Iowa to Observe Egg Week National Event
Plans for National Egg Week in Iowa May 1 to 7 have been completed by the State Committee with cooperation from poultry associations schools clubs hotels cafes farm bureaus and the press. The aim is to raise per capita egg consumption from eight tenths to at least one egg daily and to promote high quality eggs. Frank Kiple Arthur Herling Clifton Measley and John Junior Falk of U S U Fayette spent Sunday in Elgin.
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Plana
Iowa
Frank Kiple
Arthur Herling
Clifton Measley
John Junior Falk
Fayette
Elgin
Mrs Andrew Benson Dead In Strawberry Point
Mrs Anna Benson widow of Andrew Benson died at her home in Strawberry Point on Wednesday April 21 at age seventy nine. She leaves five children including Ben Nelson from her first husband and two sons Andrew and Elmer Benson of North Dakota and two daughters Mrs Emil Ratz of Dundee and Mrs Joe Passenback of Minneapolis. Funeral held Saturday Elias Benson attended but returned home Monday evening. Andrew Benson was the oldest of the four Benson brothers and had farmed near Strawberry Point. They retired from the farm about twenty years ago. Get your paints varnishes and enamels at City Drug Store.
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Anna Benson
Andrew Benson
Strawberry Point
Ben Nelson
Andrew
Elmer Benson
North Dakota
Emil Ratz
Dundee
Joe Passenback
Minneapolis
Elias Benson
Benson Brothers
Elgin Echo items and local social notes
Max Thoma and Chas Ritter visited West Union and Chicago respectively while Pearl and Margaret Grimm stayed with grandparents in Elgin. Mr and Mrs Reichert mourn the death of Mrs Ralph Reichert in Washington DC at age twenty five. Local audits proceed as O F Wedersberg and P E Peterson examine Falk and Sons books. Gamble Stores advertises motor accessories and motometers with a 30 day trial.
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Pearl
Margaret Grimm
Mrs
Sam Yost
Notable Gehring visit and Janesville labor unrest
The Gehring family and neighbors hosted a Sunday gathering including Ed Gehring and son Lester, Hazel, Josephine Kniel, and Harold Kiple who returned from Janesville Wisconsin. He reported 300 striking workers had to be replaced and more layoffs due to material shortages while labor remained unorganized.
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Thee
Kniel
Ed Gehring
Lester
Frank Gehring
Fred Gehring
Hazel
Carl Gehring
Will Gehring
Josephine
West Union
Harold Kiple
Janesville
Wisconsin
Obituary: Martha Ellen Bennett of Elgin
Martha Ellen Bennett died April 20, 1929, at age 57 in Elgin after living on the old home farm and raising six children. She survived by her husband Ira Bennett, ten siblings, fourteen grandchildren, and several named children including Martha Voght, May Thorp, Earl, Harold, and Iva Matthys. Funeral held at the Methodist church in Elgin with Rev. J. D. Snyder officiating. interment in Elgin cemetery.
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Martha Ellen
Robert
Martha May
Elgin
Ira’ Bennett
Winnebago County
Iva Matthys
William
Albert Lea
Minn
John
Oelwein
David
Elizabeth Bartholomew
West Union
Mary Graham
Lucinda Ambrose
Wichita
Kansas
Bennett
Methodist Church
J. d. Snyder
Elgin Cemetery
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The
City Drug Store
Stoehr Drug Co
Elgin Echo
Alan
R. P. Strauch
Fayette County
Lews
Max Thoma
Chas. Ritter
Chicago
Fred Reichert
Hans Keiser
Peter Luchsinger
Felix Miller
O. F. Wedersberg
P. E. Peterson
Motor Accounting Co
Falk & Sons
Washington, D. C
Ralph Reichert
Gamble Stores
Frederick St
Oclwein
Ernest Schori
Mrs. Schori
Boyce
Hamilton Beach
Elgin Furniture Store
Furniture & Funeral Service
Les Baumgartnner
Emil Schneider
Frank Shipton
Alta Vista
Warren Harrington
Postville
C. J. Harrington
Anna Grimm
LaGrange
Don Stringer
St.Paul
Louise Meyer
Hadsel Sutter S’ Ee Es al
Fred ‘Hadiel
J. A. Boleyn
West Elgin
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