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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1898
Page
7
A bustling compilation of advertisements and community notices from Elgin and nearby towns. It lists businesses selling shoes lumber flour and gloves, local canning operations, stock trades, and market quotes. There are brief community updates on roads, weather, dog shows, river water levels, fires, and residents traveling or visiting relatives in nearby cities.
W G Nicklaus brings a heavy team of sixteen hundred pound draft horses home to their new barn after buying them off John Rhinehart. John Desart will drive them with Charley, and the pair are described as sound, young, and exceptionally fine stock suitable for heavy work.
Absalom Hulbert and Shorty Edwards of Oelwein did business in Elgin on Wednesday. Saturday Miss Nits Ehrlich left Elgin for Cedar Falls to spend a week with relatives. JS F Steele of West Union visited Higin Jast on business. George Owens, son of Mrs. L M Blakesley, has been in Elgin visiting his mother. Mrs Ainaworth and children spent a week at West Union visiting relatives. Mrs L M Blakesley and son George Owens left for Tiinois to visit relatives. El Crowe Jr of West Union was in Elgin Saturday looking over the town. Ministers who attended the conference in Elgin the past week and their addresses are listed under Northwestern German Baptists.
Fragmentary report lists residents returning from West Winton and trips to Chicago for winter goods. Mentions Gunt Stochr, Mc Martin & Styles store, Dr. Glaiser and family, Knudtson buying winter stock, and Freiden brothers renting land. Includes brief travels through Elgin and Postville routes.
A week old Arlington News item notes Mr and Mrs Pred Branch of Elgin visited Arlington with Mr Branchs sister Mrs Charley Jowell and Mr Jerwells father of Elkader and Mrs Wahde another sister over Sunday. HG Bishop and family also called on kindred and friends at Elgin during the weekend.
The Northwestern German Baptist conference met in Elgin from Wednesday to Monday in a large new church building. Proceedings were conducted in German, with ministers and delegates praising arrangements and hospitality as fifteen delegates prepared to travel to St Louis for the national gathering.
Nine portraits of Mary E Wilking will be printed in the October Ladies Home Journal. The images depict the famed New England storyteller at home and with her friends, offering a rare glimpse into her domestic circle.
The annual Fall Carnival runs Oct 2 to 7 at Cedar Rapids with one fare round trip via Allagente of the BC R and N Ry. Tickets on sale Oct 2 to 7, valid through Oct 8, covering Bicyela Flores Races machinery display Indian Village and a nightly Battle of Manila reenactment with American Spanish ships and Morro Castle. Wireworks costing over $1,000 are featured. contact agent B for rates and information.
The widow of Richard Wagner authorized Wonston Stewart Chamberlain to write two articles on his life with assistance, and The Ladies Home Journal acquired the material. The pieces promise new insights and illustrations, with the October issue featuring How We Wrote His Operas. Also advertised are tailored suits and fall undergarments from local merchants.
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