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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1936
Page
8
The Oak Grove Social Hour club met with Mrs. Howard Medberry on Wednesday. Numerous guests socialized with families including the Dennier, Howard, and Pulfer households. A long list of visits and dinners occurred across West Union and nearby homes, with community members attending fish fries, picnics, and reunions at various homes and at the West Union fair grounds.
Illyria items list guests and family visits across Roanoke Waterloo Taylor Mo Elgin and other Iowa towns. Members of the Rothlisberger Medberry Frieden Frieden and Klingman families host relatives from Clayton Center West Union Lamont Modesto and Anamosa while nearby residents attend picnics reunions and church events. the Garretson home builds progresses with plastering and reroofing. a county farm bureau meeting is planned with talks on travels to Canada and the western states and 4 H songs.
Melvin Gregerson and family near Volga Elmer Frieden and fam ily Mr and Mrs Raymond Benson Thomas Benson and family Bert Benson and family Carroll Klingman and family Mr and Mrs Arthur Yearous and Thomas Pollock and family spent Sunday picnicking at McGregor Well what do you think of those two candidates for Congress After hearing them speak we should be glad that only one of them can be elected Mr and Mrs Reuben Wirkler and Patty and Mrs A J Cook of Elkader left Saturday for Minneapolis The Wirklers go from there to Hayward Wis for a vacation at the L A Walch summer resort Monona Leader The dentists of northeast Iowa including Allamakee Winneshiek and Howard counties met in McGregor yesterday They were out on the river in the River Bus in the afternoon and went to the Mississippi Gardens The local dentists were included in their party North Iowa Times Another police scandal has been started at Sioux City But they never get anywhere Among the marriage licences issued at West Union last week were Cleo Moore of Wadena and Louise Corbin of Wadena Alfred David Goby of Washington DC and Mary Frances Hoyt of Fayette Leo Kloster of Ossian and Arlene Mark of Ossian Paul A Newton of Fayette and Maxine BE Whitford of Fayette Champion hot weather story of the year comes from Dickens Clay county When fire broke out in an outfield at the Norvil Crews farm on two consecutive days Crews began looking about for the cause He found that Fred Eckley had left his car parked in the yard at his farm facing toward the Crews field The sun's rays falling on the windshield made a strong sharp reflection at the exact point where the fires broke out a quarter of a mile away No other explanation of the fires could be found.
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