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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1912
Page
4
Advertiser lists numerous residences with land, 10 to 20 acres, and 80 acre farms available with favorable terms. Items include mineral projections, small loans, and farm loan arrangements. Call to discuss contracts, insurance, and local property deals.
Tests at experiment stations in Towa and Wisconsin suggest fall field diskings will hurt white grubs wire worms and cut worms by exposing them to birds and winter weather. The report says the method is promising and worthy of trial. Dispatches note Roosevelt adopts a policy of silence but he cannot stay silent. Have you got your turkey spotted Remember Thanksgiving dance
Cheery Valley residents report fields being worked with corn shredders while numerous visits and social gatherings occur around town. family and friends visit homes, attend weddings, celebrate birthdays, and cope with illness as neighbors share news from Wadena Elkader Cedar Rapids and nearby areas.
A humorously framed health notice urges strong digestion to prevent collapse of a great building. It advises taking Dr. King's New Life Pills at the first signs of indigestion to tone the stomach and regulate the liver kidneys and bowels. The product is sold for 25 cents at The City Drug Store.
In Wadena the farming community enjoys fine weather after rain. Will Plannigan traveled to Chicago last week on business. Zeb Davis drove a new Hupmobile to Fayette. Nettie Peters visited the James Klingman home. Bertha Starr went to Elgin to care for her sister. Wallace Peters family visited F. L. Ernst home. Mrs. Cary hosted sisters. Attendees at Governor Larrabee’s Clermont funeral included locals. Mrs. George Starr visited Len Larson's to see her new grandson. Mrs. P Aeschliman and children and Mrs. Debest and baby visited L. E. Bigler’s. Nettie Peters and Russell went to Will Peters near Volga City and back. Mrs. Haussen of West Union visited her daughter Mrs. James Klingman. Klingman family stayed through Saturday. A neighborly crowd with baskets gathered.
Pleasant Point News lists Sunday visits and Tuesday calls among residents. Red Greisinger spent Sunday with Fleury Overbeck, Mike Mounahan and family autoed to Elgin, Nora Stanton stayed overnight at John O Harren’s, Walter Pritchard called on Clyde King, and Mrs. John Howard visited her parents Frank Crooks and Helen Meyer. John Falk and sons Willie Berger called in the vicinity, O P Craft and family visited Carl and Mrs Smith, Tim Thoman and family joined at the Craft home, Lew Hunsberger and wife with Mrs Johnie Wilson visited Charles Hunsberger, Dorothy Hunsberger returned home after a stay at Johnnie Wilson’s.
Ohip man flags a dangerous freight train and saves lives, while H T Alston of Rahegh North Carolina credits Electric Bitters for a remarkable recovery from stomach and liver ailments. He states four bottles cured his issues and urges a trial to prove their merit. Price 50 cents at The City Drug Store.
Illyria Items reports Monday calls by John Wilson at Elkader amid pleasant November weather. Town notes include social visits, farm duties, kinship gatherings, and a local telephone installation on line 96. A sing is planned at the Fred Rothlisberger home Friday evening and several families spent Sundays with relatives.
The article notes Sunday gatherings with Frank Medberry near Brainard and Jim Boyle and family, Rob Wilson 6t., and others visiting John Wilson. It mentions Herve Robbins visiting with his father Jerome Robbins and relatives, and a funeral attendance in Clermont for Governor Larrabie. It also references Porto Rico praise for Dr King’s New Discovery with local endorsements and price details.
Students in the Intermediate Dept will present a program on Wednesday afternoon November 27 featuring songs, dialogues, recitations, and readings with participants from Hazel Habeger Castalia and Maud Patterson among the pupils. The Ziggy Zims and Beavers groups also plan Friday programs including roll call songs, recitations, and a continued story.
A large number of friends witnessed the marriage of Elizabeth Halvorson to Merritt Hemingway last evening at the Johnson residence on West 5th Street Minot North Dakota. The ceremony officiated by Rev P W Erickson featured a pale blue and white color scheme with a simple ring service. The bride, formerly with the Fair Store, wore pale blue crepe de chine over blue messaline with lace and pearl trim. A five course wedding dinner followed in pink and green decor with a rose cake centerpiece. The couple will reside in the Scofield block apartments and plan to be at home after December 1.
The board invites sealed bids for cream routes Nos 1 2 4 6 7 with current haulers named. Routes expire December 31 1912 and contracts start January 1 1918. A special meeting will be held November 30 1912 at the creamery to open bids and award to the lowest responsible bidder.
Two public sale events are listed in nearby Elgin and boneh27 with extensive farm equipment, livestock, and grain. Nov 25 auction features horses cows hay machinery and a 600 pound platform scale while Nov 26 offers more cattle grain oats seeds hay and numerous implements plus a Delaval cream separator and wagons. Free lunch at noon both days. Local notices include political commentary on keeping religion and politics separate after the election.
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