Very Low Fares to California and Pacific Northwest
Rock Island Lines offers one way colonist tickets to California September 15 to October 15, 1911 from Chicago and many midwest cities at low rates. Travelers may ride fast trains with dining cars, in roomy Pullman berths at half the usual cost, with routes via El Paso or scenic Colorado Rockies.
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Rock Island
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Des Moines
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Pacific Coast
el Paso
Colorado Rockies
Salt
Rock Island Lines
California
St. Joseph
Kansas Cit
Des Damnes
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Rock
Bock Taland Lines
Local notes and visits across Clermont area
Alma Mark visits Clermont while many neighbors and relatives spend time with kin and at homes in Elkader Clermont and nearby towns. School opens with Miss Hofer teaching, others travel to Prairie du Chien Wis. and Des Moines for events and visits. Bucklen's Arnica gives relief for burns and injuries, sold at The City Drug Store.
Castalia land sale alters local farm holdings milestone
James Sullivan sold Frank Perry's 204 acre farm one mile west of Castalia to Chas Tatro for 30000 dollars. Other notes: residents visit relatives near Fayette and Elk in Elgin, plans for a canning factory switch with Rock Island officials, and various injuries and near misses on farms. plus local editorial on blood purification and wildlife regulations for 1918.
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Enterprise
Mery Halverson
Elgin
Scott Wickham
Kellogg
Idaho
Hon. C. Miller
West Union
Rock Island
Wisconsin
Lake Superior
Fayette County
Iowa
West Union Brief Local Notes From County Seat Papers
Mrs. Mac Patterson and two sons visited her father J. Earle in West Union last evening. T Rubyer arrived from Elgin to share fishing tales from Rice Lake. Fred Blunt is constructing a farm dwelling northeast of town across from his mother Emma Blunt’s home. Kohler Bros. have the cor-
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Jeanette K. Whitmore
West Union Cemetery
Los Angeles
A. ¥. Whitmore
Mac Patterson
Fayette
J. x. Earle
T. Rubyer
Elgin
Rice Lake
Fred Blunt
Emma Blunt
Kohler Bros
Elkader Notes On Land Trips And Visitors
Elkader notes report V L Gilje leaving for Dickey North Dakota to inspect land interests. Franz Heytrich and wife, back from a western visit, were in town briefly. R F Schmidt and family departed by car for Dubuque LaPorte and other points, about a week away. Mrs Lowrey and the Misses Witt Canada Wilke visited Postville Sunday in Robt Schmidt’s auto. Mrs Clavis Olson and son Clarence of Gander called. They traveled in Jiatt Jones’ auto. Joe Kramer and Fred Ehrhardt loaded 17 Poland China hogs and headed for the Des Moines state fair. Oscar Frieden northwest of Elkader turned his hand recently.
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Franz Heytrich
R. F. Schmidt
Dubuque
LaPorte
Lowrey
Alta Witt
Winnifred Canada
Jessie
Tda Wilke
Postville
Robt. Schmidt
Clavis K. Olson
Clarence
Gander
Ji Att Jones
Joe Kramer
Fred Ehrhardt
Mr. Kramer
Des Moines
Buffalo man praises Dr King's New Life Pills
Paul Mathulka of Buffalo says he always keeps at home Dr King's New Life Pills the king of laxatives. The pills cure constipation and indigestion and headaches and dyspepsia. Only 26 cents at The City Drug.
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Thos, Ariss
Concord, Mich
Garth
City
Paul Mathulka
Buffalo
Dr. King
Illyria Items and Visitors From the Neighborhood
Illyria notes list Sophia Frey and Mabel Gehring visiting, Edgar Kimball at the parental home, Elkader visitors H Kerr and Will Klingman, local sheep delivered to Wadena, Mrs Elizabeth Kimball at Reichert home, sweet corn hauled to a factory, Mrs William Doty visiting Bert’s home, and various neighbors at Reichert and Ogle/Winkler homes. The Gypsy band sparked excitement, a circus drew crowds from the district, and many locals circulated between West Union and Oelwein with church, farm, and social visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia Frey
Mabel Gehring
Edgar Kimball
H. Kerr
Will Klingman
Wadena
Elizabeth Kimball
Reichert
William Doty
Bert
Mel Richie
Oelwein
Ogle
Winkler
Chas. Rothlisberger
Richards
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E. A. McIlree
Pacific Northwest
Nae Sen
S. S. Worley
Lowa
Gunder
Alma Mark
Clermont
W. Wettleson
Harold Landsgard
St. Olaf
Josie Noss
B. Erickson
Elkader
Rev
Arveson
Oscar Lind
Myrtle Bryant
Rigin
Tena Nelson
Miss Hofer
Etkader
John Johnson and Son
Dex Moines
Julia Christianson
Anna Kirkeberg
Griffith
B. Nelson
L. Amundson
Myrtle
Groth
Tillis Halverson
Reiarson
Halstenson
Gilje
L. T. Loftsgard
Phe Little
Gqisleson
Milo Harold
Norn
A. Anderson
Emma Amundson
Igleones Landsgard
I. Eg. Chamberlain
Clinton
Poldly
Bucklen
Arnica
Clermont News
BR. L. Shaffer
Geneva Neb
Mr. Shaffer
Mrs. W. 17. Shaffer
Gus Westrum
C. Miller & Sons
Gus
J. F. Miller Jr
Harry Nelson
Rockford
Chris Mohring
Henry Connor
Fred Wolf
Ruth Ainsworth
Newport
Washington
Tikader
Wolf
William E. Fuller
Ida Taggart
Nebraska
Electrica
C. T. Budaba
Tracy
Calif
Geo. “A. Lincoln
Turkey
V. L. Gilje
Dickey, N. D
Oscar Frieden
Illyria
Page
Chas Fritz
Rose Wenger
Fred Rothlisberger
John
Frances Foxwell
L. MacKellar
Sandrine Hummel
Earl
Jay Colgrove
C. M. Klingman
Cosgrove
Fred Reichert
Fritz
Chas Chapman
Andrew
Waterloo
Ed Talcott
Maynard
Non Savage
Cal
Jerome Yearous
Mrs. A. Yearous
Bila Foxwell
Ida Wenger
Budith Richards
Institute
The
Opera ‘House
Ee Es Rete
State of
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Batate of Botany
Baldwin
Harry W. Baldwin
Belle Baldwin
Melissa Kimball
al. Kimball
Austa Durkee
Ota E the District Court
Faratte County
Tome
Henry M. McMillan
Rateay Baldwin
Lutra
Uepinnin
Faye’ County
Betsey Baldwin
Rass
Fayette Bhai
Bnby M. McMinnan
Bowers & Adams
Leona M. Wells
United States
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Senate
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