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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1916
Page
5
A vintage shopping notice lists dry goods and wash goods at reduced prices. Includes Sport Shirts cents and ladies dresses with multiple price cuts, child rompers, middy blouses, and lace embroidery on sale. Highlights savings on shirts and dresses with large stock and first come, first served.
Good Methodists are urged to attend the 10 o clock morning service with a sermon on Hewing and Building, a sequel to last Sunday's talk on character building. The heat is no excuse. the preacher works hard and welcomes all. Sunday school starts at eleven, with a lesson on The Word of the Cross. T. Stuart Cleworth, Pastor.
Mrs. William Lewis prints a 1916 front line letter from her son Hillis E. Bennett stationed at Douglas Arizona near the Mexican border. Bennett describes border proximity 300 yards from Mexican soil, 26000 Mexican troops nearby, a captured regular soldier shot over ammunition smuggling, and his plan to finish service Feb 12 1917 before returning home. He mentions his cornet bought for 56 dollars and hopes for a home visit after muster out.
B C Henderson of Clermont township was hurt yesterday while haying. He fell from a load of hay and dislocated his shoulder and collar bone. He was transported to West Union for an X ray at Dr Berry's office.
The Fay ette County Veteran association holds the annual Old Soldiers Reunion in West Union on Tuesday and Wednesday August 16. Officers include Commander George W. Fitch and Adjutant D. H. Hall. Program features bugle calls, addresses, music from the West Union Concert Band, campfire events, readings by Mrs. Jessie Byers and Mrs. K A McMasters, and selections by Campfire girls. Proceedings continue with speeches, ukulele songs, and a W R C visit, concluding Wednesday with officer elections and My Country, ’Tis of Thee.
Lectures titled Lies Black and White and Seeing South America will be presented by Rev. W C Cleworth of Tama at St Pauls M E church Loelock on August 1 and 2. Program includes Canadian views and Panama Pacific Exposition footage with musical preludes by local quartets. Admission 60 cents adults, 35 cents children, 25 cents for single and missionary tickets. 50 cent refund if not satisfied.
An 80 acre Ellen Barnhouse Farm property southeast of Wear in Union on the main road near a school is offered. Described as a good 80 with fair improvements and a reasonable purchase price, with viewing by the Elgin Land Company. Miss Marie Falk plans to travel soon to Engle Grove Minnesota with her friend Miss Galena Olson.
The West Union weather service led by Col. D. W. Bopp notes temperatures from 93 to 98 but says records aren’t being broken this season. The real record is the longest run of hot weather since 1910, with the spell starting June 28 and pastures showing strain across parts of the county. Also mentions a closing sale at Halstenson with workhays priced at 2.48 and 2.98.
A newspaper item warns travel without Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is risky and that the product is available from R. W. Stuehlenthaler. An exchange quotes a wife who handles chores at dawn before her husband awakes, suggesting marital harmony as a remedy for failed marriages. Farmers request rain, noting regional drought relief is needed compared with other parts of the state.
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