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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
4
Karl D. Fisk served as State President of Iowa optometrists at the time new licensing law passed and was the first to register by examination in ten counties. He advises consulting him about your eyes. No agents employed.
Miss Lena Medberry visits relatives in Decorah while George Stansbury and family enjoy a Sioux City visit. Many residents attend chautauqua and praise the programs. Visits span Elgin Fayette Hi gin and Fayette area. Ice cream social at Jim Yearous home funds raised after a previous event honoring Mr and Mrs Adbert Dender.
A Red Cross benefit program at Clermont Lutheran Church on Friday evening June 28 at 8:00 features Plano duet Best Appleman Palma Helgerson Overature William Tell La Vina Torkelson Rev Crous Spirit Speske Parker.nga Balected JAny William Quartet Helen Olson Agnca Bildon Myrtle Skarshaug Rose Appleman There’s a Long Long Train King Mot Planogolo Ruth Bishop Improv music Chopin Vocal solo Hazel Barnhart After the War is Over Woodrul Reading Waldéna Wattlegon Tobe’s Monument Vocal duet Hlinabeth Haug Helen Dipon Hold Thou My Hand Be Briggs Woedl solo Amy Williams My Ain Tolke F G Lemon Mary Jane Clark Reading Helen Henderson A Few Barn in the Key of G Quartet To Thee O Country Hichberg.
A Chicago gathering critiques Germany as the wartime foe behind covert influence in America. It cites the Delbruck law, German foreign unions, and Pan German League activity to claim Germany seeks to sow discord, forge loyalty shifts, and press for global domination, urging resolve before any negotiated peace.
Clermonts Chautauqua opens in two weeks with events noted across the area including Oelwein July 4 Red Cross fundraising in Volga City and a review of the season. Residents report warm weather, local concerts, and changes as wartime mail and paper costs threaten publishing prices while Dr. Le L. Carr departs Clermont for medical corps duty.
Descriptive feature extols West Union as the political religious and social hub of a seventy five million dollar county. It highlights top schools with twenty teachers, water and drainage systems, lights, parks around the courthouse, numerous shaded trees, fine public parks, diverse religious denominations, strong newspapers,Chautauqua courses and a thriving, well supplied community amid rising property values.
Hawkeye citizens visited the business site of L. B. Bopp for home painting in yellow. Rd Bauder and wife with Mrs. Roy Bakeman and daughter spent Sunday at the Whitley home in Fayette. Mrs. N. H. Bakerhan, visiting from Huron, attended as part of a party noting Northern Iowa coal for 1916 17. District lines for coal distribution on the Illinois Central route to Sioux City are debated with Elgin inclusion uncertain.
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