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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1917
Page
4
If my patients come from Elgin on the morning train they may phone or drop a card to save time and return on the noon train. Those coming in the afternoon can return on the evening train. Drivers or train travelers receive a special price. The office boasts the finest equipped optical facility in Iowa with immovable instruments and 20 years of successful optical work.
Local notes list Harry Wenger and others spending Sunday with home folks. Visits span Waterloo Elgin Volga City Clermont Wadena and Maquoketa area communities with relatives friends and multiple family gatherings. A newborn greeted the community as Mr and Mrs Lee Mathys welcome a son born September 29.
Local notices recount visits between families in Highland and Clermont, church events, Red Cross fund raising, and school activities. Mentions Rev J B Moore home, Miss Bertha Medberry teaching, and a Clermont band concert. Also reports suicide of Otis Donley and a stalled flying machine project in Postville.
Miss Gertie Vernon returns to Missouri after summer with sisters. Mr and Mrs Sheldon Boyle back from Forest City. Mary Monnahan visiting Isaac and family. Reuben Howard and wife at Jake Gresinger's. J M Shaffer and family at Elgin. Walter Dennler visiting. Will Dennie clan at Guy Reed's. Kohl and Ward Brabham picnicked in Allen's hollow. Marie Boyle in Fayette. Tammy Howard tenth anniversary with family. Local animals and autos show speed along Ridge streets causing minor incident at Harley Steels shop. Charlie Lyons celebrates fiftieth anniversary. Enos and Thomas Lyons siblings. Attendance at temperance lecture in West Union and aerial display noted. Local references to Creighton trip and Minnesota visit.
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