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Elgin News notes on visits sales and local events
Community snippets from Elgin include Mrs. Wesley DeSart visiting John DeSart’s family in Lake City, a sale notice for a 17 month old bull, and reminders to trespass forbiddances. Local travel, farm work, and church and society activities are covered, with reports of drayman F C Miller starting a business, livery changes, and a Soldiers Monument dedication in Edgewood.
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J. HB. Bower
Elgin
Hutchinson
Wesley DeSart
Lake City
John DeSart
Wenger Bros
Arnold Bauman
Jaka Schaer Sr
Warter
South Dakota
Fred Schaer
Harlan County
Neb
Sil Shaffer
Shaffer
Sil
Hans Keiser
J. F. Miner
St. Bonifacina
Minn
Keiser
Stoeckman
Minneapolis
John Barnat
Farmersburg
Tuus
Knudtson
Bert Chapman
Arthur
Oelwe
Fannie Palmer
West Union
Agnes Ainsworth
J. W. Ainsworth
Princeton
West Virginia
John Theodore Tobin
N. W
C. F. Becker R. C. Gebring
Harper's Ferry
Robert
Jacob Gehring
Elgin Land Agency
Weibel Bros. & Hughes