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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
4
Dates run January 27 through February 12 inclusive featuring underwear at 15 cents for grade 1 and 1c for grade woolens in a department store clearance event. Store promotes deep discounts across intimate wear and wool textiles.
Illyria notes a quiet week with relatives visits by Jessie Probert James Fisher Ed Kobler and others. Social calls include the Richards MacKellar and Gibson families. A baby girl arrives in Illinois and local church activities pause due to bad roads. Bucklen Arnica Salve ad ends the column.
Dr King’s New Life Pills advertised as safe, easy relief for constipation biliousness dyspepsia indigestion liver and kidney troubles and bowel disorders. The City Drug Store advertised 256 in stock.
Oak Grove News reports Will Howard and family visiting Fred Schori at his home Ward Brabham and wife spent Sunday with Ed Boyle Hank Holzers daughter is noted in a brief fragment pending completion of report
German Bottom Edward Grimm hauls a car to Higin days and Rudolph Pulfer has a tard cutting. The old Lattimer house serves as a school since District No 8’s schoolhouse burned. Geo Marty and the Butikofer family visited Oscar Friden home Tuesday. Murray W Ayars of Transit New York nearly died but was saved by Electric Bitters after severe liver trouble and weight loss. The drug is sold for 50 cents at The City Drug Store.
West Union items list visits by von Rolf of Omaha and Sid Carter in Elgin, along with business trips by C B Hughes and Dr E B Ainsworth snowbound near Oelwein. Local social notes cover Bartholomews, Hobson, Dershaw, and other residents, court docket total and a neighborhood dinner at the Kent home. Gasoline available at Finke's drugstore.
Clermont News lists residents traveling to Elgin and other communities, with mentions of Mrs Ed Boozer and children, Fredrick Larrabee, Miss Rebecca Hendershott, Earl Shaffer, K. H. Groth, Nick Rafferty, and Wm Larrabee Jr on various trips. It also notes Enoch Bilden and Will Sheehy visiting Lavina Montana, and others returning to Cedar Rapids Madison area. Also mentions insurance agent appointment in north Fayette county and several land transfer entries. A bold weather warning advises blizzard dangers and promotes Dr King’s New Discovery as a remedy.
Real estate transfers listed by the Abstract Office of W J Rogers for the week ending January 14 1910 include A L Cosgrove and others transferring to J J Mc Naul at 180 block 11 Randalia for 25 dollars and a transfer from John Houlihan to Sarah Dibble.
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