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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1927
Page
4
Local items list visits from Wa dena Oak Grove Wadena Elgin and Cedar Rapids residents plus a large Illyria church note. The Illyria notes cover a Friday Big Day for Eighth Communion Day and a Sunday homecoming with a tent service at 11:15 in the morning and a second service at 2:00 with Rev Hillman speaking and a noon picnic dinner.
Local families from Cheery Valley Elgin and nearby areas shared visits and gatherings. Mr and Mrs Ernest Lerch and kin hosted and visited friends at multiple homes including the Christens and Friederich households. A large picnic at Adolph Baumgartner's drew about a hundred relatives and friends, with numerous small visits noted through the week.
Mr and Mrs Gilbert Pederson from near Ossian were Sunday dinner guests in the K Kirkeberg home. T T Loftsgard and family were callers Sunday afternoon in the Martin Olson home in Wagner township. Nurse Mable Kirkeberg of Decorah spent Sunday at the parental K Kirkeberg home. Miss Elida Lien closed a very sauc
Parochial school activities shared in church basement. Residents travel to nearby towns for visits and family gatherings. Threshing crews operate in the area as Loftsgard and Olson push harvest work. A Dorcas Society ice cream social is planned at Ole Loftsgard home on August 12. Several families attend picnics, reunions, and trips to State Park and nearby towns.
Beamer's Tire Shop in West Union Iowa advertises a new air and water auto washer for fast clean car washing. They also provide top building and repairing glass cutting ground setting tire vulcanizing boot and over shoe work and radiator repair services.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Patterson and daughter Marian drove to Hazleton on Sunday to spend the day with Mrs. Patterson's brother Logan Hiserman and family. Mrs. Elgin Blanchard and daughter Eva, visiting her daughter Mrs. George Craft, were in town the past several days.
Elgin Farmers' Dairy Co lists old wood jacketed 20 gallon cream cans at $1.50 each, plus a 1,000 pound Fairbanks platform scale with six beams, leftover haulers scales, two new cream coaling tanks, and a cream cooling tank for dairy use. FIRST FROST AUGUST 9 notes Iowa had its first light frost that Tuesday morning with no reported damage and temperatures near freezing at 5:30 am.
Nels Helgerson of southeast of Elgin was operated on yesterday at Mayo Hospital to relieve neuralgia trouble, a long standing ailment. His son Harry traveled to be with him during the procedure.
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