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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1905
Page
4
A compact review of daily life in Illyria notes visits and chores around Elkader Clermont and Volga City, with corn storage for a Berg contest at Elgin, farm labor changes, and a windier spell. It mentions Sceurlet fever spreading, a death in Vinton, and Buck Jan’s Araica Salve advertised by Muehlenthaler Bros.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Nett. Albert Schori of Elgin visited Clermont on Saturday. Maggie Devery returned home from Minneapolis. Anna Brorby was a Pontville visitor on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Archie McKinley of…
Chicago visitors at Alex McKinley and Wa Kelly homes while many locals host guests from Elgin and Dubuque. Town reports new goods, upcoming events, school notes, dances, and meetings. abundant social calls, Sunday visits, and a few business updates frame a bustling week in Clermont and surroundings.
A farmer announces a public sale at the Evite Howard farm south of Elgin on Monday November 20 at 10 o'clock. The catalog lists horses nine to 10 years old and young stock, cattle including cows, steers, heifers, a registered duchamp bull, shorts and oats, barley, hay, straw, and warm machinery such as binders plows and a hay loader. Terms: cash under $10, later with approved security bearing 8 percent interest. sale at two farm locations with free lunch and hot coffee.
Elgit Public Schools record shows no high school days or attendance, with graded departments listing no enrolled pupils and no excused absences. Names of students absent or tardy are listed by department, followed by scattered notices and a medical testimonial, plus local items about a remarkable cow and upcoming services.
For sale is a 200 acre tract four miles southwest of Elgin. Most land is on time. About 120 acres under plow, clear and productive. 25 acres of second growth timber and 448 acres of stump land pastured long ago, workable for plow. Includes a new, unoccupied house with well, orchard, grave, hay shed, stabling, two good roads, and a schoolhouse at one corner. Inquiries invited for particulars.
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