Alumni Reception At Opera House Draws Large Crowd
The annual alumni reception overflowed the opera house with 108+ attendees. A new program featured parodied class orations, with Max Hunsberger and Dr Roy DeSart among the participants. lemons were tossed during the class song while sophomores served refreshments. memories of the 1915 event lingered long after guests left.
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Opera House
Committee On Entertainment
Max Hunsberger
Prof
Williams
Hol ‘Bauder
Russel
Roy DeSart
Seeses
Berg
Nelle Kipte
Mildred Harrington
Otto Stochr
Earl Greenley
Amelia Etter
Marie
Dee
Lolu Siple
Leota Phillips
L. D. Hitch
Weary Willie
Wm. Gehring
Sheldon Boyle Cornet
Charles Greenley
Lillian Freiburghaus
Kate Wilson
Frederick the Great
Pred Hanson
Bopp
Mildred
Pire
Dees . Harrington
Flossie Capper
Chas. Capper
Donald Dean
Eebena Halverson
Ludith Keiser
Nellie Mattoon
Dr. Roy DeSart
Elgin
Sophmore
Butter production and costs figures from 1914 dairy report
The Dairy Division requests monthly reports from U S creameries. The 1914 stats show Iowa creameries averaging 172,984 pounds of butter while Elgin Farmers' Dairy Co produced 225,570 pounds. Iowa paid patrons 30.35 cents per unit versus 31.45 cents at Elgin. Cost to make a pound was 2.54 cents in Iowa and 140 cents at Elgin. Overrun stood at 21.17 percent for Iowa and 20.87 percent for Elgin. The cost inputs include insurance taxes interest repairs salaries fuel salt parchment and related items. The Elgin firm is praised for high prices and efficient management. (Note fragments on a separate accident reference.)
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United States
Dairy
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Illgin Farmers' Dairy Co
Lown Creameries
Elgin Farmers' Dairy Co
Lowa Creameries
Elgin Farmers’ Dairy Company
Eighth Grade Class Ends Year With Program at Opera House
Last Friday June 4 the large eighth grade closed the school year with a program of music readings and essays under Miss Lyons. Sixteen students, five boys and eleven girls, presented a bright show. The class colors are lavender and white with motto Labor and Walt. The audience faced a prettily decorated stage as the weather kept some away ahead of a hoped 1919 commencement.
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Opera House
Miss Lyons
Walt
Elgin
Grammar Department
Gladys Helms
Gordon Mosby
Olga Gilbertson Tisany
S. S
esMaud Patterson Muastie
Ndith Grether
Gordon Moshy
Clara Bauman
Albert Topp
Tesa
Clarence Conn
LL Kipio Hesboy
Gees
Joyee Groth
Ray Klingman
Sea Gladys Helms
Ruth Pinney
Bertha Baumann
Wenn Weenie
Preida Venney
Tya Stansberry
Tees Cease
Eveline Schari
Eilith Grether
Hadgel
In Memory of Dr J Fred Harrington
John Frederick Harrington born July 6 1871 in Mt Alger Jackson County moved to Elgin then Clermont studied medicine Iowa State University Graduated 1895 practiced in Iowa until settling Stacyville where he died June 3 after surgical treatment in Waterloo Married twice first to Beth Thompson died 1908 leaving a son second to Katie Sargent survived by wife Hawley and other relatives Interment planned in Wadami Friday morning June XX
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John Frederick Harrington
Mt. Alger
Jackson County
Elgin
Clermont
R. P. Berry
State University of Iowa
Cour
Suee
Stacyville
Waterloo
Beth Thompson
Calmer
Mes
Katie Sargent
Wael
Hawley
Wademi
Bryan resigns as Secretary of State amid Germany policy dispute
William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska tendered his resignation as Secretary of State, accepted by the President, amid disagreements on how to handle Germany in the crisis. The note exchange aims for a peaceful solution, though methods differ. The Ladies Cemetery Association met at Ephraim Mathys’s home, surprising the weather observer by returning home before rain could be ordered.
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William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
United States
Germany
Bryan
Ladies‘ Cemetery Association
Ephriam Mathys
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The
Elgin Savings Bank
Iowa
Gus Gunderson
Sam’l: Mosby
Leather Life
Max Thoma
C. S. Halstenson
Merbert Falk
DR J. Fred Harrington
Citizens’ State Bank
Barn Schori
Pres. C
F. Becker
Cashier
Hart
Schaffner
Marx
Berg & Kohler’s
Bowen
Greenley
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