Elgin Social News Highlights At County Fair And Nearby Visits
Elgin residents recount visits with relatives from Nerstrand Minnesota Calexico California and Chicago. Local fairs showcase Lew Huneberger Sons Poland China animals with grand champion boar and sow and multiple firsts and seconds. Attendees include Kispert family from Nerstrand Wang Anderson Mork and others. Iowa officials report municipal sessions useful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lew Huneberger & Son
South
Elgin
Poland
Northwestern conference notes and local church program
A fragmented church event listing details a variety of musical performances, duets, trios, and a quartet, with names such as Hana Keiser and Grace Miller, plus a festival speech, benediction, and refreshments. It notes a meeting in Brainard, choir rehearsal, delegates from Elgin, and plans for the Northwestern conference in St Cities and North Freedom Wisconsin. It mentions Rev Lauer, Jam, Mabel Rennigan, Edna Miller, and Karl Miller in leadership roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redding Garet Erhardt
Hana Keiser Trude
Hackman
Kuella” Miller
Esther Krugerlethaler
Leo Grether
Erma Grether
Freddie
F. C. Muahlethaler
Tofield Heck
Carl
Laner
Gertrude Hackman
Detroit
Michigan
Sunday School Workers Union
Northwestern
Hyear
Clarence
Lorenze Mueh- Lauer Heckman
Esther Kiple
Clarence Kohls
Karl Miller
St. Cities
J. F. Miller
Edna
North Freedom
Wis
Sunday prayer and piano concert note at church
J J Snyder minister announces Sunday school at 11 o clock. Mrs Louis Klingman plays piano. Winners in the contest will be announced. There will be no regular morning service as the pastor takes a week’s vacation. The Ladies Aid Society meets Thursday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.J. Snyder
Louis Klingman
Pianiet
Ladies’ Aid Society
Illyria Church Notes Sunday's Service Change
Illyria church notes minister J J Snyder and pianist La Fonda Shaffer with Sunday school at 10 16 am No regular preaching service as the pastor is away on a one week vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.J. Snyder
la Fonda Shaffer
Lutheran Church Notes and local school crop report
Lutheran notes list August events with confirmations. Mis sion Rally at National 2 30, Norway services August 81 Norse speaker Dr J Magnus Rohne at all three services. Marion and First Lutheran McGregor times. District school aid figures for Marion, Grand Meadow, and Fayette County seed corn report by William McGee noting early ripening seed corn in section 8 Illyria township. Crop progress described as advanced beyond usual.
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Norway
National
First Lutheran
McGregor
Marion
Norse
J. Magnus Rohne
J. Strandford
Grand Meadow
William McGee
Illyria
Argo-Gazette
Fayette County
Illyria Area Social Notes Include Many Guests
The column lists numerous social visits across Illyria with guests from Sheldon, Elgin, Minne apolis, Cedar Rapids, Elkader, West Union and Chicago. It notes hospital recuperation for La Fonds Shaffer and reports on local efforts to keep a street open after a recent Fayette event and highway commission guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Strong
Amelia Strong
Jack Shaffer
S. H. Foxwell
Mary
Ella Foxwell
Walter Humphry
State Park
Fred Schneider
Marieh
Mary Wander
Oslwein
Martha Chapman
Sheldon Boyle
Elgin
Dark
Helen
Hazel
Ruth Rothlisberger
LeMars
Towa
Gary
South Dakota
al Albright
Hull Albright
Minneapolis
F. ©. Mason
Cedar Rapids
Peter Larson and
Childdren
Near Elkader
Charles Gruver
Fayette
Highway Commission
Residents travel and gatherings mark Elgin area weekend
Dr. Roy F. DeSart leaves Sunday for Des Moines to join the G A R drum corps at the state fair. Several local families host and visit relatives across Iowa, Missouri, and California with dinners picnics and a large Hana Grether family reunion at Elgin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy F. DeSart
Des Moines
Brockhus Family and Mrs Gilbertson Return from North Dakota
The M. J. Brockhus family and Mrs. H. H. Gilbertson expect to be home this week from Verona North Dakota where they visited Alf Walterson for about two weeks. On the way out they also stopped at Knuit Arnost Osage's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Brockhus
H. H. Gilbertson
Verona
North Dakota
Alf Walterson
Knuit Arnost
Mrs Hughes and Strauch Travel to Minneapolis
A card dated August 20 from Mrs F W Hughes in Framont Nebraska says she and Bertha Strauch are en route to Minneapolis to stay with sister Mrs W T Rudolf. The travelers report three days behind schedule after rain delays from Phoenix Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Hughes
Framont
Nebr
Bertha Strauch
Minneapolis
W. T. Rudolf
Phoenix
Arizona
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Vinit Her
Des. Moinies
An Greenley
Manche
J. EB. Bailey/sind daug, ightor
Calexico, Calif
H. 0. Heston
Albert Schor
Mire
Kniel
Iowa City
Verlé
Samuel Kispert
Nerstrand
Minn
Geo. Hanson
Mra
Hans. Hanson
Chicago
Kispert
H. M. Wang
Ferryville
Chris, Anderson
Atta
Nelson
Myrlin Feller
Henry Mork
Avid Lu
Paul Liddle
K. Be, Mork
Mel Kohler
Betty
R. W. Muehlenthaler
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Canada
Iowa
Waterloo
Madi! Via
Addie Brown
Thos
Howard Sr
Council Bluffs
Huntington Park
Calif
Harrington
Burlington
Iowa League of Municipalities
Conner Dummermuth
Herbert Dummermuth
West Union Hospital
Irvin Hendershott
Oelwein
ALLEN
Ph. Lauer
Lutheran Church Notes
Illyria News
United States Department of Agriculture
Ed Hanson
Fred Kohler
B. G. Spahr
I. D. Hendershott
Emil Moor
Roanoke
la Grange
Rose Garber
Ed Bucher
Esther
Josephine
Kansas City
Hulda Stoehr
Frank Capper
Chester
John Pfeiffer
George Pollitt
Cresca
Lyda Pollitt
Hunsberger Farm
Hana Grether
Grether
Alfred Jacob
Fred Light
Reuben
Harold Light
John Steffans
Wyman Trudo
West Union
Clarence Trudo
C. M. Green
Pasadena
Lloyd Swartly
Dorothy
Gertrude
Leo
Erma
Pleasant Valley
City Drug Store
Kohler’s
Marshall Fields
Kohler
Elsin
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