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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
2
The Elgin Echo announces advertising rates and printing capabilities. Local column ads are billed per insertion with display and local ads running until canceled. Subscriptions: one year in advance 15.00, six months 7.50. Printing services offered with a full range of jobbing material.
Mrs. Garberie on the sick list and several visits by J. A. Bower and Dr. H. S. Hadsel mark a week of community life in Elgin. Harvest Home picnic announced for Fayette on August 21. Kensington Club gathering. services at M B Church. knee injury from a ball incident. a well attended dance at the opera house. Local travels include Mrs. Bartholomew’s visit from Grand Island and multiple trips to Cedar Rapids and Elkader. Infrastructure gains noted with cement crossings and street work led by DeSart. Clermont’s funeral and Masonic rites for C. W. D. Lathrop recalled. ice cream social raises 20.20 for the Plain Concert Band. Elgin pride shines as town compares favorably with nearby cities.
West Union reports daily movements with multiple residents visiting relatives in Elgin Mason City Brainard Decorah and Newport Wash. Names include Hunsberger Weibel Fennell Kiple Sullivan Adams Boyer Earl Hill Conner Callender and Muehlenthaler with brief travel or residence updates and a home return for J J Earl after injury.
Mrs. Rogers visits friends in Elgin last week while Miss Anna Larrabee returns from Cedar Rapids. K Halvorson and daughter visit Elgin. Mrs. Blake and Burdette back from Manchester. Mrs. Lester Anderson improving after illness. Leigh and family return to Anderson Missouri. Dr Roger Appelman to Lavina Montana to resume practice. Bigler family returns from Fayette. Locals attend Ben Schori funeral in Fayette. Rev Graham praised as masterful. Joseph H Shipton and Miss Mabel Day wed at the Day home. wedding dinner followed and couple depart for honeymoon to St Paul and Minneapolis.
John Falk and family of Higin visited Elkader relatives Monday. Mrs. Adam Walther returned from Postville and Elgin. Coffee of Emporia Kansas arrived Friday for a visit with son FE Coffee. Dr. and Mrs. Beamer and children travel to Harmony Minnesota to visit Mr. and Mrs. M. Karmann. Mrs. B. M. Benson boards train to Sioux Falls South Dakota to see her ill sister. Chas Huebner Fred Schultz and Mrs. Schultz of Grand Meadow township visit Elkader. W. K. Humphry of Fayette with sons Ralph and Harry visit Max Bishop and family. Win Wickham of Clermont visits his mother returning home today after ten weeks with Dr. G. G. White care.
Local shop Lehman and Hanson in Elgin Iowa advertises boys clothing for fall. Also promotes Borgé Co for automobile parts, inviting customers to come in and inspect their stock.
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