Quit Paying Rent Farms for Small Down Payments
Large list of farms for sale with very small down payments and easy terms. Includes a West Union property with 15 acres, fair house, stabling, spring, timber, and fencing at 600 dollars with 200 down. Other listings include 4 acres near West Union for 1800 dollars, 17 acres with house and mill at 2400, and 123 acres one mile from town at 50 dollars per acre. Also notes loans on any security and farms for rent with rental applications weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Union
West Union notes and travels across the region
Local residents and visitors frequent Waverly, Chicago, Decorah, Elgin, Cedar Rapids, and Duluth for legal business, court matters, bank affairs, and meetings. Residents like Zeigler and Graver return from Texas and Minnesota while others report illnesses and endorsements for Electric Bitters. A San Francisco visitor promotes the tonic for digestive and female health.
Clermont News Snips Highlight Local Visits
S W Rubyer of Elgin and Kittle Groth visited Postville on Monday. Dan Carpenter and Mrs Carpenter traveled to Fayette to visit relatives. Mrs Grover has recovered from a week of illness. Ed Carragher Pat Dulin and Kittle Groth were in Elgin Saturday. Otto Fuelling of Farmersburg made a brick city business trip Friday. Mrs Larrabee and Mrs Grotewohl were Decorah callers Saturday. John Wells and family visited relatives at Elgin over the weekend. E H Appelman went to West Union to report for grand jury work. Mr and Mrs Arthur Ferguson are settled on a Hawkeye farm and seem comfortable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Carpenter
Fayette
John Wells
Elgin
E. H. Appelman
West Union
Arthur Ferguson
Hawkeye
Farm life notes and local visits across town
Misses Rose Dibble Ethel Shaffer visited in West Union last Tuesday. Families 11 8 Tonjum spent Sunday at Andrew Kloster's near Ossian. Agnes Crowe came from Oelwein and stayed with relatives until Sunday. Mrs Grotewohl of Hartley visiting her sister Mrs Win Larrabee sr. and brothers E H and E W Appelman. Dr King New Discovery praised by W W Henry of Panama for coughs colds throats chests lungs with 38 years proof. used to prevent pneumonia. Sold at City Drug Store 50c and $1. Trial bottle free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Dibble
Ethel Shaffer
West Union
Andrew Kloster
Dr. King
W. W. Henry
Panama
City Drug
Oak Grove Social Notes and Local Events
Oak Grove news lists neighbors visiting and hosting at several homes, plus a trip to Ireland for Uncle Jas Wilson. It notes farmers hindered by snow, a barn-raising effort at R. W. Helms’ place, and local calls by W. E. Howard and Frank Boyle. Simon O’Neil injures his leg. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve praised for quick healing. An exchange suggests church-goers register names to ease conscience for late-staying youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. Wilson
Ireland
W. E. Howard
Frank Boyle
West Union
Earn Holzer
Smunday
Wilbur Patterson
Local social notes and community updates from an Iowa town
A long list of neighbors visiting, traveling, and family updates appears, with items about cards of thanks, illnesses, and daily life. Mentions include Mrs. E Rothlisberger, Katie Medberry, Hattie Kerr, Edith Matthys, Chas Doty, and the Medberry and Patterson families, plus local business notices and Thanksgiving timing. Local oil storage, telephone line installation, and ads from Berg, Lehman & Son, and Ecuo feature alongside a note on rising paper production costs.
