Thanksgiving gathering and visits in Volga area
Local residents Ivan Medberry Don Cummings and Jacek Shaffer visited Volga Saturday while families in Fayette and Elgin hosted Thanksgiving dinners. Several residents travel to Chicago Cedar Rapids Indiana and the stock show. A farmers institute session is slated for Fayette December 7 and 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivan Medberry
Don Cummings
Jacek Shaffer
Volga
Eddie Pullar
Ruth Rothlisberger
Jona Chapman
Clermont
Rev. McDonald
John Nydegeer
Billa Foxwell
Osiwein
Roy
Ine
Roberts
Fayette
Wadena
Mary
Lena Wenger
McDonald
Klingman
Wm. Grover
Elgin
Libbie
U. 1. Us
Ames
Gordon
sBerg & Kohler
Local Social Notes From Elgin and Nearby Towns
Henry Erickson transacted business at Elgin Monday. Families and visitors from Elgin Clermont and West Union are listed with Thanksgiving activities. Recurring names include Olson Gulevig Kimball Mork Loftsgard Skarshoug and Lindsgard, with church furnace work by Marion members and local home visits noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Erickson
Elgin
Edwin Olson
St. Olaf
Ray Jacobson
Emil Gulevig
Cornelius Olson
Lou Referson
Charley Kimball
Filgar Kimball
Lou McNally
FB. Mork
Ids
Emma
West Union
Abel Mork
Filmer Anderson
Clermont
Alphine Thorson
Arvergon
B. BA. Skarshoug
Fred Dickson
Carrie Nelson
Lyla
Osage
Harry Gunderson
A. Gulsvig
T. T. Loftsgard
Gemma
B. B. Tandsgud
Ole Gislegon
Myrtle Erickson
Melvin Loftsgard
Clarence Kirketerg
Myrtle Skarshoug
Harold Landsgard
Charley Christianson
Marion
Small Farm For Sale In West Elgin Near City Limits
John Bauman offers his 10 acre farm home in west Elgin with a brick house, new heating plant, large barn, outbuildings, wells, electric lighting, and cement sidewalks. It includes useful land and improvements, ideal for a family near town, with sale by December 15 at a favorable price and terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bauman
West Elgin
Bauman
Christmas Shopping and Local News Highlights
A lively note on early Christmas shopping and holiday storefront displays. Elgin merchants offer varied merchandise with prices from 60 to 63 cents per dozen eggs. Local tidbits include Miss Verla Kniel visiting from Wadena, weather with clear nights and damp days, plans for a ten acre watermelon patch near Clear Lake by Muscatine growers, and church mission work with 275 joining foreign missions in 1920, the largest previous year being 96.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Mary
Echo
Verla Kniel
Wadena
Clear Lake
Muscatine
Methodist Church
Thea
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M. A. Nicklaus
A. M. Weibel
Randalia
Lansing
Town
Bauder
Elgin Land Company
Iowa
Brussels
Tepenty
Weenter
Rockers
Sister
Brother
C. L
Freiburghaus & CO
Eig
Lowa
Buffetts
Buffett
Singer
Eldrege
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