were given by Mrs Henry Schweinefus and Mrs Vernon Meyer.
The first Clermont Study Club gathering met at Thelma Henderson’s home on Tuesday Sept 15 with eleven members present. Roll call featured American Heritage and the year’s theme Around the World via Clermont Study Club. Joyce Appelman reviewed The Golden Fleece and U S 40 while Rose Riegel and Lorranne Crowe were elected delegates to the district convention in Independence on Sept 39.
Ben Fox of Waterloo was a weekend guest in the Jesse Olson home. Other dinner guests on Sunday included the Sid Olson family of Waterloo Andine Vasby and Gordon Meyer Mrs Aldora Anderson and L Myra. The Hiner Barness home near Osian hosted Sunday evening visits by Mr and Mrs RB Paynter with Mr and Mrs Harvey Bush of St Olaf. The Carlin family and Mrs Dan Burke visited Relatives in Preston Minnesota. Bess Tschantz of Madison Wisconsin and Mrs Gerald Gutcher and Mrs B Riegel were guests of Mrs Verni Eingle at a coffee. Karen Hoopman celebrated her 6th birthday with a party Sunday featuring Georgie Fayne Triem John Shipton Linda Luchsinger Karen Alderson Karen Hilgemann Roberta Palmer Michael and Jeffrey Thoma Chuckie Nelson Brian Sheen Carolyn Kittleson and Dale Hoopman.
Mrs Isobel Nelson joined Mr and Mrs Al Wilbur of West Union on a sight seeing journey through the Bad Lands Yellowstone Park and the Rocky Mountains returning home by Lavina Montana. Mrs Nelsons brother Nels Nelson of Lavina joins them and will visit this winter. On Friday Mrs Nelson hosted her three brothers Nels Lavina Henry Council Bluffs and Gilbert Clermont for dinner the first reunion for all the brothers and their sister in 44 years.
Mrs Ed Kozelka hosts Clermont township tea at her Postville home at 2:00 p m on Tuesday September 29. All township women invited. Lesson on Home Gardening.
Norman Sampson son of Mr and Mrs John Sampson arrived home in Minneapolis on a 40 day leave from the U S Air Corps after over three years service two of which were in Alaska He left Anchorage Thursday and reached Minneapolis Friday He will report to a camp in Oklahoma at the end of his leave
Mrs Emil Kluss of Waterloo visited in Phil Steffens home Tuesday. The Reiersons and Halversons called on Blanche Nesvik at Walter Martin Jr. home in Oelwein Sunday. Len Shepard of Fayette dined with the Steffens. Norman Erickson of Cedar Rapids spent the weekend at J A Erickson home. Mrs IM Larson went to Des Moines for the Federated Women's Clubs fall round-up. Emil Palmquist and son Frederick of Brainard Minn called at the Carlin home Wednesday. LeRoy Durr left for Indianola to attend her grandmother Dora Hadley’s funeral. McDonald Gutcher completed leave and departed Prairie du Chien for Savannah Ga, his parents Gerald and Mrs Gutcher drove to see him off.
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