Illyria News Busy Weekend Visits and Local Events
Illyria residents and relatives kept active with visits in Waukon Fayette Elgin and Waterloo. Families hosted guests from Otter, West Union, and Watervliet while church and community events drew attention, including a Tigria church evening program and a temperance meeting at Illyria church. A birthday gathering for L Larson and a new Chaimera car ownership were noted among social happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Gehring
Waukon
Ray Walls
Bert Chapman
Fred Reichert
Wenger
Elma Medberry
Israel
Clarence Doty
Alfred Weibel
Clifton Mealey
C. M. Klingman
C. L. Klingman
Elgin
Donald
George Gilson
Harry Miller
Lea Mathys
Susan Bigler
Wadent
C. Wenger
C. D. Chapman
Foxwell
Vesta Shaffer
Ft. Dodge
0. P. Turnbull
Glen MacKellar
Fayette
Susan Bizler
Wadena
H. B. Robbins
Anna Gilson
West Union
Fred Wenger
Guy Moore
Ray Shaffer
C. L. Chapman
Dell
C. Tl. Klingman
Waterbeloit
Michigan
Weemiller
Chas
St. Paul
Duluth
L. Larson
Donald Gilson
Tigria
Ralph Reichert
Max Guyer
Elkader
Cheery Valley Notes Highlight Local Sunday Visits
Cheery Valley notes list numerous Sunday gatherings across families and friends. People hosted and visited include Mattys, Hanson, Baumgartner, Dennler, Christen, Meyer, and Leuchtenmacher among others in the community, with several traveling to nearby towns and a farewell party for George Leuchtenmacher as he departs to join military service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Mattys
Tom Hanson
Hulda Meyer
Adolph Baumgartner
Bertha Frieden
Alex Baumgartner
John Hrickson
Elkader
Louisa
Bertha
Alta Dennler
John Leuchtenmacher
Adolph
Baumgartner
Celia Meyer
Fred Dennler
Marjory
Jack Christen
Oscar
Joseph
Leslie Batwngartner
Pred
Edwin
Milen Hanson
Meyer Brothers
Wadena
Adolph Burroden
Theodore Torkelson
H. Torkelson
Oscar Odegaard
Gray Reed
Joseph Freiden
Fleet
Floyd
L. Christen
Jacob Christen
Willie
Elmer
Lillian
Celia Christen
West Bend
Jows
Willie Baumgartner
Patsy Minnahan
B. M. Benson
Evelyn Stansberry
Lee Mathy
Adolph Hanson
Dave Meyer
John Leuchtenmaker
Albert
John Meyer
Celia Meyers
Bennie Meisner
Halvor Wikan
George Christen
Bert Thoman
John Butikofer Jr
Louisa Dennler
John Leonard
Littleport
Ellen
Theodore Hanson
Herman Schorlen
Luana
Christ Dennler
Anna Reinhart
G. Dennler
Jack Dennler
Uncle Sam
Hog swap tale from a Southern judge and a thief
A Southern judge with fine hogs offers a colored man named Uncle Jack two hogs if he promises not to steal the rest. The man agrees, praising the judge as a neighbor but warns he will lose meat in the process, accepting the deal with humor as told in Puck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Jerge
Puck
Oysters Rise in Price As Aid Society Serves Evening
An old column notices oyster prices climbing this year, with a playful tale of mother oysters scaring young ones with U boats. Meanwhile a Ladies Aid supper at M B church hall drew a large crowd, where tasty cuts raised a tidy treasury total for the church fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mama
M. B. Church
Postage Rates Increase Effective November 2
The postmaster general announces new domestic rates, effective November 2. Letters rise three cents, postal cards two cents, and drop letters and rural route mail two cents. International rates and treaties exempt this change. No exchange of goods with the post office for those with existing stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post
Special Election Called for Constitution Amendment in Elgin
Notice to Pleasant Valley voters announces a special election on the Constitutional Amendment at Town Hall Elgin Town October 15 1917. Polls open 8 AM close 8 PM. Also local items include visitors, a brush with a bus on a farm near Gunder, eye care updates with Dr Hadsel, and sales of thoroughbred Short Horn cattle to Mr Campbell Hawkeye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Valley Township
Elgin
Town
Meichr Luchsinger
T’n'p
T. J. Capper
Oelwein
L. G. Lehman
West Union
Bucher
Kansas
John Bower
Helen
Max Hunsberger
Clayton
Sam and Earl Greenley
Mississippi
Charles Christiansen
Gunder
Fred C. LaGrange
H. S. Hadsel
Hadsel
Lehman & Son
Mr. Campbell
Hawkeye
Campbell
War talk and weather fill Elma notes of life
A mixed local column reports on social events and town news. Items mention a Saturday dance, a $1000 bushel onion sale by Schori and Doan, visits by Mrs Doan and Nora Halstenson, a snow flurry, a Hart Parr factory fire with $500000 loss, Ladies Aid quilting, and election day turnout urging all voters to support or oppose the prohibitory amendment. An airship incident near Postville is noted along with Red Cross sweater sales and distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schori & Doan
T. W. Doan
Paul
Cassville
Wisconsin
Charles Greenlerdas
Decorah
Nora _Halstenson
Battle Lake
Minn
Halstenson
Ed Hanson
Elma
Nelle Neuenswander
Hart-Parr
Charles City
Ladies’ Aid Society
Will Christ
Wauseca
Minnesota
Postville
Cara
Red Cross
Elgin Hecho 1917 notices and winter weather note
Management and ownership details for the Elgin Hecho of October 1 1917 list F W Hughes as editor managing editor and publisher with Elgin Iowa address. Bondholders none. Notary Samuel Mosby certifies sworn statement October 11 1917. A winter weather note and a Camp Dodge letter from Nelson Conher describes army life and wellbeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Iowa
F. W. Hughes
Towa
Samuel Mosby
Nelson Con
Camp Dodge
Nelson
Army Hfe
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O. W. Heiserman
Graduate Optometrist
United States
National Guard
National Army
Rock Island
B. M. Allen
la Salle
Chicago
E. T. McDonald
Elgin, Iowa
Schori Bros
Cc. O. Fothergill
M. D
Higin Hotel
H. S. Hadsel, M.D
Citizens’ State Bank
Conigisky Optometrist Byp
Cedar Rapids
Illyria
Chamberlain
Stoehr & Co
Cheery Valley Notes
Finke
Sale
F. R. Berg
Auc
W. H. Finke
Ther
E. T. Scott Clermont
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