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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
2
Local column announcements show advertising rates five cents per insertion with display and local advertisements repeated until canceled. Accounts payable monthly. The paper offers jobbing material and printing services with one year advance rates of 81.00 and six months advance options.
A Thursday July 27 1906 notice lists candidates seeking renomination or nomination for Fayette County offices. Names include J L Scallan for County Auditor C F Chambers for Treasurer E H Stewart for Sheriff Charles O Haran for Sheriff R E Bates for County Auditor L P Paraxipe for County Attorney W C Lewis for County Attorney C E Barney for Treasurer T J Wonnenberg for Recorder and Gus Gunderson for Supervisor with nominations to be decided by the Republican County Convention in West Union Fayette County Iowa.
Old papers for sale at this office. West Union visitors and local social updates include Will Kohler, F. M. Smith and wife, Eugene Stahl and family, and Mrs. N. H. Bakeman. Local ads mention canned corn, piano offerings, carpet warp, Pinesalve salve, and shirts. Steamboat tickets bought for Szabanka Hungaria for relatives Dorogi Imrene and two daughters Elizabeth and Mary.
Mrs. Nancy Montgomery, a Fayette pioneer, died at her Fayette home on July 18 after visiting her daughter Mrs. Everett Phillips in West Union. The notice lists local social activity and various family updates including new births, visits, picnics, and a serious child accident near Luana involving a grindstone injuring a girl.
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