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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1910
Page
4
A crowded village update lists visits and homecomings across Fayette Elkader Randalia West Union and Elgin. Notable items include weather pockets, Thanksgiving gatherings, baptisms, school term starts, church revival notices, and local social events. Interwoven are farm updates, animal sales, and appliance ads.
Oak Grove News notes on weekend and midweek visits. Mr Learn and wife spent Sunday at Georgie Howards. Rob Wilson and family visited Sunday at Tommy Howards. Ralph Reed spent Saturday night with Earl Bennett. Mr and Mrs Eddie Conner visited Thursday at Robert Wilsons. Ward Brabham and wife spent Wednesday at Enos Howards, and Schori went Wednesday to.
West Union notes list residents visiting, traveling, and social calls from Elgin Philipsburg and Cedar Rapids. It records hospital dates, court attendance, a Spokane typhoid death, obituaries, kinfolk from Ohio Wisconsin and South Dakota, and local residence updates.
A series of village notes and movements from Clermont including Anna Rogers and Nellie Nelson visiting Elgin, Mrs. Rolfs and family for West Union, Wm Larrabee Jr. in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines, Mrs W R Blake and Jessie Hills in Postville, Rafferty attending the Live Stock Exposition in Chicago, K White visiting an ill John Dickson in Luana, Dr. Fred Becker visiting for Thanksgiving, Lena Gerber's return from South Dakota, Shipton children visiting family for Thanksgiving, Sadie Hendershott moving to Broadview Mont. Bulletin, Walter Delaney returning to Waterloo, Mrs. Larrabee trip to Ft. Dodge and Lincoln, cattle collision injuring livestock, Bucklen's Arnica Salve praised as a healer, and Mason City paving progress with remaining unpaved streets contracted.
Elkader notes list Chas Huebner of Postville visiting and Chas Huebner of Grand Meadow stopping by to see his stepson Wr. Mueller. Thanksgiving visits include Treasurer C F Meier and family in Postville, Miss Florence Moran's return from Laverne and Dubuque, and Walter Dittmer with the Talley sisters from La Crosse. Health updates mention Mrs John Foster improving after surgery. Supt L L Halverson resigns as county hospital for the insane head after nearly twenty years, to be succeeded by his son George.
Abstract Office of W J Rogers reports real estate transfers for the week ending Nov 25 1910 in Oelwein Fayette and surrounding areas including Lavinnie Van Brocklin to J W Hoyer 103 acres and various lot transfers in Oelwein Arlington West Union and Fayette. Marriage licenses issued include Ralph Jenney Julia A Stebbins Henry F Schilling Olive B Pack and others with multiple pairings.
Opera House dates listed December 16 Weatherwax Quartatte December 22 Olcott Dramatic Co January 5 Perry Amusement Co January 10 Mattison W Chase February 16 Hugh A Orchard For Lane thirty seven acres of good bottom land four miles from Elgin Iowa adjoining China Meyer east and Kaoudt Mark west price and particulars call on or address Lucas Olson Elgin Iowa Lost red yearling heifer with horns notify John Fay
A 155 acre farm 24 miles northwest of Clermont listing 165 total acres with 125 under tillage or meadow and rolling timberland. It features two springs, an orchard, multiple outbuildings in fair repair, good fences, and a 24x26 house with cellar on a main road. Owner in South Dakota aims to close, price 46.00 per acre with easy terms, rental possible if not sold soon.
Various notes touch on holiday shopping, cold weather easing, skating on Otter creek, and speculation about car production. It mentions Gus Gunderson heading to West Union, a philanthropic note on Carnegie, typhoid cases in Des Moines, and the fading careers of Bat Nelson and Jem Mace with dated notes on their lives and fortunes.
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