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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1917
Page
5
Bill's Orchestra will provide music for the upcoming dance at the opera house on Thursday evening April 12. Dress for Easter. a special children's matinee is set for Saturday afternoon with admission at 6 cents. Evening shows priced at 10 and 20 cents. The film is presented with an all aid actor and no child should miss it, per Dr. L. B. Hutchinson, Dentist.
Good eight room residence on Pleasant Street offers large cement cellar furnace and well with lots 50 feet by 100 feet. Owned by Mrs. Mary Bennett. Interested buyers may take up walls immediately as demand high. Willing to quote low price. inquire Wigin Land Company. Also note a big dance at Etkader Opera House Friday night with Bull's Orchestra. Sunday is Hastertide.
The Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare a state of war with Germany. The measure moves to the House, which aims to debate and pass it by tomorrow night, then to the President for signature. Government plans to field 2,000,000 troops over two years and mobilize all national resources.
Easter Sunday programs set in the opera house with a 3:00 PM cantata featuring Rey Wedel and choir, soloists, and multiple pieces. An 8:00 PM sacred band concert conducted by J. B. McCoy, with marches, solos, and choruses. Services are planned for morning churchgoers. public invited.
Easter program by M. B. Sunday School at St Pauls Church on Sunday April 8 at 10 30. Includes songs bells choir and recitations. Followed by report of St Olaf College choir concert in Clermont with praise for chorus and violin numbers. Mrs Jake Yearous Jr. of Illyria died. funeral planned at Illyria church. Eastern Stars to hold instructional meeting April 15 with Anna Stilwell visiting. Boys are catching suckers.
Henry Erickson, 25, died Sunday night after a severe bout with suppurative tonsillitis and diphtheria, despite antitoxin and expert care by Drs. Pothergill and Cars. Burial was Wednesday as the home was quarantined and a nearby school closed to prevent spread. The community extends sympathy to his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Erickson. the diagnosis was confirmed by the state board of health. Local groups urge thrift gardens to combat rising costs, urging intensified home gardening and storage for winter.
Mr Turnbull thanks for a Lamar Democrat copy published in Lamar Missouri by his son in law Arthur Aull. Items cover local trouble for drinking stealing and school principals thrashing big elms, plus a regular Eastern Stars meeting with seventy attendees and an all night social. Also thrift garden guidance and a moral exhortation to support neighbors. Baby of Prof Oneley Fayette with tuberculosis contracted from cows milk improves and will be examined in Rochester. case cited in anti tuberculosis cow bill debate. Incubators attract busy observers as chick production begins.
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