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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1907
Page
7
Capper's offers fall dress goods and fine organ ads. Yoe Butler and Sam Lehman finish carpentry at Savings Bank building this week. Socials include Ladies Cemetery Association meeting and school organ fund party. News covers visits, marriages, homestead paint, gopher bounty debate, church and club events, and local business updates.
Citizens attend the Elkadex fair while Alf Weibel Lew and Cliff Christ visit Waukon Tuesday. A civil case by Joe Mounce against Ira Bennett for 3000 damages was settled and dismissed. Argent West Union plans to install a typograph machine due to labor shortages. Chris Meyers house on Main Street grows, with Lou Oswald and others bricklaying. Four hundred fifty shop men strike at Qelwein over wages. Roy Becker leaves for Iowa City to study at medical college. Bremer county grand jury indicts several physicians amid a fee bill controversy. School may open Monday if repairs finish. the school board met and set opening for September.
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