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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1904
Page
5
Judge and Mrs John Porter plan a Tuesday celebration of their golden anniversary in this city. The Herald will feature the event in its next issue. Several items note local letters, council meetings, and sewer work, with community notices and a letter from Allen Putnam criticizing Eldora Telephone Co. practices.
Herald reporters note visitors to BE Moore home near Zearing over the weekend. Mrs Amos Cobb travels to New Providence for her father's death. funeral held Sunday. Attending from the area are Mr and Mrs Frank Cobb and Mr and Mrs OC Miller.
Simon Hoff's son Oscar suffers pneumonia while H S Swaggart visited Des Moines on business last week. Mrs. C D Martin is on the sick list, her mother Mrs J8 Kersey of Eldora has been visiting. Mr Dodd, working at Hillsworth, came Saturday and visited with family until Monday. Mr and Mrs CGA Rubottom and Master Farlow visited Herman Potter's in Grant township Sunday and attended services in the new church recently erected.
A snapshot of small town life with brief notes on visitors and family news. Dan Johnsons return from California, Minor Swearengen resumes mail route, Nelson Norton welcomes a son born April 15, and Elmer Boylan's baby shows improvement. Mrs. Orm Beecher visits G W Alsup, Grandpa McBride hosts Toledo family, Dr Hubbard to lecture at Friends church, and Mrs Simmons of Chicago delivers temperance talks at the M B church to a large audience.
M S Burry and wife rushed to New Providence Friday after a telegram announced the sudden death of EB Miller, the father of Mrs Purry. Mr Shaub arrived with his traction engine and moved a building he recently purchased from the Dirt Loader Co to his farm south of town.
Will Mitchell and his wife attended the O B Miller funeral at New Providence on Sunday. A rumor suggests wedding bells may soon ring in the area. Jim Taylor returned from Wisconsin where he spent winter in a logging camp. Mrs Teebe leaves Friday for Lehigh for a week with relatives before heading to Glen Flora. A M VanPatter closed his Hubbard business interests and plans to join the old home place this season. He weighs about 300 pounds and is expected to manage the riding plow well. A Tex as oil district visitor notes water from the boiling spring near the creamery resembles water from the oil regions and leaves a bluish film. The Herald offers canvas er two months employment.
Moody, known as Hub, admits stabbing Tyre Crawford in Surry County North Carolina on March 25 at an auction sale, but pleads extenuating circumstances claiming Crawford attacked him first. Sheriff J M Davis plans to take Moody to Dobson, expects no long sentence, and notes no mob danger.
For the week ending April 18 1904 unseasonably cold conditions kept seed germination slow yet allowed drying of the surface and resumed field work across districts. Spring wheat oats and barley seeding is under way in the north while central and southern areas report heavy activity in small grain seeding and corn prep. The peach crop in southern counties suffered damage though other fruits remain largely uninjured.
A collection of aphoristic lines on virtue, character, and society. Observations cover power, gratitude, science, patience, and ambition, with pointed judgments about pride, cynicism, and self-improvement. Notable themes include integrity, lack of necessity for uniforms, and the perils of pretension.
Allen Putnam writes in The Herald accusing the El Dora mutual telephone management of breaching the contract with the rural lines. The paper will print his remarks only to inform the public, not to trigger lengthy disputes. Readers may respond, but the editors warn against extended heated controversy in these columns.
I E Drake and Miss Mayme Livengood visit Hubbard while other residents like Mrs Chas Finn and Mrs J H Foster are noted as recovering or visiting. Rev Smith returns from conference and Dr Burgess visits. Prof Freeberg stays with Jewell relatives. D J Bunce assists revival at Friends church. Various social visits and travel stories mix with property sale rumors and school staffing changes.
The Herald warns subscribers with overdue accounts that non-payers will be handed to a collection agency and removed from the list. Readers are told to check the margin tag next to their name. last figures 1 2 or 3 indicate delinquency. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised for purification and relief.
The text critiques the idea that war brings prosperity and warns against wasteful spending. It cites a battleship's cost relative to farms and land value, contrasts foreign investments with local improvements, and ends noting calls to remove factions from political platforms. It reflects 1920s editorial style and local concerns.
Chicago Great Western offers daily March and April ticket sales to Montana Washington Utah Idaho and California. Write J P Emer G P A Chicago for full particulars.
An old advertisement argues that dyspepsia harms both the sufferer and friends, offering Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a cure and tonic that aids digestion, strengthens the system, and improves mood, claiming food is digested and nutrients absorbed, sold by Smith Reed.
The draft of the Iowa state convention centers on handling factional strife within the Republican party initiated by its leaders. The debate pits hard pressure against a fresh approach as party unity and strategy loom.
Wilson Drug Co discusses Hyomel a catarrh treatment claiming no stomach dosing and stating readers are assured of a cure with a money back guarantee. The piece explains pronunciation guidelines high o me and emphasizes breathing Hyomel to combat nasal throat infections.
Prospective buyers are informed a thorough-bred Durham bull will be available starting this date at the old Devol livery barn. Terms are two dollars with return privilege.
Reports from Eldora recount numerous successful uses of an old Quaker remedy. Mrs. B W Van Wick of north Jackson street testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved back ache after use. Pills sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Kilburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. remember the name Dean's.
A letter from E N Scholsser of Allright Illinois accompanies a payment of 5.40 for six dozen Farts Honey and Horehound 25c size, praised as giving satisfaction. The note claims the remedy cures coughs colds croup and throat and lung ailments, sold by Wilson Drug Co successors to Ellsworth Drug Co Eldora Iowa, the temperance drug store.
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