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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1916
Page
2
Local column lists advertising terms and monthly payments, plus a string of notices and community items. Movements include visits, farm stock sales, brick sale, dining events, and dances planned at the Opera House.
An advertisement from West Union promotes a complete lens grinding plant and same day service for complicated lenses. The sole registered optometrist in Fayette County advertises testing by the State Board of Optometry and invites customers to send broken glasses.
W. W. Davidson of Elkader visits on business. Attend next Wednesday's dance at the Opera House by the Carpenter’s Orchestra. H. D. Yack and families and Mrs. Bertha Kiple visit Hawkeye relatives. Opera House Company repairs basement room once used by Otto Meisner as paint brightens the place. A night by “They and Abey” drew a fair crowd, praised as clean and fun. next show urged. Mel Kohler family and Lillian Riddle visit Forest Lake Minnesota to see H. J. Halverson family. Mill Feeds arrives. Tiankage with new corn advised for hogs. Weibel Bros. Mill. Pluma Weaver visits Dubuque. Otto Fuelling family from Farmershore visit Leslie Lehman. Frank Shipton and wife visit parents. Farm deals possible. Elgin Land Co. M. G. Webb and daughter Maud Fitzgerald return from Shell Rock after funeral. Arthur Groth and son back from Copas Minnesota. Groth children Jens Halverson and Selmar Groth visited. Fred Kohler and wife and others take Rosa Schneider to Prairie du Chien to visit sister Mrs Paul Steffan near Los Angeles.
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