Elgin Christmas Dance Attracts Local Guests
Festive season notice invites all to the Xmas dance in Elgin on December 25. Guests include R. O. Woodard at Mrs. C. W. Nicklaus home, Mr. and Mrs. Wm Yunck and Con. Yager from Brookfield Missouri visiting relatives, with several extended family stays over holidays.
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Fred ,Muehlenthaler
Mrs
Wm. Yunckand Con
Cut Bank
Mont
Gunder Sunday
Con. Yager
Brookfield
Maesouri
A. M. Welber
Mrs. Yager
Elgin
M E Church Program Christmas Eve at Sunday School
The M E Church Sunday School presents a Christmas Eve program with a gift tree for distributions. The public is invited to attend as choruses, recitations, songs, and a Bethlehem dialogue unfold featuring scenes like Merry Christmas, Santa Claus, and Beautiful Bethlehem Star.
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Churce
M. E
Santa Claua
Santa
Claus
Bethlehem Star
Christmas Program At German Baptist Church Outlines Eve
The Sunday school plans a Christmas program at 7 30 Friday night December 24 with the Bells as the theme. On Sunday evening December 29 the Young People's Society will present a musical program. At Omaha corn exposition a Wisconsin man paid 104 for a peck of wheat and an Iowa man 385 for ten ears of corn. a Kansan paid 280 for seventy ears outside the prize group.
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Sunday School
The
German Baptist Church
Young People’s Society of the German Baptist Church
Omaha
Wisconsin
Iowa
Kangees
Spelling Contest Set for County Schools
The Fayette county spelling contest will be held soon with contestants limited to non graduates under eighty years old from district and town schools. District finals occur in West Union Gelwein Fayette Arlington Hawkeye and the final on the last Friday of January. District judges are Buell Williams Minkler Naveln McGoon and McGoon. All county schools urged to participate to support their pupils.
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Fayette
West Union
Hawkeye
K. W. Buell
Wear Union
J.H. Williams
M. J. Minkler
M. J. Minkler. District No. 4—Delwain
John Naveln
Arlington
Supreme Court finds title not acres in real estate contract
Iowa Supreme Court recently ruled a real estate dispute centered on a mortgage and acreage. The case involved H Kundy Eldora trading a residence to Surle Town Falls for land later found to be 138 acres though the abstract listed 156. The court said the abstract showed title not exact acreage and reversed the lower court decision. The matter proceeds in the lower court with Lundy claiming 160 acres, urging buyers to specify contract terms precisely.
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Iowa Supreme’ Court
H. Kundy
Eldora
Surle
Town Falls
Evans
Lundy
Elgin Merchants Promote Christmas Goods in Ads
Read The Ads. Elgin merchants advertise holiday stock with large newspaper ads inviting shoppers to visit stores. They emphasize in person selection and notes that prices are the same as elsewhere, promising good service and fair treatment for customers.
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Bono
Elgin
Postville Welcomes Electric Lights in Town
The Postville Review notes the town is lit up after a Wednesday night installation, with Thoma s drugstore restaurant and Durao Nico hardware among first to glow. By tonight more businesses expected to be wired, as officials praise FP Hale and the town’s progress toward full illumination. Mr and Mrs Aug Benson anticipate a Christmas family gathering with children from Wisconsin and Iowa at their home. The Christmas dance is set for December 25 with a date for couples to attend.
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Postville
Thoma
Durao
Nicolay
R. Hale
Heiry
Assigna
Postville Review
Aug. Benson
Fred Falk
LaCrosse
Wis
O. M. Benson
Dows
Jennie
Frances Benson
Cedar Rapids
Center Point visitors and family note quiet wedding night
Mrs Price of Center Point guests with sister Mrs Harry Hill and family. Boys at Bauman place report silence and no gunfire on Wednesday night until midnight as the bride and groom did not return. Other items mention illness of Mrs Kinball and visits by Arthur Neuenswander and wife and Charley Swim and family before travel to Dubuque.
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Frank Kinball
Arthur Neuenswander
al Schori
Charley Swim
Remsen
Fred Soblup
Dubuque
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Elgin Savings Bank
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Gus Gumderson
Sam's Mosby
Thoma Bros
R.O. Woodard
C. W. Nicklaus
M. E. Church Program
Ohio
Ade
Berg’s
S. Holstenson
Lowa
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