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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1911
Page
4
E G Brown, the best known picture man in this part of the state, to present a two hour show at Elgin Opera House with five pictures including the big SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. Show runs on the above date and every Thursday thereafter when not conflicting with other events.
The popular two dollar per day Hotel Bryant near the Depot in Elgin Iowa will be sold to the highest bidder at public auction on Saturday September 30 at 2 p.m. For further information address the Hotel.
Illyria items list local visitors and gatherings at homes including Chris Hola, Myrtle Shaffer, Lena Wenger, Mae Fritz and others. Mentions relatives visiting from West Union, the J D Shafter and Kimball households, and a West Union fair attendance. Also notes a kitchen raise at John Rothlisterger and fall term school start for several girls. End with an ad for Electric Bitters at The City Drug Store.
Sunday visits and gatherings mark the week with neighbors from Clermont Forest City and Farmersburg visiting St Olaf residents. Various families share greetings, a missionary meeting, a baptism namesake Orvin Tilman, and travel plans for education at Waldorf College and Oelwein. Community ties and kinship are highlighted through a string of calls and overnights.
West Union and surrounding area residents are mentioned in a stream of brief items. Movements include Mrs L A Grimes and children visiting Elgin, J I Chapman arriving from Waterloo, Mrs M A Fishback visiting Maynard and Minneapolis, Misses Elby and Trix Kiple from Mason City visiting local families, and Mrs Josie Moore replacing a clerk at Zanoni's store. Local business news covers a land sale in Fairfield township where a quarter section rose from 65 abacta to 100 in nine months. The West Union Chapter will soon hold a memorial service, with Mrs Marion Spaulding as acting chair. Other notes mention people visiting relatives in Postville, Miss Leta taking a job at Hikader school, and Henry Laver selling prize hogs. An agricultural highlight notes barley marketed at $1.05 per bushel. An advertisement extols Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and lung trouble, claiming home cure success and weight gain, with prices 50¢ and $1.00.
Mrs. L. D. Smith and son returned from Mason City. Dr. McGrath and family came back from Wisconsin trip. F. L. Wolf and family arrived from Newport Washington on a visit. Herman Alt of Clayton plans to depart for Germany. R. B. Schmidt and family drove 800 miles from Dubuque LaPorte and Charles City. John R. Bayless shows a peach eight to ten inches around weighing nine ounces from Leonard Dresser’s Emmett Idaho ranch. It is nearly St Olaf train delay time to Elkader.
Frank Tieden aboard a train today showed a fine registered Poland China sow weighing 178 pounds bred by W. D. Crowe of Webb. O. F. Meier traveled to Postville for his grandfather C. J. Meier’s funeral, a pioneer figure in Clayton County. Tom J. Barnum of Freeville NY credits Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for healing a lifelong fever-sore after many remedies.
Simon O'Neil entertains relatives from Wye while Mae Bennett visits West Union relatives. Monrce and family reside on the Ridge. Isaac Conner returns from Forest City to visit relatives and attend the fair. Mrs. C W Smith travels to Minneapolis and North Dakota. Eliza O'Neil visits Iva Bennett before heading to Waterloo. A neighbor reports King's New Life Pills cured kidney trouble. 26 cents at City Drug Store.
Mrs F Wille and daughter visited from Joliet with Mrs Lester and two children. Drs R P and George Berry learned of their mother’s death in Canada last week. Mrs Geo Willard and son Harry of Lavina Montana renewed acquaintances here. Misses Helen and Anna Appelman head to Cedar Falls to study at Iowa State Normal. Mrs E W Appelman to Waterloo to visit daughter Leigh Wade. Miss Maggie Sheehy returned from the west to visit her parents John and Mrs. Sheehy. Township fair grossed 37.16, funds to furnish the opera house basement. Miss Julia Wille and Pearl Ludwig return to Chicago after visiting. Mrs T H Hendershott and Irene return to Lavina, Mont.
In a brief note from Rock Island, a dog named Bogus, belonging to Anson Priest, was killed after a reckless act in front of the Rock Island limited train. The animal lost its life and one hind leg, with the incident occurring Monday noon. Mrs. B. C. Grover hosted a pleasant visit prior to the tragedy.
The undersigned will sell at public auction on Tuesday September 19 starting 10 a m at the W E Howard farm four miles south of Elgin and near Elkader road. Heap of horses hogs cows hay grain corn and other articles with a long itemized list including a roan mare filly colts hogs and a pedigreed bull. Terms: cash under ten dollars and credit over that amount with one year at eight percent. Also a note on malaria and yellow fever transmission via mosquitoes.
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