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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1915
Page
5
Richard Brackin and his bride return from their wedding trip last Friday and greet many friends. Twenty seven Bellevue youths will attend college this coming year, a creditable showing for a town the size of Bellevue.
Saturday evening a large barn on the Frieden property caught fire likely from spontaneous combustion and burned completely along with the machine shed hog house corn crib and granary. About 800 neighbors fought the blaze aided by Elgin volunteers and other nearby towns. Loss exceeds a thousand dollars with $800 insurance. the family plans to rebuild this fall. The distress was shared by Mr and Mrs Frieden who thanked helpers and received neighborhood sympathy.
The Elgin canning factory expects a stronger corn run if weather stays favorable after August frost. Manager Al Sehori, Superintendent Dean and others inspected fields Monday and found many ears in good condition. Packing is planned to start mid to late next week with a goal of at least half the annual average.
The note outlines the Gleaners annual picnic on September 16 at Hol Boyle Grove near Elgin with morning program starting 11:00, noon dinner, and an afternoon of races and a drill, plus an evening Biz Bowery dance at Turner Hall in Postville. It also mentions a Turner Hall play by Gaskill and MacVitty on September fourteen and observes seasonal shifts with hardware stoves, blankets, and coal, and comments on auto travel versus rail, and Roosevelt and Bryan speaking.
In Postville and nearby Oelwein crowds set attendance records for Ringling Day events. About 27,000 admitted to the Postville tents amid hot weather and car-packed streets. Quarantine kept camels and giraffes away. Ringling Bros. circus, worth about 4 million dollars, runs at a cost of 8 thousand daily. The piece notes the Ringling brothers once faced bankruptcy yet persevered.
Alpha Thorson, son of Andrew Thorson who lives three miles north of Higin, was badly injured last Thursday when a runaway horse freed its bridle, threw him from a rake into a hay stack, breaking ribs on his right side that pierced a lung and leaving him badly bruised. He was brought home for care and is recovering well. This is the same young man who lost fingers in a corn shredder accident last year.
Mrs Fred Kurz, a young mother of two, hanged herself in the machine shed at the family residence in Palmersburg Tuesday. She left a note for her husband, who was in the field, saying she would not be there when he returned. He raced home to find her dead. Burial is planned at Giddings church today.
Mrs C S Kniel offers fall and winter suit and coat orders through Victor Tailoring Co Chicago with ready to wear winter coats from 7 50 and skirts shirt waists and petticoats. The line promises low prices and quality materials. Call and inspect it J H W Bower veterinarian Higin
The ship Honey Totisld Lehman dispatched a large shipment of strained honey last week to Keokuk. E. A. Weibel and Mr. Leehey arrived from Fairbank on Monday. George Schori returned from a long car trip covering fourteen hundred Iowa miles without incident. Labor Day was observed in Elgin.
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