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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1906
Page
4
J W Bopp reports rising inquiries from parties seeking farm rentals for one to five years. He guarantees first class tenants with secure rental arrangements at moderate prices and invites farm owners to discuss terms. Several good farms are available for rent and prompt action ensures a wide choice of tenants or properties.
An advertisement touts Kodol Digests What You Eat as a remedy for sour stomach indigestion and related symptoms. It claims the product uses natural digestive juices with tonic properties and asserts success for a Ravenswood, West Virginia, resident and general stomach comfort by cleansing and strengthening the mucous lining.
A long list of neighbors and visitors fills the Illyria page with names and small events. Miss Rose Wenger spent Sunday at home, Robert Peters and Harry Reichert appear in local notes, and several families like the Klingmans, Shaffers, and Peters are mentioned with visits, calls, and farm work. The column also notes Miss Myrtle Shaffer leaving for Oelwein to enter school and includes an ad note for Henry Topp & Son and Stoehr’s Pharmacy. A dog bite incident injuring Miss Katie Medberry is briefly mentioned, followed by an anecdote praising Electric Bitters as a remedy with testimonials and local shop endorsement.
Oak Grove news summarizes social visits and weddings with residents attending gatherings at Fennell and Dubies homes. It notes Carl Smith and family at a funeral in West Union, Chas Lyons family trip to Sioux City via Cedar Rapids to see Tommy Howard, and Enos Howard visiting Cedar Rapids for his son Tommy’s illness. Dr King's New Life Pills advertised with faintethereal medical claims.
Local visit from Elgin includes Everett Phillips family. Henry Topp buys Elgin blacksmith shop and plans move. Anson Rubger and Louise Holzer celebrate fifth wedding anniversary. George R Neuenswander weds Louise Holzer at Commercial hotel on Sept 22. Corn ripens early for Iowa town for first time in fifty years with frost absent. Rumor of a shooting by Mike Hurley ends with a nonfatal grazing of Tony Pfeifer from a rifle misfire. Des Moines Register reports Denny Hastings, Lansing pitcher for New Hampton, is a somnambulist who fell from a hotel window breaking ribs and ending his season.
Cedar Camp No 6379 M W A passes resolutions of sympathy for Mrs C L Shaffer widow and Mrs Shaffer’s brothers C L Shaffer Fremont Ogle J D Shaffer and R H Peters in their bereavement over the death of Mrs C L Shaffer on September 22. The community notes her life as honorable and her services to family and neighbors, and expresses deepest sympathy to the mourners with a copy to be entered on the records.
Sale at J I Phillips farm west of Elgin on Elgin West Union road starts 10 AM. 5 horses including draft and driving pairs, 48 cattle with heifer and bull calves, two yearling heifers, nurture of dairy cows, 70 hogs with Poland China sows, sows with pigs, grade sows, shoats, 3 boars. 40 shoes? 3 boars. Machinery and extras include wagons, plows, harrow, hay rack, bob sleds, harness, cream separator, 199 chickens, six tons hay, household goods. Coffee and lunch noon. Terms usual. Hillips and Shaffer, proprietors. R F Dewey Auctioneer. J D Shaffer Clerk.
Advertises vast school lands for sale along the Texas and Pacific line from Fort Worth to El Paso. Claims low rates, two through trains, and 40 year purchase options. Cites example purchase near Staunton, Texas, with profits from cultivation and livestock, and offers free booklet from D P A Bills Farnsworth at 186 Clark Street Chicago.
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