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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1925
Page
4
STAR FENCE announces three carloads of STAR woven fence, touted as the best fence money can buy. Prices have advanced, but spring buyers can save 2 to 5 cents per rod by purchasing now.
The item highlights Berg's new wall paper at City Drug Store and a sale on home goods including varnish, oxford shoes, and furniture brighteners. Local notices report residents visiting, moving, and social events, with farm machinery ads and a lost tool kit. Community chatter covers temporary relocations, deliveries, and upcoming Odd Fellows activities. You will want a topcoat this spring.
Inwood and Marion congregants host gatherings as relatives arrive from Oakage and Clermont. Mrs. Jackobson ill prompts family trips. Rev Tysdahl and Mrs. Tysdahl dine with N Nelson. Neighbors report improvements for Mr. Olson and Lou Belergon while Birget Jackobson’s condition prompts home care. Locals cheer robins and note new postmaster duties and a church meeting.
The community calendar lists Fred Veasy and family returning home from Monticello, Lyle Granger visiting in West Union, Gladys Nutting active in High Tuesday, and Mrs. George Howard riding to West Union. Dr. King and Dr. Carr make calls to local homes. Visits include Elgin and Waterloo connections with the Boyer families and Emer Boyer. New gas lamps installed at the Baptist church and farm supply notes from Mill Feeds and Hunsberger at the Farmers' Co-Op.
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