Back yards, sales, and local notices in a 1917 issue
Readable items include a Jersey calf for sale from Fred Honni, local social visits at the Holzer and Learn households, church and circle meetings, garden seed suggestions, a second judge bill pending, and community notices about Easter preparations, ice cream season, and farm feed. Also covered are Red Cross dog units in Europe, Elgin post office move, a penny graft tale, and 1917 pulpwood demand projections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swat
Helfer
Fred Honni
Wigin
Lawrence Brause
Barn Holzer
Ruth@onner
Greenley Cafe
John Learn
Ladies’ Aid Society
St. Paul's M. B
Haster
Senate
Max Thoma
H. T. Knudtson
Thos. Knudtson
Oelwein
City Drug Store
Rosedale
Weibel Bros. Mill
Thos
Kerr
Waterloo
Red Cross
Capper
United States
Lke
Elgin Iowa Council Proceedings and Board of Equalization notes
Elgin Iowa April 2 1917 council met in regular session. Bills approved including salaries and town hall taxes. License granted for billiard and pool tables. no street light on Schori hill. Board of Equalization convened and exempted three women from taxation. Further adjournments noted and local notices on civic improvement and banking statements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Iowa
Weibel
Capper
Grether
Harrington
Phillips
Schori
Grether Harrington
Boise Capper
L. J. Groth
Max Thoma
G. Miller&Sons
J. L. DeSart
Gottfred Pfister
Otto Meisner
Board of Equalization
Weiber
H S Hadsel Eyes Tested for Glasses and More
Local items note H S Hadsel M D has eyes tested for glasses with office over Citizens State Bank. Hogs hit record high at 16.30 Thursday. Community happenings include Stoehr & Co shoes, pen insular paints, Ladies Aid meeting April 12, visitors from Sumner, Priscilla and Stiteheri clubs, spring signs as boys play catch, and smallpox quarantine updates ending for most households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens’ State Bank
al Schori
Weet Union
Stoehr & Co
Ladies’ Aid Society
C. S. Kniel
Dan Bellis
Dan Goetz
Sam Boleyn
West Union Iowa Prominent County Center and Promises
A spirited promotional piece extols West Union Iowa as a thriving county hub with a top high school, strong water and sewer systems, extensive shade trees, and premier parks around the courthouse. It highlights rapid population and property value growth, robust media, large county fair, Chautauqua program, hospital, and transportation links awaiting buyers, renters, or sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woes Union
Iowa
West Union
Linden Park
Court House
Stix
Our City
Eity
Pike Roads
Orchestra at Blkaider Opera House Friday Night
J. W. Bopp presents a Friday night dance featuring an orchestra at the Blkaider Opera House. Also noting a Ladies' Cemetery Association meeting with Mrs. C. L. Freiburg on Tuesday evening, April 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
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Chas, Kaufman & Iron
Come
Hart
Nixon
Hler
Schaffner & Marx ‘Clothes
Elmira Street
West Elgin
New Surrey
Old Surrey
Chris Holm
Mer
T. N. Carothers
Fred Hanson
Hawkeye
Miller & Gruver
California
Golden California
Golden State Limited
Colorado
Salt Lake
G. A. Akers
Fayette County
State Board of Optometry
O. W. Heiserman
Reliable Jeweler
John H. Bower
Council Proceedings
Welber
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
J. Cheney & CO
Echo
Mary Stahl
Jennie Harrington
Ext
Calmor, Lows
R. W
Muehlenthaler
C. J. Harrington
Schori Bros
H. S. Hadsel, M.D
J. W. Bopp
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