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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
4
Large list of farms from three acres up offered with small down payments and easy terms. Includes locations near West Union with details on house, barn, wells, timber, and cultivation. prices from 50 per acre to 2400 for whole parcels. Also notes loans on security and available rental farms with weekly tenant applications.
Dr Berry was in our vicinity Saturday Ed Kobler visited Elkader last week Hans Winkler moved to the Kimpson farm Walter Rothliisberger visited Fay ette Frank Mellberry family at Israel Shaffer home Lena Schneider helps Fremont Ogle with duties John Rothlinberger home gathering Elma Medberry spent time with Edith Richards Eldred Patterson improving health Chas Fritz and wife visited Ossian Fred Rothlisberger bought the old home Mrs Chas Oswald and others visiting Mrs Medberry Mrs Jack Patterson funeral at Union church Dec 3 Surprise party for Mrs Margaret Peters 72nd birthday Rocking chairs presented Dr Kings New Discovery praised for coughs colds and lung disease City Drug Store 50c and 1 00 trial bottle free
Oak Grove notices list Ed Conner and wife visiting Sunday at the Ashbury Conner home, Mrs. Della Wilson visiting Elgin, and Annie with Inez Howard visiting Thos. Howard home in Elgin. Gleaners plan an installation at Ed Conner’s home on January 8. C. W. Smith installs a new furnace with Fred Gehring. Earn Holzer and family visit John Cunningham in Elgin on Sunday. John Wilson and Joe Cain return home from Oscombell Wisconsin Wednesday morning. Frank Boyle’s son George injures fingers on the way home from school Monday. Tra Bennett sells hogs to R. W. Helms for 117.90 on December 8. Minnie Smith, daughter of C. W. Smith, marries a Mr. Bowen of North Dakota on November 28. they live on the groom’s farm in North Dakota. Souvenir post cards of Elgin sold at Finke’s Drug Store.
West Union social and business notices recount visits and travel across Iowa and Texas. Highlights include Woolard in Dubuque, Miss Chambers and Harley Wright returning to Iowa City, a fire at the Rowland home, a land-seeking trip to Texas with Star Land Co. personnel, and Knightly ceremonies in the Commandery with a banquet. Community members and families are noted in gatherings, illnesses, and local happenings.
John Crowe Jr of West Union was here between trains during Thanksgiving. Miss Nellie Cavanaugh spent the latter part of last week at West Union. Dennis Murphy and family of St Paul spent Thanksgiving at John Houlihan's. Hon William Larrabee returned.
If a baby lacks nourishment from mother's milk or artificial food, Scott's Emulsion supplies essential fat elements. It supports growth when the baby is not properly nourished by its current feeding.
An old promotional notice touts Scott's Emulsion claiming magical effects for babies and children. It advertises a fifty cent bottle and requests readers mail the newspaper name, address, and four cents to receive a free atlas.
Subdistrict No. 9 Pleasant Valley reports the month ending December 4. No. perfect attendance. Students absent or tardy: Willie Boyle Georgie Boyle Bennie Brabham Harold Light. Attended daily but were tardy: Arthur Gage Elmer Gage Dolly Baldwin. Parents visited frequently. cooperation of home and school is valued. Jennie Anderson.
Leo F. Zelinski of 68 Gibson St Buffalo says Bucklen s Amica Salve cured a severe cold sore in two days with a single daily application. He notes the sore left no trace and the product is guaranteed at City Drug Store.
T. J. Capren advertises the largest and best line of shoes yet carried offering men's, women's, boys, girls, and babies footwear. The ad promises fit, good service, and customer satisfaction with a trial purchase.
An ad notes that appendectomy is a dangerous operation while Dr King's New Life Pills promise painless relief. The copy claims the pills work quietly and cure constipation headache biliousness and malaria, priced 25 cents at the City Drug Store.
All book accounts due the firm of Muehlenthaler Bros. must be settled at once. Call at Muehlenthaler & Halverson's drug store to settle immediately. MUEHLENTHALER Bros.
Notice to all persons owing Kisney for work through November 1908 to call and settle by January 1909. Indebted parties are urged to clear accounts promptly as of the stated dates.
A report notes Matthys sorghum 100 percent pure sorghum featured at Thoma Brothers. A dance Saturday night drew a big crowd with good music and a fine floor. Nellie Nelson leaves Thursday for Wisconsin to visit relatives, planning a Dubuque stop on the return trip. A patent on a door hinge was granted last week to W D Kiple. Henry Topp has been confined to bed since Sunday with stomach and kidney trouble.
The editor notes rising Iowa divorce figures from 1867 to 1906 with 15 564 and 34 874 decrees, and a high per 100 000 rate. Comparisons to Illinois follow as do remarks on politics and newspaper work. Also mentions Kodol digestives and a millinery incident.
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