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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1917
Page
4
If patients travel from Elgin on the morning train they may phone or drop a card to save time for a return on the pen train. Alternatively they may come on the afternoon train and return on the evening train.
In Illyria and surrounding areas many residents hosted and visited over the weekend. Numerous gatherings include Lafonda Shaffer with Katherine Ogle, Bessie Chapman with Olsie Yearous, and Mrs. Jerome Yearous with Frank Hunsberger Edna. A Highland hall dance saw light attendance due to bad roads. Fred Rothlisberger family thanks neighbors for aid after a gas lighting plant explosion at their home.
Mr and Mrs J M Shaffer spent Sunday at Tommy Howards. Mrs Ward Brabham and Mrs Bert Allen visited Wm Kohl. Ridge attendees joined Highland dance. Several neighbors visited Ed Boyle for her 43rd birthday with cards and games. Will Denney sold his household goods and left for southern Oklahoma. Perry Hitch returned to New Hampshire after helping at Monnahan home. Multiple afternoon visits to Chris Dernler and Earl Bennett homes noted.
Mrs Rose Middleton of Greenville Illinois describes quick relief from croup using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. She recalls her son’s frequent attacks and notes the remedy always broke them up and was kept in the house. She also reports personal success treating colds. For sale by Stoehr & Co.
A local Cheery Valley notes column lists numerous Sunday and Tuesday visits among residents. Families and individuals like Adolph Burroden, Charlie Odegard, Jake Christen, Ella Frederick, Patsy Minnahan, Wilsons, G Dennier, Adolph Baumgartner, Ole Torelsen, and others are recorded visiting, hosting, or calling. A district program is planned at District No. 8 school house Friday November 9 1917 inviting all.
A fragmented reminiscence on a father's sacrifices from ox teams to coal chores showing how a father funded his son's six cylinder car and the costs borne by hard labor. Includes local notes on Dollar Day in Fayette, a German critique, and family visits with brief World War I era references.
A pawnbroker describes how nearly any article is pawned when cash-strapped. Women pawn household items to feed and clothe children, saving best clothes if possible. Razors top items pawned, alarms second, umbrellas common, with only about thirty percent redeemed.
An antiquarian note traces coffee from its Arab roots to Constantinople in 1554, highlighting early Turkish opposition as moral hazard and the term kahveh meaning that which takes away the appetite. It then shifts to a Farm and Fireside tale of a ten year old turning ten cents into a cash crop, a ewe lamb, and three sheep, with wool sales funding a savings bank account.
Auction and sale notices from Halstensons and Taquire mill include a Red Cross benefit auction netting 1400 dollars in Arlington. Harvey Stoehr joins his father’s store in St Paul Minnesota. A Seattle nightwatchman comment appears amid war talk and future Oklahoma moves. Clayton County calls and army exams reach 684 of 2120 registered.期
A city agency advertises Hawkeye Gasoline and Kerosene delivery to any part of the city. It invites calls to arrange delivery and stresses convenience for residents seeking fuel.
A promotional write up extols West Union as the political religious and social hub of a five million dollar county. It highlights a top high school with twenty teachers, water sewer drainage lighting parks shade trees and ample private grounds including Linden Park. It notes strong churches newspapers county fair Chautauqua lecture course and hospital, plus four paved roads and a well equipped garage. The ad invites readers to discuss real estate rentals farm or home transactions and abstracts or loans.
J. W. Bopp promotes West Union Coma to the Becio office for sale bills printing. He offers type, cuts, and printers to produce neat bills and helps arrange the layout with customers. The Iowa Forum will be a new weekly paper in Des Moines this month. Soap remains seven cents a bar despite usual window displays.
Spring boars from SaltPoland China Bloodlines, weighing about 225 pounds, priced to move. Sired by Big Black Orange winner of Fayette county fair Grand Championship and Bauder's A Wonder top spring pig. Contact Cahor Bauder, Elgin Iowa.
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