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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
4
As the corn crop issue is resolved, attention shifts to who will rise to lead the free effort. The statement signals the transition from agricultural debate to organizational leadership and fundraising endeavors.
Local notes from Illyria report residents attending the Elkader fair and various family visits. J D Shaffer builds a new silo, Lewis decorates Fred Rothlisberger's house, Gehring installs a furnace in L MacKellar's home, and many relatives visit West Union and nearby towns. A social gathering at the central office ends with a birthday surprise for Mrs Hellrich. An advertisement touts Bucklen's Amiga Salve for burns and eruptions.
Tra Bennett visited Cedar Rapids on Thursday while Winnie Crooks spent last week at Colonel Mounce s home. Goldie Mouncée and Julia Brabham were together Sunday. Mrs C W Smith called at Frank Crooks s home Sunday. The Brabham family visited Ward Brabham s home on Sunday and Thomas Howard and wife were at Ward Brabham s Thursday. Mrs Frank Crooks stayed with her daughter Mrs John Howard on Wednesday. Simon O Niel and wife traveled to Des Moines Tuesday and returned Thursday. Mrs Thomas Howard and son Archie visited Robert Wilson s home Friday. Jim O Neil from near West Union called on Simon O Neil Sunday. Mrs Enos Howard broke two ribs last Thursday. Mrs John Miller and Leota Howard, summering in Minnesota, returned home.
Mrs R J Flint of Braintree Vermont credits Dr Kings new discovery with saving her husband from a dreadful cough. The letter praises its quick cure for coughs and throat lung troubles including grip bronchitis croup whooping cough and quinsy. Sold 50 cents and a dollar at the City Drug Store with guarantee.
Wadena news recaps visitors and travel. John Corkery returns from Fayette North Dakota. Emma Poor and Mrs Abbie Smith travel for dental work. Bert Jennings and Ed Jennings visit Garden Prairie. Rev Debest and family return from Delaware. Grandma Bigler visits Spencer Iowa. Mr and Mrs George Davis host family. Mrs Frey returns from Delaware. town reflects on changing seasons as summer ends. Mrs Fred Ernst and Mrs Robert Ernst visit West Union. Lola Wittenbaugh and Bertha Gurnan travel to West Union and back.
A Lincoln Nebraska man named Michael Hessheimer recovering after three years of illness following six bottles of Electric Bitters. The ad claims the tonic tonifies the stomach cures indigestion and improves digestion, blood, and nerves. Only 50 cents at the city drug store.
Local items note Josh Kramer headed to Springfield TI L for the State Fair with 30 to 85 Poland China hogs. Arthur C. Bishop family and Grandma Whitcomb of Bloomington Wis to Elkader tonight. Atty TM Davidson and wife plan a several week trip through Iowa and nearby states. Also mentions Joe Cain and a local wrestling plan between Jud Thomson and Hagen. Fortunes in faces ad promotes Dr King s New Life Pills.
Sunday visitors include Pratik Kohler and family with relatives in Elgin while Mrs D Clements visited Chicago. A party at R C Woodard’s hosted by George. Win Peek and family plan a Los Angeles move to run a rooming house. Fred Blunt returns from Rochester after a nonoperative visit. AG Crosby of Mason City dies. he served as LO O Home trustee. O P Soeson’s father dies. funeral tomorrow. Dr D S Leach travels Cedar Rapids to Elkader then Dubuque to open dental parlors. H S Waid of Charles City, longtime local in county, recalled by readers. Hon H L Adame to campaign for Taft. Delwain barber new hire at Bailey shop.
Mrs. Frank Miller came back to her home in West Union on Saturday following a visit to Elgin, recorded in county seat papers.
Poetic reflection extols nature sharing a universal spiritual love for the reader. The passage suggests love permeates atmosphere, trees, birds, winds, tides, waves, rivers, and skies, conveying protection, wealth, and care through imagery of the earth and heavens. It emphasizes inner realization of love's verity in life.
In Omaha a clergyman Parson Brownslow saved two boys who fell through ice. A harsh Deacon Jones halted his rescue with a cruel retort, declaring the hard line of labor as punishment. The tale illustrates intolerance amid a dramatic riverbank incident.
Mr Collingwood Ingram, famed naturalist, reports a wholly new indigenous bird discovered in pine woods of County Sligo Ireland. The species, allied to the coal tit Parus ater, shows unique sulphurous yellow cheeks and neck spot, unlike other tit forms.
John Burroughs portrays the Grand Canyon in Century, noting its immense depth of nearly a mile and width of ten to twenty miles. He compares it to Niagara as a wall picture, and to pyramids and the largest building on earth appearing insignificant within its immense chasm.
The article cites strict Dutch sumptuary laws in Cape Town restricting displays and umbrellas to a small elite. Article VI limits umbrella use to junior merchants and their wives or daughters, effectively placing possession in about fifty people, illustrating severe reigning social control.
A brief humorous exchange unfolds as Mrs Henpeck asks if she dies would he marry again. Mr Henpeck hesitates, joking about taking a while to recover before remarrying, with a judge offering a playful remark.
A list of numerous rural and residential properties for sale around West Union and Wadena offers large tracts and small farms. Prices range from 25.00 per acre to 700 for a brick house area, with easy terms, down payments, and loan options. Abstracts available and local Fay ette County deals.
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