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Memorial Day visitors and local changes in Elgin
Elgin residents hosted relatives from Cedar Rapids Waterloo Decorah and Ossian for Memorial Day and weekend visits. Local businesses like Berndt barber shop and Elgin Home Bakery added wallpaper upgrades. Several families attended reunions, travel to Decorah Des Moines and West Union, and residents planned summer visits and homecomings with neighbors and relatives.
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Paul Muhly
West Union
Franc DeSart
Vernon Knight
Charles
Rex Roberts
Fayette
Reuben Wickler
Monona
Mary Cook
Berndt
Elgin Home
Fr. E. Lehman
Louise Klock
la Porte City
Celia Lehman
Wayne Gilson
Gary
Harold Conner
Donna Wenger
Eldred Dummermuth
C. L. Young
Margaret
Irma
Cedar Rapids
J. J. Potter
Chas. Copper
Edith Berg
Laurence Knudtson
Delisla Oldag
Decorah
Oldag
Delila
Herbert Ash
Lane
Walter Ash
Lloyd Holtzman
Chris Moser
Arlington
George Vaughn
Vaughn
de. D. E. Tinker
Joan Tinker
Darwin
Strawberry Point
West
Nick Balher
Dubuque
Emma White
Evo White
Hanni Hollow
George Bovis
Otis Torkelson
Iowa
Register and Tribune Carrier
Des Moines
Max Hunsberger
Maxine
Margaret Crider
Ardith Groth
Selmer Groth
Klingman
Chris Christianson
Leo Fahey
Minneapolis
Minn
Herbert du
Chicago
J. F. Lane
Mary Carpenter
Norman
Marshall
C. B. Schori
Mabel Grimm
Hilary Wytash
R. F. Hedemann
Low City
The
State University
Fred Waters
Paul Tate
Griswold
Tate
Frank Bakeman
Huron
Ed Bauder
Manchester
Ed Klingman
Clarence Houg
Curl, Schori
Edith DeCoy
Grace Wikenen
Ossian
Kenneth Hellum
Mildred Peck
Hellum
C. K. Kinney
C. Schultz
Emily Young
Mason City
Franc de Sart
Kinney
Elgin
Lewis Thoma
Springville
Joan
Max Thoma
Tofield Heck
Coe College
Kenneth
Kenneth Schori
Leo Schori
Decorah Hospital