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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
4
Sunday visits and weekend calls fill Highland Tlems as residents at the Chapman, Brabham, Rothlisberger and Medberry homes report gatherings. Trips to Wisconsin and West Union accompany illness notes and school openings.
Jim Bartlett digs a cistern at his home as last week’s rainfall aids fall plowing and pastures. Edna Bartholomew attended Clermont home coming on Thursday. John Burk Sr of West Union visited Geo Tripp’s home Friday. Genevieve Cox of West Union spent Sunday with sister Mrs. Sheldon Boyle. Mr and Mrs Chas Peters and Mr and Mrs Arthur Patterson called at Guy Reed’s home Monday. Roy Burnside returned from Max North Dakota where he worked during harvest. Dan Craft Hag installed a new cement porch at his barber shop. Mr and Mrs Arthur Patterson and Mr and Mrs Grey Reed were guests Sunday at Mrs Chas Peters’ home. Mrs I Monnahan arrived from...
A Rochester area sale lists roan mares aged 2 to 6 and mixed cattle including heifers and calves, seven full blood Duroc Jersey sows, 53 head shoals, and corn, oats, hay, straw, and potatoes. Machinery includes a Milwaukee grain binder, mower, corn planter, disc, plows, separator, sheller, feed cooker, gas engine, wagons, buggies, harness, and heating stove. Also notes 10 acres of corn, 500 bushels oats, 15 bushels potatoes, and storage for hay and straw.
The narrative notes a patient in a hospital at Postville since an accident a week ago. Surveyors have been in the neighborhood examining land recently purchased by B Mayer. Visits from Mr and Mrs Fred Veasy and family and George Crangley came from Hopkinton while Mrs Lyons and daughter Mrs Minnie Bakeman and Winniefred of Minot North Dakota visited at the Prank Lyons home. The sugar shortage is discussed as serious with no clear cause, urging people to stock up for the next canning season.
Cheery Valley notes describe a wool carding bee at Thomas Hanson’s home, a string of Sunday visits between families including Dennler Christen Hanson and Thoman, and several guests from Dubuque and West Bend visiting local residents. The item lists many calls and gatherings among neighbors, with transport by Louis Schneider and family arriving from West Bend.
The Postville Hospital endured a crowded week aiding afflicted residents with surgeries and treatments in the new addition. Listed patients include Mrs. Chas Miller of Garnaville. Earl Bennett of Elgin with appendicitis. Frank Schulte of Canistota. Mrs. C. C. Peterson of Clermont. Mrs. I. Monnahan of Brainard for eye relief. B. N. Ostgard of Elgin with cataract. Joe Koevenig of Postville with turbinate. Edwin Dawe of Ossian with ruptured appendix. and several others undergoing tonsils and adenoids removal.
Five subjects cover history and government, agriculture and animal husbandry, manufactur ing, merchandizing, and civic progress. Towa 103 and Lows 105 oats, bred and distributed by the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Stations, cover over 1,000,000 acres. They yield 4 to 6 bushels more per acre than the best Iowa oats, totaling a gain of more than 4,600,000 bushels for Iowa farmers this year.
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