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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1928
Page
8
A collage of local visits from Dorothy Friederich and relatives in Oelwein to Janesville guests in Elgin. Family gatherings span Crider Patterson Liddle households and numerous travel notes to Waterloo Fairbanks and Forest City. Upper Iowa University advertising invites a summer term with accelerated programs.
Observations from Elgin describing hotel brick work, teaching moves in Lone Tree Iowa, and the fifty first Iowa regiment sailing for the Philippines. Locals Fred Hadsel and Mrs Knudtson visit, Hattie MacKellar travels, a baseball game across the river with Postville, and a Waukon pulpit joke about the Donkey Club firing members who escort ladies to church.
A collection of household guidance on lettuce care diet tips and pest control, plus notes on canning juice use and a soda ice sherbet idea. Local business ads highlight seven Chevrolets sold by Falk & Sons and two Buicks to Henry and Fred Lundt, with a community call to place want ads.
Mrs Walter Falk and Lana Henderson sorted Elgin Library books by author making access easier. Mattia Zurbriggen and daughter Eda visited Mrs Zurbriggen at Oakdale sanitarium last Thursday finding her well and eager to return home though family worries she may overexert herself. Sunlight boosts vegetation growth as shown by peony rows outside E G Stoehr home with shade affecting growth rates.
Marion services at 10 a m English and 11 a m Sunday school Norse service Golden Wedding dinner at noon Ladies Aid Thursday Dorcas Society meets at K A Kirkeberg Memorial for Mrs Arthur Moon Selma Hoog at Monona Sunday L L hour Sunday evening Ladies Aid at Nels Halvers Friday T W Tysdal pastor Lawnmowers at Fellers Hardware West Elgin Decorah Journal reports G N Haugen ahead of J A Nelson 7972 majority Winneshiek precinct narrow loss home district 189 votes
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