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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1918
Page
7
A note describes selective pricing for patients arriving by car or train and mentions a fixed optical office in Iowa. It highlights instruments that remain in town and cannot be moved between towns, emphasizing a locally anchored setup.
Schumaker Calf Meal touted as superior calf feed with claims of health, palatability, and repeated recommendation urging buyers to prefer it over other products from Welbel Brothere Mill.
Captain David A. Henkes of the Sixteenth Infantry US Army receives dismissal and twenty five years hard labor after evidence shows he aided German agents and funded propaganda before US entry into the war. Recalled from France for trial, he urged resignation to spare relatives in Germany. on landing a phone call to his wife was overheard, yet papers were hidden and later found. Henkes, born 1876 in Wagner township Clayton county, served since the Spanish American War and was known to local citizens in his youth.
County Agent Combs announces six demonstrations in Fayette county on March 13 14 and 18 at D S Hillman J R Cummings J E B Patterson T W Potter J F Smith and Abbott farms. Ames extension staff will lead, explaining farm practices, poultry care, chick safety, egg marketing, with invitation extended to women and high school students.
The Higin Canning Company received a government order for 2800 cases of canned corn to be filled soon. The corn will supply soldiers, and the firm emphasizes Elgin corn as the best quality produced in a sanitary factory. This is the first war order for Higin, and locals express pride in supporting the troops.
Medical tips advise gentle diet and Chamberlain's Tablets for sour stomach. Local items report John Wilson in Cedar Rapids, a town caucus at Town Hall, visits from Clermont, a gravely ill child Lucile Berndt, a Camp Dodge communication, a sad death near Clermont, and draft status for the Second Minnesota Field Artillery with possible recalls and local enlistment details.
School notes detail attendance after illness, exams, and class activities. The fifth and sixth grades finished physiology tests, basketball plans with Oelwein, and a social at the school. The Junior Red Cross was organized with Miss Harrington as chair and Miss Lyons as secretary treasurer. A program by the Choico society is set for March 12 to aid boiler debt, featuring a service flag and star placements for service members. Also listed is a rural carrier examination for Payette Ia to be held March 23 at West Union and Oelwein for male citizens domiciled in the county.
A reader sought Chamberlains Cough Remedy after forgetting its name. The editor notes clerks often substitute other products, urging stores to post names to protect customers and makers. For sale by Stoehr's Drug Store. Notice requests settlement of accounts to John Falb at the meat market after his sale of a half interest to his son Herbert. Mrs. John O'Haren visits relatives after traveling from West Union.
Sergeant H. F. Nicklaus writes from an American rest camp in southern England after leaving Camp Devens. He describes seasickness on the Atlantic voyage, cramped quarters, and basic meals, notes a six mile hike to a nearby village, mentions a German prison camp nearby, and expects to depart for France within days. He spots a Fayette County medic, Horace Troy, aboard, praises YMCA services, and signs from 447 Engineer Depot Detachment, AEF.
West Union stands as a political religious and social hub of a seventy five million dollar county. It boasts top schools water sewer drainage and parks plus extensive shade trees and quality homes. The city hosts fair chautauqua lecture series soldiers reunions a hospital and a large garage with four pike roads and active real estate services.
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