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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
2
The speaker offers options for patients traveling by morning, afternoon, or evening trains. They propose calling or dropping a card to save time and enable a return on the chosen train. The note emphasizes coordinating travel without extra delays.
The Elgin Echo recounts war support appeals, local announcements, and social notes. It highlights a War Savings Stamp success, patriotic calls for home front effort, local visits, and community events while noting shortages and public responses amid World War I.
Draying of all kinds offered with prompt attention. Charges reasonable and a share of your patronage requested. Agency for The Hawkeye Gasoline and Kerosene. Delivery to any part of the city. Phone at residence.
A jumble of small town items reports a Milwaukee depot mishap with a lawyerly misprint, the first Clayton county soldier killed in France named Leslie Smith, Cliff Christ joining the Marine Band at Great Lakes, a new daughter to Mr and Mrs Arnold of Manchester, harvest season musings, and visits by Thelma Knudtson and Francis Skarshaug in Iowa City.
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