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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1909
Page
4
Dozens of brief items record visits and social ties across Eldora and nearby towns. Preachers and neighbors attend gatherings. visitors include Mrs Nicholson and Laura Moon. Farm work, picnics on South Fork, crop prospects, and family visits fill the quiet week.
John Ellison hauled corn to Steam boat Rock last week. Sam Elliott and John Lockwood own new mowing machines. Alpert Pieter and family of Oakwood visited John Pieter Sunday. Jesse Willaby and family of Roberson visited relatives nearby Sunday. Emily Lockwood spent a few days.
Last week with her sister Mrs Frank Cable at Bertin. Mrs Mellinger of near Iowa Falla visited with her sister Mrs Chas Hoyt over Sunday. Mrs Fisher and children of Ackley are visiting with her parents Theo Schoeneich and wife.
W C Cross was a business caller in Union Saturday Earl Gates of Marshalltown spent Sunday here with his mother John Birch is working with Jack Black drilling wells again this week A large number of our citizens were at Marshalltown Saturday to attend the circus R A Fuller Sam Campbell Geo Sumner and Ed Adams were in Eldora Monday Misses Pearl and Gertie Wright are spending a few days with friends in Marshalltown Ayoun away down the street Monday caused a little excitement but no damage was done Our liveryman Erick Trickson is working in the hay field leaving Louis in charge of the barn Mrs Craig and daughter Mrs Fow ley of Indianapolis Ind are visiting the former s brother Tom West Alfred Waddell has gone into the ginseng business in the south part of town Alf certainly is a hustler It has been necessary to suspend operations at the cement block factory on account of the scarcity of help We are looking forward to that game of ball between the Has beens and the local team A great game is predicted The extra gang on the Central have one from Gifford having finished the track in the gravel pit for the steam shovel I C Peck our baseball manager is having trouble these days getting games when Mr Fuller does not want the ground The ballgame here Sunday between Hidora and Grundy Center was a very poor thing the score being 7 to 3 in favor of Eldora The Iowa Central force is busy these days around Gifford the steam shovel loading from 80 to 40 cars of sand daily from the pit If the few fellows who were no noisy on the ball ground Sunday would be a little quieter it would be much more pleasant for all
Services will be held Sunday at the Baptist church as Rev Stanley returns this week from his tour in the east. See Collins & Ibach for McCor mick Binding Twine. 160 acres well improved 34 miles south of Iowa Falls. JOHN HOKANSON, 53, of Iowa Falls, Iowa.
An advertisement touts Hyomei as a five minute relief for catarrh with claims it also aids consumption. It describes an inhaler and a bottle of Hyomei costing one dollar, with an extra bottle fifty cents, sold by druggists and Geo. A. Starr in Eldora on a money back guarantee.
In Hardin County Iowa a district court action by Dr. Bishop and G M Minkler against John W Reed and his wife seeks a decree quieting title to eighty acres in the southwest quarter of section 35 township 86 north range 21 west. The plaintiffs claim adverse possession and assert a 1867 deed from Rhodes to Reed is invalid, asking the court to determine ownership and bar all claims by the Reeds and heirs unless proven. The case is set for the next term with default clauses and judgment pending based on the petition filed before August 1 1909.
Original notice in district court Hardin County Iowa September term. Charles Drury and others allege ownership of the east fractional half of the northeast quarter of section two in township eighty six north range nineteen west. The defendants are the parties named and unknown heirs and claimants. The case seeks possession and title against the defendants and unknown owners in Harding County.
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