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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
4
La Salle Station on the Rock Island Lines Chicago Terminal is described as the loop’s only railway station, the finest and best equipped. It features a maid-served women’s parlor, telegraph and telephone booths, baggage rooms, parcel rooms, and an excellent restaurant. Time tables and information available on request at Elgin, Iowa agent Worley.
Local notes report wedding bells and visits among Illyria residents. family gatherings, illnesses, a fatal storm death, and a Kohler grove picnic slated for Wednesday August 25 with all invited. Also a vivid malaria warning ad praises Electric Bitters as a tonic and cure.
Mrs John Wilson is on the sick list Perry Craft was a business visitor at West Union Monday A funeral for Lester Strong was attended by many from here Jos Brabham and wife of Forest City visit friends and relatives Mesdames Smith Bennett and Perry Craft visited at C Mounce home George Stansberry family moved back to the area Simon ONeill improves his house with paint Christ Bros do the work C W Smith attended his father Thomas Smiths funeral in Minneapolis Marie Boyle hosted a ninth birthday party with many gifts
A Fedora Tennessee man credits Dr King's New Discovery with saving his life from dangerous hemorrhages. He recalls prior treatments failing, then improvement after three weeks of use. The ad promotes this cough and lung remedy for bronchial conditions, hay fever, la grippe, asthma, and related ailments with a trial bottle offered free.
Clermont residents and visitors share travels and calls across towns. fd Sheehan went to Postville, K Groth and Chris Haug to St Olaf, Irvini Hendershott and family visited relatives, Mrs Johnston of Auburn visited her daughter, and Miss Mary Caldigall stayed with the Crowe home.
An advertisement touts Bucklow's Amnica Salve as a universal healer for boils ulcers fever sores eczema and piles. It claims instant inflammation relief and pain reduction and lists The City Drug Store as the sale point priced at 25 cents.
West Union reports visitors and guests including Mrs. John Schatz and son Carl visiting Elgin friends, Miss Ida Sargent staying with Mrs. J. M. Wimber, and Maud Blunt recovering from an auto accident. A vine pound girl arrived at the C. B. Hughes home. Mrs. H. Dunbar of Olivern visited the Goo Fritz home, and Frank Whorney with Frank Kohler transported hardwood lumber to Sanders planning mill at Payette early this week.
Hornbedk farm finishing work continues as Rev J W Baumgardner plans a move to Dumont. People travel to Oelwein Fayette Volga City and Sioux City for visits vacations and Knights of Pythias events. A new cattle and horse barn at the fair grounds promises better exhibits this year while Dr W C Stewart survives a self inflicted gun accident while cleaning a rifle.
A collection of brief notes: Dr King’s New Life Pills market health benefits against liver trouble. tariff news warns ships failed to reach New York docking, increasing duties on cargo. local fishing brag leads to breakfast of fish. record cement output in the Northwestern States. ex Governor Van Sant elected G A R Commander in Chief at East Lake City encampment. social notes report Mrs Halverson visiting the White home in West Union.
Bank ledger shows assets including real property valued at 3,020.80 and personal property at 1,430.99, total assets 1,007.05 overdraft figures, capital stock paid up, deposits including 13,101.64 demand and 1,030.00 time deposits, and cash on hand. Directors listed with incomplete lines.
Read the bank reports. Plasterers are at work on the Gus Boyar house. Elgin will have a show on Wednesday September 22. Misses Ida and Hulda Schori entertained a company of girls Friday afternoon. John Falk made a business trip to Independence to serve official papers. Iva Patterson and wife arrived from Ohio due to his mother's death. Mrs. Peter Nicklaus family reunion at her west Elgin home. Turkey River beat Elgin 6 to 3 at Marti place. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gehring hosted twenty-two relatives for supper. Frei Thonen left for Whiting Kansas then Rosebud reserve to visit brother My. Eugene Stall and wife parents of an eight and a half pound daughter. Gollmer Bros circus at Postville on the 20th. 101 Ranch show in West Union on the 31st. Veterans Enos Baldwin Hopkins attended West Union soldier reunion. enjoyable time reported. College education would be more popular if students earned money hoeing corn instead of selling books. Lewis Falk sends a postal from West Salem Wisconsin August 18 on route with papa. three towns today. Louis’s penmanship praised as very good for his age.
Transfer notices list multiple property deals from W J Rogers office in Elgin Wadena Oelwein Fayette and Fayette counties. Entries include Lehman to Mary Lehman lot and blocks in Elgin, Whittenbaugh to Ora Fox in Wadena, Wilson to Hasbroch in Oelwein, Church of Christ Disciples trustees to William Kent in Waucoma, Anna Gaynor to G W Parsons in Fayette, Campetal to Chambers in Oelwein, Catherine Puirker to J J Kieron in Waucoma, Ethel Steggal to John Steggal in Fayette, marriages licenses for Bennett Wilson Hall Murphy Mittlestadt Goldsberry Myers Miller Robbins Fox, Lang to Lang zone 15-03-10 2060, Grehlman to Ern ie Grehlman, Dodge to Kerwin, Sarah Bacon to Kitty Harper in West Union, Vosheil to Fairfield School District, Hagerman to Ann Schuil, Herriman to Benjamin J and more. Transactions cover various titles, locations, and prices.
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