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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1898
Page
7
Local items describe shopping, repairs, and services in Elgin and nearby towns. Advertisements promote lumber, flour, gloves, mackintoshes, poultry buying, and a cigar brand. Notices mention a depot hotel, winter goods, a fire department ball, and a veterinary service.
Over Sunday visits and weekly gatherings are recounted. Glen Kinney spent Sunday in Volga City while Gus A. Stoehr visited West Union on Tuesday. Frane Desart and family visited Clermont friends, and Glink Cooley husked corn at the Patterson farm in Clayton county. Mrs. L. L. Ainsworth of West Union visited the Econo home. Emma Baldwin and Addie and Bertha Stanton visited Volga City. Lena Shader of Oolgain stayed with George Schappy, Selappy being Shader’s grandfather. O. L. Freiburghaus family planned Omaha Exposition trips. Mrs. George White returned to West Union after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Chiat. Rev. R. J. Hack and wife returned from an eastern trip. L. J. Palda Sr. and family returned from Collar Rapids carnival. Mabel Shaffer enjoyed a two week vacation at Capper & Shaffer store. Luther Hazlett acting as clerk. Clint Kinnay returned from Cadur Rapids carnival, noting the excursion and that he saw the last dog hung. Frank Allan of Coolridge, Kansas visited Elgin and fondly recalled boyhood days, noting the changes since his departure eighteen years ago.
Mrs H W Albright and Mrs 5 Shaffer were Postville visitors Friday. Clara Schori Nell Stoehr and Ethel Albright spent Saturday with Clermont ielenda Miss Alma Webb of Shell Rock is at the Davey visiting cousins Gus Bryant the Oelwein lunch counter man was in Elgin on business. Mrs A T Holetango n and children visit Clayton county relatives. Nels Olson and Ben Garden Nordness spent Sunday in Elgin with Chas Smith Mrs Willard Wholether of Minnesota was at George Schappy's home last week. Frank Dreveskesky returned from Cedar Rapids after a week with carnival friends. Mrs Keenan and daughter Anna of Waukon arrived at CG W Nicklaus home for a visit. Mrs CG J Harrington and Ira Harrington returned from two weeks with relatives in Jag you county Jong. Early Tuesday Adolph Weible John Christie Will Kern Glen Kinney and Gene Wander left Elgin for McGregor for fishing and camping on the Mississippi. Sam Mosby returned to his Elgin home Saturday. Bam has been foreman of four canning machines in an Ohio factory all fall and has good pay. Last Saturday George Heller and daughter Anna Gu a Boelzer Peter Nicklaus and N Sehori left Elgin for Pittsburg for the Knight's Templar Conclave. They plan to visit Baltimore and other eastern cities before returning.
Help wanted notice seeks a seamstress with good wages. Contact at tailor shop one door east of the bank, Robert Evans. Vague meeting notice: The Democrat of Pleasant Valley meets in township canons at 7 80 1. x. on Oct 18 1898 at C Theo Schmid harness shop in Elgin to nominate a township ticket. Also tossle at a township committee Aug Binson Two Chairman.
Daniel Hills, Fayette County pioneer, died October 8 at his Pleasant Valley home aged 72 years 5 months 18 days. Funeral at the ligma October 10, burial in Elgin Cemetery. Born April 26 1820 in Warren County New York, he emigrated to Erie County Pennsylvania in 1829 and moved to Iowa in 1854. He married Almira Ackley in 1840s. she died in 1904. Hills was known as a hardy frontiersman, hospitable neighbor, and a leading farmer in Pleasant Valley, contributing to Iowa’s early development.
The Wieles family expresses thanks to friends and neighbors for the kindness and sympathy shown during their trial and bereavement.
Robert Evans offers ready made and custom suits in latest styles. All orders filled quickly with neat repairs and pressing. A complete line of samples available with satisfaction guaranteed. Exeter Bank. Eigin, Iowa
The death of little Peter Lehman son of Mr and Mrs Peter Lehman occurred at the Pavanta home in Elgin from diphtheria Prayer by Rev K J Hack followed the burial in Elgin Friends extend sympathy to the bereaved parents The piece expresses mournful reflections on the child’s brief life and the sorrow of loss.
A public notice calls all readers who owe one or more years of Elgin Boyo subscriptions to pay immediately. It stresses that everyone, regardless of status, should help by settling debts, urging those who owe to take action now.
The management of the advertised dance for next Saturday evening has decided to postpone the event. Under current circumstances the affair will be held at a future date to be announced.
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