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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1909
Page
4
Towns urged to support local industries and merchants over mail order houses. The message praises using home markets to strengthen community prosperity, warns against letting wealth drain away, and encourages readers to ask why local ads omit in-town sources. Citizens are urged to boost locally for shared prosperity.
Attorney W R Williams returned from Des Moines. No change in Hardin county valuation by the assessors. Judge Albrook sold his 1500 acre Minnesota farm at 500 per acre, net profit about 15000. Mrs M C Nix visited in Marshalltown. Piano player needed at Bijou. 612 Brown Brothers add to store for a cleaning establishment. Mrs M J Spicer visited St Cloud Minn. Judge Albrook bought Baxter farm 200 acres near Iowa Falls for 125 per acre. C S Newcomer went to Jefferson to fetch his auto. Newcomer and family plan Okoboji trip. Bert Burlingame visiting relatives en route to Seattle. A G Morgan and family to Albert Lea to live. he is night mail clerk. Mrs D Wills and Mrs Laverty hosted Miss Simpler and Mrs Silvius and Mrs Tuthill. Presbyterian services held. Sunday school after morning service. Point Pleasant preaching at 3. Reward prospects for Linn Trimble murder case discussed. hearing before Governor Carroll Aug 25 for $300 payment. $1500 reward at Union also possible. Eldora’s two hottest days this summer, 93 degrees, with showers possible to aid potato crop.
Report notes work starting on a 40 by 160 foot potato warehouse with a 10 foot basement on the south side of Rock Island trail near Rock and Eldora county line. Finder of a blue silk shawl with white, green, and silk trim offered reward by Hagfir County National Bank.
Special low reduced rates daily via the Chicago and North Western Ry to the Exposition at Seattle the Yellowstone Park Yosemite Colorado and the Pacific Coast. Thursday August 12 Iowa Day at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition. Grand reunion of Iowans choice of routes illustrated folder descriptive of the Exposition booklets maps itineraries of guided tours free on application to any ticket agent North Western Line 60 w2.
Many out-of-town and rural customers praise the bank’s system of balancing accounts, mailing statements and canceled vouchers monthly. Rural delivery saves trips to town and enables credit by mail. The bank offers checks with name printed, pass-books, and endorsing stamps, inviting new names to join the plan. The bank boasts forty years of square dealing through Harpin County Savings Bank and Harpin County National.
Governor Carroll announces a $300 reward for the arrest and convicting of Linn Trimble’s murderer in Hardin County. The record shows William Winter’s February 1909 conviction and a claim by Thomas Walsh. other claims must be filed by August 25, 1909.
The Des Moines News reports Dr N C Morse as the leading contender for the vacant state parole board seat. He heads the Emergency Hospital at Hidora and is a prominent physician. Endorsements come from Charles Rogers and Judge Martin J Wade, both connected to the recent campaign, and forwarded to Governor Carroll.
A notice announces a probate hearing on the 14th of July at 1:00. The administrator of the estate invites creditors to present claims and provides instructions for filing. Details reference the county office and required documentation.
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