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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 15, 1927

Page

7

Local Social and Business Notes From Cedar Rapids Area

Donald Doan paints the George Metzger home once owned by the Vinton estate as the Metzgers plan to move to Elgin. Decorah visitors Mrs. Will Cooley and Verne joined Mrs. Rudy Lehman for a day, with Mrs. Fred Cooley accompanying them home. Community trust via hard work and fair dealing is praised, with farm fire memberships noted. Cedar Rapids guests Harold Stoehr Dr Kiech and Miss Dickison visited Hulda Stoehr. Miss Della Chapman spent a week in Waters. Martha Chapman tended the home in her absence.

Donald Doan George Metzger Vinton Metzgers Elgin Will Cooley Verne Decorah Rudy Lehman Fred Cooley Harold Stoehr Kiech Johnaan Dickison Cedar Rapids Hulda Stoehr Della Chapman Waters Martha Chapman Henry Grossman Clermont Mary Goetz I. GC. Jerdee El‘gin Martin Anderson Pete Anderson Sam Lehman Geo. N. Schori Edward Olsen West Union Ed Klingman Elkader Ida Crain Hulda Schricker Elgin Home Clara Muehlenthaler Georgia Mae Schori Winona Minnesota Albert Schori Bess Stohr Minneapolis Minn Eau Claire Wisconsin John Howard John Jr Marshfield A. M. Weibel Avoca Adam Lentz Emmett Morris Marquette George Heller Helen Wooley Baltimore Nels Olson Worthington Dakota J. D. Shaffer Oelwein Kansas State Teachers’ College Falk Otto Olson Turkey River

R P Strauch Post Office Entry Elgin Iowa

Entry lists R P Strauch as a second class mail matter at the Elgin post office in Fayette County Iowa as published in local notices.

Elgin Fayette County Iowa

Local Elgin notes and farm results from September 15 1927

A weekly Elgin column records various social visits and travel to Waterloo Rochester and Postville with extended family dinners and guest lists. Farmer Henry Holzer shows excellent dent corn from a 20 acre field. Moore's dairy in Cedar Rapids doubles efforts to stop a porch milk bottle cream thief, later revealed as a tree-swinging squirrel.

L. S. Hutchinson Elgin A. M. Weibel John Falk Waterloo John Grimm McGregor Heller Chicago Gordon Mosby Bert Allen Rochester Samuel Mosby Falk Iowa Henry Holzer Holzer Moore Cedar Rapids

Community notes from Clermont Elgin and West Union

Local residents engage in visits and travel across Clermont Elgin and West Union Wisconsin Iowa towns. News includes social calls, family trips, illness, a funeral notice, holiday events, a broken dive injury, church activities, a wedding trip, a surprise shower, and humorous caution about buying used cars.

Record crowds at Iowa state fairs set new attendance marks

Des Moines notes report that Iowa State fairs shattered attendance records this year, while a geology dean predicts coal sufficiency for 2600 years. Populations discuss heat and baked potatoes in fields, and local social visits occur as families plan college sendoffs and picnics.

Iowa Des Moines Harley Steele

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Elgin Furniture Store Elgin Home Bakery THE Elgin Owned Kohler’s Store Elgin, Iowa Elgin Echo R. P. Strauch Schori Towa G. H. Kiple R. A. Crider White H. S. Hadsel Dr. Frank Mock Towans George F. Kay State University of Iowa College of Hberal Arts Bertha Mealey Oelwe Clifton L. D. Hitch Frank Greenley Ben Weibel West Egin Goodrich Produce Company G. N. Schori West Elgin Torkelson Bros Max Thoma
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