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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1903
Page
5
The Herald reports a busy period with a model fall day in Eldora and Santa Claus scheduled to arrive. Notices include business ads, a Christmas greeting, and local sales. The paper notes church appointments, health items, and a petition regarding parole for prisoners.
The Herald notes a Saturday issue will appear in smaller size due to postal rules. It mentions local telephone exchange rate concerns and clarifies home rates unchanged. It reports Miss Margaret Thompson's move from Providence township to Marshalltown and Eldora teaching positions. It also records the marriage of Chas Lynk and Zella Haley at Steamboat Rock with plans to visit Missouri and settle on the Lynk farm.
Pastor Warner and family of the Congregational church are settling into the parsonage. Their furniture arrived late Monday and they began arranging on Tuesday. Warner plans to use the church study to free space in the parsonage and place his large library in the church.
Following a suggestion from The Herald many city ladies plan to receive calls on New Years Day. They ask Hidora ladies hosting open house to report their names so a list can be printed in the next issue. Please send names to this office promptly.
A. Backholtz sued the Incorporated Town of Radcliffe in Hardin County for ten thousand dollars claiming personal injuries from a trapese in the town highway. The jury ruled for the town. A petition for a new trial was filed in Franklin County during Judge Evans’s session. the current judge denied the motion with stated reasons. The plaintiff must appeal to the supreme court if he seeks further review.
Rev. C. C. Warner arrives with family to lead the Monticello Congregational Church and delivers two Christmas sermons to attentive audiences. He previously served five years as pastor in Monticello, where he secured a $10,000 Carnegie gift, helped build a $17,000 church, and chaired the library project. Resolutions laud his service, noting his upright conduct, civic spirit, and work with the library trustees before his move to a new field. Mrs. Warner is praised as a devoted partner.
The First National Bank invites all children under 15 to call at the bank between 9 and 11 o clock on December 28, 1903. J. H. Baules presides over the event.
AT THE CHURCHES churches announce no Sunday preaching due to the pastor's absence. Watch night service on Thursday Dec 31 1903 at nine. Christmas Eve events include presents and tree with Sabbath school exercises. Baptist Presbyterian Christian Congregational and Rev Hodkinson addressed amid holiday programs. My stock of children's chairs and rockers advertised at Wills.
A local record lists strangers arriving in Eldora and locals visiting friends for Christmas holidays. It notes Harry Phillips of Muscatine, H C Stuart, Henry Trainer, Walter Weaver, Max Conger from Grinnell, Oscar Hunter, Miss Genevieve Hardin, Miss Edith Lee, Rev Geo Shoemaker, Deputy U S Marshal Healey, Sir Manning, Mrs Jno Boylan, Mrs Kate Fagg, Mrs Louderback, and several Eldora students home for vacation, plus George Mlerding returning after five years in the navy with a sweep of global service.
H C Stuart long served as general manager of the O F E D Ry in this city. After the O N W Ry Co bought that line he lost his post but has now been appointed manager of a branch based in Girard. The coal line serves extensive fields and important commerce. Stuart left for Girard Monday and plans to return after New Year’s with his family.
A fragmented text lists couples from Albert Lea and Iowa Falls and hints at a want ad selling a farm for 80 cents. The snippet implies a paid advertisement strategy in The Herald and questions whether a small investment in the want department is worthwhile for a large farm listing.
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