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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1910
Page
2
A local note reports the German Baptist church in town was equipped with electric lighting and used for the first time on Sunday. The item also covers community events, farm news, births, marriages, and local notices, including gas prices, census figures, and social gatherings, all reflecting small town life and daily concerns.
T J Capper advertises Over Coats while Lillie Goetz visits her parents in Elgin. Rev Jasper Moore meets Bishop Wood for a visit. St Paul mail clerk Chas Smith leaves for duty. Lawrence MacKellar and family head to Chicago. Ed Sullivan reports another rabies cow. board hires state vet and Dr Malcolm to confirm. Dr Hutchinson advertises dentistry. new trunks and suitcases sold. Mrs L Doty and son Charles travel to Claypool Indiana. Dance at Elgin opera house promised a good time. Mrs Strahm, Emma Marti return from Bern Kansas. Mrs Brockhausen visits from Freeport. John Ringling plans White Sulphur Springs railroad and a hotel, with $1.5 million spent already. Fortune favors Ringlings after leaving Clayton County.
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