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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
5
West Union and Fayette County items cover local politics, farm news, and social events. Notable bits: county committee reelects leaders, visit from Glas- BOW residents, Harvest Home success, church corner stone ceremonies, a mayoral vacancy in Waucoma, a railway mishap, and a prison parson released. Also census style counts of Fayette County residents, schooling, and literacy.
Henry Wennenberg a longtime West Union merchant and charter member died August 10. Born in 1830 at Elbing Germany he learned tailoring and emigrated to the United States in 1858. He opened a West Union tailor shop in 1858 and operated it until his death leaving four descendants Otto Wennenberg Theodore J Ward and Mrs Magnar.
The Elgin Canning Company expands with new conveyors and improved processes for 1001 sweet corn crop though the total yield is down from last year. Cedar Falls and Waterloo plants face smaller outputs due to planting failures and scarce corn. Also critiqued is the harvest of undersized bass by young anglers, urging enforcement and wiser fishing amid stock-restocking efforts.
Ossian schedules its third annual street fair for August 23 and 24, while local news recounts county events. Key items include Arch Cost’s bingo win, Elvidge Creamery Co. formation, midwestern political notes, a rural mailbox incident, a lamp explosion injuring Herman Wehler, and Buffalo herd plans by Burgess and Hanson touring fairs through September.
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