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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1895
Page
2
The office announces recalved aid and a new press with full complement of job types and machinery. It touts improved wages policy, competitive prices, and urges patrons to place trial orders, claiming lower costs and higher quality.
Louie Rostetter, a Decorah saloonkeeper, ended his life with an overdose of Jaudanum late Friday. He died at 5 Saturday morning. He was about thirty and the third family member to die in a year, his father and mother having died within ten months. He left a widow and several children.
Thirty-one people in Ya Grove Town were poisoned Saturday and Sunday after eating pressed beef from a local meat market. Victims suffer severe pain vomiting and high fever with no facilities yet, as authorities investigate the old meat containing a poison.
John Lighter, an elderly German farmer living east of Watcoma, reportedly hanged himself on April 28 after a period of depression. He had attended church that Sunday, slipped from the house unnoticed, and was found dead in a sunroom several hours later. Authorities note despondency and mental distress as the likely cause.
The May 11 1895 Northeast Section Meeting of Payette County Teachers convened in Elgin Iowa with music pupils from Elgin Schools and discussions on language arithmetic and primary work. Speakers included J Smith Ella Fox May Lyons and Mrs Junaja Lacy with committees led by Barney and Finew. Patrons from Pleasant Valley Dover and Gadan townships were invited and plans encouraged for questions and engagement. A concert by Amphion Made Quy totta and Gaparkal String Quarteely was announced for May 15 1895 at the Opera House with tickets at Btis Pharmacy.
A jumble of local items from Elgin Iowa and nearby areas covers sales pitches, travel plans, and marriages. Benson Broa advertises a Minneapolis fashion sale while couples like Metta and Leo Palda travel and settle elsewhere. Local business updates include tobacco sales and a new weighing machine at Stehy’s store, plus medical notes on a cancer scare involving M. Paign.
Aingworth The Prater Guarantees The Eero office now complete with presses paper stock and bindery to do any kind of job printing in the best and latest style using standard type at prices that defy competition.
A muddled report notes Elyin a provost girls party Sunday and a visit by Robt Quinn Sr of Elkader. Talks mention a wizard at the Opera House Friday May 3, travel by Mia Sterling and Rob, a missing outfit, and a college bull game. Local plans include a school exhibition and upcoming entertainments with nearby towns watching closely.
For sale a good farm of 120 acres within 14 miles of Elgin. Eighty acres under the plow. A new seven room house with wells and cistern. All well improved and in good repair. Will sell at a bargain. Quillon or witness Dax Bravaun, Elgin, Iowa.
A fragment references criticizing envious people who diminish others happiness. It notes Home Queen traits and social unease from petty remarks. It mentions a Pharmacy ad, farm equipment sharpening, and shop notices, with scattered vendor lines and local solicitations.
The past week was warm with temperatures above normal, showers on Friday and general rains Monday brought moisture. Droughted northern counties faced severe conditions yet farm work progresses with a good corn stand and winter crops fair. Hay and pasturage remain light, with pastures dry. May Midland Monthly features geographic sketches, river regions, and stories from Des Moines including art notes and a military telegraph piece. Grand Homesteeker Excursions rate offers round trips via the Burlington line with May 9 and June 11 sale dates to multiple Northwestern states.
On April 28 the B C BR N T offers excursion tickets to all points on the line in Minnesota and South Dakota north of and including Town Balla at extremely low rates plus 2.00 for the round trip. Tickets also to be sold at gold rate to points in Arkansas Colorado Indian Territory Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma Texas Wyoming.
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