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Elgin Iowa News Briefs From August 18 1981
Community notes from Elgin and nearby areas detail visits by relatives and townsfolk, farm sales, and local business updates. The piece mentions visitors from Kiowa and Lamara, shifts in hardware ownership, a bank employee’s illness, and a lightning storm impact with barns struck in northeastern Iowa. It also notes a horse shoeing scene, a reunion of Civil War veterans in West Union, and various social happenings including baptisms and church events.
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Fayette
Schori & Kuster
Cleremont
St. Paul
Clermont
Horeshoe
Fred
Frieden
Tofield Habeger
Lamara
Missouri
John Frieden
Kiowa
Kansas
Migin
Reinig
Will
Hather
Misg Edna
Aplington
Hans Keiser
Marc We TN
Kiple
West Union
M. ¥. Kiply
White
Claude
Baumgartner
Nelle ‘Mattoon
Chas. Feller
J. N. Nelson
Charley
Halstengen
Olson
Eigin
Greenley
Holy Roller
Harvey Stohr
Dubuque
Mra
C. P. Stoehr
Btoethr
Luana-afa
EH. G
Wniebe
Soong Ater
Ruth Cohner Bean
Iowa
Paul Dost
Clara Heuser
Ames
Town State College
Leonard
Elgin
JH. Q. Enos
J, WH
Carmichael
C.A. Baldwin
Peter Putnam
Oelwein
Henry Richmond
Weat Union