Canning Season Opens at Elgin Co Plant
Elgin Canning Co plant marks opening with plans for solid yields as corn fields ripen. Managers Alfchori and Dean busy supervising operations while Miss Weaver handles duties despite hay fever. Old hands drift away like Frank Seaver to Oregon. new faces join as factory hums along. Visitors welcome to observe sanitation and packing as lines prepare for full operation by week end. Foxes escape from nearby farm but are recaptured. locals sav e poultry from predation with steady effort. Fayette County Automobile Association sets September 11 picnic at Oelwein, with Sumner and Oelwein baseball games and 25 cent admission. John Falk visits Elkader. Mrs Vertig and Evelyn White visit from Oelwein. Standard Gasoline 20 cents, Motor Spirits 18 cents, Cras MonMAuAN. H. T. Knudigson brings a new Overland to Harley Helms in Waterloo.
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Elgin Canning Co
Alf
Frank Seaver
Hoe
Oregon
Fayette County Automobile Association
Oelwein
Sumner and
Ball Park
Elgin Drops Close Ball Game at Clermont Five to Four
In Clermont last Sunday Elgin’s baseball team lost a tight contest 5 4 after a high crowd watched. Clermont plated four runs in one inning while Elgin answered with three. Elgin left eleven strikeouts and no walks while Clermont drew six bases on balls. Clermont’s Kohler Greenley Kuster and Anderson Cupps contributed on the mound and at the plate for the Brick City club. Umpire Ben Conner officiated the affair.
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Clermont
Elgin
Clermont Fellows
Our Boys
Clermont Boys
Elgin Boy
Kohler
Greenley
Kuster
Anderson
Cupps
Ben Conner
John Barnett
Rhe H. Anderson
Burke
Hendershott
Conners
O. Anderson
Cuppa If
Paulson
Shipton
Peterson
Carlan
Rhe Lehman
Rogers
Christ
Ss. Kuster
Jaquette
Cf. C. Secker
Halverson
L. Becker
Kohler P. Greenley
Kohler’s Park
Clifton Crist Buys Local Moving Picture Show
Clifton Crist has purchased the moving picture theater from George Ogden. The theater remains in the Mrs. Becker building, with Crist planning a first show this Saturday night and possible Sunday evenings. Ogden and his family plan to move to Florida, with friends wishing them prosperity in the Snowy South.
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Clifton Crist
George Ogden
Mrs. Becker
Christ
Ogden
Florida
South
Clermont and Elgin Boys Meet in Kohler Park Game
Baseball action scheduled Sunday afternoon at Kohler Park features Clermont and Elgin boys teams, both home players. Last Sunday Clermont won 5 to 4. both teams are evenly matched and expected to entertain. Ina Kohler spends the week in West Union visiting relatives.
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Kohler’ Park
Clermont
Elgin Boys
Piay
Ina Kohler
West Union
Hlyria Items: Local visits and gatherings noted
Community notes list visits and entertaining events including C M Klingman and wife, Andrew Yearous and wife, Mrs Curtis Chapman, Chas Chapman, John Bowers, J D Shaffer, Ila Patters party, Fred Reichert and wife, Walter Rothlisberger and wife, Isa Shaffer home gatherings, Edith Richards and friends, Chas Smith of St Paul trip to Panama, Stewart Coventry and son Clarence, and barn wreckage cleanup for Andrew Yearous. Nora Klingman and Nelle and Lewis Stoehr travel plans and farewell to George Ogden family bound for Floral City Florida.
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C.M. Klingman
Andrew Yearous
Curtis Chapman
Chas Chapman
Chas
Walter Rothlisberger
Chas, Rothlisberger
Isa Shaffer
Stewart Coventry
Clarence
C. L. Klingman
Nora Klingman
Timber Lake
South Dakota
M. D. Guyer
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Elgin Savings Bank
Elgin, Iowa
Gus Gunderson
Sam’l Mosby
Cashier
C. L. Freiburghaus
Lowa
Max Thoma, Elgin
Canning
W. Rubger
Sid
Seasion
John Falk
George Vertig
Evelyn White
H. T. Knudigson
Waterloo
Harley Helms
Towa
Hlyria
John Bowers
J. D. Shaffer
Ila Patters
Fred Reichert
Elka- Ger
Edith Richards
Iea Shaffer
Chas, Smith
St. Paul
Panama
Nelle
Lewis Stoehr
Decorah Tuesaday
Will Cooley
Mia
Frank Greenley
Harold
Guttenberg
Alta Schenk
Miss Simpson
Minneapolis
Mike Ruth Nicklaus
Floral City
Mr. Ogden
Rennstahted
St, Kanteen & Bre
F.R. Berg & CO
Owa
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