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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1925
Page
6
Dr. W. S. Elliott osteopath located at First National Bank. Dr. A. W. Adams dentist operates over Eldora Candy Store. Dr. A. N. Reed dentist has office over First National Bank with south entrance.
Mrs Geo Brooks of Clear Lake attended the Fagg Schmitz wedding on Tuesday. Local residents visited Boone state park, Waterloo trips were taken, and several joined guests from Marshalltown for various calls. News items include home goods ads, water softener promotions, and a note on streetlight outages.
A busy Eldora Chautauqua program includes Hawaiian music and talks about tropical life and the Philippines. The event emphasizes unique island culture with guests describing life in Borneo and local connections. Sealed bids for county road work in Hardin County are also announced with details on dates, locations, and bid requirements.
The Haas Co offers lower prices on fabrics with weekly variation. Prices range from 65 cents to 1 dollar per yard and 9 cents VAT noted, reflecting a broad discount on wash goods.
A long set of notes reflecting on growing up and working life. It touches on car sales, racing crowds, Monday auto accident reports, marriage and child labor views, ambitions, sports results, advice about ambition, weather and oats, upcoming games, and moral musings on law, consumerism, and insurance.
A dense list of Sunday visits and Thursday gatherings shows residents from Des Moines Hubbard Eldora and nearby towns sharing meals attending church and visiting relatives at homes including the Modlins Snovels Dotys Langfords and Knowles family circles in Timber Valley plus hospital calls and news of new baby and illness updates reflecting a tight village social calendar across the week.
Customers stream into the Haas store daily seeking Never Mend guaranteed silk hose priced at $1.00 for wear and fit. The advertised hose are described as the greatest $1.00 silk hose value on the market with mercerized elastic top, pure thread silk, fitted foot, reinforced heel and toe, and a special seam. Shown in 12 shades and sizes from 844 to 1016.
A heartfelt thank you to our neighbors and many friends for their kindness and sympathy during our recent bereavement. We especially appreciate the beautiful flowers. Mrs. A M Doud and family.
The family thanks many friends and relatives for the beaut iful floral offerings and kind assistance during sickness and after death of our beloved.
The June weather holds while Farm Bureau women host a millinery lesson at Mrs Emma Grantow's home. Eldora visitors Mr and Mrs Schaffer and Mr Charles Schaffer from Canada arrive. Funeral services for A M Doud are held in Eldora. Local social visits, picnics, and flowers express community ties in Jackson Township and nearby towns.
Misses Audrey Burns and Bernice Bradfield were Marshalltown callers Monday. J. M. Tabor spent several days with relatives in Marshalltown. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Modlin visited the Ray Freed home near Whitten Sunday. A hat cleaner promotes Klenzona at Landis Millinery. Eldora barber shops stay open Friday night July 8 until 9. Mrs. J. J. Bleekers of Ackley visited her sister Mrs. Schmit. Mrs. Staines, back from Hampton, returned home Tuesday. Thelma Smith visits with her sister Mrs. Robert Freed near Whitten. Mrs. Harriett Lupton of Toledo visits with Mrs. M. L. Barnes Sunday through Tuesday. Mrs. S. E. Bales visits Newton to see sister Mrs. B. B. Trout. Ed Batchelder of Seward, Neb., attends Whit wood reunion then returns home. Mrs. Anna Hall of Little Rock visitors Catherine Adams and relatives. Holly Norton of Wauseca, Minn., spends summer with uncle C. F. Stauffer. Miss Johanna Bauer visits sister Mrs. Wm. Eckles then goes to Chicago. Betty Cahill, visiting grandmother Mrs. L. B. Cahill, returns to Hampton.
Mr and Mrs Norton and son Holly of Wauseen Minn arrived Saturday to visit C F Stauffer home. Ruth and Marie Crouse and Earl Newton of Conrad visiting H G Modlin home. W L Buford left for Gorin Mo after visiting daughter Mrs Ralph Gray. A C Volkers and Marshalltown family attended the wedding of their niece Miss Ethel Fagg. Lilia Hamiston refined to Lake Minnetonka Minn. Audrey Burns returning from Cedar Rapids hospital treatment. Mabel Howard returning home to Forest City. Water softener offered by City Sanitary Dairy. Mrs RE A Crary and daughters Wingon and Julia visited O M Barnes in Eldora. Frank Bolender family Ackley here for Ed Schafer funeral. Avanelle Whitwood Barnard visited parents, then home in Boone. Mrs Roy St John and daughter to Marshalltown to visit daughter Mrs Earl Wolfe.
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