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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1911
Page
8
An Iowa news digest details contracts for a new electric power plant near Perry, with regional utility developments and street schedule improvements. It notes new operations in the western city area, plus business growth and in town service expansions across nearby towns.
Iowa dairies produced a record 2,788,884 pounds more butter in the year ending Nov 1 1911 led by Fayette County with 3,921,615 pounds. Average butter price fell to 20.13 cents due to large stockpiles of inferior butter. The report urges expanding mill license reach to all towns and licenses for labor on dairy tests. 1,310 milk licenses and 2,400 Babcock test operators noted. Public health notes include typhoid preventability and calls for rural school reform and new educational inspections. Miss Julia A. Robinson named state librarian. The Barney licensing case moves slowly as legal briefs are filed.
Governor Carroll proclaims November 30 1911 Thanksgiving day urging state unity in churches and homes. Iowa news covers legal moves to defend tax apportionment, rural school criticism from Superintendent Farrell, and new articles of incorporation for local firms including Routdy MacMurray Boone Automobile Ozark Home Des Moines Electric Engineering Sloan Exchange and Co-operative.
George Bonnet, a wealthy Coffey County farmer near Hale Summit, built an oceanlike structure on his Bennet farm. Its decks, water tanks, and bee-walled sections mimic a steamship while a screened den serves as a summer retreat. The property includes a large pond with a 16 foot dam, an unfinished barn, and a shipyard style prairie house valued near $4000. Bonnet pursues experiments and religious outreach, plans straw burial beds to grow melons across the stacks.
Market quotation for gall stones remains at $100 a pound as Chinese devil chasers are sold in small quantities by meat packing firms. A. J. Little notes about eight to nine pounds yearly from cattle slaughter, with walnuts or peas sized stones. Japanese buyers ship pieces to Japan for Chinese trade, with a carved gall stone kept as talisman by a Chinese buyer.
Arthur Edward James and Ruth Jane Day, both fourteen, from South Orange, fled to marry but faced hunger and home pressures. Their parents capitulated and consented to the union, which was solemnized in the orthodox manner.
Mrs Josiah Olinker of Tama Iowa describes severe kidney trouble with back pain fatigue and weight loss. After using Doan's Kidney Pills her pain eased and kidneys returned to normal. she has stayed free from trouble for six years. The ad promotes the 50 cent package from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Baltimore reader testimonial praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing a 15 year old girl described as pale weak and irritable. The letter cites repeated medical diagnosis of Green Sickness and claims three bottles restored health.
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