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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1917
Page
7
If patients come from Elgin on the morning train they may phone or drop a card to save time for a noon return. Those arriving on the afternoon train can return on the evening train. Drivers or train travelers receive a special price. The office boasts finest equipment in Iowa with instruments that stay in town.
Pierce Moser and family visited his parents Mr and Mrs R W Moser and other relatives in town arriving Sunday from Nunda South Dakota. They traveled by car with camping gear, enjoyed the trip, and plan to tour Strawberry Point and Ellender before heading home in about two weeks. Moser notes crops and small grain look good back home.
About twenty quoit fans gathered at Klock's Island Fayette Thursday afternoon to discuss county tournament rules for Harvest Home Picnic day. The rules set forty foot stake distance iron stakes one inch diameter four inches high, shoe not counting if over one foot from stake, each entrant brings shoes, one cork hubber, two ringers tie, ringer counts above a hut, brakes to be whited, game to 11 points, best two of three wins, partners from towns, no entry fee, contest at 10 am with advance entries. those from Elgin invited to send names to C W Stevenson.
Clif Christ, who visited Elgin from Minnesota, enlisted with seven friends to form a battery at Marshall. The unit reached the required 190 men and will begin training. Christ joins his father and grandfather in U S service, while Berg & Kobler advertise a big savings sale.
Local notes report auctioneer Fred Bergpps and Chris Moser drilling for George E. Schori for water and housing needs. War impact includes Three-I league losses, auto theft law, community events, reunions, hospital visits, and several accidents and social notices in Fayette County Iowa with names like Elmer Schori, Mel Kohler, C. S. Halstenson, and Mrs. C. O. Fothergill.
The West Union Chautauqua runs Sunday July 29 to Thursday August 8 with daily programs. On Tuesday July 31 William Jennings Bryan speaks in afternoon and evening, 2:30 and 8:15, lecture Fundamentals and Two Pictures. Admission 36 and 60 cents. Also a testimonial for Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy from John T. Jantzen of Delmeny Sask. Sold by Stoehr's Pharmacy.
Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy advertised for summer use. Stoehr’s Pharmacy sells the remedy. Fayette Harvest Home Picnic set for August 16 with a full program and sport, inviting everyone to attend. Despondency linked to indigestion and constipation, Chamberlain’s Tablets offered to ease digestion and bowel movement.
The Elgin Concert Band plans a street concert next Wednesday evening and invites Mrs. John Ping and daughters and Mrs. Frank Greenley and son Harold to attend. The writer mentions a visit to Clayton and Guttenberg yesterday to see relatives and friends.
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