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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1905
Page
4
Miss Anna Schaefarg visits Belmont Brigads while Father Farrely and others travel local routes. Numerous residents, dances, clergy, and business changes fill the week with social calls, new staff at stores, and a planned Clermont newspaper launch. John Clark of Great Falls obituary referenced.
Geo Schaefers leaves Harmony to purchase a large line of dry goods for a new firm planning a full stock. A buyer notes a family health history, while Dr. King's New Discovery helps relieve consumption concerns. Mrs Reid's loss underscores neglect of lung trouble and the ache for cure. Trial bottle offered free at Muehlenthales Bros store.
Sunday social notes from Illyria mention Oso Kimball near Volua spending Sunday in Tiluria, Bret Reichert visiting Wadena, Mrs Fred Reichert among Indigposed, Mia Rasy Wenger staying with grandparents, Christian Endervor absent due to weather, Edith Bauder visiting Chris Wenger, Mrs Freddie Ernst calling on Mrs J Rottiise berger, Alfred Wenger ill with a lame back, wishes for speedy recovery, Frances Medberry starting winter term at Mint Creek, Rothlisberger and Bauder callers at Thos Kerr home, J H Mattocks of Wadena at a Rothlisberger gathering, Bauder family leaving for Fr Collins after visit, best wishes for their journey, Miss Eligh Bautler surprised by local youths with games and supper, Miss Bauder presented $5, many friends wish prosperity in her new house. Thos S Austin editor notes electric bitters anecdote about a wife’s recovery after doctors failed. Oak Grove: Colia Reed spent Monday with Daisy Smith. sick baby at Dennler home. Mrs Smith visited Alten. Mrs Ed Boyle and Mrs John O Neill visited Reed home. Gleaner Arbor attendance at Highland.
A jumbled OCR page recounts social visits, health ads, and local notes. Mentions Mrs O Neill and friends visiting, a birthday gathering, and a medical ointment claim. Includes an October meteorology summary from Observer Parker noting 1886 comparisons, plus an obituary stub for Fred Koehn and a shooting report in Alabama.
A collection of short local notes reports Rev Porter visiting from Clermont, Marshalltown Soldiers Home inmate totals, Oelwein’s bid for a Baldwin cement mixer factory, the Chicago International Live Stock Exposition delay, Iowa age demographics from 1905, Mormon land purchases from Mexico, rattlesnake bounty payouts in Crawford Wisconsin, national silver dollar stock and circulation figures, President Roosevelt’s Thanksgiving Day proclamation, a state executive council report summary, and political trusts debates touching steel rails and common people.
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