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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1918
Page
4
Karl D Fisk, former State President of Iowa optometrists when the current law passed, was the first to register by examination in northern Iowa counties. Consult him about your eyes, no agents employed.
West Union is portrayed as a thriving northeastern Iowa center with a $75 million county, strong schools, water, sewer, drainage, and lighting. The piece cites parks, trees, churches, absence of a known social issue, population and property value growth, major newspapers, fairs, Chautauqua, lectures, soldiers’ reunions, hospital, and transportation network. It also includes real estate and business services listed by J. W. Bop and a subscriber notice, followed by a 1886 testimonial for Hall's Catarrh Medicine by Frank J. Cheney & Co.
Miss Lena Wengers hosts and visiting relatives populate a string of short notices from Tityria area. ras, Dutch measles affect several youths. Easter program preparations unfold at Tityria church. multiple local visits occur among Wengers, Klingmans, Kerrs, Shaffers, Medberrys, Gilsons, and Dennlers. A valuable colt died after slipping on ice. Perry Medberry received birthday wishes from friends near Cevike, Arkansas, with troops heading to France.
A Cedar Rapids Republican editorial argues Japan should develop northern Asia and Siberia for its population rather than expand into the western world. It contends Russia mismanages its one sixth of the globe and suggests the United States could support such a shift, while also recounting a reader’s anecdote about Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and a store clerk substitution issue.
The Food Administration shifts grain marketing to government control, creating a single price basis from the best primary market and freight. A Missouri farmer unloads at a co operative elevator while a Sikeston dealer calculates No 2 price by applying freight, commissions, and local market rates illustrating the new system in action.
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