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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1905
Page
5
John and Roberts open a law office in Ackley while market days at Union and other sales are advertised. New clerks join local stores, a surgeon lectures in Chicago, and town news covers supervisors actions, local deaths, and a forthcoming organ gift for the Industrial school chapel.
Mr and Mrs Howard Modlin welcome a second baby boy at their home as cold records cling to town with 16 to 20 degrees below zero. Lew Collins fills fee houses for days, gathering a fine harvest of congealed tasks. Oyster supper for Elsie Ellsworth nets 42 dollars gross 42 net 813. Rev Eugene Curless resigns Whitten Christian church post and moves to Liscomb. Fred Merrill leaves Hotel Winchester for a Des Moines hotel position. He is well regarded and in demand.
A compact weekly update reports on local society and court proceedings. Notables include Mrs. Heffelfinger visiting Grundy Center, lawyer Andrew in Hampton, and officials like I. W. Reisenger and De W. T. Chinn before a grand jury. Mentions of illness, travel to Colfax Springs, and promotional notes on Iowa Homestead and The Herald farming guidance accompany social and legal items.
The bulletin lists Ureguttarian, Catholic, and Congregational services with morning and evening worship times. Rev Arthur Snapp conducts Sunday school at 12 15, Mass at 10 80, Rev Father Convery presides, and congregational topics include Prayer and Fear and Faith with music featured. Madye and Point Pleasant preachings and Misspho Dist week services follow usual hours.
The Herald seeks a bright observing young reporter to work locally and secure tips. Apply at The Herald office during the day or at the editor's home in the evening. Residence and acquaintances should be in Eldora. The piece also notes a petition for Wood as postmaster and remarks on postmaster Maas planning to resign after his second term ending June 1, 1905. The union post office petition for Sunday mail is mentioned as desired by many.
The Herald reports C D Cone long a county resident is not dead but active in Kansas or Missouri as a preacher. W George L McNutt, minister and lecturer, announces topics including The Dinner Pail Man and America’s One Danger at Wisner Opera House on January 16 with tickets at usual places for the January 21 lecture in Tidora.
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