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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
4
BOPP S new bulletin adds property listings with spring and summer advertising benefits for sale this fall. Strong demand expected from Illinois buyers. fifty Illinois agents will route customers. No listing charges unless sold. Fayette County only. Private money for farm and chattel loans. homes from 25 down with monthly payments. easy farm terms.
Illyria items report neighbors in the vicinity including Fred Wenger Libbie Hunsberger and various calls at West Union Elkader fair attendance and visits by the Probert and McMillan families. Mentions of schooling at Illyria District No. 2 Katie Medberry and health trips to Rochester. Ends with a serialized ad for Electric Bitters promising strength and appetite improvements, cited by P J Daly of Chicago.
Oak Grove and Ashbury Conner families spent Sunday at the William Brabham home while George Stansberry and family visited the E. W. Howard home. Mrs Simon O’Neil and Mrs Lew Kohler attended church at Clermont. Jenson Peterson has been ill the past week but is improving. Perry Craft and wife and Mrs C W Smith visited at the Wilbur Patterson home. Farmers are hauling sweet corn to the factory, Frank Boyle delivering the largest load weighing 4000 pounds. Sunday Ike Conner and wife and ...
Families gathered at Cooley hollow for a picnic and a pleasant time while Frank Boyle nears completion on his new house. Mrs Roy Vought of Donnan visited her relatives, with Ed Conner's Sunday guests including Ward Brabham and spouses and others. A Houston Maine man praised Dr King's New Discovery after relief from a long standing cough, saying it banished it after winter and now again this season. Product available at Muehlenthaler Brus hing store for 50c, 1.00, trial bottle free.
West Union notes residents report settling in Mason City, travel between cities, business moves, and local appointments. Dr. Bartlett heads to Dalhart for relocation, Fred Grover’s shop sold to E. Pond, Woodard recovering from illness, and premiums near $60 at the state fair. Meetings and visits across Ottumwa, Elgin, St. Paul, Waterloo, and Des Moines areas appear, with rail injuries settled for $5,000 and local civic events planned including a forthcoming picnic and Congregational association convention in Mason City on September 29 and 30.
J C Goodwin of Reidsville North Carolina praises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a sure remedy for ulcers after a leg sore last summer. He notes it knocked out the infection in a few rounds and that no wear remained. The salve is guaranteed for piles, sores, burns and more, available at Mueh lenthaler Bros. drug store.
Kittle Groth visited Postville on Friday Mrs Wm Garvey stopped in as a Postville visitor John Jacobson of Gunder visited Clermont Monday Mrs J H Sheehan went to McGregor for a short visit Fred Bigler and George Willard were out Sunday and brought back 12 prairie chickens Ole 8 Groth son of Mr and Mrs JH H Groth Jr left for St Ansgar
Public sale conducted Thursday October 1 at the Frank Gehring farm five miles south of Elgin and 34 miles north of Wadena. Items include 31 head of cattle 54 head of hogs machinery hay grain and household goods. Terms cash or 12 month credit on sums over ten dollars with note at 8 percent interest.
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