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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1909
Page
5
Readers are urged to note that the Herald’s upcoming issue will reflect contributions and notices since last Wednesday. The publication invites local readers to submit items, updates, and feedback for inclusion in the next edition.
Town news from Eldora includes church events, courts, surgeries, and social notes. References to Evangelist W S Johnson meetings, Trimble killing coverage, Walter Weaver arraignment delays, and local marriages and births. Community column items mention doctors, bankers, post letters, and a fire at Smith block with limited damage.
Mrs. Jane Brown born October 1 1845 dies at her city home January 17 after a lingering illness and is buried from the home in the Fourth ward. She was the mother of many daughters and sons and highly regarded by all who knew her. The Herald will publish a fuller obituary in the next issue.
Eldora Iowa January 12 1909 sealed bids invited by the board of supervisors for printing 300 copies of the Hardin County Financial Report bids due February 5 1909 at 1 pm price per page must be stated four pages to cover valuation and tax table prints on good paper proof to county auditor for correction and approval board may reject all bids R A Vicars County Auditor.
R E Miller spent Monday at Marshalltown. J L Michael has been on the sick list for a few days. Mr and Mrs Geo Vigars spent Sunday at the P M Lewis home at Union. I F Moore drove over from hearing Sunday for a few days visit with relatives. W J Miller spent several days last week visiting old friends in Marshall county Miss Leone Miller visited at the J T Walton home near Lawn Hill last week. Mrs Wm Madole and daughter were mentioned in the same context.
Ethel and others who had been visiting relatives here for three weeks returned to their home at Wooden on Monday. Miss Grace Vigars received a friendly surprise Saturday evening as many friends gathered at her home for a social night full of enjoyment until late hours.
An 1909 Eldora ordinance vacates the east west alley through blocks one and ten in Original Town Plat and grants the west half of the alley through block one to the Independent School District. The mayor is empowered to quit claim deed the property. The ordinance remains in force after publication.
Dr Young advertises a painless cure for piles using a knife that requires no time off work. The claim emphasizes rapid, complete relief with no loss of wages or discomfort, appealing to laborers seeking a quick recovery.
A land description dated Saturday Jan 30 details property four miles northeast of Union and 34 miles northwest of Whitten, located two miles east of Gifford in Iowa. The tract, better known as the Jacob Miller homestead, completes a description of the land and boundaries involved.
Public auction will offer 120 acres with a seven room house, cellar, well water, timbered 20 acres, orchard of bearing trees, small fruits, basement barn 30 by 40 feet, and a stock area. Property near Gifford, Iowa, with rural delivery and telephone. Bids to A P Mason Union Iowa. Auction at the farm. sale to close estate.
R. E. Miller urges readers to subscribe to the Des Moines Register and Leader for daily unbiased reports on the Iowa Legislature session opening soon. New subscribers pay $1.00 to April 15, 1909 with Sunday editions included at $1.60, and mail delivery on rural routes advertised. Also notes hay baling services and sale bill printing offered by The Herald office.
A curious Bellary tradition in some Brahman families enacts a mock death rite before weddings. An effigy of the bridegroom's father is paraded through streets, its feet washed and forehead marked by the bridegroom's mother while the bride's party pays mock attentions to other male relatives. The report appears in St James's Gazette.
In a dim cafe scene a waiter faces five men each ordering foods and drinks. The first requests coffee cake and coffee, the second milk biscuit and milk, the third tea biscuits and tea, the fourth covenant pie and cocoa, and the fifth refuses a chocolate slice in favor of ice cream and ice water.
Weston, an esteemed Garvick company member, leaves his stock of prudence to Mr. Jefferson who managed plays at Richmond and offered him courtesy. The will notes Jefferson as the founder of the Jefferson family of actors and recalls his polite conduct.
Abel Pond holds firm on six hundred for a library site and proposes a clever compromise. He offers to take seven hundred and write a one hundred dollar check himself to kick off fundraising, hoping the pledge will spur others to contribute.
The Atlantic anecdote recalls editor Joel Chander Harris and a famed public apology. A reader recounts Harris reading a scrap book apology from a Transvaal paper and lauding it as a finest specimen of retracting statements about Mr. Bezuldenhout.
The article surveys beliefs about meeting eyebrows across cultures. Kingsley and Tennyson are cited, with Turks using makeup to create or enhance this feature. Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and Europeans are described, linking meeting brows to luck, status, or vampiric lore, ending with a note from London Standards.
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