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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1928
Page
2
A W Adams is identified as a dentist connected with the Atlantic and Pacific Tex Company. No further details on location, dates, or activities are provided in the fragment.
Misa Ruth Johnson of Cedar Rapids visited local friends for the weekend. For sale an extra fine Home Crest Wilton 9x12 rug is offered by The Haas Store at a bargain. Mr and Mrs Robert Tester and children traveled to Belle Plaine to visit relatives. Mrs Hugo Nissen and daughter returned from Hampton after two weeks with her mother and stayed over the weekend.
Local note reports BE A Bloomquist holds whole sale and retail agency for the Marmon car in St Paul as business prospers. A Grundy Center customer tested three Florentine Axminster Rug patterns and picked the one she liked least after further inspection at Haas Co rug service. Des Moines Register contest results show Dr W G Whitney f Simp son and Claire Stewart of Independence correctly bid in bridge. Henry Jackson dies in Tulsa at about seventy from liver cancer. born near Steamboat Rock, later living in Clarion and Pomona parent references noted.
Min as Theresa Maper visited with her parents in Floyd Town. Edna Westerstrom spent the weekend with her brother in Ames. Hoynlmark Silk Dresses opened in San-Mra. W. H. Vilmont traveled to Rochester Minnesota. Henry Lentz visited Oldfield Nebraska for relatives. Miss Hesa Ames and nephew John Plotee came from Town Falls to visit. One marriage license issued: Edward Morkee and Milas Ive Vaughn. Mrs Edith Grace Logsdon of Des Moines visited Pearl Nelson. J. J. Kramer accompanied stock to Chicago and back. Mrs Scurry seen briefly ill. May Anderson from Ames returned for the week. Gerald Brown leaves for Biloxi Mississippi to work. Lawrence Oldenburg with him. Irma Treskow, nurse trainee in Hampton, visited. Lillian Schmitt to Marshalltown for appendicitis operation. W. G. Clark to Algona for state declamatory contest and superintendents meeting. Rummage sale April 27-28 open fire Chapter D A R. Several local residents and travelers mentioned in succession.
Dr. Wilbert Shallenberger, the Chicago Specialist, known for chronic nervous and general diseases, will visit Eldora at Hotel Winchester on Wednesday April 25 for consultation and evaluation free. He has served the community for 26 years with regular visits every 28 days, treating multiple generations with notable honesty and reliability.
Governor Hammill argues for agricultural parity with manufacturers, opposes unworkable bank guarantees, and backs a mutual bank examination system. He defends current highway financing, urges voter awareness on a statewide bond issue, and pledges steady leadership for Iowa through 1926.
Local and personal items listing visits and calls across Algona and nearby towns. Names include Gus Luglan W G Leslie Stephen Sayer Harve Rowen Frank Oldenberg and many others with short notes on travel, visits, and minor incidents. The column references residents in Waterloo Mason City Jewell Iowa Falls Oskaloosa and Des Moines with dates and brief contexts.
A collage of short local notices reports Royalmark silk dresses on display at Landis and the opening day marketing push. Miss Ruth Hepburn, recently teaching in Brighton, Iowa, is elected to teach in Hampton schools. Miss Leota Hardy, Ames veteran, re elected with salary raise. Mrs. Stanley White of New Orleans and her mother visit in local homes. Marcel 50c shampoo advertised. W B Derr travels to Madison Wisconsin for jewelry business. Barred Plymouth Rock chicks for sale at 12 per hundred. Thomas Martin, sign painter, jailed for intoxication after arrest in Eldora Steamboat Rock. Opening day for Royalmark dresses at Landis Shoppe.
Dunn and John Bogue were business callers in Ames Monday afternoon. John Bogue has purchased a new 1955 Durant coupe. RUMMAGE SALE FRIDAY AND street from Post Office. The Des Moines Ice Company, which bought all local ice houses and interests, plans to build ice houses near the Northwestern railway tracks with Henry Stebe as contractor. Mrs M G Gosling of Radcliffe spends the week in Union visiting Mrs Fannie Reece and friends and plans to move to Eldora to keep house there with her son Frederick in the Prothero property.
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