Civilization film at the opera house and local notes
Friday shows Civilization at the opera house with afternoon and evening screenings. Local updates report Paul Dean visiting from Hoopeston for a weekend stay, John Bauman returning near Clermont, and home improvements by BE G. Stoehr removing an old land mark box elder tree. Contractors work resumes after a snowstorm, and Lew Christ’s billiard hall project advances with ice operations and plans for opening in the Christ building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
Mayer
C. S. Halstenson
Paul Dean
Hoopeston
American Can Company
John Bauman
George Wander Place
Clermont
Mr. Bauman
John
BE. G. Stoehr
Jake Miller
Frank Pringle
Lew
John H. Bower
Killen Evans
Ton Kerr
Waterloo
John Bowe
West Farm
Highland Township
Elkader
A. J. Cook
John Berndt
Farmersburg
L. J. ,Groch
Citizens’ State Bank
Groth
Stunday
Forest Lake
Minnesota
Jim Halverson
Halverson
Hall
Th. F. J. Chenwy & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Elgin Echo Advertisements and Local News Notes
Local column lists ads with five cents per line per insertion, mentions printing services, jobbing material, and monthly accounts. Community items include farm sales, seed corn, farm sales near the Iowa border, parish notices, illness of Gertrude Grether, theater listings, and support for Miss Rose Reusser moving to Ames. Reports on weather, ice jams, sleighing, and hospital consults. Also notes residents traveling, visits, and a public funeral sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agin
Karl D. Fisk Eye Specialist Ad in Elgin Iowa
Karl D Fisk 1890 27 Years announces regular visits to Elgin Iowa and other cities in North eastern Iowa. In twenty seven years he has fitted glasses to 30000 citizens in northern Iowa. He devotes his entire time to Scientific Refraction. Office hours nine to five. No agents.
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Elgin
Iowa
Elgin Iowa Passes Monument Resolution in 1917 Session
In Elgin Fayette County Iowa on March 10 1917 the special town council session led by Mayor Weibel approved a resolution authorizing the Board of Supervisors and Soldiers Reef Commission to erect a soldiers monument in Elgin Cemetery. The measure, read and adopted by Councillors Capper Grether Harrington and Phillips, was motions moved and carried. L J Groth clerk recorded adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connell
Elgin
Iowa
Weibel
Capper
Grether
Harrington
Phillips
Fayette County
Board of Supervisors
Soldiers’ Reef
Said County
Elgin Cemetery
L. J. Groth
John L DeSart Appointed Street Commissioner
Mayor Weihel appointed John L DeSart as Street Commissioner on March 1. Edward Erickson assists at C Theo Schmid harness shop, a worker familiar with the shop’s operations. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy praised as a favored cold remedy by J L Hasley of Macon II. sold at Stoehr's Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. DeSart
Weihel
Edward Erickson
C. Theo Schmid
Chamberlain
J. L. Hasley
Macon
Ben
Stoehr's Pharmacy
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Imerican Fens
Aencan
FENCE
W. J. Kohler
C.L Freiburghaus & Co
Echo
THE
Elgin Echo
Higin
North Eastern
Hughes
Emil Snyder
Halstenson
Melvin Reinhardt
A. Holzer
Bery
Boleyn
Oelwein
Lew Martin
Ed Hungberger
John Wilson
Glenfield
North Dakota
George Overbeck
Weibel Bros
Wyman Trade
West Union
Hans Grether
Fred Light
Besse Halstenson
Rose Reusser
Ames
Rose
Turkey
Gertrude Grether
Walsh
Hawkeye
Hadsel
Carr
Karl D. Fisk
Optometrist
Hotel Dewey
Opt
STOEHR @ CO
Berlin
Lehman & Hanson
State Board of Optometry
California
Golden California
Golden State Limited
United States
Colorado
Salt Lake
C. A. Akers
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