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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1925
Page
4
John Christ, a painter and interior decorator, attended a Masonic grand lodge meeting in Davenport. Visitors from Webster City and Northwood joined local residents for weddings, picnics, and Legion events. Farm Bureau activities, school vacation notes, and church plans fill the week with social visits, family updates, and community gatherings across Elgin, West Union, and nearby towns.
Local residents enjoyed visits and family gatherings over the weekend with guests at the H Amundson and Martin Olson homes. Emile and Emma Mork attended the Luther League convention in St Paul while others traveled to Cedar Falls Osage and Clermont for visits and Centennial events. A Clermont Clermont ball game against Elgin was anticipated as a hot match with evenly matched teams and a late verdict.
Perry Hummell plowed corn for John Whittenbaugh this week. Mrs. Anna Johnston was ill but improving. H. H. Whitcher took an auto trip to West Union and the Whitcher farm. Mrs. Wm. Wilcox and Miss Nellie Smith of Arlington visited Mrs. Meda Smith. Mrs. Marty Zoercher and Eliza returned from Volga City. Alice Bigler spoke on her Tennessee work at the Presbyterian church. Meda Smith returned from West Union after business days there. Geo. Jennings visited J. M. Jennings of Volga City, finding him in poor health. Wm. Flander of Pleasant Ridge worked on a brush project. two coats of paint planned for Union County road workers. Road washouts in the corn bed require extra labor to repair. Nelle Carlton and Cecelia Smith of Waseca, Minnesota, weekended with Meda Smith. Carl Everett and his Fayette wife, once near Maple Grove, visited town. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Seward of Pleasant Ridge and Meda Smith of Wadena visited C. Crawford at Voshell settlement on Sunday.
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