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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1910
Page
5
Farmers praised the King drag as an effective road building tool. The piece urges timely use after rains, repeated passes while soil stays moist, and local township support. It advises drivers to avoid old wheel tracks on freshly worked road sections to help harden the surface and achieve quicker, satisfactory results.
Benj Schori and wife who spent a week or more visiting their daughter Aiis S W Kuster and family at Remsen returned home Wednesday. They report all former Elgin people in that vicinity well and prospering. Mrs Mary Lehman daughter Margaret and sons Henry and Melbert are expected to arrive from Minneapolis today for a visit with their relatives and old time neighbors.
West Union defeated Clermont Elgin 8 to 2 as visitors from the Hub played fast ball. Sullivan starred with a running catch in right field and Kohler, Stoehr and Nelson led scoring while Richmond and Anderson scored for the visitors. A Maine removal and burial plan was approved, and Gov. Carroll was killed to speak at the West Union courthouse on Friday May 27. Special 9-cent dish sale advertised at Tue Farr Store.
Memorial Day will be observed in Elgin on Sunday May 90 1910 with an 1 30 pm band concert by the Elgin Concert Band at the opera house. The event is organized by the Ladies Cemetery Association and invites the public to attend. The procession from the Opera House to the Cemetery will include the band veterans soldiers pupils with flowers and citizens. Also noted is a curious injury to Aug Holzer from a hog ring incident and a local visit by Frank White of Clermont.
Marie Boyle visited the school on Thursday and Friday with Nellie Matton out sick Monday. Sixth and Seventh grades finished physiology exams last Tuesday. The seventh grade has completed the year and is reviewing. Grace Conner returned Monday after a week sick. A joint program of the Athenian and Corinthian societies will be May 30, 1910. Three programs will be presented next Monday with welcome to all. Benj Baumgartner and Henry Mathys killed a large rattlesnake last Thursday before school, nine rattles on it. Memorial Day falls on Monday. town exercises Sunday, so schools will not observe it as a holiday. The Baccalaureate sermon will be at the German Baptist church Sunday evening June 5 by Rev. J. G. Draewel. more commencement details next week. High School pupils enjoyed a “Comet party” on Dr Hadsel’s lawn Monday evening. High School Alumni plan a banquet Saturday night June 11, 1910. Miss Iva Jaquette, formerly teaching at Newport, Wash, will marry Wednesday, June 1, 1910, to W. F. Kinnear of Spokane. ceremony in Spokane, home in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Elgin High School wishes the couple well. The Grammar room program for May 30, 1910, is the year’s last: Address of Welcome Edna Boleyn. Recitations by Charles Capper, Georgia Stoehr, Nola Kiple. Toast Our Schoolmates. Music. Dialogues. Song. more recitations by Thelma Knudtson, Florence Kohler. Cites of the Press by Twelve Girls.
Owing to rainy weather on Saturday the sale did not close all dishes. The sale continues through the week with dishes offered below wholesale prices. Dishes sold while they last. come and see what is offered by Tur Fam Storn.
The auditor’s financial report for Fayette county is praised as excellent work by Mr. Hughes of the Elgin Echo. The note commends Hughes as a first rate job printer and signals anticipation that warmer weather may be near.
The Britt Tribune prints a nostalgic verse recalling carefree rural childhood days by a lake and forest, contrasting old time play with modern life. It follows with local notices about Mrs Allen of North Dakota arriving, a death in Chester, and funeral details for Grand Baldwin and relatives, noting broader community memory and sympathy.
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