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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1929
Page
6
Notes of the stock market report a volatile week with cattle and hog prices reacting to supply and demand shifts. Beef demand steadies as lighter runs ease, while hog prices peak briefly then pull back amid packer competition and shifting shipments. Packers and shippers face uncertain timing as lambs and cattle show mixed gains and losses.
Union Word reports the sudden death of J. Clint Wilson in Ames while shoveling snow. A longtime local businessman, Wilson collapsed from heart disease while talking with a neighbor outside his son's home, after years in a mercantile business with his brother Curt.
Illinois Grove records a flurry of visits and short trips. Doc Nicholls and wife visited Eldora and Marshalltown. Mrs J L Welch and Paul joined Charley Unnwoady and others. Marion Perry and wife went to Marshalltown. Clemens, Jay, Templeton, Reynolds, and Vieman families hosted and traveled locally.
Miss Dorothy Cooke called at the county home. Frank Schafer and family joined the Enox Luiken home visit. The Women’s Farm Bureau met at Mrs. Frank Sheldon’s with a covered dish lunch. Jake Janssen and Hannah Kreimayer wed at Rev. Seybold’s home and will farm east of Ackley. Various locals attended church, school events, and gatherings with neighbors in Eldora and Albion, including visits, shelling, and a basketball tournament trip to Iowa Falls.
Eldora residents mingled at gatherings and visits across several days with friends and relatives from New Providence to Wellsburg. Weddings, funerals, and a fiftyth anniversary marked a month of community life as Beech er Crosley, Lucille Hall, and Clare Clingerman appeared in local events and the Ames auto show drew attendees.
Mike Mogsman attended the Geo Swift sale held Tuesday with a good crowd and fair prices. Eldora callers Frank Zielske and Bert Pagel visited Saturday afternoon while Deasle Mossman called at Thayer Thursday. Charley Butler visited the L V Carter home and Tui Ed Winther called at the Ziclake home Monday forenoon. Edgar Van Patter shelled corn Saturday. Simmons Bros spent Sunday evening with their grandparents.
The Steamboat Rook reflects a Baptist Dorcas Society meeting at Mrs. F. D. DeVries home with twenty four attendees and sewing as the main activity followed by lunch. Various social items include Fanny Potgeter visiting Grundy Center, Eldora callers, a trip to Alden for a sale, Minnie Swyter’s arrival in Aplington for a family matter, Marie Eilerson’s post office duty absence due to flu, Mrs. Georgia Dyers visiting from St. Louis to aid her mother, a business trip by Mr. Corneling Dohn to Marshalltown, Progress Club hosted by Mrs. L. G. Johnson, Chas. Lynkbau buying the Conden hotel and planning March possession, and a farewell for Myr and Mrs. Albert Zimmerman moving to Foreston.
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