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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
4
BOPP'S New Bulletin No. 26 lists additional farms and town properties for sale with spring and summer advertising benefit. Illinois agents will send buyers, boosting inquiries as crops improve and money market steadies. Listing is free unless sold. Fayette County only. Financing offered with small down payments and easy terms.
Amy Richards visited Wallace Peters home and near by Friday. Chris Wenger died Sunday with M W A arranging burial. Met letters show many relatives visiting Elkader and Elgin. local farmers prep ground for corn as school notes recount tug of war and upcoming waxwork exhibit and London exhibit hype. Electric Bitters offered as remedy for malaria and debility with local store guarantee.
Wadena reports Children day events June 7 with community notices. Mrs Dave Pritchard entertains her father and brother as a stereopticon display and many views go on sale at the school house. An ice cream sociable lit Woodman Hall and the meat market is being converted into a barbershop and confectionery store. Mr Stebbin of La Porte City fills in at the bank during Mr Probert’s vacation. The red and blue contest’s first Sunday drew 75 percent more attendance and 250 percent more collections as the drive aims to boost participation.
Mrs. McAlavey visited Postville on Monday. Mrs. Anna Rogers traveled to Elgin valley yesterday. Supervisor Gunderson of Elgin visited Clermont businesses Friday last week. Clermont Valley Creamery installed a new churn to replace a faulty one. Mrs. Thos. Sheehan underwent surgery at St Marys hospital Rochester last week and is recovering. Harold Tonjum is recovering nicely from ear surgery at Town City hospital.
Butter maker Erickson produced 4,200 pounds of butter at the Clermont Valley creathery a record for the season. Also noted: funeral of Mrs. Catherine La Velle in Clermont, cattle shipment from McGraw and Trainor, a well attended local talent play raising about twenty six dollars, and stockholders reelecting Clermont State Bank directors except A Strvland replaced by P J Sullivan. A Californian's Luck Bucklen's Arnica Salve anecdote included.
The report lists residents and events around West Union including a lost horse of M Grimes, Mrs E R White returning from Seattle, J W Dwyer visiting relatives, Ella Sowden traveling to Chicago for her son’s eye operation, J A Tiff's business in Elgin, D W Clements and Cc B Hughes in Oelwein, Dr K D Fisk at Cedar Rapids for a May festival, Charley Lathrop near Rock Springs, Bon Titus leaving the electric plant, Dr Kennedy injuring his hand, rainfall shortfalls, Sumner Telephone Co pole and cable work toward Elgin and Clermont, plus a reminder to consider county nominees for November.
The text surveys European emigration to the United States from 1870 to the present, noting large annual totals and shifts by country. It cites Italy, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Switzerland, with figures showing rising movement in some periods and declines in others, reflecting economic conditions and new opportunities abroad.
Thayer of San Diego, long retired, bid $1100 for a derelict ship valued at $250,000. He gathered a wrecking crew, towed the hull 7000 miles to Manga Riva Island, rebuilt it into a three masted bark, had it registered as Pyrenees then sailed to Swansea. The vessel set a record fastest Pacific to Atlantic crossing. Captain Thayer now enjoys income from his daring feat.
An immigration commissioner in Washington cites a Swedish woman facing hardship after her husband loses work and a landlord presses for rent. She and her husband refuse to bow to poverty, claiming they can pay through effort. Fire chief Lantry extols pluck in firefighters with a wartime style tale of a rookie refusing to surrender during a perilous rescue.
In a quiet country street, a remark about a bald man named William A. of Iowa leads a farmer to test a smart dog. The dog catches a tossed comb, then returns it to the farmer, and later keeps the object at his own feet, proving the animal’s intelligence.
War correspondent Douglas Story describes a tranquil garden oasis in Manchuria amid conflict. A calm, sunlit space with flowering trees and quiet courtyards stands near the founder’s mausoleum and a silent war zone, offering a momentary refuge from battle. An unrelated ad at end seeks old junk and tires for cash or trade.
A Mississippi merchant promotes Dr King s New Life Pills claiming buyers receive gold value for relief from contagion malaria and biliousness. Sold under guarantees at Muehlenthaler Bros. drug store for 5 cents.
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