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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
4
Sunday chatter and visits across Elgin and surrounding towns. People from West Union to Elkader attend dances, picnics, and fairs while many relatives and friends stop by homes and farms. Teachers depart for colleges, weddings occur, and local youths return from state fairs and gatherings.
Pendants of small town life fill this fragment with visits by Mrs Grover of West Union and Mrs Callahan, church events at Clermont Congregation, and weekly meetings. Local names include Prator Dreyer, Mamie Conaird, George and Albert Suhdeféra, and Reed family. Reports of travel, Sunday School picnics, dances at Elgin, and a gathering at Brackin neighborhood accompany notes on illness and a cough remedy advert.
United States land office at North Platte Nebraska reports 172 entries and 99 958 53 acres taken under the Kinkaid act in August 1905. Many entrants have already moved to their lands and begun improvements, with 261 759 acres still available as of July 1 1905, leaving 150 867 acres open for one section homesteads in McPherson and Keith counties. C Click to read more about land opportunities and homesteading potential.
Mrs. Rinehart visits the Lehman home in Greace while Prof. J. H. Williams makes a West Union business trip. West of Auburn residents deliver sweet corn to the factory. Mrs. Lillie Blow returns from Texas with the Diamond family. Ed Hanson sustains a hand cut needing stitches. Rev Boeler from Minneapolis to preach at the German Baptist church next Sunday. Mrs. John Jones and daughters return to Mason City after visiting A. D. Kinney’s family. George Hawley of Minneapolis to marry Zoa Garce of Superior. in town to wed. Bucklen's Arrive Salve praised for injuries. G. J. Welsh of Takonaha reports its effectiveness. A poem on ambition and perseverance concludes the item.
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