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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
4
BOPP S New Bulletin announces additional property listings for bulletin No 26 with spring and summer advertising benefits for farms, aimed at liberal inquiries from Illinois and local buyers. No listing charges unless sold, private money available for farm and chattel loans, and low down payments on residences and farms with easy monthly terms.
Illyria items record Sunday and Monday callers at local homes, visits with relatives, and gatherings. Names include Kimpson, Wenger, Ernst, Rothlisberger, Gl ingman, Doty, Medberry, Foxwell, Shaffer, Baily, Kerr, and others. Local ads praise Dr King’s New Discovery at Muehlenthaler Bros, with multiple family visits and a notable arm injury from a horse incident.
Mrs Alfred Imhof was on the sick list a few days last week. Mrs John Schmid is slowly improving. Mrs Tofield Lehman spent last Sunday with John Ritz and family. Miss Roba Garber helped Miss Schmid with housework. Farmers are busy haying and harvesting. W A Schupbach visited Fred Frederick’s home. Mrs Ben Frieden stayed over with her sister Mrs Louisa Martie who is ill. John Christain has a broken arm, recovering. Louisa and Selma Butikofer visited Robert Lehman. Ben Schneider painted his house. Mrs Adolph Baumgartner and daughter Louisa were Sunday visitors at Alex Baumgartner.
J W Jenkins of Chapel Hill North Carolina recommends Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best salve for sores, burns and wounds. He says it cured a felon on his thumb and always heals. Available at Muehlenthaler Bros drag store for 25 cents.
H L Adama and Miss Emma Han cock assist at Elkader Institute this week. Mr and Mrs R H Belknap and daughters spent the fore part of the week at Fayette. Mrs Berger and daughter Emma of Elgin visited Rev Baumgardner. Ella Tupper went to Elkport with clothing for son Roy who lost his dad in the flood. Alice Cottier fractured her left arm in a buggy accident. Sheriff Culver and wife and Sheriff Dittmer of Elkader left Tuesday.
Davenport hosts a State Sheriffs Convention with Frank Gilson arriving with family. Daisy Crowe plans Cedar Falls visit for her sister Merle’s graduation. Hough Butler from Lemar visits relatives. Dr B A Ainsworth and T Rubyer head east for extended trips. Zeigler Gurney and Hancock return from two week fishing trip near Alexandria Minnesota. Poultry show talks stir local opinion. institute week could feature show or poultry exhibition. Dr Kings New Life Pills praised by A A Felton of Harrisville. 26c at Muehlenthaler Bros. drug.
A whirlwind of small town items from Elgin to Postville includes A D McCall in Elgin, Clara Lindenbauer hosting in Postville, Harold Tonjum in Iowa City, and sweet corn ready for the table. Local visits, boiler installation at C Miller & Son, Wm Larrabee Jr at Spirit Lake encampment, hospital update for Art Simpson, a hay field incident with an inmate, and Union thoughts on progress.
A patched, humorous essay contrasts good talkers with practical doers. It ponders marriage, health, reading, and social behavior through a string of wry maxims about men, women, and everyday life. Notable lines remark on busyness, education, and aging perceptions in a rural community.
A compilation of curiosities and facts from 3,000 years of history. It notes Hugland’s annual fish catch valued at 53,900,000 dollars and the world’s afloat population around 1,200,000. It mentions Japan’s monthly factory clearings, U S tourist spending in Europe, Britain’s motor cars rising to about 6,000 since 1807, and demographics with working women. Other items cover Nile floods July to October, antiseptic surgery reducing amputations, and a professor exchange proposal between Denmark and the United States. It also describes Bell’s Baddeck kite tower project with Baldwin as engineer, weighing under five tons and bearing 50,000 pounds.
On a hot Wednesday local horses tired from heat while a new political force forms in Chicago as the Independence Party emerges. William Randolph Hearst is a leading advocate with Thomas Inghen Hisgen nominated for president and John Temple Graves for vice president, signaling a fresh party alignments. A vaudeville note and a humorous tale from a Cherokee woman reflect everyday distractions in the era.
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