September 1910-- The new school building was opened, replacing the building destroyed by fire January 31 (1910).

The previous folk school term closed with the town's homes and business halls open to students.

Pastor L. A. Laursen, head of the school, succeeded Pastor Kristian Anker in 1909. Anker who had returned to the school in 1906 succeeding Pastor T. N. Jersild, took a pastorate in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Pastor Jersild assumed the school presidency of H. Skov Nielsen who headed the school during the winter of 1902-03 under the synodical board of education before the Elk Horn church took control.

Nielsen had succeeded Pastor P. S. Vig who returned to Blair in 1902.

1910 -- The census showed 1,427 Danish-born residents in Shelby County. The clay Township total count was 1,202. Only a few were not Danes. The 1900 census showed 1,147 persons in Clay compared with 1,080 in 1890.

1913-- Marne and Elk Horn Telephone Co. had a switchboard installed in Elk Horn and an office built at Brayton. The company had grown until it had 622 miles of wire strung on 160 miles of poles. The company had 988 phones in service.

1913-- Pastor Thomas N. Jersild resigned and was succeeded by Pastor C. C. Kloth who came to the congregation at $1,000.00 a year.

October 1913-- The Farmers Bank of Elk Horn was established with authorized capital at $10,000. Officers included president Nels P. Hoegh, vice president, Chris Christensen, cahier [sic cashier] Wm. Hoegh and asst. cashier Lilly Madsen; and directors Knud Hansen, Thor Madsen, J. P. Johnson, G. Gjodesen and Nels P. Hoegh.

NOTES:

A Dr. Frederick Steffensen practiced in Elk Horn in the first decade of the century.

Baseball was popular with the youth in 1914-15.

Players included Peter Jorgensen, captain and pitcher; Nels Jorgensen, catcher; Folmer Hansen, manager and first base; Peter Madsen, shortstop; Soren Nelson, third base; Alfred Petersen, center field; Storm Marquesen, right field; Fred Clemmensen, utility.

1915-- The Elk Horn Bank reported gross assets of $200,000. Hans Carstensen had joined John Petersen and S. C. Pedersen as a bank officer in 1913.

1918-- The Rev. M. Mathiesen replaced Hans Boe as manager of the orphans' home. Boe, who had been manager earlier, was succeeded in 1913 by Otto Larsen but reurned [sic returned] in 1914 to serve another 4 years.

July 26, 1918-- Another 35 Clay Township men left for the Army, including 17 from Elk Horn. The report said, "Every house in Elk Horn closed its doors Friday afternoon to accompany the soldiers to Harlan."

March 1918 -- Town election results:

Elk Horn -- Mayor Thomas Jorgensen, defeated J. P. Nielsenby two votes; Treasurer William Hoegh, defeated Hans Petersen by one vote; Assessor Mads Madsen; and Councilmen J. J. Esbeck, Hans Carstensen, Harold Johnson, Knud Hansen and Chris Petersen.

Kimballton -- Mayor Thomas B. Thomsen, Treasurer H. P. Larsen, Assessor Hans Nissen, and Councilmen S. H. Sorensen, T. G. Jensen, Julius Larsen, George J. Nielsen and Martin Fredericksen (tie) J. P. Kelgor.

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Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass from Elk Horn 1868-1918, July, 2022, page 16.