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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1927
Page
4
The Fourth of July weekend gathers many Bartlett and related families from Glenfield North Dakota, Delhi Iowa, Waterloo Iowa, Marshfield Wisconsin, Toledo Iowa, and Decorah Iowa. They attend picnics, visit relatives, and travel to Marshfield and Decorah while others return home after celebrating together.
Beamer's Tire Shop in West Union, Iowa advertises a fast clean car wash with new air and water auto washer. It also offers top building and repairs, glass cutting, ground setting, tire vulcanizing, boot and over shoe vulcanizing, and radiator repair services.
Wadena celebration drew five distinct picnic parties on Water Street with main events on Main Street and at the park. Rev John DeLong led an 11 a.m. service, a parade at 10:30, and Elgin beat Arlington 9 to 3 in baseball. Roy Ward won the horse race with Ole Johnson second. Hall brothers Floyd and Gilbert Hall had an auto mishap near Elgin and were hospitalized. Irvin Etter and family from Janesville visited, Loretta Mattocks attends Minneapolis summer school for teaching, and the Wadena band supplied music to wide applause.
Illyria notes list several family visits including Mr. and Mrs. Jakie Gehring and son with Louise Mogier of Elgin and Will Maibacher of Peoria. Site visits by Knudtson and Benson clans near Elkader and Garnaville. Other items mention L. W. MacKellar hosting visitors, a barn raising at Ray Herwig’s, and a July 4 Sunday school picnic at the brick house.
A dense local chronicle lists weekend visits, family gatherings, and Sunday activities across Cedar Falls, West Union, Fayette, Volga City, Oelwein, and nearby towns. Visitors include Elien Hunberger, Mervin Hunberger, Mrs. Jerome Yearous, Mrs. W F Albright, Alden Peters, Russell Peters, and many others. Church services at Oheaineke Merton are noted with baptism and Lord's prayer.
The Friendly Church discusses plans for community day on August 12 and homecoming on August 14. A strong congregation gathered last Sunday as the pastor Ernest J. Starr notes the good record and continuity in worship.
Emma Anderson returns home to Gunder after helping at the Gilbert Krosa residence in Farmersburg. West Union visitors Abel Mork and family call on the K E Mork home as locals attend a barn party near Clermont. Numerous local families host and visit relatives in Clermont Decorah Osage Wagner township and West Union during the Fourth of July period, with church and farm community events noted.
Cheery Valley residents Mrs Eliza Habeger and son Eliag stayed Friday night with Louis Martie Sr near Elgin. Mr and Mrs Jake Kurth and Gottfried visited Fred Dennler Sunday evening. Mrs Frank Christen and daughters Lucy Lillian Elizabeth spent Thursday at Bert Thoman's. Martin Hanson and daughters Gladys and Alice called on Vol a City Saturday. Tofield Lehman family hosted Monday. Ben Hofer and daughter Bertha traveled to West Union Tuesday for an X ray of Bertha's arm.
The article lists numerous local visits and gatherings in the area. Families such as Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Friederich, the Christians, Schupbachs, Lehman, Dennler, Larson, Frieden, and others are noted for visits, suppers, picnics, hospital stays, and a Fourth of July celebration with relatives in nearby Elkader, Decorah, Elgin, and West Union. It mentions a hospital operation for appendicitis and a speedy recovery hoped for.
Sunday dinner guests at the Bert Thoman home included the and family. George Larson and Cornelius Knudt, son of near Elkader, called at the G. Friederich home last Tuesday.
An advertisement by the International Sugar Feed Co. of Minneapolis and Memphis promotes International Sugar Hog Feed with Mineral as a guaranteed feed. It lists a formula and feeding directions, claims higher vitality, worm-free hogs, and savings versus corn, with distributors in Elgin, Postville, Luana, Castalia, and Brandt Iowa.
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