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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1904
Page
5
Local notes record Elias Day activities in Eldora Iowa including theater acts by Elias Day in Minneapolis, weather, river skating, and social tidbits. Reports cover city officials, education, business moves, and local commerce with mentions of Jansen the poultry dealer and the bank’s loan services.
Townsfolk and visitors populate the week with travels, calls, and transfers. Notables include Judge John Porter’s Florida trip, C. E. Greer in Chicago on business, and Delinquent tax sale rounds with bankers and merchants present. Also notes on theater, church events, a large corn yield, and a major irrigation tile project in Tipton township.
At the Union Deck market sale the catalog lists more than 100 cattle including 15 Hetfords 15 Short Horns 25 cows 20 calves 16 yearling cattle 15 feeding steers plus Poland China Daroe Jersey Chester White hogs 20 yearling and 2 year old draft colts 40 horses. Sale starts promptly at 10 a m. Also ad for Re-Go Tonic Laxative Syrup by Wilson Dru Co Midora Iowa Temperance drug store Nuff sed.
Revival meetings continue at Lincoln church. Guy Sheldon leaves for Wisconsin to spend winter. Earon couple start housekeeping in Maine house. Mrs. Clyde Hough hosted a recent gathering. Fred Mossman and Will Mitchell husk corn, expect to finish this week. Arch Mossman adds a porch to his house. Mrs. Dan Moler stays at Keystone tending a sick father. South Fork ice used by youngsters for skating. Pat Sheldon built a new hen house with interior lathing and plastering. Thomas Heffern leaves farm for Eldora. Davis and Moser seek a storm sash order.
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