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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1914
Page
5
For Sale 95 pure bred Poland China male pigs described as big type breeding stock. Ad invites farmers to inspect and notes low prices. R J Omnai re BR. Dewey, Republican candidate for sheriff of Fayette County, speaks Friday. Harry Gilson to Dubuque for railway position. Clare Ward of Fairbank visited friends here Thursday.
The German Baptist Church invites friends to Rally Day with a Sunday School reunion and home coming. Sunday school begins at 9:45 a.m. A free will offering will aid orphans and widows, with donations from Chicago for blankets, caps, stockings and clothes to be shipped to Baltimore for the Christmas Ship mission.
Martin Fels, the Republican nominee for Fayette county supervisor to succeed G. Wayman, is of German parentage and a longtime Fayette resident. He is active in farmers groups and Republican work, owns two prime farms in Auburn township, and enjoys broad county recognition for fair and impartial aims.
Bittle Groth was in Elgin yesterday and J H Sheehy called on Monday at the county seat. Senator Fred Larrabee of Ft Dodge spent the first of the week with home folks. Mr and Mrs Wesley Miller returned Tuesday from Rock Valley. Scott Wickham went to Postville Saturday to seek hospital treatment for a couple of weeks. A F Shipton and Frank Fay went to Waterloo yesterday for the Iowa State Dairy Association annual meeting.
Come to the Pleas ant Point school house in Illyria Dist No 3 Friday evening October 80. Ladies bring a necktie and supper for two Gentlemen bring their pocketbooks. A short program had been prepared. Everybody invited. Jessie Mepberrry, teacher.
Twelve Big Type Poland China boars offered for March farrow with bone and length described. Prices right and herd visible in Fayette County towns Arlington Wadena Fayette and Oelwein with good crowds. Visitors include Ey Bauper Elginia Senator Cummins Burton E. Sweet. Mrs Frank Greenley Harold and Mrs Bertha Mealey visit West Union L D Hitch home. Miss Louisa West recovering from appendicitis near Clermont.
A review notes Kirkpatrick Boone's new drama The Broken Rosary at the Opera House on Wednesday October 28, portraying a priest facing parish plots to marry a young woman to a wealthy suitor. The play blends intense drama with humorous dialogue and features a romantic thread involving a Irish-born baseball-player brother, hailed as powerful and vital.
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