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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
2
The Elgin Echo announces advertising rates for local column ads at five cents per line per insertion. The paper offers printing services and jobbing material, with monthly accounts and advance rates of one year or six months.
In Elgin in June 1913 a busy calendar includes a band concert, a cake and ice cream feast, and a June wedding at Marion Lutheran Church for Nina Loftsgard and Ole Amundson. Local residents attend family gatherings, anniversaries, and visits, while street work eases dust and new autos arrive.
Last evening at 5:00 o clock Esq Aarvey Smith joined in marriage My A Gore of Des Moines to Elizabeth Graver of Elgin. The groom is a traveling salesman from Des Moines and the bride is the daughter of Wim Graver of Elgin. The couple kept the plans secret for intimate friends only. Congratulations pour in from many friends as Elgin bids happiness to the newlyweds. A Chicago church conference revived talk of publishing marriage bans as a reform measure. John Falb and wife, Mrs Fred Gehring, Mrs Thiel and daughter Verle attended Fayette events yesterday including a class graduation led by John Stoukman.
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