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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1918
Page
7
Albert Gehring operates a chicken farm selling 2 400 eggs this spring for hatching and has a growing market supply. He reports steady success with his poultry while an Army unit in France deploys a traveling bathroom enabling five hundred men per hour to bathe as they reach the front lines.
In the District Court of Iowa Fayette County November Term 1918 John F Berndt Plaintiff v Unknown claimants of Lot Seventeen in Block One in Higin Fayette County Samuel Con ney et al defendants You are notified petition seeks to confirm quiet and establish title and bar any rights to the property unless you appear and defend by November term 1918 at West Union Court House Attorney BH Schiefelbein provides notice Germany has been Land of Promise and France Land of Performance
Domestic science class shifts to Red Cross work next week. Mrs Finke of Volga City visited the Grammar Room. A new pupil entered high school, bringing enrollment to sixty. An orchestra is practicing weekly, and the Choiio Literary Society held a picnic. Marguerite Blanchard joins the fifth grade after summer in Waubeona. A committee aims to decorate the assembly room. Camp Fire Girls hosted a supper and meeting at Hulda Meyer’s home. Manual training tutors pedestals. the superintendent can oversee furniture projects. Four boys join Student Soldier units in Fayette. Dr Hadsel reassured pupils about infantile paralysis rumors. Junior Red Cross officers planned activities. Parents urged daily school attendance. A November 25 school play funds the school. First literary program set for October 11 with songs, recitations, clippings, a story, and current events led by students.
100 Reward, $1000? The readers learn Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh via blood action and constitutional treatment. Hall's ad promises $100 for any failure to cure, Toledo Ohio address. Then a farm ad notes Bauder's A Wednesday? pigs sired by Big Bla Orange and others, Elkith Iowa reference. Also cookie line from Cappey & Sons.
Draying of all kinds promised by a local service with phone contact at Miller & Grover. Ladies' Aid Society to meet October 10 at Mrs F R Borg home. officers to be elected. An ad promotes Chamberlain's Digestive Tablets for digestion. Testimonial from Mrs William Bell praises Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. Gleaners rally set for October 26 at Elgin opera house. Rev Sanders of Highland Park College preached at the Baptist Church.
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