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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1909
Page
8
UNIONS and social happenings fill this column. Residents visit Marshalltown shopping, attend church services, and visit relatives in Iowa Falls Glenwood and Stanford. Awards at the silver medal contest, health notes, and local business ads appear amid court fee reports and a bank loan pitch.
Wellsburg sees several new autos ordered with more likely purchases as spring approaches. Doctors report scarlet fever cases near town mostly mild and convalescent. Eells restaurant in Wellsburg nears completion under O. B’s management. Grundy Center graduates include ten named students. local figures and events noted in brief. Hampton emerges as an auto town with mounting car purchases and shifts at Iowa Central. Horse trade strong with a carload to Chicago averaging 180 dollars per head and a black span worth 500. Dredge on Dougan ditch begins work aiming for September completion. Easter programs planned at local churches.
W D Wilson plans a 40 by 40 wool and seed shed near the depot this spring. Four autos bought this week by Wilson, Conrad Kruse, Dr Crouse and Dr Theilen. Potatoes to be planted in record amounts. dealers forecast 200 planters in town. Lloyd Barker fined $1 plus costs for fighting Rob Cheney. Floyd’s friends boosted the fine with $2.60. Eggs fetch top prices. Wanted 400 bushels potatoes Box 28 Eldora phone 46.
The Christian church ladies hold an Easter sale serving chicken pie roast spare ribs with dressing mashed potatoes baked beans squash cabbage salad brown bread pie coffee tea April 10, 1909 in the church basement inviting all. Also includes community notes on local improve ments and events from Eldora Iowa area such as court at Ft Dodge and drains district petitions.
Claude Bacon will work for Irve Wilson this summer. George Shaner and wife visited at Goodell last week. Mrs St George visited over Sunday with her daughter in Eldora. Fay Snyder is home from Iowa Falls for a week’s vacation. A lady from Dows helps Mrs Charley Smith with housework. Miss Frances Hall spent weekend with relatives in Ackley. Ina Stotser returns from Iowa Falls for a few days. Floss Wilson of Iowa Falls visits her sister Mrs Minnie Harman. Falla will move onto a farm near Cross Ford. Ella Stotser closes a term of school in Glenwood district. Oscar Pierce of Tracy Minnesota visits brothers-in-law James and John Harris. Arthur Mahoney from Franklin county was a business caller last Thursday. Many attended the L.A.B. at Robertson last Thursday and report a fine time. G W Stotner’s family, quarantined for gearless fever, were released last week. Mamie Kastor recovering from appendicitis. Floyd and Irene Harman visit grandparents Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Wilson in Iowa. Falla last week Mrs Mand Bennett and little daughter visit parents Mr and Mrs Gee. Ray Gardner and wife, who occupied the Sarah Pierce farm last year, are now living north of Iowa Falls.
Public notice announces Julius Steinberg deceased in Hardin County Iowa. August Donner and Aymer D Davis are appointed administrators by the district court. Creditors must file claims legally authenticated for allowance. debtors must pay the estate. Dated March 31 1909. First published April 3, last April 24.
The commissioner appointed to vacate the road from the southeast corner of section 67 to a line westward through section 4-8-19, crossing J. B. Baker land, reports in favor of vacation. All objections must be filed in the Auditor's office by noon May 15, 1909, or the road will be vacated.
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