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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1912
Page
4
Illryia items detail neighbors visiting, hosting relatives, and small-town happenings. Ed Kohler builds a milk house for Wenger Bros, the Gleaner picnic attracts many, and Lena Medberry receives a new organ as a birthday gift. Several residents travel between West Union, Fayette, Elkader, and Oelwein, with family visits, illnesses, and church events noted. Electric Litters advertised as health boosters.
A vintage ad urges women to avoid weakness and bad breath, praising Dr. King's Life Pills for strength, complexion, and cheerful spirits. It promises easy, safe, sure results for 25 cents at local drug stores.
Oak Grove News reports Carl Bennett aiding Ern Holza with farm work while Mae Bennett stayed Tuesday night at the Frank Medberry home. Mrs. Robert Wilson visited Wm. Brabham on Wednesday afternoon and Mae Bennett completed a successful schooling term. Edith Conner and Mabel Pinney stayed Wednesday night at Hugh Conner’s. Tommie Howard and family spent Sunday afternoon with Robert Wilson, and Marie Holzer visits her uncle Henry Holzer this week. Mrs. Roy Vought and her daughter Aletta stayed from Wednesday onward.
Alta Hofer is indisposed while Mike Monnahans entertained Sunday. Henry Feller and family visited Amelia Strong, Walter Pritchard and Tim Thomann hosted Tim Thomann’s guests, Pritchards greeted Griesingers, and many locals joined the Gleaner picnic. Augusta Oberbeck and relatives appear in the county life roundup with visits, callers, and returning residents noted.
J W Knight returned yesterday to Elgin after visiting since Saturday with his daughter Miss Ednon Mrs C E Patterson and children spent Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs W H Vinton of Elgin Misses Lydia and Hattie Kerr of Elgin came yesterday to visit till tomorrow at the T F Richards home Mrs Anna Clark of Spokane came today for a three weeks visit with her brother John Kohler She left t here fifteen years ago Dr E A Ainsworth left Monday for a two weeks vacation trip to New York and Philadelphia Returning he will be accompanied by Mrs
Alneworth visits daughter in New York then Judge Hobson and Mrs Hobson with Reporter Comstock travel to Fredericksburg to catch a train to Rochester where he will enter a hospital for gallstone surgery. A Boston man later loses a leg from an insect bite two years prior. Advert: Bicklen’s Amioa Salve, 26 cents at The City Drug Store, claims to relieve poison, inflammation, swelling and pain.
Local notes list residents visiting and visiting patterns with names and places including Bernice Badger Aloe Frisbie Henry Badger Crain Elgin George Randall Frisbie Clarence Tripp Fred Crowe Frank Bowers Ernest Meyer Meyer family Appleman Cresco and local glee area gathering. An advertisement extols Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs colds and throat and lung diseases with testimonial and price details.
Local notes show Miss Minnie Fennel home for summer. Emma Schmidt from Payette visited friends. Mrs. Fox and children toured Volga City. Alice Bigter visited West Union Clermont and Elgin. Rebecca Curtis visited Matt Klingman. others traveled to Chicago. Community members attend U B quarterly meeting at Garden Prairie. Perle Klingman and Bertha Gehiring were visitors. Dan Raftis returned from Osborne visit. Will Gehring came from Oklahoma to join family. Social visits, class events, and local business calls fill a busy week in West Union area.
Nettie Peters visited her brother Will Peters near Volga City from Wednesday to Friday. Misses Hannah Leahy and Maggie Kennedy traveled to Dubuque on Wednesday. Leahy bought an organ for the primary room and a piano for the intermediate room where she teaches, Kennedy bought a piano for her own use. The Indies note it as a bargains spot with special sales.
John Fennel visits from Wadena while Dr. Burley of Chicago stays with Highland and Boardman relatives. Atty. Murphy departs for Baltimore to attend the national democratic convention as a 4th Iowa district delegate. Robt. Peters of Highland and Scott Wickham with family visit the Prouty and Foster households, and John Hauschen of Clayton attends Ernest Hauschen’s wedding in Elkport. Asphalt oil experiments on First street hint at road improvements amid Clayton County’s growing boom and new school plans, signaling rising population and business activity.
Wm Larrabee Jr and Don L Love return from Chicago. Cement floor laid in basement of the new opera house this week. Foundation for Wm Larrabee Jr’s new residence completed. Mrs Fred Hendershott and child and Miss Anna Krueger return home from Fayette. Clarence Graver, recently enlisted in the U S Navy, came home for a brief visit before reporting to the Training Station at North Chicago and then Philadelphia with his company.
A financial report submitted to Mayor and Council of Elgin Iowa for the year ending March 1 1912 detailing receipts and expenditures in the General and Hoxd funds. It lists cash on hand at year start receipts from county transfers rent and adjustments, transfers between funds, street expenditures and labor, crossings materials, and cash on hand at year end. The Finance Committee including Patterson T W Doan and Max Thoma signs off on the completeness of the town’s accounts.
Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton argues against drastic proscriptions and notes that temperance in speech matters as much as temperance in conduct. He warns prohibition can backfire by unintentionally boosting crime and demoralization, supporting regulated, moderate drinking and self control.
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