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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1949
Page
6
A flurry of visits and gatherings fills the community notes. Families from Oelwein Balltown and Dubuque share meals, picnics, and hospital calls while neighbors recount birthdays and caller lists across Bay City Cedar Rapids and Elkader venues.
A sermon discussing Isaiah’s call as a turning point. It portrays him as a worldly man who becomes a prophet after an overwhelming sense of God’s reality, a recognition of sin, and the cleansing power of an altar fire. The narrative emphasizes personal surrender with the line Here Am I Send Me.
Pastor Arthur Titermann announces church events for late September and October. An all day cleanup, junior choir, prayer and study sessions, and Sunday worship with topics Christ Overcoming Sin and The Ideal Christ. Iowa association convention in Buffalo Center October 3 to 5. members urged to inform clerks and rally members to engage in October church work.
The Methodist church schedules world wide communion at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, with Sunday school at 11:00, Youth Fellowship at 7:30 p.m. and choir practice Thursday. The pastor and family will attend the North Iowa conference in Fort Dodge, with 400 churches represented, and corner stone laying for Rest Haven at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday. The pastor will return Friday. contact lay leader Robert Kohler for needs. Thanks extend to those who helped shingle the church and serve dinner.
The article lists Monday evening services featuring Georgana Falb, a weekly youth meeting, a Sunday school promotion service, and details for the West Union 1st quarterly conference on Oct 11 at Hawkeye. It also mentions the Dubuque district Woman's Society of Christian Service meeting on Oct 13 in Oelwein and a Rust College Singers concert on Oct 19 at 8 00 p.m. Bruce D Jones minister.
St Olaf Church holds a 9 30 a m service and Marion Church a 11 a m service on Sunday October 2. Marion Luther League serves supper at 6 p m. All are welcome at each service. Dr S J Strandford is pastor.
Lutheran Church announces Sunday events with Sunday school at 10 00 a m. on October 2.
We express gratitude to everyone who sent cards and flowers while Mr Feller was in the hospital. Special thanks go to Myrtle Kohler William Miller Alice Gehring Gladys Feller and Rev Jones for transportation. Your kindness is greatly appreciated from Mr and Mrs Chas Feller.
A sincere thank you to all who remembered me with cards letters flowers gifts and visited me while at the Postville hospital and after returning home Corrine Ryppestol expresses deep appreciation and says the acts will always be remembered.
Gertrude Erhardt visited the university hospital in Iowa City last Friday for a re check and treatment. Sunday family dinner at the Louis Light home near West Union was attended by Mr. and Mrs Lyle Light and Letha. Sheldon Boyle attended the second district mail carriers meeting in Marion Saturday evening and visited the Robert Miller home in Oelwein on Sunday. Friday afternoon callers included Mrs Richard Fitzpatrick and daughter Mrs Gordon Olson and three children from Strawberry Point along with Mrs Ida Christen and Mrs Dale Jensen at the Oscar Frieden home. Mr and Mrs Mike Adrian and Mr and Mrs Paul Adrian spent Tuesday in Dubuque. Last Thursday they spent the day at the John Learn home near Castalia.
Elgin locals including Mr and Mrs John Falk Mrs Tille Hanson Mrs Hulda Stoehr Mrs Robert Clothier and Pam enjoyed a Sunday sight-seeing trip to Guttenberg while Mr and Mrs D O Dean and Robi Wilson spent the weekend at Swea City. Bertha Kiple and M V Kiple learned of Mrs Henry Conner of Kansas City Missouri passing away Friday at her home. Mrs Conner was Mr Kiple's sister.
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