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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1904
Page
1
Read The Herald for local news and items from Hardin County. The issue covers school commencements, bank promotions, real estate, new post office work, marriages, community events, and notes on local businesses and residents with various social and civic updates.
The Fifteenth Century Club, here styled the Twentieth Century Club, entertained husbands and children at Riverside Park on a Wednesday evening. About sixty attended as a royal supper and varied amusements delighted all. Mrs. H. B. Bateson presides. membership stays under fifteen.
A column records visiting friends and local movements. Miss Louise Near returns from Marshalltown. Hon J H Funk Iowa Falls transacted business locally. C O Ryan traveled to Minnesota. Miss Grace Carter visited Hubbard. Mr and Mrs A P Wilson visited Oskaloosa. Judge John Porter attended business in Bondurant and Des Moines. Mrs Witherspoon and two daughters visited the Sheldons. M E Winchester back from St Paul. Maribel Race returned from Mt Vernon for commencement. Miss Gertrude Hardin to Ontalia for a brother’s illness. J W Lynn of Cambridge MI visiting Hardin county. C M Rutkle back from Omaha after cataract surgery improving sight. Miss Percis Wood resigns from Sibley teaching. Mrs Jos Wallace to Chicago.
Ellis D. Robb cashier of Hardin County Bank and ex mayor receives appointment as assistant sergeant at arms of the National Republican convention in Chicago next Tuesday. The Herald endorses the honor as recognition of Hardin county’s young Republicans and congratulates Robb and the local party.
Will H. Sanderson and wife departed for Alma Michigan yesterday morning. Misses Mary and Ruth Brown sightsee at the World’s Fair in St. Louis. Mabel Collins returns from Grinnell Iowa for summer, and Mrs J W Trimble returns from St. Louis with her son's wife. Local figures J N Scales from Ackley and Daniel Bolender visit on business. Wm Smith of Troy Kansas visits family in town. Grace Davis returns from Evanston Illinois to teach music over summer. W J Murray attends Des Moines and Bankers convention. J H Bales attends Penn College trustees meeting at Oskaloosa. W A Caraway and daughter Mott Boody visit Henry Caraway home. J A Naeve vacations at Manila and Dakotas. Mrs W E Stanley returns from Chicago to prepare for Baptist parsonage move. Jessie Zeiger returns from Chicago and travels to Colorado with cousin. Leah Carter visits from Withard after Bouletans trip to finish college year. Col Drake and Jno Cownle visit Industrial school. Drake leaves strong impression and officials may retain staff.
Nellie O. Houghton and Earl L. Kinsey wed at Nellie’s parents Home with Rev W S Stanley officiating. Guests from Cambridge Ill Marshalltown Waterloo and Thompson attend. The couple depart Friday for their Cedar Rapids home as friends extend best wishes. Prof Lewis Swagpart visits Eldora discussing Boise City and Montana schools.
Hyomei is advertised as a breakthrough cure for catarrh delivered via a four daily inhalation. The spray is claimed to sterilize airways and lungs, kill germs in blood, and relieve mucous membranes. A complete outfit costs $1 with a money back guarantee from Wilson Drug Co. and The J. D. Bicker Co. ice cream is mentioned as always available.
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