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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1923
Page
4
A wide list of visits and social calls in Illyria and nearby towns. Nancy Ernst and family in Little Port. Dr W Strong hosted by Mr and Mrs Charles Medberry. numerous gatherings at homes of Frieden Shatter Klingman and others. church notes announce Mother's Day service and upcoming change in schedule.
The notice lists Sunday school at 10 15 and church services at 11 20, outlining the morning activities for parishioners.
Social notices from Cheery Valley list Ben Hofer hosting a houseful, Johnny Christen visiting Leo Hansen, Anna Frederick helping at Emil Moore’s house, and Theodore Hansen staying with John Santa. Numerous visits to the Lerch and Hansen households, guests from Oak Grove and Fairfax, and a school district No. 9 closing with a winter picnic at the schoolhouse.
Mrs. Dora Boyle was a passenger for West Union Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Boyer are parents of a girl born Friday morning. Mr. and Mrs. George Boyle were guests Sunday at the Frank Lyons. Frank O’Neil of Cedar Rapids came Saturday for a few days visit at the El Boyle home. Lew Randall of West Union came Friday for a few days visit at the Frank Lyons home. Frieda Miller of Elgin spent Friday and Saturday at the home of her sister Mrs. Melvin Boyer. Everett Dooley and Robert Estey of West Union were guests Sunday at the Sidney Patterson home. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Craft and daughter Dorothy were in West Union Tuesday and Wednesday of last week at the Louisa Burk home. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Veasey and family motored from their home at Monticello Sunday morning to spend the day with relatives and friends in this vicinity.
Recaps a school program dated May 12 listing students across grades performing songs poems and a May Day basket event. Notes class colors flowers mottos, spelling contest winners, attendance records, and plans for a school picnic amid a long snowdrift on a local interurban line near Brushy between Fort Dodge and Webster City.
Readable fragments describe travel by dirt roads between Migi, Fayette county, and West Union, plus Elgin inviting visitors. Announcements advertise BCHORI BROTHERS buyers of cattle, hogs, grain, and seeds, with stockyards near the depot. Also noted are Naprapathic treatments by Kinsel and Jona Hadsel physicians with eye care and glasses offered.
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