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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1918
Page
3
Residents share news of illnesses and visitors across the area. Everett Trimble and family reportedly afflicted with Spanish flu while others remain under the weather. Funeral for Dreier attended. Otto Bahr builds new house. church rebuilding plans stalled after cyclones and wartime agency decisions.
Renowned doctor Shallenberger, famed for treating chronic ailments in men and women, advertises cures for kidney, liver, stomach, and nerve issues. Claims all diseases cured without knife, offering relief for fatigue, nerve weakness, and depression.
Ivester L E Miller and family spend week with son Alyn while M Miller helps with corn harvest. H Miller builds a hog house for John Dinnes. Influenza limits Sunday services in Eldora and Grundy. Mrs Barbara Frederickson in Sheldon for several weeks. Children stay with Abel Propst family. D I Meyers and wife with Wes Moats. Mrs Moats recovering from hospital. Carpentry on Meyers farm progress. Bowers to occupy new buildings. Aiken improves old home farm outbuildings. Wilk Bules works on Wellsburg telephone line. Albright erects a large concrete block garage. Abe Propst building garage and other farm projects. R W Button has corn pickers. some from Missouri. Several in area ill but none seriously. Irvis Slifer improving and likely to be up soon. Fred Essig and wife visit Eldora relatives. Miss Anderson, Ivester teacher, returns Cedar Falls after fin closes. Next M G A drive set for November 11 to 18 with per‑centage of liberty bond valuations. George Schwarck, school board secretary, delivered books to district schools. call for more up‑to‑date library books.
Reports from Eldora include Misa Vor Griffith visiting a business estate and Albert Van Dorum calling. Frances Moore rode with her father on the mail route. Harm Folkerts and family drove to Aplington for Baptist church services. A fragment notes Hans Hockham and Ernest Mr and Mys Galhorn with a noted influence.
Distress: ry Mr and Mrs Will Reed of Muir have visited W T Moore’s home. Miss C Bootcher is upending at Yew days at Chapin while there is no school. Miss Luelia May Russ vacationing with her folks in Iows Falls. Miss Dora Pence and Clara Penebrick were in Eldora last week. Kent Cable and Gus Kluger were Eldora caflers Monday. Mr and Mrs Rob McCall were in Eldora Monday. Rev Water harvesting corn for John Cretn. Miss Lulu Cartwright spent last week with Harm Folkerts family and helped pick corn.
Ross Reece and wife lost their baby girl to influenza and laid her to rest in Honey Creek cemetery. Most sick folks at Honey Creek are improving amid a few influenza cases in New Providence. Corn busking continues as farmers work the fields. A C Martin of Alden visited his father T A Martin last Friday. Dr Keysor of Marshalltown treated Lew Braer’s ill son. Rev Cox, Honey Creek pastor, returned Monday from Deatonéas hospital in Marshalltown.
Simon Granner recently returned from Sheffield after an operation. Opal Long improves from influenza. Walter Granner visited the Frank Riley home on Sunday. Farmers foresee corn harvesting soon. School closed due to influenza. Ernest Dreier of Hubbard died Thursday from Spanish influenza. Irene and Mary Doyle visited Rosburg's on Sunday. Chas Rosburg went to the Falls on Monday for business.
Iowa Falls Rendering Works under manager Chas P Craig offers free removal of horses cows hogs and sheep within 26 miles. All animals must have hides on and disposal aims to save waste for the war effort. Phone 399 Iowa Falls.
A garbled column notes a Nevada delegation meeting at the Connolly home on Thursday to discuss pronunciations and marching orders. It also mentions a river Veale joke, clothing rations, and a long parade of odd wartime notices from multiple papers including misprinted ditties and local notices.
A historic blaze in New York caused massive damage, with early estimates placing losses at five million dollars. Officials warn the fire may have altered the city’s industrial landscape and prompted state inquiries. Firefighters fought the blaze through the night, securing key districts and evacuations.
A list of land transfers in Iowa Falls and Alden towns shows multiple parcels sold, with buyers and prices such as Petrie to Parrell for 344 ft Lot 4 Block 36 at $750 and Osborne to John Megan for a land description at $500, plus numerous court suits including mortgage foreclosures and notes. The Ada historical note mentions aircraft production progress and wartime reflection from the Alden Times.
The fime statue of St Bruno at Rowe was created by French master Houdon. He visited America in 1780 at Franklin's invitation to take casts for the Washington statue later in Richmond Virginia. The Trappist order, Pope Clement XVI, and an oath of silence figure in the tale of the sculpture’s commission and reception.
A tip notes that applying lemon can remove marks from paint without rubbing hard enough to strip the paint. It advises gentle action to avoid damage while cleaning or lightening marks on painted surfaces.
We pay from $2.00 to $35.00 per set for old false teeth broken or not We also pay actual value for diamonds old gold silver and bridge work Send at once by parcel post and receive cash by return mail Mazer s Tooth Specialty Capt Captain 2007 South Fifth Street Philadelphia PA
An instrument claiming to be the last will of Owen Kangley late of Hardin County Iowa has been opened and read. Monday November 18 1918 is set for hearing proof of the will at the District Court in Eldora Iowa. Dated October 28 2918 Guy W Jones Clerk Seal.
The article notes the atmosphere is said to vary by about 10 depth units from 125 to 200 miles, suggesting a descriptive range for atmospheric layers. No further measurements or context provided.
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