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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
4
Tam issues bulletin No. 26 listing farms and town properties for sale with spring and summer advertising benefits. Illinois agents prepare buyers, no listing charges unless sold, Fayette County focus, private loan funds available, small down payments for homes and farms, easy terms, call to view the list.
Illyria community reports visits by Lydia Kerr to Elgin and Chas Strong to Maynard, several relatives gatherings at Rothlisberger and Fritz homes, and numerous neighborly calls. Children’s Day exercises drew large crowds while various residents plan visits to Elgin Prairie du Chien and Donnan. Local weddings, barn party at Chas Medberry’s, and a parade of friendly outings mark the week.
C M Harden of Silver City North Carolina says Pleo Bitters does all claimed for stomach liver and kidney troubles. He tried it and found it excellent medicine for weakness lame back and run down conditions. Also good for chills and malaria sold under guarantee at Muehlenthaler Bros drugstore 50a
Tuesday returns, travel notices, and local updates across Clermont. Postmaster Crowe visits Postville relatives while Jennie Hendershots returns from Fayette. Miss Ruth Anderson comes home from a country visit as Ole Anderson recovers. Father Farrelly attends a Dubuque retreat. Joseph Wolfe, a Dover Township resident, dies and is buried at Ossian. Nearby visits include Dr McClellen from Cedar Rapids and E H Appelman touring St Paul. Chris Miller tears up boards for cement front and notable improvement expected.
J W Jenkins of Chapel Hill North Carolina praises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve calling it the best salve the world affords. He reports it cured a felon on his thumb and always heals sores, burns, or wounds it’s applied to. 25 cents at Muehklenthaler Bros. drug store.
Mrs Zeigler returned home from Europe Saturday. Sid Rubger of Elgin and his wife visited over Sunday. Jennie Thompson is home from her school near Clermont which closed last Friday. John Q Adame secured two patents on June 9 for a rotary engine and a mail car catching delivering apparatus. F Y Whitmore’s telegram says son F B Whitmore arrived in San Francisco and will visit California before returning home. Polly the parrot died after 21 years at the Heiserman home. Mr and Mrs 4 B Rubyer were called to Cedar Rapids by Fred Parott’s illness. Anson returned Tuesday leaving Mrs Rubyer to help care for her brother. A Hanson boy from Gelwein, previously sentenced for larceny, was working in a quarry last Thursday.
A prisoner trying to escape was shot in the leg by a guard, likely adding three to five years to his sentence. L. GC, Beamer left Saturday for Waterloo to take a trap drummer post at an Electrical Theatre, praising Dr King s New Life Pills as effective for years.
A collection of satirical quips on money, fools, and social habits, with a local item noting the Salvation Army’s permit suspension in Pittsburg after police questioned funds handling and warned arrests if activity continued. The piece blends pungent humor with a public notice of regulatory action.
Church notes invite attendance at prayer meeting service and Sunday programs led by Rev Gallagher. Local updates cover ads, bank board findings, a typhoid outbreak in Fort Dodge, Chicago reform efforts, a tuberculosis outdoor camp planned for Dubuque, a West Union Chautauqua outing, Fourth of July plans, and a Des Moines murder incident involving a 13 year old.
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