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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1932
Page
8
A sweep of Sunday and weekend visits across West Union and nearby towns. Louise Hicks and families host, while many neighbors from Elgin Wadena and Cheery Valley drop by for meals and chats. Ads for Farm Bureau and church events sit among dozens of names, places, and kinship checks.
John Baldwin marked his 78th birthday with friends and family at his home near Higin. Generous remembrances included forty eight letters and numerous cards. Weekend visits clustered around Brainard and Elgin as neighbors shared meals and greetings. Family and friends stopped by homes of Wilson, Doan, Leuchtenmacher, and Bennett, while Michael Dinan’s funeral drew attendees from Littleport.
A long list of residents visited friends and relatives across area towns including St Lucan Elgin West Union McGregor and Ames. Invited guests spanned Walter German Felix Miller Ed Lehman Earl Bennett Clifton Powell and many others with gatherings at the Hartman Boyle Powell and Howard homes and funeral attendance for Mrs Elmer Schori.
A Postville Herald report notes Iowa has about twenty six thousand teachers. Local board holds around two hundred sixty applicants, mostly for superintendent and teacher vacancies. Profiles include superior candidates and some less focused entrants. Benson's Fayette county campaign manager change is announced. A moral adage closes the piece on feeding the hungry while saving for oneself.
Notice is given that on the day of May 1982 a last will and testament of Fred Reusser late of Fayette County Iowa, deceased, will come for hearing before the District Court for admission to probate. Dated West Union Iowa March 1982 Edgar A. Traeger Clerk Deputy Una Montgomery.
Notice states that on May 2, 1982 a document purporting to be the last will and testament of Gjerman Engebretson, deceased, will come for probate admission in Fayette County Iowa. Dated April 4, 1932 at West Union Iowa signed by Deputy Una Montgomery.
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