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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
4
Frank Frisbe is very poorly and repairs to John Johnson house are underway. Numerous locals travel between West Union, Bellevue, Monona, and Chicago for visits, teaching duties, and family matters. The column records social calls, a church conference, a car mishap, and a fashion of local humor and small-town news.
Readers are promised a cure for catarrh through constitutional treatment. The ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure acts internally via the blood to attack the disease and build constitution. Proponents offer $100 for any case it fails to cure and invite testimonials. Toledo, Ohio address given. price 75 cents.
Illyria items note Sunday visits at multiple homes including J D Shaffer Will Frieden and George Gibson families. Miss Mabel Gehring stayed with Lena Wenger. Mabel Gehring and Alfred Johnson attended Guy Moore home. Fern Kerr began teaching at Wilgon school. several families hosted guests and children throughout the weekend.
Thomas Large a New York underworld figure was arrested last Thursday while preparing to sail to Texas with twenty five young girls to be sold to white slavers at southern camps. Police had tracked him for months and found the girls secured and ready for transport. The report also notes a string of arrests including bootleggers, a grand jury bond of one thousand dollars each, and mentions Attorney B J O Connor among those caught.
West Union is portrayed as a booming county center with high schools, water and sewer systems, parks, and shade trees. The city hosts major fairs, Chautauquas, lectures, and a soldiers reunion, supported by churches, hospitals, and four major roadways. A local realtor invites buyers and sellers to seek services including abstracts and loans.
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