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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
4
The Bluff Mo business leader C G Hays extols Buckley’s Arnica Salve as the quickest healing salve for sores, burns or wounds and piles, with Mushleuthaler Bros. Drugstore listed as guarantor.
Community notices recount family visits and illness among Klingman Rothlisberger Friens. Elgin to Highland travel. Fran Medberry and Fritz households. Elder mentions funeral attendance and piano purchase. References to local weddings and dental work, plus a feature on life expectancy and Electric Bitters. The Union column includes society gossip, travel, and a medical plug from Muehlenthaler Bros.
Fair weather prevails as Willis Frieden improves. Sunday visits include Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Erickson at J Gehring’s, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Habegar with children at Alex Baumgartner’s, and the Fred Frederick family at Gottfried Frederick’s. Rev. John Wenger arrives from Kansas on a relatives gathering tour. Fannie Benninger aided Mrs. Frieden, and Oscar Frieden with daughter visited Henry Frieden. Ben Schneider’s guests included Louise Sutter, Hannah and Lydia Christen, Adolph Haugen, Louie and John Butikofer. Junk buyers Bolleyn and Wing seek old iron rubber and rags. Anne Baldwin studies at Fayette Normal.
A Saturday morning camp party of Thos Knudtson John Farb A M Weibel Fred Muehlenthalers and families pitched tents on the Turkey river by the Big Bridge. They netted fish for Sunday breakfast and a horse belonging to John Yalle jumped into the river. no one was hurt. The group swam fished and told stories around a campfire with Ida and Hulda Schori joining overnight. Tom Roland photographed the crowd as a gasoline torch burned unattended during the night.
A fragment mentions gas being turned on at four o clock daily and a tensorial parlor run by Klingman, the city barber, at the camp. A&A jollier company, described as pisccant, would be hard to act. The crew broke camp Wednesday and returned to town.
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