Strauchiowa Post Office Listing at Elgin Iowa
R. P. Strauch is recorded as entered in the Elgin Iowa post office Fayette County as second class mail matters.
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1938
Page
1
R. P. Strauch is recorded as entered in the Elgin Iowa post office Fayette County as second class mail matters.
Elgin residents and guests gathered for multiple dinners and visits across Clermont, Elkader, Volga City and surrounding areas. Clara Nelson hosted in Clermont. Jane Heathe visited the Wilsons in Waukegan, with other guests including the Mosbys, Robbins families, Torkelsons, Larson, Dean, Hanson, Baumgartners, Klingmans, Donlans, and Yearcus.
A travel diary recounts a tense rail journey from Nuremberg to Frankfort and on to Geissen and Odenhausen. The author observes village life, wartime logistics, and a funeral, detailing encounters with locals, road and highway projects, and farm work amid advancing troop movements and scarce resources.
Ern Holzer and family visited Mr. and Mrs. John Cunningham. Lillie Oswald returned to Gary after her grandmother Mrs. Rothlisberger’s death. Fred Rothlisberger bought the old homestead and will move in March. Chris Holm rented the Rudy Lehman shop on Center street today. Mr. Shadle’s future plans uncertain but may stay. Hog purchases reported near Weat Union and Elkader. J L Harrington near completion of bridge and road work in Clayton county. Adelbert Enog of Alexander and Mrs Sarah Buffer of Batavia wed at the rest-
Senior class finishes Hamlet study and begins Paradise Lost paraphrase tasks under teacher Rev. Paul Hayne’s guidance. Traveling salesman Fred Falk stays with Langdon Boyd Packing Co. and plans Christmas in Elgin. Local lodge officers named at IOOF meeting. Mil o Knight and Alta Sturch wed in West Union. Kimpson brothers become Elgin residents. Snowfall and freezing temperatures noted with 1-2 inch dusting and 10 below zero by Monday morning.
A report notes Nazi forces erecting tank traps along the Rhine. An Elgin woman vows to trap her husband with one behind her front door when he returns late Saturday night. The British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1896 deemed horseless carriages unlikely due to the skill required to steer.
State of Iowa Fayette County District Court announces on December 12, 1938 a petition to admit the purported will of Elmer G Boyer deceased to probate. Hearing set in West Union Iowa with Clerk Philip K Meskel. Deputy Ruby Boyle.
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