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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1900
Page
5
The region gears up for a big Decorah Fourth of July with preparations underway and expected large turnout. Postville hosts Elkader band music and a baseball match for 875 dollars. local bank reorganizations, injuries from a coupling accident, and a gasoline stove blaze in New Hampton are noted. Other items include railroad route petitions, the Cedar Rapids firm news, and ongoing labor strikes at Lansing button works with mixed outcomes.
Readers in West Union and nearby towns report court sessions, hospital transfers, and local developments. Mentions include Dr Zoljer taken to a Chicago hospital, Maynard waterworks plans, a Cedar Falls firm contract for courthouse and jail facilities, and Fayette Dixon baseball slated for commencement day. Community updates cover burglaries, a major heirship in Oelwein, staffing changes at Boston Grocery, local council cannon plans, and assorted notices from Clermont and Weyden.
Four miles south of Elgin near the Wyrittéwhelipia line lies Highland Stock Farm run by J. D. Shaffer. The farm houses the celebrated Highland Herd of Short Horn cattle led by the blue-blooded Scotch Cruickshank bull Bonedale and supported by imported cows and numerous calves. The Percheron horse Polignac stands out among the horses, praised for prizeworthy lineage and strength. other imported mares and a son named Fandango round the stud. Shaffer personally oversees cattle while Jim Hains manages the stables. the visit is recommended to any animal lover.
I have given notices and a sheet to every farmer in Pleasant Valley township. Each should review the questions on the trial sheet and have them ready when I call for enumeration and census. Don’t neglect it. If you think it over before then it will save time for all concerned. TANs September, U S Census Enumer... Dist 81, a
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