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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1910
Page
7
Our Semi-Annual Clearing Sale begins Thursday July 14 and ends Saturday July 30. UK policy requires complete clearance of spring and summer goods with deep reductions across all lines. 20 percent discount on wool dress goods. Remnants of wool dress goods prints chambrays and ginghams offered at very low prices. Av splendid line to be closed out per yard.
With drought driving up prices in the western wheat region, two carloads of hard wheat flour are offered at 1.40 per sack, ten cents below wholesale. Limited sacks per party, sale lasts while two cars remain.
An old sale notice touts 26 percent reductions on mens and boys knit underwear shirts drawers and union suits with some items at half price. It promises 20 percent off lace curtains and clearances on ginghams precales and outing flannels at very low prices amid high grocery costs.
Local social visits and family news fill the page with from Sunday gatherings in Union and Fayette to travel with relatives in Cedar Rapids. Ongoing construction on the R W Muehlenthaler home and a new county concrete bridge near West Union are noted along with regional farming, cattle soundness, oats harvest, and a growing bank deposit figure in Iowa.
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