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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
4
Xmas shopping ends but counters stay open at cost with new customers daily. Don't fall for merchants and street talk promising cheaper prices later. They want you to wait so they can raise prices. Buy now while stocks last for cold weather needs.
Herald reporters present the Hardin County weekly roundup of news items and notes from the county scene. The segment highlights local happenings, community updates, and noteworthy items culled for readers of this paper.
Eldora churches unite for a week of prayer with services at Congregational Christian Baptist M E and M B churches from Jan 3 to Jan 10. Speakers include Rev. O M Johnson Rev W E Van Buren Rev W G Ramsay Rev W E B Stanley and W Barber addressing Christ Bible faithfulness missions temperance family and constitutional amendment.
A fragmented OCR item names Benny J. Terveer Luella M Collins Jno W Sharock Luella Cox Bamner Oates Theo Curtis Bethany Mo and Hardin County Iowa with unreadable context or details.
Union Iowa December special report details a gasoline tank explosion during a forge fire in a residence. Mat Cox suffered severe burns. house damaged about 300 dollars, household goods mostly lost. Cox and family moved to Idora then Emergency Hospital. condition described as critical but improving slowly.
The Second Annual S U J banquet gathers Hardin County alumni and students of the University of Iowa in Eldora on Saturday January 2 1909. A banquet at the Eldora hotel will feature toasts on university heritage today and duties to the state with remarks by Charles A Rogers and others.
Christmas Eve program by Bethel Sabbath school scholars featured mandolin music by Clarence Johnson an evening prayer by Mrs E F Huen a candlelight scene The Everlasting Lights and The Shepherds performed by young students. The tree overflowed with toys gifts and prizes. J M Stout ill with typhoid pneumonia but not dangerously so.
An obituary for Mrs VanPatter of Point Pleasant arrives too late for today’s issue. The notice notes her passing and ties to Point Pleasant, with no further biographical detail available in the late draft.
Local notes from Steamboat Rock recount visits by Mrs. I. H. Gardner of Abbott and families from Cedar Rapids and Ruthven, plus Christmas visits and a Christmas reunion at J. W. Miller’s. Elmer Estabrook died Thursday night aged 62 after a Feb 21 1846 birth, with siblings John Ruthven and Miss Sarah Estabrook surviving. Walter Lewis of Chicago and Verne Squires of Spencer are mentioned as holiday visitors, while Miss Mammie Mann of Laurel paused between trains en route to Sanborn.
The Hampton Recorder notes the death at his Chicago home of Morgan Gibney, a veteran actor who visited Hampton and Iowa towns in the eighties. Renowned for Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Damon in Damon and Pythias, he was born in 1844 and cited as a leading middle western repertoire actor.
Advertisement urging readers to call for loan options before applying. Claims favorable terms and potential payback. Signed by J. B. Mather. Published in The Des Moines Daily Capital and The Semi Weekly Herald. Subscription offer included for $3.50 yearly.
SALE I have several good farms, will sell on easy terms, $100 or $2,000 down. Will grant ten or fifteen years by paying small yearly amount and interest. For particulars write Triplett, Lake Wilson, Murray County, Minnesota. WANTED Reliable energetic young man to represent Mfg Co in Hardin and adjoining counties. One steady job percoreed. Latrian refining Co., Cleveland, Ohio. W5
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