July 6, 1901
Assessment for Taxes Village of Tampico [Select partial listing] Victor EKDAHL $72

January 31, 1903 -
F.L. PIERCE sold his bakery business Thursday to V.C. ECKDAHL who took immediate possession. Mr. PIERCE has conducted the bakery successfully for the past six months and in retiring is undecided as to what he will do. Mr. ECKDAHL is a young man, a hustler and one who ought to succeed.

March 7, 1903 -
V.C. ECKDAHL has moved into H.A. KEMP's house on Main street north of KEMP's shop.

 May 23, 1903 -
Mr. and Mrs. V.C. ECKDAHL went to Joliet where Mrs. ECKDAHL will visit with her parents.

June 13, 1903 -
Jas. STRUM and V.C. ECKDAHL returned from Shelbina, Mo. where Mr. ECKDAHL went to look at farm lands. During their trip they crossed the flooded sections along the Mississippi river and both say that the extent of the floods hand the damage done cannot be half told. Several places the water ran into the cars and for miles it touched the bottom of the cars. Traffic was completely suspended at places the tracks being nine feet under water. Messers STRUM and ECKDAHL were fortunate to get through the flooded country on the slowly creeping trains without incident.

August 29, 1903-
Mr. and Mrs. John CARTER of Joliet are visiting their daughter, Mrs. V.C. EKDAHL. They drove overland from Joliet, making the trip in two days.

July 8, 1904 -
Mr. and Mrs. J.W. CARTER of Joliet visited their daughter, Mrs. V.C. ECKDAHL, over the Fourth. Sunday Mr. and Mrs. ECKDAHL and their guests went to Frank PIERCE's near New Bedford and spent the day fishing, catching eighty-seven. Mr. ECKDAHL caught one fish which weighed xxxx pounds. Let me know if this helps at all, Les