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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1926
Page
2
Dr W E Elliott osteopath advertises at Firet National Bank while Dr A W Adams runs a central office above Eldora Candy Store, highlighting local medical services and business locations in town.
Local and personal items recount visits and travels across Marshalltown Ackley Iowa Falls and Spencer. People mentioned include AL We Gray Aurelia Spangler Dean Peisen Chas Clarke Mrs Valentine Esther Johnson Sam Walker Mrs John Powell Rev A R Rice M D Wilcox Dale Wilcox and others with weekends Sundays and Tuesday trips noted.
Special for Friday and Saturday offers all flavors of ice cream and sherberts at 30 cents per quart. Eldora Candy Co advertises this sale as a limited event. The item lists numerous local names and places connected to weekend visits and social gatherings, including residents from Ackley Whittier Detroit Ames Marshalltown and Dayton. The advertisement fragment also includes a welding shop motto promising quick repairs.
Local social notes record Mrs Ellis McDonald and daughters Avanelle Marguerite visiting Waterloo, featuring guests from Des Moines and Cedar Falls. Several trips to nearby towns for funerals, visits, and school events are noted, plus farm camp preparations, milk shipments to Miami, and a corn yield contest nearing record entries.
Receipts of cattle estimated at 21 000 with steady market on most grades. Fat cattle and feeders mixed. cows and heifers mostly $6.00 to $7.00, fancy heifers to $1000, fat beef cows a little lower. Bulls 4.40 to 37.75, calves 8.60 to 11.69, stockers steady to strong. Hogs opened higher but closed lower. top day $14.40 for choice light hogs, varying weights. Sheep and lambs steady to lower. fat woolled lambs 13.50 to 16.75, spring lambs 15.50 to 16.50. A separate town anecdote describes a scam artist, a White House Pine Lake improvement note, Epworth League officers installed, and a comment on women’s beauty.
City Clerk's annual report covers April 1 1925 to March 31 1926 with receipts from water rentals business license fines grading city improvements and miscellaneous totaling 10 532 73 paid to City Treasurer 10 500 31 balance 92 42 warrants issued 66 000 56 and bonded debt 24 450 00. Also a separate annual financial statement itemizes property valuations by class and taxes plus municipal assets and payments for the year 1925 26 including street police fire and library allocations and bonds outstanding.
Residents report attending the Marshalltown circus and visiting friends in Union Geo Cowper of Des Moines and nearby towns. The item also lists local callers, weekend visits, and social notices with names such as Miss Mabel Howard Mrs M H Strohters and J C Boyd amid brief mentions of ice cream specials and travel between Marshalltown For est City and Gladbrook.
Mesdames J. C. Boyd FH Here rald Marion Nuckolls Maud Bearry Marshalltown callers Leota L. Sardy teaching at Ames spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs LU Hardy W Needham with daughter Alice Naomi Quinlan motored to Des Moines for the day Saturday Mr Needham and Maurice went to Cedar Falls to hear the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Miss Clara Martin visited her sister Mrs R F Blackmun returned to Ackley Erma L Young of Oskaloosa visiting Mrs Robinson went to Marshalltown to visit friends Geo Bowman Otto Filbrandt and Walter Filbrandt visited at Mrs Frank Filbrandt's home Mrs Viola Harris went to Marshalltown last Wednesday and underwent an operation at Deaconess hospital Leonard McDonald working for the Electric Co spent the weekend with his parents Ellis McDonald
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