Elgin Public School month report ends November 18 1908
Report covers high school grammar intermediate and primary departments with days taught attendance daily averages and enrollment figures. Names of students with perfect or notable attendance listed along with several local notices about births visits and regional gossip. Notable items include a birth of a son to Roy De Sart and tributes to a deceased worker in McCloud California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Flossie Capper
Robin Harle
Ruth Nicklaus
Claire Cunningham
Dinah
Milfred Ackley
Marie Falk
Harold Greenley
Fred King
Glen Schori
Lenora Stepanek
Otto Draewel
Edith Grether
Lavaun Kimball
Loren Worley
Julia
Bessie
Death of Ordin O. Larson at Clermont at age twenty
Orm Larson’s son Ordin O. Larson died at Clermont in February at age 20. He will be buried Friday at the Clermont Scandinavian Lutheran church. Rev. R. T. Weston, the new Methodist minister on this charge, visited local families this week. The Cedar Rapids Three-I league club directors vote to sell out due to poor business, with no anticipated reorganization. A medical paper notes dyspeptics mainly come from wealthy, inactive groups. Hunting big game season is opening with Iowa game laws listing species and dates. pheasant legal Oct 1 1915. Hunters crossing state borders should know varying laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Belknap
A. R. McGoon
R. O. Woodard
Cedar Rapids
Canners Association
B. Zeigler
Texas
Tull
Fred Graver
Duluth
Minn
KE. B. Shaw
Carl Evans
Carroll
Mr. Shaw
John Falk
Martin
Here
Clermont
J. D. Shaffer
Ole Benson
Des Moines
Mutual Tornado Insurance Co
Cedar Rapids Oil Co
Hurmance
Ordin O. Larson
Orm Larson
Clermont November Fe
Clermont Scandinavian Lutheran Church
Iowa
Sta
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Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Rock Island Man
Worley
Adont
Rock Island Lines
J. W. Bopp
MOSER
Greenly Bros
Lowa
Kennedy
DoWitt
City
E. A. Estey
Waverly Priday
J. R. Cook
N.C. Spencer
Algin
W. J. Ainsworth
St Paul
D. W. Clements
Gelwein
Milton Marcuse
Beeker
State Bank
C. F. Chambers
D. O. Smith
W. ©. Lewis
C. W. Dykins
Clift
Mary Dowling
8Th Ave
San Francisco
City Durg
Clermont News
The
Enterprise
Kittle Groth
Postville
S. W. Rubyer
Our City
Fred Bigler
Oak Grove
Mary Ogle
Robt. Wilson
GC. We Smith
C. Mounce
Tull Grover
Iva Bennett
Ridgely
Brainard
R. W. Helms
Ed Conner
John Wilson
Robt, Wilson, Jr
Bucklen
A. F. Hardy
East Wilton
Maine
Scott's Emulsion
Bccott & Bowne
Llyria
Eved Wenger
Clover Hullers
Katie Medberry
Hattie Kerr
Hazel Shaffer
G. E. Medberry
Edith Matthys
Edith Richards
Chas Doty
H. B. Kerr
Alice Humphry
E. Rothlisberger
Becker
Thos. Kerr
Will
Rose Wenger
Patterson
Amy Richards
Mary A. Toxweill
Perie Klingman
Will Peters
Walter Rothlsberger
Perry Medberry
Ekdtved
Forest Patterson
Dr. Hadgel
Lena Wenger
Mee Fritz
F. L. Medberry
Cresco
Lena Kruger
Ed Kokier
Harry Reichert
C. Wenger's
Jack Patterson
Walter Ernst
Fred Ernst Jr
Elkader
J. Layton
Lester Strong
Mamie Humphry
Herman Hackmann
Louisa. Schori
Sumner
Mrs. Rennison
Berg
Lehman & Son
T. J. Capper
Ecuo
J. A. Williams, Prin
Lola Kiple
Nellie Kipte
Charles Capper
Georgia Stoehr
Clarence Becker
Otto Stoehr
Hulda Schricker
Edith Keiser
Florence Berg
Earl Kiple
Louis Becker
Gustav ‘ Hackman
Earl Jagnette
Clifton Christ
Ruth Conner
Lizard Lions
Charles Greenley
Esther Draewel
Gracie Conner
Merle Klingman
Bessie Holstenson
Leonard Wegmiller
Clyde Buleyn
Amelia Errer
Micsie Barun
Roy de Sart
Fred Lutl
Joe Monnce
Fred
Ben Frank
Somers
I. N. Conner
Oelwein
Missouri
Jimmie Haynes
Melvin
McCloud
Cal
Mr. Haynes
Rockies
United States
Colorado
Nebraska
John Falb
J. J. Shadle Blacksmith
Rudy Lehman
Canter Street
Horne
H. S. Hadsel, M.D
C. O. Fothergill, M. D
Galle
Deway Hotel
Enaik
Tawa
Scahori Bros
Prain
Dapat
R. T. Weston
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