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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1904
Page
5
A Chicago tailor offers ten high grade cars and eight cash prizes for early guesses on total paid admissions to past fairs. It cites Chicago World’s Fair 1893 and Pan-American Buffalo 1901 totals and asks one guess per dollar paid.
Saturday afternoon Misses Bertha Weibel and Amelia Moser fished the Turkey river and returned with a stringer including two large pickerel and a couple of saugers, their big catch prompting questions about its origin. The item also notes teacher Supt. Sheakley’s salary and a cemetery association report, then mentions Harry Keiser recovering from pneumonia.
The ball boys plan a Thursday benefit at the Ylance date to raise funds for season materials. All Elgin ladies are invited or may bring a copper basket, auctioned for the ball club with a fifty cent door admission. The admission fee is minus from the basket price for number holders. Also notes a fatal accident near Frank Gage place where Bert Allen’s mishap with a machinery stump resulted in two broken leg bones and a death by gun at the appointed time.
Oscar Bauder and his father Peter Johnson built a compound steam engine with a perpendicular cylinder and an efficient compounding device. They claim it outputs at least twice the power from the same fuel, with compact size and simple construction. Bauder seeks manufacturing and sale, praised by observers in Decorah. The piece also notes Pleasant Valley caucus details with Gus Gunderson as chair and delegates elected for the West Union county convention.
Fred and Rudolph Muellerthaley plan to move to Elgin and reopen a drug stock. Their Becker building Center Street lease will outfit for business, aiming to be ready by mid May. Also notices of local death Jacob Ruegg at 86, long minister and farmer, survived by wife and two daughters. School reports show attendance and enrollment across grades with multiple names listed.
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