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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1933
Page
8
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A farmer orders a well filled to bury a useless old horse. As dirt pours in, the horse shakes it off and climbs toward the surface, proving persistence can lift one out of danger. Also notes Middletown visitors Mrs Emma Revaser and relatives visiting, then returning home.
Dubuque county residents discuss a proposed store linked to poor relief. Word spreads of James Brackin’s serious, likely fatal accident in Ohio. West Elgin expects an implement and machine shop start by February 1. Weather shows 20 degrees below zero. Community events include Miss Mary Frieburghaus’s eighteenth birthday celebration, visits by Clayton Pringle and Minni e DeSart, and Christmas gatherings among local families. Vacations end as teachers and students return to duties. Winnie Schmid hosts a girls’ evening of music and games. Clermont reports a new baby for Fred Bigier’s.
A quiet wedding followed Thursday forenoon December 14 at 10 o clock in the Lutheran parsonage Plato township uniting Miss Ella Muehenthaler of Rock Valley and Ernest Christen of Elgin. Rev K Graf officiated as the bride wore cocoa brown silk. The bride’s sister and her husband served as bridesmaid and best man. The couple will reside in Elgin after a wedding trip to West Bend.
The rural editor returns home after supper with a rare smile as old Squire Skinner finally pays up after 10 years of no subscrip tion. The note mentions several local residents visiting Oelwein and returning home for holidays, with family gatherings and a new radio as a Christmas gift. Domestic scenes include a contented editor, birthday and holiday travel, and multiple local families gathering for Christmas dinner.
The Echo invites residents to send reports news items and general happenings from the town and community to the office. Cooperation and assistance from readers are greatly appreciated to print broad general interest news.
The Elgin area reports a June 1982 Minnesota wedding of Mytia Items La Fonds Shaffer and Alden' Petera. Numerous local families share holiday visits, dinners, and guests across Elgin, Arlington, Wadena, Cedar Rapids, and nearby towns. Nearby events include a double wedding anniversary at the Wyria church and a Christmas program at the church with a large turnout.
Christmas Day and holiday gatherings mark the week with various families hosting relatives from Elgin Cheery Valley and Iowa City. Local notices include a church supper by the Ladies Aid Society on January 3 starting at 6 pm.
The Will Nydegger family and relatives visited near Decorah while others helped with chores at home centers. Various neighbors and extended families including Frieden, Christen, Butikofer, and Lerch shared visits, dinners, and hospital trips around West Union and Oelwein with Christmas and patient care noted.
Nearly three weeks of social visits fill the week as Mr and Mrs G Friederich and son William join the Ern Lerch home Saturday. Christ Gregerson and son Clarence visit Hanson Bros. Alma Hanson stays with Lillian Christen. Jon Lerch on vacation from Levi Frieden farm returns home. Lucille Hanson visits Hanson Bros. Clara Muehlenthaler and Ernest Christen return from Rock Valley and West Bend. Edwin Hanson visits his cousin Oscar Baumgartner. Funeral attendees from West Bend return home. A large group shares Christmas dinner at Hanson Bros. Anna Dennler of Elgin visits G Dennler. Ernest Christen and Lew Lehman host Christmas dinner.
Mr and Mrs Wm Boyle and family spent Christmas in John Johnson Margaret Belle Crider left Friday for Janesville Wis to visit the Chas Knight and Elmer Yenney homes Frances Skarehag and CR Stone of Collins visited Mrs Mary Skarshang and Stone returned to Collins while Skarshang stays through the holidays
Wilma Steinmetz Mary Frances Hoyt and Helene Scholz were dinner guests in the W C Falk home Wednesday in honor of Miss Hoyt s birthday.
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