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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1931
Page
8
Mr and Mrs John Falk plus Mr and Mrs E L Morriss and Mrs Hulda Stoehr joined Mr and Mrs C P Stoehr for a Friday dinner at their summer cabin at the foot of Kern hill. Echo readers saw it noted in the local Echo.
Elgin celebrated a rich homecoming with doctors, publishers, and many families gathering in the town. The Weibel and Etter families led large groups while three generations of the Christ family joined the event. Echo newspaper people and the Little German Band drew crowds, and plans to perpetuate the homecoming were debated. Oscar Follett of Fairmont, born here, was the oldest attendee, and a Graver picnic brought most relatives together.
Below is a condensed list of those registered up to Sunday morning. The document notes several who did not register, including Mr. and Mrs. Arthur V. Shaffer and sons of Lincoln Nebraska, plus 5S. E. Harmon of New Martinsville West Virginia, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Seaver of Gilmore City, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shipton of Alta Vista, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Muehlenthaler of St Paul, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Cooley of Decorah, and J. F. Riche of Blunt South Dakota.
A long list of survivors and relatives from West Union to Mason City, Forest City, Forest, and nearby towns appears in a continuing public notice. The roll includes Bartholomew Fox Baldwin Shaffer Cooley Christianson Conner Sova Sommer Mueller Kuster Etter and many others across Minnesota Iowa and Missouri. The document records kin and residence details reflecting a regional obituary style.
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