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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
7
A collage of brief items notes for sale hearsay and local odds. Mentions Mrs Moats illness Miss Hulda Schori and Miss Pearl Greenley visiting. Clifton Christ heads to Cedar Rapids for business college while locals improve homes with cement sidewalks. Sanitary hair nets in all shades advertised.
The Thoma brothers report on a Friday Kensington Club gathering with Mrs. Fred Kohley attending as the sole visitor besides two absentees. A supper was served and comments praise the farmer as content and independent amid urban chaos while noting a broken leg from a friendly wrestling bout. The piece also covers pheasant foraging on a farm, aiding potato protection worth about $4,000, and praises the birds as effective bug foragers.
Earl Greenley resumes clerkship at Thoma Bros. store. Mrs. Blow visits from Decorah and Mrs. Gordon Green visits Fay ette with her mother. Dora Mathews plans a week with relatives in Farmersburg. Mrs. Chris Ruesser visits Lena Illinois. Miss Lyons arrives ahead of Monday school opening. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Brause visit the Butlers. A man’s job away from home rarely matches home praise. Electricians tested rubber gloves to withstand 19 000 volts. Fred L. Wolf of Newport editor visits the Elgin office from West Union, praising the west and noting former Elgin residents. State board of control buys flour for institutions with prices per barrel lower than last year. Much flour milled in Iowa. Canadians vote against reciprocity with the United States. George E. Schori sustains a scalp wound from a cellar accident but returns to work next day. Mrs. L. Hutchinson visits Culmar relatives. F. K. White of Clermont visits. W. H. Finke improves. F. A. Conner comes after his father’s death in City Point Wis. Mrs. Crowe and Mrs. Bower visit from West Union. Deaconess Mae Hoag visits then goes to Chicago. Mrs. Nicklaus hosts a card party. guests include Miss Mae Hoag, Maud Cotherman. Mrs. Miller and daughter visit from Sioux Falls at Hotel Dewey. Mrs. Frank Talcott dies at Maynard and is buried there. formerly lived in Illyria with many local friends.
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