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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1914
Page
4
Farmers harvest activity fills the week in Mlyria with many social calls and visits. Elmer Medberry is indisposed while John Baldwin and wife entertain guests. Several residents travel to Cedar Rapids and Volga for visits and medical care, and local discourse and a deer ear event add to the town’s routine. A health note presents Hall's Catarrh Cure with a promotional claim and product suggestions.
Frank Lyons visits Albany Sunday while Henry Miller goes to Elgin on business. Craft and Co unloaded a salt car Monday. John Birch and Walter Jennings were at Elkader Saturday. Mrs. John Mattocks travels to Dakota to see her ill sister. Mrs. G W Tripp and Mrs. John Surch visit at West Union Tuesday. Venderlast of Oslwein was a local caller last week. Harley Helma family and Miss Selma Buchanan visited M C Hoveys Sunday. Henry Martin and Elmer Boyer delivered butcher stuf to Wenger Bros Monday. Grace Conner of Elgin visited sisters Mrs. John Gearn last week. Mr. and Mrs. Overbeck went to McHenry North Dakota to visit their son George.
The ad pitches Dr King s New Life Pills as a cure for headaches bad breath sour stomach indigestion and sluggish liver with a promise of a full bowel movement and a satisfied feeling. It promotes Bucklen s Arnica Salve for burns at a 25 cent price.
The column lists names traveling to the Republican State Convention in Des Moines Jas Reisner Burns Chandel and H P Hancock plus local events. A Tennis Club of eleven works on the Presbyterian church lot while visits include Mrs J B Kingsbury and Mrs N J Berger of Osage, the Butler family, E M Philips in Milwaukee for Northwestern Mutual Life gathering, and a death in Lawler of Patrick McMahon. Also notices Sloan's Liniment and Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertisements.
F B Ferguson and Dibble traveled to Elgin on Monday. J H Sheehan made a county seat business visit yesterday. Mrs Charles Larrabee and child ran of Ft Dodge are staying at Montauk. B C Graver visited Mason City at the start of the week. Robbins of Cedar Rapids stayed with her mother at Montauk. Hon C Miller went to Des Moines Tuesday as a Republican delegate. Earl Grover took a bank position in Beaver Creek Minnesota and left Friday night. Mrs E W Appelman visited Iowa City last Friday to see her daughter Helen, a nurse.
Atty W W Davidson Ed Beer Nate Landon and A H Welt departed last Wednesday by automobile for a South Dakota trip. Max Bishop his wife and baby and Ruth Bishop visited Bloomington Wigan Thursday with brother Arthur Bishop. Chas Besson left Monday for Ames then Will Rock to take a milk tester job with a farmers’ association at a good salary. Sehmidt Bros & Co have let a concrete dam contract across the Turkey River and will remodel the electric light and power plant. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve advertised for cuts burns sores wounds and lockjaw. Real estate transfers expected to surge through selling season. inquiries invited from readers. Ben Lane AGunoy Wurst Bros Hugitzs.
Amended and renewed articles of incorporation for the Elgin Farmers Dairy Company of Elgin Iowa extend the corporate period twenty years from May 1 1934. The document, dated March 18 1914, sets terms for directors officers stock, and bylaws and notes authority to sign record publish and acknowledge the renewal. Public notarization by Samuel Mosby.
A long list of farm properties for sale around Elgin and surrounding towns. Several listings describe 48 acres timber land near Fayette county, 131 acres near Elgin with spring water, 118 acres near Wadena with improvements, and multiple 70 to 200 acre farms with houses, barns, granaries, and springs. Many properties are described as tillable or suitable for pasture, with schools nearby, and prices implied as favorable or “low.” Some parcels include orchards, windmills, and road access, all promising quick sale to prepared buyers.
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