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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1925
Page
5
In a reflective Eldora column a poem celebrates striving and virtue. The piece links personal grit to community progress, then shifts to a long mosaic of local notes from the era. It recalls past decades, recalls W H Powell, and praises civic patience, ice purity, and bank stability.
The Christmas mail in Eldora topped last year with useful purchases and fewer frills signaling recovery. The Legion tree in the courthouse park brightens the town as Legionnaires and kiddie treats foster community spirit. The Rev Mr Sheatsley’s return in Ohio recalls a wife’s death by her own action, shrouded in a coroner verdict. Hardin County stock shows win at the International Stock Show with blue ribbons praised countywide.
A mosaic of humorous reflections and sayings fills a community page, from marital musings and social quirks to Christmas programs and local random thoughts. It captures everyday life with lines about driving imaginations, witty proverbs, radio in student cottages, and a playful look at weather and church attendance. The piece also includes a tongue in cheek guide to breaking into a newspaper office and practical farming tips, ending with a note on imitations.
The column records visits and family news across Union, Ames, Des Moines, and surrounding towns. It notes Christmas gatherings, school closure for ten days, a death in the Reece family from Independence, quarantine for scarletina, and a postponement of the twentieth Annual Community Show to next fall.
A roundup of social visits and church events across Eldora and surrounding towns includes guests from Hamp ton Marshalltown Toledo and Des Moines. School notes cover a January 7 declamatory contest and upcoming basketball games while local families, students and staff share Christmas and holiday travel, fabrications, and community gatherings.
Mrs Amelie Wills Emilie Gast, born in Starkow Germany on April 2 1844, died December 23 1924 at age 80 years 8 months 21 days in Steam Boat Rock. She married J Gast in 1862 and later J Wilts in 1894. Survived by three sons H C Gast A W Gast Paul Gast, three daughters Minnie Blassie Tine Hartman Marie Warmbier, four step sons and numerous grandchildren.
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