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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
4
Christmas draws near and the store invites you to browse its stock for perfect gifts. Hats caps shoes flossery mittens and handkerchiefs are available from 5 cents. Christmas neckwear in new styles and colors ranges from 25 cents to 1.00.
A brief ad notes stockings as desirable gifts and offers items like cotton wool silk stockings from 10¢ to $1.00. It suggests Fathers and brothers would appreciate a suit case traveling bag suspenders or socks as a fine present.
Christmas will be here soon as farmers finish husking corn. Mrs Andrew Yearous nurses a sore hand. Lawrence MacKellar installs a new piano. Mrs Lawrence MacKellar visits Oelwein. Louis Becker visits from Elgin. Jack Shaffer and wife welcome a new son. Walter Rothlisberger and wife are grandparents to an eleven pound boy born December. Fred Reichert and wife host Thanksgiving guests. Several local and visiting relatives noted. Thanksgiving festivities at H McMillan home. Sloan’s Liniment advertised for rheumatism relief with money back guarantee.
Dr J Becker spent Thanksgiving with son Dr F J Becker. Mrs R Muehlenthaler and Mrs Kohler of Elgin were Clermont callers. Mrs Wm Larrabee and daughter Anna left for New York for a week or ten days. Beman Dreiser’s mother died of pneumonia, funeral Friday by Rev Schmidt of Postville. Odd Fellows show spirit at Clermont lodge, oyster supper at Pringle’s. Local business men book two picture shows The Dawn of Plenty and The Dawn of Commerce to the opera house this week. Dr Bell’s Pine-Tay-Honey advertised as cold remedy with germ-fighting claim.
A local real estate listing details several farms for sale near Clermont Elgin West Union Brainard and Wadena. Properties include Old Vinton farm 175 acres with buildings and water works. Turkey River Stock Farm 150 acres with 7 room house and modern outbuildings. timber soil farms 78 acres to 163 acres with houses barns and orchards. Also offers 208 acre Clermont area farm and Ideal Stock Farm 154 acres with spring, and multiple smaller plots 80 40 120 acres with varying improvements. Prices range from about 85 to 135 per acre with various terms and nearby school access. A hotel property The Depot Hotel and other listings appear.
The Elgin roller mill family Weibel Brothers announces flour and feed supply and electric power service. A Chicago firm reports machines to dig graves of European war victims have been perfected and thirteen burners ordered by two allied nations. On non contact days the pew war machine may be used for digging graves.
The Robert Wilson Farm, 190 acres, one of Mayette county's best, never rented and cared for by its owners. Main road access, 160 acres tilable, rest pasture with a large spring. Estate sells at $125 per acre with adjoining 28 acre parcel also offered. Elgin Land Agency Weibel Bros Hughes promotes sale as health trends shift to travel.
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