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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1902
Page
5
The bulletin announces property listings from 20 to 820 acres including rice land at varied prices, with down payments as low as 250 dollars. It mentions exchanges, multiple county properties, business blocks, and loans on security with no show fee unless a sale occurs.
In Elkader Bayless at Hotel Gorner has new landlords since January 18, 0 G Smith and Ed Rogers bought the furniture equipment and business from J A Stringer. Myrtle Loop pleaded guilty to adultery in Elkader court and received one hour in jail a ten dollar fine and costs. The region sees postal clerks shift from McGregor to Dubuque and changes in New Hampton smallpox quarantines. A Lansing beauty contest winner is named and a Dubuque squirrel case results in a forty dollar penalty for off season shooting.
A letter argues many Elgin business houses do not advertise in the local paper. It contends fair play requires all merchants to promote town commerce, praising advertisers who draw buyers and warning against freeloaders who benefit without supporting the paper. The piece stresses the community gains when every merchant contributes to the paper’s patronage and town progress.
The Clermont Iowa hardware establishment of Chris Miller Jr is praised for its large complete stock and affordable prices in the past six months selling over a hundred stores worth of goods. The shop offers hardware tools sporting goods and repairs and invites contractors to bid on supplies. Mrs Graham announces a new stock of tall and winter hats trimmings and millinery near the depot inviting ladies to inspect.
Oelwein notes report BF Little leaving for New Mexico for health. Fayette UIT winter term opens with every seat filled in the commercial department. The Board of Directors picks The Register The Arg o and The Union as official papers. Ex county attorney H P Hancock organizes a bank at St Charles Minnesota. Chas W Bopp in Panora Guthrie county starts a new bank with 38000 capital. Uncle Joe Godfrey, Burlington engineer, suffers paralysis from a paretic attack limiting his mobility. West Union hosts a race meeting. Cedar Valley Trotting Circuit excluded this year. A smallpox outbreak reaches Oelwein with about forty cases. one young woman’s condition is grave. Mrs J O Hoover severely injures her arm in streetcar incident near Be. Luke’s hospital. News tip line requests reports.
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