This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1940
Page
8
Fragmentary note mentions X ray and neurocalometer among chiropractors. References Etlkader and a town, with vague parent location of a state bank building. No clear events, dates, or names beyond these fragments.
Hilda Meyer helped Harold Meyer at Straw berry Point over the weekend. Numerous neighbors visit each other for meals and paper hanging, with many Talbot family names appearing in home visits, dinners, and Sunday gatherings across the Cheery Valley area.
Sunday return visit included Mr and Mrs Martin Hanson and Mr and Mrs Ben Hofer with a family and Mr and Mrs Jake Lehman and Lavern. Dorothy and Vivian Minihan visited Mrs Orlin Mason and Ethel Mae Thoman. Lucille and Marjorie Hanson and Will Christen attended the rural young peoples picnic at Strawberry Point.
Local families from West Union, Dundee, and surrounding areas hosted guests and shared meals through the week. Visitors included Reynolds Strong and Lulu Rothlisberger, with many dinners and Sunday gatherings noted, plus reminders for Community Day June 23 and homecoming June 25 at the Illyria church.
Mrs Floyd Frieden and Will Frieden with family visited the Guernsey Smith home last Tuesday evening. Arch Roberts of Oelwein joined the Fred Schneider family Sunday afternoon. Minnie Baldwin Ella Foxwell and Nellie Foxwell with son Thomas stayed with the Fred Rothlisberger home Friday evening. Mrs Walter Rothlisberger attended a Fayette meeting last Thursday about writing the year 1940 41 women's work projects.
Florence and Clarence Thoman visited the C M Klingman home. Families and relatives from Elgin Arlington Clermont Elkader and Strawberry Point joined dinners and Sunday visits. Picnic plans set for June 30 at Elkader fair grounds.
County Line News summarizes a series of visits and gatherings among local families. Mr. and Mrs. Hanson and others attended the Norwegian Lutheran church convention in Minneapolis. Several households hosted Farm Bureau meetings and summer visits, with graduates from Decorah high school and local relatives visiting Frankville and other nearby towns.
Berger and Halverson families joined relatives from Minnesota for a Sunday picnic at Decorah park. Osage resident Muriel visited Mrs. Blockhus and Mrs. Olson called on Blockhus. Hilda Aanes returned to LeRoy Minnesota to visit. Nelson reported his sister Lulu Show’s death and funeral held Tuesday. Olaf Berg hosted visitors honoring Venard Sinclair prior to his Cloverdale, Indiana departure. Gilbertson and guests touched on health, with Gilbertson partly mobile again.
Community members gather for dinners and visits as families from Decorah Waterloo Snyder and Cedar Rapids share weekends. Weddings, funerals, and hospital trips mark recent events, including William Schroyer’s passing and Marian Patterson attending a wedding in L. D. Hitch’s home.
Casket bearers were six nephews Melvin Oran and William Nutting Merle John and Roger Craft. Services were in the Baptist church in West Union conducted by Rev Burroughs of Fredericksburg. Singers were Mrs E S Patterson and Marian Brainard Church Notes Sunday school at 10 am. A short Fathers Day program will be presented after Sunday school.
Mrs Adolph Hareden spent a few days last week in the H H Gilbertson home. Mrs Martin Groth and daughter Winnifred have gone to Ames for a visit in the Harold Skarshaug home. Mr and Mrs H E Landsgard and Doris and Arthur Landsgard were dinner guests in the George Lundsgard home Sunday. Dale Anderson was operated on for appendicitis at Postville hospital Saturday and is recovering. Mrs Anderson stays with him. The Mork families held a reunion at the Postville park Sunday in Shirley Olson's honor. The Ole Loftsgard family went to Marshalltown to see Eldora Loftsgard who is improving after an eye operation. Several locals attended Clermont Friday and Saturday.
Evening to see the home talent. Otto Gisleson and family spent a Sunday afternoon in the Ole Christianson home in Clermont. T T Loftsgard and family attended a silver wedding in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Neateby of Waukon at the Walters home. Mr. and Mrs. John Olson and son of Hillsboro were guests Sunday night in the T Olsen home. They left Monday for the World's Fair in New York with Johnnie Olson. Delores Wold visits her aunt this week. Mrs Clar Chee Kirkeberg Henry Mark and family and Tina Nelson spent Monday evening in the Clarence Kirkeborg.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.