West Union visitors and Elgin furniture interest spark spring
Mr and Mrs Wilt Baumgartner were West Union visitors yesterday. Upper Iowa breaks for spring from March 25 to April 5. Elgin has a prominent young man inspecting Fred Muehlethaler s line of furniture signaling spring. Gladys Stolle has been away from Bell Telephone central this week due to illness, with Mrs Grether and Mrs Welch taking over extra switchboard duties.
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Wilt Baumgartner
West Union
Upper Iowa
Elgin
Fred Muehlethaler
Gladys Stolle
Bell Telephone Central
Grether
Welch
Brainard Items Local notes reflect spring arrivals and events
The community reports robins, rains, and greening slopes signaling spring. Families like Will Barker and Elmer Boyer visited. church services were well attended at the Baptist church. Rev. Laner of Elgin preaches Wednesdays. Roads are muddy and sometimes impassable to cars between here and Elgin. Amelia Miller visited Sidney Nutting. Henry Craft is recovering. Postville Clay Co opened a clay pit west of town shipping clay to Postville brick yards.
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Brainard
Robins
Will Barker
Elmer’ Boyer
Baptist Church
Laner
Elgin
Here
Sidney Patterson
Martin Hovey
East Community Club
Fred Wilbur
West Union
Henry Craft
Postville Clay Co
Postville
Amelia Miller
Sidney Nutting
Frank
Legion Minstrels at Clermont Two Nights
Sheehan Post 375 of Clermont presents a two night minstrel show at Clermont Opera House with three Elgin cast members C. C. Christ H. B. Greenley and B. H. Heston. Advance ticket sales indicate a packed house for both performances.
Echo Notes Yunker Visit and Strauch Illness
Mr and Mrs Rudy Yunker visited Clermont friends yesterday. Kathryn Strauch has been sick the last few days but seems to be getting better. Her trouble was a combination of appendicitis and tonsillitis and she endured great pain for several days.
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Echo
Rudy Yunker
Clermont
Kathryn Strauch
Local Classifieds and Notices from Elgin Echo
Mixed classified items include sales offerings from 16 cent Watkin dealers and harness sets at Feller's Hardware, seeds from Geo N Schori, a DeLaval milking unit for sale, spouting and tin work by Charlies Becker, and job training ads from Federal Railway Institute. Local personal notices report blooming maples, Fatty Arbuckle’s film deal, and health updates on Katie Bauman and Rosa Mueh Jethaler at F C Muehthaler’s home.
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Watkin’s
State St. West Union
Albert Dennler
Feller’s Hardware
Geo. N. Schori
Milwaukee
Partic
Mate Write Desk AG
Federal Railway Institute
Wells Street
Wisconsin
DeLaval
Elgin
Clarence Kirkeberg
Costa
Elgin Echo
Harry Becker
Fatty Arbuckle
Germany
Katie Bauman
F. C. Muehlethaler
Rosa Mueh Jethaler
Baptist Church Notes March Sunday Schedule
The Echo outlines a Baptist Sunday program with German service at 10 a m and Bible Day program for Sunday School at 11. Junior choir at 12 45 p m, choir at 1 35 p m, B P U program committee meeting at 7 90 yp unclear text, and a 3 pm program by Captain General Darecher with piano, readings, and song items listed amid garbled names and times.
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Baptist Church
The
Echo
Brohen Haveran
K. Hacosan
Kracen Gos
Jacob We
Anand
Ridsy
Santor Ara
Elgin Church Notes Promote March Events and Anti Alcohol Day
M E Church notes report a Sunday school program "Marching With The Heroes" and praise teachers. Next Sunday morning the pastor discusses "The Future Life Heaven and Hell" with Sunday school at 11. March 27 marks Anti-Saloon League Day in Fayette county with a community temperance event at Elgin featuring a film "The Transgressor" and music by Soria orchestra. Ernest J. Starr, Pastor.
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Heaven and Hell
Elgin
City Hall
Ladies’ Aid Society
Fayette County
Soria
Baptist Church
St. Paul’s
Ernest_J. Starr
Wadena News Briefs Spark Local Activity
Wadena residents joined Patch roads repairs and business calls as J Warner and son of Lima discussed Deep Creek matters. Vern Roberts becomes local oil delivery agent. Rev Birdsall reported better road conditions after Garden Prairie trip. Local obituaries note Virgil Westcott born 1906 died 1927. services led by Rev Birdsall at Union church. Community notes cover hardware store shift, visits, and church schedule with Bible school at 10 am and worship at 11:15 am. Great pony service draws morning and evening interest. next Sunday hoped for.
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George Davis
J. Warner
Virgil William Westcott
Everett
Nancy
Wadena
Charles
Gerald
Mildred
Flora
Birdsall
Union Church
Luman Fox
Smith Hardware
Volga City
Waterloo
Ted Larson
J. M. Jennings
Clifford Jennings
J. E. Jennings
John Lawler
West Union
Ab Hulbert
Georgia Kuhnes
Oelwein
John Corbin
Jimmy Cline
Calvin Greider
Dubuque
Wildena
Grandpa Schroeder
Dundee
J. Schroeder
Church of Christ
Arlington
Iowa
Bert A. Jennings
Pasto Bible School
Charles Gleim
Vance Bates
Vera Meyer
Mrs J H Service Returns From Washington Visit
Mrs J H Service came home Tuesday evening after a stay of a little over three months in Washington D C visiting her son Robert and family. She enjoyed the reunion and the chance to tour many sites in the nation’s capital during her visit.
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J. H. Service
Washington, D. C
Robert
Service
Mrs Thorson Returns Home From Week with Sister
Mrs Andrew Thorson came back to her Clermont area home Sunday after a week with her sister Mrs Gus Gunderson. Mrs E G Stoehr and granddaughter Betty Elkema left for Cedar Rapids Monday where Mrs Stoehr will help Elkema settle in the new home. Elkema had left last Thursday to choose new quarters.
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Andrew Thorson
Clermont
Gus Gunderson
E. G. Stoehr
Betty Elkema
Cedar Rapids
Stoehr
Elkema
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PR Laver
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Wadena News
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Elgin Savings Bank
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